Ye Old Age Pensioners.

The man who has an old age pension
Only needs that fact to mention,
And straightway the Government build him a stand
From which to view the visitors grand
And attract the Duke's attention.

But what do they do for the man in the street,
Who provides the pensioners' bread and meat?
Will they rope him off in a crushing throng
While the Heir Apparent goes along,
Surrounded by his suite?

If you have on pension you get on view,
Unless of dollars you've got a few,
To purchase a place on a balcony,
And struggle, and crush, and strive to see
All that the Big Wigs do

The real reason for the Duke's visit to Rotorua is that he may be able to undergo a course of massage and "waters," in order to restore his brave right hand to its normal condition after having been compelled to shake hands with about twenty thousand people in the cities of Australia.

The recent serious affection of the throat from which the Hon. James Carroll suffered was brought about by that distinguished administrator of Native affairs having taken lessons in elocution, for the purpose of reciting "The White Man's Burden."

When the Royal tourists have left Wellington it is the intention of the foreign Consuls to present their arch in Willis Street to the Consul for Italy, in order that be may have a permanent and recognised location and a point of vantage from which to address his devoted constituents during the next Parliamentary election. An arch crowned by the dignified Signor Fishorto, posing in declamatory wrath at his exclusion from the Cabinet, would, it is thought, form a lifting memento of the Great Days of June.