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-"Mr Henry Edward Kater, of Moss Vale, son-in-law of the late William / Forster, has been appointed a member of the New South Wales Legislative / Council. " Daily paper
Why, oh why was Kater lifted / From the darkness, where he drifted / All unknown, and raised to honour, / Side by side with Dick O'Connor, / In the Council, free from row? / Who is Kater, anyhow?
Did he bid our armies rally, / Like the recent Billy Dalley? / Did he lend a Premier money, / Like -- (No libels here, my sonny. -- Ed. B.) / Was he, like John Davies, found / Very useful underground?
Not at all! his claim to 'glory / Rests on quite another story. / All obscure he rhight have tarried, / But he managed to get married -- / And (to cut the matter shorter) / Married William Forster's daughter.
So when Henry Edward Kater / Goes to answer his Creator, / Will the angel at the wicket / Say, on reading Kater's ticket -- / "Enter! for you're no impostor, / Son-in-law of Billy Forster!"
The Bulletin, 2 March 1889