SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
(From the Saturday Advertiser.") Lambton Kay, Wellington, July 11,1878,
Be the hokey it's a blackguard shame, so it is, that those mane pinny-a-liners ay the New Zaland Times an' the Canterbury Press, an' such like rags, should be allowed to blackguard us in the way they're goin on. They say we're divided amongst ourselves, bad cess to thim, whin they know we're as contented as the happy family in WoomeweH's Minagery. They say that the Kurnil is a Tory, whilst Sir George and the Attorney-Gineral are Socialists an' Red Republicans in disguise; but the views we hould, when weighed in our Ballance, will not be far asthray. Maybe the notions ay meself an' Rabby an' Sir George are a thrifle more anvanced than our collaiges, but that matthers very little avick machree, for sure we can rason wid one-another in our discoorses, an' Mack's ile always smooths the throubled wathers. I've sthrung off the followin' thrifle in connection wid the above remarks :— ME PALS AN' ME. To spile our noble mission, The dirty Opposition, Those frinds ay Abolition, Declare we can't agree. They sware we're not decided, (Begog, I can't abide it), Our Cabinet's divided, Betcbune me pals an' me. This mane an' dirty faction Have dhruv me to disthraction ; A Ministhry of action, Ipon me word, are we. Before, ye have been vassals, But now we'll give ye castles, Yell faiste all night in wassails, Jist like me pals an' me. Sure Mac in language glowin', Wid milk an' honey flowin', (Faix he's the boy for blowin') Has sworn he must be free From furrin yoke ay Saxon, Our ground they shant be taxin', We'll give ye land for axin', Me dacint pals an' me. Wid vile abusive capers, Those dirty rags o' papers Expose our jobs, be jabers, But faix we'll let em see W 7 hilst Ave're in the ascindint. Dimocracy resplindint, (Ay coorse there's lots o' wind in't) Betchune me pals and me. Be gog, it's quite divartin', (Me eye an' Betty Martin) I tell ye thruth for sartin— Sure Progress is our plea. Well promise dainty dishes, An' do the people's wishes, An' share the loaves an' fishes Betchune me pals an' me. Paddy Murphy.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 209, 19 July 1878, Page 3
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372SPECIAL TELEGRAM. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 209, 19 July 1878, Page 3
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