SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 225, 13 September 1878, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

Lambton Kay, Wellington.

I promised ye an ipip pome in me last, but be the hokey I'm so complaitly knock'd up afther me towher, that I can't bring .me idays- into the realms o' the chaste ;nine. ; Ay coorse ye've red the reports o' the korero in the daily papers, so I'll not.throuble ye wid a raycapitulation of the procaidins. But I'll jist lift the vail from a little private taty-tate (Frinch) that I had wid his Majesty afther Sir George had retired for the night. We wur saitpd in the Palace, be a cosy fire,, mesilf an' the monarch—and be the same token his Majesty's throne on the occasion was a JDKZ gin case—just' takin' a quiet dhrop o' the craythur together, an' talkin' over ould times, when his Majesty turned the conversation on to the lost thribes o' Isreal. I'll thranslate the discoorse for yeas nearly as my mimry sarves me. Afther his Majesty had swallowed his ninth tumbler o' punch, from a pannikin, he dhrev? his throne close to me, an', sa\s he, "D'ye know what it is, Paddy ? Iver since I've read that lecture o' Misther Ree's iri**Mie 'Tay Wanangy' (that's our Maori newspaper) on ' The Lost Thribes o' Israel,' I feel convinced that the Maoris are a branch o' the thribe o' Dan, that landed in the Ould Sod ages ago," ses he. " My word to ye, 0 frind," ses he, " we're; closely related," ses he. " Arrah 1 yer Majesty is only jokin'," ses 1. ".Shure, ye'd niver think ay couplin' sich ' hay thin naygurs as the Maoris wid the anshint hayros that landed in Ireland wid the Profit Jerry-mia !" ses'-I. "Musha ! faith, thin, I* would," . ses the King ; " an' why not ?" ses he. "Maybe ye think bekaise I dhress up in the simple kostchume ay the primitive nobility that I'm not versed in' anshint histhry," ses he ;" but don't be deludin yerself wid that notion, avick machree-, for I can tell ye, me bould bouchil, that I know more about crownolqgy thiu some o' yer grand proffessors," ses he. Begorra, I noticed that His Majesty's timper was getting up, an' he began to look hungry, so I thought it betther to humor him a little wid the laste taste ay the blarney, so I ses to him, " Och, blur-an-ounthers, does yer Majesty suppose for one instant that I'd daar toid'oubt yer royal wurd?" ses I. That calmed him down, so he ses in a milder voice, " Now, Paddy asthore, greetings to thee,' 0 friend Paddy, d'ye imagine that I'd have been so polite an curchus to Sir George, ay it wasn't for your sake ?" " Be no manner o'. mains," ses, he "I know that yerself an' meself are related an' I'll explain it to ye," ses he. " Be dad, yer Majesty, I'm proud o' the family connection, but it's too much honor intirely," ses I. "Not a taste too much," ses the King, " an I'll explain in a few words how; alshough ye're a Pakeyha, your thribe and mine is related. Now, in the first place, the anshint Irish war called the Malay-shins, that proves them to be of Malay origin. Well, sure, every one knows that the Maoris are Malays too. Thin there's ■ the O'Malays an' the Molloys,: which is only a corruption. Thin agin, there's that grate hayro, that Tom Moore sings about whin he ses :— '■ " When Malay-kee wore the collar o' goold." Ay coorse he was a Malay too. Thin ther's the national name Pa-thrick; an sure ivery one knows that it refers to a game o' forty-fives played by two ay our mutual ancesthors in a anshint Pa, whin the Irish King brought his five fingers down on the Maori King's ace, an made a jink o'the game. But the ■sthrongest ay all is the fact ay our

family names bein the same. Sure ye know, allanah, that me royal sire's name was Potaty, and what's a Potaty but a Murphy ? - Tell me that—d'ye mind me now ?" An' His Majisty fell on- me busum an sobbf-d wid fraternil imotion, till he woke Sir George, who was sleepin on some bags o' praties in the corner. The scene that followed is more aisily imagined thin described. Sir George was delighted wid the sarcumstance, an if we didn't kick tip the divil's own ructions till mornin', ye can call me a Dutchman. Betune you an me it was this little ipisode that settled the Native question ; an Sir George may thank me for the successful termination o' the korero. I've left Sir George at Kawau, as I'd to come to the ould woman—she felt so lonely widout me. Paddy Murphy. — Saturday Advertiser.