SPECIAL FROM WELLINGTON.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 530, 12 August 1881, Page 2

SPECIAL FROM WELLINGTON.

We extract the following letter from the Saturday Advertiser: —People is wonderin' up here how the dickins Docthor Wallis lamed the game o . Fan Tan. but begorra, I know all about it, so I do. About a fortnight ago I happened to dhrop into Jack M'Ginnity's to have a hand at fortyfives wid Jack, when who the jooce should I find in the little back parlor beyant the bar but the Docthor sittin' taty-tate (Frinch) wid a Chineyunn who grows cabbages out at the Hutt, be the name of Chung Chow. " What in the name ay all that's lucky are you doin' here, at all, at all, sittin' opposite a common Chineyman, Docthor asthore ?" sea I. •' Whist, Paddy," ses the Docthor, " I'm just gittin an insight into tho game o' Fan Tan, for the Lotthery Bill debate," acs he. " D'ye tell me so ?" Ses I. An' sure enough, there was John instructin' the Docthor in the myetheries o' the game. This ia how the Docthor lamed all about Fan Tan. Me pertikular frind, the inimber for Whack-a-white, Gcordie McLean, is goin' to inthrojooce a Bill to compel all grown-up people in the colony to attind Sunday-schools, an' wair long faces once a week. Ther's a claws imposin' a heavy pinalty for laughin', an , if any blackguard is caught smokin' tobackey, or dlmnkin' whiskey when ther's sarsy-pariUa to be had he is liable to get three niontho on the new tread-mill that Captain Hume is importin' from Home. Be the hokey, things is comin' to a purty pass, so they are. We had an illigant spree the day afther the division in the the House. Watty Johnston invited Weston an' Bunny nn' the other convarts up to his residence to crack a bottle ay chain pain wid him. (Watty is the milk cow of tho Ministhry, so he is, for ho keeps open house for all theGovernmint hangers on). I had to assist the Mnjor wid the Istimates that night, an' so I couldn't attind, but I'm tould it was a grand turn out intirely, so it whs. There was lashins an' lavins ay iverything, and the tables groaned uiidher the bhie-monges, and redmonges, an' yullow-rnonges, an' tho custhards, an 1 the tarts, an , soofeys, an the onthrays, an' the decanthers, on-thrays, etcethra, nrid so forth. A faichure o' the inthertainmeiit was a vocal ghn rinihered be one of the (onvarts in beautiful style.