PADDY MURPHY AND THE HONORARIUM.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3766, 10 August 1883, Page 4

PADDY MURPHY AND THE HONORARIUM.

Be the powers o , Moll Kelly, but it was as good as a play to hear Kurnil Brett doliver his great speech on the honorarium question in the Council on Friday last, so it was. The Kurnil was in full war-paint, an' his beutyful iloquiuce reminded me o' the haytho"n jauus an' orathor, Tim O'Sthavnus. He spoke for all the world like Dan O'Connell or llincry Grattan, so he did, an' poor ouhl Pharazyn thriinbled afore his wilhcrin' glances like an aspen laif afore the winds"c>' March. 'Pun me conshinse, it was a grate thrait intirely to hear him, an' whin lie wound up his speech Avith a grand piruraliou there was tundliers ay applause, so there was. Afthcr the dibate he met me on the kay, and shakin' me bo the hand, lie ses, ses he: —"Be the hokey, I'addv, yer the very boy I'm looking for,' , ses he. "D'ye tell me so, Kuruil, allanah," ses J, "an' ay I might make so bould as to ax, Avhat wor ye wan tin' me about ?" ses I. " Well, Paddy, arroon, as a counthryman o' me oavii, I want ye to do me a grate favor," ses he. "With all the pleasure in life, Kurnil, asthorc," ses I. "Well thin, Paddy, jtgrah, I Avant yo to Avrite me a natepomc describin' the grand oration that I delivered to-day," ses 'ho. " Wasn't it a splendid triumph o' senatorial iloquiucei , " ses he. "Bcdad it Avas," ses I, "I've never hard anything like it in the hole eoorse o' me life," ses I, "an I'll run home to me oflico an' Avrito ye a few varses in honor o' the occasion," ses I. The Kurnil pressed me hand Avith grateful imotion, and I Avint home, an' pinned the following gim as a mimento o' the iviut : —

Och, blur-an-ounthcrs, man alive, Mo timper's up, Avith rage I shake, Mesilf from Parlimint they'd dhrive— I'll make the dirty varmints quake ; Ould Pharazyn may blow an' spout, To rob us aA - our thriflin sum ; I'd like to turn the spalpeen out, He'd stop our honorarium. The swells who live in Wellington In festiA'o scenes an' marble halls, Injoy thimsilve.s Avith mirth an' fun, At bankits, sworrys, hops, an' balls; But Councillors Avho dwell afar, Cannot afford up here to come, Unless they—be tbc powers o' Avar — Can get their honorarium. Bc-gog it's mighty line to spaik About the glory an' rinown, That's haiped an those Avho mould an' make The laws that guide the Queen an' Crown; The proud position's very grand, Tlioprayiix Hon. is only Hum, The honour's great, but it Avon't stand Without the honorarium. We laivo our homes across the say To como an' make the people's laws ; We nobly aim the paltry pay Be workin' in our counthry'.s cause ; Ould Pharazyn may drink shampain, But some of us mustswalloAV rum ; Faix I'll not exercise mo brain Without me honorarium. Noav listen hero, yo mind me, boys, Before I'd lose me yearly tin, I'd laivo the Council an' its joys, An' sail for Ingey back agin ; I'd make me dwelliu' in Madhrass, And live beside me frind, Rum-Jum ; But hero I'll not be such an ass To dhrop me honorarium. Paddy MunriiY.