"SHIN FANE" AND HOME RULE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 352, 3 December 1875, Page 3

"SHIN FANE" AND HOME RULE.

(To the Editor of the Mount IdaChbonicle.)

Mistheb EDiTHUB,-rThe "Dane,"and whin I say " Dane " I don't mane any o' thim Schandiknavian Say robbers whom the bould " Brian Bhoru," more power to him, gave such a father of alickingto on the famous field of Clontarf, but the ould Dane Swift himself, piety and whose polithiqs was much too liberal for the Saxon spoiliators who fed fat on the plundher of the "Ould Dart." Well then, Sur, the Dane said on the okayshun of a dispute as to the merits of two rival pipers or fiddlers, or some sort of sthrollin muscishaners, Handel and another blackguard: 'Twos strange there shouldsucb. difference be 'Twixt tweedledum and tvreedle-deei

And upon me konshinse I was very much sthruck last Wednesday night by the wisdom of his observayshun. Whin I heard our plucky mimber for the district, in his address to the free aDd enlightened of the Mount Ida electorate' expashate in cutting an' justly deserved terms on the failins an schamms an ginirally bad behavior of both Parliamints, Giniral and Proving shal—bad cess to thim—an' how betwixt the pare poor Otago was like, the man Detune two sthools, very likely to come down, as the Yankee says, kerwollop. Divil a lie I'm telling ye/at all at all, Mr. de Lautour'made a fbilin, illygant, an' independent " spache, and very cleverly showed that altho' the Provinshal Govermint had a good deal of sins of its own to answer for it was by no; means so completely demoralised an' thievinan institushun as a central one wad. be, an' that it would be a phays of madness of the very Worst kind to abandon it holus-bolus, an' not attempt to presarve some of itsfaytures whin the next meeting of ballyraggers. took place at. WelKngipn, Bedad, sur, Councillor Currah or the Liberator himself, would have feltb. highly pleased with the mastherly and lucid manner in which our -mimber handled; his subject; and in the intherests of troth an' progress an' the welfare of our common country giv it to them right and left—tho' I am bound to say the balance of good, however little it waß, thumped down on the side of Provinshalism. I came' to the konklushun that I sheuld support; Mr. de Lantour's candidature. m)t Only because he was prepared to advocate, irrespective of Earty, that policy which he believetPwud e for the benefit of the. Oolojiy' "as a whole, but also because he felt' he was able to take his own part with the best of thim in the Legislature; was a local man whose'prosperity was identified with our own, and one too who had already acquired purty considerable experiense in legislatorial matters; —a knowledge which, by the way, is of no small value to those who wish to sarve their country an' their constituents in the House of Slangwhangers in the City of the Straits. I am inclined to think too, sur, that the bulk of the people will also as one man carry in Mr. de Lautour on their shoulders with a regular fag-a-ballagh, 4 beeause his conduct in the past as our representative has not been fo,^f/^ A Wanting, and that is a guaranty' probity an' efficiency in the ,^£!fir*eV' , We should do well thin to securefcSiervices, and let no outsider or hang-er-on come sthrollin about our manor widout taching him a lesson to carry his pigs to another market. The form of govirn- j mint the people of New Zealand and the j people of this place even r want is that which will bring about the/ greatest good to the greatest number, and 'such a rule our present worthy mimber T am shure will be always found in connection with. Writing to a paper is'nt such asy work as bating a peeler or badgering an attorney —the divil sweep them —an' so I am fairly bate out meself, so I hope you'll exkuze my sthyle and giniral ignorance. I will now finish ; but first must tell you of a counthryman ov me own. He was one Mick Murphy, an' he sailed away from the Ould Dart to Ameriky. Whin he jumped ashore at New York Miek eyed the surrounding thousands very wistfully, but in no face did he see a mark of sympathy or a sign of recognition. Eor a while he seemed sad and downcast., and his thoughts reverted back to the dear ould land; but suddenly, with all the spirit and lightheadedness of his race, he threw up his caubeen, an' lettin a screech out ov him, exclaimed—" Be Japers, boys, me name's Murphy, an I'm always agin the Goyermint,' thinking that that in a republican counthry ought anyway to gain him frinds. An I'm agin such a Govermint as that cintral one which latelj wanted to swallow us down, hand and foot; an so should everyone bpf who values the future well being land, which could be made . a raley .prosperous counthry.— l am, Sur, ycuTsf'&c.,: • Shin Fane ! Shin Pane !