THE TARANAKI ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 10 May 1907, Page 4

THE TARANAKI ELECTION.

Dcre Barney,—lll yer lasht lether ye were afther inquirin' about me frind Moloney. . Well, it is a grate man lie i* Barney, an' that's the thruth for ye; he tould me so hini>ilf. Sez lie, "Pe \ ther," quite soluni-like. *'Z lie, "Jook uncassiuly up the zoological tree of the Saints, and yc'll foind that iheir family name is Moloney. Jam a man of my word,"' sez he, ''Am I fer the (lov'mint or am I for the Opposition:"' begorra, sez he emphatic like, "I am that same. I am a liter/-' sez he, ''an' nothiii' wud injuce me to turm me back on the ininiy but the fear of th' tirrible consekin.-us to me opponents. lam a praktikal man, and, Pet her, win I git th* tree liudred quid in me fhist, I'll trate ycz like a gintleman. Read," sez he, "phat the paper sez. Shure it is own kinsmen to mesiif and slip,ike* wiilout bias, and shure iveryting I have." dishplaying a shuperannuated tooth-brush, "is in the Tarnaki province, an" .shure don't .1 thrate ajl min alike? Ladies is not rain," wid a siinap o' th' oye. "and we must differentiate," sez he, f, an,l l»e----gob 1 am a frind o' th' 'orney-handed son of tile. An' why not? I am a grateful man. and the six-and eighlpen* ny tips frum thim has been judiciously invisted. Lave th' wurrkin' man in his spear, which he adawns. I have had twinty-sivin years' expariencc in Tarnaki, an' thim as misdoubt the expariance can split the difrince and belave til' years. J riprisint all ehsses.'' sez he, ''and begorra wud riprisint all policies, too. but shure whin I applied at the Brandiii' Shid furrst of th' Gov'niint and thin the Opposition ?ez Jiey. 'Misther Moloney, you are a paekydermus, an' yer outer cutticul is too s.hrong au f lull'.- We can't purfurnu the opcra-hon.' Sn Pettier ihat is the raison why 1 am free and free as th.' littel bunds that lluthers an' sings, in tin* langwidge of the grate pole, an' that is why, Pether, I will aks-pt no assistance frum Akland nor Wilin'ton, Pether, bir. will pursoo me Yes-No policy in me gay chameleon shute to th 5 bitther ind. lam goiu' now to the gimnashum to praktis sum jioo political somersaults, with variashuns, wid which 10 win th' hails an votes of th" iniilligiut elector, and' IV tller I can giv ye hiinfcy go,„J radons why 1 shiid be leiuiTUtii to Parlyirunt twinty years nixt Too-d-iy.'' No inure at prisint frum