FROM MARTIN MURTY, TAURANGA, TO MICHAEL O'FLAHERTY, BELFAST, IRELAND.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 688, 6 February 1879, Page 3

FROM MARTIN MURTY, TAURANGA, TO MICHAEL O'FLAHERTY, BELFAST, IRELAND.

Suub Michael, dear, you'll think iVquaro that I've not written lately ;,*j .'.' y'; v-.,,:..i . - .'■] *, ; But, Mike, atfck, I'm mighty sick, and bothered quite complately. For/what . with playis; excurslqn. days,; their .cricket, arid their races, •-.••'. 'N6r Kerry, nor Shrira, can hoMLa glim to those outlandish places. , , yr . . ... , I -towld you all the newß •btfoVe," about our-, grand.;. ' . location, ; And! as our friends th^Y-inkfes W»l" Begor, it licks ':'-■ i creation." : The. boys and girls are marryih' fast, t'incrase tho '"' i "/population. ... /: ry - ; / 7 " ;■ ~\ y Hai'rob T we'll 'fill^New Zealand yit, tfith Sprigs of the; ;i j ould natiop. '"' '-* ' ' "<:•-•• i>"'t.'i.-- '• ■;;-.} i :; \,i'-y -.••''> ? l{ I made thatfffost remark aloud, thro' bein' a? bit !' : excited; i} 'And ifeUi that Biddy' - f withe*fin v glai\cf on^-poor 0 , ■-* h^adUghtediy--* ' 'y^-Yt f i „/i jJ. oih, tare an ouns 1 I've done it now, thinks I, oh dash }A lt»Howi^y'-'<^)lVT / ■') !' Hurtoo ! ", says she, a* qiiotin me, "you can't, and '.; •] well $B^itiM\7 t. •'C.WiXI 'PL , A Wid that she bounced out In; a pet, and slam d the Ye j .- t{ ' (Vlbo'r^bd&kd' h&rit : 1 r> .» jt jso ml P.' ! d X. FU Qfs #ou_one f sea ljot tha^sarcwaral reminder. 'And noVi'ii vfirse^ so short and te'rseybtlr' 'doins Wiihd' j here lately, .iu.vh:Pj AJI in my song (id won't take long) Til lay bofore you -hitftfSi. \YAtv. t\%\y\m. r-.y. lie Opotiki i?boy3 a challenge *int, (the. dato I,dis- ■ J remember), A J . Ajcricket match down th s er6'ti>>pla.>f some time in last December. Eleven -r^ra ones, soon wore picked., the haros of the '; { s*Vißfeirtf6ft«fi-5 * ViB feirtf6ft«fi-- 53 "»* '-*'•. vam>».'.'.^o v.- XX: , ses they,-/^ wVll^^j/hX^Jie^^nklin of a 4 bed post." sure the say was moighly rough, the angry " j 'i<-> winds did •bioweoV 1 o*&-jf*J .a o. < A : Ohr boys (but this 4b private, u\irid) (1 0$ -jharqa. looked, j . but 80-80, _ , .like' ail •lye ! nbi), both gfcatf'toid Small;* OUr tori-Vat. A ,';,, last was.ond^d, ..■■ ! :-'| i, 7; - t j )!{..,,!' ; .AJnd soon, -^id beer.in gl^ses. tall, ' aich* chap his 'j v ''^iHWmoiideil. o»i\«,.'i:,.' yy ■*...< '.■ ckh, pilialoo ! oh,' wirra fohrWYhoVc&rf-I \M the \ «aquel? ,l,.vi, '■ C f glasses long, and beer so^sthrong, 1 never saw the ) " aiquel. '^eh, Pdnny ! .ivfeilan? pj&r sjj-aunoh friS-ad^o*?, brewers ', all, tho jewel, I :ow could you ever sarve us "so? Ochone ! bogor, t'was cruel. — : •.... ■ y f ,f -h t -- »>t. •.'''* And though we fought noxt'day like now, wid headß not over heatedj •-, * "■' "' - Begor, 'twa's all no uso avick, we left the ground defeated. ' ' - .T'was thon wo sworo a moigHty oath, to mind this bad j ' ' beginiilng. ' We'd havo *om up to Tauranga,, and bate 'em in one ] innings. The time flew ronnd, and on the ground', in Tauratiga j > . asshhbled,, . ,yy- '' .'.Y-.A~ .'. ■ ;' ho teams, onco more wore to tho fore, Opotiki looked and thrlmbled; ; _ ■ • ut how they batted, fielded, bowled, you'll see now I yy .by'.thc'sa'quoi; "'•'■'' y ' ,y y y y for innings number one, the score was (would you i bQtieve it) aiquel. 1 "ivhen Opotiki wint 6ut agin, just eighty was their j Hoore, sir, ; ; And when at sis they dhrew the sthiebs, three out for : j ■ .forty four, sir, -.---- kuroo ! tho (iboers.wore hoimtif ul, for aich side now [ ; COUld SIJ, SW, ' • '' ' ' ! Ilip ! hip ! hurrAb I a»d tltfoe times. three, sure we'd havo won the day, sir. I fear my letther's much too long, so (41 about the rac««, ' When illiaanfc clouds of dust ho fine oMth crate.? all 1 thracoa Of every thing five jrards away, and blacke«9, chokes, and blinds on I*,1 *, Of Limerick, Curragh, or the Hfeitb, begor it don't remind one. > . And then the gaff, 'twould make make you Ituigft, 11,1 had only time to. . Let you hear, all 'ti\ unties '((noer, and played in illigant rhyme, too. -'. : • • But next time you must have the hews, theatrical, and Utvfy, ■'"''-. Good bj'O, hod blesslus on yiy. all, ycturs cvdr, * '•" ■ ' : ifAn. , .*i*3i-Mc*i , mr.'