A CURIOUS STORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6255, 3 December 1881, Page 7

A CURIOUS STORY.

The Ulster Echo is responsible for a curious story in connection with the Tyrone election. It states that when Mr. Paraell and his candidate, and the members of Parliament who gave such vigorous help in the eanvass, saw that all was over they consoled themselves by retiring into a room of their hotel and dividing among them a "pile of crisp bank notes and a heap of gold" supplied from the Land League exchequer. The Rev. Harold Rylett is described as a person of "prim visage;" but when asked, after this partition, whether he was satisfied with his fortnight's work his countenance lighted up, and "pressing with exultation his plethoric pocket-book." he replied that he was " perfectly satisfied." "Six guineas a day per man and expenses" is the fee set down as going to the staff, along with the perquisites of " driving about in waggonettes and pairs," "supplying themselves with bands of music, bonfires, &c.," and " floating to bed at night on billows of champagne." General charges of mercenary motives may probably be prudently despised by Land Leaguers as they are by other people ; but a specific allegation by a responsible newspaper, with place, date, and circumstances complete, admits of easy contradiction or explanation.—Pall Mall Gazette.