MR. O'MALLEY AGAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15251, 14 March 1913, Page 4

MR. O'MALLEY AGAIN

Mr». \t innbbEl HUMin, ♦ FEDERAL MINISTER'S ECCENTRICITIES. % [from ottr own correspondent.} Sydney, March 1. i Some years ago somebody went to the , trouble of compiling an "Australian" dictionary. It gave the meaning of such ' words as "jackaroo," "rouseabout," "cornstalk," and so on, and the book is quite a formidable affair. But there j« one word which is omitted— " O'Malleyism." In future editions the omission will, no doubt, be rectified. New words are continually finding their wav i irito the English (and : Australian) lani guage. The O'Malley star had not risen ; when the dictionary was originally compiled. We know what an Irishism is, and ; we know what a malapropism is; an O'Malleyism may be described as a cross i between the two, with a dash of Americanism added. It takes its name from : Mr. King O'Malley, the comic man of i the Federal Labour Ministry. The other day Mr. O'Malley came to ; Sydney andl set the town laughing. He predicted a time when mummies of , Liberals will be preserved in alcohol, and children—looking at their photos in the i —would say, "Mamma, what is , that?" She would reply, "That used to be a New South Wales legislator 50 ,>pirs , ago." The child would say, "Mamma, did God make that?" Mr". O'Malley added that he regarded the Liberal Party as "a jelly-wobblera cross between a city guinea-pig and a country blowfly." He also said that "the Fusionist Party has no more hope of defeating the Labour , Party at the next Federal elections th.Mi Joe Cook has of rowing up the Niagara Falls in a peanut-shell. ' Mr. O'Malley talks on everything, and so it was not surprising that he i should have something to say on Shakespere. He wanted to call the i Federal capital Shakespere. "To i my mind," he said, "there's only oiw : name big enough for the capital, and Hat is Shakespere. That was my first choice. ; My second was Robbie Burns, and ivy ; thirdl Longfellow. But the Cabinet has . decided against me, and it is to b3 a i native name. I favoured Shakespere bei cause he is not merely a great poet; he , is an intellectual giant, or, bette'" still, • an intellectual ocean, towards which and » from which, all the literary and poetical rivers of the world flow. He belongs to i no single country, but to all. He is German, he is English, he is American, he is i Scotch, he is French. All honour to the [ people who are going to erect a memorial ■ to him in your midst. I shall certainly L«ead a guinea*"