PADDY MURPHY AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 360, 4 January 1879, Page 22

PADDY MURPHY AT AUCKLAND.

* (Special Telegram.; Auckland, Christmas Eve. I've jis cum over in the Hineyma to spind the Christmas wid me dear ould frind Billy Swanson. Av coorse I axed Sir George's lave afore I lift Ivawau (for betchune you an me Sir George is nearly as much attached to me as the Markiss). Bill wants me to write a node to his Ixcillency on his deparchure, and I've promised to comply wid his request. Billy and the Markiss are grate frinds intirely, so they are, an' they like one another as the divil likes holy wather. Billy is goin' to give Mac a dhressin' down about the Eree Passes, an, faix, Mac desarves it, for sure he's goin' fram one ixthraime to the other, so he is. If he pursists in his iday av deprivin' the Press o' their passes, be the hokey I'll lave the Kabinit, so I will, an' that'll lave them in a purty pickle. Sure they know well enough that I'm the main stay o' the prisint Ministhry. Eaix all the flowery iloquence o' Sir George, and the soothern blarney o' Mac, an' the fourinsick iloquence o' Stout, an' the fine-anshil schaims o' Ballance, an' the warlike demonstrashuns o' the Kurnil, an' the sly little tricks o' Johnny, an' the Maori high-falutin' o' Honey Nay, an' the larned disquisishuns o' Eisher, will avail them nothin'. an' I lave the Kabinet. In the language o' the potes, I may remark— I sarve thiru faithfully, I sarve thim faithfully, An' they know it, Yes, they know it, Without one word from me. Paddy Murphy.