IRISH COMPLIMENTS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3131, 1 March 1879, Page 4

IRISH COMPLIMENTS.

The following compliments were paid to Sheridan, in Norfolk* by an Irish servant belonging to Mr Coke, who attended him on his shooting excursion, and which Sheridan re-told with great glee. Shot the Ist (the birds all getting away)— " More power to your honor 1 Did you see one little fellow drop his legs as" he went off'P .He'll never stand on his tin toes agin." Shot 2nd (ditto) — " Tare an' agers, there they go. But didn't your honour hear the shot rattle among them like pase agin a windey ? They'll pray never to see your honour again on this side of the country." Shot 3rd (birds all off again) —"Tunder an' 'ouns, but they've eotched it!" After watching them awhile—"There's three wounded, anyhow, for thry had hardly strength to fly over yonder .hedge; the devil a wink of sleep they'll get this blessed night! " Shot 4th (a pheasant gets away). —" Well, I never seen a poor gentleman taken like him; he'll remember your honor many a long day for that. The spalpeen is cairying away more shot than would sit up an ironmonger at Skibbereen." Shot sth (a snipe gets off). —"Bother! You may cry crake, my fine fellow—you may take you long bill to the other world. You'll wake to-mor-row morning with a lumbago in your soft head." Poor Sheridan could stand this no longer, but gave his countryman a fee for his ingenuity, and proceeded on his beat alone.

Pboposed New Zealand Tempkbance Alliance.—-There is, we understand, a

monthly meeting of ministers held in Dunedin, which includes most of the * clergymen of the city, of all denominations. .At a meeting recently the Conference passed a resolution generally approving the constitution of the propo-ed ]New Zeland Alliance for emending ihe laws ■which regulate the liquor traffic within this colony. The members of the Conference expressed the warmest sympathy with the aims of the Association. The Alliance itself, we are given to understand, professes to associate abstainers and non abstainers together in endeavouring to obtain a popular veto on the granting of publicans' licenses. Its objects ano character are therefore similar to those of the well known United Kingdom Alliance in the Home Country.—Age.