A PROTEST.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 4

A PROTEST.

.Sir, —] jjctiw in the si:orm*.n;j pajH'rs that Mr. Martin Koniiedy and Mr. Tlvtwnus Cabi-l] hare sent. two cable* Ki'Aois to Lond'oii; CQii.gj-atu.l'ating Mr, Asfj.uifcii and sfi\ Redmond on tiio passing of I.he Homo Utile Bill. These cablegrams aw purporting to represent in© ivlifiie Irish ;psep}c ill IVcW as onr, is sent in the terms , of: ''Accept from tlio Irish paplq in Nifw Zcalaviil and their fricit'ls." J would ask these twe gentlemen wiw tlwy are speajtiiig f or .« The Celtic Club o-r themselves? J, am gktl to say iliry arc labouring under a very Wg itiistakg if they tJiiiik ihqt all the Irish peopic awl their friends art; in favour c? this Bill. I .guess, those two gentlemen shottkl consider the opinion of the ma,.jottt.y of Irishmen in New Zealand ha fore sending cablegrams in their Saffios. ■ Tho Ancient Order af Hibernians aitd tliß Irish National Fares-tors, do not. sv-fifes-en-t tlio Irish people in New Zealand, nor does the Celtic Culb. And as for these two gentle-mMi thomselws, ; { don't think they n.re fully mialifisxl to j represent themselves ' as ' the "Irj'sli wopie .in. New Zonked awl their friends." As ail Irishman bfirn. arcd raar«s, I rmist concißtulate mvself mid ntv Irish bwthron in New Zoateucl that neither to the above are in mmvav re* .nrofcntative of our door old land.—l a»u etc., D. B. FKROUSOX.