IRELAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14167, 15 September 1906, Page 7

IRELAND.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I have read a letter in your issue of September 13, signed “ A. J. M’.Donnell,” which astonished me. I think it- ought not to go unchallenged. Is this gentleman a ‘‘ new' chum” that he is so little acquainted with the “Lyttelton Times” and its editor? There is no paper in New' Zealand so sympathetic to Irishmen, apd their cause. Its columns are always as open to Irish Nationalists as to any other class. My own opinion about the London cable is that it is quite correct. Mr Dillon and others have been hinting at the “old medicine’.’ for a considerable time. Those Irish landlord® are as great scoundrels as ever stepped. I have read the article in your issue of September o at least a dozen times, and still consider it- “somewhat misleading.” I am certain the editor never intended to sland ;r Ireland or the Irish at the tail end of the Empire. Let us see what occurs in the heart of the Empire. Immediately before the late general election'/ the Irish were slandered by the “Catholic Times,” and that paper would not allow' them to defend themselves in its'columns, but “Reynolds’s Newspaper” inserted their letters. How" different all this to the liberality of the “ Lyttelton Times!” Here, in Christchurch, I heard a wellknown Catholic cleric speak of John

and 'William Redmond as “two young men with glib tongues!’’ I will not trespass further on your space.—l am, etc., *B. HUGHES. Clothier Street, Liirvvood, September 14.