IRISH HOME RULE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 26 June 1911, Page 3

IRISH HOME RULE.

THE "ENVOY-S AT GREY.MOUTH,

RESULTS OF THE TOUR.

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OREYMOUTH, Sunday. The Irish Home Rule envoys, Messrs 'Redmond and ttatiovaii, oil their arrival from Hokitika, wea-e met-, by -the Mayor and Councillors a.nd many representative eiticens. In the 'evening the Opera Howse was packed, wheal the delegates' solicited gtvpport and sympathy iiii itfe .ctiu&eT Tih-ey Irad a very hearty reception, and £4tO was isuJ&cnbed in the hall. The envoys were afterwards entertained in- the St. Cc.luimit.ia room*. It is estimated by Mr. Martin: nedy, of Wellington, that as a- result or •t.h,3 tour in New Zealand' of - -csstis Kectmoiid, Donovan, a<nd .Hazel'ocn, the Ir'-sh Htome .Rude envoys, a sum of about £7500 will ! be raised. Of ithis .the North Island ha® already contributed about £4500, and there a.re s-i-l two or more places in it toi be visited. J- ® Wellington end, that is,, from the capital' up to New Plymouth and'. ■Napier, has given. £2500, the remaining £2OOO coming coming from t-he Auckland end. When. a .similar appeal) was imade nve years ago £SOOO wiis colilieoted, tut than only thirty-five meetings were held, as against the sixty-five arranged 'for in the preoei*t tour. "Tins time the delegates have done, remarkaMy , we,l. says Mr.. Kennedy, J'and they are mgliW jpleased abcut it." . , • One <xf the greatest . 6urpr:«* of the torn- -so far was the collecting of £BO, at Nelson, a town where there was thought to be very little interest i,n the The envoys, after visitiing Otago and other places in' the N.ca-th lejand : which were missed, will leave New Zea.and aboufc the last week in Ju.y aJid go across to Queensland.