HOME RULE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12581, 11 October 1911, Page 8

HOME RULE.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, laat' night. Mv Martin Kennedy, who did so much to make the tour of New Zealand by the Irish delegates so Bplendid, has just received an official receipt for the second instalment of the New Zealand contribution, sighed by Bishop ODonnell,' J. B. Redmond, and John FitzGibbons, 1 trustees of the Home Rule fund, With; it came ; the following letter from Mr John Redmond himself: — , "Dear Air Kennedy.— l beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 28th July, enclosing a credit note for £4500. This with the £4600 already received from you by the envoys makes a total of £8500 received by us so far as the result of the New Zealand mission. 1 need not say that we, and the whole of national Ireland," are deeply grateful for this most magnificent and generous " support. We are now entering on the last lap, and nothing short of some quite unforeseen political earthquake can prevent the early triumph of Home Rule. W^hen that date comes, we will gladly aiid' proudly acknowledge how much Ireland owes to the irisjuxjitgi of New Zealand, and foremost among them,', to you. tfnited by my >v, colleagues, m warmest thanks to you, I remain, very truly yours.— (signed) J. E. Redmond. — 29th August, 1©11." The last instalment was cabled Home quite recently, making 1 a sum total of the net contribution of the Dominion to the fund nearly £9880. The total amount collected m New Zealand was nearly £11,000.