WHAT IRISH-AMERICANS SEND TO ERIN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11127, 12 February 1886, Page 2

WHAT IRISH -AMERICANS SEND TO ERIN.

[From the Philadelphia Times.] Fritz Cunliffe Owen, "of London, well remembered in this city as the Commissioner for Japan at the Oeßtennial Bxpositon, is now on a visit to the United States with his wife. He said (to a Times reporter) : *' A few days ago I called on Archbishop Corrigan, the Metropolitan of the Roman Catholic - clergy in the United, States, and .presented the letters of introduction with which I had been furnished by one of the Oardinals at the Vatican. The Archbishop, who is a most accomplished and broad-minded Irishman of about fortyeight years old, incidentally mentioned in the course of conversation that the amount of money transmitted from here to Ireland was something enormous. He assures me that over £5,000,000 (that is #25,000,000) was annually sent to Ireland from the United States, composed entirely of small sums sent by prosperous emigrants to poor relatives snd mends Who have been left behind, This statement on the part of the Archbishop, which does not refer to money for political purposes, haß since been corroborated by several of the large shipping owners. One of the latter, who controls a transatlantic line of steamers, assured me that within the last seven days his firm had sold over $10,000 of two, three, and five dollar drafts for transmission to Ireland addressed to poor relatives, and friends, who would there* by he enabled to spend a merry Christ*' mas,"