HOME RULE SYMPATHY IN NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 30, 22 November 1873, Page 9

HOME RULE SYMPATHY IN NEW ZEALAND.

(From a Correspondent.) At a meeting of Irishmen held in the Waimea district, it was unanimously resolved that the Home Rule movement in Ireland is worthy of the support of all Irishmen in New Zealand. A committee was at once appointed to carry out the intentions of the meeting, which are to collect subscriptions in the Waimea district, and to solicit the co-operation of all Irishmen iv New Zealand. This can easily be done by the formation of Committees, and where practicable, of Central Committees.

We contemplate the formation of a Central Committee for the West Coast, to receive the moneys of each local Committee, and the amounts so received will be credited to each district and acknowledged in the c Nation,' ' Irishman,' and New Zealand Tabiet, newspapers. Where from unavoidable circumstances a Central Committee cannot be appointed, the local Committee can remit to the following, gentlemen, members of the Council of the Home Rule Association, whom we have selected joint Treasurers, the moneys to be collected. A. M. Sullivan, Editor Nation, Isaac Butt, Q. 0., and M. P., John Martin, M. P., Professor Galbraith, T. C. D., and Mr O'Neil Daunt. The effect of the adhesion of the Irishmen of New Zealand to this movement, will be to strengthen the hands of the Home Eule Association immensely. It will be conferring an amount of moral support much more valuable than the money we may send, and it will serve to show that though we have become colonists of New Zealand, we have not ceased to be Irishmen.

By inserting the above you will not only be forwarding the movement, but you will also be conferring a favor on your correspondent. [Mr John M. O'Toole, Waimea, is bon. Secretary to the Commitlee.]