ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 8, 12 June 1885, Page 15

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Shoneen Volunteers.—The verses forwarded by .our contemporary are too well known, and .occupy too prominent .a place in Irish literature to render it needful that we should publish them. We ' have, moreover, acted in no way at variance with the sentiments expressed, in them. It would not,benefit Ireland one t straw, were Irishmen.in New Zealand to have their throats,cut, (their wives and daughters insulted, and their houses burned, as they surely would, should the Russians make a successful attack, upon the Colony. We ourselves also lay claim to patriotism in the cause of Ireland, but we preserve .our common sense, and without it a patriot is not, of much use. ~