IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 8, 18 June 1886, Page 13

IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

TO THE EDITOR N.Z. TABLET.

Sib, — We have much pleasure in forwarding yeu bank draft for the sum of (one hundred and seventy-rive p >unda) £175, £100 being for the Payment of Members' Fund, and £75 for the general purposes of the Irish National League. We have to request you to transmit above amounts direct to the Treasurer of the Irish National League in Dublin, in accordance with a resolution passed at the annual conference of the Irish National League Branches in the Grey Valley held in Greymouth last December. Subjoined you will find a statement of the different branches contributing, as also a list of subscribers to the Payment of Members' Fund, which please publish in the Tablet. It is gratifying to see the warm support and assistance now extended to the Irish National Party, by all creeds and countries, in their great effort to wrest a national constitution from the English Government. The United States of America are, as usual, whenever Irelaud wants their assistance, nobly coming forward with moral and material support. So are the Australian colonies, and though we in New Zealand are not doing much, still we will not admit but that our hearty sympathies are with Parnell andhi9 party. Now, indeed, our heart* beat high with expectation when England's greatest statesman — W. E. Gladstone— has brought his giant intellect to bear upon the framing of a national constitution for Ireland, and is occupied for the last two months in forcing it through the English House of Commons with all his might. The eyes of all the civilised world are upon him, and intense interest is manifested in the present struggle. Its Biccess or otherwise will be known in a few days, but we are certain that if he fails at first, he will try again, and never stop until he accomplishes that which be has so nobly and forcibly urged in the British Parliament. — We are, etc., Thob. P. O'Donnkll, President. Michael Phillips, Treasurer. James Creagh, Hon. Sec. Greymouth, June 6, 1886.