THE IRISH TENANTS' RELIEF FUND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 41, 3 February 1888, Page 18

THE IRISH TENANTS' RELIEF FUND.

dlv thpfel f^. a T n * the pupations of the day, the Irishmen of Christchurch and its vicinity have still JET"? H WhlCK i *° b " tow a S enerous tkough/upon their friends at _Home who are now undergoing the brunt of a SETtS ,T* day TJ? m * ke more violent anS bitter .—The cablegrams are thick with reports of the vengeance that is being taken on determined patriots who refuse, in obedience to an iniquitous law, to forsake the causHf toeir country and to goon their way, leaving the poor in their misery and the suffering in thrir *iJSS» without any further hope of relief MembSs o f "S liament, and editors, and Catholic clergymen, arV being seized on any pretext and consigned to gad on the perjured atGalcarragh,wearetold, for inciting to riot, I Sg pro! tected from arrest by a concourse of his indignant veoZ who are ready to throw themselves before the WoneHnd rifles of the police and soldiers, in order to save their beloved eoggarth from insult. And well he deserves their devlTn It is but a few weeks since he threw himself into the sea and braved the danger of death to save the life of one of hTs flock who was drowning. And for this act-which was one o f ex ceptional bravery-he has received the medal?f the Koval nature must make abhorrent to him ! Z Z heavier sentence and the priest will hare to suffer help or sympathy can be bestowed upon them It Jfe The infamous work of eviction is still going on How

a uccess. Indeed, -we would gladly see the movement tliey have began extend itself elsewhere— and we beg particularly to recommend it to the attention of our readers in Punedin. It would be an honourable rivalry we re this city to enter the lists with the City of the PI ains, and vie with her' in trying to raise a greater sum.