IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 27 July 1888, Page 13

IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

• IB T .^0 THH EDITOR N. Z. TIBLBT. «**,-- 1 have bean instructed by resolution of the Kumara Branch of the insh National League to request you to take charge of the acc^mpsnymg cheque for £06 Hi 64 for transmission to Ireland by first mail. Tou are at liberty as to the selection of the party to whom you will make tne draft payable but you will be good enough to note the dirißion of the amount as follows :-To Payment of Members «« i F i6d; to & eDßral fand « of the Irish National Leagne, £29 7s. I enclose the lists of subscribers' names, which you will please to publish in the Tablet at your earliest convenience. Our branch continues steadfaetly to carry out the work for which it was originated. The monthly meetings of the executive committee are held regularly, and as a result of the efforts made by them in this dietnct to assist the constitutional stiuggU for Home ttule, they may be permitted to point to the respectable sum of nearly £100 remitted through you within tbe last eighteen months in aid of the movement, exclusive ot the sums subscribed towards the Payment of Members Fu»id. It is to be regretted that it was not double tbe amount, but the committee hope that the patriotic example set us by our countrymen, both lay and cleric, throughout the Australian Colonies will rouse Irishmen of all creeds on the West Coast from their apparent indifference and induce them to lend their sympathy and substantial aid in the noble efforts to obtain justice for their native land. It is for this that Gladstone and Parnellare educating the masses in Great Britain and for the same holy cause are such men as William O'Brien sacrificing their liberty and imperilling thrnr lives. Our branch could afford to be much stronger and why it is not is no matter for conjecture, bat to be attributed directly to the score of apathy. The last monthly meeting was fairly well attended ; a cordial Toteof thanks was passed to the collectors and to the Rev. Father Treacy for his courtesy in preaiding.—l am etc., _ , , T The Sbcrktary. Kumara, 12th July, 1888.