PARNELL DEFENCE FUND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 48, 22 March 1889, Page 13

PARNELL DEFENCE FUND.

the accompanying list of subscribers together with the respective ■urns contributed, you will very much please your admiring friends in the Grey Valley.— l apa. etc., Ahaura. D. F. O'Hallahan.

TO THE EDITOR N. Z. TABLET.

Sir, — I hare m«ch pleasure in forwarding you £111 Is 6il towards the fund to defray the expenses of Mr. Parnell and his colleagues in their costly contest against the Timss and the Tory Government. The subscription was inaugurated here by our parish prie9t, and though we have many difficulties to contend with, this remittance will show that 'he people of Waimateare in full sympathy with the struggle which is bsing made to win for Ireland rights and liberties similar to those weenj >y in this Colony. We trust that the arduous efforts of Mr. Parnell and the other Irish Nationalists to achieve legislative independence for Ireland will soon prove successful, despite the maligaant influence of the Time*, and the detestable administration of Salisbury and Balfour,' and that the Irish at home will ere long enjoy tie blessings of being governed by themselves again . Attached herein, I send you the list of subscribers, which we will thank you to publish in the next ipsue of the Tablet. Wishing you and the Indemnity Fund every success, — I am, etc., John O'Connor, Secretary Paruell Defence Fund. Waimate, March 19, 1889. TO THE EDITOR N.Z. TABLET. Sib,— Enclosed you will please find post office order value £12 8s G.I being the amount collected by me towards the Parnell Defence Fund which amount has been subscribed by different denominations of Waitahuna district. You will be good enough to publish in the Tablet the different names from the list I have herewith forwarded to you. You will oblige by remitting thii amount to the treasurer of the Parnell Defence Fund. Mr. Martin Ryan gave me most valuablp assistance in collecting the above sum, — I am etc., Jas. Campbell. Waitahuna, Marcb 20, 1889,

TO THE EDITOR N.Z. TABLET. Sib, — I have much pleasure in forwarding to you for transmission Home to the Secretary of the Parnell Indemnity Fund the sum of sixty-five pounds eighteen shillings sterling (£65 18a), which has been subscribed by the generous and patriotic members of the Irish National League in the Grey Valley, parish of Ahaura. Besides (his amount which I now fend, there has been already forwarded the respectable sum of thirty -one pounds seventeen thillinge sDd sixpence (£3l 17s 6d), through the Central Branch of the Irish .National League in Greymouth (viz.. Blackball, £17 2s 6d ; Maori Creek, £9 ">s ; and Cameron's Terrace, £5 10s); making a grand total of £107 5s collected this year in the parisn of Ahaura for the Defence Fund. By publishing in the nextclitijn of the Tablet