THE IRISH NATIONAL DELEGATES IN QUEENSLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 30, 15 November 1889, Page 27

THE IRISH NATIONAL DELEGATES IN QUEENSLAND.

Tub following letter fnra Dr. X nny, treasurer of the Irish National League, Dublin, has been received by Mr. F. MacDonuell, of Brisbane. " Iri-h National Leslie, 13 O'C )nntll- = tre'jt Upper, D ,bin. 30th August, 1889. " Dear Sir, — I knew I should not h ive long to wait for the voice of Bu'-baue iespr riding *o he ippeai of our envoys. She spoke with no v' certain sound w 'en, 1 ist winter, the 'ask was thrown on U8 of exposing arid pulveiiHing the Lidtous m ichinery and lie 3 and calumni a with which we w L re hi insr n^s tiled by the Times, and now again '•be speaks < quilly clearly when our people are being goaded almost tii madiii s.s by p <s'cuiions an 1 evictions at the hands of the same mem a d <lc«inc«ibl ■ pirty and Government, of which the Times was Hirnplv the catspaw and gutter agent. " V air letti r i~> most consoling to ua in our difficulties an 1 persecutions, as showing 'hat Australia needed only a knowledge of the f icts to hi' convnii ed of the justice of our caus n , an 1 having once graspel the s tuition she is de ermine) to throw into the scales the full weignt of lii moial and matcinl hupport on our behalf. From ev.ry m Ie we aie K-ct/iving pro >f of the fact that our people, once lemovid fiotn the ba-'ef .1 mil lences that piralyse and destroy their enemies in t H'ir mvn country under a s\ stem ihe destruction of which i 8 the enil and aim of our struggle, tnuke for themselves position and friends. " In replyinc to the Mcb mrne Committee, from whom I received adiaft for £.">( 0 by the p me mail which brought your letter, I icfentd to the iact that their draft .md jours for £ICOO arrived at the right moment to give the lie to the neent statement of Mr. Cham bet Inn, that the missn n if Messrs. Dillon, E-jmonde, and Dea^y was proving :i miserable f-ulure, producing results barely Miilieunt to pay their travelling and hotel Lxpen'c. It is on lies of t iih k.iid the so-cillel IJnioniHt cause in Knglaud has to depend for -•up]) lit. ' l'y theii fiuiis you in iv know ihem,' and the crop is pi ntiful indeed, l'ln- £I0()0U wlici join diuft just completed, which his co me to hand since Mr Dil'o i landed in Australia, is a triumphant an'-MT to Mr. (Jhimb-iUi-i, an 1 wo 11 testifies t> Aust.a'ia's ipi>recu i > i ot our cause, an 1 th-e nature of the reception she is generously accoidi g to our del gales. " I b.'g to < nclose you, wiili deepest thanks, two receipts, one for £.")0() lor Kvicierl Tenants' Fund, and the second for like amount lor trie P.i'n> 11 D faice Fund, which, with all remittances which uvich me for same fund, I am rttuniug by Mr. Painell's desire and direcMun. Mynci'ipt f>v latter amount is thL-refore official . lam, however, forwardin.', <»s you desire, your letter to Mr. Kooney, the sicutary, and I >tn forwarding you copies of newspapers containing announcotnen's of drafts. . . . With warmest thauks, — -I am, (Uar fir, '■ J. E. Kenny, " Treasurer lush Naaonal League. • F. MacDonnell, R c q., " ib 7 Quten-street, Brisbane."