IRISH NATIONAL FEDERATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 19, 7 September 1894, Page 15

IRISH NATIONAL FEDERATION.

The following letter, addressed by Mr M. Bohan, Wellington, to Mr Laurence Power, Waikawa, Southland, explains itself :— Wellington, 27,h Augnst, 1894. Dear Sir,— With the srrea'eat of pie sure I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Bih mit with the enclosed PoH Office order towards the Irish National Federation fund, and also your patriotic expressions therein. I hopa through your exertions we will receive more P.O. orders from your district. As I urn sure you will agree with me, now for the last time, I hope every true liberalminded man, but Irishmen and Welshmen io. particular, will be up and doing to help on that great cause of Home Rale for Ireland, our dear native land, that land which so many of our ancestors laid down their lives in trying to maintain as a nation, which she is justly entitled to be. Therefore we, as exiles the world over, should now come forward at this particular and critical time and generously help those who are gallantly fighting our country's cause. A dissolution may occur at any moment, and then a general election. We know well the enemies of our country's cau=e are all powerful in wealth and money, whicb go far towards success at elections The leaders of our country's cause are poor, none of them wealthy, and what will be the result if we Irishmen and women the world over, don't subscribe liberally and support those gallant men who are fighting the cause of our native land ? Let] us now come forward, Bupply the funds that will enable our great leaders at this election to contest every constituency in Ireland, and also help those Liberals of England, Scotland, and Wales. Then they will come back all powerful to the Imperial House of Parliament and gnnt Home Rule to Ireland in its true meaning, a Parliament in College Green, with the green flag flying over it. We, as exiles, will then feel proud that we gar c our mite to help to achieve that glorious victory, the object of our heart, a Parliament to justly legislate for that dear old land, and once more make her what she is justly entitled to bs, " first flower of the earth, first gem of the sea." Hoping to hear soon from yon, I enclose membership card and circular, showing the o^j-cts of our Society.— l am, etc, M. Bohan.