Home=Rule Meetings in Australia.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 20

Home=Rule Meetings in Australia.

The Irishmen of Australia sre rMermined not ti let the question of Hume-Hnle for Irelar d >est m abeym cc, a* tl ey feel that now. as S' nator O'('i nut r said i.t a pelminary meeting in Sydney a. tow Vvrek° ag". • i t a time wl.m tf c stn in and stress of a great war leav s the •'"i i f,'l-« v i Parliament free to cc LHrier other affa rp- now i« the lime when we in Aumhil's. v\ h( se voice baa Iveu heard aid a hewe nd 1 aH been soniiht ai.d ft It m tht building up of tho t'ropro "-lioukl !>•> hfi.rrt j.nri Jelt vihet wi> Kfk t«> umovf Oi c of the pl.gui-spets in the int^rr.j-1 aiin)iiii"trntioij of the Empire.' As a result of tho prchrMrinry meeting Ik Id in the pi»rly p-irfc of la'-t mnitli, n great demonstration was h< Id in the Town Hall, ->ydrey, on Mon.lr.y night, at which the Mayor, Alderman Hughes preMi'ed. The brief cable mesf-ape states that many public men were present, and the object of the gathering was to take pr e.tioal action towards assisting 1 th° Irish Parl'a* mentary party in the House of Commons. The meeting 1 adopted by acclamation a resolution of deep sympathy wiih the King, and then carried lesolutions in f >vor of Hon e Rule for Ireland, condemning the revival of coercion in that country, and asking Mr. John h. Redmond, the Nationalist Lendei in Parliament, to send a delegation to Australia. A Hime Rule fund wps started, £050 being subscribed at the meting 1 . It in underwood that meetings with the same object will be held in other it ntreß in New South VN ales. A Home Rule meeting was ht Id last week in Melbourne at which resolutions were pat-Bed strongly condemning 1 the policy of coercion, and urging the < ompulsory sale of land by landlord?. The time hn» arrived when the Irishmen of Now Zealand and the friends of liberty and justice sbu uld unite and make their voices heard, not ah-i.e in favor of telf-government for Ireland, but in vigorous protest against the reign ot tyranny which has been recently inaugurated by the Government at the suggestion of prime rack-renting landlords.