NAPIER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 24 January 1907, Page 14

NAPIER.

(From our own correspondent.) January 17.

The long-looked for visit of -Mr. Devlin, the Irish envoy, has come at last. The "very high expectations formed of Mr. Devlin as an orator have been more than realised, the general opinion here being that he is by far the best speaker that ever graced a Napier platform. Mr. Devlin's visit will "do an immense amount of good in enlightening, ignorance and removing honest prejudice or misunderstanding. The sum of £150 was collected in Hastings, and £230 in Napier. Mr. Dillon, M.H.R., for Hawko's Bay, moved the resolution, at Hastings, in favor of self-government for Ireland, and Mr. Fraser, M.H.R., acted in a like capacity in. Napier. The Mayors of Hastings and Napier presided at the- different meetings, and Mr. Devlin was agreeably surprised and altogether delighted with the warmth of the welcome extended Lo him in Hawke's Bay.