THE IRISH ENVOYS

New Zealand Tablet, 3 August 1911, Page 1467

THE IRISH ENVOYS

- The Irish envoys, Messrs. Hazleton, Donovan, and Redmond, left Wellington on Friday for Sydney. They had a very cordial send-off, when upwards of 400 friends and sympathisers assembled on the wharf to bid them good-bye. Among those present were Sir James Carroll (Acting -Premier), Mr. Martin Kennedy, K.S.G., Rev. Father Hickson, and representatives of the Hibernian Society. Mr. Martin Kennedy,, treasurer of the Home Rule fund, last week cabled £4500 to Mr. John Redmond. This is in addition to the previous £4OOO sent Home. There is about £IOOO yet to come in, making a grand total of about £9500 raised in New Zealand for this purpose. MR. HAZLETON IN AUCKLAND. (From an occasional correspondent.) A banquet was tendered to Mr. R. Hazleton, M.P., by the Auckland Irish envoys committee, at the Piccadilly on Saturday night, July 22. Mr. J. J. O’Brien presided, and there were also present, Very Rev. Father Buckley, Rev. Father Holbrook, and Rev. Mr. R. J. Hall, M.A. (Unitarian minister), and Mr. A. E. Glover, M.P, Appropriate speeches were delivered by Messrs J. J. O’Brien, W. J. Napier, Hall Skelton, J. R. Lundon, P. J. Nerheny, and Scholes (Te Kuiti). Mr. R. Hazleton, M.P., delivered a most interesting speech, in which he referred in terms of praise and thanks for the record success of the mission in the Dominion, and especially he thanked the local committee for its great achievement in topping the list. The Barons had wrung from King John the charter of the, people, and now the people were demanding it back from the Barons. The House of Lords had around it many commendable traditions, but it had served its purpose, and he would have liked to have seen them conform to the spirit of the age in a matter more dignified than the course which the Lords seemed bent upon adopting. Mr. Hazleton presented a statement giving the amounts collected in Auckland as follows: —-Whangarei, £65 7s ; Waihi, £130; Thames, £54 Is ; Te Aroha, £95; Hamilton, £135 ; Te Awamutu, £45 ; Te Kuiti, £66 7s; Pukekohe, £76 4s; Dargaville, £2O; Waiuku, £25; Rotorua, £3B; Gisborne, £200; Ngaruawahia, £SO; Auckland City, £1100; total amount for district, £2105 19s. Mr. M. J. Sheahan, general secretary of the Irish envoys’ committee for the - Auckland district, was during the course of the proceedings presented with a gold watch as a mark of esteem from the committee. The inscription on the watch runs thus: ‘To M. J. Sheahan, Esq., J.P., presented by the Irish envoys’ committee, 22nd July 1911/ In making the presentation, Mr Hazleton said he was honored by the committee in being asked to do so. Mr. Sheahan was an energetic, able, and self-sacrificing secretary and organiser, and they were all deeply indebted to him for the success of the Home Rule mission in Auckland. Mr. Sheahan briefly replied, thanking the committee and Mr. Hazleton.