THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 367, 27 January 1880, Page 2

THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

To the Editor of the Akaroa.Mail

Sir,—As usual, Akaroa is the last to come to the rescue. ,1 should have taken up the matter before,, but fully expected our energetic Mayor would have done what I think every other Mayor in New Zealand has already done, that is, to take some steps to collect something towards the relief of our suffering brethren in Irelaud. But no; it would not do for Sleepy Hollow to be among the first to do good, or set the example to the larger districts. We are so snugly wrapped up in ourselves that we do not want to wake up. But this time the case is urgent, so urgent that the whole of the Australian Colonies have already thought it their duty to do their best to give of their abundance to relieve the starving thousands of Ireland, and shall we any longer keop our pockets buttoned up. We, .who are in as good a position as any district in New Zealand, to give the price of a bushel of wheat or oats at the least. I would suggest that subscription lists be opened at once at all the stores and post-offices on the Peninsula, and that a day be appointed for all the lists to be sent in to a committee in Akaroa, such committee to be called together in the interval by the Mayor. Let us each make a personal matter of it. A few shillings each for such a purpose will never be'missed, and we also shall have the gratification of knowing that we did what we could. For goodness sake, let us not leave poor Ireland in the same state as we did the Kaitangata Relief Fund.; . ■■;

Yours faithfully, SIX BUSHELS OF OATS,