THE HOME RULE FUND.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1259, 14 October 1911, Page 6

THE HOME RULE FUND.

i- T, S , lr,_l nm suro tllcre is not & Honi* Ruler ot sympathise? of tlio Irish cauto but will be delighted with the announce • mont in your issue of this dav at (ho V glad news of Ireland having already received tho magnificent sum of ,£ROOO in ' two instalments, ono cabled on .Tuly 5 * last for dCIOOO, and tho second mailed on 0 July 28 of tho same month. But surely, s llr. Editor, there must bo some mistake f about tho last remittance, as it was im--0 iwssiblo for it to reach London or Dub- - lin before September 3, and as Air. Kcd--1 moml's reply could not be mailed before • s September 0, or three days later than tho 0 credit note, it would bo 'impossible to re- - coivo an- ecknowlcdgment -in Wellington 1 before to-morrow, October 12. And now :. alnut Hie which (he cilv papers t stated was cabled Home on July 5 Inst, I 1 look in vain and without success in the - Dublin "Weekly Frconun," tho accredit- \- ed newspaper of the IrisJi party, and k find no acknowledgment of tho receipt of ■- that amount by 31 r. John E. Kcdmond or , tho Antwii Trustees (Bishop O'Dcmiell, 1 J. L. Kcdmond, 3U\, and 3lr. Fitzgib--0 bonr ; 51.r-.),- and-1" may herb 'state that it' r has always boo i tho policy of the Irish party to publish in the "Weekly I'rco- \ man' all funds receive 1 from any part , of the world, and as soon as possible. In 3 fact it lias been- tho secret of their suc- ) eass, and, moreover, thev are tho oniy , po itical party in tho world who do nub- , usli a bnlance-slieet duly audited, ol all . subscriptions from at Homo and abroad, |. and I can nssura you the funds were 1 never moro wanted than they are at tho prasent time. What with the expenses of the Eighty Club representatives, now visiting Ireland, to pleul her cause in April next, and other expenses, plus every meaibcr of tho Irish party, who are poor men, simply depending on tho subscriptions from their country men, women . and sympithisers tho world"over. I have ' searched tho columns of all tho numbern * of tho Dublin "Freeman" from July to } August 2G, and I fail to discover the re- * ceint or acknowlcdgmcct of ono singlo 0 shilling in connection with tho mission > of tho Irish envoys. In fact, tho only in- * lormation received from the Dominion . was through tho London "Times," cabled * from hero by its Wellington correspondent, in which ho stated that tho tour of the delegates was a great success, awl that they received JCIO.OOO, and for which tho "Fremian" published a long articlo headed "The Irish Exiles," and also a few brief reports from tho "Now Zealand . fabler.-' Perhaps with your alert and' ' searchlight method of finding out things mid solving difficult problems, you migiit be able to discover tho missing link, or whether (he money orders have miscarried. Would it not be as well that a local duly audited balance-sheet should, for tho satis: iction of all contributioDs to this fund, which Irishmen have so much at heart bo published. As stated abovo in my letter, we I'addics liko to have all (.lings lair ami square, and an account is usually rendered for every sixpence expcnled.—l am, etc., JAMES O'DEA. Wellington, October, 11, 1911.