THE IRISH FAMINE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 15 February 1883, Page 2

THE IRISH FAMINE.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegrai-h.] Sir, —In your issue of this evening I am asked a lot of silly questions by one signing himself "English Colonial." I would ask my questioner what has tho Land League or Pi'ggott'.s lying statements to do with the Lord Mayor of London's inhuman reply. I might as well ask "English Colonial," where has the Mansion House relief fund gone r Has it, as was stated by one of the leading papers of this colony, gone to buy gaudy dresses for the lady landowners of Ireland in which to attend the Lord Lieutenants levee. Then my questioner asks about murderers, Moonlight gangs, Sec. Well, Sir, ho has me there ; he appears to know all, and it won't bhare round. I might reply thiswise: who pays the swarms of idle' low-class detectives" who prowl about the chief cities of Ireland armed to the teeth, with power to spend public money on every loafing scoundrel who ehoos.es to comes to them with some cock and a bull story. Then he asks have the English and Scotch ever been miserly ? Who said they had. Then, again, to whom would I send subscription's. I reckon neither lie nor myself would have much say in that. Sir, I have come the conclusion that my questioner has Land League on the brain : let him try an electric pad wrong side out, I am positive it would do him a power of good. The questions "English Colonial " asks have as much bearing on the subject of which I wrote as John Bryce's hob-nobbing and bumming around that cut-throat scoundrel Te Kooti. Let my questioner stick to his proper nationality, aiid try to relieve his distressed countrymen, who haven't had the pleasure of a cheap passage to the colony. Trusting I have not trespassed too much on your space, —I am, kc, Irish Colonial. February 11, ISS.'J.