MR REDMOND IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3651, 28 March 1883, Page 4

MR REDMOND IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

" We hope," writes the Sydney Morning Herald, "that there are not many magistrates in the colony who would be prepared to put their names to such an address as the one we here append. Whatever our justices may be in the habit of.saying of the local press, they arc at least in the habit of speaking of British institutions with respect. There is, however, not much of this in the following address to Mr Redmond, which it seems was read and signed by Mr James Dalton, one of the Justices of the Peace at Orange:—'We are proud of this occasion. First of all, we are proud of the fact that in our midst to-night stands a true representative of the people of Ireland, and the choice of that historic borough whose name will stand out for ever as a beacon light to workers for Irish independence. We recognise in you, sir, one of the ablest lieutenants of Ireland's illustrious leader, Charles Stuart Pamell —a member of that noble band which has worn a world's admiration by its resolute resistance to the oppressive proceedings of a foreign senate ; and we are gratified that a gentleman so revered by the Irish people, and possessing brilliant talents and matchless eloquence, should have honoured us by a visit. We are pained at the unfair manner in winch your mission to Australia has been dealt with by a section of the colonial press. That unfairness is not however, endorsed by the jmblic opinion of this country. Our fellow citizens are not intcrestedinthe maintenance of a cruel system of land tenure in Ireland, nor do they desire the perpetuation of acknowledged injustice there. Australians do not view with satisfaction the existence in Ireland of what is practically martial law ; they have not given their approval to the packing of juries, the subornation of witnesses, or the return to those dark practices which have, disgraced English rule in the past. And the journalists who have so misrepresented your objects know full well that if the people of Australia were called on to submit to a tithe of the injustice under which Ireland is expected to be contented and loyal, a bloody revolution would be the sure and speedy result.'- It is needless to add that as a magistrate of the territory Mr James Dalton is supposed to have taken the oath of loyalty to the Queen and Government of Great Britain."