The Irish Delegates
Mr jD>illon anoSSit Thomas Esmonde . =arriv^«>frbm'.JAtistralia, by way of Honahik^Kiffi^ebrttsry; 2j2nd jH and were received with over jv helming; * enthusiasm by the Irish population of San 'FraiKisco: When the;two-dia-r tinguiehiM visitors had been ". kowtowed' by > their fellow countrymen, -and ample talk had been made by the newspapers, a public reception wsß • giveii •at ."the "largest the.atre in- the • : city, , witli nse success. There '-must have' been' four thousand people present.^ Ii; J was a great night /for Ireland, and the British GoVernment •was rputed-rhprsej foot,. and dragoons —by the speech of Mr Dillon, who dwelt f at- some length on The 'TimesJparaell embroglio, and ihis •laudation of the irish- American leader 4 of his,paTty wAß,the glory of Hibernian Jsir Thomas Esinonde 'was welcomed by ffie audience with more •effusiveVess than the more eloquent -M.P. for the reason, it would" seem, : that he united in himself the opposite -conditions' of landlord and liberator, i "The stream of dollars commenced to riow in, and in' a very little while over -8000 doilarVwere contributed. :
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 119, 1 April 1890, Page 4
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174The Irish Delegates Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 119, 1 April 1890, Page 4
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