THE SELLARS FAMILY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1116, 1 July 1913, Page 2

THE SELLARS FAMILY.

Mr.W. Hennessy writing to his father from Edinburgh under date May 26th., refers as follows to the Sellars Family: “One of the London papers has opened a subscription list for the Sellars family. This is the family that went to New Zealand and then came back to England as they did not believe in compulsory training. They are lying for all they are worth, but it doesn’t seem to do them much good as the subscription lists which have been opened for a fortnight amounts only to They also informed the public that second-grade butter costs xs 4d per lb. in Taranaki—they are not much loss to New Zealand” concludes the writer. Apropos of this family, the London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writing on May X4th., says :—The Sellars family will, police and weather permitting, be exhibited in public on Sunday week. They are to be staged on the plinth ot Nelson’s monument in Trafalgar Square, on the occasion of a workers demonstration “ in protest against militarism.” It seems by the way, somewhat incongruous to hold such a meeting under the shadow of the monument of the man who raised that famous signal—a signal that is still the triumphant call to Britons everywhere —“England expects that every man this day will do his duty,” Dr, John Clifford’s espousal of the Sellars’ cause does not appear to have roused the charitable instincts of the Home anti-compulsory service folk. The fund opened by the Daily News at the eminent divine’s instigation to give the “ruined family” a fresh start has now been open a week, and,

generally speaking, it is in the first week or ten days that appeals of this kind produce the b.*st; results. Yet we find that, including /io from Viscount Haberton and a couple of guineas from Dr Clifford, the total amount subscribed to date to the Sellars fund is £33 15s 6d, of which some £25 was sent In during the first two days the fund was open. The total amount received yesterday by the Daily News was about Bs. Of course, the intervention of the Whitsun Holiday may have temporarily stifled the charitable instincts of the “antis,” but the result of the first week's appeal is somewhat significant.