IRISH PARLIAMENTARY FUND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8750, 26 February 1907, Page 2

IRISH PARLIAMENTARY FUND.

Poor response in Ireland. Press Association—Copyright. London, February 23. Mr Bechmmd, Bishop O’Dopnell and Mr O’Mara, trustees of the Parliameetary Fund renew, through the Freeman’s Journal, an appeal for subscriptions. ■ Since • December £1630 has been subscribed of which, £IOOO has been collected in Ireland. The Freeman’s Journal endorses the appeal. The Dublin correspondent of v the Times says tho tone of tho Freeman’s Journal suggests that" the leaders are disappointed with the progress of the Fund in 1906. The people are apathetic. , one reason being the growth of the Gaelic League, Sinn Fein and other bodies preaching the futility of parliamentary action, and another is the failure of tho leaders to render any public account of the sums collected in America ; and Australia. According to the Nationalist Press £40.000 is a moderate computation of tho amounts the missions received throughout the world. The existence of such a sum adds the correspondent, acts as a drag on tho collection of funds in Ireland.