NEW ZEALANDERS IN MELBOURNE. RECEPTION OF THE IRISH DELEGATES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 368, 15 May 1889, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS IN MELBOURNE. RECEPTION OF THE IRISH DELEGATES.

The following extiact from a private letter written by a young New Zealander will be interesting :—": — " On Wednesday evening A. and 1 went to a meeting of New Zealanders to form a new Rugby Football Club. There woie about 80 or 90 present, Dr Leger Erson in the chair. The majority were Aucklanders and a Parnell boy. ' Tommy ' Brown was elected captain of the new clvb — called the ' Pakeha Football Club.' There was great enthusiasm, Dr. Leger Erson making ' patriotic ' speeches. When the health of the new Pakeba Club was proposed Stohr, brother ot my old camp triend, proposed that it should be drunk with war cry honours, and ottered to lead ; and then a strange cry went out of the windows into Bourkestreet, and no doubt our 'Ake! AKe 1 Ake ! Kia kaha ! Kia kaha !' was a cause of wondtr to those who heard this novel shout. I expect that the Maori footballers have carried it all over England by thia time. It will piobably be the national cry of New Zealanders upon all occasions, and I must pay it gives the lungs even a better chance than the ordinary ' Hip, hip, hooray !' " i met the Rev. Wilfred Percival (formerly of St. Mary's, Parnell) in town. He is curate at one of the large churches in Melbourne, as much liked here as he used to be in Parnell, and thought very highly of as a preacher. " On Saturday afternoon I went to see the reception of Dillon, Esmonde and Deasy, the Home Rulers. There was an enormous crowd at the railway station, and the cheering and enthusiasm was immense. I'll never forget the scene in the Hibernian Hall when they arrived there after the piocession through the streets. The hall was crowded, and when the three appeared on the stage the whole house rose as one man and cheered for several minutes. It reminded me of the old Grey meeting?, and I don't believe political feeling has run so high for years in these parts The address was read by Sir Byran O'Loghlen, ex-Premier, and the three Home Rulers teplied. Dillon is a very fine speaker, but he i& not, to my mind, the ordtor that Sir George Grey is. Sir Thomas Esmonde is quite a young man, and as he is unmarried it looks very much like good ' tactics ' to send him out here, where Home Rule is so horribly unfashionable. He ought ito make converts among the young ladies here. There was the wildest enthusiasm all through the proceedings, the great majority of the audience of course being Irish, hut with a fair sprinkling of colonials amongst them."

In " Lloyd's Weekly London Newspaper" the following missing friends in New Zealand are inquired for : — Thomas Bolland, left London for Auckland about 1863. His aged parents last heard of him five years ago. Emma Dousing, sailed with her husband from Gravesond for Auckland in 1858. Her brother and sister ask. Matthew Faulkner, left home 1864, and was heard of at Wynstead, Auckland in 1868. His mother inquires Charles Anderson and his wife Hannah, went to New Zealand 14 years ago. About seven years since the mother heard they lived at Musselburgh, Dunedin. Alice King (nee Ryan), was at Temuka, Canterbury, in 1884. when her mother and brother last heard of her. Edward Lacy, sailed to Wellington in the Golden Sea 16 years ago. His sister asks. Nicholas Reble (24 years old) was last heard of at Reefton. His mother inquires. Thomas Weeks, last wrote from Christchurch two years and a-half ago, and is now believed to be in the North Island. His mother is anxious. Emily Victoria West, last heard of at Wellington, 1875. Her mother inquires. Edmund Perry ' went 1871 or 1872 to Christchurch, and was at the Bush Hotel. His brother asks. Oliver Robinson, formerly of Barrow-in-Furness, went to New Zealand with his family 20 years age. His mother asks. William Strother, supposed to be in New Zealand. His mother begs for news. Frank R. Brind (baker), who was at Napier in November, 1874, is sought by his parents. George Saunders, who last wrote from Otago. His sister inquirep. James and Sarah Tarry (or Terrey) who left Midland, Kent, for New Zealand, 1872. Her brothers ask. George Tribe (left home 16 years ago) was heard of at Port Chalmers in 1875. His mother enquires. "Puff," in the Wellington "Press "is severe on the letter recently issued by Sirß. Stout, in which he declined to re-enter the "inner area" of politics for the present.' • He says : By Jove, isn't it fun to have Stout whining over Liberalism ! Sobbing over the land and snuffling over the want of enthusiasm of ' the young New Zealander. Ah, " The land is going from us !" Was ever any such hum- " bug as this heard? The man who gaye 2,000,000 acres at one shot to an English Company, stock, lock and barrel, mines, ~ forests and minerals !