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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 401, 11 September 1889, Page 5

HOME RULE MISSION. IRISH ENVOY'S REMITTANCES.

The following letter was read by Mr Gaunson at the Irish Envoys' meeting recently at South Melbourne: — Irish National League, 43, QConnell-street, Upper Dublin, 28bh June, 1889. Gentlomen, — It is to me a source of deep gratification and pride to be the medium of conveying to your committee, and through you, to all our generoushearted friends in Australia, the wannest thanks and gratitude of tho Irish National Party on their own behalf, and on behalf of our sorely-tried fellowcountrymen, for tho splendid remittance of £1,200 which you have been good enough to forward me, as well as for the generous and inspiriting sentiments expressed by you in your letter of 10th May containing second of exchange j for said remittance) first of exchange foy which 1 duly received. No remittance could have been more timely, for not only does it bring hope and comfort to our people, but it has also brought dismay and bitter disappointment to the unscrupulous enemies of our cause ab a moment when they were fondly hoping they had succeeded in obscuring and perverting by every base and mean device the faCuS of Irish struggle, and in cloaking the infamies daily being perpetrated in Ireland by tho present Government. Tho liish people accept with gratitude this your generous i-esponso to the appeal made on their behalf by their patriotic delegates, Messrs Dillon, Esmonde, and Deasy, as solid evidence not only of your kindly sympathy with them in the bitter persecutions to which they are now boing subjected, but also as irrefutable testimony of the tact that the vile misrepresentations and calumnies of tho " Times! newspaper, and of the Tory Government, of which it is the agent, have utterly tailed to produce in the minds of tho justice-loving people of Australia the eflects for which their authors had hoped. Our Australian friends may lest assured that they have never contributed to sustain a worthier cause, nor given help the fruits of which were more certain. The Irish people are now engaged in their final death struggle with the hateful system which has so long preyed upon their energies and strangled j their liberties ; and although the present infamous Coercion Act and the prostitution of law and justice, for the fostering and encouraging of which it was passed, have stimulated the landlord faction and their aiders and abettors in Dublin Castlo to renewed efforts to put in practice every means of persecution that a malignant and perverse ingenuity can devise, still the courage and dcteimination of the people, aided by the generous assistance of our friends in England, Australia, and America, leave no doubt of the ultimate nnd speedy triumph of their cause. — 1 am, Gentlemen, very truly and gratefully yours, J. E. Ke> t >y.