LETTER FROM PROFESSOR POSNETT.
Professor Posnebfc has sent tho following letter to Mr J. A. Tole in reply to a request to preside at the Irish delegates' public meeting at the City Hall on the 6th prox. : — University College, Auckland, New Zealand., October 21st, 1889 : Dear sir,— Allow me to thank tho Irish Delegates' Reception Committee., for their most complimentary l'equest that 1 should take the chair at the meeting to be held on November 6th prox. I sympathise and have always sympathised with the moderate demands of my - fellow- countrymen for the reform of the , landlaws and for. local pelf - government. From hiy standpoint such reforms are nob the exclusive property of any political party, but Reserve the advocacy of ah enlightened Conservative equally with £hafc,of tho most advanced Radical. B,ut my .present position jii' New Zealand is distinctly n-on-po'itical. •, T'must theiefore decline the 'honour 'your Committee has offered nic, and li'upt to your pood' $-en?e to attribute my ' action to "no lackaf -patiioCism.— loni, dear i Fir, faithfully yours, H. MacaulayPoskmt, 'TgWon, J, A, Tole, LL.B.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 3
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178LETTER FROM PROFESSOR POSNETT. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 3
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