A VOICE FROM IRELAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 468, 3 May 1890, Page 5

A VOICE FROM IRELAND.

THANKS TO NEW ZEALAND. Auckland, April 30. “ The generosity of our Auckland friends again imposes on me the pleasing task of tendering our very warm thanks for further contribution for the Special Evicted Tenants’ Fund./ The above are the opening words of a letter from Dr. J. E. Kenny, M. 8., Treasurer of the Irish National League, in which he acisnowlegdes the receipt from Messrs Fred Moore, James Flynn, M. J. Sheehan, and W. Jennings of a further sum of £164 lls 9d from Auckland (including £lO 6s from Mr E. Gallagher, Te Aroha) bringing the total up to £BO7 10s lid ; the result of the late mission of Mr John Dillon and his two friends. At the same time, Dr. Kenny compliments the Treasurers Messrs iSoore and Flynn on the admirable conciseness of their balance-sheet.” It is very evident that the splendid way in which Auckland, and indeed the whole of New Zealand, responded to the appeal made on behalf of the suffering Irish tenants, has touched the hearts of those who are fighting their cause. The practical sympathy shown will greatly strengthen their hands. That they see this the following extract from the same letter will show “ I see that Mr Chamberlain, writing to Mr R. C. Barstow, a kindred Unionist (so-called) spirit, declares hisbeliefin tbeloyalcyand patriotismpf New Zealand. I quite agree ; no one can doubt your loyalty and patriotic feeling ; but New Zealand has shown what Mr Chamberlain would fain ignore—that she knows how to recognise the most complete loyalty and patriotism with a hearty spirit of helpfulness towards the persecuted and suffering, and an intense sympathy with those struggling to obtain that measure of freedom which she herself so soberly and worthily enjoys. New Zealand has proved by her welcome to our envoys and the generous help she has sent us that she understands how to put in practice towards others. the principles which she believes are applicable to herself, and to advocate the bestowal upon others of those rights and liberties she would sternly demand and fearlessly obtain for herself were an attempt made to withhold them from her. Every one of the Australian colonies hae acted in the same spirit, though none more conspicuously than New Zealand.”