HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 292, 4 May 1911, Page 8

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

THE ENVOYS AT WELLINGTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, LasUNight. . The Irish Home Rule envoys opened their New Zealand campaign to-night, when Messrs Redmond, Hazelton and Donovan addressed about 2000 people in the Town Hall. The Mayor presided. Mr. Hazelton said a Wellington paper had asked why were they here—for money? The answer was" that £IOO,OOO liad been subscribed to tight Home Rule. They asked New Zealand to help to smash that £IOO,OOO. and to keep their enemies oh the run. Wluit the Irish people wanted was a Parliament of their own, with executive responsibility, to have full control of all purely Irish affairs, subject to the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. They were not asking for separation from the Empire.

Mr. Redmond said this was their last and final struggle. They were asking for no more than New Zealanders possessed—the right of making their own laws. Mr. Donovan said there could never be any alliance between Britain and America till the Irish question was settled. The twenty millions of Irish people or their descendants in that mighty republic would prevent it. He understood that that intimation had already been conveyed to the ruling powers at Downingstreet.

Hon. J. Carroll moved a vote of thanks, and spoke in favor of the cause.—Hon. T. W. Hislop seconded. The sum of £7OO was subscribed at the meeting.