LAND LEAGUE BALANCE-SHEET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1143, 1 September 1883, Page 3

LAND LEAGUE BALANCE-SHEET.

Patrick Egan has furnished President Sullivan, of the Irish National League of America, with a detailed statement of the funds subscribed in Ireland for various purposes connected with the land agitation. £27,000 were subscribed directly to the central funds of the Land League, and in addition tbe Ladies’ Land League received £9OOO Tbe considerable sum of £30,000 was subscribed and spent locally in the work of organisation and agitation, and £21,000 was specially collected for the State Defence Fund on the occasion of the abortive trial of Mr Parnell and others. For the sustenation of the suspects imprisoned under Mr Forster’s and a similar amount was gathered in aid of the Dublin Exhibition of last year. In all, the Irish people themselves subscribed in less ihan three years a sum of £228,000 for political purposes. The Irish in America in the same period forwarded to Ireland for similar purposes L 157,000 and about £IO,OOO was received from Australia, making a total of £367.000 subscribed in aid of tbe agitation conducted by Mr Parnell. To this total must be added sums contributed to the relief of distress, for which £59,000 was sent from the United States. This financial statement was furnished by Mr Egan in order to establish the fact that the greater portion of the money spent in agitation was subscribed by the Irish in Ireland.