TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10356, 3 May 1911, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

HOME RULE.

ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES

SPEECH BY ,MB, DOK'OYAN

"THE GOAL IN SIGHT." '

(Per United Press Atujoeiatinu )

WELLINGTON. May 2

Tho Irish Home Rule delegates wera welcomed to-day by the Mayor and members of tho Clity Council.

In acknowledging! the roc'aption accorded them ono of tho envoys Mi 1 J. L>. Donovan said: Wo coma bearing; a message of o'ood checi- and. hope to the i^oplo of New Zealand. Wo belief thvt at last, the assent of tho British democracy at Home, and of the Briti«h spanking people throughout the w'oild 1, w'ei are about to attain that measure of national self-government which you ho well and 1 -wisely onjoy here in Now Zealand, and we belipve that the solution of thei liish pi'cblem ?nd tho ai+tniEmcinti of naticnal rijhtb Ly tho Irish people will 'tend not merely to fhe prosperity and pacification of our old country politically, but that it will tend to consolidate. ar<di strongthen -tha Empire, of which it will ilc pleascti to (Us incorpora.t'-d as a free unit. If that corner to pass within tho next 18 months or two years we will have to thank the people of Australasia of all sections, of all creeds and classes for practical sympathy and support which they have accorded us.