THE IRISH ENVOYS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10228, 3 May 1911, Page 5

THE IRISH ENVOYS.

MESSRS REDMOND AND HAZLETON.

Mr William Hoey Kearney Redmond, M.P., of the- Irish Delegation, who will visit Masterton to-morrow, is a brother of the leader of the Irish National Party, and second son of the late Mr W. A. Redmond, M.P. He was born in 1861, and is a barrister. He married in 1886 Eleanor, daughter of James Dalton, of Orange, New South Wales, of "a family which holds lar,g«' pastoral and agricultural interests in the .Commonwealth. Mr Redmond has published two books, "A Shooting Trip in the Australian Busk," and "Through the 'New Commonwealth." Mr Richard Hazleton, M.5., another of the Irish delegates, was, according to "Who's Who," born in December, 1880. He is a son of the late Thomas Hazleton, senior partner in a large drapery concern now known as the. "Henry Street Warehouse," Dublin, and is a bachelor. After leaving college he took up journalism and politics, and is a well-known Temperance advocajfce, and; one of th© leaders of the Celtic Renaissance, whd«h advocates the revival of the Gaelic language and literature, and has already produced some remarkably clever writers. He entered public life on coming of age as Urban Councillor and Poor Law guardian of Dublin in 1902, was Chairman, of the National Holiday Committee of Dublin in the following year, contested the South Dublin seat in., 1903, and in 1906-7 toured v the United States on behalf of the Exnne Rule,cause. ,