THE IRISH ENVOYS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10229, 4 May 1911, Page 5

THE IRISH ENVOYS.

VISIT TO MASTERTON TO-DAY. The Irish envoys—Messrs Redmond, Donovan, .and .Hazelton—will .visit Masterton to-day, and deliver addresses in the Town Hall this evening. The chair will be occupied by his Worship the Mayor (Mr J. M. CoraIdine), and the Committee will probably occupy seats on the platform. The envoys are all reputedly good speakers, and there will doubtless be a crowded audien -e to hear lAem. Mr Redmond is a son, and not a brother, of the celebrated Nationalist leader.

THE ENVOYS IN WELLINGTON. A GREAT RECEPTION. (SJy Telegraph—Press Association ) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Irish Home Rule envoys opened their New campaign to-night, when Messrs Redmond, Hazelton and Donovan addressed about 2000 people in the Town Hall. The Mayor pre- ! sided. Mr Hazelton said a Wellington newspaper had asked why they were here for money. The answer was that £IOO,OOO had been subscribed to fight Home Rule. They asked New Zealand's help to smash tnat £IOO,OOO and keep their enemies on the ran. What the Irish people wanted was a Parliament of their own, with an executive responsibility to have full control of all purely Irish affairs,, subject tq the supremacy of the imperial Parliament. They were not asking for a separation from the Empire. Mr Redmond said this was their last and final struggle. They were asking for no more than New Zealand 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 an intimation had already been conveyed to the ruling powers at Downing Street. The Hon. J. Carroll moved a vote of thanks, and spoko in favour of the cause. The Hon. T. W. Hislop seconded the motion. A sum of £7OO was subscribed at the meeting.