THE IRISH ENVOYS IN AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Tablet, 18 January 1912, Page 23

THE IRISH ENVOYS IN AUSTRALIA

Mr. R. Hazleton, M.P., has received the following letter from Mr. John Redmond, M.P., under date November 30: J My dear Mr. Hazleton, —-The reports we have received of the success of your fission in New Zealand,; Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia, have been received with the greatest relief and satisfaction by all your, colleagues, and by the Nationalists of Ireland generally. It would be quite impossible for us to exaggerate the grave importance of your mission. You are aware that, under the Veto Bill, the House of Lords have the power to reject the Home Rule Pill m two successive years, and, under these circumstances,’ it can only be passed into law over their heads in the third year after its introduction. ~ ‘Of course, if the House of Lords, for the first time in its history, acted with good sense, and with justice to Ireland, the Bill would pass into law next year. But this is too much to expect, and it is absolutely necessary for us to provide for a prolonged campaign of at least two years’ duration from this March. Our opponents are straining every nerve, and you know who our opponents are. They are all the wealthmst people in this country, all the monopolists and millionaires. Therefore the opposition campaign will' have an unlimited amount of money at its back Already they are pouring out money in every direction, iliey nave Great Britain covered with emissaries. They nave a press subsidised. They are scattering anti-Irish literature wholesale and by the million. To counter Ins is a terrible strain on the resources of our party and our chief hope is that in addition to the subscriptions from our own people, the scattered members of i 16 Irish race throughout the world will put into our hands the weapons necessary to enable us to defeat the machinations even of the wealthiest of our opponents. uur Home Rule campaign has commenced, and e have launched into very heavy expenditure of all sorts in propaganda work. Never, in my opinion, was ' here such urgent need for a large. fund at the back of the National Party as at this moment. You and your colleagues 011 ? to feel very proud that to you is Hotted the duty of collecting subscriptions for this purpose from the free people of Australia. I need not say our prospects are the brightest possible, and I feel quite certain that, if only we are properly supported, whbf lSl f I Parliament will be actually sitting in Ireland within three years from this date at the very latest. Ireland is deeply grateful for the magnificent moral material support which she has obtained from

The total amount received to date as the result of TiJn ISh S vo ff cam Pg n in South Australia, is over Trill J 1 tb f returns for Port Adelaide, Broken l ill and Petersburg still to come. ; These should bring tie total up to £IBOO, and, with subscriptions from centres not stated, it is expected that £2OOO will be reached, more than double the amount raised in South vanln Unng the tOUT ° f Messrs. Devlin and Don °- van in lyuo. ; -

The Irish envoys resumed, their misison in Victoria on January .8. They will complete their Victorian tour h y visiting Wjilkce, Inglewood, Brunswick, South Cliftori FBI Sale South Yana, and Praha., higs in Si a " d Collln g wood - and Nerang-nine meet’'