THE HOME RULE FUND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3345, 11 October 1911, Page 5

THE HOME RULE FUND.

NEW ZEALAND’S SPLENDID CONTRIBUTION. WARM THANKS FROM MR REDMOND. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 10. Mr Martin Kennedy, who did. 1 so much to make the tour of New Zealand by the Irish delegates so splendid, has just received an official receipt for the second instalment of the New Zealand contribution, signed by Bishop O’Donnell, J. E. Redmond, and John Eitzgibbons, trustees of the Home Rule Fund. With it cam© the following letter from) Mr John Redmond himself : "Dear Mr Kennedy,—l beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 28th Julv. enclosing a credit note for £4500. This with the £4OOO already received from yon by the Envoys makes a toa.l of £BSOO received by us so far as the result of the New Zealand mission. I need not say that we, and the whole of national Ireland, are deeply grateful for this most magnificent and generous support. We are now entering on the last lap, and nothing short of some quite unforseen political - earthquake can prevent the early triumph of Home Rule. When that date comes, we will gladly and proudly acknowledge How much Ireland owes to the Irishmen of New Zealand, and foremost among them, to you. United by my colleagues, in warmest thanks to you, I remain, very truly yours.—(signed) J. E. Redmond, 29th August, 1911.” The last instalment was cabled Home quite recently, making a sum total of the net contribution of the Dominion to the fund nearly £9BBO. The total amount collected in New Zealand was nearly £II,OOO.