THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND
As to the reality of the distress in Irelanrl, at a meeting held at the Mansion House, Dublin, in December, Sir Arthur Guinness said be could speak for the "West of Ireland, from which he had returned a fe 1^ days ngo. He could say that every subscription and every amount that could be ob« tamed would be very inadequate to afford the relief requiroj. There werp hundreds of families whose supply of potatoes had been very nearly exhausted ; their credit was gone, and unless the hand of charity was pu' forth to assist them, they could not tell what would be the result.
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 5 March 1880, Page 2
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108THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND Inangahua Times, Volume II, 5 March 1880, Page 2
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