TO Tl* 1 ~~_f_«- OSP SUB ____S. Sin,—Your frequent digs at Home Role for Ireland keens the subject before the Dublic Your allusion in a recent article to the funds raised for tho above object was unique and highly amusing. la it the usual habit of parties to publish de tailed accounts of their transactions? What of secret service money? What of su.sidles to political partisans; they might be publishers of newspapers, leafleta, and tracts? And what of an application by Parneil and Co. for publication of bow tho funds of another Irish association wa_ expended, and what of purchase and pub lication of forged letters, copies of which I read in the P__ss newspaper, published ia Christchorch; and what of the bittef, E revoking sneeches of the Secretary for reland andthis imitatora? And what is a virtue in the Secretary for Ireland and his followers how is it that it becomes vice in the Home Rale party. Yoa sorely were hot hapny in quoting that political weathercock, "Mr Chamberlain—the man waiting for the shoes of his sometime chief; who is everything by tarns and nothing long; assistant to the wet cure, of the Tory party. Change your tactics, and give the other side for a time, and inform your readers bow, and in what essential sense, the vitality of the Union between Great Britain and New Zealand would b© affected by the Home Rule asked tot by a a large majority of the people of Ireland

and the great X-_«al J&tor to England. How often __t--« _»--«* '***f been wailed in England. Bv_ry political change was to IreaW in ira»i__&v_bl9 --In. This isroaking is becoming ns&Mous and eensibi© nec_»_® ask, wh&t Is It all about 1 Why, thfe falir_a¥ It Is about. It gives onpc_%____y to a &u_aber oS persons to air their eloquence, get- little popularity, and make & great; show of loyalty and eseiusivene&s. Away with it all, and let .vesy son of Crispixt sticl- so his last. Of course any editor can rate » nation, being rich In faJlscies, expedients, and darken** log couneel with words.--* Yours, See. , John Jebsow. 6he-field, November 80th, 1889.
