Remittance to Ireland – 1891

The Mercury (Hobart Tas.) 8th February 1891 p3
Servant Girls’ remittances to Ireland
Boston December 26
Mr. Patrick Donahoe, who in 1889, on behalf of Irish servant girls, sent 276,778 dol. to Ireland, has during the past two months sent nearly 50,000 dol. Mr. Donahoe does almost one-third of the Irish draft business of Boston. He says that the amount sent this Christmas exceeds the record of any previous Christmas. Mr Donahoe has a curious method of advertising, an announcement beginning, “We will, God willing, continue to our draft business etc.”