IRELAND.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17123, 19 April 1921, Page 7

IRELAND.

THE HOME RULE ACT. A FINANCIAL HITCH. (By Cabla—Press Association—Copyright.) v AUitialion and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, April 17. It is rumoured that a breakdown in the financial arrangements of the Home Rule Act, under which a first charge on Irish re\*enue will be a contribution of £18,000,000 towards Imperial expenditure, is causing delay in fixing a definite date for putting the Act into dperation. It is stated thai the Irish Administration would become bankrupt owing to the enormous increase in police expenditure and the decrease in revenue owing to the discontinuance of the excess profits duty. An amending Act regarding finance is considered necessary.

ENVOY COMMITTED.

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OTTAWA, April 16. A Magistrate at Vancouver committed Esmonde for trial on a chargo of using seditious language. [Eamonde, the Sinn Fein envoy, who was refused permission to land in Ausr tralia, w'aß permitted to land in Canada upon his giving an undertaking to proceed «t once to England. Instead of carrying out this promise, Esmondo delivered an address to Sinn Fein sympathisers, which resulted in. hb arrest on » charge of making a seditious utterance.!