HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1568, 11 October 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE.

SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR.

MR- CHURCHILL CRITICISED.

By Telegraph—Proas Aasociatton-Copyrlijht (Eco. October 10, 10.40 p.m.) London, October 10. Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Into Leader of tho Opposition, in a speech at Haddington, twitted Mr. Churchill that his Tecent Dundee speech on Home Ilulo had been quite misunderstood. It was really a masterpiece of politicul irony. Mr. Churchill had returned from his Belfast expedition' quite convinced that Homo Rule was an absolute impossibility, but failing to convince his colleagues ho had suggested a system of decimal fraction Parliaments, which' made. Home Rule utterly ridiculous.

NATION WITHOUT A CONSTITUTION. (Eec. October 10, 10.40 p.m.) London, October 10. Lord Selbornc, in speaking at Southampton, declared that tho reform of tho House of Lords would bo the first task of a Unionist Government. The nation was living at the present time without a Constitution, and hence Ulster's revolt. The Government was raising up a new plutocracy and buying support by means of shoddy titles.

AN AUSTRALIAN PROTEST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrieht

Sydney, October 10. The Anglican Synod adopted a resolution," moved by Canon Archdnll, for presentation to the King and Parliament, protesting against the-Home Rule.Bill'as being unjust to a local section of the Irish people, provocative of civil war in Ireland, and threatening the stability of the Empire by placing tho traditional enemy of Protestant principles—the Court of Rome—in a position to carry out intolerent principles and effect a total separation of Ireland from the' British Crown.