SIR EDWARD CARSON

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 104, 27 January 1920, Page 7

SIR EDWARD CARSON

MAY VISIT NEW ZEALAND,

Some time ago an invitation was sent to Sir Edward Carson, the well-known Ulster leader, to visit New Zealand. At the moment events in Ireland render Buch a step impossible, but it is probable that Sir Edward and Lady Carson may at no distant date make a tour which will embrace both Australia and New Zealand. Writing recently, in response to a communication from .New Zealand sympathisers, Sir Edward said: "It is a great encouragement to me and to all the loyal community of Ireland to know that -we nave so many thousands of friends in New Zealand, which has 6hown itself to be one of the most loyal portions of Eis Majesty's Dominions. The efforts that aro 'continuously made to misrepresent the aims and objects of the. loyal community of Ulster have, I am sure, no effect in New Zealand. They understand hpw determined we arelto maintain our position inviolate in'the United Kingdom and in the Empire. _In the constitution of tho United Kingdom we hold no subordinate part, wo have the' same laws and the same.privileges and are prepared to make the same, sacrifices as 'tho other units, and we firmly believe that the best interests of our country aro promoted and sustained by closer union with our fellow citizens in other parts of the United Kingdom, and we have no sympathy with those who would attempt" at tho very heart of the Empire to create such a division as must 1» fraught with the weakening of the bonds that bind us together and -with disaster to our own unit. To assist in maintaining tlr's ideal, we appeal with' confidence to all loyal men in New Zealand."