BRITISH POLITICS.
HOME RULE QUESION.
By telegraph, Press Asa’n, Copyright London, Oof. 12. '
Mr Asquith, speaking at Earl’s Ferry, end not tbe Liberals but the present Government would muzzle the Colonial Conference, because they must tell-it the - Motherland was powerless until the eleotbrates had spoken, and an appeal to the eleetorates was inconvenient. The Conference might fruitfully disouss Imperial defence, Imperial communications, establishment .of a . permanent consultative body to discuss' and settle topios of Im-: perial interest. Home Rule bs meaning a Legislature at Dublin will not, and cannot, be any part of the policy of the next Liberal Government, but he adhered to the spirit and aims of Mr Gladstone’s policy, whioh he believed wss subject always to paramount control of the Imperial Parliament. The gradual assooiatiDg of Irish people in the management of their own affair would ba a step that would be the aim and ideal of the Liberal policy in regard to Ireland. He declined to answer questions whether he would take office in a Government dependent on the Irish party. , . - ~
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1584, 14 October 1905, Page 2
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