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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1841, 23 August 1906, Page 3

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A FRENCH CRITICISM. TRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 9.52 p m., Anßiwt 2;! Paris, August 22, Lo Tftops considers Sic Antouy M,.cDon Dell’s Dublin announcement as osblcd on tbe third an official ind'oiation of the great step forward in tho direction of autonomy. It antio'pates that Mr Bryce, Chief Secretary for Ireland, will propose an administrative Heme Rule, particularly the oontrol of finances Whenevor, according to this soheme, local Government and management of fiuuceo3 are plaood in the hands of Iriatmon, the olamourous do mand for a National Parliament will lose rnuoh of its dramntio necessity. Lo Temps oonoffides : ” Perhaps Mr Redmond’s party will uncompromisingly oppose Mr Bryoo's pe o-ous prepes-, owing to its very generosity and tho beneficial effects it is sure lo produce in a country whore British administration has bron tho oauso of most of the evils i llliot leg it, 80 that Nationalists will deprive themselves of the very foundation of their fighting attitude at Westminster and deserve the stigma of b Dg only politioia s oaring more for Parliamentary positions than the interest of the oountry," ,

In his ppeeoh at Dublin S'r Antony Mao Donnell declared his firm belief that 1907 would see tho fruition of many cf tho hopes tho best Irishmen for many years bad entertained, The fruition would be Buoh that Irishmen, if true to ihemsclvee, oould m»ks it the snurors from wbenoe the whole of their hopes may be fu filled.