British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1913, Page 2

British and Foreign.

[uLKCJ'iuu Tiii,iit;iurn, cornucmT.] [i'KJt J'itKSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 8.-10 a.m.) THE BELFAST REBELS. London, Sept. 2-1. The I Ister Council at Belfast liay ratified a scheme ,ol.' provisional government, Imt details are reserved until Home .Rule becomes law. A Military Council and several commit tees, including Customs, Excise and Post Office, liave been appointed, and it has jeen decided to raise a i'l,01)0,000 guarantee fund to indemnify vol-.mtee-rs and (heir relatives in ease )i: iujuryor death. Five hundred delegates attended, including (he Duke of Aber•uru, Lord Londonderry, Sir Edvard Carson and inanv peers and U.'sP. PASSIVE KESISTERS. Johannesburg, Se])i. 2.1. Sixteen Indians, including I'oui vomen, have, been sentenced to hree monilis' imprisonment (in ■onnection with the ]>assive resisence agitation) for attempting to toss the border from "Xatal into he Transvaal.