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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1917, Page 1

LATE NEWS.

P3EBB ABSOOl&xiori. —yuvxatwurj. IHE IRiSrt QUESTION. Dismisssd in Lords. (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON,-May 22 In the House of Lords, Lord Curzon emphasised that the war alone had led the Government to try to solve th« Irish difficulty. It would be national misfortune if one of the Irish parties stood out of the Convention. Lord Midleton was going to treat the Convention as foredoomed to failurej but as it was the only peaceful solution be and liis friends would accept it. Just let the Government scrap past history so that the Nationalists would not only receive, but,would also v give. He and his friends would not go to the Convention with a rope round their neck. s Lord Lansdowne repudiated a charge that he wrecked the last attempt au settlement, which failed because they could not settle on details. The opinion of Ireland had since hardened against partition. He was not hopeful regarding (the conference, hut if it failed, it would be Ireland’s fault.'. Electoral Reform. LONDON, May 22. In the Hosse of: Commons Mr. Carr in rnovnig the Electoral Reform Bill said that he estimated that the, increase in voters would be 8,000,000. of whom 6,000,000 would be women. LONDON, May 2S In the House of Commons Lieut. Col Sanders moved to shelve the Electoral Reform Bill. Mayor Archer Shoe, in seconding the motion said the Bill failed to give votes to soldiers or sailors. Seriously 111 LONDON, May 22 Mr. Leopold Rothchild is seriously ill. A Big Estate. ~ , LONDON, May 22. Probate has been granted of the Duke of Norfolk’s will. The estate has been sworn at £300,000. Ho bequeaths* £IOO,OOO to various Catholic pufposes.