IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1921, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FISCAL HOME RULE. LONDON, June 22. In opposing a motion by Lord Donoughmore (Irish Unionist Peer) in the House of Lords for a disclosure of what reforms the Cabinet proposed to make in the Southern Irish Home Rule Act, • Lord Birkenhead (formerly Sir F. E. Smith, deputy leader of the Ulster n Volunteers) proposed giving Ireland con trol of her customs, etc. Lord Birkenhead discounted the suggestion that an amendment of the financial provisions would be efficacious. There was no chance of thaf amendment. The British people would deal with the Irish situation, accepting necessary sacrifices. Ireland might use fiscal, autonomy to discriminate against British industry and might repudiate her share of the National Debt. » ESMONDE’S VIEWS. OTTAWA, June 22. Mr Grattan Esmonde, who is en route for Britain, under a deportation order, has arrived in Eastern Canada. He addressed a large public meeting in the city of Montreal, those present including the French Mayor of Montreal, and many other leading Frencli-Canadians. Mr Esmonde referred to the propa-

gauda, and declared that daily newspapers in the dominions were a 100 per cent, more hostile to Ireland than even the British press. He referred to Ulster, and alluded to the joke of the toy-Parliament at cl last .which Mr Lloyd George has . set up. He (Mr Lloyd George), however, has stayed at home in London himself, While he has sent Queen Mary to Ireland to the opening of it.” Mr Lloyd George, he added, “did not care if the Queen got a brick on her head in Belfast.” ROMAN CATHOLIC DECLARATION. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy has issued from Maynooth, ‘ a declaration concerning the present condition of Ireland. It says the indignities outrages and horrors have lieen intensified and Ireland is now threatened with darker days, because Irishmen rightly spurned the (British Government’s sham settlement. A special Government has been given to the most intolerant section of the people, without safeguarding Hie victims of recurring cruelty their own Parliament had created after a year of intolerant persecution of Belfast Catholics.