IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1925, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] COMMISSIONERS’ STATEMENT. (Received this day at 0.30 a.in.' LONDON, November 23. Mr Justice Kecthnm ( President i and Mr Fisher (iTster member) of the 11ster Boundary Cnm.aiission have issued an official statement declaring: “Our relations with Prolesor MacXeil were those of the clo.w'sl mutual confidence, until November 10th when Professor MacXeil. arriving from Dublin, announced his decision to resign. Vutil then Professor MacXeil had made i. perfectly dear that he intended joining us in signing the (•oinmission’is award embodying a boundary line the general features of which were approved and recorded in the minutes as early as October 17th. It was contemplated tljat a statement should accompany our report indicating that the enmmi-sioneds had agreed to sink all individual differences for the purposes of arriving at a. uiiauiiiiiius award, not specifying the points mi which the differences arose,’’ IRISH CABINET t RISIS. MAY BE AN ELECTION. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON. November 23. Dublin messages state that I here has been a prolonged sitting ol the Free State Cabinet. This gave rise to rumours of the resignation of the Government Ministers. The Cabinet silting broke up at 12.30 o’clock in I lie morning, after four hours’ sitting. II tva's decided not to reply to the statement of Feet ha m and Fisher.