TELEGRAMS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 March 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

fPEIt PRESS ASSOCIATION. < HOME RULE FOR IRELAND: Clirist:'luire]i, This Day. At the City Council meeting last night Mr JFcComhs. M.P., moved a mot : on in favour of granting Home Rule to Ireland, and asking the Govern! r to forward a message to the imperial authorities. V: ayoi* Holland ruled that such a motion was out of order, but Mr Mc•Combs moved that the council disagree with the mayor's ruling. This motion was carried by eight to seven. A number of councillors then left the chamber and the Hoino Rule motion finally was car vied in the form that the council views with pleasure the resolution of the Imperial Government to make another effort to settle the Irish problem, and believes that tlie winning of the Irish confidence is of supreme importance to the caiise of Britain and the Allies. THE SEDITION CASE APPEALS. "Wellington,"This Day. The Full Court sat to-day to hear appears by Messrs Semple, iirindle, Eraser, Cooke and Thorne against convictions for seditious utterances. The arcunds of appeal briefly are (1) that the War Regulations Act is ultra vires insofar us the regulations affect things beyond Xew Zealand's pnwor. the Parliament being limited by the Constitution Act to making of laws for good government of New Zealand; (2) that the Mil'tarv Service Act is also ultra vires in purporting to control or compel services of persons beyond New Zealand; (3) that the regulation of the,sth December, 191G, is ultra vires;-(4) that if the "War Regulations Act is valid, regulation No.' 4., of December, 1914, inacio under it, creating an offence of seditious tendency is invalid ; (5) that convictions following thereon are bad, as including more than one offence ; (6) that appellants were denied the right of Trial by Jury; and finally that as a matter of law none of the alleged seditious utterances taken with tho coii r t' > x f of the whole speech come within the meaning of the crime of sedition. iMr George Hutchinson appears for the appellants and the Solicitor-Gen-eral for the Crown. Argument is likely to be lengthy.

CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH. New Plymouth. This Day. A two-year-old child of a tramway conductor, named Bullot, was fatally scaldefl through falling into a hot hath. HM—'