IRISH HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 90, 15 April 1912, Page 2

IRISH HOME RULE.

Sill JOSEPH WARD’S VIEWS. (For Press Association.! Wellington, April 13. Sir Joseph Ward has received a cablegram from Mr Redmond, London, asking his opinion oi the Home Hide .Bill. Sir Joseph lias replied: “I strongly approve the Home Huh Bill, which gives proper freedom with every reasonable safeguard to the minorities. It will settle the Irish question, will contribute enormously to the solidarity of the Empire and increase the good fellowship of America and the English-speaking world.’ Speaking to a “Post” representative Sir Joseph Ward said he supported Home Hide for Ireland on two broad grounds. First, it was in the best interests of the Empire as awhole and secondly it was duo to Ireland herseli as a matter of common justice. From the Imperial point of view the Bill was only a recognition of the principle that the more you decentralise from Government control what an

purely local affairs the more you ad;, to the efficiency and energy of that

Government, the more on stimulate ai. active general interest in it. This was independent of that insistent and persistent national desire on the pari of the Irish people to govern thenisel ves. The one barrier to British Imperial unity was the acute and deepfelt sense of wrong which the withholding of self-government had created in the breasts of the Irish people at Home and abroad. More freedom to Ireland meant greater security to the Empire. The resentment felt by Irishmen would blow over, notably in .America, towards England tor keeping Ireland in her present position, and subjection had contributed immensely to prevent that interna! amity which was the only permanent basis of international good-will throughout the English-speakine world. '

NATIVE CAME

LIMITING THE BAG. (INr Press Association.) Welbngton, April 13. The Minister for Internal Affairs states that for the first time in the history of the dominion a limit is to be imposed on the number of native game to he killed per license-holder in any one day. The limit is fixed at 25 'iiead except Jn the Mangonui and Whangaroa districts where the limit in the case of pigeons will be ten per diem. ' An .open season is also declared foi /opossum :n tjte Wellington, Nelson, ißnJler, Soutjr Canterbury, Otago and fjjputldand districts, but sales of skins up, not ponpjtvecl. ~TTT~ -j-