Home Rule.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 30 June 1914, Page 5

Home Rule.

NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS THE PURCHASE OF ARMS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Aebociat-kn.. (Received S.l a.m.) London, June 29. A Nationalist volunteer fund will be opened on July 12th. The committee points out that arms and ammunition are purchaseablc advantageously only in large quantities, and the standard weapon is procurable only through the central authority.

THE FIGHTING FUND.

London, June 29,

A house-to-house collection has been organised by the Nationalist volunteers throughout Britain to purchase arms. Church door collections for the same object have also been instituted. The campaign has been going for the last month.

SIR EDWARD CARSON.

[Phr Press Association.] Wellington, June 29

The following is a copy of a cablegram sent to Sir Edward Carson from Wellington last week : “From knowledge both personal and derived from varied trustworthy sources of information, wo are convinced that a large proportion of the population of New Zealand, including many Irishmen, feel that should the Home Rule Bill unfortunately become law, Ulster, with a population greater than that of Hew Zealand, has the absolute right to unconditional exclusion, and to remain directly governed by the Imperial Parliament, or to receive the powers of self-government if she so desire, and that any attempt to coerce Ulster is a direct violation of the very principle by which it is sought to justify the Bill. Your firmness and control of the situation excite warm admiration and we earnestly trust that your efforts to avert a grave danger to the Empire will succeed.” Signed by John G. W. Aitken, merchant; George E. Anson, M.D.; J. Kennedy Elliott, Presbyterian minister; J. S. Elliott, M.D.; John Kirkcaldie, draper ;C. B. Morison, K.C.; James Paterson, Presbyterian minister; T. H. Sprott, Bishop of Wellington.