THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND-HOME RULE PROPOSITIONS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 4

THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND-HOME RULE PROPOSITIONS.

London, Tanuary 5. — The Lord Chancellor of Ireland will prepare a bill for increasing the endowment of Catholic colleges in Ireland and converting the Queen's Colleges ot Galway and Cork into Catholic institutions. He will prepare another bill granting sectarian regulation of primary schools. The Government •will also introduce a measure extending tho powers, of the Land Purchase Act. Gladstone has sumrnodd the Liberal members of Parliament to a meeting on the 16th inst. He privately premises them that he will then make a frank statement of the principle upon which he proposes to settle the Irish question. At a meeting of the National League, held in Dublin yesterday the terrible distress among the people of the west coast of Ireland was considered. Several members made speeches deploring the condition of

affairs and attributing it mainly to evictions. The Treasurer of the" League reported that within the past two weeks £3,603 had been received for the Parliamentary fund and £233 for the League fund. Mr Harris, member of Parliament, who presided, expressed the great pleasure which had been afforded him by Mr Gladstone's favourable reference to Irish Home Rule schemes, as Mr Gladstone's words were of more consequence, and were entitled to greater consideration than those of Mr Chamber Jain, Mr Wright, or even Lord Randolph Churchill. Irish industries, he said, had sunk to the lowest point, and it would be a hard task for Parnell and his followers to revive those industries. Only Home Rule would enable them to bring about a revival. Ireland would then resume her proper posidon among the nations of the earth. Unless Home Rule was granted the agitation would be continued on the old lines, and the Irish in America would freely help their countrymen.