HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. WHAT GAVAN DUFFY SAYS. [REUTER's TELEGRAMS]

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 153, 8 May 1886, Page 6

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. WHAT GAVAN DUFFY SAYS. [REUTERs TELEGRAMS]

London, May 2, Sir Charles Gavax Duffy, writing to the "Contemporary Review," argues that colonial analogies iustify Mr Gladstone in his efforts to grant Home Rule to Ireland. Anti Home Rule Meetings in Scotland. Lord Harington and Mr Goschen have held successful meetings in Edinburgh, and several other Scottish towns Mr John Morley has thrown out hints of important deviation in Mr Gladstone's Irish proposals.

London, May 1. The opposition to Mr Gladstone's Irish proposals is general, and sixty of the Liberals have declared their intention of voting against them. A number of others are wavering. If the second reading is carried by a narrow majority, JVJr Gladstone will probably recast the proposals and bring them down again next session.

(SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE "AGE,") Londox, April 19 The proposals of Mr Gladstone for the establishment of an Irish parliament are viewed with strong disfavour in the northern counties of Ireland, where much bitterness of feeling prevails in connection with the scheme. A movement has been started for raiting a fund to be expended in furnishing the Loyalist or Protestant Irish with equipments that they may be prepared for any eventuality.

•7 •# *. A. ™ " London, April 21. Mr Gladstone has written a letterto Quebec Legislative Assembly expressing thanks for the action of that Chamber in passing a resolution approving of his Home Rule policy.

Mr Chamberlain's Views. Right Hon. Mr Chamberlain, addressing his constituents at Bhmingham last evening, stated that, while he was opposed to the Irish land purchase .scheme of the Government, he would pupport a modified system of Home Rule, which should provide that a certain proportion of Irishmen might continue to sit in the Imperial House of Commons, and that two Parliaments should be established in li eland- one to represent the South, and the other to sit in Ulster, and represent the Protestant popu-

lation. In connection with the land purchase scheme submitted to the House of Commane, it is provided that where the Irish tenants of any estate refuse to take advantage of the facilities proposed to be given them for the purchasing of their farms, the State will assume the ownership. April 25. Viscount Starbook has announced that he is opposed to the Irish policy of the Government. Midlothian Manifesto by Mr Gladstone^ London, May 3.

Mr Gladstone has issued a manifesto to his constituents in Midlothian, in which he informs them that he has received conclusive evidences of sympathy with his Irish policy from America and the colonies. He criticises the discordant views held by those politicians who have seceded from the Liberal ranks, and urges concession to the Irish demands while England is yet free and strong, instead of yielding hereafter from motives of terror. Mr Gladstone concludes by affirming that it is urgently necessary that the House of Commons should decide whether Ireland should have the management of her o\\ n affairs. He expresses the opinion that it is possible to arrange details. Opinions on the Home Rule Proposals. Lord Roseberry holds that Mr Gladstone's Irish proposals absolutely promote Imperial federation, but Lord Selborne contends that their effect will be to repeal the Union.