THE IRISH PARTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 18, 15 February 1909, Page 3

THE IRISH PARTY.

DISTRIBUTION OF IHJS PARTY'S FUNDS. London, February 12. A private meeting of the Irish Parliamentary Party at Dublin is proceedin° to elect officers, Mr Ginnell was forcibly ejected for insisting on a submission to an examination of accounts. Afterwards he complained to an inter viewer that there had been an unauthorised distribution of the Party's money, and that one set was using the funds to attack and undermine another set of tho same party. Mr Redmond was re-elected Chancellor.

THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE LIBERALS. Received February 14, 4.15 p.m. London, February 13. ■ Mr. John Dillon, speaking at Belfast, affirmed, in reply to the criticism representing the Irish Party as Hie Liberal Party's tail, that there was very little cause for confidence in Mr. Asquith. They all recognised that there had been a great change in the Liberal Party since Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's death, and they were waiting to see whether the Imperial Roseberyite section or the Radical noncst Home Rule section would prevail. Their relationship with the Liberal Party was now banging in the balance. They would know which it was going to be during the ensuing session, ivhich, he said, would be a momentous one. He warned Mr. Asquith that if the Liberals entered upon a policy of Imperialism ami high expenditure over the navy, and put Home Rule into a back seat, the Irish Party would irreconcilably oppose them.