HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 26 September 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

DEMONSTRATIONS IX ULSTER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyricht. London, September 24. At an anti-Home Rule demonstration at Belfast 100.000 persons inarched in procession; 20,000 arrived by special trains from all parts of Ulster. Earl Erne presided at (lie demonstration, and a resolution was passed pledging the meeting to support Sir Edward Carson in whatever action he might take to meet whatever danger was to be, faced in connection with Home Rule. Sir Edward Carson said tlieir first duty was to insure thai under no circumstances could any Homo Rule Bill be made effective so far as the Unionists of Ulster were concerned. He added that they mu»t bo prepared, jdi'ould an emergency occur, to be accountable for the administration of those districts they were entitled k> control. (Cheers.) Lord Ranfurly was present at the meeting. Lord Hugh Cecil telegraphed that they must defend the union as 'their ancestors defended Londonderry.

The Bishop of Ossnry. addre*>ing the Kilkenny Svnod, said that church property would be in considerable danger if Home Rule was passed, unless Irish church property was explicitly excluded from the operations "of (he Bill, as Catholics had repeatedly hinted that church properties were alienated possession-; of the lioman Church.