THE IRISH QUESTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 28 May 1912, Page 5

THE IRISH QUESTION

WIGS ON THE GREEN. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received -27, 9.20 ip.m. London, May 27. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Aberystwith, said that the Tory political bears had circulated falsehoods about the Insurance Act. The market had suffered from panic momentarily, hut the security was good, and prices were rising. The Tories would have to pay a ruinous contango. Lord Dunraven, writing to the All-For-Ireland League at Cork, approved of the Home Rule Bill, but feared that it was getting stones for bread. The measure was anti-federal and unadaptable to Great Britain.

Mr. O'Brien declared that it was not Colonial Home Rule, hut merely a copy of the Manitoban Parliament's Bill. Nobody but a place hunter would go into raptures over the Bill. Still, no sane Nationalist would think of rejecting it. Mr. Tim Healy, commenting on Mr. Redmond's announcement that he would not sit in the Irish Parliament, said that Mr. Redmond, having secured freedom, would fold the Union Jack to his bosom and sleep in peace. Tie was not going to nurse the Bill after it had .passed, but would leave them to hold the baby.