HOME RULE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 107, 21 September 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE.

TIIE ULSTER COVENANT.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright,

London, September 19. The Ulster covenant sets forth that, Being convinced that Home Rule is subversive to tivil and religious freedom, destructive to citizenship, and perilous to the unity of the Empire, Ulstermen pledge themselves to stand together in defence of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom, to adopt all means to defeat the present conspiracy and to refuse to recognise the authority of the Irish Parliament. They are confident God will defend the right.

THE BELFAST RIOTS. London, September 10. The Sandy Row hooligans three volleys of stones through the windows and ■wrecked Italian ice-cream shops, and looted grocery and spirit stores. The Unionist clubmen assisted the police to restore order.

In another place th» mill girls had several scrimmages, catching hold of each other by the hair and fighting violently until the constabulary intervened.

THE COVENANT CRITICISM.

Received 20. 10 p.m. London, September 19. Members of one of the Unionist Clubs, armed with dummy rifles, and others in khaki uniforms, paraded Lisburn, where Sir E. Carson was addressing a vast open-air audience. He read the Ulster covenant, and said that if the Government persisted in its fatuous and nefarious policy he and those associated with him would go any lengths in defence of Ireland.

The Daily News contrasts what it describes as "the mock solemnity of the covenant, and the mock heroics of Sir 3S. Carson's rhetoric," with Lord Dunraven's letter, which incidentally appealed to Irish Unionists and Nationalists to meet jointly and draft the most just and suitable Home Rule constitution.