Home Rule

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 194, 14 February 1914, Page 5

Home Rule

PRESS COMMENT. A RESTIVE PARTY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyrignt London, February 12. The -Times, in a leader, says that Mr. A'squith failed to assign convincing reasons for incurring the dangers of delay. The Westminster Gazette states that Sir E. Carson's more generous tone is an implication that they arc all Iri*hlnen, and Mr. Redmond's response reminds us that final peace is to be made between the Irishmen at Westminster. The paper suggests that the Government should make the special conditions for Ulster a provisional arrangement until Home Rule all rouim is completed. This is the logical outcome of the Government and the Unionists.

The Daily Chronicle says that there is a widespread impression among Liberal members of Parliament, there has been far too much Ministerial talk about the exclusion of Ulster, and keen disappointment is expressed that there has been no word of protest against the Opposition's incendiary speeches. There can be no question of the exclusion of Ulster, which would amount to the withdrawing of the Bill. If the Government did so it •would betray not only the party, but the sovereignty of Parliament, i A VOTE IX THE LORDS. CARRIED BY BIG MAJORITY. London, February 12. Lord Middlemen's motion in thcHou3e of Lord 3, that it would be disastrous to proceed with Home Rule, was carried by 243 votes to 55. MR. REDMOND IN NEW ZEALAND. WELCOMED AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. Mr. W. 11. Redmond. M.P. Irish Nationalist] leader, and Mrs. Redmond, arrived by, the Marama from Sydney en route for London via Vancouver. They were welcomed on landing by a large, gathering of admirers and accorded an enthusiastic greeting on their arrival at the Albert Hotel, where their health was drunk.

Mr. Redmond, in returning thanka, said thai, apart altogether from the Home Rule issue, Ulstermen as a body, both Protestant and Catholic were solid in their ideal of national self-govern-ment, and nothing was more certain than that it would be settled on a satisfactory basis.