Home Rule

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 27 June 1914, Page 5

Home Rule

SIR EDWARD GAESO NOX TUB SITUATION,!

NO PROGRESS, BUT A POLICY OP

DRIFT.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright , " Received 26/ 9.50 p.m. t'' . . London, June 2G. ' L' Sir Edward Carson, in the magazine , .''Our Flag," said he wished he could support the view that the amending . ( JBfll showed any reasonable desire of the ~ iPovernment to avert disaster. On the . it demonstrated that no pro- « egress had been made since March. It was ludicrous to provide that Ulster most accept any administration that jthe Lord-Lieutenant—who would be subject to the advice xd the Dublin Ministers—desires to set up. The whole thing revealed a policy of drift, and , it, looked as if there would be no ef- ' l ort of statesmanship to solve lie problem. Sir 'Edward Carson appeals to symipathisersi to give Ulster active and determined support in the struggle. Lord Milner, speaking at the Constitutional Club, said that whether the present attempt to avert disaster Succeeded or failed depended on whether the emancipated! itself at the eleventh iiour from the vassalage of the Nationalist Party. Previous overtures had been futile because the Government entered into them with hands tied. He was prepared to approach the amending Bill with a desire to tide over the interval of the greatest danger, for he had no right to throw away the last poor chance of saving tlie country from a.great calam-

AN ALL-PARTY CONVENTION

URGED.

Received 26, 10.5 p,m. i "\ London, June 28. -V. Mr., William O'Brien, in a letter to !<■»* "newspapers, says that a conference i JWt this stage wooCd tie a desperate rebut it provided the only escape '•from a desperate calamity. Let the ' House of Lords propose an All-Partv Convention, as Sir Edward Grey ha's suggested, and adjourn the Home Rule -and amending Bills for three months, pending the Convention's report. But the Convention should jiroceea as an exclusively Irish conference.

A HEATED ALTERCATION.

Received 26, 10.10 p.m. London, June 26. After a division, and as the members were leaving the House, the Nationalists taunted the CBrienites. A heated altercation took place, and Wows were threatened, when Mr William Redmond intervened and restored peace. The Unionist leaders have drafted their amendments to the amending Bill. It is understood that these aim at abolishing the time limit and extending the projected arja of exclusion. Lord Willoughby De Broke gave notice to move the rejection of tthe Bill, ibut the motion did not receive official sanction.

PESSIMISTIC FEELING IN IRELAND. EARLY ELECTION EXPECTED.

■j Times and Sydney Sun Services. . Received 26, 5.45 pjn. .-.,!*:' , London, June 26. _Th.e feeling in Ireland regarding .the "WdSpects of tflie amending Bill are frankly pessimistic. The 'Nationalists disrate the apologetic tone created in the speech. Ulstermen are angry and defiant The increasing difficulties of ■Mr. Asqnith's position support the rumors of an early election. Mr. Redmond's appeal to the IrishAmericans has been almost unnoticed in the United States Press, but the Irish of New York cabled £IOOO ,Mdpromiße to supply all the money rc-

FEDERAL SENATE'S OPINION. By Cable—Pi ess Association—Copyright Melbourne, June 26. The Senate, by 25 votes to 5, in spite of the strong protest of Government representatives as to the inexpediency of such action, adopted an address to the King in favor of Home Rule in Ireland. Mr. Cook declined to submit a similar address to the House of Representatives.

THE ARMS PROCLAMATION. London, June 25. Mr. Lloyd George, replying on behalf oi the Premier, said the proclamation regarding arms applied to all Ireland. Steps, which he hoped would be effective, had been taken for the enforcement of the proclamation. The Government did not propose to make representations to Washington.