IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1916, Page 5

IRELAND.

PRESS COMMENTS. HOPES OF SETTLEMENT A COMMISSION SUGGESTED London, M.iv 21. The Observer comments tliut a suecessful resumption of the Irish conference lielil at Buckingham iPalnec in 1014, and a settlement by consent, would mean the best day in Ireland's history. It. is believed that the Nationalists are prepared to make larger concessions, perhaps to the extent of excluding all Ulster, in return for immediate Home Rule lor the rest of Ireland, combined with some arrangement with Ulster for the management of common Irish affairs in a manner calculated to promote in a few years complete reunion.

The Observer asks whether, in tlve event of all Ulster 'being provisionally excluded, Sir E.""Oarson and his friends cannot agree at the outset to a joint session with the remainder of Ireland, meeting alternately in 'Dublin and Belfast, to discuss common affairs, It predicts that on such terms there would ■lie within a few years one Irish Parliament and one nation. The News of the World says: "Regarding the exclusion of Ulster the only obstacle to an agreement in lfll<l was the exclusion or inclusion of County Tyrone. Now it has been suggested that Tyrone should be partitioned between the rival parties. There is good reason to believe that Mr. Asi|uitli's, [dans are realisable if Mr. Kedmond will agree to this. Sir 'Edward Carson would possess a masterly argument to overcome all the Covenanters' objections to an Irish Parliament."

Sir Horace Plumkctt suggests that •Ireland should he put under a commission, tho more completely Irish the better, with wide powers enabling it to secure effectiveness for its decisions. The commission would open the way to a new and fully representative Government until after tlve war, when a permanent settlement can 'he effected. The commission should be a small body with an advisory council co-operating.. SEEKING A SETTLEMENT. Received May 22, 10.40 p.m. London, May "22. The Daily Mail and the Chronicle, advocate re-opening the IHI4 Buckingham Palace conference on broader lines to seek a settlement of the Irish situation.