BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8384, 19 March 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

HOME RULE. Received March 18, 10.48 p.m. LONDON, March 18. Mr John Redmond, Nationalist member for Waterford City, speaking at Bradford, said that the Government were about to attempt some devolution. They,, were endeavouring by tinkering a rotten system to reform it. Nothing would satisfy Ireland but an Irish Parliament' with executive responsibility. If the Government scheme laid the foundation whereon they could build and gave genuine control on even the question of administration alone,and lightened the financial burden under which Ireland staggered, then possibly Ireland might seriously consider it. Whether it ought not to be accepted for what it is worth a popular convention of the Nationalist forces must decide. He warned the Government that it must choose between trusting to the people passing a scheme, whether short of Home Rule or not, upon broad popular democratic principles, and the alternative of breaking with Ireland and the National party with a prospect of again attempting Government by means of the rusty discredited weapon of coercion.

Received March 18, 10.22 p.m. LONDON, March 18. Mr W. P. Redmond, who was returned unopposed for Clare East, at the last election, speaking at Ashington, Northumberland, said he hoped that the forthcoming measure would at least be the foundation of that liberty whereof Irishmen had been deprived of for centuries.