HOME RULE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE

A NATIONALIST RESIGNS.

SPEECH BY MB BALFOOR.

(Received Last Night, -0.'5 o'clock.) LONDON, April 8. Mr Moreton Frewen, Independent Nationalist, who was returned unopposed for the North-Eastern division of Cork, says lie is convinced that the Veto Bill is a rcpellaiit method of winning English opinion to Home Rule. . He has consequently resigned his seat. (Received April 8, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 7. Mr Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, in ii speech delivered to three thousand youthful memT/ers of the Junior Imperial League at Lambeth Baths, said 'he did not blame the Nationalist for consenting to swallow the Budget and other unpalatable doses provided the Government handed oyer the country to a single chamber which would -carry Home Rule. Such a plot was too complicated and too impudent for t'he ordinary elector to grasp. The question was: 'What was the Government doing to replace Gladstonian Home Rule? At the first 'Blush, the Government's suggestion to give the United Kingdom a. constitution not differing 'fundamentally from those of the great colonial democracies might aopeal to the Imperial instincts of Britons. . . . The overseas do-

minions had, however, moved from .separation to centralisation, but the Govei'iTTpeiit was fa 11 ouring a policy with a regard to Homo Rule which was the precise converse of that which had made a great Australia, fi great Capo Col on v, a. great Canada, jund a great Germany.