AN IRISH ENVOY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10306, 5 August 1911, Page 5

AN IRISH ENVOY

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—%V sJectric Telegraph—thpyright.

HIS REFERENCE 10 THE KING.

HAD HE SECRET ;INEORMAaaON?

(Received Last Njgbt, 9.55 o'clock.)

LONDON, August. .4

Mr Locker-Lampson, M.P., .referring to a speech made in New Zealand by Mr Redmond, M.P., one of the Irish Envoys, said it was not a speech that any member of the House of Commons should.have made. He regretted that a member should .have taken advantage of the difficulties with regard to the King. The speech could only have been based on secret information. , , ... , The Master of .Ehbank, m the absence of the Right Hon. H. H. As-, tihe_j|U£g&skon that the Premier or any Minister of tite-Crown had communicated what had iranspired with the King. Mr John Redmond, said the abject lof the question was to • suggest that he had supplied his son with inI formation. He denied that Ministers ! had ever communicated such informaI lion to him.

MR W. REDMONDIINTERVIEWED.

MISREPORTED IN AUCKLAND

Received This Moaning, 12.42 o'clock

SYDNEY, August 4.

Mr W. Redmond, interviewed re-: yarding th* cable from' London, stated! that he made a speechiin Auckland on. June 2nd, and was subsequently criti- ( cised by the Auckland Herald. He. wrote to the-Herald, stating that he! had been incorrectly (reported. They! put words into his mouth that he never uttered, nor was (ever likely to utter. "I think," he said, "my father's statement that no such secret information was given, is a sufficient answer to Mr Locker-Lamajpson, or his friends, who seek to make capital out of an alleged utterance <rf mine at Auckland." I

(In his speech in Mastertan and elsewhere, Mr Redmond stated <tihat Mr Asquith had an assurance from the King .that new Peers, would in the event of the Veto Bill feeing rejected by the House of Lords-ty ,