HOME RULE BILL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL

CABLE NEWS

(United Frm Auociation—By EU* tr%c Telegraph — Copyright.)

COLONIAL APPROVAL OF THE MEASURE

REPRESENTATION AT THE CONVENTION.

(Received Last Night, 10.50 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 15. Mr John Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist Party, has received messages from General Botha, Sir Joseph Ward, Sir J. Galvin, Duffy, and many Canadian and. United States politicians, approving of tho Bill. Mr John Dillon, speaking in London, sadd the Nationalist Party would go to the Convention and tell the people to ungrudgingly accept the Bill, Ho had not the slightest fear of the result. The Chairman of the Fermoy Miinicipal Council, discussing an invitation to send delegates to the National Convention, complained that every little branch of the Hibernian Society had been offered larger representation than the municipality. The' Council adjourned consideration of the invitation, : :. The Bandon council is dissatisned with its. treatment. ..'■■./ The "All for Ireland League" has declined to be represented.

BISHOP OF ROSS'S VIEWS,

BILL EXCELS FORMER MEASURES.

(Received April 15, 8 a.m.)

. LONDON, April U. Bishop Kelly, Romam Catholic Bishop of Ross, declared that those who had been demanding Gkdstoniam Horn© Rule as the high-mark of self-govern-ment must be delighted with the Bill, which excels the former measures, in every respect, and restores the ancient Parliament with, the further"valuable improvement in the Executive being responsible for it.

SPEECH BY T. P. O'CONNOR.

(Received April 15, ! 8 a.m.)

LONDON, April 14. Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., in a speech at an Irish League gathering, said the opponents of the Bill hart seized on a particular point—namely, the constitution of the Senate. If that was the only issue, he declared, the Nationalists were open to deal with,, .the matter. .

FLAWS AND IMPERFECTIONS,

(Received April 15, 8.5 a.m.)

LONJJON, April 14. The newspaper, the Irish Independent, while (accepting the broad" principles of the Bill, finds-that it has many great flaws and imperfections requiring drastic amendment.

IRISH ENVOYS IN AUSTRALIA

DELIGH'I'ED WITH HUE BILL.

(Received April 15; 9.5" &.».■}

"- '■ ' '^; ; |yMEY;"Aprii'' ? isi r ; '. and Donovan, are delighted with the Homo.Rule Bill.. \ , . "'","',' '■'"■ Mr Redmond says the Bill wis pass" the House <sf' €k>mmons, and will' be rejected by the House of LordW, but under the Veto Act the House of Lords .cannot deny its passage more' than two years. ■";_.'