HOME RULE FIGHT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 30 September 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE FIGHT

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BATTLE OF BOYNE FLAG. PRETEXTAIION TO SIR EDWARD CARSON. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, September '2B. At a meeting in Ulster Hall, Sir Edward Carson was presented with the original flng carried before King William at the Battle of the Boyne. An extraordinary demonstration was witnessed.

Letters wore read from Mr BonarLaw (leader of tho Opposition in tho House of Commons), Lord Lansdowne, Mr Austen Chamberlain and others, Sir Edward Carson accepted the flag as a token of victory for civil and religious liberty. He returned it to Colonel Wallace, to keep as a sacred trust until the present conspiracy was killed.

Mr Bounr-Law wrote that ho was eofHnccd Mint Ulster's self-restraint would be difficult if the position was desperate; but it was not so, as victory was certain. Ulster could, he said, rely on the Unionist Party's support.

Mr "Balfour wrote: "Let mo not bo told th.it :i British Government pan be Found sufficiently wicked, or a House of Commons sufficiently subservient, to say to Ulster, "Leave us alone, or we will'shoot you down!"

An over-flow meeting, wliicli was attended by twenty-five thousand persons, was similarly enthusiastic. (The Battle of the Boyne was fought on tl'.e banks of the Boyne River, three miles west of Droghodn. on July 12th, .1090, and William.TTl. defeated James jr. ■ The. less on William's side was 500, and on James' three times that number.)

MR BONAR-LAW VISITS THE KING. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, September 28. Mr Bonar-Law, leader of the Opposition, is visiting His Majesty the King at Balmoral. The object of the visit is variously ascribed to M. Sazanoff's visit, or to the Ulster situation. "IGNORANCE - AND OBSTINACY." MUST NOT BE TREATED SLIGHTINGLY. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.'; LONDON, September 28. Sir J. A. Simon, Liberal member for Essex, speaking at Leeds, stated that tho Liberals must not speak slightingly of the ignorance and obstinacy which appeared to inspire the Ulster campaign. The demonstrations must be given due weight. Tho Government was, ho said, prepared to apply every safeguard that reason and caution conk! suggest, but it refused to bo blackmailed.

MESSAGE FROM SIR EDWARD CARSON.

OUTBURST OF ENTHUSIASM

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, September 28.

On tho eve of "Ulster Day," Sir Edward Carson has issued a message to tho people, in which he states that the great outburst of enthusiasm in Ulster, and the sympathy and offers of help received from. every part of tho United Kingdom and of tho Empire, have deeply affected his" colleagues and himself, and have given them rencved strength. It i s realised, he says, that they are fighting for freedom, for inspiring ideals, and for the unity of the Empire.

PLEDGE BY IRISH PEERS. (Received September 28, 8. a.m.) LONDON, September 27. •■ Lords Roberts, Dufferin, and Ranfurly are among tho Irish Peers signing a pledge that in the event of the Home "Rule Bill being, passed by tho House of Commons without a prior reference to the country, they will oppose the establishment 'of either House of an Lush L?gislature. LORD BERESFORD'S ADVICE. (Received September 28, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, September 27, Addressing fifteen thousand persons r.t Ballyrooney, County Down, Lord Charles Bedford, M.P., "counselled Ulstermen as follows-.—"Without words, prepare for eventualities; bo ready for deeds."

"DKMAND COMES UNABATED." (Received September 28, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. Mr Asquith, the Prime Minister, in a preface to a reprint,of Cabinet Ministers' Home Rule speeches, says: — "The demand for Home Rule-comes unabated from four-fifths of the Irisl representatives, while the people of England, Scotland, and Wales are prepared to give unprejudiced consideration and effect to a settlement based on justice, commonsense, and Imperial convenience. MR REDMOND INTERVIEWED. THE TALK OF CIVIL WAR, (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, September 2?. | Mr William Redmond, a Rational M.P., iu an interview stated that it was absurd to think that the Ulster trouble would affect the passage of I the Home Rule Bill. The talk of civil war was tlio merest "bosh."