HOME RULE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 2 October 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE

CABM^NEWS (United Tram As»oeiation—B§ Mtth t&e Ttkeraph—Con/right.)

A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. TOUCH LIGHT PROCESSION IN LIVKKPOOL. ('Received Last Night. 9.2-5 o'clock.) LONDON, October 1. A great anti-Home Rule demonstration was held in Sheil Park, Liverpool. Sir Edward Carson and Mr F. Smith, M.P., spoke. The latter declared that- three shipowners had offered to give threo ships to convey ten thousand men to help Ulster in her hour of need. A monster torchlight procession traversed tho principal streets, which were lined with spectators. GOVERNMENT UNDAUNTED. BY ULSTER'S THREATS. (Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.) LONDON, October 1. Sir Rufus Isaacs, K.C., AttorneyGeneral, speaking at Reading, said the. dummy rifles and toy cannon in Ulster would not prevent the passing of the Home Rule Bill. WOMEN'S OPPOSITION. (Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.) LONDON, October 1. The Marchioness of Dufferin presided over a large meeting of women Unionists in Belfast, at which a resolution was passed against the granting of Homo Rule.

TO AVOID EIOTS. GOVERNMENT STAYS ITS HAND. (Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.) LONDON, October 1. Mr J. U. Gulland, Liberal M.P. for Dumfries Burghs, speaking at Dumfries, in reply to the suggestion that tho Government should prosecute men for preaching treaison, b aid he believed tho Government was only staying its hand to avoid | creating riots. Sir Edward Carson ; ought, he said, to he prosecuted, but it was wiser to treat him with .silent contempt. DEMONSTRATION AT MOHILL. BIG GATHERING OF NATIONALISTS. (Received October 1, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. At a Homo Rule demonstration at Mohill (in the counties of Leitrim and Longford) several thousand Nationalists passed a resolution to give u:i tho demand for self-government until it was conceded. LORITcLAUD HAMILTON. October 1. 11 a.m.) NEW YORK. September 30. Lord Claud Hamiltion, M.P., interviewod here, said he was willing to participate in an armed opposition | against Home Rule. No political party was fomenting the Ulster uprising; tho movement was solely the spontaneous action of the Ulster people themselves.