DEFIANT ULSTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 September 1913, Page 5

DEFIANT ULSTER.

MILLION INDEMNITY FUND.

BIG SUBSCRIPTIONS

(Received September 26, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25.

The subscriptions to the million pounds' guarantee fund to indemnify volunteers and relatives in the case of injury or death in Ulster following resistance to Home Rule have reached nearly a quarter of a million pounds. The Marquis of Londonderry and Mr Liddell (a Belfast manufacturer) have contributed £lO,000 apiece, Mr Henry Musgravo £l7j--000. Sir Samuel McCaughey, M.L.C., New South Wales, has cabled to the treasurer to ask him for any sum* required. Sir Edward Carson is on the verge of collapse after his efforts, and his doctors have ordered him to bed.

FUND REACHES £300,000

SOME BIG DONATIONS. (Received Last Night, 10.5 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 26. V The Belfast fund has reached £300,000. The Duke of Abercom, Lord Lonsdale, Captain Craig, Messrs George Preston and Flaxspicer,. 4ii<ee members of the firm of the Workman and (Hark Company, shipbuilders, subscribed £IO,OO apjece, and the Hon. George L; Moore £SOOO.

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITY. ' (Received Last Night, 10.5 o'clock;) LONDON, Sept. 2fi. Mr J. M..•Robertson, MP., speaking at Newcastle; declared that; Sir Edward Carson's provincial Government was an economic blunder, an:l a vpractical; impossibility, and would not work for one week. The British Post Office would, cease all communication with Sir x Edward Carson's party, thus isolating Ulster,' and bringing trade to a standstill.