HOME RULE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 November 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE.

A COMPROMISE PROPOSED.

ULSTER TO BE EXCLUDED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, November■ 17. The Government is submitting/ to the Right Hou. A. Bonar Law, Leader of the Opposition, a. proposal to excluae Ulster from the operations of the Home Rule Bill for a definite term of years, and to, impose an ad-r. ditional burden on the taxpayers of Britain for the purpose of comperir sating National Ireland for the temporary loss of Ulster's wealth. OPINIONS OF IRISH MEMBERS.

'A. CONFERENCE SUGGESTED. (Received ,Laet Night, 11.5 o'clock.) LONDON, November 17. Mr O'Brien, Nationalist, and Mr Tim Healy, Independent Nationalist, speaking at Mitchelltown, said they were convinced that Mr John RMmond and the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith were considering the temporary exclusion of Ulster,, as' the price of securing Home Rule without an appeal to the country. Messrs O'Brien icrid Healy urged the holding of a conference of the best men of all parties, atiU predicted that the result would make Home Rule tolerable to Protestants. Mr Healy added that they were willing to make any settlement shaft of creating an "olsace" (?) with the Empire. ■ • ■ - : '

MR CHURCHILL'S SPEECH. COMMENTED' ON BY NEWSPAPERS. -,_ v. (Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock,) LONDON, November 17; The newspapers note Mv Winston Churchill's careful and deliberate distinction between the claims of the Nationalists of Ireland and those of Protestant Ulster. - The Daily Graphic says his speech was virtually an invitation to the-' 1 Unionists to combine with the Liberals to settle the problem over Mr Redmond's head.

SCOPE AND HOPE. FOR AMICABLE SETTLEMENT. (Received Last Night.. 11.5 o'ckvlr.) LONDON, November 17. The .-Right Hon. John Burns,, speaking at Melton-Mowiiroy, said the Home Rule Bill save the majonty, adequate orotcction, afid settled manently * what -Irelaji# needed, aiidi must get and deserved. There v?ns scope and hope for the amicable «sttlcment of an ancient wrong, and «■ long needed act of justice to a- united Ireland.