HOME RULE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 December 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE.

QUESTION OF SETTLEMENT.

SPEECH BY "SIR E .GREY.

(Received Last Night, 10.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, December 5

Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Bradford, said tho Nationalists would certainly "be disappointed if the realisation of their nopes w.as marred by an inter-necine conflict. The Liberals also did not desire to- use force, but tho abandonment of Home Rule' would be worse, and would plunge Ireland back to the days of coercion. He asked why hurry a settlement. In Ulster Home Rule would not be enforced until 1915. The Government would keep the doqf open Tor a settlement by consent until the last moment. If the signs of a settlement : were less favourable at Leeds than at the time of the Premier's Ladybank speech, the responsibility did not belong to Mr Asquith. The other, side, Bad shown no sign that they, were prepared to consider a settlement'. Their only suggestion is a settlement on federal lines, but that cannot be worked out at the eleventh hour and at a moment's,, notice.

N THE EVENTOF CIVIL WAR

HOMES FOR ULSTER CHILDREN

Received Last Night, 11.60 o'clock. LONDON, December 5.

Mr Oliver Locker-Lampson, Unionist member for North Huntingdonshire, has arranged for the families in sixty parishes in his constituency to accommodate Protestant children in the event of civil war;with Ulster.

■ He also raised a hundred :nen With / rifles, and defies the Right Hon. A. Birroll. his brother-in-law, to prosecute him.'