AN ORANGE GOVERNOR.
NATIONAI.IST OBJECTIONS. LONDON". December 18. In the House of Commons yesterday i Mr. Swift MacNeill ( Nationalist member i for Donegal South) in asking his ques-1 tioD with reference to the fact that Mr. VV. G. Ellison-Macartney, Governor-desig-nate of Tasmania, was , formerly a Deputy i ! Grand Master in the Orange Order, called I attention to Mr. Ellison-Macartney's election to the House of Commons for South ! Antrim in the Orange interest in ISBS, j :md his action as an Orangeman when , Deputy Grand Master, in expressing j Unionist political opinions in regard to j the West Down election, which gave rise i to a question in the House of Commons , !on April 27, 1904. He also asked whether j I the appointment was acceptable to the ' people of Tasmania, who were supporters ■of Home Bule and contained a large Irish j Nationalist element. I
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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