ULSTER'S DELEGATES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 138, 11 June 1917, Page 6

ULSTER'S DELEGATES.

AND CONVENTION CONDITIONS. LONDON, June 10. The Ulster Council has decided to appoint a representative committee to confer with Sir Edward Carson and Ulster Unionist members of Parliament for the selection of delegates to the Irish Convention, and to confer with the delegates during the convention. The conditions on which the council agreed to take part in the convention are: Firstly, every form of proposal to lie open for consideration ; Recondly, in the event of failure to reach an agreement, no party to be bound or committed by the proceedings; thirdly, no scheme to be forced on Ulster Unionists to which their representatives do not agree —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

DIED IN ACTION. BROTHERHOOD OF ARMS. LONDON, June 10. The death in action of Mr William Redmond, a member of the House of Commons, is announced. — (A. and X./5.) The death of Mr Red mend is deplored in :ill Irish ranks, lie was gallantly leading his men nt Messines when he was hit- He was carried off the field in an Ulster ambulance, a fact regarded as significant of the future of Ireland. — (Ueutcr.)

Major William IT. Iv. Redmond was a brother of the Irish Nationalist leader, Mr. John Redmond, and was s(i years of age. He. and his brother were the pioneers of the Irieh. delegation to Australasia in IHB.'!, nt which time he had not entered politics, being a minor. While in New Zealand he attained his majority, and was almost immediately elected as M.P. for Wexford. and before his return Home he also married Miss Dalton, of Orange, N.S.W. On several occasions subsequently he passed through Auckland with his wife on visits to Australia, and made brief stays here in 1005 and again in February. 11114. on which visit he spoke in the Town Hall concert chamber. Prior to the war Major Redmond had military experience as a colonel of Irish militia, and shortly after the outbreak hi' whs appointed to a commission in the Munetcr Fusiliers, forming part of the. lfith Division, with which he has fought for nearly two years. At the time of his death he represented East Clare in the House of Commons. He had no children. DEATH OF NATIONALIST. LONDON, June 50. The death is announced of Mr T. J. Condon, Nationalist member for Tippernry East in the House of Commons.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

Mr T. J. Condon has represented Tipperary East since ISSo. Ho was born in Clonmol in 1850.