HOME RULE AGITATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 7

HOME RULE AGITATION.

MR CHURCHILL WILL SPEAK IN OPEN AIR. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 29th January. . Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, who is to 6peak in Belfast on Bth February, ,will hold ' his meeting in* the Celtic football ground. TEOp IRISH. PARLIAMENT. TAXATION AND CUSTOMS POWERS. LONDON, 30th January. Mr. Patrick White, M.P. for North Meath, speaking at Charlestown, declared that the Irish Parliament would require full power to levy taxation and control the Customs and Excise duties. MELBOURNE ORANGEMEN. MORAL AND MATERIAL SUPPORT. MELBOURNE, 30th January. At the Orangemen's annual picnic It! w»s decided to cable to Sir Edward Carson, M.P.,. pledging the moral and material Bupport of the majority of Australians in the fight against Home Rule. The message concludes with the words: "HoM fast, brave Ulster! No surrender!" DEMONSTRATION IN MELBOURNE. , < (Received' January 31, 10.55 a.m.) • MELBOURNE, Thi* Day. The Federal Protestant Defence Council is arranging a great anti-Home Rule demonstration. REFUSAL TO LET HALLS. ' MONSTER* PROCESSION ARRANGED. (Received January 31* 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, 30th January, Six halls have been refused the Belfast Liberals. Marquees are being erected to accommodate five thousand people. A procession of thirty thousand, headed by four hundred torch bearers and fifteen bands, is being arranged.