BAYONETS RELEASED FROM CUSTOMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 123, 26 May 1914, Page 7

BAYONETS RELEASED FROM CUSTOMS

CONSTABULARY ORDERS. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICK3.) LONDON, 25th May. Tho bayonets which were seized by the Customs at Dublin last Thursday have been leleased and handed to the consignee. The Royal' Irish Constabulary at Roscommon have received orders that all leave has been stopped, as they aro wanted for duty in .the ccmriUes of

Donegal and Fermanagh. They will have no rifles, carrying only their batons. A number of police from the Leinster provincial counties are also being drafted to Ulster. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT SPOKEN OF AS LORD LIEUTENANT. LATE QUEEN VICTORIA'S RECOMMENDATIONS. LONDON, 24th May. Tho Times fays that Cabinet has sounded H.l'.H. the Duke of Connaught as to his willingness lo accept the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. His Royal Highness will not give his answer until lie leaves Canada and confers with the King. The Times adds that it is not generally known that the late Queen Victoria recommended his appointment to Ireland, but abandoned the idea because of the risk of involving the Crown in party politics. The feeling in Ireland just now is that the Lord Lieutenant should not take sides. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ty GIFT BY AN ANONYMOUS LADY (Received May 26, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Five hundred pounds, the gift of an anonymous lady, has been cabled to Sir Edward Carson's Ulster Fund. IN THE LORDS FIRST AND SECOND READINGS. MR. REDMOND INTERVIEWED. (Received May 26, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, 25th May. The House of Lords read tho Home Rule Bill a first time. The second reading will take -place on 22nd June. Mr. Redmond, interviewed, said: "The division on the Bill marks the death of the inglorious union. There are only two eventualities to prevent the Bill becoming statute law— either that Parliament will dissolve within a month, or the House of Commons go mad and pass a resolution that it will not present the Bill for the Royal assent. Both would be absurd. A Home Rule Parliament is now indisputable, and if the amending Bill does not outrage tho fundamental principles, every Nationalist will rejoice."