STORM IN A TEAPOT

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1910, Page 3

STORM IN A TEAPOT

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. LORD DUDLEY CRITICISED. [pee press association— copyhioht.] Received I his (];iv at. 10.15 a.in. MELBOURNE, This Day. Correspondence arising out. of Iho public criticism by Mr Snowball (Loader of the Orange Order) of a speech delivered by Lord Dudley at (ho opening of the Catholic College is published. Mr Snowball, in the course of his remarks, said that. Lord Dudley might have seen til to say that he would never countenance .anybody who was not in favour of giving the Irish separate rule, adding that Lord Dudley might have thought It is position .as Governor-General justified him in saying such things. Lord Dudley's private secretary wrote pointing out the difference botween Lord Dudley's actual remarks . which were that, he load taken no part, with any organisation or body which had not for its purposes the ad vancein tit, pii'gloss .and prosperity of Ireland—and those .attributed to him. Mr Snowball, in justifying his criticism. added that it was distinctly offensive to a large section of the people for their Governor-General to publicly throw his necessarily weighty official influence into the advocacy and encouragement of the agitation of Home Rule for Ireland. The Governor-i tenoral's private secTealry. in response to this, said that Lord Dudley did not propose to discuss the desirability of either Home Rule or the Government of Ireland. He had expressed no opinion on the former. The latter he advocated "hen in a position to take pan in political controversy but never then or now had any sympathy with any change ot Government, in Ireland which would involve, or in the slightest way lead to the separation from the Empire. The correspondence (loses with a letter from Mr Snowball expressing pleasure that lm imw perceives that Lord Dudley had no real sympathy with those who advocated Ireland’s separation front Britain.