THE FEDERAL PROPOSALS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 120, 5 May 1914, Page 5

THE FEDERAL PROPOSALS.

MR. SYDNEY LOW’S SUGGESTION. WOULD THE~ROOM HOLD THEM 'I [PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) London, May J. Mr. Sydney Low in an article in the “Daily Mail” states that a preliminary to federation should be a constitutional convention representing the best legal and administrative talent in the country, but it is necessary first that Irishmen should settle the terms on which Ireland should enter the new union. If they could get Mr. Redmond, Mr. Devlin, Sir Edward Carson, Lord Londonderry, Lord Dunraven, Mr. O’Brien and various lord lieutenants in the same room, they would probaoly make a much more satisfactory job of the Irish constitution than the Imperial Parliament would. Meanwhile colonial precedents show that the way can only be paved by the exclusion of Ulster until Ulster asks for the right of entry.

ANOTHER PLAN. London, May 4. Mr. Frederic Harrison in a letter suggests the maintenance of Ireland as a national unit by constituting the Ulster members, until the Imperial Parliament otherwise determines, a standing permanent committee with the whole control of all matters affecting Ulster, whether executive, financial or legislative. THE GUNRUNNING FANNY. SUSPECTED OF ESPIONAGE. (Received 5, 8.5 a.m.) Berlin, May 4. Two destroyers searched a ship under repair, suspected of espionage off Tehmaru Island. A Russian name was on the bows, and a Dutch name astern ; both had been painted over. It transpired that the vessel was the gunrunning Fanny, and was subsequently released.

THE MOUNT JOY’S CRUISE. BLISSFUL IGNORANCE OF CREW. (Received 5, 9.15 a.m.) London, May 4. The Mount Joy after landing arms went to Hamburg. Six members of the crew returned to Leith. The men, who belong to various parts of Ulster, state that when they were engaged they did not know the vessel was engaged in gunrunning. They were debarred from communicating with their families. They threatened to mutiny unless they were allowed to send money to thenwives. . . The guns and ammunition were valued between £90,000 and £lOO,OOO. There were no marks to indicate the makers of bayonet or ammunition. The Mount Joy knocked about the Irish Sea for fourteen days awaiting the signals tp land.