Anti-Home Rule Agitation.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2395, 6 April 1893, Page 3

Anti-Home Rule Agitation.

(CIR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, ApiU 3. Mr BaUoar, addressing a meeting at Belfast, declared that if Ulster and Eogland persevered in their request for ttttonomy, it would be impossible for tbe majority of the English people to become it* determined opponents. There is considerable excitement in Belfast and, au there is a suspicion that mischief is brewing, tbe police are BbadowIng prominent men. Tbe military are being prepared for any emergenoy. Mr Balfour, in bis speeoh ac Belfast, asserted that tbe majority in the south-west were disloyal and Ulster would not submit to Home Bale* LONDON, April 5. . It is ' estimated that at least 80,000 people of all classes and creed marohed in prooeision at Belfast to-day. Great enthUßiasm was displayed, and not a ' single policeman was engaged, so orderly w*s the procession. Immense crowds the procession, and qnite 200,000 ;t Visitors were present. The attendance ' Would have been greater, but tbe railways were unable to convey more. A vaßt vns bold in Ulster, afi wbiob toe "leiolnUons carried at tbe Ulster Conlerfaoe. on Jane 17th in opposition to JBonA Bale were re-affirmed. The meet* toftstOfftfae National Anthem amidst the wildeit entbosiftßm. Mrßalfour's reference to biitorio fights for the liberties of tbe >p»Ople eleotrified the audience. He de<ailintd to preach psisive obedience and non-resistance, and said, under certain conditions, resistance to tyrannical majorities waß justified. Again the wildest enthusiasm was displayed, tbe people singing, " Kule, Britanma," and saluting Mr Bilfonr as tbe future Premier.