HOME RULE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8097, 28 September 1904, Page 2

HOME RULE.

DEFINITE STATEMENT BY MR WYNDHAM.

[PUSS ABBOCIATIOH.]

(Received September 27, 10.24 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. Lord Dunraven's, Irish Reform Association urges the entrusting of tho control of expenditure of six millions for purely Irish services to a Financial Council presided over by the Viceroy, and consisting of twelve nominal members, including the Chief Secretary of lre)and. The Condi's duty would be to submit estimates to Parliament. Tho association also recommended entrusting, to Irish representative Peers and Commoners and members of the Financial Council the promotion of bills for Irish purposes, and to deal with other business delegated thereto. It finally asks for a Royal Commission of Enquiry. The Irish Unionists ask for guarantees that the Council will not 'be used as a lever for the attainment of Honie Rule.'

Mr Wyndham, Chief Secretary to Ireland, in a letter to The Times, referring to Lord Dunraven's project, says the Government is opposed to the multiplication of legislative bodies within the United Kingdom, whether in pursuance of Home Kule for Ireland or home rule all round,

THE ASSOCIATION DISOWNED.

Received September 28, 8.28 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. The executive committee of the Irish Unionist Alliance unanimously resolved that Lord Dunraven's association is selfconstituted, and in nowise representative, and that its programme is contrary to (he principles consistently animating the great body of Irish Unionists'.