A HUNDRED AMENDMENTS TO BE MOVED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 13 May 1912, Page 5

A HUNDRED AMENDMENTS TO BE MOVED.

BRITISH MAJORITY IN FAVOR

(Received' May 13, 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. There will be a hundred amendments to the Home Rule Bill moved in the House of Commons, including those urging the postponement of the Bill until alter the general election, the adoption of a referendum, exclusion of Ulster and the non-payment of members.

Mr A. Ure (Lord-Advocate), speaking at Cambridge, said the dividing line between the two great political parties was more clearly defined to-day than ever he remembered. The Insurance xlct was not popular at present, but that was a peculiarity of all reforms. All danger of Ireland's separation had vanished.

Mr W. Runciman (President of the Board of Agriculture), speaking at Liverpool, said that Britain had made up its mind concerning Home Rule. Tne feeling against it was mild and half-asleep. The second reading showed there was a clear British majority of 31 in favor of Home Rule, and that was an under-estimate of the country's feeling. The disestablishment of Wales came first in order of precedence, but English disestablishment must follow when the Liberals were able to deal with it.