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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 16 June 1913, Page 5

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■ STATEMENTS BY MINISTERS. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. Received June 16, 9.10 a.m. LONDON,. June 15. Mr Walter Runciman (President of 'the Board ,of Agriculture), speaking at Bristol, said that there was no sign that Ulster" Protestants ran any risk of aggression. The whole Empire was against Sir Edward Carson, and the Liberals stood for the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. Civil war, if. not an impossibility, was an improbability )• and if the Liberals were to be frightened by.-'threats, they were not fitted to retain the country's confidence. J. ■": ~ Mr Churchill wrote to the same meeting,- stating that far-reaching questions affecting the land and the Lords were coming into view. There were bigger things to be done than had ever been attempted. The Unionists were as boastful to-day upon a flood of slander as in 1909 against the Budget, but the general election would come quite soon enough for the reactionaries and food taxers, and when it came at the proper time and upon good ground with new issues and the old cause, there was Tittle doubt that the Liberals would roll them over as they had often done before.