MOTHER COUNTRY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17199, 20 June 1916, Page 8

MOTHER COUNTRY

FOOD PRICES. 'ADVANCED FIFTY-NINE PER .■--.v. : . ?•'.-' CENT..' ; '"Timei" »nd Sydney "Sun" Services. X "V.." ' ; LONDON, June 18. ■ British retail food prices have advanced fifty-nine per cent on pre-war laurel.

EXCLUDING ALIENS.

' DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON

By TelegT*ph—Pteis Association—Copyright. - ■■■".— ;• LONDON, June 18. A demonßtratiqn in Hyde Park demanded the vigorous exclusion of alien enemies from any military area and from Government employment..

IRELAND'S FUTURE.

NATIONALISTS IN tJLSTER

(Received* Jftnc 19, 6.20 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 19

c,:The Nationalists in six Ulster counties will discuss Mr Lloyd George's proposals on Friday. At a. meeting in Belfast the; Nationalists carried resolutions of connedence in Mr Redmond and the. Irish Pariy, and also pledged themselves to stand by Mr Devlin in any course he deemed advisable to settle the Irish question. It was further thought .that,Mr. Lloyd' George's proposals afforded' a !basis for a provisional settlement.. '" ''' . j., -v;\.'';.■