HOME RULE PROBLEM.

Mataura Ensign, 29 September 1913, Page 3

HOME RULE PROBLEM.

QUESTION OF COMPROMISE : ING AND PRIME MINISTER. m ELECTEIC TEMGKAi'H COPYRIGHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Sept. 23. Hon, H. H. Asquitli (Prime Minister) will attend tho King at Balmoral after his Arran visit. Unionist papers ]>ivdiet that he will discuss with the King tin question of a comjjromi.se in connection with Home Rule. The 'Manchester Guardian' suggests that Hon. James Bryee, (lato British Ambassador to the United States) is an ideal man to carry out delicate preliminary mediation. ULSTER'S TROOPS REVIEWED. LONDON. Sent. 28. Sir Edward Carson, M..P. (the antiHomo Rulo leader) reviewed a Belfast contingent of 11,000 troons. There was an imposing scene, and "20,000 spectators were present. During the procession a revolve]- was fired by a motor-bus driver, who was assailed 'by Nationalists. Ho wounded, a child who was standing on the. footpath.

THE ULSTER FUND. LONDON, Sept. 27. Tho Ulster fund now amounts to £ooo,ooo. Significance is attached in Unionist circles to Hon. H. H. Asquitli (PrimeMinister) ami Hon. D. Lloyd George (Chancellor of tho Exchequer) conferring in tho Isle of Man. SIR S. McCAUGHEY'S 01-TKH. LONDON. Sept. 27. Sir Samuel McCaughey's (New South Wales) offer to contribute has excited universal attention, and is credited with exercising a tremendous influence on tho situation.