HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Mataura Ensign, 30 September 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

"NO OFFER AT ALL." ex ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received September 30, 8.35 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 29. Sir Edward Carson,' M.P. (the antiHome Rule leader) describes the conference suggested by Mr J. E. Redmond (Nationalist leader) as no offer at all.

Mr Redmond (Nationalist loader) stated that unless the Unionists conceded the principle of an Irish Parliament with an Irish executive responsible to it he would not agree to a conference.

MINISTERS' CONFERENCE. LONDON, Sept. 29. Colonel Seely (Minister for War) has arrived at Brodrick Castle. Heceved September 80, noon. LONDON, Sept. 29. There are present to-day at the meeting at Broderick Castle the Primo Minister (Hon. H. H. Asquith), the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Hon. D. Lloyd George), the President of the Board of Education (Hon. Walter Runciman), the First Lord of the Admiralty (Hon. Winston Churchill), the Minister for War (Colonel Seelv), and the Chief Liberal Whip (Mr P. H. Illingworth). After the meeting the Prime Minister, Colonel Seely and Hon. Winston Churchill will proceed in the Admiralty yacht I Enchantress to Cromarty and thence Mr Asquith will go to Balmoral Castle (the King's Highland seat). Some believe that the conference related to the land question inasmuch as Hon. A. Bimli (Secretary for IreI Land) is absent.

A SUFFRACETTE'S DEMAND. BIT ELKIRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. TIMES—SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES. Received September 30, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 29. Miss Christabel Pankhurst (one of ijho militant Suffragette leaders, who has been in Paris for some time) demands the arrest of Sir Edward Carson M.P. (the anti-Home Rule leader) because he (she states) has committed worse crimes than the Suffragettes. She declares that he is not prosecuted because men possess votes.

It is pointed out that every one of the persons taking an active part in this movement to mobilise a volunteer army etc., is exposing himself to very severe penalties under the law. lo "levy war against the King in any part of the United Kingdom in order by force or constraint to change his measures.or counsels, or to put force or constraint on or to intimidate, either or both Houses of Parliament" is treason. Under the Treason Act of 13-51 a person convicted of felony may be hanged. At one time he would have been liable to be drawn, beheaded, and quartered after hanging. The more humane "fieason and felony Act," under which any prosecutions would now probably be instituted, gives the maximum penalty as penal servitude for Me It is no slight risk, therefore, that fc>iT Edward Carson and his associates are running.