THE ULSTER CRISIS.

Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1914, Page 5

THE ULSTER CRISIS.

MACHINE GUNS LANDED.

DESTROYERS

BT ELEOTRJC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT -i PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ' Received May 13, 8.50 a.m. I LONDON, May 12. 1 Th® 'Belfast Echo' asserts that a steamer, evading the destroyers i* North-Bast Ulster, landed 20 machin* pins, the volunteers conveying them inland.

THE AMENDING .BILL. Received May 13, 11715 a.m. LONDON, May 12. " In the House of Commons the Prima Minister (Rt. Hon. H. H. A.squith) in moving the resolutions abolishing the oommittee stages of the Home Rule 'Bill,' the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, and the Plural Voting Bill, no suggest tion stage 'being provided, said it was futile to spend time on suggestions at a stage when the House of Lords was going to reject the Home Rule Bill. The Government would introduce a Bill amending the Home Rule Bill, hoping that it would be passed by agreement. The Bill would become law practically simultaneously. Mr Gladstone (Liberal M.P. for Kilmarnock Burghs) complained that the Government was not carrying out the spirit and intention of the Parliament Act.

NATIONALISTS SURPRISED. Received May 13, 12.45 p.m. LONDON, May 12. Mr Asquith's announcement that he would introduce an amending Bill even if the efforts at a peaceful solution failed surprised the Nationalists. Mr Redmond (Nationalist leader) declared that he could not approve of an amending Bill unless it was based upon * peaceful solution. He refused to commit the Nationalists.