A GREAT NATION.

Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1914, Page 5

A GREAT NATION.

THE SPIRIT OF IRELAND.

AND NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS.

f - ' PBB UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION. Received Julv 1, 9.0 a.m. LONDON, June 30. ' Colonel Maurice Moore : when inspecting the Nationalist Volunteers at At.henry (County Gahvay) said the immediate /purpose of the movement'was Homo Rule, 'but the spirit animating , 'tlit-iii was the spirit of Wolfe Tone (who foin;..J. d the Society of United: Irisli-in«-n in 1791) and Emmet, of tho Fenians a,nd the men of the Forty-Eights and Sixty-Sevens. This was the spirit which would raise Ireland into a great nation. BILL IN THE LORDS. Received July ], 10.3-3 a.ui. LONDON, June .iO. The Marquis of Crowe (Leader of the House of Lords), epea'king in that Chamber, intimated that the Home Rule Bill would stand over until the amending Bill wis read a. second time. SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC GUARDED LONDON. June 2D. One hundred armed Ulster Volunteers guarded a Sunday -school picnic at Inn'srusli, consequent on the rector receivin* threatening letters of Nationalist origin. A SYDNEY CONTROVERSY. ' SYDNEY, June 20,' 1 As the outcome of the Home Rule i controversy in the columns of the ' 'Daily Telegraph' between the Grand ' Master of the Loyal Orange Lodge and 1 Mr D. O'Brien, president of the Hiber- j nian Society, Mr O'Brien; has com* ' menced' an action claiming £SOO damages against the 'Daily Telegraph' for ' falsely and maliciously accusing him of being ia : disloyal subject. c THE NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS. BY blectbio telegbaph COPTEIofcr.. a TIMES AND SYDNBT BUN SERVICES. ' Received Julv 1. B.JH) a.m. LONDON. June 30., The nominees of Mr J. E. Redmond | (Nationalist leader) on the committee 1 of the Rationalist Volunteers comprise i four members of the Catholic clergy J- and three Parliamentarians, and ini Vhide Mr Devlin 'Nationalist member l i for Belfast West), the Lord Mayor of L Dublin, several provincial .Mayors, Mr Nugent {of the Hibernian Society), Mr ■gfrutchinson (of the National Order of and three Duiblin barristers. 1 JVi association has been started in i' with the object of giving assist-; t to the volunteers. - v