HOME RULE.

Mataura Ensign, 22 July 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

DELEGATES AT THE PALACE

CHEERED BY DENSE CROWDS,

EM-CTHIC TKI-EUUANI COPYRIGHT. FIR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received Julv 22, 9.10 a m

LONDON, Julv 21. .Ucnsc crowds cheered the arrival of tiiosp taking part in the Home Rule Conference a t Huckingham Palace. J lie King received and addressed l| iem and proceedings, which were in private, were adjourned until to-mor->ow after consideration lasting an hour and a-lialf.

KINC AND NATIONALISTS,

THE FIRST MEETING!

Received July 22, 9.10 a.rn

LOXiDON, July 21. .. it has been pointed out that this v ";•' K ,?«'»;oh<l''k and Mr Dillon's (the Nationalist leaders) first meeting, with tlie Kino;, m pursuance of the Nationalists long-established practice of not meeting Royalty until Home Rule has been granted

CALLING OF THE CONFERENCE

Received J.uly 22, 9.10 a.rn

Ho Daily Jeieg,:...!.' «) ) tlionty for stating that the ,s; -estion t« hold the conference was it)r Avqnuli'.s (Prime Minister), not the King'*..

CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE,

. LOSiDOX. July 2J. iiifl' Miirmifs of Crowe (Loader, in tiio House <,f Lords denied that there was a departure from .Ministerial responsibility or conuitutioiial practice.

WHAT LIBERALS WANT,

n , , LONDON, Jhlv 21. • One hundred Liberals met and urged the Government not to make row*. sums unacceptable to the Nationalists or agree to : . .settlement involving a clis'soluiion before the plural voting Bill was passed.

TRUSTEES FOR PEACE

Received Jiilv £2, 12.°0 p m LONDON, July- 21. tiie King, addressing the delegates. "ud that the exceptional circumstances justified his in te rv.cn t ion. The trend of events was steadily towards an anneal to force. It was unthinkable to' him that they should be brought to the brink of fratricidal strife noon issues jylrlch were capable of adjustment if liaiidM generously. The overseas «crainir.ns, which were scarce!'- Jesconcerned in a prompt settlement, regarded the delegates as trustees for poaee.

PRIME MINISTER & CONFERENCE

c • . LONDON. Jnlv 21. Speaking m the House nf Commons, * Pnrue Minister (Rt, Hon. H. u! Asqiuth), referring to the confereme on Irish government between the Kin" and party leaders, said that he regretted the antic.pation of the news of the confernire in the press, as the House hul Hie first right to hear it. The Jjabor Party s resolution with icgard to the cnnlirenee tvn* an undue interferons ol the party with the Crmvn, and was calculated to defeat the purposes of. the Parliament Act. He also oxpressed surprise that two of the representatives to. the conference were practically rebels under arms. That was an indication that in future the orKfniMotioii <.f force was to be officially eqns'derod-as the mo it ellociivo wav ill HKjustr.al as well as political disputes.

FEELING IN THE COMMONS

' LONDON, July 21. ■A meeting of Radical members of tin' Hrhise of Commons has been suninioned io meet to-day to survey the new situation, which is regarded as the possible nucleus of a now case. Some of the Ulster members of the Hone regard tJio conference as a Government device to gain time and declare, that the Government is throwing upon the King a responsibility which the Coiistitut:on. requires it to lwar. The Unionists see In the conference a second admission by Mr Asquith that Home. Rule i\ unworkable.

AUTHORISATION OF PARLIAMENT

LONDON. July 21. | The 'Daily News' (G.) says, ••The] King',; inierveut : mi is hound to create] widespread disquiet. There is already aj deep-r<K)te<l feeling in the Home' of Commons that the authority o; Parliament is being undermined." 'Daily Chronicle' ((!.) stairs. '''The idea of the confercuro. originated with .Mr .The cMiforenco Would have beeji more- attspciouslv launched and more unreservedly welcomed had the ananncement not 'been anticipated by Ihe leaders." Uivonkt papers regret thai the King will no I- nresidejn person and also that the Laetriles will n.it be represented.

NATIONALIST PARTY

NO FURTHER. CONCESSIONS.

LONDON. July 21

Mr J. Redmond (NationaKl 'leader) presided at a stormy meeting if the Nationalist Party in the House of Commons to protest against any further eonrfftsions. The meeting <ravo Messrs! Redmond and Dillon (Nationalist dele-] gjtle to the conference) nlonary powers to place nefore the •.onforence the r*-] solve that the National'-o; are firmly tv-j solved ii<*t ti> yield -an acre or man ofi Tyrone or Fermanagh. I Mr Joseph Devlin! M-P. (Nationa'is'J leader) 's actively waged in tb<> or-! (Xanisatio'i of the N'ti'iialist Yelon-; Twe've Liberaf luenibers <-f lb»' House of Commons <»:niribuled lint) a-" : rce lowa "Is liie funds. Leading Nat-onaVsW at P..'Hast ap-p-ovo "f their leaders' nputrlii.n and rosnmsibilitv at the conference. Oil" of M- Devlin's .'ul-imale friend' declared. "If the Government be-travs us it W'H have itself t > blame. The •nest <!.>"ierale acts of the Fenian* w : H |,« c b :| d's "lav I i what will happen throughout Ireland."

RIFLES SFIZKD.

1 ON HON. July 21

A vaeM i-onvevinu: JiiHIO rifles i'.o- the Xatiniiii'ist Volunteers.- w:vs siize.l at Londonderry.

PREMIERS AS ARBITRATORS

LONDON. Jn!v

Sir Georco Paisli (joint ctl'tor of The Statist') proposes a soitlemolit of the lull controversy in the event el the present negotiations proving abortive. Twu inipartal arbitrators, the Prime Minis'o ; of Canada . and Austra'ia, should b-> nvitcd to a't as a miniature Hague Tribunal and decide ■the partioulnr I'rn's. He considers that S'r Robert I'.mlon and Hon. Jer.-ph (Yak, by reason <>f t'lit-"r iiroit experience 'n autonomy, are- nr.tlouhirly (pialifiod to lo.ik at the various ditestioiis involved. both from the Heme I'ule and Imperial noinf.s oi vV-v.-, there beinit larij. nuni-•|,o-s <■? Ir'shmen. f-cr.tAmej! and Kiij*- ■ : '* IvtV "doniir'ons. Tkeio ■would npt lie rfe. race antipathies to a tribunal of "lrliose irnpiHialify "was trusted by Catholics, und Protestants alike. ;