SPEECH BY LORD ROSEBERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13048, 13 December 1905, Page 5

SPEECH BY LORD ROSEBERY

■ ' NO HOME RULE BILL/ WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO THE ( . GOVERNMENT. ; ' ; (Received December 12, 9.35 p.m.) London, December, 12. /" . Lord Ro&ebery, addressing the Liberal League of London yesterday, applauded the personnel of the Liberal Cabinet. • i ._, : t ; He adhered, he said, to every word of his speech in which he expressed his opposition to Home Rule for. Ireland. No v man outside a lunatic asylum believed that a Home Rule Bill would be introduced in i next Parliament, since if that were so Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's Irish policy would have to be explained during the elections in clear, unambiguous terms. Mr. Asquith's, Mr. Haldane's, and Sir Edward Grey's presence in the Cabinet was a guarantee that Sir H. Campbell-Banner-man's statement at Stirling as to his intentions regarding Home Rule could not be carried into execution. If these left the Ministry then the Government would need to look out for squalls. ' T He hoped, he said, the electors would give the Government an overwhelming majority, and thus render it absolutely independent. of the Irish Nationalists, and that the verdict of the electors would be final and overwhelming on the question of free trade and protection. -. OPINION IN CANADA. (Received December 12, 10 p.m.) Ottawa, December 12. The Canadian newspapers are of opinion that Sir H. Campbell-Ban-nerman has formed an unexpectedly strong Ministry. .'•j* : .-: i j ;./. '-~■, '■■ OPINION :IN FRANCE. : (Received December 12, 10 p.m.) •'- Paris, December 12. Opinion in Paris is decidedly favourable to the Liberal Ministry. The inclusion of Sir Edward Grey as Minister for Foreign Affairs •- ,has given great satisfaction. REFERENCES AT ST. BENEDICT'S " . . HALL. Speaking at. the ceremony '-, in, connection with the distribution 'of prizes' to students of the Sacred Heart College at St. Benedict's Hall last evening, Sir Maurice O'Rorke said three months ago he had not expected such a great change.of Government at Home as had taken place, but he was glad to see such a "strong Government formed, with men like Morley and Asquith in it, men brought 'up;-, in the school of the Grand Old Man of England. Ho fully believed he would yet see those men fulfil the plans laid down .by • Gladstone',,, and ','.* the most distressful,.-coun-try" granted Homo Rule. He regretted that the Grand Old Man himself could not be present when, the Imperial Parliament met next year. . The Very Rev. . Monsignor O'Reilly, responding to a vote of thanks, said there was every reason to believe that it would not be very long before Home Rule for Ireland was an accomplished fact,,, ■ _