THE HOME RULE BILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15004, 28 May 1912, Page 7

THE HOME RULE BILL.

ATTITUDE OF O'BRIENITES-

"A REASONABLE BASIS."

READY TO BURY THE HATCHET

By Telegnph.— Yrtss Association.—Copy right. (Received May 27, 930 p.m.)

London, May 26. In writing to the All for Ireland League at Cork, Lord Dunraven (President of the Irish Reform Association) said that he approved of the Home Rule Bill, but he feared that they were getting stones for bread. The measure, he said, was antifederal, and was not adaptable to Great Britain. Mr. Wm. O'Brien (founder of the All for Ireland League and Leader of the Independent Nationalist party) declared that the Bill was not based on the system of colonial Home Rule, but was merely a copy of the Manitoba Parliament. Nobody, but a place hunter, he said, would go into raptures over the Bill, but no sane Nationalist would think of rejecting it. Mr. O'Brien added that the Bill offered a reasonable basis of conciliation, and that he and his friends were ready to bury the hatchet and join the Redmondites in order to force the Government to make the measure acceptable to Ireland. Mr. Tim Healy (Independent Nationalist member for North-east Cork), commented on an announcement by Mr. Redmond (Leader of the Nationalist party) that he would not sit in the Irish Parliament. Having secured the freadorc of Ireland, he added, Mr. Redmond would hold the Union Jack to his bosom and sleep in peace. He was not going to nurse the Bill after it was passed, but would leave them to hold the baby.