LORDS AND HOME RULE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15645, 26 June 1914, Page 7

LORDS AND HOME RULE.

AMENDING Bill PROSPECTS

SOME FAVOUR REJECTION.

REFERENDUM MACHINERY

CITIES TO VOTE AS COUNTIES

SECOND READING NEXT WEEK. By Teloerapli—Press Association— (Received June 25, 10.15 p.m.) L6ndon, June 25. Under the Home Rule Amending Bill, Londonderry and Belfast will be treated as separate counties in. voti. j for exclusion from the operations of the Home Rule Bill. Newry will bo included in County Down. The Bill restricts each voter to one vote. The debate on the second reading has been fixed for July 1. The Unionist" leaders in the House of Lords conferred with Mr. Bonar Law yesterday. It is expected that the Unionists will indicate during the second reading debate the amendments they propose to make during the committee stage of the Bill. A section prefers to reject the Amending Bill. The Government will defer the second reading of the Home Rule Bill in the House of Lords until the Amending Bill has been disposed of.

Messrs. Redmond, Dillon, and O'Connor interviewed the Premier privately yesterday at the House of Commons. The Nationalists in London are organising a committee to assisf in equipping the Irish volunteers. "LAST CHANCE GONE.' CIVIL WAR IMMINENT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ( London, June 24. The Times, in a leader, says: ''The Government had its last chance of preventing civil war, and threw it away. If strife be now averted, it can only be upon the ini- | tiative of the Opposition Peers, who must take upon themselves the duty which the Government have not the courage to perform.' In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Asquith, questioned as to whether the Irish Parliament would be able to apply Britain's subvention of a half a million towards the expenses of the Nationalist volunteers, replied in the negative.