HOME RULE PROBLEM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15646, 27 June 1914, Page 9

HOME RULE PROBLEM.

"NO PROGRESS made;' SIR E. CARSON EMPHATIC. i APPEAL FOR SUPPORT. LORD MILNERS VIEWS. LAST CHANCE OF SAFETY. By Telegraph-Press Association— Copyright. fßcceivocl Juno '26. 10.10 p.m.) London, June 26. Writing in the magazine Our Flag, Sir Edward Carson said he wished he could suppress the view that the Home Rule Amending Bill showed any real desire on the part of the Government to avert disaster. On the contrary it demonstrated that no progress had been made since March. It was ludicrous to provide that Ulster must accept any administration that tho Lord-Lieutenant, who was subject to advice from his Dublin Ministers, might desiro to set up. The whole thing embodied a policy of drift. It looked as if thero would be no effort of statesmanship to solve, the problem. Sir Edward Carson appeals to sympathisers to give Ulster their active and, determined support in the struggle. Lord Mili-.er, speaking at the Constinitiroal Club last night, said whether thn present attempt to avert disaster succeeded or failed depended upon whether t'ao Government emancipated itself at the eleventh hour from vassalage to the Nationalist Party. Previous overtures had been futile because the Government entered into them with its hands tied. He was prepared to approach the Amending Bill with a desire to tide over, in the interval, tho greatest danger. No one had the right to throw away the last poor chance of saving the country from a great calamity.

Mr. Lloyd George, replying to a question on behalf of the Premier, said that the proclamation against the importation of arms into Ireland applied to all Ireland.

Steps which, it was hoped, would prove effective, had been taken for the enforcement of the proclamation.

It was not proposed to make representations to Washington with regard to the importation of American rifles by the Nationalist Volunteers.

The Unionist leaders have drafted amendments to the Amending Bill. These, it is understood, involve abolishing the time limit and extend the projected area of exclusion.

Lord WilJoughby Do Broke has given notice to move the rejection of the Bill, but the motion has not received official sanction.

VALUE OF A CONFERENCE.

A DESPERATE REMEDY.

(Received Juno 26. 10.10 p.™.)

London. June 26.

Mr. William O'Brien, in a letter to the newspapers, says that a conference at this stage is a desperate remedy, but the only escape from a desperate r\o!fimi*y which is 1-fi. The Lords propose an all-party convention and to adjourn the Home Ruk Bill and the Amending Bill for three months pending the convention's report, but the convention should proceed exclusively as an Irish conference.

FEELING IN IRELAND.

GENERAL PESSIMISM.

MONEY FROM AMERICA

Times and Sydney Pun Services.

(Received June 26. 6.15 p.m.)

London, June 25.

The feeling in Ireland regarding the prospects of the Home Rule Amending Bill is frankly pessimistic. The Nationalists dislike the apologetic tone it creates, while tho Ulstermen aro angry and defiant.

The increasing difficulties of Mr. Asquith's position support the rumours of an early election.

Mr. Redmond's appea| to tho Irish Americans has passed almost unnoticed by the United States press, but the Irish Committee in New York has cabled £1000, and promised to supply all the money required. AUBVMLIAN SYMPATHY. FEDERAL SENATE MOVER. H? Tole(tr«ph— Vtm* Atuv^.inflon—Copyriuhl Mi'.MinniNß, June 26. The Reimt.e by 25 votes to 15, in npito of llw tttrcniK profit of tho Oovnrnrnonl rcpmtonUitivfl M to (lie inexpediency of such netion,yeflt«rilAy adopted an n<l<]rnpn U> Mm Kiriß in favour of Home Rule. Mr. Cook (Federal Premier) declined to submit a mmiliir address to (Jin Bonne of llcjirnwiitfttivw.