NATIONALIST ACTIVITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 9

NATIONALIST ACTIVITY.

COLLECTION FOR ARMS. HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASS. CAMPAIGN FOR A MONTH. By Telegraph— Association—Copyrisht. London, June 29. A HorsE-to-houso collection has been organised by the Nationalist Volunteers throughout Britain to purchase arms. Church door collections will also bo made. Tho fund will be opened on July 12, and tho campaign will last a month. The committee points out that arms and ammunition can be purchased advantageously only in large quantities and that a standard weapon is procurable only through a central authority.

GUARDING A PICNIC. THREATENING LETTERS. Timos and Sydney Sun Services. (Received Juno 30, 6 p.m.) London, June 29. A hundred armed Ulster Volunteers guarded a Sunday-school picnic at Innis Rath yesterday, in consequence of the rector receiving threatening letters of Nationalist origin. HOME RULE FINANCE. Tho House of Commons was ciowded, excited, and noisy during tho discussion of the financial aspect of Home Rule at tho end of May. The subject arose on the money resolution of tho Government of Ireland Bill. It proposes, briefly, to authorise the payment into tho Irish Exchequer each year of a fixed sum, based on the cost, of the services to bo administered by the Irish Government at the time of the passing of the Bill, with the addition of an annua! subsidy of £500,000. Though the financial resolution was on the paper in the name of Mr. Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, its meaning and effect was explained in a long statement by Mr. Herbert Samuel, the President of the Local Government Board. He said that in 1912-13, the year the Homo Rule Bill was first introduced, Irish revenue amounted to £10,600,000, and expenditure on' Irish services to £12,600.000, showing a deficit of £2,000,000. Since then the position had been changed. The increased revenue for Ireland due to tho new Budget taxation was, for the next financial year:—

Income-taxes £185,000 SuD*r-laT«s .. •.. ... 175.000 Estate duty 75,000 Total ... .. •.. £435,000 Mr. William O'Brien was aghast. He interposed to ask whether he really understood that Ireland would be additionally taxed to that amount every year. Mr. Herbert Samuel advised Mr. O'Brien to wait until he heard the complete 6tory. Ha said it was estimated that on an average the rew taxes would yield in Ireland £400,000 ft year. But "the additional grants in aid would amount to £767,000. The financial position in the full year of 1915-16. when the Homo Rule Bill would come into operations would be this: — Trish revenue .. .. £11,450.000 Trifth expenditure .. £14.150,000 Deficit , £2,700,000 Sir Edward Carson asked how much of the additional grants would go to Ulster in relief of local rates under an Irish Parliament? "What does the rieht.hon. gentleman mean by Ulster?" said Mr. Herbert Samuel. There were loud Unionist cheers when Sir Edward Carson answered, "Bv Ulster, I mean Ulster." >