HOME RULE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8457, 17 June 1913, Page 8

HOME RULE.

ULSTER’S POSITION “NO AGGRESSION AGAINST PROTESTANTS.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, June 15. Mr Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Bristol, said there was no sign that Ulster Protestants ran any risk of aggression. The whole of the Empire was against Sir Edward Carson. The Liberals stood for the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. Civil war, if not an impossibility, was an improbability, and if the Liberals were to be frightened by threats they would be unfitted to retain the country’s confidence. Mr Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) wrote to the same meeting, stating that far-reaching questions affecting the land and the House of Lords were coming into view. There were bigger things to be don© than had ever been attempted. The Unionists were as boastful to-day upon a flood of slander as in 1909 against the Budget, but the general election would come quite soon enough for the reactionaries and food-taxers, and when it came, at the proper time, and upon good ground, with new issues and an old cause, there was little doubt that the Liberals would roll them over as often as they had done before. SIR EDWARD CARSON IN LEEDS. “TRADITIONAL OPPRESSORS.” LONDON, June 15. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Leeds, said he believed the_ Premier was weakening; bo was beginning to see that he could not keep his bargain with the Nationalists. Why was Mr Redmond going to Scotland ? His tour showed that he and his supporters were just like their opponents; they must bo tried not by _ judgment of the coalition with a white-washed Ministry, but by the people of Britain. Sir Edward thought it sad and disgraceful that Irish Unionists should, owing to the apathy of the English on the subject of Home Rule, be compelled to come over and appeal to the British electors against being handed over to their traditional oppressors. This was an age of consolidation, not disintogrationNATTONALISTS’ TOUR. LONDON, June 15. Mr Redmond, in starting his Home Rule tour, declared that whenever the enemy spread calumnies it was the Nationalists’ settled policy to follow hot foot, and dissipate the slanders. After touring Scotland., he and his colleagues intend proceeding to Leeds, Norwich, and Cardiff. A TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION. (Received June 17, 0.30 a,m.) LONDON, June 16. Preparations to welcome Mr Redmond and his party in Glasgow to-day include a torchlight procession of 20,000 Liberals and University students. THE SEIZED RIFLES. LONDON, Juno 15. The cases of rifles seized at New-' castle, and which were to have been forwarded to Ireland, are old German weapons. .