HOME RULE QUESTION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8736, 19 May 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE QUESTION

NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND WILL PARADE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 17, The Limerick County Council Inis unanimously passed a resolution supporting the Nationalist volunteer movement, Mr Lundon, Nationalist NLP. for Limerick, in supporting the resolution, said that when the Home Rule Bill was on the statute-book two hundred thousand volunteers would parade in Dublin to prevent the withdrawal of the dearly-won measure. AMMUNITION AND RIFLES. FOR THE NATIONALISTS. LONDON, May 17. Despite the Customs officers' vigilance. large consign meats of rifles and ammunition, have been lauded at various parte of the West Coast of Ireland for the Nationalist volunteers, THE PROPOSED TIME-LIMIT. COMMENT BY THE “CHRONICLE.** (Received May 18, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 18. ’ The “ Daily Chronicle,” in its political notes, says that there is no great gulf between the proposed time-limit/ for Ulster and Sir Edward Carson’ai formula “until Parliament otherwise determines.” No Parliament can bind ite successor. There is no security that the six years' exclusion, even if. enacted, would ho left intact by a fiuo-l ceeding Parliament If the time-limit: goes, then any county, excluding) Ulster, should he enabled to enter/ whenever it wished. Nobody believes that exclusion will be permanent, inasmuch as the centripetal force of a national Parliament is bound ultimately to draw all Ireland. A BISHOP’S APPEAL. TO ABSTAIN FROM PROVOCATION (Received May 18, 10.35 p,m.) LONDON, May 18. The Bishop of North Queensland,. Right Rev. G. IT. Frodsham, in a.| letter •to the press emphasising tho > Ulster volunteers’ earnestness, appealsto all sides to - abstain from-provoca-tion which is almost certain to precipitate a conflict. Ho says that, after watching tho wider growth of Australian - citizenship- he is inspired with the conviction of the essential brotherhood of all British peoples. If a wedge is driven in at Ulster* he says, it will tear asunder the hopes of a united Ireland and united Empire.