HOME RULE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 2 June 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

ENROLMENT OF NATIONALIST

■VOLUNTEERS,

HOME RULE POPULAR

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyrichj'.]

(Pee Press Association.) Received June 1. at 10.45 p.m. London, Juno 1

A procession a mile long, including a band of trained nurses, in the Red Gross uniform, accompanied, the National Volunteers to Londonderry to the Celtic Park, where a scries of evolutions were- performed with greatalertness "and precision. Several speeches were delivered.

' According to the Dublin Sunday Independent, the National -Volunteers in Ulster total 41,000, in Leinster 42,000, Munster 27,000, and Connaught 18,500. Enrolment is progressing at the rate of 5000 weekly.

Two companies have been formed atAchill Island, where the wlmle of the drill commands are given out in Gaelic. Mr O'Connor states that the incidents at Curragh gave the first impulse to the present National Volunteer movement. Received June 1, at 11.35 p.m.

London, .Juno 1

Mr Lundon, a member of the House of Commons, in a-speech at Limerick City, said Mr Redmond had sent liim to organise tho National He intended to ask them to keep Homo Rule on tho Statute Book. If they could not liavo peace without excluding Ulster for an indefinite period, .they could prepare to act if such peace were to be enforced upon them. When tho Tories returned to office, possibly an attempt would be made to give Ulster better terms, but the Nationalists could point to the Volunteers and tell the Tories: "You leave the Bill on the Statute Book, or else"—well, they all" knew what the "else" meant. "Whether they had to face Sir E. Careon or England armed they would be ready.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received June 1, at 8.10 p.m. London, June 1. Mr T. P. O'Connor, speaking at the annual convention of the United Irish League of Great Britain at Caxton Hall, stated that the Irish papers were filled with accounts of demonstrations — bonfires on every hill, processions, meetings, and band-playing—in. every town in Ireland because Home Rulo had been won.