HOME RULE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12282, 8 July 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

THE LORDS CONCILIATORY. [l3y Electric T i; ai-ii—Cor yn ig ht . J (Peh Phess Association.) Received July 7, at 9-50 p.m. London, July 7. The Ulster volunteers leaders lauded 200,000 cartridges at Bangor. A sergeant of the Bcdfords has been arrested for instructing the National ■volunteers ill revolver practice. Ten "Dieliards" voted for Lord \villougliby de Brooke's motion for the rejection of the Amending Bill. . . Lord Roberts said the present crisis 'affected the very roots or "their national fcxistence, and any attempt to use the military to coerce Ulster would break and ruin the army. He urged • the House, in.the cause of patriotism. 1.0 jlrop their party differences and seeit a national solution, so as to avert an inexpressible disaster to the army aJid nation. . . Lord Curzon favored a convention, but said the time was too precious and the tension'too acute to allow or that. He could not advocate these solutions when they already heard tlie tramp or armed men. The Amending Bill must fill the gap till a permanent settlement was devised. ■ . r Lord Crewe said if the dropping of Home Rule and .the scrapping ot the Government- policy were to be a preliminary to a. conference or convention for a permanent settlement, such a. proposal could not be entertained. He asked the Opposition if the total exclusion of Ulster were included in the Bill would they be gun raiiteed against a. civil war. He was not ashamed to say lie heartily dreaded the idea, of a civil conflict. Received July 7, at 3.15 p.m. London, July 6. An amendment to the Amending Bill will provide for the exclusion o Ulster province and the abolition of the time limit, with the Secretary or State as administrative authority instead or tlie Lord Lieutenant. Received July Sj at 5.50 a.m. London. J u '- v " ■ Possibly with the Government's approval Lord ]\lac3}onnell, in connection with the House of Lords' proposed amendments, lias drafted a scheme to give Ulster autonomy for live years, when after a poll of the Lister electorate it may cease. '