HORSE RULE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12292, 20 July 1914, Page 5

HORSE RULE.

[Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Pep. Press Association.)

NATIONALIST PRESS CHEERFUL

GUN-RUNNING CONTINUES. Received July 18, at 3.15 p.m. London, July 17.

The Procedure Committee is recommending a time limit for speeches and also the restriction of the number of

speeches delivered. The Irish Nationalist press is more cheerful than for weeks and' it is assumed that Mr Redmond has received a promise from the Ministry that a clean cut division will not be conceded. The Nationalists are still gun-run-ning on the Western Coast. Received July 20, at 8.30 a.m. London, July 19.

A consignment of arms labelled saddlery and harness has; been seized at Dublin aboard a steamer from Hoysham. ■ ■■'

It is reported that four cruisers* eapitnrcd a. cargo of rifles being landed from an American yacht near Teelin. TIME LIMIT ABANDONED.

Received July 19, at 5.5 p.m. » London, July 18.

The Cabinet has decided to tcut.a-tivcly.-move towards the abandonment of the time limit for Ulster, and has resolved to offer to allow Antrim, Down, Londonderry, and Armagh to vote as a whole for or against exclusion. The Cabinet is also prepared to consider the grouping with this area of certain Protestant portions of Tyrone and Fermanagh, but the Nationalists,are insistent upon the retention of the whole of Tyrone. Tlie Daily Ne"\vs confirms the Government's offer to abandon the time limit if the Unionists abandon the demand for a clean cut. A deadlock has been leached over Tyrone.

Replying to tho Irish-American offer to send 1500 well-drilled and equipped cx-*oldiers, the Dublin Committee stated that they did not want them at the present stage, but suggested that" each contribute a dollar to the arms fund.' AMERICA OFFERS HELP. London, July 18.

The Daily Mail says that some American army .officers arc training tlie Nationalist volunteers with the cooperation ol : several cx-Britisl) army oilicers. \ _ Other accounts stato that the Nationalist volunteers arc organising on a war basis. General Moore is Commander-in-Chief, and a. systematic staff is engaged in organisation. CABINET DIVIDED. London, July 18. The Morning Post says a minority ■of the Cabinet, consisting of the Eight Hon. Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Grey, the Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt, and Lord Crowe, and possibly one or two influential members of tlie party, favor a clean cut exclusion of six counties.

The'majority, including Mr Asquith 'and Mr Lloyd George, refuse to consider any concessions to which Mr Redmond does not agree.

Mr- Redmond refuses to consider any .terms not including county option. The Unionist leaders are as determined as insisting/upon a clean cut.

KING AND PARLIAMENT. Received July. 20, at 0.40 a.m. London. July, 19

Many despatches were exchanged between "the Palace and Downing street on Saturday, and tho King delayed his departure for Portsmouth till late in the afternoon, when Mr Asqnitir accompanied him.

Sir Henry Lucy observes that the Government decline to grant a clean cut, and will seek to restore tho Amending- Bill to something like its original shape. He predicts the possibility of a- conference of both Houses over the amendments.

The Right Hon. W. Rimciman, at Battersby, said that Home Rule was .assured, and sit was impossible for either a Liberal, or Conservative Government to withhold: it. The Government would not surrender under any pressure. Some of those who participated'in the debate in the House of Lords spoke as though they were still the cocks midden, whereas they ought to have realised that their supremacy was over.