HOME RULE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14008, 12 March 1920, Page 2

HOME RULE.

UNIONISTS PLACABLE. 'Bv Elbctkio telegraph —Copvrioht.} F*k Pbesb Association . ® (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 11, at 7..35 p.m. j LONDON, March 6. . | A record feathering of the Lister j I'liioni.st Criuncil, sitting at Belfast, considered the Home.Rule Bill, and ad- j journed alter Sir Edward Carson had < explained the measure. _ The speech was not published, but, , speaking later, Sir Edward Carson f showed that Ulster was not irreconcil- -, able. He said that if their opponents | were, going to work tlie Parliament in the west and south of Ireland for the ] benefit of all classes and creeds, the) Ulster' Unionists would be the first to ■ shake hands and say as brother Irishmen : "We wish you good luck. i The Scotsman forecasts a new Irish • Land Bill, generously planned and completing the long-delayed . purchase scheme. Received March 11, at 9.30 p.m. ' LONDON, March 10. Mr Dot-knell, M.P., the only Unionist outside Ulster, and a popular business magnate in Dublin, has given notice ol ilie rejection of the motion ot Home Rule 011 the ground that the partition of Ireland into factions invalidates the co-operation of the best elements, and divorces -the 1 rotestants in ihe south' and north, whiu; the Catholics suffer similarly. The Ulster Unionist Council at Belfast rejected the proposals thill D«ne«ai Monaghan and Cavan should he included in the Bill, favoring the exclusion of the .six counties., \\-hile it considered union with Britain the best form of government, the Council could not assume - the responsibility tor attempting to defeat the Bill^