HOME RULE QUESTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13858, 22 March 1907, Page 5

HOME RULE QUESTION.

ANARCHY IX UNIONIST HANKS. DEBATE IN Till'; HOUSE OF LORDS, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. March 20. A(](lre,-sing"i]ie Unionist Frcelrade Club, Hie Duke of .Devonshire said that in view "f the grave constitutional questions impending, he deplored tho increasing recklessness jincl anarchy in the Unionists' ranks, 'i ho duly to unite was clear, considering that au indirect- attack on the 'legislative union of Ureal Britain and liclancl was as dangerous as. or more dangerous than, a direct attack.

March 21. (Received March 21, at 11.15 p.m.), lit the House of Lords Lord Denbigh raised a debate on the Homo Rule question, and elicited from Lord Crewe (Lord President, of the Council) the statement that a bill lor the further extension nf self-government- would lie introduced. Lord l.nroburn (the Lord Chancellor) declared that he. would never support Homo Ride except in the shape, of a subordinate. Parliament. They were unahta to touch Irish government- without a- step towards Home Rule. lie hoped a great change would come before long, efteelillg a complete reconediiilion, as in. Canada, and as he trusted would he the case in Sontli Africa. He claimed that, the Government was not alone in proposing to deal with Irish government otherwise than by Home Rule. Lord Lansdowne expressed the strongest misgivings as lo the policy foreshadowed.