ANTI-HOME RULE . AGITATION. (Per Press Association.)
The Marquis of Salisbury delivered an impassioned harangue to the members of the Primrose League on behalf of the people of Ulster who dreadeoVbeing put under the feet of their hereditary and irreconcilable. enemies. Tho language of the Ulster leaders, he said, was a most menacing Bymptom, and the situation such that any attempt to employ military power by England would keep Ulster under the dictation of Archbishop Walsh. Home Rule would rend society, as it was not a message of peace but of religious civil war, and such a hideous picture cannot become a reality without enfeebling tho credit and power of England throughout the world. Parliament, he said, had a right to govern Ulster, but no right to sell the people into slavery. In connection with the anti-Home Conference in Belfast, a hall capable of holding 10,000 is to be erected. May 8. Mr Balfour, in the House of Commons, said that he was not ashamed of _ the coercion he had applied to Ireland, as he was persuaded it had conferred an enormous benefit on the country. The Tory press mostly endorse Lord Salisbury's belief that th§ granting of autonomy to Ireland would involve civil war. The Chronicle considers the speech a mass of daring hyperbole, and the most reckless address ever uttered by a responsible statesman. The Daily News tells the Premier ho will be personally responsible should bloodshed follow the encouragement he has given Ulster. The Post states that the relations between the Audit department and the Public Trust office are now even more strained than before' the commission sat. The Audit department objects to the style of bookkeeping, but the new Public Trustee refuses to submit, and maintains his system is better than that desired by the audit officers. The Auditorgeneral intends to bring the matter under the notice of Parliament. At a meeting of the Oatnaru Martini rifle club on Monday it was decided to support the proposal to have a rifle association for the South. It was decided *to suggest a conference of representatives from the different volunteer corps and rifle clubs in the South Island to be held in some central place, say on the 24-th inst., to discuss the best method of furthering the project. "'Tis love that makes the world go round," but SAPOLIO that brightens it. Sapolio is a solid cake of Scouring Soap. Try it. 7
ANTI-HOME RULE . AGITATION. (Per Press Association.)
Otago Witness, Issue 1994, 12 May 1892, Page 35
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