ADJOURNMENT OF THE CONVENTION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14655, 8 March 1918, Page 6

ADJOURNMENT OF THE CONVENTION.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Renter.)

(Received March-7, IQ.JS p.si.)

London, March 6

He Press Bairean- ; ,stat&s that tho ■Irish -Convention passed -a resolution •CKpressiijg sorrow at Mr Redmond's death, and paying a tribute to his invaluable services.

The Convention adjourned until after tli© funeral. .

Mr John Edward R-edmond was 67

years of age. He was born at Ballyfcrent, whicii his father, Mr W. A. Itedmond, represonted in the House of.'Commons. Mr John Redmond was; educated at Clongowes and Trinity College, Dublin, and entered the Civil Service, being for aome time a clerk in the Vote Office of the House of Commons. Ho was called to the Bar at Gray's Jmu in 1880, and to the Irish Bar in the following year. His political career dates from 1881, when he was returned for Now Ross ; He subsequently sat for Wexford North, Waterford, and Waterford City, having represented tl-a latter constituency ftince 1892. From the bepn>r>i-i!r of v,;^ career he identified himself wifh the H^o Rule Party, first utidrr Mr Parnell's leaderfhip"- and suusetiuently under that of Mr Justin McCarthy.

The rotiroTr-Qnt of Mr j\'oCrirf:'".y in ISBB fouivl tho Irish Party divided,' dixssnsions elating from tbo clays of Parwellism havjn?/ culminated- in confusion. In 1900 a meeting of the Irish held at" Westminster, when a. resolution \?ns r.clnptc-d dcclfrinp; at an end tlm divisions in the party., and constituting the raembors ■one unit-ed party in accordance with "the pririf'iples and i.r>rler the conptitution of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1885 to 1890. Mr Redmond was later elected Chairman, nnd sinco. then lie 1-ad led the pnrty with conspicuous ability throusrh some of the n'-ost difficu.lt periods of its existence. The outbreaV. of tb.e war found his life work nb the point of completion. The Homo Kulft Act -.v.rjs on the Statute Book, but it l\nd not. of course, come into forrt».. Mr Redmond readily consented to the ime'ißTirfi remaining in abeyance durins; -bi-,« v,-nv period, v pntrjotic derision v/hir/h brmr«/ht him into ennfiict with tho

irrpoonoilable elements of liis followipo:, and threw himself hpartilv into thp

work of remritins; in Ireland. His de-

cision r.Ti tlip IT.onie Rulo Act, «u«l h'm ■uiicomnroTi'ii-urc; w»v policy narked t.l;-.-> besriviTnricT cf tlir- dpc'Mno r.f I'"'c; i^flnencfi, ond t^ie rice of tbo Sinn Fe;n o;i.rtv uncl t 1"1 con-f.inp^t disorders

upland ndricvl oiovn'-nnfTv to the ar«yip-

ties of h.is TMsifcinn. Tx,;? p-.-^r,-.,--c]';"o----=retirprr>n'»i'i from tho'lc?!rl.f"'sbii> v-jvs «t-

funno"' 1 n f""; dfvs pito, Mr Jofc'n Pi'-

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