HOME RULE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13371, 12 January 1907, Page 5

HOME RULE.

ME. BKYCE'S SUCCESSOR. THE ISSUE WITH THb LORDS. MR WILLIAM O'BRIEN INTER- ' VIEWED. Huited press Association— By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright. London, January 11. The Tribune '.-» able to announce that the Right Ho». James Bryce, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, is to be succeeded by. the Right Hon. A. Birreli, President o f the Education Board,- and moat probably the Matter's successor will be Mr Lewis Harco'urt. The Tribune declares the issue with the Loixls must be laced in earnest.' It would be ridiculous to offer 'Ireland as a boon a timid scheme, which she would contemptuously reject. The Liberals cannot ignore their pledge to Ireland, not* acquiesce, certainly, in the Lords' veto. Mr Barrel! s duty will be to draft a tentative scheme of transition from a : P9rip ©d of sympathetic English Government to a full consummation of an Irish self-government chamber, really representing the people, however limited the powers. It will - focus, train, and discipline opinion, which must one day be supreme. (Mr Bryce has been appointed - bassador to Washington. Mr Lewis Harcourt, eldest son of the late Sir William Veraon Harcourt, is First Commissioner of Works.) London, January 11. \3ir Wolliam .O'Brien, interviewed/ stated that Mr Devlin, one of th« Home Rule envoys in the colonies, had deferred defaming him until the Australian collections aYe complets. Mr Sheehan and .Mr John OPDonoell •were expelled from the Nationalist party without" me Leader (Mr Redmond) consulting- the party. The effect on opinion is that South-East and West Cork, East Kerry and South Mayo h a vo openly ' sided with MidiCork. The party was only kaptalive by American 'and Australian subscriptions contributed on a total misapprehension of the situation, "the League was . dying -pii itts.legp.. The administration funds would now be investigated by means of Messrs Sheehan's and O'Dorincll's legal action. Mr Donovan's statements, do, not deserve ndfcice i'o» Ireland, where he is not known outside the two' wards of > Belfast.

ACTION AGA3JSST MR REDMOND. 1 Rieceiv^a JanUary 12, 8 a.m. London, January 11. Mr John O'Donnell is socking an injunction, and damages against Mr John Redmond and, other officials of the Irish Parliam«entary ; Party restraining, them from excluding him from 1 membership of the party. Mr Sheehan is proceeding against the same persons for libel and conspiracy. (Mr O'Donnell has been M.P. for South Mayo since 1900, and Mr Sheehan, who recently resigned and w-ae re-elected, has sat for Mid-Cork since 1901.) .