HOME RULE.

Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15290, 6 March 1914, Page 7

HOME RULE.

THE PREMIER'S PROPOSALS. Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright. Received 11 p.m., March sth. LONDON, March 5. There is little doubt that Mr Asquith's proposals will have Mr Redmond's concurrence, though some Ministerialists profess fears of the attitude of the National Convention if it is called upon to sanction the changes. DISCUSSION BY LETTER. EARL DUNRAVEN. Received 12.10 a.m., March 6th. LONDON, March 5. Earl Dunraven, in a letter to the Press, says a fair chance of settlement is only obtainable by a reference of Mr Asquith's proposals to a conference. On the lines of Lord Loreburn's coercion settlement is impossible and exclusion unthinkable, and a general election is useless as a solution. LORD HUGH CECIL. liord Hugh Cecil, in a letter, says the difficulty in the way of a conference is insuperable. He draws an analogy between Botha's action in South Africa and possible happenings in Ireland, by creating two centres of sovreignty. Nobody can deny that the deportations were altogether indefensible, and nobody can be blind tc the outrage and scandal of tbe infliction of perpetual exile by retrospective enactment. True sovereignty lies with the South African Parliament and General Botha, not with the British Crown. Such are the consequences of granting Home Rule.