HOME RULE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15398, 15 July 1914, Page 7

HOME RULE.

COMMEMORATION. DAY. SIR E, CARSON'S JINGOISM. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, July 13. A procession of 50,000 persons headeel by Sir Edward Carson marched to Drum Beg. The streets were lined with spectators, and the processionists received a. tremendous ovation. The military were confined to barracks.. Sir Edward Carson in an address said that the provisional government gave him power to exercise that government's authority to prevent. Home Bale being placed on the Statute Book. He would exercise, that power with the grimmest determination. He would give the Prime Minister of Britain the alternative to grant complete exclusion or come and fight them. • If the Imperial Government did not give justice Ulster would take it. "AMENDING BILL AMENDMENT. In the House of Lords in the report stage of the Home Rule Amending Bill Lord Maedonnell's amendment providing for proportional representation was adopted. MONDAY'S ORANGE MEETINGS. ENORMOUS CROWDS ASSEMBLE. Received 10.50 p.m., July 14th. LONDON, July 14. Seventy thousand attended a meeting at Drum Beg, Eiiniskillen, where Lord Londonderry said the Lords would stick to their amendments at all costs. Thirty thousand met at Newtonards, twenty thousand at Moira, and ten thousand at Temple Patrick. Resolutions were passed at all the meetings pledging Orangemen, to risk all in defence o* their civil and religious liberties, and calling on the leaders to take the necessary forward steps to oppose Homo. Rule. POLICEMEN RESIGNING. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" servlois. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 5.45 p.m., July 14th. LONDON, July 13. It is reported that wholesale. resig-; nations have talken place from the Royal Irish Constabulary in Ulster, and that recruits are unobtainable.,. AUSTRALIAN ULSTERISM. SYDNEY, July 14. In continuation of the Orange celebrations the meeting despatched a congratulatory cable message to Sir E. Carson, and a further donation of £SOO to the Ulster funds was announced.