IRISH AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7061, 13 January 1891, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Mr ParnelFs Views, j The Distress Fund. . Ibt tcLKCTtao TKhitaitAi'a.—vueruiauT.j I [Special to Pbksb Association.] 1 [Received Jan. 13, at 10.10 a.m ] ; L NDON, Jan. 12. At a meeting in Limerick, Mx Parnell challenged Mr Gladstone to produce a memorandum of the interview with him at Hawarden. He declared that the Liberal leaders had no land policy, and that a fatal mistake had been committed in allowing the Radicals to abandon the peasant proprietary clause in the Irish Land Purchase Bill ; thus leaving the Irish people to settle their own fate, and find a solution of the difficulty. Of late he himself believed that the land question ought to be settled concurrently with that of Home Rule, or left to an Irish Parliament to deal with. Otherwise it would be impossible to govern Ireland without stringent and strong coercion. Without a settlement of the Land question, Home Rule, instead of becoming a source of strength and freedom, would be a. sham, ending in the resumption of Government by the Imperial Parliament.

Referring to tlie proposals submitted at the Hawarden interview, he considered them distinctly worse than the provisions of the Bill introduced . by Mr Gladstone in 1886. ■ As for the future government of Ireland, Mr Parnell stated he was willing to retire, if assured that his opponents would promise four points, viz., — (1) A. charter for th settlement of the land, or to give power to the people to settle it themselves. (2) Power to secure the interests of labour and artisans. (3) Control of the Irish police. (4) And to concede the appointment of Judges and Magistrates in Ireland. i The fund organised by Mr Balfour and the Earl of Zetland for the relief of distressed families in Ireland now amounts to £18,000. Lord Carring- ■ ton subscribed JBIOO.