FIGHTING HOME RULE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10885, 27 September 1913, Page 5

FIGHTING HOME RULE.

"AN ECONOMIC BLUNDER." ULSTER'S SCHISM IS CONDEMNED. THIS RELIISF FUMD. Bv Telegraph—Tress Association—Convright. LONDON, September'lC. Tho Belfast fund amounts lo £300,000. The Duke of Aberrorn, Lord Lonsdale, Captain Craig, Mr George Preston and three members of tho firm of "Workman. Clark and Co., shipbuilders, subscribed £'o.Gi.".i) ■each, and Mr George L. Moore £oooo. Mr J. M. Robertson, soerotarv to the Board of Trade, speaking at Newcastle, declared that Sir Edward Carson's provisional Government was an economic blunder and a practical impossibility. Ifc would not bo worth a. week, for the British Post Office would cease, all communication with Sir Edward Carsou's party, thus isolating Ulster and bringing trade to a standstill. ENLISTMENT OF WOMEN. PROSPECTS OF A CONFERENCE. " Times."—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. LONDON, September 20. Discretion has been given the Ulster committees to admit women when their services will 'no useful. There is a growing feeling amongst Unionists find moderate Nationalists that the prospects of'a conference aro improving. DEATH OF PATRICK FORD. LONDON, September 70. The Irish leader, Patrick Ford, died in New York- from pneumonia. Tho Dublin correspondent of the "Times" says that the death is a heavy loss to the Nationalists and will mako Mr Redmond anxious to get Homo Rule. It is believed that Mr Ford was instrumental in obtaining a contribution of £3,000.000 to tho party fund. CONFERENCE CERTAIN. (Received September 27, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 26. Tho " Nation " states that the Homo Rulo Conference is almost certain.