IRISH HOME RULE

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5965, 31 July 1912, Page 3

IRISH HOME RULE

BELFAST SHIPPING YARDS CLOSED. GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT BLENHEIM. THE GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED. LONDON, JULY 28. Messrs llarland and Wolii, of Belfast, havo intimated that, owing to the continuance of assaults and intimidation in their shipping yards, and tho molestation of those who arc specially skilled and responsible ior the working power and plant, the men in these departments have ceased work, and as they cannot'be replaced the whole establishment is totally closing. There was a jji'utl vnionist ■ demonstration at Blenheim. Ma-uv »v miiwrs of Parliament and'thousands ot delegates from all parts of the country woi-o present., The Duke of Alarlboryugh, presided. Mr Bonar Law, in the course of an address, said that the result of the Crewe election was not. merely an intimation that the Government were down, but a sign and a reason,, (Prolonged cheers.) Tho Prime Minister had touched the lowest depths of humiliation in ■accepting a welcome from the Corporation of Dublin, who had refused a welcome, to the King at the time, of his Coronation. Asa Government they _were a revolutionary committee which had fraudulently seized on despotic power by means of single chamber rule. Tho Unionists would use whatever means secured most effective for compelling! tho Government to fao« the people: Hi., had deceived. Ha warned the Government that iE they attempted to use troops against Ulster it would be the starting of a civil war that would shake the Empire to its foundations.

THE WAR MINISTER'S BELIEF. LONDON, .iuiy 28.Speaking at Northampton, the Minister of Avar (Colonel Seelv) -said he anticipated a long lease of life for the Government and many successive Liberal Governments. The majority of the people of Ireland hud asked for Home Rule, and the Liberals, as democrats, 'must acquiesce therein. It would be a mistake, when they had got so near, to dash the cup of reconciliation from the lips of Ireland, which represented the one dangerous position iu our Imperial relations. NOTABLE EXPRESSIONSW.MAT IS MEANT BY TARIFF REFORM.

LONDON, July 'K. Among the notaiblo expressions used by Mr Bonar Law at Blenheim much attention has been aroused by his strong encouragement tlo. 'Ulster to resist, a ud his promise to support >tfc'm to any lengths Ulster might go, and also by his statement that fiscal reform would be the first plank of their platform. Mr lAsq'uith's legislation, he said", had raised the cost of production, and it would be comtnxmsense to compensate the people with preference in their own market. • Be did not ask for preference for the benefit of colonials at the expense of the British, which Canada and Australia would repudiate, but ho desired to I urgie reciprocal preference and co-oßeo> | atior* with the Empire in peace and I war. The Commonwealth and Dominions were going to do an immense trade, and it rested with En e- '. land whether she or her competitors J should have tho leading share. 'i