HOME RULE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14234, 6 March 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

A CONFERENCE SUGGESTED. Press Association. —Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Alarch 6. Lord Dunravon. in a letter to the press, says a fair chance of settlement is only obtainable by referring Mr Asquith’s proposals to a conference on the lines of Lord Loreburn’s. Coercion was : impossible, exclusion unthinkable, and a general election useless as a solution. LORD HUGH CECIL'S VIEWS. LONDON, Alarch 5. Lord 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 as creating two centres of sovereignty. Nobody, he says, can deny that the deportations were altogether indefensible. Nobody can be blind to the outrageous scandal of the infliction of perpetual exile by retrospective enactment. True sovereignty lies with the South African Parliament and Botha, not with the British Crown. Such are the consequences of Home Rule. THE BILL INTRODUCED. AMENDMENTS TO RE READY RY TUESDAY. , Received March G, 8.55 a.m. , LONDON, March 5. The Right Hon. A. Birrell introduced the Home Rule Bill amid Ministerial and Nationalist cheers. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith informed Air Bonar Law that the Government’s proposed amendments to the Bill would be ready for circulation by Tuesday.