THE AMERICAN PRESS ON HOME RULE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2134, 13 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE AMERICAN PRESS ON HOME RULE.

Tiih New York Herald writes— Par nell has been shrewd, patient, determined. He has held ou to his project with the life-and-death tenacity of a bull-dog Fortune has favoured him. He has won the respect of his countrymen, and Ireland is practically a unit. He has delved so skilfully in English politics that he has dng the grave of many an opposing politicau. Ho has become master of the situation, and Ireland is bound to be heard in the next Parliament. She has demands to make and strength enough to compel concessions of some kind. Parnell cares little who helps him so he gets the help. If the famous woodcutter is ambitious to become his coadjutor he can certainly have no objection. To write the name of Ireland on a new page of English history is his one purpose. In the accomplishment of this purpose he has the sympathy of every lover of liberty and hater of systematic oppression. There is great satisfaction felt by Irish-Americans in this city over the announcement that Gladstone has expressed his intention of conceding Home Rule to Ireland, The news has been eagerly discussed wherever Irishmen met. It was construed as a great victory for Parnell and his followers. Even those Irishmen who do not belong to the Land League or the Parliamentary Party acknowledged that the tidings gave promise of brighter days for the long suffering isle of their nativity. The New York Times, a journal more English than American, thinks Conservative objections to the scheme of Home Rule but squeakings that may with the greatest safety be entirely disregarded. As to the question of civil war, mentioned as one of the outcomes of any attempt to concede Home Rule, that is regarded as the merest nonsense. The relation between England and Ireland for a long time has been a condition of " smothered war," kept under only by the superior strength of one of the sides. The New York Times further points out that the feeling has grown into an axiom in all civilised countries that a community large enough, and with sufficient capabilities to manage his own affairs, should possess the right to do so, even if its neighbours did entertain doubts about the wiidom of how the work would be performed.

To an alligator — "Thy sweet smile haunts me still.' A peculiarity of the stage banquet in the great variety of snpes. Moses must have been one of the first football players as he was found among its 'rushes.' Pretty clothes quarters — The closet where a fashionable woman hangs her best garment. A dude in one of the new cape coats has the general appearance of a perambulating pen-wiper. The herrings in the Shetland Islands during last year have now been exported to the Continental markets. The season's fishing, it has now been asc-cr-sained, has yielded the enormous total of 310,000 barrels of cured herrings exported direct to the Continent, and 20,000 barrels exported fresh and coastwise. The total cure of the islands thus amounts to 330,000 barrels. Compared with the figures of only eight years ago, this shows an extraordinary increase. The quantity shipped in 1877 amounted to only 3276 barrels. The market price of this season's cure will be upwards of £400,000. Last year's fishing in Shetland yieelded a total export of 251,400 barrels, there thus being an increase this year of about 70,000 barrels. About 800 boats were employed in the fishing, and upwards of 80 curers. The total number of persons engaged in the industry is estimated to exceed 10,000.