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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 20 April 1905, Page 6

Fir Cimles DiMce, in an interview with a ' Standard' oorreslpiortdant on tine Redistribution Bill, states : ' I am against redistribution. My fear is that the danger the Qanisoiwativas have to contend witfi is not from the Liberal or Radical party, but from the Labor men and Socialist's. The probability is th>at they will gain a groat marease in the towns, and we may be doing oursel es an injury— taking a dangerous step — rf we enhance their representation. Then we come to the question of tlhe Irish members in the House. From my oxperirnca of the House of Commons I should say tfiat, sxjjR f p l osing ydu were to reduce the eighty Iris/h Nationalist members to sixty, yen would not improve the condition of Wrings. Obstruction does not depend uj>on numbers, 'but upon energy and capability. Sixty capable Irish; Nationalists would effect just as much obstruction as eighty. But I do not think there is any immediate prospect of a Redistribution Bill being passed by the present Government.'