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New Zealand Tablet, 29 June 1911, Page 1185

If the leaders of the Tory Party ever really entertained the hope that the Parliament Bill was not intended to produce practical results, it is well that Mr. Asquith took the earliest opportunity of impressing them with the fact that their hopes were vain (says the Catholic Times). That Mr. Balfour can have imagined the Government spending so much time and energy on a Bill to no purpose is what we do not for a moment believe. He know that the Parliament Bill would be used to curtail the powers of the leers, and, after that was done, to pass measures of great importance which could not be passed until the Veto of the Lords was abolished. Among these measures is the grant ot Home Rule to Ireland, and Mr. Asquith's clear announcement of that fact can scarcely have come as a surprise to a politician like Mr. Balfour, whose indignation may be treated as useful rhetoric, consoling to his followers. JNothing but good can result from Mr. Asquith's statement ot his determination to employ the Bill as a means of securing Liberal and progressive measures. We now know authoritatively that Home Rule for Ireland is to be granted without undue delay, and that nothing can stop it going .Parliament. We are heartily glad, and believe that both England and Ireland will benefit by the removal ot that unfriendliness which was. as injurious to the Empire as it was regretted by the best and fairest minds at home and in our Colonies. Home Rule will bless the receiver and the giver.