HOME RULE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3191, 10 April 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE.

A PERTINENT CRITICISM

SPEECH BY MR, BALFOUR

LUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT.} LONDON, April 7.

Mr. Balfour, in a speech to three thousand youthful members of the Junior Imperial- League at Lambeth Bath said he did not blame the Nationalists for consenting to swallow the Budget and other unpalatable doses, provided that the Government handed the country to a single Chamber which wortld carry Home Rule. Such a plot was too complicated, and too impudent, for the ordinary elector to grasp. . The question was: What were they doing to replace G.ladstonian Home Rule? At first blush the Government’s suggestion to give the United Kingdom a. constitution not differing fundamentally from that of the -great- colonial democracies might appeal to Britishers' with Imperial instincts hut overseas they bad dominions moving from separation to centralistaion. The Government was favoring the precise converse of that which made Great Australia, Great Cairo, Great Canada, and Great Germany.

ANGLO-HIBERNIAN FINANCIAL

RELATIONS.

A COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION

(Received April 9, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. April 8. Judge Bishop, Justice- Ross, Baron Pirrie, Mr. H. W. Adams (ex-Statisti-cian of the liish Agricultural Department,) Mr. Neville Gladstone, Mr. F. Huth Jackson, Mr. Pmilder (accountants) with Sir Henry Primrose a.t chairman, have been appointed to consider the. financial relations of Ireland and Britain.