IDENTIFICATION OF PHOENIX PARK INFORMERS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3761, 4 August 1883, Page 3

IDENTIFICATION OF PHOENIX PARK INFORMERS.

LIBEL ACTION AND CONTEMPT OF COURT. IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES. MELBOURNE. Fridnj*. Tlic steamship Path an was boarded on entering the port Ijy a party of police, and the passengers were mustered for inspection. Two Melbourne residents who accompanied the police expressly declared themselves able to identify Kavanagh among tlio.se on board, stating , that they Avere acquainted with him in Dublin. ICanlon, another of the Invineibles admitted his identity, and pointed out Smith, the third of the party. No others, however, could be identified. The Government have prohibited the landing of the informers in this colony, and they will therefore be compelled to remain on board the steamer until her departure. The action of Mr Service in the matter meets with unanimous approval. • • This day. The steamship Pathan brings out i>oo immigrants to New South Wales. The identification of Kavanagh, the informer, as one of the passengers, is complete. Haiilon evaded the general muster of those on board, but subsequently confessed to his own identity, and admitted that the others were Kavanagh and Smith. 'Die captain declared that as Kavanagh was booked to Melbourne he would be landed there. The police, however, dissuaded the captain from .such ;i proceeding. There was a strong force of constables on board in view of a possible disturbance. The Argus to-day doubts the wisdom of preventing the landing of the informers, and expresses the opinion that it will probably be regarded as unfriendly towards England, and that it only tended to gmlify the disaffected.