Mr Parnell

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 89, 17 January 1891, Page 4

Mr Parnell

r' •Mr Ed mund; YatOsV in the World* confirruw the^act that a generalkuowi ledgo of Mr Parnell's '/ dpings was cobmou .. propeiiy ;lbi»g before the Edinburgh euthusiasts moved to cohler;the freedoQi of the city upon hirh; "Full two years ago" says Mr Yates, .'♦ Ltbid my readers about 'Mr Preston's' little establishuient at Brockley : andt wo years befoKe that^ again, I jijuid have :iu formed them of his iurngue : with; Mrs O'Shea. It was freely talked about at the time. The fireVescape and water spou t incidents are new ; but as far for the rest, in cjimuion with the rParnellite M:P.'s I ktiewl the main facts, and,; to use ;a iaty - phrase, discounted them long ago. "WithC Itiibwledge of the^ f sicts, : the Rationalist members have kept bim as their leader hitherto, and they now insist on him as their lead er still. : ' What is the use, then, of tryiug'tOibully them into -.taking another course? It reminds me oft °he; oftheir,> own Chief Baron , O'Grady's celebrated utteiauces. The pccasipn was ar cattle steah^g ; prbsecutiou on icircuitJ case 7 for;the ; crpwn was clearrand the defence wa^a mass of eyidenbe ; tb; character;; Cliief Baroh's charge; wa^' given: iii a single sentence :~Gentleuien of the" jury,! said[he> 4 ifiybu believe^ the witneisseS in this case, the prisoner ; at. theibar «tple: the bo w, audahe is>th e most res-; pectable man in t^isparish !'- Zi :

,;A story is told of^Sir John Gorat dvir"ing his career in New Zealaud,. which is ;gbpd^',enbugh; to Jbelitruei The i, Under- • S^dretary for" India was • at Z oiie; ; ti in c •editor ■ i of ; f well - known Maori/jpurhal; -and the King of the Maoris did not- at all eyarpathise ""with his'-joUrnali'stic'enter-'pnSseC.-- One night a body of them des■cended the establishment iand -rCftnfispated .the plant; and only with 'difficulty did the > editor : and .his Jstiaff -escape to the pakeha settlements. A t -^ihe^battle of- Orakau,; the , 65th Royal . Irish. were greatly put;. about to discover what strah»e. amiinitipn it was that came -from the Maori camp.^_ To Mr GprsVit '; Yas; left r to the Jpr6blem.i ;■'.' Good • gracibus," he is .said'to.have ; exclaimeH, 2_s a galley full of sdlid'brevier burst over -his head, "there goes a column of my poetry ?" \iu the trenches/ close "at fhand, adds;" Heteka," a youiig subal-: -%s'n was flattened out by ; a couple of V ;df ;Gprst's;f 'Essay on Chhsstiau.Fertitude." —^Dunedin Star.