Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, 26 February 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON At tbe Titnes-Parnell Commission to-day, Sir Charles Russell, counsel for tbe • arnellities, produced letters addressed by Pigott to Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin written just before The Times published the facsimile letters. In this communication Pigott stated that a plot was being hatched with the object of discrediting tho I aruellite leaders, which he alone was tible to frustrate. Being unable to give any explanation of this letter, the evidence given by Pigott is much discredited, and is, it is thought, jeopardising The Times case. Pigott swore that he received letters from Murphy, a compositor and other Feniiins, only after he bad bepn sworn by the Clan-Da Gael agents not to disclose the source irom which ho obtain- d them, or subsequently to become a witness. Afterward the Cl in*na-Gae! offered to refund 600 dollars if the lette>s I were returned* Wiinisi Added thAi

Labouchere had assured him that the admission that he (Pigott) had : swindled The Times would secure ; him a seat in the British Parliament ; also that he would receive an ovation in America without any personal risk, since an indemnity was obtainable. Pigott said he had disclosed to Mr Lewis, the solicitor, the whole of Houston's case, but denied having admitted that he believed it was not genuine. Witness said his object in seeing Labouchere was a desire to : escape giving evidence, as he feared 1 he might be murdered. In crossexamination by Sir Charles Russell, Pigott admitted that he had informed Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, that £« was not a party to the attacks on p ai . ne^ he utterly failed to ex- '. plain the overtnr^? he "^de to the Archbishop. Pigotfc W&2 made a subject of exhibition while undeY cross* < examination, ' The forecast of the speech from the Throne states that England con- ' sents to the proposed conference on ! Samoan affairs at Berlin. Although tke foreign relations are friendly, it was right to assume such conditions ] as to secure the possibility of a [ change. '