Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 265, 7 May 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

>. >tIiONDON. ■ It' ia ttooaght that Stanley and Emin Pasha have 1 stopped itf Uganda tin their way to the coast and are engaged in pacifying that kingdom, which has [weljp BeWal changes of rujerft,,-,.* „ l0 .], . Mr Balfour, Seorttary for Ireland, speaking said jfbpt the Btonn.o|^*ev6llitfo^^^j^^jad," was abating, and social calm was likely to descend on the face of' society. The plebiscite which was taken in Edinburgh on the proposal to confer the freedom of the city on Mr Parnell was largely against it, but many voters did not record their opinions. A report is again current to the effect that Henry Irving, the well-, known actor, is to he knighted. The cross-examination of Mr Parnell by Sir R. E. Webster was continued. Bespectiug his knowledge of Gallaher, Harris, Walsh, Devoy, Breslin, and other Irish Americans, Mr Parnell said he did not know they were Fenians ; they never told him they were. The statements as to his approvingNolan's past history, and saying none were truer than those standing beside Nolan were mere election exaggerations. He admitted that Condor, who was one of those who planed the resoue of Kelly and Deasy from the custody ot the police at Manchester on 18th September, 1867, when Policeman Brett was killed, was the chairman of his (ParnelTs) Beception Committee at Washington, and asserted that he introduced him to Congress. He knew Finnerty, the dynamiter, and had never repudiated him. He admitted writing to him in 1882, as a personal friend, congratulating him upon his return to Congress, but was not aware that he was a dynamiter till 1882. The witness said he was not aware that the chairman of his American Reception Committee was a- member o the Clan-na-gael. He was not aware that Devoy threatened to murder English Ministers of the Crown and burn cities. He admitted that he never .denounced the use of dynamite except when replying to Mr Forster, the Irish Secretary, in the House of Commons. He might have subscribed to the present to Kelly, who shot Constable Talbot, and he never condemned tne past career of the violent party. He considered that the enthusiasm of Mr W. E. Kednxond, M.P., approached to rashness, and he had privately reproved him for menacing speeohes. He admitted that his protests against crime since 1880 were not sufficient in view of the increase of outrages. His no rent manifesto was an act of retaliation for imprisonment in Kilmainham Gaol, and the , arrest of the members of his party. He was willing to admit that the manifesto was open to condemnation, though it had never been formally 'withdrawn. He regarded many of Mr T W. O^Bmn's articles ' in thfe United Ireland newspaper ; m too