Pressure on the Home Rule Leader.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 9

Pressure on the Home Rule Leader.

London, April' 22. Pressure has been brought to bear on Mr Parnell to test the authenticity or falsity of the " Times " letter in court, but without success. Mr Gladstone and others of the Liberal panfcy suggested the force of having such an inquiry, but Mr Parnell's supporters opposed it. Mr Parnell has gone to Dublin, in order to seek for a clue to the author of the letter. Lord Salisbury, in strong comments on the subject, declares that the Parnellites having been guilty of violent and reckless language which had been the means of instigating murders, and that a large wing of the party having utilised murderers to carry on the Nationalist agitation, it was absolutely necessary that Mr Parnell should \vindicate himself at law.

London, April 22. Important discoveries have been made at the dockyards respecting the betrayal of secrete, and Kaval oncers are being dismissed. The Australian Trust Loan .Company kaye declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent.

London, April 19. The American and French Press assume that Mr Parnell, after his indignant denial, will arraign the " Times" in a court of law for publishing the letter alleged to be signed by him on the subject oi the Phoenix Park murder*. The " Times" challenges an inquiry. Mr Gladstone, in an address to the organisation known as the Eighty Club, declares that he never associated with the Parnellites in the crime*, and ifc was quite sufficient for Mr Parneft to deny the authenticity of the letter.