DYNAMITE PARTY REVELA TIONS. THE "TIMES" DISCLOSURES. A FUND OF £200,000. ASSASSINATION AND DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 239, 28 January 1888, Page 8

DYNAMITE PARTY REVELA TIONS.

THE "TIMES" DISCLOSURES. A FUND OF £200,000. ASSASSINATION AND DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.

An extraordinary account appeared in tha "Times" on Wednesday, December 16th, of the organisation of the dynamite party. The statement is said to have been voluntarily made to the "Times" by a person who is believed by the conductors of that» journal to be in a position to know what ho assorts, and who, they say, can hardly havo any motive for deception. The statement) was as follows :—: — " Our informant began by saying thafe he himself was a Home Uuler and follower of Mr Parnell, and that he disapproved of the policy pursued by the advanced Nationalists as much more likely to prejudice than to advance the cause ot his country. He then went on to state that Dr. Hamilton Williams was now the head centre of the extreme section, occupying for that purpose the rooms in Chambersstreet, New York, previously held by O'Donovan Eossa, wnose successor he is. There ho keeps a staff of clerks and baa a fund of more than £200,000 at his disposal with which to organise and wag© war in the enemy's country. Ine methods of this warfare are assassination and dynamite explosions — the former directed against obnoxious individuals, and the latter against property, public and private. Dr. Hamilton Williams, it will be recollected, was the partner and now carries on the business of the notorious Gallagher, who is undergoing sentence of penal servitude for life as a dynamiter. The mode in which Dr. Hamilton Williams seeks at present to carry out his plan is still that of sending over to this country IrishAmerican agents. But they are no longer sent to act directly, that method having been found too risky. Their instructions are to organise in London and other large cities the immediate instruments of outrage. It is calculated that such instruments can be found among us in any required number fop the assassination of our public men and for dynamite explosions, whereas American* Irish coming here as direct agents are found at once to Attract the notice of the> police and to become objects of general suspicion. Proceeding on this policy, a man was sent over some time before the Jubilee to arrange for a series of outrages during its progress. He, however, became known to the police and had to return. A man named Kearney came next for the same purposed but the police were on him at once and he had to escipe to Belgium, whence he returned to America. About last April a person (whose name and occupation we withhold at present, but who then had an office in London, and was the chief agent here of the extreme party) left England for New York to work withthestafl: in Chambers-street in planning outrage with' his assistance. Freshmen were sent to Liverpool, having a twofold object. First, to try and form an Invincible Society in order to assassinate Mr Balfour and other obnoxious gentlemen who might com* in their way ; secondly, to 'carry outi dynamite explosions as far as possible* simultaneously. These emissaries are well supplied with money through the medium of a Paris bank, from which it is drawn a» required and brought over here by » ! special messenger. They have also succeeded somehow in getting 2cwt. of dynamite stored away secretly in London, ancl though our informant professed not to know the locality, perhaps the publicity now given to his statement may lead to its discovery. It would seem that this batch of emissaries from Chambers-street, New York, has, like its predecessors, attracted the watchfulness of the police. The consequence has been that they got alarmed and spread over the country. Some have escaped entirely, but some are still here, and^ our informant, though impressed by tho success of the measures hitherto taken to foil the dosigns, evidently believes that the danger to the lives of Mr Balfour and other public men still continues. He also believes in the probability of dynamite explosions, and he mentioned incidentally that there was now a powder available which floated lightly on water and yet retained all its destructive properties." The London correspondent of the "Irish Times" says: — " Dr. Williams is O'Donovan Rossa's successor in the lead of the extreme Irish - American Fenians, and turned up some years ago in British Guinea, where he was quite a lion at Government House and at the officers' mess. He used to be a man of dashing appearance and with the traditional 'go' of southern Irishman. Itpeems, however, his reputation in South America was that of a wild Idealist. He has never, been able to settle down to the practice of his profession, and has now, it seems definitely . abandoned everything for the violent pursuit of politics. Assuming the truth of the revelations published in * The Times,' ife is expected that the Government will re- , new their previous representations on the ' subject to the United States Administration. Previous attempts to negotiate have been coldly received at "Washington, but the question of political conspiracy is steadily growing an international one, in which the American is concerned as well as other people." The London correspondent of the Dublin "Express" says that another fact of peculiar interest is the large amount in the estimate for American expenses. This i» quite a new feature, and has grown rapidly in recent years. Everything the SO or 60 English and Irish detectives now in America ascertain bearing on the dynamite party is cabled in cypher at once to London from New York. It is announced that Dr. Hamilton Williams declares the statement to be absurd, and a New York Correspondent asserts that infinite amusement has been caused there by the statement that O'Donovan Rossa's old followers, under a new leadership, have a dynamite fund of £200,000. It is doubtful, the correspondent adds, whether the whols of them together possess £5.