MR PARNELL AS A WITNESS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 3 July 1889, Page 6

MR PARNELL AS A WITNESS.

Contrary to expectatidn. Mr Parnell proved but a dull witness. Every point raised by the " Times "' was, no doubt, important, but it took such a tremendous amount of lending up to. Moreover, neither counsel nor judges could persuade Mr Parnell to give a direct answer to a plain question. Ho had always some modification, or amplification^ or explanation ready, and at times w.earicd the Court to the verge of exasperation. The length of his answers was prodigious, and would not have been tolerated in ah'y other man. Sir Richard Webster more than once lost Mb temper in the course of tho cross-examina tion, but he never, once succeeded in shaking the witness s cold calmness. Instead of being fchc, principal actor in a great national drama, Mr Parnell might, induing from his indifferent aspect and level tones, have been merely an outsider'accidentally drawn in. His replies wereimtatingly reUeprive and introspective. "It was " (tor instance, he wouid say, having admitted using some phrase' capable of being twisted into an incitement to violence), " indeed curious he should have made use of such language. Ho supposed 'he must have done &o, as the teport said so. He could not recall the words. He recalled tho circumstances, however, and the Court would see when he explained them, etc., etc.," and so oil into quite • a lojik stoiy. In vnin the Attoniey(Jeneral tried to curb his discursiveness-.-, Mr Painell ignored interruption, and I talked delibeiattly on in level monotone. Judge Day foil asleep more than once on Friday, and a general air of tamenoss pervaded the proceedings. Dr. Walsh, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, who followed Parnell into the box, is a very romarkable personage. lie was little more than 40 when first appointed to his high office, and even now looks quite a young man. In appearance Dr. Walsh is '* unadulterated Paddy." lie has the long protruding upper lip, dancing eyes, and soft voice of the Gal way Celts. A brilliant scholar, gif ted orator, ■ and ready wit, the Irish are very proud of their Archbishop, and he has more influence over them than anyone bar Parnell hirn&elf.

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