MR PARNELL’S SUBURBAN RETREAT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1543, 10 August 1886, Page 3

MR PARNELL’S SUBURBAN RETREAT.

“I gather from the title of s recent paragr *i»h in the Pall Mull Qaastte, ‘Mr Parnflll’* Suhnrb-n Retreat,’” writes

correspondent, “tl i'.tconsidorahlft curiosity xir-ls as to where Mr Parnell has taken iiji h's abode. If you do not know 1 should hardly expect any one also to know. Pet I cannot understand where ths secrecy comes in. Any of Mr ParneP’s neighbors would be sble to tell you that his home, for the present at any rate, is in the picturesque village of Eltham, in tent, about eight miles from Charing Cross. The-railway officials, whose ignorartve of everything that does not run on wheels is exhaustive, may know nothing about him, but otherwise there is no mystery about the little white brick semi-detached suburban .villa which rejoices in the name of Wonersh Lodge. Wonersh Lodge is the honse of Captain O’Shea. London is so great a place that almost anybody except Mr Gladstone may walk about unrecognised, and possibly the fact th«t Mr Parnell’s personal appearance changes so often, according as he wears his beard long or short, tnajr account for the circumstance that people are not aware of his nightly trips for repose into the country, away from the atmosphere of the House of Commons. At Eltham station his brougham generally meets him and takes him back in the morning. Of course one would not expect that so busy and ' therefore so fatigued a man would show himself much among the villagers, who know little or nothing of his doings, but there exists an emphatic sentiment in his favar among them, and if you Were to come down to Eltham and question them about him, you would hear nothing of him but good.”