THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1917, 16 July 1889, Page 1

THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

! LoirDON, r Jaly 12.! '''" Before the Timeß-Parnel) CJommißsipn to-day, Sir Charles ftuesell demanded the production in court of the .books, jof the Patriotic Union, which he was w/l----ilng shoul.d be shown to the, court, though not to political opponents. v Sjr Jameß, IlanneD, the President, declined, to order the production of the boob,s. He said that oven if it were true that the Union had paid to promote, the present inquiry still. the only question for the court to; decide was. whether, tfie charges were true, Sir Charles Russell replied that he must confer with Mr Parnell as to ; the coarse he should follqw in the future;., Thereupon the court adjourned until .Tuesday,'.... It was reported that. Sir , Charles Russell had. decided to withdraw fro!m the case. - This was, however, Subsequently, denied. A meeting of Mr Parnell'a friends will be held on Monday to consider their course of action. The .Parnelliteß cpntendithat the books of the Patriotic Union,will show that Pigott wrote 'f Parnellism and,Crime,'' July 14.; Continuing,, bis evidence before '...the Times-Parnell, Commisaion yesterday, Mr O'Brien declared that (he chief feature, of the National, Leage was the creation of a national fund to save evicted tenants, from the workhouse.