THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1919, 20 July 1889, Page 1

THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

London, July 116. 4.11 the, counsel, reserved for tjho defence in the Times-Parnell Comtnißßiop have withdrawn from the case.j This action has caused some remarks to be made from the bench, and Sir J. Hannen, the President, remarked, "We Can do without their assistance, and Mr Parnull has no right'to dictate conditions! to the court." Sir H. James, one of defendants' counsel, is continuing the i crossexamination o£ Q'Kelly, . O'Kelly he Wflb sent .from* Amefioato; Ireland in 1879, and was supplied with funds by the Clan-na-Gael Society to effeofc a rising in Ireland, but tha mission failed as-the govjernihg body in Ireland refused lOr. .co-operate. He admitted thaV he was intimate with Miller, Devby, »nd Harris, three! of the Irish revolutionary party, in America. He al8d : stated that he arrauged tor the defence of any prisoner he thought proper. Sir H, James will conolude thejerossexsmination of Mr Parnell to-day. July 17. The Times states that: Mr Healey ad dressed f a meeting of the National League in Dublin nt which he I defied andi insulted the Commission. The Times asserts that the (Patriotic Union had f nothing to do with F< Parnellism and Crime," as was alleged by the Irish party. The Standard considers Mr Parnell's withdrawal from the Commission a piece of thin melodramatic posing; The public will regard id as an angry admission of the futility of his efforts'to exculpate himself. In consequence'of his cross-examina-tion (which was postponed for the production of certain document*) not being completed," Mr ParneU's attendance before the' Commission has been made compulsory.