NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3133, 19 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

•'■-• London, February 16. - Mr Pai'nell is in indiflbreut health. Mr Soames, solicitor'of The Timea, ?avo evidence before the Commission that Mr Houston, secretary of the Patriotic League, brought the letters' to The Times; stating' ..that ■ Pigott wanted £SOOO for' them. After satisfying themselves that they were genuine, The' Times gave Houston £3OOO and retained the letters, Of this sum, Houston paid Pigott £I7BO. The Times paid Detective Moaer, ot the United States,- £I4OO, They also had Parnell, Labouchere, and others watched, Mr Lowis, solicitor for the Parnellites, employed a detective to shadow Pigott, and The Times, unaware of this proceeding, did the same, They .did not enquire how Pigott himself managed to secure the. letters. . They obtained letters from Mr Labouchere to Pigott enclosing a £lO note, and a letter from Mr Lewis to Pigott, oharging the latter with -admitting th<j forgery, Mr Macdonald, manager of Tho Times, in his evidence, deposed that he. was unaware that tho letters had been offered to. the-Pall Mall Gazette, Tho Ooppor Bank projected by Messrs Matheson has collapsed,

Mrs Georgina Weldon sued the society paper "Man and Woman" for libol, claiming £3OO damages. Judgment was postponed. An application'for a mandamus to quash the convictions of Mr W. O'Brien was refused.

.The St. James' Gazette .endorses the opinion of Sir Henry Parkes as to the necessity of a further di vision of Australia before federating the colonies. ' . •■ :'

February 17, A representative of tho New York Herald has had an interview with Major Lecaron, the result' of which is published in the London edition of the papor. Lecaron stated that he possessed positive evidence that Parnell's advisers were privy to the Phamio Park murders, and that the whole truth had not yet been told, as the Government were unwilling to disclose certain documents to the Commission. He said further that the case appeared to have been got np by Dr M'Guire, of Dublin, Kirby, Maker, and Pigott,