IRISH AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3687, 15 December 1890, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

mrpabnbhJbpbogbebb.. STILL ABUSING GLADSTONE. THE KILKENNY SEAT. London, December 12. Mr Parnell on ji'i§ way from Dubhn |p. Cork, met with a most enthusiastic reception, except at Mallow, a place 17 miles N'.N.W. of the latter city, where he was very nearly mobbod. At Cork Mr l'a'rnell, in the course of an address to a mseting, declared that the trumpery Home Rule Bill of Gladstone was no loss. Mr Bany O'Brien, Mr ParnoH's nominee for the Kilkenny seat, has withdrawn from tho contest, and Mr Vincent Scully replaces him, Before leaving Dublin for Cork Mr Parnell re-entered the office of the United Ireland and smashed % doors. '■ •■■•.-' 'The residences of (hose members p,f {l(6 Irish Parliamentary party who have seceded from Parnell are guarded by police. Messrs Dillon and O'Brien have issued a fresh attack on the Liberal Unionist party. Their manifesto claims that the righteousness of the Irish, policy has been fully vindicated. Mr Gladstone, speaking at Worksop, said he was'immovable in his resolution.not to co-operate again with Mr Parnell, Parnell wW oonfer with O'Brien in Paris in regard to the present' orisis, and it is hoped a compromise will bo effected. The clergy in Ireland are destroyingposters which have been issued by the Parnell section. M. Davitf is assisting Sir John Pope Hennessey's oandjdatao for the North Kilkenny seat. I(i spite of PorncH's action, Hie publishers. o| United Ireland suc : ceeded in.: getting out two issues, but a thousand copies were seized by a. body of aimed men, and thrown into the river Liffey... ■•'."'';; : .

As anticipated, tho steamer Nepau became a total'wreck, andshelias now been abandoned (o theuiidei'; write'js'rVjv;'. ;^': ;i / /! ■''''■• l ' ;