DEATH OF MR. PARNELL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3934, 9 October 1891, Page 2

DEATH OF MR. PARNELL.

A Rumour of Suicide.

London, October 7

Obituary. —Mr 0. S. Pamell, aged 45. He caught a chill while in bed on Friday last, a-id developed acute rheumatism. He was unconscious for several hours, and died at midnight yesterday in intense agony. He was staying at Brighton.

Later.

Mr 3 Parnell's solicitors have re. oeived an unsigned telegram stating that MrParnell committed suicide.

[Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P., was born in 1846, at Avondale, County Wicklow. He is descended from an old English family that passed over from Congleton, Cheshire, to Ireland. His mother was a daughter of Admiral Charle3 Stewart, a celebrated American naval officer. He was educated at various private schools in England, and afterwards went to Magdalen College, Cambridge. After a tour of some duration in the United States, he returned to his home in Wicklow, and was High Sheriff of the county in 1874. He made his first attempt to enter public life in the same year, contesting the County ot Dublin with the late Colonel Taylor on the latter's acceptance of office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the second administration of Lord Beaconsfield. He was defeased by an overwhelming majority, but in the following year—--1875 - he was returned for the County of Meath. For some time he tcok no prominent part in the proceedings of Parliament, but during the session of 1876 he attracted some attention by engaging in one or two prolonged and stubborn conflicts with the Government. In February, 1877, he made his first appearance as a legislator, introducing the Irish Church Act Amendment Bill, the object of wb'ch was to facilitate the purchase of tLeir holdings by the .enantry of the disestablished Irish Church j the Bill was thrown out by 150 to 110.] Mr Parnell'a last appearance in public was on Sunday week, He left Ireland on Thursday, suffering from a chill, which developed into rheumatism, and he died unconscious in the presence of his wife only.

There was immense excitement in Dublin,when the news became known. Business was stopped for a time, and many persons wen moved to tears.

The National Federation, which was sitting in Dublin, at once adjourned.

A prominent Parnellite declares that the death of the leader, so far from healing, will widen the breach in the Irish Party. Mr Justin McCarthy said to an interviewer that he was inexpressibly grieved and shocked at Mr Parnell's sudden death, though it would bring peace and heal the breach between the two sectious of the Irish Party. They would now join their forces again, and place the cause of Home Rule beyond danger. The Parnellites are holding a conference in Dublin.