THE "LONDON TIMES" AND MR PARNELL.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 126, 30 May 1887, Page 5

THE "LONDON TIMES" AND MR PARNELL.

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knowing that the document was to be signed, would in tho ordinary course have turned over the last few words on to the next page, instead of -so cramming the last paragraph as to prevent the signature being written. This peculiarity gave him an idea that tho signature, if genuine, was written before the letter itself.

Mr Parnell denounces the document as an So much curiosity has been aroused by the infamous forgery, and the leaders of the cable and mail report of the letter which Liberal party accept that assurance unre- ,,. m ~ t , servedly. Such malevolent devices have been the London limes" published and fastened resOr t e d to for the purpose of bringing into upon Mr Charles Stuart Parnell, tho Irish disrepute all who favour the cause of Home i^w tkt ™ i, n ™ ™ riA^Kf our Rule that this one would not be very releader, that we ha% 6 no doubt our markable> although the proprietors readers will be greatly interested in see- o f the "Times" have doubtless accepted ing a fac simile of the document. We the document as being genuine. As Mr Jl e / ■• ~ ~ : ... ' ~ ~ Labouchere observes, it is easier to believe therefore reprint the letter exactly as it that somQ knftve forged the letter> knowing appeared in tho v Times." The letter, it there was a good market for such stuff, than will be observed was written on one side that a oautious man like Mr Parnell should , , . f , ■ i ti Q have written such a document at tho very of a sheet of notepaper, and the moment whon he and the other Irish leaders signature turned over on to tho other side. declaring their horror of the Mr Frederick. George Netherclrft, a cele- J P * following manifesto to the brated expert in handwriting, who has been """ ".. . _ B for 40 years a specialist in caligraphy, and ±xlau ual' l«" ■ ,: :.- t .• . to whom the letter was referred for opinion To the People of Ireland. -On tho ove ol drew special attention to this peculiarity, what seemed a bright future for our country' He said the most significant feature in the that evil destiny which has apparently pur- " Times':' letter to his mind was the fact sued us for centuries hasstruck another blow that the writing on tho first page was at our hopes, which cannot be exaggerated in crammed at the bottom, so as to avoid its disastrous consequences. In this hour of turning over the leaf j whereas, the writer, sorrowf ulgloom we venture to give an expres-

eion of our profoundeßt sympathy with the people of Ireland in the calamity that has befallen our cause, through a horrible deed, and to those who have determined at the last hour that a policy of conciliation should supplant that of terrorism and national distrust. We earnestly hope that the attitude" and action of the wholelrishpeoplewill show the world that assassination such as has startled us almost to the abandonment of hope for our country's future is deeply and religiously abhorrent to their every feeling and instinct. We appeal to you to show, by every manner of expression, that almost universal feeling of horror which this assassination haa excited. No people feel so intense a detestation of its atrocity, or so deep asympathy for those whosehearts must be searched by it, as the nation upon whose prospects and reviving hopes it may entail consequences more ruinous than have fallen to thelot of unhappy Ireland duringlthe present generation. We feel that no act has ever been perpetrated in our country during the exciting struggles for social and political rights of the past 50 years that has so stained the name of hospitable Ireland as this cowardly and unprovoked assassination of a friendly stranger, and that until the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke are brought to justice that stain will sully, our country's name. ( Chakles S. Parnell. (Signed) \ John Dillon. ( Michael Dxvrvs.

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