THE MEMBER FOR GALWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11987, 9 June 1902, Page 5

THE MEMBER FOR GALWAY.

HIS SYMPATHY WITH THE BOERS. > HE CONFESSES HE WENT TOO FAR, By Telegraph.—Press Association.— (Received June 9, 1.9' a.m.) London. June 8. j Mr. Arthur Lynch, the member : for Galway City, in a letter from ! Paris to the Speaker of the House of Commons, confesses that he went farther than others in his sympathy with the Boers' struggle for independence, to exhort which he overstepped the bounds of legality. In the matter of the tribunal before which he should appear to be dealt with, he leaves himself at the Speaker's disposal. The Union-Castle, steamship Gaul, which arrived at Plymouth recently from South - Africa; had among her passengers Mr. Lewis Handle;,-, a Natal fanner, who said that he had come Home to c;ive evidence in connection with any proceedings which' may he taken against Mr. Arthur Lynch, M.P. for Gahvay. Mr. Handley informed a reporter that Mr. Lynch and the "2nd Irish Brigade" arrived on his farm on March 3. 15' JO, and remained there until March 13. (loins: considerable damage and demanding supplies. He frequently saw Mr. Lynch, who told him ; that he was a British subject, and related the circumstances in which lie had crone out to South Africa to represent the Ppris Figaro and a. New York newsnaner. TTe also told Mr. Handler that, like mam* others who arrived at Pretoria, with ambulance corns and such like, he had laid down the pen to take up the sword as soon as the opportunity offered, and when the "2nd Irish Brigade" was formed he war? appointed to command it, in the field. When asked »«v Mr. Handler why he was fight ins with the enemv. although ndnrttinfr himself to he a British subject Mr. Lvnch replied that he was fitrhtincr with the Boers "for fnn." Several Inns of timber and sheet iron were stolen by the Boers art in?- under Mr. Lynch's order, to build huts for the various commandos operating in Natal.