THE PARNELL COMMISSION.
(Pee Press Association.) London, November 20.
At the sitting of The Times-Parnell Commission Sir R. Webster charged Mr Harrington with contempt of court for publishing an article in the Kerry Sentinel charging The Times-Parnell Commission with partiality. The proceedings of the Commission were adjourned in consequence. November 21.
Mr Edward Harrington, M.P., was fined £500 for contempt towards The TimesParnell Commission in publishing an article in the Kerry Sentinel accusing the Commission of being biassed.
The proceedings of the league in Kerry formed the subject of evidence before The Times-Parnell commission to-day. A son of Cnrtin,whowasboycottedandeventuallymurdered, admitted that he was a member of the league, but did not believe the league had any connection with the murder of his father.
Norah Fitzmaurice, whose father also fell »■ victim to agrarian outrage, was one of the witnesses examined. Mr Leonard, agent fot Lord KenmaTe, gave testimony as to the punishment of tenants for paying *ent and " land grabbing." These outrages began at Killamey after speeches by Messrs Parnell and O'Donoghue, and after violent speeches by Messrs O'Brien, Healy, and E. Harrington the outrages increased in number and violence. At to-day's sitting of the commission oounsel for the Pamellites appealed to Sir James Hannen to confine the evidence to within more reasonable limits. He pointed out that such widespread testimony as 0 had been given could serve no good purpose, and only tended to ruin everybody whose name was dragged in. Counsel urged that the evidence in reference to the shooting of Lord Mountmorris was a case in point, and moreover that the crossexamination of Lady Mountmorris showed that her husband's death was due to quite a different cause than the vengeance of nis tenants, Sir James Hannen, in reply, expressed the hope of the court that counsel for The Times would see their way to curtail the evidence in the direction indicated. November 22. Mr Harrington declines to pay the sum of £500 in which he was fined for contempt by the Times-Parnell Commission.
THE PARNELL COMMISSION.
Otago Witness, Issue 1932, 30 November 1888, Page 13
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