PARNELL IN DISGRACE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8950, 5 December 1890, Page 2

PARNELL IN DISGRACE.

CATHOLIC MANIFESTO.

SEXTON SEVERS HIMSELF FROM PARNELLIi'ES.

PARNELL CONDEMNS O'BRIEN AND DILLON.

jVKR PRSSs AriSOCIAT/ON/j London, December 4. — The Belfast electors are in favour of Parnell retaining the leadership of his party, and it h said that in consequence MrT. Sexton (member for Belfast West), will likely resign his seat.

It is believed that Mr Parnell will again offer to. resign the leadership, on condition that Mr Gladstone gives the pledges demanded by Mr J. J. Clancy, and it is stated that in the event of a refusal by Mr Gladstone the Sexton party will in all proba bility confer their support on Mr Parnell. It is reported here that Messrs Dillon and O'Brien, the Irish delegates to America, have prepared a fresh manifesto, in which they declare that Parnell by his conduct of late haa selfishly sacrificed the cause of Home Rule.

The Catholic hierarchy met yesterday, and as a result of their deliberations a manifesto has been issued, stating that Parnell has committed a grave offence against religion and society, which offence he bad aggravated by making use of every circumstance to secure a scandalous pre-eminence.

The manifesto also says that a retention by Parnell of the leadership of even a section of the Irish party will inevitably defeat the ends and object of the Home Rule party. Lord Salisbury, speaking at Rossendale, said that Mr Gladstone's denial to several of the statements contained in Parnell's manifesto was not a specific contradiction on the material points, and demanded that Mr Gladstone should reveal the facts of the Hawarden interview. Lord Salisbury refused to admit that an Irish Imperial j Parliament would be established if Home ! Rule were granted. The belief is gaining ground that Mr Jfarnell will resign.

To-morrow Mr Newton King will sell by auction at his mart, a quantity of almost new furniture, consisting of stretchers and mattrasses, bedding, chairs, &c, all of which have only been in use a few months. The local mare Tuna has been sold in Auckland, and it is therefore improbable that she will Btart here on Boxing Day. She is stated to have brought £60. " Christmas comes but once a year, and when it comes it brings good cheer ;" more especially if you go to E. T. Petty's branch establishment (late' Okey's) to purchase your Christmas gifts. The choice display of novelties must be seen to be believed. Toys of every description, from one penny upwards. Everything must be cleared regardless of cost, as the premises are to let. — Advt. A certain resident in a Southern Town, who appears to have been given to practical joking, played a trick the other day, the result of which was rather aerioua, particularly to himself. His wife was lying asleep on a sofa, when some friend suggested to her husband that it would be very funny if he gave ber a galvanic shock. He proceeded to do so. Having taken down bib battery, he placed the positive and negative poles in her bands — one in each — and then turned the handle. The effect was surprising. The woman had pr< viously been in a calm and, no doubt, innocent sleep, but the instant she felt the " shock " she gave a shriek that might almost have awakened the dead. She did not comprehend exactly what had happened at first, but when she did find o»t she naturally lost he- temper ; "in fact, she became furious and gave chase to ber husband with a Hatchet. As the man was endeavouring to get out of the room, he , put his Imu • oD the handle of the door ' to clone it after him, and the woman made a blow at his hand with the hatchet. Unhappily t'le blow took effect, the r^iult being thai two of the man's fingers were completely severed from the band. Medical assistance was procured, and tho unfortunate practical joker it now prograsijog fivorftply. ;