"TIMES "-PARNELL COMMISSION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6438, 7 January 1889, Page 4

"TIMES "-PARNELL COMMISSION.

, SITTINGS OF THE COMMISSION. [Per San Francisco Mail.] l' AUCKLAND, Jan. 6. ■.}'■ The Parnell Commission hearing was resumed on Nov. 27. After wrangling over • the production of a record of outrages kept ' , by Sergeant Gilhooly, of County Kerry, ■ Sir Justice Hannen suggested that counsel on both sides should inspect the book. If , they did not object, then the Judges would gee it. Inspector Davis testified that there ! were inner circles of the League, which ' organised Feniana to execute the League's behests. His . informant was not in the pay of the police, but was a member of the League who had participated in the work of the Inner Circle. On Nor. 29, Inspector Crane gave evidence to the effect, that wherever a League organisation started in Ireland, outrage followed. Inspector Rice deposed that he always understood that the Moonlighters executed, the behest oE ' the League; On Nov. 30, Sir Charles Eussell, for the Parnellites, called the attention of Mr Justice Hannen to a i ■placard, announcing that two men, named Mitchell and Noah Fitzmaurice, who \ ' had appeared as witnesses for the defence before the Commission, would address a trablio meeting. Mr Justice Hannen said | the placard was unjustifiable, and he would j serve a notice on the firm publishing it. A land agent named HuEsey then testified that tenants paid rents secretly, or did not pay them at all, because they were afraid j . of being shot. There were no Moonlighters, j Secret Societies, or outrages in County ; Kerry before the League was formed. i On Dec. ,1 ib was seriously proposed by , Mr ParnelTs counsel to withdraw from the '• case until evidence directly against the League was to be produced ; otherwise the dilatory' tactics of the Times, were such, that the Parriell Defence Fund was likely to give out> and the case would thereby/ fail. On Dec. 6, the Commission committed Molloy, who refused to obey a subpoena to testify, to prison until fnrther ordered; and took the testimony of a labourer named Burke, who alleged that it was decided at a branch League meeting at Clonbar, that Loid Montmorris should be , tilled, and that witness was asked by a '. member of the League on the day of the ■ss&ssin&tion to take part in the killing 1 , and he refused. Then, on the evening of "Che day of the killing another member of the League told witness that he expected Xord Montmorris would be put away that night. Witness afterwards told Sweeney, Mulroe, Fallow, and Murphy, • all members of the League, that he might •csiat them in doing away with Lord Jlontmorxis ; but he suddenly missed them. Otftter in the night he saw Mulroe, who had heen wounded in , the hand. Mulroe said that he had done away with Lord atonttnorrifl. On crosa-examination the •Hjtaesa said lie could not swear that there , vss a branch of the League at Clonbar before the murder. A man named Houston, Secretary of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union, is said to h*ve coM the Paniell letters to the Times. Be bought them from Eichard Pimot, by ehom they were forged.