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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 47, 21 March 1884, Page 27

Mukhtar Pasha is instructed to arrange a concordat with the Pope to receive an Ottoman ambassador. The Benedictines have opened an industrial school for coloured boys on Skidaway Island, near Savannah, Ga. Mr. Cbas. Curling, J.P., agent to the Earl of Devon, has addresed a circular to the tenants, stating that the offer of twelve, four-. teen, and sixteen years' purchase for their holdings has been ref ussd by his lordship. Of the three hundred tenants who sent in proposals, but a small a number offered twenty years' purchase. The cases o these latter are under consideration. On Thursday, Jan. 17, an enthusiastic demonstration took place on Mr. Parnell's demesne at Avondale. The farmers of the district ploughed 50 acres of land and carried home to the farm-house the produce of six acres of potatoes, tne hundred and sixty ploughs and 100 carts wore employed in the work. Mr. Andrew J. Kettle and James F. Grehau, Cabinteely, were the chief organisers of the demonstration. The correspondent of the Freeman, writing from Birr on Saturday, Jan. 19, says : — A most important case was disposed of to-day at petty session". Some time ago a large number of tenant-farmers of North Tipperary and the King's County deicrmined to put a stop to hunting, and with that view signed a document to the effect that after the first inst. all parties found hunting or coursing on their lands would be prosecuted according to law. Despite this notice, Mr. Kane Bun bury, Master of Hounds, and a large following, hunted certain lands on the Bth inst., the result being that the tenant in occupation instituted proceedings under the Petty Sessions Act. The plaintiff in the cafe was Miss Anne Houlahan, of Ballywilliam, and the defendants ware Kane Bunbury, Michael Martin, whipper-in ; William Carroll, James Re^an, Edward Egan, Robert Lyons, and William Hanny ; the alleged offence being wilful trespass on the lands of Kylenamurk on the Bth January. Mr. Joseph Nolan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Adam Mitchell, Sessional Crown Solicitor, for the defendants. The presiding magistrates were Mr. M'Sheehy., R.M., and Mr. William Woods. Lord Rosse, Mr. W. K. Marshall and Colonel Biddulph were also on tbe bench, but took no part in tbe pioceedings. After hearing the evidence at considerable length, tbe magistrates consulted, and Mr. M'Sheehy said tbat taking into account the reading of the Bth section of the 14th and 15th Victoria, chapter 93, which held responsible everybody who goes on lands in pursuit of game, they would dismiss the case with 20s costs. In future the magistrates would not sign such summonses, as if a tenantfarmer felt aggrieved at hunting, he bad his remedy in a civil actio Mr. Mitehi-ll refused costs, and the proceedings terminated,