Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 51, 13 April 1888, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim.— The tenants on the Islandmagee estate of Lord Arthur Hill Trevor attended at the Olderfleet Hotel, Lame Harbour, for the purpose of paying their yearly rent, when they were informed, through Mr. Glenny (agent of the estate), that an abatement of IS per cent, redaction on the year's rent now due would be given. At Antrim fair buyers from different centres were plentiful. Beef told well, especially second quality. Prices ranged as follows : —Springer heifers, from £8 to £10 10s ; do cows, £9 to £16 ; two-year-old heifers, from £8 to £10 10s ; one-year-old do, from £5 to

A meeting of the tenants on the Olandeboye estate of the Earl of Dnfferin was held in Mrs, Campbell's Hotel, Orawfordsburn, for the purpose of considering his reply to a memorial of the tenants praying for a reduction of 40 per cent, in their rent. The secretary read a letter from J. 8. Howe, J.P., Lord Dufferin'a agent, stating tha* he left the settlement of the affairs of the estate in his (Mr. Howe's) hands. Mr. Howe offpred a reduction of 10 per cent, to the tenants who had not entered the Land Court, and refused any reduction to the holders of townparks, etc. The meeting expressed dissatisfaction at Mr. Howe's decision, and decided to forward another communication to' Lord Dufferin on tie subject. Armagh.— A meeting was held in the Beading-rooms, Ogle street, Armagh, to express sympathy with Father McFadden and Mr. Blanc on the occasion of their arrest under the Coercion Act. Father McOscar, Adm. , occupied the chair, and the curates of Armagh, Fathers McNeece, McElvogue, and Qainn, were also present. Father McKee, Monasterboice, and Father McUartan, "Donaghmore, came to the meeting to join in the protest of the priests and people of their native diocese. The chairman said it was an outrage on the memory of the late Primate, and an insult to the present Primate, that a good and holy priest like Father McFadden coming from Donegal to assist at the Month's Mind of one of the greatest prelates that the Irish Church had known, should be arrested almost at the altar stepß. Fathers McElvogue, McKee, and Quinn, and Messrs. Hughes, McParland, McLonghlin, and Donnelly spoke to a resolution eulogising Father McFadden's services to the poor, and protesting against his arrest and its circumstances. Other speakers at the meeting were James Collins, J. McGlone, and James Mcliahon.

CailOW* — There was a very good show of horned stock and buyers in equal proportioa at Tullow fair, As regards store cattle, the prices that prevailed may be set down as from £1 to £2 per head on those of say six years ago.

CaTan.— Cootehill fair waß held lately. There was a large supply of cattle and a good attendance of buyers. The demand was very brisk, especially for beefers and stores ; in fact, anything saleable was quickly picked up. Prices showed a decided riße, having gone up about 20 per cent, on those obtained at recent fairs. Prime beef, of which there was an average supply, sold at from 56s to 58s per cwt.; second class from 50s to 55s per cwt.

Clare* — An Ennis letter says : — A great display was recently witnessed here. Seventy cars passed through the town for Clarecastle decorated with laurels and laden with potatoes, tnrf, geese, turkeys, and butter for the familits of the fifteen carriers recently convicted at Ennis Petty Sessions and sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment for refusing to hire their cars to the police to convey coal and provisions to Emergency huts. All came from villages in the west of the County. A sum of £40 has been subscribed for the prisoners in addition.

Cork*— At Sbandangan Petty Sessions, before Captain Stokes and Mr. Redmond, R.M.s, Mr. A. H. Browne, President of the Macroom National League and Vice-Chairman of the Macroom Board of Guardians, was prosecuted under the Coercion Act for intimidating ear-owners in Macroom from giving cars to the police. The evidence for the prosecution rested on the testimony of two constables. The accused was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment without hard labour. Notice of appeal was given. A Mitchelatown letter cays :— After thair inactivity during the past few months the landlords of the Kingston estate have made one effort more to bring the tenants into submission. Becently ejectment notices were served on 120 of the tenantry, for which decrees will be obtained at next Fermoy Quarter Sessions and the eviotion of the tenants afterwards carried out by the service of an eviction decree through the Post-office. About 60 tenants have already been Itgally dispossessed through this medium and are at present caretakers of their holdings by law. It is expected that the Sheriff will be called in a few months hence to carry out the final evictions of these tenants. It is now considered probable that the management of the Kingston estate will be immediately transferred to other owners, as it is stated, apparently with authority, that the " Church •f Ireland," who are the mortgagees of the Kingston estate, have determined to take this step. The tenants, therefore, look upon the last assault of the landlords as a retreating volley. The service of the ejectments has been accompanied by the summary dismissal of almost all the labourer employees of the Countess of Kingston. It it believed that the tenants have a strong legal defence against the validity of the ejectment notices. The documents are generally for one half gale under the judicial rent and a half-year's rent under the former rental. A meeting of the entire tenantry was held in Mitcheistown, addressed by Thomas Condon, M.P. About 400 tenants were present, and the meeting expressed the determination of the people to continue tht struggle till their reasonable claims were conceded by tUe landlords.

Derrj*— When the omnibus which conveyed Father McFadden to the police station, Derry, was returning to the railway station it was attacked by the people, and driver and man in charge were f*jc«d| to abandon the vehicle, The windows of Jury's Hotel, to

which the omnibus belongs, were smashed and a severe riot narrowly averted.

At Magherafelt fair in the store department there was a very good show. A good many of the beasts, however, that found their way into the fair were inferior both in quality and condition, consequently a number had to be taken home unsold. Best three-year-old heifers and bullocks Bold at from £8 to £10 10s each.

Donegf _il rf — The enormous deposits of granite of excellent quality in County Donegal are about to be developed. Mr. Blanc, M.P., was arrested in Belfast. Mr. Blanc reached Letterkenny from Belfast under a strong escort. The prisoner was charged before Mr. Hamilton, R.M., and Mr. Oullen, Divisional Magistrate, with having at a meeting at Derryart, Duntanaghy, unlawfully incited certain persons to take part in a criminal conspiracy and for having himself, with others, taken part in a criminal conspiracy. The prisoner was committed for six days to Derry Gaol pending his trial at Dunfanaghy Coercion Court. A meeting of Mr. Olphert's Meenaclady (Gw«edore) tenantry, against whom 83 ejectmeat decrees were lately obtained, was held at Meenaclady recently. Fifty police under DistrieUlnspector Brett, attended, ostensibly to protect a Government reporter Popular feeling runs high in the district owing to the truncheoning of women there daring the recent seizure of cattle for seed rates. The police will remain until after the auction of the seized cattle.

The tenants of the Ards estates came to Dunfanaghy in a body to meet Edmund Murphy, the agent, for the purpose of effecting a settlement, if possible, on the various points in dispute over rents, arrears, and law costs, when the following arrangement was arrived at :— 2O per cent, reduction on judicial rents, 25 per cent, reduction on arrears, to be paid in easy instalments as the people may be able to pay, and all legal proceedings in course to be stopped and the tenants to be relieved of all legal costs incurred.

Down, — A very largely attended meeting of labourers was held in the Home Rale Hall, Castle street, Newry, for the- purpose of inaugurating a society for protecting their rights. The chair was occupied by Edward Fitsmaurice, who stated that he felt that there were grievances to be removed, and he hoped they would start a society and work harmoniously together. James Carroll then proposed the following resolution :—": — " That we, the labourers of Newry, being desirous of protecting our rights and privileges as a body, hereby declare it necessary that a committee be at once formed from amongst our members with a view to the development of the Laborers' Society in this town* He complained that small farmers who were the occupiers of town parks and small farms in the suburbs of Newry came into town and did work for 2s and 2s 6d per day for which they (the town labourers) formerly got 3s 6d and 4s per day. Those who held email farms and had other sources of income were in the habit of coming into town and contracting for the discharging and reloading the steamers at a low rate, thus depriving the quay laborers of their legitimate work and preventing them from earning a livelihood. For this class of work they ( the quay laborers) formerly got 5s 6d per day, and now it was done by these small farmers at from 2s to 3s per day. He nrged all present to join the society.

Dublin.— The fortnightly meeting of the I. N.L. was held in Dublin recently, T. M. Healy, M.P., presiding. The receipts amounted to £283, and £141 was voted to evict tenants. Mr. Healy said that Lord Salisbury had laid down the extraordinary doctrine that if the Government were defeated on a measure of local government they need not resign. Referring to the grounds on which the Coercion Act was passed, he said if ever a Minister was convicted and pilloried as a liar Mr. Balfour was. Men were imprisoned for selling newspapers, but the merit of their cases could not be investigated in the superior courts so long as the Attorney-General objected. This did not agree with pledges given in Parliament by Mr. Balfour. Mr. Bright asked, if Home Bule were granted where would the Queen find members of Privy Council or the Cabinet? He would reply that Mr. Parnell or Mr. Dillon were as qualified to advise her Majesty as Captain Plucket or other Castle officials. The seventh annual meeting of the Property Defence Association was held in Dablin, Lord Courtown presiding. The Chairman said that four or five years ago they were told they were a moribund body, but the contents of the report showed that they were a fighting body. He used the word " fighting " in its most literally combative state, for their agents were compelled to fight literally and to storm fortified positions. Still they had bee a uniformly victorious, and the meeting would join with him in acknowledging their gladness, not so much at the success of individuals as of the course of the supremacy'of the law, for which they fought. The present administration of the law was most vigorous, and more likely to 'give them all confidence in the result, bat they did not know how long the present Ministry might remain in office, or how soon they might return to the flabby administration of former years, and therefore it was necessary to keep the Defence Association in full fighting order. They had held the f eld since 1880. and they hoped to do bo still. They bad received in one year from England £13,000. A resolution was passed declaring that the continuance of lawless attacks on property calls imperatively for the continuance of the Association. A vote of thanks was passed to the Irish Defence Union in London for their continued liberal grants. Mr. Erek said one encouraging sign of the value of the Association was that £8,000 was paid by those who could afford to pay for the services of the Association, rendering it in a great measure selfsupporting. PermanaKH* — The great Unionist meeting held in Enniskillen was a great fizzle after all. The bulk of those expected did not attend and the audience was a poor one.

Galway* — A special Crimes Act Court was held at Woodford to hear the cases of eleven men who were arrested for attending a League meeting. The cases were adjourned. Patrick Cleary and Peter Madden were each sentenced to seven days' imprisonment with hard labour for a similar offence.

At Loughrea, before Messrs. Brady and Townsend, Besident Magistrate!, two young men named Faby and Devany, charged witl»

hooting and groaning a caretaker on the estate of Sir Henry Burke, wero each sentenced; to • month's imprisonment. Peter J.Kelly, a member of the Council, of the G.A.A., was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment for alleged intimidation, A special meeting of the Athenry National League was held for the purpose of enrolling. members and electing officers for the present yewr,-Ve ry f ßev. E. Thomas presiding. Upwards of 100 members were enrolled. | It was the unanimous wish ol those present to withhold the election of officers until that day fortnight. After a vote of sympathy wit h.. Mr., BJant, the proceedings terminated.

. KMdarei— Six of the Kildare hounds were found dead from' poison in their kennel recently. At the last meet six coverts were drawn blank;-' It is- stated that in consequence of this poisoning of oounds the hunt will be stopped. . Kilkenny. — The following judgments were given at the Bitting of the Appeal, Court at Kilkenny recently : — Landlady, Mrs., A. Edge; tenant, Martin Fennelly ; old rent, £74 ; rent fixed" by'; sub-Commission, £60 ; rent fixed on appeal £74. Landlord, Lord Mountgarrett ; tenant, David Ryan ; old rent, £9 ; rent fixed by sub- " Commission, £5 ; rent fixed on appeal £5. Landlord, same ; tenant, Patrick Holohan ; old rent, £13 5s 8d ; rent fixed by sub-Commission, £7 168 ; rent fixed on appeal £7 15b. Landlord, same j tenant, Daniel McEvoy ; old rent, £29 ; rent fixed by sub-Commission, £19; rent fixed on appeal, £19. Landlord, same ; tenant, Mary BowS ; old rent, £14 12s 8d; rent fixed by sub-Commission, £8 ; rent fixed on , appeal, £8; Landlord'/ same ; tenant, Christopher Parcell ; old rent, £13 ; rent fixed by sub- Commission, £910?; rent fixed on appeal, £9 10s. Landlord, same ; tenant, same ; old rent, £13 15e 6d ; rent fixed by sub-Commission, £9 15s ; rent fixed on appeal, £12. Landlord, same; tenant, Jeremiah Dargan ; old rent, £18 6b 2d ; rent fixed by sub-Commission, £13 15s ; rent fixed on appeal, £13 15s. Landlord, same ; tenant, Martin McEvoy; old rent, £101; rent fixed by sob-Commission, £72 ; rent fixed on appeal, £78. Landlord, same ; tenant, John Spencer ; old rent, £12 17s ; rent fixed by subCommission, £9 7s 6d ; rent fixed on appeal, £9 7s 6d. Landlord, same ; tenant, Michael Shea ; old rent £5 ; rent fixed by sub-Com-mission, £3 10s ; rent fixed on appeal, £3 10s.

Kiffg'B County.— Right. Rev. Dr. Nulty came to Tmllamore to visit the political prisoners recently, but was refused admission to enter the, gaol, His Lordship at once retired and returned to Mnllingar.

In Tullamore Gaol Dr. Moorehead made the following entry in the visitors* book :— " Visited political prisoners, William O'Brien, M. P. v ßight Hon. Lord Mayor, M.P.; Alderman Hooper, M.P. Alderman Hooper informed me that he was undergoing sentence of 48 hours' punishment treatment imposed on him by Governor for refusal to clean out hisicell'. In mew of the fact that Alderman Hooper has just returned from hospital, where he had undergone 11 days' medical treatment to repair the injuries caused to his constitution by tbe last sentence of 48 hours' punishment, a repetition of that sentence should not again be imposed without having due regard to tbe probable and serious results' to Alderman Hooper's health. I feel assured, from the past experience of punishment in his case, that punishment diet cannot be awarded Mr. Hooper without injuries to his constitution, which most unquestionably followed his last sentence." Mr. Hooper iB closely confined to his cell, and is deprived of exercise. Very Rev. Dr. M'Alroy saw the prisoners recently.

Irfinterick,— There was a good supply of stock at the Galbally fair, but though buyers were in good attendance, prices were not up to the average. Fat cattle of good condition met with a fair demand, but inferior cattle were in no request. There was a good supply of young cattle, which were disposed of at fair rates.

, Rev. Matthew Ryan, of Herbertstown, who had been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for a speech delivered at Caberconlish in support of the Plan of Campaign, was released from Limerick prison. It was announced that » popular demonstration would take place on. the occasion, and that a presentation would be made to the reverend gentleman. At Limerick Petty Sessions an extraordinary scene took place. Messrs. iMeldon and Bollestone, R.M.s, having entered the court, District-Inspector Jennings announced that three persons charged with assaulting the police wonld be tried under the Crimes Act. The Mayor and Mr. Hall protested against their powers being unwarrantably abrogated, anc' , after much excitement, they ordered the discharge of the prisoners, the command at first being disregarded, but eventually obeyed. The accused were subsequently re -arrested, to be tried under the Crimes Act. The case waß remanded for a week.

Longford* — Recently the Longford Harriers and four huntsmen started to bare a run at the rear of the Carrigdass demesne. All the farmers in the vicinity had put up notices that their lands were poisoned and that trespassers would be prosecuted. Fearing a repetition of the Edgeworthstown opposition a force of 12 policemen and 2 mounted men, under command of District-Inspector Lawless, were present to protect the huntsmen, but as the latter kept on preserved territory no, disturbance took place.

Queen's County.— Lord Matsereene is again at his work Of extermination. This lesser Clanricarde has just iiaued thirty-two processes for non-payment of rent against his tenants.

At Ballinakill fair there was an average supply of stock on show ; demand was brisk, and a considerable number of cattle of every description changed bands. There was, as usual at fairs in this district, a large attendance of buyers. Best beef from 52s to 56s per cwt.

"Weatmeatll.— The important fair of Athlone ("two days) was held aid there was a large supply of stock of all kinds, a good attendance of buyers and dealers, and a considerable amount of active business transacted. Beef ranged from 46s to 58a per cwt,, according to quality, and mutton from 6£d to 7|d per pound .

John P. Hayden, editor of the Westmeath Examine?; was rearretted at Mullingar for a speech made by him at Koncommon since his t release from Tollamore prison. He was conveyed to Athlone.

After his first release a large deputation waited on Mr. Hayden and presented him with a beautifully illuminated address and a pane Containing 200 sovereigns as a mark of the esteem of the people of Weetmeath for Mr. Hayden personally and of appreciation of his services in the National cause. : "Wexford.— The eviction work at Bally kerogne is, it appeals, about to be resumed. Recently »ll the tenants on the Tottenham estate in Ballykerogue and Dunganstown were served with ejectment! (some for the recovery of rent and some for possess on on the title), the matter on behalf of the tenants has been handed over to W. F . i Brown, solicitor, New Boss, and the cases are to be heard in Wexford At the next Sessions.