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Irish News.

Antrim. — Owing to the severe weather the potato crop in the Antrim district is in a very backward condition. Wheat looks well. Upland hay is behind its condition in former seasons, and meadow ha y is somewhat better. Thare is a pretty large yield of flax. Turnips will not be a good crop unless we got Borne warm weather.

Armagh. — The crops have been seriously affected by the late heavy rams. Hay, which promised well in the early part of the Beason, is almost loßt. At tbe Armagh grass se< d market, which usually opens on the first Wednesday in August, there were only a few bags in one cart offered for sale. Flax, of which there was but a limited quantity sown, is short, and gives but poor promise, both as to quantity and quality. Potatoes are very plentiful in the Armagh district, but in quality they are very soft and watery, and if the rain continues great fears are entertained of their becoming an entire failure. Turnips are backward, but fruit and garden crops of all kinds have quite a healthy appearance. If the weather improves the damage done will scarcely be felt, but if the rain continues disastrous effects are anticipated.

Carlow.— The regular monthly meeting of the Bathvilly I.N.L. was held on August 19. Rev. P. Phelan presided, and the following resolution was passed : — That we strongly condemn the action of any person working for, or having any dealings with, land-grabbers or exterminators, as it is a practice gettiig rather too frequent in this district, and we call on all members to have no further dealings with those parties.

The late rain has left the crops in the whole of the County in a pitiable condition. The barley crop is, in many places, far from being ripe, and where it was slowly ripening the recent rains have broken down the stiaw, thereby injuring the grain. Turnips and potatoes look middling, but otherwise what promised to be a most bountiful harvest, will certainly if the weather does not immediately and permanently improve, become a most disastrous one.

Caran. — The regular meeting of Sherlock I.N.L. was held on August 19, Key. Charles Collins presiding. The following resolution waa adopted : — That we admire the heroic conduct displayed by evicted tenants during the recent eviction campaign, and especially congratulate Thomas Homers on having defeated the battering-ram at New Robs. James Trainor is secretary of this branch.

There was a large meeting of the Killeshandra branch of the League on August 13. Philip Reilly presided, and the following resolution was adopted : — That we tender the Vandelenr evicted tenants our sympathy, and suggest that they should present Mr. Balfonr with a battering-ram as a token of their gratitude for the deep interest he has taken in their welfare.

On August ]9, tbe most important match ever played by Ulstermen came off at Drogheda. This match waa betwe?n the Mac Fins ( f Cavan, and the flratlans of Monaghan for tbe championship of Ulster. Tbe Grattans turned up at DrogbeJa wiih only fifteen players, the Mac Fins having 21. The McFios protested against this, but sooner than return home, tackled their opponents with an equal number. The match was well contested all through, and resulted in a draw, the score being 2 points on each siJe. The weather was most unfavourable and the attendance large. P. J. Cox, Dublin, acted as referee, aud J. J. Callan as field manager.

Clare — Coroner Sexton held an inquest at Moyarta, Kilrusb, on the body of Bride McGratb, aged 60, who waß iccently evicted on the Tandaleur eptate. After listening to the depositions of several witnesses and the medical report of Dr. Hickey, Kilkee, the jury returned a verdict that Mrs. MacGrath died from excitement produced by the eviction. How many thousands of Irish deaths may be traced to the came cause ?

The crops in the Ennis district are very promising. Hay has been cut and saved. S >me of it, however, suffered from the recent rains in the low-lying districts. Potatoes are yet soft from tbe rainfall. Corn a good yield, and wheat and barley looking well and nearly ripened. Turnips are growing well. The praes on the limestone crsgs is very lengthy and promises well. On the whole the crops are superior to last year's yield, and a gord spell of dry weather is all that ib required to make the harvest a puccessful one.

Three Miltown-Malbay shopkeepers. William Hynes, Patrick Collins, and Thaddeus Flanagan, undergoing a Coercion Act sentence of six months' imprisonment in Limerick Gaol for refusing to supply goods to bovcitted land -robbers, were efferert their discharge on condition of abstaining frnm similar proceedings in future. The prisoners indignantly refused to sign any such agreement, electing to undergo tbe full term of their sentence rather th"vn do bo. This is the second or third unavailing attempt made by the Government to fee Miltown men to put thur signatures to such papers.

Cork* — The eviction cf a poor man 85 years of age occurred at Watergrassbill recently. The landlord is Maiy Dunworth, a near relative of the evicted man, Daniel Murphy, who has been living on 2s a week out-door relief. The Sheriff's bailiff, Harding, accompanied by &posse of police, attacked hia cabin and burst open the door, the old man bt ing in be 1 for some dayp. They dragged him from his bed, broke hie little furniture, and cast him out into the stieet in a dying condition, lie was so weak that Father texton thought it light to piepare him for death. In connection with the report made to the House cf Commons regarding the Mitchelstown massacre by Wellington Colomb, Assistant lnspectoi -General of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Preeideut of the late Departmental Inquiry, H. J. Wilson, M.P. for Holmßford Division of Yorkshire, visited this town recently and made an inspection of the police barrack and the tcene of the massacre. The Inspector's report &tated that Lonergan must have been killed by a licoctet shot, and that it was impossible to discharge a rifle from aDy of the police-bairack windows without ricocheting part of the

Market Square. Mr. Wilson placed a policeman on the marked spot where Lonergan fell and found it was quite within the line of tire from the barrack. From the window of the police barracks he wu able to take a photograph of the policeman on the Square. Mr. Wilson then placed a man in the barrack window And retired to tbe Square, and again found that the man who fell was within the line of fire and could not have been killed by a ricochet shot. The DistrictInspector at Mitcbelstown, in bis own report to the House of Commons, stated : " 1 examined tbe scene and find it is not possible to see a man on the spot where Lonergan fell from tbe barrack window without putting your head through the window." It will be remembered that Constable Doraa ewore that be and the other policemen leant their bodies ont of the window ; that he fired at a man (Lonergan) on the Square, and saw him fall immedia'ely. With reference to the statements in the report that it was most likely that Shinnick and Casey were killed by the licochet shoti, Mr. Wilton, on consulting the medical evidence given at the inquiry, found that these men were struck direct in the forehead with buckshot, which could not, therefore, be) ricochet shots. Mr. Wilson intends to biingihe matter before Parliament. In his inspection he was assisted by James G. Skinner.

Derry.— The Derry Orangemen celebrated the 60-called " Relief of £>erry " ia their usual absurd style. The whole performance passed off quietly as the Catholic population wisely ignored the fanatics' provocations.

The people of the Derry district expected a favourable harvest, but the weather is proving disastrous. Hay has suffered severely, and the reports of the potato crop are not reassuring. Copious rama with accompaning chills are frequent and irreparable damage has beeu done.

J. McGlinchy, J.P., Gleneely, who recently visited Rev. James McFadden in Derry Gaol, reporte him ac being very pale and careworn. Besides his horrible prison experiences, of which he is forbidden to speak. Father McPadden loadly complaini of the composition of the Gaol-visiting Committee, which is composed entirely of non- Catholic?, and in whom he has no confidence.

Donegal.- J. G, Swift McNeill, M.P. for South Donegal, in a letter to the London Daily News, contrasts the treatment of John Mitchel on the convict ship, the Scourge, in 1848, with that of John Mandeville in Tullamore prison in 1888. Mitchel, he says, was entirely secluded from tbe criminals and ordered to be treated " as a man of education and a gentleman." What a difference between then and now 1

The largest seizure of illicit materials made in Northern Donegal for the past twelve years was effected by the Barneßmore police the other day beside the lake at Clobber. Sergeant Gillespie and two policemen were not long at Ciogher when they found a still, stillhead and worm, and, after a further search, discovered sixty gallons of "wash" and three gallons of spirits, which they carried to the barrack.

The wet July and August have left a disastrous mark on a large aie% of meadow lands in \he Lifford district. Oats, which is much cultivated, is a gcod average crop in both 6traw and ear. It will be remunerative should there be favourable weather. Hay is an excellent crop, with an average quanti'y of seed, but the weather has been so wet during the cutting season that it had to b^ extended a month longer than usu il. Potatoes look remarkably well. A large quantity ha 3 been grown and there is no appearance of disease. Pasture land is everything that could be desued, and on the whole things look fair for the farmer.

Down* — The Nationalists of Newry have lodged 300 claims for tbe approaching revision, and 100 objections to Unionibts. The Na ionalifcts confidertly hope to have a majority of 800 at tbe close of the revisioJ. The oiganising of the Nationalist forces has been principally due to Father McPolin and James Smyth, honoraiy secretaly of the Newry National League.

In the vicinity cf Newtownards spring-sowed wheat promises well and with a spell of fine weather the yield will be considerably above the average. 'I he recent rains have had a very injurious tffect on the flax crop. Notwithstanding this there is t'-e prospect of a goo 4 crop. There were slight signs of the potato disease in trie n< ighboarhood ci Newtownards and Comber in the eatlv part of August owinr to the long spell of unfavourable weather, but it is not spreading. Mangolds and turnips have not been in so good a condition for many years. Hay ij a Urge crop, but it was considerably injured by the late rain.

Fermanagh* —The evictions on the Fermanagh estate of Hugh De F. Montgomery, at a place called R 89, four miles from Derrygonnelly, have been finished. None of the evicted tenan's were reinstated pave <r e family. A force of constabulary under the command of District Inspector P. G. PLmt were present on duty, but their services weie not required, though great excitement was engendered by the evictions.

Mrs. Hadden, the poor widow who was evicted over four yeais ago at Aughnashalvey, near Roßslea, has been reinstated in her holding. The land has been lying idle since. Before her eviction Mrs. Madden was obliged to pay £24 lUsfor 14 acres of only medium land. Now, through the able struggle for justice of the Rosslea f.N.L., she has only to pay £14 10s per year. Union is indeed stiength.

Galway. — Henry Mathews, ex-Home Ruler and present English Home Secretary, is spending the ,eces«at Clyda<*h Lodge, on Ihe shore of Lough Corrib. Doesn't Mathews contradict bis iwn lying statements about the safety of life and property in Ireland b/ takin? up his abode ia the country even for a brief period 1

The potato crop in the Glifdeu District is reiaaikably good, and the return will probably bean good as it was last jear. Potatoes were selling at the market at 3d per stone. In the vicinity of Ouahtarard the potato crop is exceptionally good, and the return promif-fg to be plentiful. The oat crop loots toleiably well so far, but the harvest in this humid district being 60 late it is hard to s*y how it will turnout, The yield of hay thiß seaßon far exceeds that of tb,e.

previous couple of years. There are no other crops grown in this wild and barren district, except an occasional plot of mangolds and Swedish turnips, and a stray field of rye or barley, all of which contrast favourably with previous year?. It is reported at Gort that Constable* Hickey, who was doing " c ? u . ty "at a protection hut on an evicted farm at Kilien, committed suicide by shooting himself wth his rifle. No cause is assigned for the terrible act. The deceased policeman was stationed fnr several months in the hut. He was a native of Quin, County Clare, and about 28 years of age.

A sudden death occurred at the village of Tnlly, twelve miles from Clifden, on August 19. A pan y of police from the adjoining stations were present at Macs, and whilst Divine Service was going on Sergeant John Bourke, one of their number, dropped suddenly dead. It is etrarjge so many cases of sudden death and suicide don't drive the majority of policemen out of that infamous force. TSZ- Kerry.— The recent bad weather has injured, though not to a ▼cry serious extent, tbe potato crop in the neighbourhood of Tralee. Already the blight is noticeable in many quarters. A few weeks of really fine weather would, however, produce very beneficial results as regards this crop. The hay crop this year is very luxuriant— in fact the produce of one acre is equivalent to the produce of two acres last year. A continuance of bad weather would, however, do serious injury to the crop, as in several places it hhoa o not been cut down yet. The root and grain ciops are doing very well, and should the weather prove in arjy way favourable will yield a rich retnrn.

Kildare.— Patrick O'Brien, M.P., was visited in Kilkenny Gaol by Mayor Egan, Father Halloran, Father Humphrey, and Mr. Morris, J.P. He has been deprived of light in his cell after 8 p.m., and bis health has greatly suffered from this cause. Balfour's Prison Board has refused to change this rule.

King's County.— The prospects of the harvest in the locality of Banagher are rather gloomy. Up to this the hopes of the farmers were of the most sanguine character, but the torrents of rain which fell lately have placed them now at zero. Barley and oats are flat on the ground. The blight has fallen on the potato crop, and as this crop ie generally sown around these parts in the latter end of April and the beginning of May tbe tubers will suffer ia coming to maturity and doubtless be rotten in the centre this year as they were last. Early potatoes are beginning to blacken already. The hay crop is abundant.

Leitrim.— The Glenfarne Hall 1.N.L., met recently under the presidency of Rev. Patrick McGauran. This was one of the resolutions passed .-—That we condemn in tbe strongest possible terms the barbarous sentence irflicted by Balfour through his pets, Turner and Henn, on Mayor McHugh of Sligo, and we are confident his persecution will have no other effect than to raise him in the estimation of evciy true Irishman.

James Kelly presided at thejrecent meeting of Carrick-on-BhaDnon I.N.L. The following resolution was passed by acclamation — Resolved, That the members of this branch express their indignation at the savage sentence inflicted by tbe Castle Removables at Boyle on J. J. (J Kelly. M.P.. and we congratulate the honorable Member on the addition of another laurel to the many he has already won in defence of popular liberty.

There was a terrible melee between George Hewson's emergdncymen on an evicted farm at Dowra, near Drumkeeran. One of them named Bob Morns, who lately arrived from Dublin, fired several revolver shots at his companions, wounding one of their number, Tommy Trowers. He pursued tbe others to Drumahaire, where he was arrested and Bent back to Dublin. The injured were returned to Dowra at double wages and with police protection.

I^OllgTord. — There was a large meeting of Drumhsh I.N.L. on August 19. Francis Farrell piesided. The following resolution wasadoptei. — That we bail with delight the gallant stand of the men of New Ross, and we commend the conduct of bravo Tom Somers as an example to our evicted countrymen.

I,OUth.— The late meeting of Monasteries I.N.L. was held at Tenure under the presidency of Rev. Henry McKee. John Mullen proposed and John Commons seconded the following resolution : — That we renew our indignant protest against the outrageous treatment of John Dillon by the Tory Government in punishing him as a malefactor for thp use of language at Tullyallen which would be perfectly permissible if used in any part of Great Britain, and is not punishable even in Ireland under the ordinary law.

Mayo. — Several evictions are announced to take place shortly in this landlord-ridden County. The land-thieves who have served. tbe eviction notices are — Major Pike, 150 ejectment notices in Achill ' Lord Oranmore, 15 ; Lord Sligo, 67 ; Hans Biowne, 11; J. T. Tighe, 6.

In tbe vicinity of Balla the champion potatoes are free from blight except in close or low lands. Early potatoes are larger than usual, but are very wet, and a great deal of blight seems to have affected them. The oat crop in some localities also seems to be affected witu blight. Wheat is not much cultivated in this district, but what has been town is looking well and is rapidly ripening. The turnip crop is fair in new grounds. Mangolds and other kinds of root crops present a good appearance and give early promise of being good. The hay crop is abundatit.

Meatht— The recent heavy rainfalls have done incalculable damage to all kinds of crops throughout this Couniy. In the neighbourhood of Trim and Athboy, a large portion of old meadow hay is badly injured, whilst the cats and wheat are beaten to the ground. The potato crop is showing manifest signs of diso\se. In the neighbourhood of Kells and in the lower parts of Meath things are still worse. Nearly half the hay crop is irretrievably lost. The oat crop ia levelled to the ground, and the haivest prospects all round are exceedingly gloomy, Tbe farmers are very disspirited and the landlords have a poor chance of getting their rack-rents.

Monaghan.-Bev, L. \V Gaughran presided at tbe recent meeting of Donaghaoyne I.N.L. A iesolution of sympathy

with Mrs. Nagle was passed on the death of her patriotic husband, the late J. W. N&gle, solicitor, Castleblayney. The case of Peter Kelly and Peter Callan was laid ov«r until the Killarney Branch had acted on it. The branch resolved to establish a new limekiln in which they intend to employ Michael Traynor, who w*s lately dismissed without cause by the land-robber, Lord B&th.

Queen's County*— Exterminator Lansdowne has made another vindictive movn against Daniel Whalen of Luggacurran. A large number of Mr. Whalen's cattle were seized at Barrow House Athy, but Denis Kilbride, M.P., has succeeded in effecting a truce for the present.

Henry Odium, auctioneer, Mountmellick, proceeded to the farm of Arthur Burn, at Clonterry, aDd attempted to sell the cattle and crops. When the auctioneer arrived on the scene of action be found the farm deserted, as Mr. Byrne's hard fate had evoked general sympathy in the neighbourhood.

RoSCOmmon. — James Lindsay presided at the recent meet ng of the Boyle I.N.L. The suggestion of J. P. Cox, M.P., that a collection be taken up by all the branches in order to present a testimonial to James J. O'Kelly on his release was adopted. The branch has agreed to attend the coming convention at Elphin.

Slif£O. — Patrick Devaney presided at the last meetiug of the St. John's (Sligo) branch of the League. The following resolution was passed : — That we thoroughly approve of the action of Mr, Parnell against the London Times, the great enemy of justice to Ireland.

The potatoes have been already attacked by the blight both in North and South Sligo. The quality supplied to the markets are much inferior to the supplies ot the last three or four year?. The corn crop this year will be a fair one, but bDth wheat and oats have been injuriously affected by the late rain. Turnips have been on the whole favoured by the wet. The low lying districts of meadow land have been utterly ruined by the rain.

Tipperary. — His Eminence Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, celebrated Mass in tbb Ursuline Convent. Thurlcs, on August 17. Later in the day, accompanied by Archbishop Croke, he drove to Cashel, where he was met by Dean Kinane. They visited the famous Rock, and the beautiful old pile was warmly admired by the Cardinal, who is an ardent archfeologist. H's Eminence and party subsequently visited the ruins of flolycross Abbey.

Tyrone.— The prospects of the approaching harvest are not so gloomy in the Draperstown district as they were s»tne days ago. All the crops are from four to five weeks later than last year. Hay has been an abundant crop, far above the average, and has been saved in this district fairly well, The acreaga under flax in tnis distiict exceeds that of last year by about one-fourth, and the crop, which is much heavier, presents the appearance of a good yield, but it is late. The potato crop will fall below the average, and probably not equal half the yield of last year. At this time last year the latest eons were fit for digging. The dreaded blight ha 9 already set in, and the stalks are decaying fast. Except good weather sets in potatoes will be a failure. The turnip crop, .though injured by the rain, will give an average yield. There is little wheat, bat what there is looks well, though late. Mangolds are fair.

Sheriff McGonagle, from Derry, returned to the scene of the evictions on the Drapers' estate, near Draperatown, August 18. The evicting army marched through the village of Desertmartin. to [the residence of Andrew Mallon, of Cullion. A considerable number of persons had gathered around the house, bat were soon removed to a respectable distance by the police, who then surrounded the house. In an inverview with the tenant, Sir William Conyngham consented to accept half the amount of the decree, £10 9a 3d. This sum the tenant paid. Shortly after this Sir William told the Sheriff and police they might now go home. The party then marched back to Desertmartin and hastened on to Maghcrafclt, where they took the train for Derry. Thus ends the first series of evictions on Drapers' estate for the present, but only to be resumed on^a large scale in less than two months.

"Water ford.— A crowded meeting of Newtown I.N.L. wa3 held on August ID. D Gleeeon was chairman. L. Power said he would like to bring under the notice of the meeting an account of the gallant defence which was made against the crowbar brigade near New Ross. It was the first time, he believed, that the battering-ram proved itself worthless ;n; n front of the stern resistance which it met with ; and never since the commencement of the agitation were the forces of the Crown so ignominiously routed as they were by the men of gallant Wexford at Coolroe. (Hear, hear.) H.Jackson proposed and Drohan seconded the following resolution :— That we tender to the gallant defenders of Somers's house, at Ooolroe, our heartiest congratulation for the successful manner in which they withstood the combined attacks of the police and crowbar brigade for the saka ol btnking an effective blow against landlord oppression.

Wexford. — Rev. Henry Cleary of Monageer and Professor in St. Peter's College, Wexford, has gone to Australia for the benefit of his health.

'Wicklow* — The Nationalists of Arklow and vicinity held an indignation meeting in the square opposite the parochial house to protest against the recent evictions on tbe Carysfort and O'Connor estates. Contingents from dstletown, Johnstown, and Coolgreany were present in large numbers and were addressed by Daniel Crilly, M. P., and Father Dunphy. The greatest enthusiasm attended the proceedings. The River Chapel Band was present and played NatioQal aire.

His Grace the Archdishopof St. Louis haß celebrated his eightythird anniversary. His Gr.ice is in excellent health, and expressed great pleasure at meeting bo many of his priestß on the happy occasion.

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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 16 November 1888, Page 9

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Irish News. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 16 November 1888, Page 9

Irish News. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 16 November 1888, Page 9