Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 48, 4 September 1891, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim*— Tbe date for the erection of the monument (o the memory of Timothy Daly, Midleton, who was shot at Castlemartyr on the night of the Fenian rising in 1867, has been fixed by the Daly J^<»uc>rial Committee for the 4th July. The monument is a splendid ▼ jimen of a Celtic cross, and will be put up at Daly's grave at Killeagh within the next week. A split has been created in the Orange ranks in East Belfast over the selection of Mr James Henderson as Tory candidate at tbe next election. At a largely attended meeting in the Grange Hall, Ballymacarrett, resolutions were adopted protesting against " the unconstitutional action of the Executive Committee," and urging Mr G. W. Wolff to contest the division in the event of a vacancy. Clare* — Miss Maggie Hussey, of Bodyke, who was presented in '87. by Mr Davitt, with a gold medal for defending her homestead against the rack-renting landlord of Bodyke, Colonel John O'Callaghan, has left for America to join her brother who emigrated SDme years ago in consequence of his eviction. Miss Hussey's new home will be Pittsburg, and all who knew her and admired her heroic conduct, will wish her health and happinass among her exiled brethren. The attack of County Court Judge Kelly on the late Simon Connell, of Mancea, one of tbe evicted tenants on the Vandeleur estate, who succumbed soon after the treatment he received at his eviction, has created much indignation in West Clare. In reference to the matter a large meeting of Nationalists took place at Kilrusb recently. Mr O'Mara, Francis Stie3t, who presided, condemned the language of the j ad ge in calling Simon Gonnell a desperate rogue, words that did little credit to the dignity of the Bench. Poor Connell only defended bis house. Cork*— A scheme for connecting the Great Southern and Western Railway system with that of the West Cork Railway has been given practical shape. It is proposed to erect bridges over the Lee at two points in a direct line between both railways, at an estimated cost of nearly £200,000. A small guarantee will be asked for. Mr Brockhurst Power, eldest son of the late Dr Maurice Power of Queenstown, formerly M. P. for the County of Cork, died ratber suddenly at his hotel at Qaeenstown recently. Mr Power ouly returned to Queenstown a few months ago, after an absence of seventeen years spent in New Zealand. In his early days the deceased, who was about 55 years ot age, saw a great deal of military service. He was a lieutenant in the Prussian army, which position be resigned for the purpose of taking service in the Federal army during the American civil war. The deceased was in leceipt of a pension from the American Government. William Carroll, an old gentleman, 71 years of age, of Cohoee, N. V., died suddenly at the European Hotel, Queecstown, a few days ago. He had only just landed from the White Star Line steamer Britannic, which arrived from New York, and was on a visit to the native land, after spending 50 years in America, where he amassed a large fortune in the coal trade, and had retired from business for some years. He was a native of Galbally, which place he purposed visiting, primarily to wind up the affairs cf a deceased aunt, a Mrs Lonergan, who died recently in the vicinity of the town of Tipperary, and who was supposed to have left some property. Derry* — The Marquis of Londonderry was sued recently for County Cess due on tbe Government rifle range at Comber road, Newtownards, of which he is landlord ; a decree was given. The Magherafelt Board of Guardians may congratulate themselves on their bigotry, as evidenced by their refusal to admit the nuns of the Magherafelt Convent to administer religious instruction to tbe Catholic inmates of the workhouse. A few evenings ago two prisoners from Gweedore arrived in Derry under escort of Sergeant Ruddy and Constable Coulter, and were lodged in tbe gaol to undergo imprisonment for two months. Manus Ferry and Patrick Hurley, the prisoners, had been tried and sentenced in their absence, bo far back as November, 1885, by Messrs Beresford and Mercer, X.M's, for intimidating a summons server. They had been out of the country until recently, and when they returned wera arrested on the warrants that had been issued against them over five years ago. Donegal.— Rev. Fathers Stephens and Walker are in Scotland collecting funds for the erection of tbe new Cathedral in Letterkenny. They have been eminently successful in the good work, mcc ng with a generous response to their appeals from tbe open hearted, patriotic, exiled Donegal men. 1 A few evenings since the inhabitants of the quiet little town of Mountcb&rles, were a little surprised at seeing the police marching to their sta r »n, with a new still ; staves and hoops of barrels on their shoulders. The sight was something new, as nothing of the sort was seen for a length of time. Sergeant Lyons, with Constable Cain and Morriss, of the Mountcharles station, left their barrack at an early

hoar on a still hnnting expedition to the mountains of Memnshbeir, or as the place is better known as the grey mare's tail, the wild grandeur of whose Ecenery cannot be surpassed in Ireland. The place is chosen as the most secluded spot the smuggler can carry on his risky trade. After searching fur some time the party discovered a Dew still sank in a lake with abcut two feet of water over it. After dragging it out the party continued the search still farther up the mountain, and were rewarded by finding close to a stream of water a skilfully concealed still house, in which was a large keeve or barrel containing about forty gallons of wash in process of fermentation. The fire was burning on the hearth, and everything appeared in readiness to run it through into the real mountain dew. The police spilled the wash, broke the barrels, and knocked down tba still house. Dublin*— The report of the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries for last year waa presented to Parliament on Friday night. The return shows that during 1890 the vessels and boatp decreased by 112, whilst ■ the number of men engaged in the fisheries was augmented by 547. According to the return of the Irish Land Commissioners, the number of loans applied for under the Land Purchase Acts up to the 3rd April, 1891, was 26,057, the amount of money applied for being £10,113,554. Tbe number of loans applied for in the month of May this year was 551, and the amouat £190,372. The number of loam sanctioned to the end of April waa 20,414, tbe amount being £8,269,126. The number sanctioned in May was 348, and the amount £111,483. Tbe loans issued up to the end of May amounted to £670,000. Fermanagh.- The Lancashire Regiment of Regulars and the Enniskillen Fusilier Militia have come in contact at Enniskillen, with the result that several people were injured on both sides. The Irish militia corps, however, had the best of the row, They smashed up tbe police, and went for tbe Lancashire Regiment with an amount cf fury almost incredible. Id various public houses which they invaded on the look out for the regulars, rows occurred, and the militia pelted their opponents out iato tbe street. Bayonets were used by the Constabulary parties, and several of the militia were stabbed. The populace sided with the Irishmen. Civilians, women , and even children, took part in the battle, and the row was only quelled by an armed company under the command of Lieutenant Bloomfield. CJalway.— A Gal way correspondent states that during tbe progress of relief works in the North Island of Arran the workmen engaged in excavating found, some days ago, a large number of human skeletons, most of them being in a good state of preservation, and around the necks of some of 'hem silver and copper chains of elaborate workmanship. Kerry*— A shark, thirteen feet long and of a dangerous specie!, has been captured in Tralee Bay. Canon Brosnsn appeals for help to complete the O'Connell Memorial Church, Cahirciveen. He has three-fourths of the building completed, but wants £6,000 to nnish it. £15,000 has been expended on the work. Of this, the general public in Ireland subscribed only £1,100. The rest almost all came from Ireland abroad. He now appeals to Ireland at home. Sub-Commissioners Doyle, Armstrong, and Magill have delivered at Caherciveou their decisions on fair rent applications from the Kenmare estate, held early in tha year. Seventy-three tenants applied, wbose renta's in the aggregate amoantel to £1,964 18s 6i, and in every case a reduction was granted. Tha total of the new rents is £1,462 15s, or £500 less than before revision. Litnerick. — The rent dispute on the Trench estate, West Limerick, which has been going on siaco 1885, has at length been brought to a termination The basis of the settlement is that the tenants are to purchase their holdinga at sixteen years' rental on the poor-law valuation, all arrears being cancelled, and the tenants who had been evicted, to the number of about ten, being reinstated on tbe same terms as the rest cf the tenantry. Tbe tenants on the estate of the late Colonel White, County Limerick, are negotiating fur the purchase of their holdinga. They have offered fourteen yeart' rental on the poor-law valuatior, hut the terms have not yet been finally agreed upon. The tenantry have made the reinstatement of some evicted tenants a sine qua non. L,OUtn. — An extraordinary occurrence took place recently at the house of a farmer named James ML'Ateer, at Annies, about a mile from Kilcurry. M'Ateer's son, a young mau of twenty-seven years, went to Dundalk races, and returned at eleven o'clock p.m. The young man went down to the room where his father was asleep to look fora light, and in a few minutes Mrs M'Ateer, who bad remained in the kitchen, heard shots fired in the husband's room. On entering the room she found that tbe father had shot the son in the arm and thigh. It is considered possible that, awakened at an unusual hour, and finding some one moving in the daik room, M'Ateer may have mistaken his son for a housebreaker and fired at him in consequence. He has been arrested. Xipperary.— The return of Sir John and Lady Carden to Templemore Abbey, after their honeymoon spent in the East, haa been the occasion of great festivity and rejoicing. An enthusiastic

reception at the railway station, the road leading to the Abbey ■panned with triumphal arches and decorations, fireworks and illuminations in the evening were the prelude to a banquet and ball on the following day given by Sir John to his tenantry, at the former of which four hundred and at the latter six hundred guests were present. Ihe banquet was succeeded by the presentation, after a speech by Canon Meagher on behalf of the tenantry, of a handsome piece of plate. It ia pleasing to have to record the cordial relations subsisting o>etween an Irish landlord and his tenants— relations which, in the - JBe of the Cardtn family, have existed for many generations. On Friday, in the Four Courts, the action of Mr Smith-Barry, M.P., against the Town Clerk of Tipperary and others, principally Town Commissioners, was concluded before the Vice-Chancellor. The action was brought for a declaration that the plaintiff was entitled to the excltmive right of holding faire and markets in and for the town of Tipperary. The Vice-Chancelloj gave judgment for the plaintiff, declaring his right to the fairs, markets, and tolls of Tipperary under the patents of 1610, 1666, and 1853, and the tolls •nd customs arising therefrom, and also to the markets in and adjacent to Tipperary under the patents of 1610 and 1666, and to the tolls and customs arising therefrom. His lordship also granted a perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants from interfering with Mr Smith-Barry's rights, and directed an inquiry as to damage with costs of the action, and of all interlocutory proceedings. Tyrone.— Martha Henderson is said to be the oldest inhabitant in Strabane, and there are not many who will contradict her on her own experience, as she claims to have reachad the remarkable age of 107 years. The old lady is still quite hearty, and moves about with wonderful agility, her only complaint being defective bearing. Mrs Henderson was married at the age of thirty, and has two sons ■arriving of a family of six. One of these is in Australia, and the other, with whom his mother lived, resides near Strabane. Mrs Henderson '8 husband was a soldier, but died many years ago. During the past week a pair of sea eagles or ospreys have been observed on various lakes in East Tyrone. This is a most remarkable occurrence, and the first recorded instance of ospreys having been seen in the district, which is more than 80 miles at any point from the sea coast, the natural habitat of the osprey. Bare birds are becoming more numerous in Tyrone, and many kinds of aquatic game — divers, mergansers, sheldrakes, etc.— which were supposed to have left the country where they were once numerous, are reappearing, notably around the western shores of Lough Neagh, remote from town and villages.