Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 49, 11 September 1891, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim*— lt is not generally known that before going to England, Sir Charles Rupaell practised as a solicitor in the Belfast •police Court, where he first won his spurs as an advocate, while yet \ very young man. Mr George Lewis, solicitor, pays him £10,000 a year for the right of first call on his services. Car low.— As a result of the examinations held last April at the Loretto Convent, Dalkey, Co Dublin, Miss Mary Doyle, of Oarlow Graigue, was a successful candidate, having been awarded by the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, three certificates for the harp, piano and harmony. Clare* — A burglary of 8 daring description was committed on Friday night at Bal'yline House, Ennis, the residence of Mrs Butler, which was broken into between nine and ten o'clock, and a magnificent piece of plate, the County Clare Gold Cup, one of the oldest racing trophies in Ireland, value for £300, carried away. Cork*— The Cork Harbour Board, at a special meeting last week, passed a resolution , with one dissentient, hostile to the proposed link line connecting the Great Southern and Western Railway with the Cork and Bandon Railway system, on the ground that only one out of five lines converging upon Cork would be benefited ; that it proposes to interfere with 4,600 feet of valuable quayage, with the alternative route to Dublin, and a new route to the Eastern counties ; and would alßo interfere with the navigation of the river. A woman named Anne Gleeson, a returned emigrant, belonging to Thurles, was charged at the Queenstown Police Court a few days ago with attempting to smuggle two pints of foreign manufactured spirits. She was fined the value of the spirits, the duty, and costs. At a meeting of Cork Federation branches a fnnd was opened to indemnify the Cork Herald for the costs incurred in the Campbell libel action. Five intermediate papsengers who arrived in Queenstown by the City of Paris were fined heavily at the police court for attempting to smuggle tobacco. At the meeting of the Dungarvan Town Commissioners, a motion to rescind the resolution changing the name of " Parnell street " to " Main street " was defeated by 8 votes to 5. Derry. — Recently a disastrous collision took place on the Lough Swilly Railway about two miles from Londonderry. A reversed engine was hurrying back to Derry some carriages which had conveyed holiday makers, when it passed at a siding on the single line a special train conveying a portion of the Donegal Militia, and then proceeded ahead. It happened, towever, that the first special did not suffice to carry all the militia, and a second special train was soon encountered. The driver and fireman of the empty train were killed. The driver and fireman of the other jamped off in time. The lnggage in front of the militia train broke the force of the concussion and saved many lives ; but numbers of wounded militiamen were cariied to the hospital. Donegal*— Centenarians, or people bordering upon extremely advanced ages, seem to have been numerous in Donegal daring the first three months of the present year, as several paid the debt of nature towards the close of that period. The District Registrar for Crossroads writes :— " The deaths include several of advanced ages, one 100 years. The informant (an old woman) knew deceased for many years, and often heard her speak of her age, which may be correct. A woman aged 110 was also well known in the country ; her daughter gave testimony as to her age, being herself over 70 years. One registered over 90 years, three 80, two 70, one 72, one 66, one 65, and five 60." The Registrar for Gloghan , Stranorlar, says : " There were registered the deaths of two people at the age of 90 years, one at 91, and one at 105 years." Down.- With the object of setting at rest the controversy regarding the population of Lisburn, a communication was forwarded to the Census Office, Dublin, by the town clerk (Mr Richard Young), and a reply has been received which contains a correction of the mistake made in the preliminary report which appeared in the daily papers, and which showed the population of Lisburn as having decreased. The following are now the correct figures : — Population in 1891, Country Antrim, 9,517 ; County Down, 2,732 ; total, 12,249. Inhabited houses— County Antrim, 1,785 ; County Down, 525 ; total 2,310. The population in 1881 was 10,753, and the number of inhabited houses in 1881 was 1,789. The error, it is evident, occurred from the fact that the County Down portion of the town was . committed. 9 Dublin* — A handsome recreation ground haß been opened in Dublin by the Lord Mayor on the north side of the city. It is at the head of Blessington street, on the way to the Phoenix Paik, and will, doubtlesß, prove a boon to residents in the neighbourhood, which is becoming more populous every day, Kingstown baa been selected as the base of operations of the

toipedo fleet during the naval manoeuvres. The flotilla of torpedo boats will be more numerous than on any former occasion, several first-class gunboat 3of the most advanced type being also attached to the Channel Squadron during its visit on July 20. The details of the torpedo experiments will be carried out under the superintendence of Rear-Admiral J. A. Erskine. Holyhead, Kingstown, and Limerick will be defended against the torpedo fleet. Notice has been given in the Dublin Gazette by the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper of the issue of the writ for the election of a representative temporal peer in the House of Lords in succession to the lite Earl of Clonmel. The Dublin Gazette last week contained a schedule of thirtyfour purchases under the Ash bourne Act, ten being on the estate of Thomas L. Carroll, County Limerick, the total advances amounting to £8,752 ; and twenty-four on that of R. C. A. Beatty, in County Wexford, the total advances amounting to £14,428. At a largely- attended Nationalist meeting held at Ratbmines on Wednesday night, which was addressed by Mr T. A. Dickson, M.P,, a resolution »as passed calling on the Irish people at home ard abroad to oppose Mr Parnell, as " the un-Ohristian performance at the Steyning Registry Office " had given another proof of his unfitness to lead the Irish Parliamentary Party, and rendered it impossible that he could ever again unite the people. Kildare* — The beautiful College Chapel of Maynooth was recently dedicated with great pomp in the presence of priests from every parish in Ireland. The ceremonial began at six o'clock, and at eleven High Mass was celebrated, his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin presiding. The sermon was preached by Bishop Healy, and in it his Lordship gave a history of the Catholic Church in Ireland. There were four Archbishops present, and the Irish hierarchy with very few exceptions. The Ichurch looked magnificent when the priests and bishops took their places, and the scene was in every way a striking and memorable one. A special train conveyed the clergy from Dublin, and many of the bishops and prießts from remote districts arrived the |day before. A meeting of the bishops took place after the ceremonies. King's County*— Last week a man named Fitzpatrick, supposed to be insane, entered the Catholic Church at Birr, and, getting inside the altar rails, commenced to smash everything within reach He was seized by a gentleman named Dunne, and after a desperate struggle Fitzpatrick rushed out of the church and jumped into the river near by, where he was rescued by two constables. He was afterwards taken before the magistrates and remanded. Tipperary*— The stock-in-trade of Mr Tobias English, draper, William O'Brien street, Tipperary, which was seized under a district warrant for £250, the amount of Mr English's liability as surety for Mr John Dillon, M.P., was sold a few days ago by th police. The sale was attended by a considerable number of the people of the town. Head-constable Daunt acted as auctioneer, and formally offered the stock for sale. Mr Tobias English in the first offer bid and paid the fall amount, £250, and the matter was brought to an end. John Cullinane has left Tullamore gaol after having satisfied the full term of bis sentence, and being compelled to remain Borne days in excess of that term in the prison hospital suffering from typhoid fever. On leaving Tullamore the governor tendered Mr Cullinane a third-class ticket for Tipperary, which he promptly refused, denouncing it as one of the pettifogging attempts frequently made to annoy and degrade political prisoners. He complains that hs had recently found the prison regulations extremely irksome, but is in capital spirits since his release. Mr Cullinane is the guest of Dr Moorhead, J.P., and expects to improve rapidly under the care of his genial host. Lately a large force of police, in charge of Colonel Caddell, and accompanied by Mr Arnold Power, Sub Sheriff, Tipperary, with a number of bailiffs, visited the lands oE Ballykisteen, where several of the Smith Barry evicted tenants are located, and seized eighty head of cattle for arrears of rent and costs. Affidavits denying the ownerBhip of the cattle having been prepared by Mr Barry, solicitor, on behalf of the tenant they were redeemed, except two cows, the property of Mr John McCarthy, and a bull belonging to Mr John Bourke which were seized under a distraint warrant in satisfaction of the amount of Mr William O'Brien, M.P's., recognisances. Tyrone*— The pnrchase of the Tyrone coalfields, Dungannon, has, it is stated, been completed by a very strong Scotch Company, who have bought the interest of Mr Thos. A. Dickson, M.P., and James Brown, J.P., in the Drumolass and Congo Collieries, which were closed for some time, and employed Beveral hundred hands. The sinking of pits will commence at once at Congo. An excursion party from Dungannon, while enjoying a sail recently on Lough Neagh at Washing Bay, which is situated on the Tyrone Bide, had a very narrow escape from drowning. It appears that the party, to the number of twelve, obtained a boat and set out for a sail. They had not proceeded far when a fierce wind began to blow. Sergeant McOaw and Constables Doherty and Reilly, of Washing Bay Station, seeing the grave danger in which they were

situated, immediately procured a b mt and set out for their assistance and arrived just as the boar struck on a sand bank, being now beyond control of those within. They were ultimately rescued from their perilous position by the constables. Disturbances of a party character were reported last week from Donaghmore and Stewarts'.own, county Tyrone. At both places Orange diumming parties, which paraded the streets in connection rr v h the Ist of July celebrations, came into collision with Catholic lidentß, resulting in a number of fierce stone-throwing encounters. Several persons were slightly injured, but the police dispersed the crowds before anything serious happened. "Waterford.— lt is understood that the will of the Right Rev. Dr. Egan.late Bishop of Waterford, is substantially to the following effect : " After paying my funeral expenses my executors shall distribute any sum remaining, if there should be such, in charity." At Waterford lately Mr George Water Q.C.. County Court Judge, was presented with white gloves, as there was no criminal case to go before the Grand Jury. "Wexford. — An eviction campaign has been begun on the estate of Lord Ely, county Wexford. Three tenants have been evicted— Patrick Power, of Ralph, uear the village of Fethurd ; Thomas Folej, of Fethard Woo ', and a-j old widow named Mary Grace. During the progress of the first eviction some angry s words were exchanged between the tenant and the agent, resulting in a personal encounter, in which tho police were obliged to interfere. Portion of the eviction party then proceeded to the house of a farmer named Thomas Grace. This house waa, however, barricaded, severa 1 young men being inside ready to oppose the eviction. After a few moments the latter withdrew, and the eviction was not carried out.