Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 22, 18 March 1892, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim*— ln 1890 a Clyde builder bad the honour of launching the largest comber of vessels, but in the year just past a Belfast firm is first, a Hartlepool firm second, and Messrs Bussell and Co., Oreenook, who were first last yair, are third. During the year wages have been exceptionally high, and there have beea several strikes, which retarded the work to a considerable extent.

Armagh*— A large number of people of all daises are Buffering from influenza in this city and through the country. Amongst the sufferers are Sir Calvert Strong? , chairman of the Armagh Board of Guardians ; Jacob Orr, Oranaeill, vice-chaiiman, and many public officials.

Most Bey Dr Logue celebrated the silver jubilee of his ordination on December t2, and the Catholics of Ireland joined with the priests and people of Armagh in rejoicing at the event. The Primate has tndeared himself to the people of the primatial city by his goodness of heart and the kindly interest that he has taken in all that con* oems their spiritual and temporal welfare. To the poor especially the Primate has been a faithful and considerate friend, all who have known of the great ssrvicea he has rendered to the cause of faith and fatherland will heartily wish him a long and glorious occupancy of the Primatial See.

CavaUl* — During the days of the Land League this County •piritedly did its duty, and bears a splendid record for work performed in those trying years. Now it is well to the front in the cauie of the evicted tenant, and a few days ago no less than Ll3l were subscribed and forwarded to Dublin for the wounded soldiers of the Land War.

the girls as they grow np to womanhood. A permanent cottage* industry may thus be established, with the convent weaving-school in the midst to teach the younger and encourage the older workers. Much has been done in a short time. If success still attends the efforts of the convent, it is patent that it will be the instrument of great good, material and moral, which must result from industrious, comfortable, and happy homes."

Derry.— Mr Balfoar has refused the offer of the citieens of Derry to confer the freedom of the city npon him, as be objected to mixing in any way in local political matters.

The " late lamented " Bey Mr Walker, of " no surrendar " fame, is not in with Colonel Sanndereon. The gallant Colo Del, we are credibly informed, recently headed the procession of Apprentice Boys with bands and banners round the wal.s of Derry.

Id the event of Mr Justin M'Oarthy, M. P., retiring from the representation of Deny city, a well-known Dublin Qaeen'a Counsel will be invited to contest the seat as a Home Baler in opposition to Mr John Boss, Q 0., the Conservative candidate.

Donegal- — After last Mass in Billysbannon last week Bey P. Kelly warned bis flock against tbe secret society movement that Paroellism he alleged, had revived. He spoke with much moderation, but great foroe, using persuasion rather than threats to show tbe terrible danger in which young men place themselves by joining such societies.

Down.— At the Besabrook Protestant Church last Sunday, Bey A. Lookett-Forde, rector, after (he service, briefly referred to the occurrence wbich had taken place at Mullaglass last week, when a corpse was disinterred and placed at his door. He fully acquitted tbe Catholics of any blams in connection with the foul and fiendish act. Speaking further on the subject, he condemned the conduct of the men — the horrid ghouls— who were guilty of such a base act, ai

Cork* — Arthur O. S. Cave is developing the minerals which abound in tbe western portion of this County, in which he has expended L 3.000. He recently opened a valuable barytea mine at Mount Gabriel, near Scbnll.

Captain Thomas Leonard Leader was last week dispossessed from property in which he held a middle interest at Bawnmore North, near Eanturk. The eviction was cariied out at the instance of the head landlord, General Sankey. There were six tenants on the land, who were also evicted, but reinstated. The tenants have now every hope of speedily arranging for tbe fair purchase of their holdings from the bead landlord.

Last week Head Constable Dwyer, of Skibbereen, with a large number of policemen, made a raid on tbe townland of Lisaclarig, near Ballydehob, entered the bouse and premises of a farmer and blacksmith seized a jar and a cask containing potheen. They then mad* a search outside, where they discovered a boiler, alleged to be used in the manufacture of the stuff, wbioh they smashed up, and brought their store into Skibbereen, and lodged in safely in the barracks. Tbe proprietor of the place was not arrested, but will be proceeded against in the usual coarse at Petty Sessions.

The example set by the Sistera of Mercy at Skibbereen to establish a hand-loom linen weaving industry has (says the Irish Textile Journal) stimulated several other convents, and we learn from the report of tbe National Education Board that at Queenstown Convent nine looms are now running. Mr Connolly, the District Inspector, writing on the subject, says :— •' At present pocket handkerchiefs only are woven, but tbe weaving of coarser materials is in contemplation. The number of looms will be increased if necessary. It is to be hoped that ultimately, as in the North, so in the neighbourhood of Qaeenstown, these hand-looms may find their way into the homes of

black-hearted in the extreme, and said that such an act was the most inhuman and un-Cbristianlike he had ever heard of.

Dublin.— During the month of December, 6,900 meals and 1,680 beds were supplied at the Catholic Boys' Home, Dublin. The late Lady Sandhurst was the first lady who received thti freedom of the city of Dubliu.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin (Aid Meade) has been elected an honorary member of the Institue of Journalists of England in recognition of the cordial and hospitable reception he accorded to the members of the Institute on the occasion of the annual meeting at Dublia last summer.

Jußtin McCarthy, M.P., has entered an appearance to the writ served on him in the name of Dr J. K. Kenny, M.P. ; T. Harrington, M.P. ; Bicbaid Lalor, M.P., and other memb-rs of the Irish National League in reference to the Paris funds. The Parnellites want to have Mr McCarthy, M.P., disqualified as a trustee, so that they might have the sole management of this fund. Timothy Healy, the popular member of Parliament for North Longford, appears to be held in great esteem outside his native country. Tbe natives of Donegal residing in Glasgow recently presented him with an address, inclosed in a silver casket, thanking him for his invaluable services to the Emerald Isle. Mrs Healy was also given a gold bracelet set with diamonds. Mr Healy responded to tha compliment in appropriate terms. Since the explosion in Dublin Castle on Thursday last the police have been extraordinarily vigilant in watching for dynamite suspects. The customs' officers, too, have developed extra activity in searching the effects of passengers landing at Qaeenstown from the transAtlantic steamers. The first person to fall a victim to the custom! officials' newly-awakened ardour for the safety of the country ii

Thomas Byan, an army pensioner on the lists of the United States, who was a passenger on the Canard steamer Etrala. Galway* — The Convention recently hold in Galway was the largest and most representative ever held in this important County, and is proof, if such wore wanting, of the genuine patriotism of the people of Gal way, Fonr heartless evictions were carried oat at Coolajrh, near Killimore, recently by Josephine* Burke and Mrs Dora O'Sullivan. The victims are : — Darby Coen and family, Martin Low^ry ant family, Martin Melody ana family, Thomas Hayes and family. Much sympathy is felt for those poor tenants who have been evicted at such a period of the year. The directors of the Carna Industries Company bnve passed a resolution expressing their deep sense of the loss which the parish of Carna and the whole district of Connemara has sustained by the death of Father Flannery. Kerry* — Extremely harsh proceedings have b^en recently taken against a number of tenants on bis estate at the instance of Lord Kenmare. A woman named Stretton died in the almshouse, Tralee, last week, at th 9 extraordinary age of 108 years. Eariy in the week at Barrow a woman named Margaret Moriarty, who attained the venerable age of 107 years. Kildare. — The now historic village of Clongorey will, in the coming month of May, when all natnre puts nn its brightest verdure, be the scene of crotl and heartless evictions. Mrs Mary Kelly is to b§ the prinoipal sufferer on the occasion, having got formal notice that, on that day, herself, her adopted daughter, her son-in-law, a numerous family of young children, including the persecuted little Emily Morrissy, together with Borne families to whom she had given shelter wheD flying from their burning or falling houses, will be driven from their humble habitations out upon a world of which they know but little. King's County*— At recent meeting of the Phillipstown National, Federation, Fatb.br Bergin preaidiog, a sad case of " sentence of death " was brought under the notice of the committee by Mrs Bobbins, of Eilmurray, who produced for inspection two notices to quit, served personally by W. A. Gowing, one to herself and the other to her bed -ridden husband, who is nearly 90 years old. Being asked why they had allowed themselves to bt turned into weekly tenants, Mrs Bobbins replied that they thought they were in a second hepven when Mr Gowing became their landlord, and he promised " to make herself and her poor sick husband ever so comfortable," and she added that even when he came with the notice to quit she first thought he was going to give her a Christmas box, he spoke so sweetly to her, Mayo* — A very great number of eviction decrees were obtained at the Quarter Sessions Court, which w*s held at Ballina on January 13. Most of these decrees wers given for a year's rent, due last November — of course the rent will be generally paid up, but costs will be added. It seems ac if the proprietors of the large estates in this neighbourhood were determined to get rid of as many tenants as possible. Monghan.- Rev Mr Greer, who preaches in Drcmm parish church, displeased some of his congregation by his ritualistic propensities, and when he went to the church on a recent Sunday he found the door locked. He attempted to enter the building through a window, but was dragged back and assaulted. Information of the affair was given to the authorities, and Sunday following a force of police appeared on the scene. The key was given to the police, and the door opened. Those who did not object to the doctrines of Mr Greer entered the building, while those opposed to him left the neighbourhood. A meeting of the Nationalists of Mouaghan was held in the Christian Schools, under the chairmanship of Bey George McMeel, Adm. Father Lynch, Father Gallagher, Messrs P. Gormley, D MacAleese, William Crumley, Owen Murray, John Hughes, Philip Davidson, and a large number of Nationalists of the town and district were in attendance. On the motion of D. MacAleeße, seconded by P. Gormley, the following resolution was onanimously adopted : — Besolved : That Michael Davitt deserves the gratitude, and merits the confidence of all honest Irishmen for the sufferings he has borue and the sacrifices he has made for the Nationalist cause ; that we entertain the strong feeling that his presence in Parliament will con. duce largely to the success of the cause, and we beg respectfully to ask the Nationalist electors of Waterford to rise to the importance of the present crisis, and return Mr Davitt by a triumphant majority. Tyrone. — The Verner estate, situated in the Counties of Tyrone and Monaghao, is about to be sold to the tenants under the Land Purchase Act. "WiCklOW — There is apparently no cession in the efforts made by Bey M r Hallowß to convert the people of the town to Protestantism ; in fact any ism except Catholicism would please the preacher. The people are obdurate, and Mr Hallows continues the spiritual combat.