Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 37, 1 July 1892, Page 9

Irish News.

Armagh. — All the hounds of the Armagh Hunt Club were destroyed last week owing to an extraordinary outbreak of rabies among them. On April 2 Neil Donnelly, Ushagh, breathed his last at the patriarchal age of 83, and though he was incapacitated from moving about latterly he enjoyed fair health. Deceased was a lineal descendant of the great Teagae Donnelly, head of the sept of that name about 300 years ago, who colonised the land from Boscavey to Bernisk before the Plantation. Car low.— At Carlow Quarter Sessions Dr Darley, Q. 0., County Court Judge, congratulated the Grand Jury upon the fact that the calendar was blank and the county in a very satisfactory state He was presented with a pair of white gloves. Clare.— South Clare railway ia rapidly approaching completion. The rails are laid down almost the entire distance, and the engines will meet and pass each other within one week. The Kilkee section will be thoroughly finished within the next three weeks, and the goods traffic will Bhortly open. The opening of the railway will make Kilkee unusually interesting this year, and the tonrist traffic will be considerably increased. Timothy Lawlor, who was recently discharged from Mountjoy Prison, died at hiß home near Bonistymon. He had been sentenced to penal servitude for life in connection with the collision between a police patrol and moonlighters near Eillenora in the autumn of 1890, and had put in about sixteen months' imprisonment when he was discharged by order of the Lord Lieutenant, through the breakdown of his health.

Cork. — The emigration from Queenstown during last week numbered 2,358. The authorities suppressed a meeting announced to be held at Ballyclough, Mallow, on Sunday, for the purpose of denouncing landgrabbing in the district. The police proceeded to Ballyshoneen, near Ballincollig, last week and evicted Richard Fitton for non-payment of rent. The eviction passed over without incident, the tenant, his wife, and seven children leaving their dwelling immediately on the arrival of the evicting party. Mr T. J. Clanchy, of Cork, having forwarded a copy of his pamphlet, entitled " Ireland in the 20th Century," to Mr Gladstone, the Liberal leader replied : " I thank you for your work, and, like you, I take a hopeful and even sanguine view of the prospects of Ireland after the settlement of the question of Home Rule. Derry. — Since 1841 the population of i)erry County has fallen to 152,009, a decrease of over 70,000. Daring the ten years ending March, 1891, the number of emigrants from that county amounted to 23,199, bringing up the total for the last forty years to 94,717. Donegal.— Dr Webb, County Court Judge for Donegal, addressing the Grand Jury at rtcent Quarter Sessions, congratulated them on there being no criminal business to go before them. His Honour did not think there was any county in Ireland to compare with Donegal for the peacefulness of its inhabitants. He was then presented with white gloves. Major Henry Irvine, the recently-appointed agent of the Olphert estate, has arranged with the evicted tenants for their re-instatement on payment of three years 1 rent and thirty shillings law costs in each case. The tenants, failing to obtain better terms, had to adopt these,

and most of those whose rents ranged from ten shillings to thirty ■billings annually have paid and been re-instated. Generally five years' arrears have accumulated. As yet, only a small minority of those subject to large rents have been able to realise a sum sufficient for iheir re-admission. In hia intercourse with the tenants Major Irvine bag made a very favourable impression — so favourable, indeed, \ that they say that if he had been always the agent they think they j would not have been evicted. Major Irvine also speaks well of the ' tenantry. i Down.— On Friday, in the Land Judges' Oourt, Mr Justice] Monroe declared Mr Pardo Kirk the purchaser of the Young estate in j County Down for a sum of L 17.400, and rejected the offer of the tenants, which amounted to over L 19.000. Dublin.— Through the exertions of Very Rev D. P. Mulcahy, P.P., Swords, Father Morrin, Naas, and of Mr Sheehy, M.P., John Morris Forest, County Dublin, has been re-instated in his holding, from which he was evicted in 1881, at the judicial rent fixed by the Land Court on the adjoining holding, which with his forms part of Major de Burgh's estate. The capital has been connected with Belfast by telephone, and the first communication passed between Alderman Kernan, locum tenena for the Lord Mayor, standing in the Telephone Exchange in Dame street, and the Mayor of Belfast, who was in the Chamber of Com' merce in his own city. The interchange of greetings was repeated by the secretaries of the two Chambers of Commerce from their respective cities. The event wae one of extreme interest, and suggests the possibilities of the future. Business men in Dublin can now talk with their agents or customers all along the line of towns between their city and Belfast. < ] With regret we record the death of Brother Paul McGrath, of I A r lane, which occurred on April 1. Brother Paul was a native of '

Birr, in the King's County. His father, a civil engineer, gave his two sons, Thomas and Arthur, an education befitting that profession which they subsequently embraced. Both were engaged with their father on the English Borvey up to the time of their admission to the religious state. Arthur entered first and received the name Paul at the Novitiate of the Christian Brothers, Preston, Lancashire. Soon after Thomaß followed his example, entered the same house, and received the name Patrick. Both were exemplary Christian Brothers, and are now, we trust, enjoyiDg the reward of their labours. The scenes of Brother Paul's labours were London, Limerick, Armagh, and Newcastle West ; but the last twenty years of his life were spent among poor children of ATtane, who will long and lovingly cherish his memory. Fermanagh.- County Couit Judge Orr was presented with white gloves at Enniskillen Quarter Session on Friday, there being no criminal business. Gal^way.— The enormous take of 30,000 mackerel was accomplished off these islands last week by one person. The fishing vessels coDsist of seven Arklow boats, two from Clifden, two from Cams. Father Michael O'Donohoe haß ordered two boats, which will soon be under sail and ready to cast their nets. Kerry.— At recent Killarney Quarter Sessions decrees for possession were obtained against the following Kenmare tenants :— Denis Duggan, Catherine Mangan, Timothy Moriarty, Ellen Daly, Eliza Daly, Patrick Mangan, and Michael Law. Upwards of 36,000 mackerel were taken off Fenit recently Mesers Anderson and Co., of Liverpool, readily brought up the fish at 50a per cwt. The fish are the largest ever taken at Fenit. In fac%

the fishermen report them too large to mesh in Ibe nets, and that consequently large numbers tavo fallen out. OrJinary boxes can only hold forty of them, whereas the same sized bozes were capable of containing sixty deep last and the previous years. Kildare.— The Atby Town Commissioners have passed a resolution in favour of the Christian brothers' Schools being included in the Government grant for educational purposes under *be Bill now before the Commons. King's County. — At recent mectiDg of the Tullamore Town Board, James Hayes, chairman, presiding, a ropolution was adopted urging on Parliament the necessity of making propsr provision for the Christian Brothers in the Bill at present under discussion. L,itnerick. — Six of the O'Grady Plan of Campaign tenants at Herbertstown have signed agreements to purchase their holdings under Lord ABhbourne'a Act at eighteen and one-balf years' purchase paying one and a-half years' rent as a settlement, out of two and a-half years' rent due. The tenants were evicted in '87. I^outh. — At a meeting of the Drogheda Board of Guardians a resolution was paesed favouring the claims of the Christian Brothers to ft share of the money set apart for educational purposes. Mayo* Mr William O'Brien, M.P., and Mrs O'Brien have gone to the Weßt of Ireland. They are staying at the Railway Hotel, Westport, pending the selection of a seaside residence. The Rev Father Davis, P.P., Baltimore, and the Rev W. Greene, Fißhery Commissioner, members of the Congested Districts Board, visited Clew Bay on Saturday, and held an important conference with the local Congested Districts Committee on the needs of the locality. Last week in the English Commons William O'Brien rose to move the adjournment of the House in order to call attention to a definite matter of urgent public importance — namely, the harsh and unconstitutional employment of the forces of the Crown in effecting evictions and seizures for arrears of rent on Clare Island, whose population was last year saved by public relief from a condition of famine, and to the danger of wide-spread destitution and disorder if the impending evictions on the island were carried out. The motion was, however, voted down in spite of Messrs O'Brien and Healy's stirring addresses. Tipper ary.— Five families were evicted in Tipperary last week at the suit of the National Bank, When the Smith-Barry campaign was initiated the tenants of the National Bank resolved to throw in their lot with the Smi'h- Barry tenants, and refused to pay any rent to Mr Smith-Barry. Various offers were made by the bank, i but they were rejected, and the evictions followed. No disturbance took place. One of the evicted declared tbat he could pay the bank fifteen years' rent, but he would not do so as long as the majority of the Smith-Barry evicted tenants are out of their homes. The fortnightly meeting of the Tipperary National Federation was held last week, and was remarkable for the elaborate preparations made by the police to discover the whereabouts of the gathering. Squads of police were studded here and there on all the roads, and every hill which commanded the slightest view of the country, with the object of locating the meeting or obtaining a glimpse of those who wended thir way to the trysting place ; but, notwithstanding, a mos* successful meeting was held. Rev D. Humphreys presided. After a reference to the National Bank evictions he said : — A wonderful calm has come over our Parnellite friends. Twelve months ago, when Balfour was putting the Insurance Clause into the Land Purchase Act the Parnellite members of Parliament were conspicuous by their absence. They were in the Four Courts picking up their coin or addressing meetings throughout the country, and denouncing those anti-Irish Irishmen, the Irish priests. Now they are as attentive to their Parliamentary duties as if we bad a Compulsory Parliamentary Attendance Act. Tyrone* The Irish breach of promise case in which Miss Mary McKeczie Laffin, a school-mistress, residing at Oookstown, in the " loyal and Protestant North," was awarded L 375 damages against the Bey Andrew John Tilson, rector of Kilglass, affords a grim commentary on the contempt which some ministers of religion have for the unreality of their calling. la one letter referring to some Church services he wrote to plaiatiff, " My own darling Polly, I almost hated them because you were not there." In another letter he spoke of getting hiß photograph taken in his " petticoats "—meaning his ecclesiastical garments. Then he went on borrowing money from her from time to time, and incidentally remarked that Christianity among some people in his parish was at zero. Here indeed was a case of the blind leading the blind. "Waterford.— Mr Davitt has handed over L 153 16s to the treasurers of the Evicted Tenan's' Fund,.balance of the sum col>fcted to defray his election expenses in Waterford contest. * A meeting was to have been held on a recent Sunday in Fenor to denounce land-grabbiug, but the authorities proclaimed it. How•ver, E. Harvey, W. G. Fisher, Munster Express, and C. P. Redmond, Waterford News, held the meeting in Ballyscanlon despite the proclamation and the police.

At the meeting of the Liemore Board of Guardians Thomas Bocha proposed and James McGrath seconded the following, and passed unanimously -.—That we condemn the action of those officers in her Majesty's army who, on St Patrick's Day, ordered the Irish soldiers to take the shamrock from their caps, seeing that the emblems of other nationalities are never interfered with. "W^exford. — Tottenham's Campaign tenants' fight has come to an end, and though the tenants have not all they could wish, yet they and the community at large are pleased at its termination. The Nationalist of Tmtern held a meeting recently, and a resolution was unanimously adopted calling upon Captain Colclough, of Tintern Abbey, to allow himself to be nominated for their Parliamentary division of the county, when John Barry, their present worthy representative, shall resign, Wicklow. — The recent proceedings against the tenants on Mr Parnell's Wicklow property have been taken, not by Mrs Parnell, but by direction of Ihe English Court of Chancery, by which Mr Parnell's estate is being administered. The open-air service held in Arklow recently was remarkable for the abseuce of friction with the police authorities which characterised the proceedings on several occasions. The clergymen took up a poßition on the public road, about one foot outside the gate of Tionahask schoclhouse, their followers, numbering about fifty, remaining inside the enclosure. Both the rector and curate preached from this position for over an hour, during which the police remained drawn up by the wall and did not interfere. The services at the other parts of the town were also conducted without incident.