Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 44, 19 August 1892, Page 4

Dublin Notes.

(Prom our Exchanges.) The tweed maofacturine: industry is looking up since the manufacturers came to understand that the public wanted something betides old-fa&bioned designs acd work. Very neat and artistic patterns have been intio.luced, an 1 things are booming in the tweed factories at Blarney. Athlona and Limeriok. Soma bu.injss in that lii c is done in Dublin, but it is of little account. The army is makiog a grievous drain on Ireland. The reckless daeh of military life has a charm fm the avernge Irish jouth, many of whom are lured to the service by the fact that most distinguished positions in the army have been fille 1 by their own countrymen. The two most prominent (fficere on the active bst to-lay are Genera] Sir Garnet Wolse'y and General Sir Frederick Bobfrts. The former was a Dublin boy and the latter was born in Waterford.