Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 29, 17 November 1893, Page 9

Irish News.

(From Irish and American contemporaries.)

Clare. —Attempted seizures on eight or nine holdings on the Bodyke estate bel urging to the poorer classes of tenants were made recently, but ia all cases the bouses were strongly barricade^, and the cattle and other efl;cts removed off the lands previous to the visit of the ngent and bailiffs, who were accompanied by twelve police.

Cork. —The Cork Herald announces the death of M. Raffalovitcb, father-in-law of Mr William O'Brien, M.P., who died at his residence, in Paris, a few days ago, after a long illness. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Improvement Department of the Cork Corporation, a very interesting presentation of a bronze statuette was made on behalf of tbe French Government, by the Mayor to Dr Corbett, of Cork, for bravery in saving life at sea. Dr Corbett was medical officer on board the West India and Pacific Steamship Company's 8.8. Zucatan, and assisted on the night of the 23rd of December, 1892, in the rescue of the crew of the French baique Petit Bourgois, of Nantes. :

Lady Aberdeen baa written to Sir George Oolthurst, proprietor of Blarney Castle, in contradiction of the statements circulated that the Blarney stone had been removed to the World's Fair at Chicago. Her ladyship states that in the Irish Village erected by the Irish Association at the Pair tn exact reproduction of Blarney Castle, two-thirds of the size was pat ap, and a reproduction of the Blarney •tone was also placed in th« some position as that occupied by tbe original. It was true they appoached Sir Gaorge Colthurst for a loan

■he certainly excel Is in rtarin* b.mea of the highest claes ; and the horse show is naturally sezsd oi as an in valuable advdrtising medium for bringing their merits literally under i be notice of the world .

Galway. — The Imdon corresp indent < f the Freemarig Journal, writing on August 26, s«yi :MrP. J. Foley will to- Jay ask the Chief Secretary to ask the Lord L 1 cmcn ant of Ireland whether he is aware that while tbe only native Protestant in Moyrus, County Galway, lives on the best of terms with his neighbours who deal in bis shop, a colony cf prtsalytizjrs has recently settled in the district, and whether a number of tiacte and pnote c£f> nsive to Catholic worship and practice have been circulated in the locality, creating offence amongst the law-abiding population and calculated to create a breach of the peace ; ani have the prusulyt z irs iried to get a police barrack established at Moyrus, and was one of tre Bible readers saoght by the police firing into his own house with a view to create an alarm of " outrapep," and does the local police inap»ct)r constantly stay in the house of the chief proselytizer, and cm any steps be taken by the Government to prevent the Catholic inhabitants being subjected tea mockery of their religion.

Kilkenny.— On Friday his Eminence Cardinal Moran, who was accompanied by Monsignor Kelly, rector of the Irish College, Rome, visited Castlecomer and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to a large number of children. The people of the town accorded the distinguished visitors a viry warm greeting. The Holy Family brass band played a selecti m of airs and the place was enjete for the day. At the last meeting of the Kilkenny Confraternity the spiritual director, Rev W. Cassin, CO., said tint the Cardinal was delighted to hear of the increwin^ nombert and influence of the sod vlity in the city, and was anxious to address tbe members, but owing to bis delicate state of health, had to abandon the ide«.

cf ihe stone before the Exhibition opened, but he, not uncaurally, objected to any such idea. At the Convene of Jeans and Mary, Albion Hill, Ipswich, Miss Josephine OConnor, Schull, West Coik, has made tbe following creditable rec >rd :— ln 1890 she obained from tbe Science and Art D partment certificate awarding honours and bronza medal for practical music, pianoforte ; '91 she obtained from tbe Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, pass certificate, lower division ; '92 pass certificate, higher division ; and this year distinction cartificatp, btßides having passed, as just mentioned, the Oxford Uoiversity Examination of Associated Arts. It will be seen that the teaohing capacity of tha ladies of the above insiitution, which has the advantage of being a centre for tha Oxford University Examinations, has thus been brilliantly attested. Dublin.— The RigntHon the L >rd M*yor of Dublin sailed from Queenstown by the Campania on Sunday last for New York, en route for Chicago, where he has been invited by the Executive Cjmuittee of the World's Fair. Sir Alfred Moloney, Governor of British Honduras, has been visiting Dublin and inspecting the Royal IrUb Constabulary, with a view to improving tba police foroa in Honduras. The Governor is an Irishman, as is his Inspector of Police, Oap-ain A. B. R. Kaye. The latter is the son of Sir William Ksye, Assistant Dader-Becretary of Ireland. Tbe greatest event of the year in Dublin— the famous horse show, under the patronage of the Royal Dublin Society— opened on August 22 at Ballsbridge. Ireland's show stands iv a poiition of unnvallod pre-eminence. In no other country can there be found any thing like the tame class of hunters. Whatever Irdand may be defective in,

Leitrim,— The rerminaof SurgeoL -Major Parke, the brilliant young Irishman who has been bo well known for his connection with Emia Pasha Relief Expedition of Mr H. M. Stanley, arrived at the North Wall this morning at ten o'clock by the Laird Line steamer Shamrock from Greenock. Shortly after two o'clock the body was taken ou shore and placed on ft gun carriage which had been in waiting, under the escort of the Army Service Corps, and removed to the Broadatone Terminus, from whetce tbe remains were conveyed to Drum^na, County L«itrim, where ihe family burying ground if situated. The funeral was largely attended. Meatlt.— A. large crowd assembled about the grounds of the Nine Acres on AugU9t 24 when Meath and Fermanagh met to decide with whom the county polo championship would rest for the year. The northern oounty won the trophy three years in succession, and with Meath vary much weakened by the absence of Mr John Watson and Majjr Reilly, it was thought likely the northern tpam would secure it for the fourth successive season. The reverse proved the case however. The Meath representative?, playing np with great dash and determinaiion, achieved a splendid vie ory by 5 goals to 3. Tjrrone.-The death of Mr Robert Bradley, of Keclein, at the patriarchal age of fourtcorc, is announced. The veteran was wont to maintain his claim to be the oldest ac ive exponent of National ideas in Ulster. Born in 1813, within sight of tha royal residence of tbe O'Neill, it was natural that Robert Bradley should have been an earnest o'o'>nnelhte in bis teens. He remembered that be took part in a reform meeting in 1832, and six years later presided over a repeal meeting of 4,000 persons, at which a Prosbyterian minister spokn. He attenied Conciliation Ha!l as head pioificitor from Donoughmore, and spoke occasionally at meetings, pjasibly under

O'Ooonell's presidency. In 1852 Mr Bradley was again to the front on behalf of tenant right, at a time when a tenant, even in Ulster, took a prominent part in that movement at considerable risk to the stability of his tenure. With the first recrudescence of open agitation after the failure of tbe Fenian movement, he took immediate opportunity of showiug how stubbornly he had clung to his opinions through so many dark years. He was the first president of tbe Tyrone Home Bule Association, and was a delegate of the first National Conference at tbe Botunda, under Isaac Batt, in 1873. A new National development speedily found him the working chairman of the Land League in his native parish. In 1881, when Parnell resolved to conduct bis memorable anti-Whig campaign in Ulster In person, Mr Bradley presided at tbe meeting which the Irish leader held saoosssfully in Dungannon Square. Last year, without any cooperation npon his part, he was nominated and returned a Poor Law Gaardian. Mr Bradley was a ParnslUte in politics.