Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 3, 15 December 1893, Page 9

Irish News.

(From the Iriih World.) Antrim. -Harland and Wolff of the Queen's Island shipbuilding worki, Belfast, are building for the White Star line a vessel larger than the famous great Eastern. Tbe new liner will be called the Gigantic. The engines, which are to drive her at the rate of twenty seven knots, will indicate 25,000 horse-power. Armagh.— A labour demonstration was held recently in Tanaghmore North, near Lurgan. One thousand persons were present. Mr Bicnard McGhee, president of the Dock Labourers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland, presided. The main object of tbe meeting was to hear an address from Mr J.H. Wilson, M.P., Middlesborough, who has taken such an important part ia the labour movement in England, and, indeed, throughout Great Britain. He received a most enthusiastic reception from the large assemblage, and delivered a lengthened and interesting speech, principally devoted to the question of bad hoasiog of the labourers in Ulster. Cl«rc— At recent intermediate examinations two children from Kilmibil, Anne Daly, 12, passed in English, French, and drawing ; and Mary Ellen Daly, passed in English, Latin, French, arithmetic and drawing, with honours. This was their first attempt, and what makes success remarkable is the fact that these children never left their native village to be educated and had few advantages. Cork.— At tbe Convent of Jesus and Mary, Albion Hill, Ipswich, England. Josephine O'Connor, Scbull, West Cork, made the following bright record :— ln 1890 she obtained from the Science and Art Department certificate awarding honours, and bronze medal for practical mnsic : '91, from Royal Academy aod Royal College of

Music, pass certificate ; '92, pass certificate, higher division ; and this year, distinction certific4te, besides having pasted the Oxford University examination of Associated Arts. Derry. — On receipt of the news of the division on the Home Bule Bill in the House of Lords a funeral bell was tolled, after which the full Cathedral chimes rang oat a merry peal. Simultaneously the western ramparts ot the city were illuminated and also the four ancient gates. Oanonading continued for hours. Tar barrels were lighted in many of the Btreets, a.Dd bands played within the wall?. The rejoicings were carried out under the mperintendonce of John Alexander, Governor, and Jjhn Guy Fergasoo, ex-Governor of the Apprentice Boys. Dublin*— At a retreat in the Church of Our Lady of Refuge, Ratbmines, for the military of Portobello and Wellington Barracks the exercises were attended by vast numbsre. The general Communion told well for the success of the retreat. The church was filled bo that accommodation bad to be provided wiihin the BaDCtnary for soldiers. Major O'Gorman, president of the military sodality, set a bright example in receiving Holy Communion with his men. Dublin is now threatened with a water famine, The extraordinary drought may be judged by the fact that while on Sept. 1 last year the level of the water in Boundwood Reservoir was only three feet below top water, it was on the same date this year twenty-two feet below that level. Fermanagh.— Forty *nine thousand, six hundred and fifteen persons emigrated from the County Fermanagh from May 1, 1851, to Dec. 31, 1891. In 1851 the population of the county was 116,047 ; in 1891, only 74,170.

Gal way . -The Very Rev Father O'Connor, Guard ian ot tba Franciscan Convent, Galway, is embellishing and redecorating th« interior of the Abbey. When completed an improvement will have been effected that will rtflact the greatest credit upon Fattier O'Connor. The Abbey is one of the m jst frequented churches in the city. Kerry,— The KilorgliD, Caherciveen and Valentia Railway was opened recently by the Great Sontbern and Western Railway Company. The total cost was £200,000, £85,000 of which was granted by the Goverament, £70,000 guaranteed by tho baronies, and the remainder given by the Great Southern and Western Railway. Telegraphic communication was last wsek suspended between Tralee and Dingle, tbe wire having been broken by a goose close to Annascaal. The bird took flight from an adjoining field and dashed with such force against tbe wire that it snapped. Kilkenny, —Many persons applied for cottages at the recent inquiry in Dalian Union. Tbe greater number of applications were from the Tipperary portion, as tbe Kilkenny guardians with the exception of Kilmanagb aod Scoteboro', make no effort to improve tbe housings of tbe labourers Great opposition was given to the applications by Mr B. H. Hughes of Hallyrichard, Drangao, who, though holding over 300 acres Irish, declared that if the Inspector put a cottage on bis land he would take from tbe labourers in bit employment the plots of land which they hold. L.eltrlm. -Patrick A. McHugh of Oaßtle afreet, Sligo, U Member of Parliament for the north division of the county, and Jasper Tally of the Rjßcommon Herald, Roscommon, for tbe south division. Both are Nationalists. Longford. — Father Guinan presided at a recent meeting of the Sathclioe branch of the Irish National Federation when a vote of gratitude to Mr Gladstone for his noble efforts in the cause of

Irish Home fiule was unanimously passed. Also the following : " That we sympathise with the families of J. Casey and M. Greenan, at present undergoing a term in gaol for trespass on their former holdings. That we record our emphatic condemnation of a few individuals who have disgraced the good name of this pariah by becoming grabbers." Mayo.—John Gibbons of Drumminawonagb, near Clogher, was recently attacked by a bull belonging to Thomas Burke, Gibbon* was knocked down, bat managed to get hold of a riog in the animal's nose. It was a terrible momeo , the bull lashing and raging, the man clinging for life to bis hold—when Mrs Gibbons, who saw the terrible struggle, flew to the epot with a crowbar, drove it into the ground and firmly tied the ball by a chain that was attached to the ring, and thus saved tbe life of her husband. It was an act of heroism which deserves tbe highest praise. Queen's County. —A communicUion was received by tbe Abbeyleix Board of Gaardians lately from the Veterinary Department calling attention to the returns from tbe Veterinary Inspector, it appearing tint fifteen cases of rabies had occurred in the Union since January, '92, and urging that all dogs in tho union should be put under restraint.