Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 30, 23 November 1894, Page 21

Irish News.

(From contemporaries.)

Antrim. -On Lady Day some considerable wrecking was done by the intolerable Oranae element in Belfast. At night the wiecking commenced in earnest, ani the extensive linen manufactory of Messrß Mathers and Bunting waa completely wrecked, scarcely a whole window remaining in the front facing Brownlow terrace and Mary street. The bui.dmg wa 3 ocenpird by Eoman Catholics exclusively. Many dwellings were attacked and the occupants had very narrow escapes from serious injury.

Armagh.— While workmen were engaged in cutting out the bed of a boat slip on the shores of Lough Nea^h, D .>ar Mu-hey, they came upon two dug-out canoe?, which presented the nppearance of great age. Prerious to tbe lowering of the Lough, the place where the canoes were dug out wa9 covered by water. 1 hey were five feet from ths surface.

Cavan.— Mr W. J. Hanley, Cmowerin, baa inaugurated a project of establishing a woollen factory in Castlecoote. He is gutting considerable support from the residents in the sarroanhng districts.

The Bawnboy Board of Guardians at a recent maeticg passei a resolution calling the Lord Chancellor's attention to the fact tha, from January 1, 1892, to August 14, same year, fourteen were appoiated justices of the peace— not one a Cathoiic or a Liberal. Clare.— On Friday Major F. G. Cullinan, snb-sbenff of Clare, carried out an eviction on the estate of the Hey Hjactnth Sterrett, Old Qaay, Barren. The evicted was Bridget F*hy, and possession was handed over to Pat Qaynor, the landlord's reprejen ative. Tne

proceedings were of ths quietest character. An attempt was made to carry out an eviction in the same district, on the esta'e of Lord Annally. The tenant was Denis Sweeny of Muskinish West. When the evicting party arrived at the house ittrampired that that a son of the tenan', alsi named Denis, was suffering from fe?er, and a medical certificate baring been proiuced that it would be dangerous to attempt the removal, tha sher ff decline! t> prjc^ei witb the eviction. The previous day a man named Darnel N'ytoe, who occupied a farm on the estate of MiJDr-Ganeral Crowe, at An afield, near Kilshanny, was evicted.

Cork.— The autumn maokeral fishery op ned well on tbe southern coast of Cork. The herrings are of tbe largest s-z j and moat de'icious flivoor, ani immense quantit ci are being caught among the mackerel in the same nets. Curing stations have b^en established at Bal imore an 1 O^stletownsand. and very exceosive employment is being aff >ried to both sex-s, yoang ani old Lord Lismore has notified his tennn's in the Kantu;k district, that in the fu'ure they are to p%y heavily increased rent*", This extraordinary prooe«ding in this year of unprecedented agricultural depression is much commeDted on. The tenants have decided to letist the demand, and have engaged K. A. Beytagh. in their interest. Galway*— Tbe Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman W. B. Bowing, and the L%dy Mayoress, arrived in Olif ien from Achill dnriDg tbe week, They were accompanied by Councillor Lynskey and Mrs Lynskey of Liverpool. Th»y were met some five miles from Olifden by a large contingent of the townspeople with cars and carriage?, headed by the local brass band. Oo arriving at Clifden the large crowd drew op at the presbytery, where an adlress <vas preeeated.

The greatest eicitement witnessed in Galway for a long time was caused one day last week by tbe incursion of the street preachers. The newcomers opened their proceedings in Eyre Bquare with a hymn. In a few minates a Jarge crowd coileced. One of tbe singers, doffing his hat, commenced an address, but was assailed by a storm of groans and hisses. Presently a collision occurred between the preachers and the crowd, and the police rushed in to protect the preachers. On being required to move on, the preachers moved toward Mack's Hotel, but returned and walked towaid the weigh-house under the protection of the police.

An extraordinary cisc of restitution has just come to light at Eyrccourt, County Oalway, a f fW miles from this. The Redemptorist Fathers have been holding a mission there, and immediately on its conclusion one of the reverend gentlemen forwarded to the local constabulary authorities a sum of £48, given, to him under the seal of the confeesional by a person attending the services. The only explanation was that the money was found 10 years ago on the road from Clonfert to Laurencetown, and the finder kept it although the owner was known until he became conscience stricken at one of the BedemptorisJ Father's sermons oq honesty and gave it up. This fast clears up a mystery. Ten yeu-3 ag ) C jastabie Cregg, of the Clonfert BI C waßw aB eutrustei to carry £48, the wages of the men, from Laarenoetown to bis station, where he reported that he lost it. His story was not accepted, and he was ordered to make up the money. His comrades, believing in his honesty, subscribed £31, and Cregg managed to make up tbe balance, which was a heavy drain on his small income he being a married man with a family. Ha never appeared to have' recovered from the effects of being suspacted of stealing the money Now the circuma'ance is cleared up, as well as Cregg's character by the confession of the finder. Cregg has since died, but the police authorities have bestowed the £43 on his widow.

Kildare. — A wedding was recently celebrated at Atby, in which the united ages of the united oneß aggregated 136 years. The names of the happy couple, it is stated, are Michael Farrel and Anne Beilly of Mount Hawkins. King's County.— The fbur millß at Clara worked by Messrs Ferguson and Ballintyne, and where a strike is at present, baa been taken over by the Messrs Goodbody of this town and the owners of the big jute spinning mills. Ivimerick.— The sub-sheriff of the county, Mr Frederick Hobson, with bailiff i and constabulary, proceeded last week to Bruff to evict Timothy O'Connor, on tha Earl of Limsrick'a property for non-payment of rent. The foul business was accomplighed no resistanca being off 'Jed, During the week snb-Bberiff Mr Hobson, accompanied bj bailiffs and police, proceeded to Doon for the purpose of evicting a man named Patrick Noonan from bis farm on tbe astate of Mrs Gladstone. When the furniture had been removed to the yard, tbe tenant asked the landlady to allow it to be left there till evening, but the latter refused it, and it was then, amidst the groans of the assembled sympathisers, carried to tbe main road, about half a mil* from the housa. Mayo.— Squire Dickins, with sister, brother and friend, arrived at Currawne House, Achill Sound, on Saturday, and was cheerfully received by his tenants. A biasing bonfire, with rockets, and cheers of welcome were given to the party, and especially by tbe poor widows and tenants of the property, for the kindly feelings and charitable acts of himself and Lady Dickins.

At Louieburg Petty Session., oa September 4, a wuow," nara d" Keirick. was prosecuted for taking forcible possession of asm, ll farm on Lord Sligo's estate, from wh.ch she had b.en ev.cted. William OBnen, M P., was present, an.f, addressing a meeting afterwards denounced land-grabbin?, and said that if any Engl.ahman only learned the story of this poor woman's treatment, he would understand why tne Irish people curse and aWrnate the name of landlord is en. Xipperary.-A terrific rainstorm recently in Tipperary destroyed a considerable portion of the cmp 8 . Tney are rotting en the ground. On Friday the funeral took place in T.pperary of Mr Michael Hanly, whose death occurred at B!of, m fi,ld Terrace, London, on Seveaty- wo years ago Mr H.nly was born in T.pp=rary. He wa 9 educated at the Abbey grammar .onool th-r., and laUx on at Trinity College, Dublin, where be obt need a BIZ ir ship. The decMEe 1 was one of tne senior raemb^s of thj Importer.' Gallery m tMeHousor Uommons. At the residence of hn son-in-h^, Mr J jh n Gormack, Tie Islands L .ughmore, on Au^st 15, Mr Jo^n Barry, at th, patnarchal age of 92 ye.rs, d,H. Up^gh^ and hv.esr, he was a sincere and warm-hearted fnend, a kind n^ghbour, *,th a heart rea ly to syropahise with others mdisT^. Sprung from an old stock, in whom love of faith and fatherland was inh.ren*, he was a praebcal ex^mplar of both. The B nows of eighty w.n-.is were upoa him when he braved the terrors of evict..),, fr, m bis comfortable homestead at Cloneyharp. f eA rl c8 .ly v.ndica i,g the demands of h>B brother tenants for justice and fair play, H.siMer you, w.re d irker.e Iby the fac that Ms farm was U ld .ob- h.pe.i that the sacnfice 9 m.de by the decease 1 „ d fe-.ce of n-s rack-rented compatnots shall rot be torgotten i i C'fotioulty parish. Westtueatb. -S:re. tP r a^h.n^ ,a Atnl n, U creating considerable dist U rba,co. A l. K e uipl^au: c .ndiMon cx.sted in Ark.ow, Lorlc, L-m iuk un 1 ow,,y, fu.-y Wl ro compelled to leave Cork.