Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 42, 15 February 1895, Page 21

Irish News.

(From contemporaries.) ' Antrim. — Mr Jobn Dillon, M.P., addressed a great meeting of Belfast Nalicnalists in baiat Mary's Hall during the wetk. Mr Samuel , Ycung, M.P , presided. In bis address Mr Dillon paid a high and , well deserved compliment to (lie Nationalists of Belfast, thus :—": — " It j was a gieat pleasure for acy member of the Irish party to come before a Belfast audience, because in Belfast they found an atmosphere , which was always wholesome and refreshing. Throughout all the yearp, sirce 1890, Belfast was always united and fixed towards the Pole Star of the Irish cause." Cavan.— W« have to announce the death of a devoted member of the Ordrr of Chrieti m Brothers in the person of the Rev Brother John Jamen Smyth, which took phice as the house of the Order, James Btreet, Dublin, lately. Brother Smyth was a native of Cavan, and was born about the year 1825 Owing to failing health eight years I ago he bad to retire from the teaching staff, in which he bad rendered j eplendid service. Horcevv r, he did not remain inictive, for be under- ' took the collectiDg of funds for tre Novitiate at Marino, Fairview, j He was interred on Saturday in Giasnevin. ; Cork.— William O'Brien, M P., delivered the inaugural ' address of the session '94-95 to the members of the Cork National | Society last week, the subject was '' France as an Ally of Ireland "' , Mr O'Brien treated his subject in a lucid, interesting and masterly 1 manner, traversing a great portion of Irish history, local, national and fort ign. An old woman named Kate Gearan, who lived to the remarkable age of 115 ycarp, has just died, k-avicg a large number of children and grandchildren. Deceased, who resided near the townland of Ballinskellingp, had betn for some time confined to bed through old age, but otherwise was in lull possession of all her menial faculties. All her children emigrated to America and Australia some years ago, with the exception of one daughter, who is an old woman herself, being about 85 years. Tc-day at the weekly meeting of the Middleton Board of Goardianp, Mr M. J. Buckley, J.P., V.G. presiding, Mr M. F. Murphy, P.V.0., brought under the notice of the guardians a painful eviction case which occurred in his district duriDg the week, viz., the electoral division of Cloyne. The evicted holding was the lands ot Bhariagary, area 3-i acres, and yearly lent £60, the landlords being George Fredeiick Durdon and Charles Durdon, of Banelagh, in the | county Dublin. The tenant, Murtin Fennessy, with his wite and eight children were now in a destitute condition, and as the loctl guardian ha a9ked that £1 a week as outdoor relief be granted to the evicted tenant. In reply to the chairman, Mr Murphy explained tbat the eviction took place for non-payment of rent, the greater portion of the holding being subject to the flow of the tide. The relieving officer was directed to give at one-) proviaicnal relief in the case and report fully next Saturday the result of visit to the destitute family. Derry, sir Frederick Heygate died recently at Belladena. His son, who is married to a daughter of the late Mr Walter of the limes, succeeds to the title and esUtes, Sir Frederick, who was in his 73rd year, represented Go inty D;rry m tha H iiaa of Commons for fifteen years. Donegal* — Mr Jamrs Kylly, boatbuilder, Portrusb, has been busily engaged in executing an order from tha Congested Districts Board for fishing boats for the fisherman ia tha C maty Mayo. On Friday last the funeral of Mr J^mas O'NVill took place in the Abbey, Ballyshannoa. It w\a Ur^ly attended by the leading members of the Natu nal party in the neighbourhood. Mr James O'Neill was one of the first victims of the evictions of the early eighties, being put oat by Dr Teovan sixteen yeara ago. His farm was for a long time waste, but was grabbed seven years ago. Outdoor relief and finally death was the end of this martyr to the causa.

Galway.— The Tuam News of November 16 had the following simple but most pathetic item:— "Poor Denis KeatingUrraghrey, with his long and helpless family, would have found him. Belf on the roadside bereft of shelter, on the Bth inst, when the sheriff's b»iliff came to take up possession for Lord Clancarty, bad it not been for the fact that one of his children — a little girl of 13 — lay sick unto death, and the doctor who was attending her, certified that her life would be endangered by her removal. Keating owea a year and a half's rent, which six months of forced confinement to hia bed from illness, prevejted him from meeting, Tha same old story, that enters bo largely into the short and simple annals of the Irish peasant, how often told." The water supply for Ballinasloe town under a ntw schema will be obtained from the River Suck in Derrytnullan. The system will have three filter bed*. Tne witer, after being filterel, will bo pumped into a 9-in pipe laid underground, crosses the railway under the Biver Sack Bridge, and reaches the Lleaghmore road, 300 yards west of Mount Pleasant avenue, then across the Fair Green io Dunlo Hill, and along the Brackurna^h roai to tha reservior on M-it Cstrr's Hill in Duulo Towalind. Th-i pipula'ion of Ballinasloe is 4730, and at 20 g-illona per head par day tha supply required is 95 000 gallons per d,iy, which may ba aldal 50 000 gallons per day, which is said to be the quantity required for the District Lunatic Asylum, making a total supply of 145 000 gallons per day. The cost will be over j 30,000J015. I Fermanagh,-Mr Hugh C. Tierney, a Catholic and native | of Lissoa, near li miannl to, wai lit-sly elected a Town Councillor of ' Carmarthen, Wales. Hh opponents werj a'rona; men, one being the presjnt Mayor of t he town, *nd the other principal of the Presbyterian College. Carmarthen u-ed io be the capital of South Wales, and its old charters date b .ck to Hichard II; but Mr 7'ierney is probably the filst Irishman who ev^r sat on the Common Council of that ancient borongb. It is a m<it>t certain he is the first pronounced Catholic elected to any such poeiti ,n since the days of Qieen Elizabeth. Kilkenny. — Some excitement was caused in Kilkenny last week wnen it bee->m>i known tl.it thn <^h:ef Secretary was in the city. He was at Lord Da Voscii'd, at Darrow, and was on his way to Waterfotd. Passing by tha Marble City he broke his jiurney and spent a few hours in vie<vi'ig the many plac;s of historic interest with which it abounls. Ha was received by Mr A. S. Heard, Divisional Commissioner. He viai'ed the S: Franoiq Abbey Brewary. In one of the yarJs his attentio i wta attracted by a loai of Castlecomer coil, and he asked many queat'oas about thn collieries, and was interested to hear of th-t peculiar properties of Kilkenny coal. After leaving ttn brewery he insp iccnd 'h * ruins of St Francis Abbey, and also thp Black Abbej, Sl Canice's Cathedral and St Mary's Cathedral. He then paid a visit to Ormonde Castle and its grand picture gailery. Ho took a long look at SL Patrick's Arch, one of the old city g-ita^, tnrou^u wmel in the tro tbl • i days of the great civil w.»r the Pap\l Nun'.u j Rinuccini entered Xi kenay. t,iniericb.— Seven hundred men of the Royal Irish Regiment, now stationed in Limerick city, attended M-isa on Sunday in St John's cathedral. After the fi^st Gospel, Most Rev Dr O'Dwyer, Bishi p of Limerick, addressed the men, congratulating them on, being sent to Limi-nck, and a ided that during their stay here he 'tnd his priests would do all in their power to make them happy. His Lordship a'so warned the men against drink, and exhorted taem to Bhun public housep, After Ma*a the regiment marched to the barracks, the band playing " O'Doonell Abao." Mr Michael F<iz*eralil, P.L G , Loughil, House, County Limerick has baen sworn ia a Justice of the Poace for that County btfore Dr M'Donnell, J.P., Ghn. Mr Fitzgerald is a well-kaowa Nationalist in the district, and his appointment ia a very p pular one. ; A telegram was received the other day by the Redemptonst s Fathers of Lnaeiick ci'y anii< nucing the transfer of the rector Father Vassal, to Bibhop Eaton, near Liverpool. He is to be hue ceeded by iiev Father Griffith from Bishop Baton. Father Bany l

directed to hold himself in readiness to proceeJ to Australia, ard he i will ba succeeded by Father Bsrchmar.", an old friend and former J spiritual director of the Arch ' Confraternity of the Holy Family. i An election took place last week for a town counsellor to repre- ' sent the Custom House Ward, Limerick city, and the result waa a ' great surprise to the supporters of the Parnellite candidate. The vacancy was caused by the recent election of Town Councillor Carr ( to the aldermanship, and the candidates were Mr John O'Bonnell, Nationalist, and Mr William Trounsell, Parnellite. An easy victory was anticipated for Mr Trounsell, the ward being considered a Parnellite stronghold, but at the scrutiny it was found that Mr O'Donnell had polled 27 votes to 25 for Mr Trounsell. Mr O'Donnell was accordingly declared elected. Longford. — Mr T. M. Healy, sp.iaking at LoDgford the other day, said people asked what good is this Rome Rule Govern. ment, He would remind them that they had had to teach Mr Gladstone and Mr Forster, and they had to address their new governors, Lord Bosebery and Mr Morley. The grievances of Irishmen required redress as much as ever, and he put before them the consideration whether it would not be well to keep the Government in office for another year to enable them t:> pass a Und B 11. Thr>y had had a bad harvest ; their potatoes were black, a -id there was no price scarcely for anything. These faits entitled them to fair reductions and delay in payment. How was the House of Lords to be dealt with? In his opinion the opposition of that House would disappear like mists before the sun the moment Her Majesty's Government Btaowed itself determined to deal with it. Something would have to be done to save the Irish causa and Home Rule. It waa no answer to say there were difficulties in the way ; they must insist that the battering ram be applied to the doors of th 9 Upper House, propelled by a uoited Ministry. Mayo.— Twenty- eight tenants on the Kiltneana property of the Misses McD>nnell waited upon the agent of Mr T. F. Rutledga, and claimed a leduclioa of rent. The agent refuse-!, and the tenants retired without paying. ' ItlOiiagllSll, — Mr John Hand pr- ai le i at h rec«nt meet- I ing of the Aughinamullen West branch oE the huh Nitional Federation, when tbe followi.-g rcai'ut'on was adopted uuanimously :— | " That owing to the complete failure of the pota o crop ia the conn- j Iry, the low prices for flax, butter, and pork, we call upon all thj i landlords of the parish to grant subs'antul abatements on the rents falling due, and to extend the time of piynvjnt till March." Xipperary. —II r Abbot', arbitrator, I eld an irquiry at , Cashel Workhouse, in reference to the value of s tea to be acquired b> the guardians under the Labourers' Act. The number of cottages proposed to be built is 42, in the electoral divisions of Ardmayle, Ardsallagh, BallysheehaD, Cashel, Clogher, Conoulty Weßt, Cooleagh, Fethard, Galle, Craigue, Killeunasteena, X lockgraffon, Magorban, Nodstown, and Oughterleague. Daring thj inquiry several of the guardians complained of the high awards made by Mr Abbott in several instances. Mr Abbott said he did not go by the ten mis' rent, but by tbe value of the land. Tyrone.— The tsnantson the estate of Dr Tuompson of Bellaghy, townland of Djrrycrin, near Ooagh, aased him for oa m the pound off this year's ren*, owing to th,-> f.u'uro < f the potato and other crops and the small prices obUinol. The landlord declined. "Weßtnieatll.~Mulling.ir N;vember fair w-s not a good one. A great number of pigs remained unsold. The cattle market was well filled, but the demand was slow. Sheep and horses, when compared with former year?, held their own in numberß and prices. The Mullingar Board of Guardians at a recent meeting was served with three eviction notices at the suit of liosa Warbutton against William Seery, J\mes Secry, and Anno Sjory of Clooncvhague, Wexford.— At the church of St Pierro de Chftillot, Paris, lately, the marriage of Piinca Murat with the Baronns Hainguerlot took place. The new Princess is Lydia, eldcit daughter of Charles

John Vigors Harvey, of Killiane, by Martha, daughter of Thomas Read Kemp of Kemp Town, Brighton, England. She married her first bu3b ,nd, then M Arthur Hainguerlot of Chalais some two decades ago. At the ceremony on Wednesday the Due de Monchy and the Prince de Wagram— a Napoleonic conjunction— looked afier the bridegroom. The witness for the bride was her only brother, Mr Charles Harvey.