Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 1, 3 May 1895, Page 21

Irish News.

(From contemporaries.) Antrim.— A land meeting was hsld daring the week In the Proteit&at Hall, Antrim. It being market day, there was a large number of farmers in the hall. Admission was by ticket. The chair was occupied by Mr Samuel Black, who was heard with much enthntium during his speech, after which a number of resolution boring on the land question were adopted. Armagh.— The members of the Keady Branch of the Iriih National Federation met iv the Town Hall on Sunday. Among those present were Bey P. McShane, president, in the chair ; M. Smyth, secrstary ; P. Hughes, T. Woods, P. Keenan, J. McArdle, B. Fegan, B. McCann, M. Blevin, J Slevin, F. Mullan, assistant secretary, etc. Much interest was taken in the proceedings, as posters bad been extensively circulated in the locality intimating that an evicted farm wbs up for letting. The reverend chairman described the hardship of the eviction. The tenant, Mr Henry McArdle, had several times tendered hia rent, with all arrears, but nothing but the land would satisfy the agent. The tenants on the Ball estate, CrossmagleD, applied for 20 per cent abatement on the rent due in November. The application was supported by the Very Bey Canon McQeeney and Rev P. Kerley, who wrote that there was keen distress on the estate — the want of the very necessaries of life. The agent has jast informed the tenants that no reduction will be granted, because an abatement given two years ago deprived the landlord of a considerable sum. CarlOW.— Mr E. J, Byrne, auctioneer, 8!f Tallow Street, Carlow, lately put up for sale at Johnstown a farm of forty-two •ores, held at the rent of £63 a year by Mrs H. J. Sheppard, Johnstown, There was a good attendance. It was knocked down to Mr Lawrence Byrne at £455 Clare.— The memorial altir to the late reverend pastor of Oarrigaholt, Bey P. Brennan, haß been finished, and will soon be in the parish church. It is of Gothic character, and composed of statuary, Sicilian and coloured marbles and Caen stone. Beneath the altar table is a finely carved representation of the Entombment The inscription is as follows :— " To the memory of tho Rev P. Brennan, P.P., of Carrigaholt, from December, 1886. to December, 1*93, — 8.1 P." The canopy rises to a considerable height, and is supported by shafts of red granite. At the Bankruptcy Court in London, on February 7th, an application waa made for a discharge in the case of J. R. Cox, exmember for East Clare. He was in 1892 defeated in East Clare by W. iedmond, and unsuccessfully petitioned against the return, judgment being obtained against him for £2,260 costs by Mr Redmond, who is the petitioning creditor. It was urged on behalf of the bankrupt that the Irish Parliamentary party had deposited a thousand pound 9 to cover the coßts, The Registrar suspended the discharge for two yean. Cork.— Tht Commission of the Peace for the city of Cork has been conferred on Mr Georgeson, secretary of the Cork Young Men's Christian Association, and a staunch Protestant Home Ruler. He baa done much for the imy> r o' T e!Yiert «Dd development of ihe herring and mackerel curing indußtry on the Eouth and west coasts, in connection with which be employs several hundred people. Donegal.— The Irish Highlands Hotel Company will open the Bundoran Hotel in May. The honourable member for West Donegal, Mr T. D. Sullivan, fats bean investigating the disressful condition of his constituents. Entering at Letterkennj, he travelled through the constituency from «nd to end, from the Mulroy to Ardara. Ho applied himself in businesslike manner to the task of learning by intercourse with the people the actual condition under which existence is maintained in tne distant and almost inacessible part of Donegal, He held district

meetings as he went along, at Oarrigart, at Dunfanaghy, at Gweedore, at Kinkaslagh and at Dungloe. Thomas F. Brady appeals, through the Freeman't Journal, for aid for the families of the five fishermen of Arranmore Irland, who were drowned in January. He says : " One man left a widow, two young girls aged one and two, and another expectsd soon to be born. Another left a widow and one child, and another expected to be born in a few weeks ; also an old father and mother, who are worse than children, and a delicate sistsr. Another left an old mother, aged seventy, and one sister. Another, aged nineteen, left a ffatherr r mother, and seven brothers and sisters, all younger than himself. This poor fellow wbb home from Scotland only four days. It was his first night to go out fishiog after his return. Whatever money he had earned duriog hie three or four months in Scotland, after paying for a net for himself, was in a purse in his pocket when drowned, and has been lost. Another man left a father and mother, both feeble, a brother and two young Bisters. This poor family also lost the boat, which was a new one." Any contributions may be lodged in the National Bank, Doblin, to Mr Brady's credit, marked " Drowned Fisherman's Fund," or sent direct to him at 11 Percy Place, Dublin. Down.— Speaking at Mayobridge on Sunday, Mr John Dillon, M.P., urged unity and activity among Nationalists. He refuted statements of Mr Redmond as to the reason of Mr Gladstone's retirement, and said instead of spreading false tales and lying stories about Mr Gladstonp, Mr Redmond and his friends would be far better and more patriotic if they were to listen to the counsel of that wise old man and give up faction. Dublin. — The Irish ParlUmantary Fund has received a splendid impetus in response to Mr Justin M'Carthy's appeal. The Hon Edward B!ake, M.P., beads the list with a subscription of £100, and among the others are Lady Winifred Robinson, per Mr Dillon, M.P., £40; Mr Thomas E. O'Brien, Lird-Lieutenant of County Limerick, per Mr Dillon, M P., £50 ; Mr Edward Cuming, 8.L., per Mr Justin M'Carthy, £10, and Mr Thomas Hassan, Belfast, per Mr M'Cartan, M.P., £10. The shareholders of the Dublin ArtisanB 1 Dwellings Company are satisfied with the report presented; at the last half yearly meeting. The rent for the period wae £12.518 3s 41, showing an increase compared with previous half year of £446 4s. A dividend at the rata of 4J per cent per annum was adopted. The balance, £2,781 15s 6d, carried to the dep- eciation fund, which now sands at £35,093 8a 7d. The company's dwellings now number 1,978. Fifty-eight bsw houses are in progress of being built, and the plans of eighty-rues additional ones are ready. Fermanagh, — Mr Justice Monroe, speaking in the Land Court, Dublin, recently stated it was useless to put up landed property for sale, aB just now the public do not know what they are pnr. chasing. The attempted sale of estates on which there are tenants proved in recent years a waste of time and money. Patrick Maguire, member of the Boho Branch of the Irish National Federation, was recently evicted from his holding on the Lestrange estate. Maguire offered half the amount due, but it was not accepted. C*alway« — Work was commenced at the premises of the new woollen factory, Galway, last week. Men were employed to clear the place and prepare it for the necessary changes required ie the milla in order to make them suited to the business. There is ample space for a fine large factory, and room to spare. It has the advantage of being about the finest of the premises within the town that could be selected. No time will be lost in making the buildings suitable for the reception of machinery. On Sunday a great national demonstration was held at Byehill, near Athenry, which is on the outskirts of Mr John Roche's constituency, and touches North Galway, for which Colonel Nolan, M.P., sits. A notable feature was the presence of a very large number of Colonel Nolan's tenants, also many persona who hitherto supported the Redmonditee. The object of the meeting was to protest against

the eviction of Mies Graham from her farm by Mr D.»dwell, a landowner in the district. Lonjfford.— Tbe new election of Commissioners for Longford, ordered by the Queen's Bench Division on account of irregularities at the annual contest, took place during the week. Tbe result was a majority for the Bedmondite and Tory parties. It is notorious that thpse two parties are in coalition in Longford, as is demonstrated by tbe fact that the expenses of the respondents in the petition suit were partly defrayed by the latter. Mr John Quinn was the presiding officer. After the declaration of the poll a very noisy gang of Bedmonditeß crowded into the jury room, and acted in the most disgraceful manner. Loutll.— Mr Peter Lynch, a member of the Irish National Federation, has been appointed a Justice of Peace for the county. He waa High Sheriff for the town of Drogheda for 1894. Monaghan.-At the coroner's inquest held in Monaghan, on the 7th ult, into the circumstances connected with the death of Frederick H. Galway and James B. Cowan through the ice accident at Caitleblayney, it transpired that Mr Galway acted most heroically, and lost bis life in endeavouring to sare that of his companion. A farmer named James H. Armstrong stated that he was in the field upon his farm, when he saw two men skating towards him along tbe shore. The two men first went down through the ice. He saw Mr Galway clamber out on the ice and go on his hands and knees part of the way to the shore. Mr Galway then took off his Bkates and proceeded to break a branch of a tree. He (Mr Galway) then went with the branch towards where his companion was clinging to the ice, and the ice either broke or he was dragged into the water when attempting to gave his companion. The verdict was "accidental drowning." Queen's County.— At the Maryborough Quarter Sessionb lately the Marquis of Lansdowoe of Luggacurren evic'ion fame had an ejectment against one of his planters, named Samuel W. McDowell, for non-payment of rent. Tbe defendant held p,irt of the laDds of Luggacurren known as Manger and Ferney Hill, at a yearly rent of £36. It appeared there was £65 10s due. A decree for possession was given. SligO.— Becently an eviction was carried out on the estate of Mr L'EstraDge of Sligo. Tbe scene of the eviction lies in the townland of Leitrim, near Derrygonnelly, in Fermanagh County. The victim is Patrick Maguire, a local Nationaliat. Ihe rent of the farm was £17 per annum ; amount due at the data of the eviction, three and one-half years' rent, one-half of which was actually offered Mr L'Estrange, provided a settlement would be granted. This offer would not be accepted, consequently the eviction was carried into effect. Only a few months ago Mr Maguire'i sister was evicted for non-payment of rent, the two-th-rds of which was offered in cate of settlement. Her hay was bought by the bailiff of the landlord. Hence the great demonstration at Boher— at which Mr Davitt attended — condemnatory of grass-grabbing, Xipperary, — Thurles Town Commissioners are about erecting a town hall. A long-felt want will then be no lorjger felt. Tyrone.— Very Eev Emile Piche, of Armagh, delivered a lecture in the Catholic Hall, Cookstown, recently, on " Irish and French Canadians in the Province of Quebec." Bey J. Bock, pastor, Clone, presided. A large and appreciative audience waß present. In the course of his very interesting discourse he said : " With hemes, having families of fifteen and twenty children the French elemencin Qanada began to tell, and the few English and Scotch families scattered here and there were soon assimilated , and I may say that our Canadian great-grandmothera played the same trick over the hearts of the victors as the fair girls of Tipperary did over the IronBides of Cromwell. They surrendered without conditions and became more Canadian than the Canadians themselves." Nationalists in this county generously subscribed during last year the sum of £328 to assist the national cause : Evicted Tenantb' Fund, £259 ; Parliamentary Fund, £6».

"Waterford.— Mr John Bedmond, M.P., for Waterford City, has received an invitation to speak before Cambridge Union Society, in the University of Cambridge, on the Irish question, and has accepted. Westmeatn,— Farrancallen farm of pasture land, containing 60 acree, 2 roods, 29 perches, was put up for sal 9by Mr Frank Cleary, auctioneer, Mullingar, and was knocked down to Mr Mlcbael Duffy for £300.