Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 7, 14 June 1895, Page 21

Irish News.

(From contemporaries.)

Armagh.— A dog belonging to a farmer named McKee, Mullyloughran, near Armagh city, became rabid and attacked a large number of animals and bit a boy named Alexander McDonald, of Baiters Grange. Another unfortunate youth, named Norman Rice, who resides in Hockley, was badly bitten. Sergeant Loughran and Constable Conboy, armed with rifles, succeeded in destroying fifteen affected animals. The dog in which the disease originated was shot after an exciting chase. At a special meeting of the Armagh Guardians, Mr Riggs presiding, it was unanimously decided to send the two youths bitten to Paris for treatment by M. Paßteur. Cayan,- Because Mr Fitzsimons, who is a justice of the peace for County Cavar, presided an a meeting of the Irish National Federation recently, Mr Macarkney, M.P., thinks he is unfit to adjudicate at petty sessions, but Chief Secretary for Ireland, John Morley, is not of the same opinion. At a recent meeting of the Bawnboy Guardians, Mr Bernard Kean presiding, a large number of ratepayers and Rev Father O'Reilly and Rev M. O'Reilly were in attendance to urge the necessity of asking the Local Governmact Board to open relief works at once, aB distress ie very pievalent in the union. Several resolutions were then passed asking tLe Congested Districts Board and the Locai Government Board to open teveral roads at once in the union to give employment, and that copies of the resolutions be sent to Mr Knox, M.P., for Cavan. Clare.— As soon as the oidinary business of the Kilrush Board of. Guardians had been disposed o£ on last (Saturday, Mr Francis Griffin said, — Gentlemen, I have an application to make. A tenant named Walsh, on the Vandelenr estate, was evicted out of bis holding at Caberfenick this week. He has a very large family— nine children, himself, and his wife. His mother and father, who were living in a part of the bouse, were also thrown out on the roadside this severe weather, lhey are exposed to great hardship, and the inspec'or of police for the district said, on the day of the eviction, he never saw a more pitiable casa. As I am the guardian for tbe district end the whole thing is in my hands, I propose he gets the full bent fits of the Evicted Tenants' Act. The chairman,— You can allow £1 a week for four weeks to the man and his family, and then the case can be again considered. This is the legal course, and by which you must be guided. Cork.— Alderman Augustine Roche, ex-Mayor of Cork, has been appointed to the Commission of the Peace for the city of Cork. This appointment is wholly non-political, and is a complimentary recognition by the authorities of Alderman Roche's two years' mayoralty. Derry.— An eviction parly proceeded to the townland of Derryganard, recently, sevoral miles from Moneymore, and evicted a farmer on the Sdlters estate. A heavy downpmrof rain fell. A farmer named Michael KcElhone and a small family were left on the roadside. Mcßlhone, it ippeara, owed the Balters Company £24 3-j Id rent, and was evicted from hie holding some time ago, but having retaken possession, was ejected on title. No resistance was offered. As Mr Justice; Gibson, who waß Judge of the assizes, was being driven in the high sheriff's carriage from the courthouse, accompanied by an escort of mounted police, the hoise of a constable fell and rolled over the rider, crushing his leg. Justice Gibson stopped the carriage, got out, and icsi&tpd on the wounded man being placed therein , and driven to the infirmary. His krdßhip then walked to Dacie Terrace in His judicial robe 9. The generous act was fully appreciated by the citizens. Donegal.— At last Malm Pelty Sesßiors Robert Oolhonn, John Colhoun, and Robert D. Starrett were charged with being found in a place where illicit distillation was being carried or. Constable Wat eon eaid he saw smoke issuing from a cave on the eeaehore, and

went toward it. In the cave he found utensils used for illicit practices, but no persons there. Further on he saw Robert Oolhoun, John Colhoun and Robert Starrett climbing the cliffs. John waß carrying a still and stillhead. Mr J. B, Doherty, who defended, argued that the men were not fouod in the place where illicit distillation was being carried on, and ihat, therefore, no offence was committed, The magistrates ruled in his favour, dismissed the case, and then pro« ceeded with the one in which John Colhoun was charged with carry" irq a still and stillbead. Sergeant Barrington corrobated the constable, The magistrates fined the defendant £12. Dublin.— A meeting of the Father Healy Memorial Fund committee was held last week at the Shelboume Hotel, Dublin, Colonel Taaffa Ferrall presided. The Very Rev Canon Qainn read a list of subscriptions received since last meeting, amounting to £100, and said that the total was £1 233. He received a letter from Mr Enight, agent to Lord Meath, stating that his Lordship took a deep interest in the matter, and was prepared to grant a site for the proposed hospital, and if the committee were not prepared to accept it he would give a subscription of £30. He (Canon Quinn) had seen Mr Knigh', and had visited a number of sites on Lord Meath's property, any one of which Lord Meath waß prepared to give. He thought the most suitable was a field known aa Doyle's field, which was oa the Dargle road, although it would cost a good deal of money, to Jevel and terraca it, He considered that, as the meeting was so small, no dtfinite dec'sion should be come to. He though 1 , at the same time, that the best thacks of the committee were due to Lord Meatb f r his generous cffar, and to Mr Knight for the trouble he had taken in the matter. Mr Knight arrived before the meeting terminated, and a cordial vote of thanks was passed to Lord Meath for his generous offer, and alsj to Mr Knight for the trouble he had taken in the matter. Galway.— Accordirg to a dispatch from Dublin the town of "Tuaun was being destrojed by fire od Tuesday, April 2. Population of Tuam at last census was 3,012. It is situated close to the River Clare. On two occasions previously — 1161 and 1244 — it was destroyed by fire. ftmeteen-twentieths of the inhabitants are Catho " lies. Seven hundred pounds have been subscribed for the Father Burke Memorial in Galway. The memorial to the illustrious Dominican in his native city will take the form of a stained glaes window and marble altars in the new Dominican church at Claddagh. At a public meeting held for the purpose ot calling the attention of the Government to the great destitution existing among the poorer class of landowrers, cottiers, and labourers in the mountainous portion of Moycullen parish, owing to the failure of the potato crop, and at which the venerable Father Kenny presided, the secretary being the Rev J. P. Fi'zgerald, resolutions were adopted calling the attention of the Government to the necessity of instituting relief works, suggesting that in the tilieveneena division of the Gal way Union, in which the distress is m st acntely felt, certain roads should be constructed ; and pointing out certain other works that should be undertaken. Kilkenny.— The E*rl of Bessborouijb, of Piltown, County Kilkenny, who died recently after a short illness, was born in 1815 and succeeded to the title in 1880. He sat in the House of Lords aa Baron Ponsonby of Ponsonby. His title dates from 1721, when William Ponsonby was m^mbar for County Kilkenny in tha Irish Parliament Mr T. P. O'Coonor, writing in the Sun, says : "If all Irish landlords were lika »be E*rl of Bessborouga the Irißh land question would have been settled long ago. He knew his Irish estates thoroughly, and often visited them. His tenantry he knew personally, and in countless ways he showed his sympathy with them and his interest ia their affair?, promo' ing a local show clos-e to his family seat at a* Bessborough for their special benefit. Taere were never evictions on the Bessborough estate, and never any rent qaes' tion." He subscribed £100 to the Parnell Defence Fund against the Times. Limerick.— ld the dis'rict of Cahirconlisb, it is stated, lives th 3 oldest man in Ireland, Thirty years ago he was an old man, and

he enjoyed pool health up lo a short lion sncs. He was a farmer' and those who know Mr Kennedy at*te his age is about 120 year 9. Mr Stannard MAdam, agent of Col. O'CMlagban'a Bodyke estate, died recently from typhoid fever. A? a cyclist Mr MAdam wae one of the best knowa men in the south of Ireland, at different times winning coveted prizes, such as the len-mile championship of Ireland, which go placed to hia credit so far back as 1888, while in the following year he won the twenty-five-mile championship at Balisbridge, eventually securing the fifty-mile championship in 1891. As land agent his record is not so good. A very hard case of eviction was carried out at Taogh, in the Adare district, at the suit of Major Bury and bis agent?, Messrs Warren and Michelli, all of Coik, on Monday, Ist April, against Mr Thomaß Purtill in respect of arrears of rent du\ What makes the eviction so hard is the fact that Mr Purtill lodged with the |Re 7 Father FlanaghaD, P.P., Adare, the entire v^lue of the produce o the land fortte year 1894, amcuntirjg to £10 7s 61, and though Father Flanaghan tendered tho Major thig sum and entreated his agents to accept it and bring about some settlement, as Mr Purtill has a very large and young family of ten children, the agents wrote stating they would accept nothing short of two years' rent and costs, hence Mr Purtill's eviction on Monday last Mr Purtill held 30 acres at a rent of £32 15a, Poor Law valuation £29 15s. The land is for the most part miserably poor. The eviction was taken out quietly ; and an emergencyman, the laßt resource of landlordism, supp'anted Thomas Purtill, bis wife, and ten young children. Mayo. — At Mayo Criminal Quarter Sessions, there being no case for hearing, Mr Thomas P. Ruttledge, representing: the High Sheriff, siid he had great pUa u-e in presenting Connty Court Judge John H. Richards wi'h white gloves, as an indication of tbocrimeltPg CDndition of the county, Hia Honour, acknowledging the prfsenta. tion, said he was heartily proud to be the recipient of such c agratulatory evidence of the peaceful condition of this vast and populous county. It was most creditable not alone to the county in general, but to the officers. And he hoped that this happy Btate of things would long continue, as it shows that there is a law-abiding and contented people in the Wes\ Queen's County. — A convert at 105 is a rare event. In Abbeyleix there is at preset a mm named Swain, whosi dfcici n in embracing Catholicity at the advanced age of 10"> has set the Pro c btant minister, Rev Mr Disnty, wild with rage, Swain's wife ard children died in the faith, an I he has always expressed rrs intention of doirg the same. Tipperary. — An ev'ction was carried out in Tipperary at the instance of Mr Smith Barry, the tenant being Mr Ht-nry Ryan, T.C., provision merchant, St Mich »el street. Mr Ryan was one of the first tenants evicted in connection with the late Smith-Barry fight and hiß eviction was of a m'st painful description, he having a helpless family of ten children. Subsequently Mr Ryan reieemed his holding, but not for six months after tho general body of 'he tenants had returned to their housts At tie time of bis eviction Mr Ryan was doing a large and daily increasing trade, but for some inezpli. cable reason it dwindled away atter he was evicted, and when he resumed bußinrßs in bis old premises (hero was no improvement, with the rceu't that he became unable, to meet thn demands of ihe landlord. Although many efforts were made to effect a settlement, the Sheriff's bailiffs, protectel by a small force of police, ejected himself and his yourg heavy family, Mr Thomas P. Kickham, Brot icr of tho lat-j Chirks 1 Kick ham, died on Patrick's night at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs Alexander Kickbam. By the demise of this sterling Irishman has been severed one of the lug* rir^ct links which bound tho present generation with an eventful pa^t, an I with the immediate memory of a prominent ac'or in the Stirling politic 1 scenes of '67, tho author of " Kaocknagow " and " Sally Cavatiagh," the sweet poet of the Anner whose name and fume have become worl'-widc. The coble and brilliant h-storic figu-e of Charles J. Kickham naturally eclipsed his

eui round in<z«, but it is indisputable tb.it no more sterling or truer Irishman bivrf'hed that Thomas I. X ckh>)m. Oof thousind people were present at an action of cattle at Tipperary recently, the prop3rty of Mr Smith- Barry, and as they wore fr.'m evicted farms much indignation wai publicly expressed. The sale was not a successful one by any means, "We9tmeatll*— Recently a meeting was held in the Ballinagore Mill°, in furtherance of the project for co-operation among the farmers of the district. The moving spirit in the matter is Mr George de Belle Ball of Ballinagore House, but from the meeting on Thursday it is apparent that the idea has seised upon the people of the district, and that they are determined to support it. An attraction was provided for the meeting in the presence of the Rev Father Finlay S.J., who has made the 6uhj»cfc a Bpecial study, and of Mr AndersoD, an official of the Central Branch of the Association in Dablin.