Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 16, 26 August 1898, Page 9

Irish News.

ANTRIM-— Grave Commercial Irregularities.— At Dublin, on June 6, the Vice-Chancellor made an order for the compulsory wind-ing-up of the Ligoniel Flax Spinning Company, of Belfast. Grave irregularities had taken place in the business; the value of the company's stock was inflated in the books to the extent of £24,000 by inaans of fictitious entries, and accounts in the ledger had been falsified to the extent of £1100. The liabilities of the company amounted to £00,478 17s Bd, and their property and assets, including some uncalled capital, to £46,455. An Extraordinary Accident. —On premises undergoing alterations on the Donegal road, Belfast, on June 9, three brothers — William Kane, of 1 Main street ; James Kane, of 1 Boyne street, and David Kane, of 64 Clementine street — were clearing away rubbish. Suddenly the pick of one of them struck something hard. A terrific explosion occurred, the Kanes being struck all over the body with splinters and flying stones. The three men were badly injured. ARMAGH.— Accident in a Factory.— in a large factory belonging to John Oompton, J.P., at Umgola, near Armagh, on June 7, something went wrong with the crank of the engine, with the result that a wall in the vicinity was knocked down, and the whole place thrown into panic and confusion. Work was interrupted for about a week. DERRY-— Death of a Centenarian.— Margaret Grant, of Moyheeland, near Draperstown, died recently, at the age of 10H years. She was born in the parish of Maghera, where she witnessed the thrilling events of the troubled days after '98. People in the district were in the habit of visiting her to hear her describe those events. She had a remarkable love for the Irish language, in which she was highly versei, and held an ardent desire of imparting it to all her descendants. DUBLIN-— Death of a Well-Known Merchant.—Alexander Comyns, the wholesale woollen merchant, of College Green, Dublin, died on June 10, at his residence, Ardcuaine, Glenageary. j

Few Irish merchants were as widely known. Comyns not only enjoyed an enormous trade in Ireland, but extended the sale of Irish tweeds on the other side of the Channel. FERMANAGH —Putting it to a New Use —The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned the purchase of the old Presbyterian church property iv East Bridge street, Enniskillen, as a site for a new poat-offi.ee. KERRY— Tourist Season at Killarney. — The tourist season at Killarney does not appear to have opened up very auspiciously. A goodly number of American and English tourists, however, arrived there on June 4 and 0. Deaths Amongst the Clergy.— Death has been particularly busy among the priests of Kerry latterly. Following closely on the demise of Canon O'Sullivan, of Dingle ; the Very Rev. T. Sullivan, Administrator of Tralee ; the Rev. J. Fuller of Castlegregory ; the Very Rev. J. Quille, of Bonane ; the Rev. J. Kielik. of Ballyferriter, comes that of the Rev. Michael Godley, pastor of Glenbeigh. The deceased was 55 years of age, and was about 28 years ou the mission. He was a native of Ballyheijrue, and received his education in the Irish College, Rome, where he had a very distinguished career. He has been stationed at Lixnaw, Listowel, Ballybunnion, and Dingle. From the latter parish he was transferred about 12 months ago to the pastoral charge of Glenbeigh, in the room of the late Rev. T. Quilttr. KING'S COUNTY. — Celebrating Decoration Day.— a meeting of the Edenderry branch of the 'd 8 Centenary Association was held cm June 5, the president, W. Kennedy, in the chair. Readings were given by Thomas Heenan and R. Feely. It was decided to celebrate Decoration Day in Edenderry the following Sunday, that day being the centenary (if the battle of Eallynahinch, and the cowardly murder of Betsy Gray. LOUTH— Shocking Accident.— Patrick M'Cabe. a compositor in the office of the Dra/jheda Co/ixervatice attempted to leave a train while it was in motion in that city recently. He missed his footing and was caught between the train and platform and was horribly crushed. He succumbed to his injuries after a few hours. MAYO.— Developing Industries.— it is the intention of a Mr. Bussey to spend a large amount of money in the opening up of ndustries for the development of minerals in Achill. In order to

facilitate this it is necessary that a relief road now in oourse of oonstruction at Boneyfahey be extended between Darby's Point and Ashleam. The opening of such an industry will give much needed employment to the people of Ashleam, which is to be theohief centre of work. Neighbouring districts will also benefit by it. BLIGO.— The Irish National Teachers.— A public meeting was held in Slig-o on June 9, to protest against the unjust action of the Treasury in withholding from Irish National Teachers £95,000 due to them as arrears of fee grant made under the act of 1892, and against the proposal to violate contracts entered into with teachers in matters of pensions. Resolutions were adopted calling upon the Government to pay die money due to the teachers, protesting against the action of the Government in violating pension contracts, and expressiug surprise at the proposal to force new rules upon teachers reducing the salaries by £14,000 per annum, declaring that the salaries of Irish teachers should be levelled up to those of English and Scotch teachers. TYRONE.— A Destructive Fire.— A fire broke out at The Argosy, the residence of Captain Ralph Bond Skelton, on the River Blackwater, about four miles from Dungannon, recently. The fire occurred in the new wing, which comprises the library, servants' apartments and kitchens, and resulted in its total destruction. Only the outer walls of the west wing remain standing, and the valuable contents of the library were destroyed, with the exception of some furniture. It is supposed that the lire originated through the overheating of a flue. TIPPERARY.— A Useful Life Ended-— The tidings of the death, after a painful illness, of Mother Mary of the Sacred Heart, Superioress of tfce Convent of Mercy, Carrick-on-Suir, will be heard with | very deep sorrow. The deceased lady, in the world Miss Catherine Maddock, was eldest daughter of Mrs. Maddock, Kileens. Shortly after completing her education at Loretto Convent, Wexford (says the San Francisco Monitor), she joined the community of Sisters of Mercy founded at Carrick-on-Suir, from the Wexford Convent by Mother Ignatius Walsh, whose lamented demise occurred a short time ago. The great regard in which Miss Maddock was held by her community may gathered from the fact that though only 41 years of age she had been elected reverend Mother. Miss Maddock had

founded a factory, in connection with her convent, in which hundreds of girls found remunerative and suitable employment. It must have taken great industry and energy to establish a factory capable of employing so many persons. Yet, Mother Mary, assisted by her sisters of the community, proved herself equal to the arduous task. With her sister, who is also a member of the same community, she went to the celebrated factory at Foxford, founded by Mrs. Morrough Ber ard of the Sisters of Charity, and there applied herself to learning the art of weaving and knitting by means of machinery. Having mastered all the details necessary for the laborious undertaking she had in view, she returned to Carrick-on-Suirand founded what is the greatest boon ever conferred upon the town and district — the now famous Clareen Hosiery Factory. Little more than a year ago she organised a bazaar and fete on an extensive scale to help to defray the heavy expenses incurred by the erection of this factory, the products of which have already won celebrity. This, if we except the case of the Foxford factory, is one of the most remarkable cases on record of what a zealous lady, desirous of conferring an abiding benefit upon the public, can accomplish through energy and perseverance. Miss Maddock 1 s whole mind was centred in her noble effort to improve the condition of the grown-up girls of Carrick, and provide a means whereby they might obtain suitable and respectable employment without being condemned to exile from their native Ireland. In this patriotic and noble aim she succeeded admirably and beyond all expectation. WEXFORD— SaIe Of an Estate.— Barry's eetate at Belgrove, owned by John E. Barry, president of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, has been sold to tshe tenants under the Land' Purchase Acts. The price agreed on is 18 years' purchase, by which the tenants will have their rents reduced by 28 per cent. There are six tenants on the estate : Martin Furlong, Nicholas Murphy, Mary Jordan, Patrick Flood, Patrick Murphy and Laurence Barry. The BoolaVOgue '98 Memorial— Twenty years ago a Celtic memorial cross was erected in Boolavogue to the memory of Father John Murphy and the other Boolavogue heroes of '98. Boolavogue can claim the double honour of being not only the first Wexford parish to ' rice' in '98, but of being also a fifth of a century before the rest of the county in raising a monument in honour of the patriots of '98. This being the centennial year of the insurrection, it was deemed advisable to establish the cross in a more appropriate position than the place of its original allocation, Through the Key,

J. Long a commanding site was procured in the centre of the local remetery and as near as possible to the spot where stood the chapel which was burned down by the Ferns Yeomanry Corps on Whitsunday, 1798, a few hours before the Battle of the Harrow. GENERAL. Discovery "of Human Remains in an Ulster Eog.— A.n extraordinary discovery was made in Clonmaofeliny bog about two miles from Lisnaskea, by a man named John Todd. Todd was engaged cutting turf, and under the fifth floor he came on a very peculiar looking object and also some bones. The discovery wiis at once reported to the Lisnaskea Police. The remains were afterwards conveyed to the Lisnaskea Workhouse, and an inquest held by Major Winslow, coroner for the district. Dr. Knox said he had examined the remains, and he believed them to be human. He was of opinion that they must have been in the bog for a great number of years, as the bones were almost all disintegrated, the skin remaining intaofc, owing, he would say, to the preservative qualities of ihe stratum in which it was found. The jury returned the following verdict :—: — ' That the said remains found in Clonmacfeliny bog on the 4th June, 1898, are human, and as they are supposed to have been there for a great many years we have no means of abcertuining the cause of death.'