GENERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 33, 22 December 1898, Page 10

GENERAL.

Disfranchisement. — !a nearly every county in Ireland the Revision Courts found out that the short and easy way of disfranchising voters was for the landlord to abstain fr.»m paying his rates On holdings under £4 yearly value, of which there is an enormous number, the rates are paid by the landlord. The Irish ' Bull.'— There have been several attempts from time to time to trace the origin of t-ie Irish ' bull.' According to a letter addressed to the Daily Telegraph we have to thank a cer'ain Obadiah Bull, an Irish lawyer, who went to Lond< n and flourished in the reign of Henry VII., for the word. Ha hid a strong brogue and his entertaining blunders were circulated as ' another '• lr sh Ball." ' Death Of a Patriot.— John Edtnond Moyle Mohoney, a staunch Irish patriot, died in Liverpool recently, at the age of 43 years. He was a civil engineer and building surveyor by profession and like many anoth' r giited Irishman, he could get no encouragement in his own land, and was eventually driven to seek a livelihood in the land of the stranger. In the stirring days of the Land League agitation he took a prominent part in furtheung the National cause, and buffered imprisonment as a ' eubpect.' He had the distinction of making the acquaintance of the iubide of four gaols

tT£a Som^ 11 '-^* 11^? 0^ 11 ' and Ka«nainham. He was released from Kilmamham ia May, 1882, simultaneously with se^SL? S£s? J ever ' and wh j le a prißoner he fotced Chief beoretaty Uorater to remove the whole body of 'BusDeota' he, m conjunction with Patrick CahiU,pf Weiiington Ly Dublin' exertion^ , Wh VJ PnSfi- 1 * ? k ' reat nieaßU^ufto¥i B untiring