Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 14, 5 April 1900, Page 9

Irish News.

CORK.— Death of a Leading Medical Man-— The city of Cork has lost one of its best known citizens, and the medical profession one of its brightest ornaments by the death of Professor O'Sullivan, M.D. For years Dr. O'Sullivan had been associated with the Queen's College in his native city. It would be difficult to estimate the number of medical students that have passed through his hands. The deceased professor was accorded a, public funeral, at which the clergy, the members of the medical profession, and all public bodies in the city were represented.

DOWN —Death of General Perceval.— The death is announced of General Perceval, C.8., at his residence, Dillon House, Downpatrick. He had reached the age of 86, and was the younger brother of Major R. Perceval Maxwell, D.L., Finnebrogue House, Downpatrick, who assumed by Royal license in 1830 the additional surname and arms of Maxwell.

DUBLIN-— The Lord Mayor.— Lord Mayor Pile (says the Irish People) is a broad-minded Parnellite Nationalist, a very energetic and able man, and a Protestant. The Belfast Newsletter congratulates Dublin on having shown toleration by electing him. That is nothing new in Dublin. The last thing any Catholic in the Corporation thought of was to felicitate himself on the fact that he was not a confirmed brainless bigot. Mr. Pile's religion was never once mentioned all along. Mr. Pile himself never dreamed of anticipating any opposition ou account of his religion. But the thought arose very naturally to the mind of the Belfast print which described 'the mere Irish' — like the Dublin Corporation — as 'a contemptible race.'

The High Sheriff of the City-— The Lord Lieutenant has appointed Mr. Joseph Downes, J.P., T.C., of Ecclea street, Dublin to the office of High Sheriff of the city. ,

A Harp With a History.— A New York lady recently re. ceived from Dublin a musical instrument with an interesting history. It is (says the Boston Pilot) the harp of Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, and is the property of Marie Glover-Miller, the concert singer and soprano soloist of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jeaus. The instrument belonged to her grandfather, the late Professor Glover, of Dublin, to whom it was given by the Messrs. Power of the city, the firm that first published Moore's poems. Professor Glover, shortly before his death, gave it to his daughter. Mrs. Daniel Glover Sullivan, organist of the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York. She presented it to her daughter in turn, Mrs. Miller The harp is of the style known as the Irish Dalway. It is about three fePt in height and weighs perhaps ten pounds. It has a gracefully curved front pillar and sweep of neck. On one side of the instrument is a silver plate bearing the inscription : ' Moore's harp, presented by Professor Glover.'

Interesting particulars regarding Trinity College.— The great educational institution of Ireland, Trinity College, one of the finest in the world in its appointments and standard of excellence (says a contemporary), is generally associated with the name of Queen Elizabeth as its founder. It is true that in her reign it was revived and was formally opened in I.VJ3. But ith^d been in successful operation two centuries before under Irish Catholic auspices, until closed during the fury of the anti-Catholic persecutions from the reign of Henry VIII. to Elizabeth. In a debate which took place in July. 1884, in the British Parliament on Education in Ireland, Mr. Wyse a (Protestant), tbc member for Waterford, gave the following account of this university, which \va^ uncontradicted by any member — • Trinity College is generally supposed to have been founded by Queen Elizabeth, but that was merely a revival, as funds for that purpose were derived from certain confiscated monasteries. The first attempt to erect a university in Ireland was made by John Lech, Archbishop of Dublin, in 11512, who obtained from Pope Clement V. a Bull for its foundation and endowment It was afterwards richly endowed by several persons. In 1-1 7.1 the university was revived, and a fresh Bull isßued to renew the foundation, owing to the exertions of the Dominican Friars. This university was long supported by those who resorted there. But in Elizabeth's time the establishment was for the education of youth without any interference with their religion. From the commons' journal of Ireland it appeared that continual interference was made with the establishment ; and the preservation of its library was, ultimately, entirely owing to the exertions of a Catholic missionary. Catholics were at length excluded in 1703, not from education there, certainly, but from fellowship ; and so it had continued down to the present time. No doubt, as regarded the professorships, a few were filled by Catholics. One of those was the professorship of foreign languages. Now, what were the funds of this college ? He could not speak positively, but he understood the landed property belonging to the university to be not less than 231,000 acres in extent.'

Congratulating the Archdeacon of Glendalough-— On the second Sunday in February the parishioners of St. Laurence O'Toole's, Dublin, presented an address of congratulation to the Yen. Archdeacon Brady, P.P., on the completion of his golden jubilee of the priesthood. Father Brady is Archdeacon of Glendalough, a title coming down from the days of the sainted Archbishop who opposed the English occupation in the end of the twelfth century.

Death of the Registrar-General —The death is reported of Mr. Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw, M.A., M.D., J.P., and the RegistrarGeneral for Ireland, at his residence, Priorsland, Carrickmines, after a week's illness. The deceased gentleman was 66 years of age.

GAL WAY.— A Generous Landlord.— A large farm of over two hundred acres at Caheenashellny. has been split up and distributed among the tenants by Lord Frederick Daly. The Galway Rural District Council marked its sense of appreciation of Lord Frederick's action by unanimously passing him a vote of thanks, and hoped his example would be generally followed.

KERRY— The Aghadoe Crozier.— ln a reoent number of the Journal of the Cork Historical and Arehcßologioal Society the Rev. Father O'Donoghue gives an account of a very interesting relic of ancient Irish workmanship. It is a orozier which a fisherman found in 1807 in the River Laurie near where ifc joins the Lower Lake at Killarney. The crozier, which wai secured by the late Bishop Moriarty and is now in the possession of his successor, the Most Rev. Dr. Coffey, Bishop of Kerry, has been pronounced by competent judges to be one of the most perfect specimens of early Irish art in such work that has survived to our time. The art authorities of the Kensington Museum admired it so muoh that as they could not have it for exhibition in London they invited one of the nuns in charge of the School of Art attached to the Presentation Convent, Tralee, to make a full-sized water-oolor drawing of it, and this they placed on permanent exhibition at Kensington. Father O'Donoghue assures those who may wish to examine it that it is an exceedingly accurate and true delineation of the original — a perfect facsimile ns far as skill and color could procure one. There is no dare on the crozier, but it is believed to belong to the tenth or eleventh centuries. Father O'Donoghue's conjeoture is that it wai an ancient heirloom of the cathedral of Aghadoe, that it wa« preserved in the island of Innisfallen by the Priors and Canons who served that Cathedral, that they presented it to Dr. Rioh&rd O'Oonnell, first Bishop of the united dioceses of Ardfert and Aghodoe, that it was thrown into the lake by John Morley, his servant and an Anglo-Irish convert, before he was murdered by Cromwellian persecutors in one of the islands, and that it drifted into the River Laune.

KING'S COUNTY.-The Church at Seir-Kieran,— The Most Rev. Dr. Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory, has issued an appeal for funds wherewith to continue the building of the new church at Seir-Kieran, King's County. The old chapel, now tottering and dangerous to worshippers, was built more than a century ago, and the foundation of the new ohuroh was laid last October, when a sura of £500 was generously subscribed by Catholics from the dioceses of Ossory, Killaloe, Kildare and Leighlin, and Meath. Seir-Kieran is one of the oldest parishes in Ireland, and is hallowed by many holy associations with St. Kieran.

KILD ARE — The Wounded Soldiers of the Land War.— An influential meeting 1 of the people of Kildare was held in Newbridge recently, under the presidency of the Right Rev. Mgr. Tynan, P.P., to advocate the reinstatement of the evicted tenants, those ■wounded soldiers of the land war, who for years past have been wintering on the hill-sides within view of their holdings, from which they were ruthlessly turned out by the crowbar brigade.

LONGFORD— Re-opening of St Mel's Cathedral.—The re-opening of St. Mel's Cathedral, Longford, after redeooration, etc. was attended by the Most Rev. Dr. Hoare, Bishop of Ardagh and' Clonmacnoise, who celebrated High Mass, and by the Most Rev. Dr. Gaffney, Bishop of Meath, and a great gathering of olergy and laity! A sum of £1000 has been spent on the Cathedral, whioh is a splendid edifice.

MONAGH AN— Reunion of Monaghan men in Glasgow. — The natives of County Monaghan held their annual reunion in the Grand National Hall , Glasgow, recently. The Very Rev. Canon O'Neill, P.P., Clones, Ireland, occupied the chair, and was supported on the platform by an influential body of the clergy and friends of the county Monaghan. The speeches, the concert, and the grand assembly which followed showed that the people of the county of Monaghan resident in Glasgow were not behind their neighbours in the triangular arts of oratory, music, and jig.

TIPPERARY.-A Generous Landlord.— it is announoed that Mr. Godfrey L. Taylor, J.P., County Wexford, agent for Mr. John Pennefatber Hare, of London, who owns a large amount of house property in Cashel, has given notice to all his weekly tenants, numbering seventy, that he will pay the rates for them, and also that he will allow to his yearly tenants half rates as usual. All Mr. Hare's tenants have comfortable holdings.

A War Office Bungle-— ln reporting the removal of the Cheshire Militia regiment from Limerick to Tipperary a Home paper gives the following story regarding the business methods of the British War Office : — The War Office prepared plans for Barracks at Tipperary and Hongkong. The plans got mixed, and the Tipperary Barracks were built at Hongkong, and the Hongkong Barracks at Tipperary. The result is that the Hongkong Barracks are a little stuffy, and the Tipperary Barracks a little chilly.

WICKLOW — Presentation to a Public Man.— Mr. James Gernon, vice-chairman of the Wicklow Urban Council, was recently presented with an address and a well-filled purse of sovereigns by the Nationalists of the county on the occasion of his departure after ten years' residence. Mr. Christopher Murray, chairman of the Harbor Board, presided. Speeches were made by Messrs. Murray, M'Carroll, O'Reilly, Davis, De Courcy, Langton, Byrnes, Doyle, and Captain Gregory. GENERAL. A Boom in Irish Lace.— At last the Irish industry of laoe making, frequently referred to in the columns of M.A.P., has received a real impetus and found a flourishing market. American women have developed a great enthusiasm for Irish lace, and, of course, the demand will lead to its being greatly used in Paris and Vienna. Irish crochet lace has been recently very greatly improved

by using a fine cream and tan-colored thread, and the patterns are very original and effective.

Distress in the Arran Islands-— The ex-Lord Mayor of Dublin, who did much iv 18!>3 to relieve the distress then existing in the west of Ireland, haa come to the rescua of the families left destitute by the sad disaster which took place off Arran Islands on the 28th December. A violent sfconn visited the neighbourhood on that day. Three first -class fishing vessels were wrecked, two Beriously damaged, and four fishermen drowned. Iv a letter to the press Lord Mayor Tallon a ayt> . ' I have made fall enq^irie a ir>*-o the circumstances of this sad calamity, and find that it will require about £],200 to replace the vet>3elb wrecked, repair tho?c damaged, and make Borne small provision for those very poor persons who were dependent on the labor of the four men who were drowned. Some of the leading 1 merchants and others of Dublin have, in the kindest manner, associated themselves with me to carry out these objects, and their names are sufficient guarantee that any money contributed for this purpose will be expended judiciously. If the committee are enabled to carry out rheii intentions the|distress that is otherwise sure to follow will be at once relieved by employment, and not by eleemosynary aid.'

The Wearing of the Green.— The singing of ' The wearing of the green ' by Mr. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, while on his way to the Queen's Jubilee, in 1897, induced a correspondent of the Westminster Gazette to relate the following anecdote, for which is claimed absolutely unimpeachable authority : — Very recently a young Irish lady, on a visit to Windsor Castle, was requested by the Queen to sing an Irish song. She went to the piano and sang ' The wearing of the green.' The Queen was greatly charmed by the air, and so touched by the pathos of the words that she burst into tears. The story was told when in conversation someone was lamenting the circumstance of the Queen's visits to Ireland having been few and far between. ' Ah,' said the correspondent's eminent informant, 'you little know the depth of the Queen's sympathy with the Irish or the tenderness of her heart.' He then mentioned this incident.

Women as Members of Public Bodies-— With all our boasted political progress in New Zealand women do not Beem to be much in favor as members of public bodies. True we had one lady mayor, but for s >rae reason or other she and the bterner Hex, who composed the borough council, were not always on the best of terms. In another case a lady member of a borough Council, was smoked out of the committee room by the ungallant men who were in the majority, and consequently she gave up the position in disgust. In Ireland, strange to say, where women are distinguished for their feminine qualities, many public bodies have members of the weaker sex, and are much the better for it, especially poor law boards. In the report of the Executive Committee of the Dublin Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association for last year, which has just been issued, there is much that is calculated to afford encouragement to members of and sympathisers with the movement for the due recognition of women's ri^ht. The committee of the Association can, indeed, claim with jubtice that the year 18!K) has been a red-letter one in the political history of Irishwomen. At the first election? aft;r the pas-ing of the Local Government Act no fewer than s."> wom-n were elected a<* Poor Law Guardians — ,"J1 of the number being Kural District Councillors as well. A comparison of these results with those achieved at the ISDB elections brings out s-omc noteworthy features. For instance, of the 14 Unions m which women guardian'; were elected in IM>S there are only two in whi-'h women have cc iKid to De return, d. In most of the remainder the serviced of the women have been so highly appreciated by the ratep iver.s that the number of women elected has been largely increased. In the f\o Dublin Un'ons their number has r.sen from two to l.'i ; in Belf..«t fiom two to five ; in Rathdown, from two to fi\e ; in Carlow, where no wonnn was previously elected, six have been returned : in Derry there have be< n five . in Coleraine.five ; in Lurgan. four . in Shgo, four, in Dundalk, three , and so on with several other places.

The Irish Parliamentary Party — At a netting of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons, attended by fifty members and presiclrd over by Mr. ,). Redmond, the following officials were elected, \i/. : Treasuiers— Messrs,. T-hko, J. F. X. O'Brien, and T. Harrington. Secretaries— Mr. J. L. drew, Mr. Wni." Abrahams, ami Mr. Donal Sullivan. 'lbe\\h'p-> of the Party are Sir T. Esinonde, Captain Donelan. an 1 Mr. P. O Bnen Several contributions to the fund', of the Party were announced, including £50 from Mr. Blake. A number of letters and tdtgjams were read from various representative bodies congratulating the party on its reunion and on the election of Mr. J. Redmond as chairman. One of these was a cablegram from the president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Massachusetts promising support lrom thirty thousand members oi the Order in that Sta^e.

Mu. P. LUXDON, Phoenix Chambers, Wanganui, is still buys putting people on the soil. He has also hotels in town and country For Sale and To Lease. Write to him. — %*

LyltcltniL Tunes says . — "Giwneand Co., the manufacturers, of George street. Dunedia, send us a sample of their Worcestershire Sauce, made like Lea and Perrin's "from the receipt of a country nobleman," who must have been a fastidious feeder, and Gawne and Co. must have got the same receipt, as their sauce is indistinguishable from the famous L«a and Perrin's. People who like a relish with their meats — and what man does not — should be grateful to that anonymous country nobleman for spending his time in experimenting to such good purpose. — „%