COUNTY NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 2, 10 January 1901, Page 10

COUNTY NEWS.

CLARE.— Death Of a Priest—The death took place in Dublin, on Tnexday, November fi, of Rev. Matthew M'Namara, Castleconnell, diocese of Killaloe, at the early age of 32. CORK.— A Clever Macroom Lady.— l" the recent Royal University Examinations for the M.A. degree, Miss Mary Margaret Bowler, a young Macroom lady, secured first place, together with a Studentship in Modern Literature vatne for £300. It was a splendid crowning to a brilliant Intermediate and Uuiversity oourse. DERRY-— Death of a Clonmany Physician.— Dr. Quigley, of Clonmany, a physician widely known and eKteemed in Donegal, died in the e*rly part of November at his mother's residence, The Castle, Clunnmny. His brother is a priest at Watcrride, Derry. Advocating Compulsory Land Purchase-— The Derry County Counoil, a Unionist body in the proportion of almost six to one, has adopted a very sweeping resolution iv support of a compulsory land purchase scheme. The motion was passed unanimously, and amongst those prt sent were two landlords— Messrs. 8. M. Macrory, J.P., atid Robert btevenson, J.P. — who admitted that the present system of dual ownership is unsatisfactory and must oease. Whatever the opinion may be as to the immediate feasibility of oompulaory hind purchase, there can be no doubt that the unsatisfactory oonditiom exintinsr between landlords and tenants have been immensely aggravated by the manner in which the Land Acts are administered, and especially by the tendency of the Chief Commission Courts to rai6e rents on the landlord's appeal. The lack of confidence in the Courts which the tenants have been recently proclaiming has much to do with the demand for compulsory purchase. DONEGAL.- Letter kenny Cathedral.— St. Enan's Cathedral, Letterkenny, is nearing completion. It is a Ptately building and when finished will be a standing monument to the unbounded generosity of the priest* and people of the diocese of Raphoe and to the zeal and energy of their beloved Bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dounell. The dedication sermon will be preached on June 16 next by Archbirhop Keane. Dabuque. U.S.A. DOWN.— Profession Ceremony at Newry.— The mile chapel attached to the Convent of Mer -y, Cat'-erineVreot, Xewry, wm the scene on Novetnbt-r 8 of a solemn and impressive cererony — the profession of Miss Annie Crawford (in religion Sister Mary Eunan), eldest daughter of Mr. John Crawford, Warrenpoint. The Rev. James Cnrlin, Arfm , officiated m the absence of the Most Rev. Dr. M'Oivern, the Bishop of Drouiore, who wus seriously ill at the time. DUBLIN.— Death of Mr- Thomas Arnold-— Mr. Thomas Arnnld, Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland, died in Dublin on Monday, November 12. The eecond son of the famous Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, he was born bt Lalehana in 1823, being a year younger than his brother Matthew. In 1812 Thomas Arnold obtained a scholarship at Uuiversity College, Oxford. His undergraduate career wits at the enttin of the Oxford Movement, but it was only t>o ne yiar< later that he b >ran to feel the influence of Newman. An auger Liberal, he took a keen interest in the debates of the Dei^de (the society of which Jowett, Stanley, J. D. Coleridge, and Clout; h were the leading member*), and meantime read hard, "ho that in 1845 he was placed in the tirrt class with Goldwin Smith and James Hiddell. Soon he accepted a tlerknhip in the ColoniU Office, but after a few months emigrated to New Zealand, where Governor George Grey offered htm his private secretarjship. but he declined the pout, and not fi-r *ome time did he accept official wo k, when Sir William Denison appointed him inspector of schools in Tasmania. Iv thai. Colony he remained till 1856, having ui.tnied Julia, the beautiful gr .uodaugrhter of Governor Sorell. But the question of religion, which henceforth became the preoccupation of his life, came upci him with disturbing force, and in 1856 he became a Catholic. Returning home, he was appointed by Newman a professor at the Catholic Universiry, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, ami afterwards he followed Newman to Birmingham to the Oratory School. It wan in the intervals of bis work in these places that he compiled his well known Manual of English Literatuie. An interval of unrest followed, he again conformed to the Church of England. But that Church could not long retain him ; about 1877 he again became a Catholic, and about the same time was appointed oie of the 6rnt Fellows of the newly-established Royal University in Dublin, where he resided during the last 10 or 12 yearn of his life, examining, teaching, and writing. As at Oxford, so in Dublin, his steadfast pursuit of high aim-, his gentle nature, and his exquisite oM-fit-hioned conrt sy made him greatly beloved. Mr. Arnold wm jo^nt author of that mnob-nped«d and most valuable work, the Catholic Dictionary, which received the hearty approbation of Cardinals Newman and Manri' g. As a rule, the a> tides on medieval and modern history, the religious Orderp. and Canon Law are from his pen. He leaves several sons and daughter*, of whom the eldest is Mrs. Humphry Ward, the distinguished novelist.