COUNTY NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 33, 15 August 1901, Page 10

COUNTY NEWS.

ANTRlM.— Excursion to the South. The members of St. Malachy's Confraternity of the Children of Mary Belfast, to the number of 700. went recently for a three daystour through Munster. Thurles, Limerick, and Tralee were the leading points of the journey, Killarney being the objective. The return was made by Mallow, Waterford, Kilkenny, and Drogheda. Excursions from Belfast to Dublin and from Dublin to the leading Provincial towns are by no means uncommon, but an excursion of tms kind is umque. DUBLIN.— Death of an Ex-Magistrate. *v Jf'iV' J-O'Donel, who for years acted as Chief Magistrate in the Dublin Police Courts, died on June 23 at his residence, Leeson street Dublin, at the age of 83 years. He claimed to be a descendant of the Ulster Princes. Maynooth College Church. The hpire of the beautiful church of Maynooth CoIWe (says a correspondent) is rapidly approaching completion. The tower, which ih Ulft in hi-ight, hah been altogether completed, of the llOrt to which the spire will rise 20ft of the heaviest and most expensive part ha. beeu finish, d, and the Right R-v. M^r. Gar.ran, under who-e direct supervision the work is proceeding, hepen that It will be complete.! by the end of next October. About £12 000 have already been expi nd.d on the tower and hpire. GALWAY.— Serious Fire. In the tarlypartof the mVht of Jure 21 a fire occurred in Gal way in the drapery establishment of Mr Martin Creaven, of bhop street. ror more than throe hours the fire r.ijred, owing to the fact that there were no persons to work the town fire engine in consequence of the dissolution of the local Fire Brigade by the Urbin Council, and consequently there was grave dangc to the neighboring premises, which include the wine stores of M^kts Gilbey, immediately adjoining the burning buildiDg- the bakery establishment of Mr M. A. Lynch, J.P., and the jewellery establishment of Messrs Thomas Dillon and Sons. LIMERICK.— Death of a Veterinary Surgeon. At the tarly age of 80, Mr T. A. Lyons, M.RC V S . died at Kathkeale, to the great sorrow of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Lessons in Cookery. Mibs Ebnl, a Limerick lady, who has been appointed by the Board <.f Education as lecturer on cookery, has been delivering a Ber.es of lectures at the schools of the Sibters of Mercy, Abbeyfeale.