Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 25, 19 June 1902, Page 9

Irish News.

ANTRIM.— Death of a Passionist. The Passionist Fathers have lost in Ireland one of their oldest and most esteemed members in the person of Father Daniel Nugent, C. P., who died at Ardoyne ' Father Daniel,' as he was familiarly called, was a native of Camlough, near Pomeroy, and died m hib six t,y -sixth .veai. H^ was a man of exceptional sweetness of manner and of abiding zeal. A New Clan. Belfast has been perturbed for some time by the outrageous proceedings of a local gang of young Thugs who attempt to emulate the London ' Hooligans,' but with a spice of party strife. Reference has been made in Parliament to the gang, and the police are doing their best to extirpate them. CORK.— Mr. O'Brien's Return. Mr. William O'Brien, M. P., having arrived in Cork from tho Antipodes, whither he had gone in search of health, delivered a vigorous and stri-i kingly characteristic address to his constituents in the city by the Lee He had made up his mind to resign his seat for Cork, he said, until he heard of the recent proclamations from Dublin Castle, but it would be impossible for him to dream of deserting Cork at such a moment Ploughshares for China. A Cork newspaper states that a large and unique order is at present being fulfilled by an Irish firm of iron founders, and that is supplying no less than 15,000 Irish-made plough-shares for use in China. Already some 3000 of these are on the way to tiieir destination, having been shipped from Dublin Ma Liverpool. It is the first order of the kind ever placed in Ireland The Exhibition. The Cork Exhibition was opened on May 1 On the previous Saturday a number of journalists were shown over the grounds and afterwards entertained to lunch by t*io Earl of Bandon, who is President of the Executive. There have been two Exhibitions in Cork previously, ono in 1852 and 1883, the latter following the Dublin Exhibition The Loid Mayor of Cork, Mr H A Fitzgerald, is to be credited with the initiation of tho present enterpi lse, and nobody has worked so h^rd for its success. The site of the Exhibition is on a beautiful spot on the southern bank of the Lee, in the western district of the city The giounds cover 40 acres, and are about a mile in length, being approached by a lovely wooded promenade The structure includes a Concert Hall, a Machinery Hall, an Industrial Hall, an Art Gallery, and there is also a Canadian Pavilion, as well as a Woman's Section. Accommodation is set aside for the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in Ireland. The Industrial Hall, which is the main building, has; a floor space of 170 feet The Concert Hall affords an accommodation for 2000 people, and contains ,\n organ valued at £1200 The greatest part of the Irish work comes from Leinstcr, Minister, .stiangi^ to say, taking second place and L'Lster being a long way behind DONEGAL. It will be remembered that a f''W months ago a young Irish medical man, Dr William Smvth, who was in charge of a dispensary district m a remote district of County Donegal, lost his life in rendering medical services to a peasant attacked with typhoid, and that an appeal was made on behalf of the widow and children It is now stated that the widow has boon secured from want for her life, while the young ehildien ha\e been provided with sufficient to give them a start in life The total

amount raised was £7629 Is 7d. Of this sum the Dublin collection amounted to £3636 17s 9d , the Belfast collection to £1705 10s 8d • the Derry collection to £1507 13s 2d and the London collection to £779. The entire sum has been lodged in the Bank of Ireland to the credit of trustees, one of whom is the Duke of Abercorn. The New Member. Oor first answer to coercion,' cried an Irish member when Mr. Hugh Law, M. r. for West Donegal, took his seat in the House of Commons for the iirst time. In good truth (writes a London correspondent) the selection and election of the gifted young I'rotestant Nationalist by an overwhelmingly Catholic constituency in that Is or tli of Ireland where religious passions and prejudices aro supposed to dominate most other considerations, was an eftective reply to the action of the Government who have declared war against the Catholic Nationalists of the South and West. Mr. Law was unanimously selected by an open and fully representative Convention of Donegal Nationalists, provided over by one of tho most exalted and eminent of Ulster's Catholic priests and attended by many of his brethren in the sacred ministry. The new member is not of the faith of the majority of his constituentis — neither is tho veteran, Swift AlacNeill. He is the son of a former Lord Chancellor — a man who served Ireland well according to his lights, but who was not of the people. And Mr. Law occupies to-day a position to which no anti-li ish multi-millionaire living could attain in Wast Donegal. He is the I'rotestant representative of a Catholic people because he is an honest and concmced Irish Nationalist who believes in Ireland's right and capacity to govern herself, and who is m thorough sympathy with the highest aspnations of the Irish Nation. DUBLIN.- A Worthy Project. A most important and praiseworthy project is mooted in the publication of some correspondence which lately took place between Sir Christopher Nixon, a celebrated Dublin physician, and the Superioress of Irish Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy had lately acquired outside Dublin the house and domain of Beaumont, for the purpose of pro\ icling a convalescent home for the patients of the Mater Misci icordiae Hospital, which is under their charge and <is tho grounds are extensive, it oewned to Sir Chi istopher Nixon that they might furnish a site for a Consumptive Sanatorium as well as for the Convalescent Home l'lacmg tins idea before rhe Supenotess of the Sisters of Mercy he found that it was warmly welcomed and that tho Sisters very generoush , and with charitable- promptitude, hastened to place, not merely a site in the grounds of Beaumont' for the erection of n Consumptive Sanatorium, but also the services of tho Sisters of Mercy to act as nurses in the institution when erected. Arihhishop Walsh, in a letter to Sir Christopher expresses his warm approval of the scheme, and dwells upon its great usefulness and clesirabilitv The Dublin branch of the Nat ion. il Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which has also taken lhi> matter up, expresses its interest and sympathy with the proposal put foiward, so that there is reason to hope that befoie long Ireland will have a Sanatorium wheie the victims of phthisis- may deine eveiv advantage which treatment and liesh air can afford. GALWAY.— Colonel Lynch. Colonel Lynch, member for C.alwav, was- arrested last week at Victoria railway station, London, on his ariival ftnm I'nris lie was taken to How stieet I'olice Court In the House of Commons Mr. O Kellv asked if Lynch had not a. burgher's

right of surrender. Mr. Balfour said Lynch was not a burgher. Mr. M/Neill asked, Is it not a Minister'^ bounden duty to communicate to tho House the fact) of a member's arrest? The Speaker replied that it was not a bounden duty, but a usual practice to write informing the speaker. Mr. John Redmond ga-ve notice of a question whether tho Government were extending to Lynch the same terms ot surrender as the Cape Dutch. Death of a Lougtirea Man. Ono of the evicted tenants who was the first to join the Plan of Campaign on the Clanricarde estate, and to sacrilice the farm which was in the family for generations, passed away recently in the person of Mr. John Kennedy, Loughrea, brother of Mr. P Kennedy, J.P., T.U. KILDARE.— Election of Coroner. A special meeting of tho Kildaro County Council was held for the purpose of appointing a coroner for North Kildare in tho room of Dr. Joseph Smyth, who has been appointed medical inspector to the Local Government Board. Two candidates applied for the position, viz., Dr. L. F. liowan, J.P. Chairman Newbridge Town Commissioners, and Dr. Cosgrove, Kilcock. The latter was elected by 15 votes to 10. Result of Emigration. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare, wrote recently . "All who have at heart the best interests of the country would do well to study the lesson which these returns unmistakably convey. Whether we consider it from the spiritual or from the worldly standpoint, we cannot but regard it with feelings of grave apprehension. During the ten years ending with the year 1901 no less than a quarter of a million of people* left the country The population now stamls at a little less than four and a-h<nlf mii;;.)i,s W ith tho exception of the cities, into which the people from the rural districts are hurt v ing, and of a few manufacturing towns in the North, the whole country has suffered, and I regret to add that our own diocese has been specially unfortunate During tho past sixty \ears about the same number of people omigiateJ. as ~ftnuins m the country to-day. The population, .it the one! of last century was less by half a million than it was at the beginning The only mcieisc would seem to be in the number of paupers and lunatics which, relatively to the rest of the population, has gone beyond all bounds LEITRIM. — Death of a Priest. The death occurred on Sunday, April 27, of tho Hey Father John Kelly, pastor of Di umshambo, Leitrim, after a very brief illness. LIMERICK. At Limerick City Quarter Sessions and at the County Sessions there were no ci nninal cases for trial. Judgo Adams, who was presented with white gloves, in the course of a short address refei red to the absolute crunelessness and tranquillity of tho country Under the devoted influence of their clergy the- people had, his Honor declared, improved enormously in the matter of temperance Owing to creamery work, ho added, v oung i;nls were on tho public roads both morning and night, and m Ins experience he had never hoard of one case m which they had been insulted Idealists had sung of ancient Celtic times when vomit; maidens decked with rich jewels could tra\el unmolested thiough tho land, hut piesent times could compare favoiably with tihoso times. LOTUH. The death is reported of Mr Peter Dowdall, which took place at his ic^ideiice Pnblm IJo.id, Drogheda, after a short illness The deceased was a well-known poor law official.

MEATH. The Meath County Council, having passed a resolution congratulating Leo XIII. on his Pontifical Jubilee, Sir John Dillon, one of tho members, said that as a Protestant ho was most happy to join in the resolution. He is, he said, a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, which title was conferred on. ln.s family by a predecessor of the present Pope, bocause of his ancestor having ndvocated the cause of the Roman Catholics in the Parliament in College Green. WATERFORD.— Coercion Law. A Coercion Court at Waterford on April 26 sentenced tho proprietress and the editor of the Waterford ' Star ' to two months' imprisonment, the proprietress having tho option of finding bail. WICKLOW.--The Parnell Estate A movement is in progress in County Wicklow to save tho late Mr. Parnell's property at Avondalo for the Parnell family. GENERAL. Judge Appointed. Mr. R. W. Beresford Barry, X.C , has been appointed County Court Judge of the counties of Kildaro, Carlow, Wicklow, and Wexford in tho room of tho late Judgo Kano. A Visit. During tho Whitsuntide recess (writes a London correspondent) Mr. T. W. Russell and a number of Liberal members will visit Ireland for the purpose of seeing for themselves the districts under Coercion. Mr. T. W. Russell will ha\e charge of the party, ro it is more than probable that the.se observeis will not 'do ' Ireland in tho style of tho usual political tripper — the gentleman who pays flying visits to the rent office, tho District-inspector of Police and other functionaries eminently incapable of gi\ ing 'a fair, impartial account of life m Ireland. Those \ isitors will, haply, go amongst tho people, and their surprise at not meeting desperadoes mid their \ ictims at e\ery cross-ro-uis will not bo tho only surprise which they will encounter. They may be able to get a glimpso of the elaborate measures taken by Dublin Cast lo to provoko crime ; they may mo M->r themselves how vast hordes of armed police are poured into peaceful localities for tho purpose of preventing the right of public meeting and free speech , and greatest surprise of all, they will see one of tho proclaimed counties interesting itself in so pacilic a matter as an international exhibition There is a likelihood too of a \isit, of English journalists despatched to Ireland to describe the areas of ' disturbance ' so assiduously painted in und colors by the Irish correspondents of those newspapers If they wish, tho journalists can tell the truth and sli.uuo tho devil in Fleet street , but, presumably, some of them w ill come with a, ' brief.' Emigration. Jn view of tho resolutions- of tho Standing Committee of the Ii ish Hierarchy requesting tho pastors of their flock"? to discourage emigration, the following, which has been forwarded to us (Free-man's Journal) by a correspondent, will bo of interest :—: — 'Tho Cunatd Line writes to their agents in Ireland " Special notice. Third-class department Fleaso stop booking third-class passengers for Lucania, 26th April, as sho is now absolutely full m that class. Under tho heading " Special" tho White Star Lino writes "To our agents, American and passenger services, third-clas^i. l'lease stop booking, third-class passengers for the Majestic, 22rd April, as she is quite full in that class." '

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