Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 8, 19 February 1903, Page 9

Irish News.

CLARE.— Sudden Death. On Christmas Eve Mr. Thomas White, farmer, residing at Lackamore, Milton-Malbay, was looking after some cattle on his farm, and when he returned home he sat on a chair and immediately died. Deceased was widely known and most respectably connected. Very much sympathy is felt for his family and his brother the Very Rev Father White, 0.5. F., Guardian, Dublin on the sad bereavement. ' CORK.— The Exhibition. At a meeting of the executive of the Greater Cork Exhibition, 1903, it was decided that the grounds recently purchased for a public park should be called 'Fitzgerald Park,,' in compliment to the Lord Mayor. Promoting Temperance. At a recent sitting of the Youghal Petty Sessions Court the presiding magistrates were Messrs. A. E. Home, R. M., and J. G. F. Linahan, and the only cases for disposal were two of simple drunkenness. In reply to the chairman, District-Inspector Barnivill said there were no charges on the books after the holidays. Mr. Home said that was a most satisfactory state of things. The conduct of the people of Youghal was excellent, leaving him practically nothing to do day after day. He felt bound to say that that was not in" the least duo to them (the magistrates), but to the teaching of Monsigfior Keller and his curates, and he hoped snmebodv would go to the trouble to comey that expression of the magistrates' opinion to the Monsignor. A Gentle Hint. The Royal Irish Constabulary got a rather interesting hint the other day in the result of a trial at Rathcormac, County Cork, in which a United League secretary, Mr. Maurice Flynn. brought an action against the local sergeant of the Constabulary for assault. The circumstances were somewhat interesting. A United League meeting was being held, and the sergeant demanded admission, which was refused. Ho proceeded to force an entrance, and to assault the secretary, who barred his way. Tho magistrate found that the sergeant had exceeded his duty, and had committed a technical assault. They inflicted a trifling fine, which he had to pay, together with costs As the Bench was presided over by a Removable Magistrate, there is little doubt the verdict may bo taken as an intimation from the Castle to tho Constabulary generally that they had better keep within bounds. DOWN.— A Centenarian. Mrs. Margaret M'Anallen Corr, who had attained the ripe age of 100 years, died at the Mandoville Arms, Portadown, on December 23, and was buried in the lamily burying giound, TulHsarron, on Christmas Day. Mrs. Corr, who was born on Christmas E\c, 1802, possessed a lemarkable memory, and maintained same up to her death. DUBLlN. —Economic Problems. The 'Daily Independent ' is advocating the organisation in Dul)] in of a non-political conference for the purpose of concentrating public attention on the industrial and economic problems and opportunities of modern Ireland Tho proposal has tho support of the Most Rev. Dr. Clancy, Bishop of Elphin. Practical Sympathy. At the meeting held in Dublin under the presidency of tine Lord Ulaj or to open a public subscription for the relief of the sufTeiers through tho foundering of the steamer Marl ay in Dublin Bay, a letter was read from the Lord Lieutenant expressing his great distress at the misery caused by the disaster He forwarded a donation of £.50. Subscriptions handed in at the meeting amounted to about £300. Death of the Pastor of Blanchardstown. The news of the death of the Very Rev. P J. Tynan, DD , PP. Blanehardstown (says tho 'Freeman's Journal'), will bo rocened with deep soriow by the clergy and laity of the archdiocese of Dublin Dr. Tvnan was widely known and highly esteemed both in the city and county of Dublin, and his demise creates a ■\oid which it will be hard to fill Among his parishioners his loss will be dooplv foil , and the poor especially have reason to mourn the death of so kindly and generous a benefactor GALWAY —The See of Tuam. Tho following was tho lesult of the \oting at a meeting of tho clergy of the Deanorios of Tuam for a successor to the lato Aichbishop Mac K\ illy Most Rev. Dr. MacCormack, Bishop of Calway. 32 : Most Rev Dr. ITealy, Bishop of Clonfert. 9 ; Very Rev Dr. ODea, Maynooth, 2 , Most Rev Dr. O'Donnoll, Bishop of Raphoe, 1 ; Very Rev Dean Gilmartin, Maynooth, 1. LIMERICK.— Death of a Priest. From our latest files we learn of the death of the Rev. Thos Mulquocn. which took place at the Private Mater Miscricordiae Hospital at Ecclcs street. Dublin The deceased clergyman passed away in his 49th year, and the 24th of his ministry. Born in the County Limelick, Father Mulqueen completed his studies- for ordina-

tion at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. He was a curate for some time at Rush, Balbriggan, and Saggart, and for the last 17 years he ministered in the district! of Coolock. Father Mulqueen was deeply respected by all classes in the parish in which he labored so long and zealously, but more especially by the poor, to whose welfare he devoted himself w'ith'the greatest unselfishness. LOUTH.— A Distinguished Visitor. The Right Rev. Dr. McSherry, while the guest of Right Rev. Mgr. Segrave, P.P., St. Peter's, Drogheda, recently, preached in the Oliver Plunkett Memorial Church before a large congregation, many of whom know him befoie his depai lure for South Africa. He celebrated Mass at the Presentation Convent, and during his \ ibil to Louth. met many old acquaintances. MAYO.— Death of a Castiebsr Man in London. The death is announced of Mr. George Martin Sheridan, which occurred at Clapham, London, after a long illness. The deceased gentleman was a member of a well-known West of Ireland family, being. ,t he eldest son of the late John Martin Sheridan, of Pheasant Hill, Castlebar, who was the first Catholic magistrate appointed in Connaught after the passing of the Emancipation Act. Mr Sheridan was resident in London since 1876, and was connected with various financial undertakings,. Ec was also proprietor of 'New Ireland,' the Irish weexly newspaper started by him in London in 1896. MEATH.— St. Finian's Seminary. Tlw) hundredth anniversary of the founding of St. Fmian's Seminary, JN'avan, was recently celebrated at tlif institution. The seminary, which has played such an important paTt in the educational development of the country during the last hundred years, is named after St, Finian, who founded his celebrated school at Clonard, on the banks of the Boyne, in the year 520. The ptcbcnt, seminary at Navan was established by the Most Rev Dr. Plunkett in the year 1802, when the Rev. Eugene O'Reilly was appointed president. TIPPERARY.— Accident in the Hunting Field. At a meet of the Ormond Hounds at Rathenny, near Clc ughjordan, County Tipperary, a serious accident befcl James Rolleston, Bankfort Castle, one of the best known and most popular gentlemen riders in the count y. Jt appears he was taking a stone wall, but his mount, only breasting the obstacle, fell over and rolled on the ruler. He was considerably crushed. WATERFORD.— Demise of a Parish Priest. The Rev. Father Edmund Mooney, parish priest of Cairickbeg, died towards the end of December. The Rev. gentleman had been in failing health for some years past, and by his demise the second eldest pastor in the diocese of Waterford has passed away. Born at Kill, County Waterford, 84 years ago, the reverend pastor was educated subsequently at Maynooth, where he had a most distinguished course. Some 30 years ago he was appointed from the curacy of Ballyneal to take pastoral charge of C'arnckbeg, and during his long and important pastoi ale. by his kindliness and nobleness of character, endeared himself to all classes. He was a fluent Gaelic speaker, and many of his sermons and addresses were, thtoughout his sacred ministry, delivered in the native tongue WEXFORD.— First Temperance Society. The phenomenal success of the Anti-Treating League icmmds a con espondent that County Wexford has again sioicd m tlie matter of temperance In August, 1829, Ihe fust temperance society in Europe was inaugurated at A'ew Ross by Rev. George Whitmore Carr, who invited rather Mat hew to County Wexford in 1839. Over two \"ars ago — namely, on November, 1900, a few zealous sr( ul,ir__ pi lests in the diocese of Ferns, without any (loutish of trumpets, inaugurated the Anti-Treating League, which at first met with little favor, but gradually won its way throughout every diocese of Ireland. Quito recently several queries have appeared as to when the custom of 'treating' originated, or is it an Irish custom at all A well-known Irish antiquary gives it as Ins opinion that such a practice as 'treating' was absolutely unknown in Ireland till the close of the sixteenth century. It was introduced by the Elizabethan Undertakers' or planters, between the years 1590 and 1601, but did not become gen»r*il Till tho first decade of the seventeenth century — when King James issued patents for tho licensing and selling of wine and aqua vitae. Tho earliest allusion to the practice of treating is in a letter wiitten by Father Chiistopher Holywood, Superior of tho Jesuits in Ireland, in 1609. when he announces to Father Fennel, in Rome, the abolition in certain parishes of 'treating bouts.' GENERAL. Mr. Dillon's Health. Mr T. P O'Connor, M.P., received a letter from Mrs John Dillon towards the end of December containing information that the illness of her husband, Mr. John nillon MP., has been much more serious than was geneiallv understood, and that the doctors had stated he would lequire several months of rest and quiet. Mr. and Mrs Dillon were expected to leave Now York for Ireland on December 30. Catholic Apathy. Writing to the Catholic Shareholders' Committee, which has been formed to obtain justice for Catholics

from the* management of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, a non-Catholic says that there can be no doubt of the bigotry and intolerance complained of. The directors' plea is a mere shuffle. Catholics richly deserve the treatment they complain of at long last, for they have submitted like sheep to boycotting and exclusion from all the better paid posts in the country. The best friends of the Catholics have been Protestants, from • Grattan to Parnell, who have claimed not preference, but equality of treatment in every sphere of life for their Catholic fellow-citizens. Even now how feeble is the protest of Catholics against the educational disabilities they lie under ? The G.S. and W.R. is only one branch of a much bigger subject. The Irish in America. The generosity of the Irish m America towards their relatives in Ireland (writes a Dublin correspondent) is never better illustrated than by the tens of thousands of postal orders which they send across the Atlantic each year in the weeks immediately preceding Christmas. That this thoughtfulness for the comfort of those at home is as marked a trait of the Irish-American character to-day as ever it was is abundantly proved by the statistics of the American Post Office. For instance, figures which have just come to hand show that the number of money orders sent to Ireland from the city of Boston -during the first half of the present month was 10 per cent, over the number for the corresponding period last year, while the amount of money these orders represent is higher by over 20 per cent. Over £100,000 in all was forwarded from Boston during that short period for European countries, and of that by far the greatest portion was for Ireland, Germany coming next, followed by Sweden and Italy. Yet, of course, Boston is only one out of hundreds of American cities of which the same tale could, no doubt, be told. Hon. E. Blake. The /reappearance of the Hon. Edward Blake upon Canadian platforms has attracted considerable notice in the Dominion. There is nothing surprising in that. The temporary return of 'the Gladstone of Canada' to the public life of the country in which his political fame was won was an event in Canadian politics, and of particular interest to the Canadian Liberal party, which he led through the wilderness for six years. It is almost ten years since he gave up his seat in the Parliament of Canada to devote his great abilities to the cause of Irish self-government, the cause to which he has devoted the remainder of his life. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has alluded to Mr. Blake as 'the greatest of all Canadians,' a title which his great abilities and political integrity fully justify. Ever since the general election of 1892 he has represented South Longford in the House of Commons. Few men can be better qualified, says the 'Daily News,' to point the ever-recurring moral of the extension of self-government to Canada than Mr. Blake. There are, of course, differences at all points between the cases of Ireland rand Carada, as no doubt there are between those of South Africa and Canada ; but striking illu r trations of the benefits of self-government have come about in Mr. Blake's colonial experience. The contrast between the rebellious Canada of 1837 and the contented Canada of the present day is one to which Mr. Gladstone pointed often enough. Again, the separation of Upper and Lower Canada was a measure based upon the same principle of gaining peace and unity by the grant of self-government. To go further still, it may be said that the rights which were at last won by the advocates of provincial management of the affairs of each province has iinmeasut ably strengthened and not weakened the Federal Union of the Dominion. ' I know of no way,' said Fox, more than 100 years ago, 'of governing mankind but, by conciliating them. I know of no mode of governing the people but by letting them have their own way.' Mr. Blake has probably seen more of the application of that sound principle than any statesman in Parliament. Post Office Appointments. The following information has been supplied to Mr. McVeigh, M.P., by the Postmaster-General : Twelve postmasterships in Ireland (including one twice vacant) have been filled by officials drawn from Fugland and Scotland during the past three years, the names of the offices and the salaries attached to them are as follows : Abbeyleix, £115 : Kilmallock. (filled twice in the three years), £120 ; Londonderry, £440 ; Youghial, £125 ; Kilrush, £110 : Buttevant, £100 ; Roscrea, £180 : Lisburn, £200 ; Kingstown. £240 Newbridge, £130 ; Dundalk, £280 ; and Limerick, £480. During the same period one official was drawn from Ireland and sent to Towchester at a salary of £3 50. For absolute strength, extreme simplicity, freedom from weak or undesirable points, and abundance of excellent working features throughout, Excelsior ploughs are unrivalled. They will do perfectly the work that can be expected of any plough, and are guaranteed to give satisfaction in any soils where a plough can work at all, no matter how touphi and difficult the work. They have extra length of land beam, specially made mould boards, and steering gear of the most complete and approved kind. Revolving swivel steel circular coulters. Double furrow, £ll 10s ; three furrows, £16 10s.— Morrow, Bassett, and Co., sole agents in New Zealand for Cockshutt farm (implements.— ♦•*