COUNTY NEWS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 40, Issue 40, 1 October 1903, Page 9

COUNTY NEWS

ANTRlM.— Orange Rowdyism The followers of Mr. Sloan, M.P., and Mr. Trew had several scrimmages again on Sunday, A'ug,uet 9, at the Custom House steps, Belfast. Mr. Trew was for some minutes 'in a very ugly position,' and a young man named Musgrave was seriously injured, having received a severe blow of a stick on the forehead. DUBLlN.— Emmet's Grave By direction of his relatives, the grave in St. Michan's churchyard, Dublin, in which Robert lEmmet is said to have been interred, was excavated recently with a view to ascertaining if his remains were actually buried there. A Generous Gift Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered the Dublin Corporation £28,000 for the erection of a free central library, provided the city levies a rate to support the institution and that a site be given. GALWAY. — The Prevention of Intemperance The Most Rev. Dr. ODea, Bishop-elect of Clonfert, has been appointed a vice-president of the Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance. KILDARE —Reminiscences In reply to an address from the people of Ballymount on the occasion of his blessing a new bell, Archbishop Walsh delivered an interesting address. He recalled the fact that his first visit to the district took place forty years ago. He was brought there by Cardinal Cullen, and they travelled on that ' very convenient but not over-pretentious vehicle, an outside car. 1 On the eve of the great motor race he found himself sweeping past Ballymount upon a very different kind of vehicle, and at a wholly different rate of speed. His Grace referred to the many historic places in the neighborhood, including Mullaghmast, which Cardinal Cullen. pointed out to him at the time. It was then, too, that he learned ,of the famous school that was established in Ballytore in the eighteenth century by Abraham Shackleton, and which numbered among its pupils our illustrious fellow-countrymen, Edmund Burke and Paul Cullen, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin. LONGFORD.— A New Church On the first Sunday in August the Most Rev. Dr. H'oare laid the foundation stone of a new church in Ballymahon, County Longford, his native parish, and delivered an eloquent sermon. His Lordship in concluding, said : There are some amongst vs — very few, thank God— who grudge God a decent house. These people are annoyed that since we cast off the chains of slavery we have expended on our churches £2,000,000. They ask, like Judas, ' Why this waste ? ' and the answer is, ' There is no waste. The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness , thereof. We are only giving to God what already belongs to Him.' It is God's wish that we be* generous towards Him, Who is the giver of all good gifts, that His| house should show forth our faith and our love. ROSCOMMON.— A Slander Refuted Mgr. M'Loughlin, of Roscommon, in receiving a presentation from his parishioners made reference to the allegations of Mr. Starkie, Resident Commissioner of Education in Ireland, that the people of Ireland could find plenty of money for churches but none for schools. So far as Roscommon was concerned, that statement

was untrue. The Mansignor said that £25,000 had been spent during the past fifty years on religious structures in the parish of Roscommbn, while £35,000 had been spent on educational buildings, and of that sum a mere miserable £1300 came from the National Board of Education. Visit of the Bishop of Goulburn On the first Sunday ia August the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn, visited Roscommon, and preached in the new church in aid of the sick poor visited by the Sisters of Mercy. In the course of his remarks his Lordship said it was a very great pleasure for him to have the privilege of accepting the invitation of his dear old friend their respected pastor, and schoolfellow, Monsignor O'Loughlin, to speak a few words to them on behalf of a great charity, after an absence of thirty-four years from his naitive land. He referred to the illustrious Pontiff who had just been taken from them, and spoke in eulogistic terms of the wonderful influence he exercised throughout the world ; the influence he exercised for the development of the mind and for the lessening of human suffering, and asked them to pray that God will give to them a successor who would steer the barque of Peter as well as his late Holiness. Having read the Gospel of the day, his Lordship, in an excellent discourse, traced the great progress of the Church, and in conclusion said after an absence of 34 years a great change, immensely for the better, had been noticed by him in Ireland. WEXFORD,— A History of Irish Music Mr. William H. Grattan Flood, who has long been recognised as an authority on the subject, is about to publish a ' History of Irish Music. 1 Mr. Flood, who is a native of Wexford, , - has frequently lectured on the National music in many parts of Ireland and in England. It is curious that there has never yet been issued any one book dealing in an accurate and critical manner with the history of Irish music from pre-Patrician days to the present century. Mr. Grattan Flood's volume, for which he began collecting materials twentyfive years ago, will, therefore, be welcomed. WICKLOW.— A Storm -wrecked Church Father Fagan, P.P., Roundwood, County Wicklow, and his parishioners aTe taking steps to renovate the parochial church which was wrecked by the storm of last February. They held a meeting recently and opened a subscription list, when a sum of £600 was handed in, including ,£250 from his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin. GENERAL Exclusion of Catholics A correspondence is proceeding in Dublin newspapers with regard to the question of religious exclusion in the employment of the Midland Railway, Ireland. The Catholic shareholders demand that the appointments be thrown open to public competition, but this the directors will not concede. They say that since last half-yearly meeting, out of thirty clerks appointed, seventeen are Catholics. Even that is not a fair proportion, and, of course, the directors having the question before them all the time could arrange for a favorable return of statistics. The fact remains that the manager and the Chief Clerk and the Assistant Manager, the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, all the officials in the office of the Cashier, the Paymaster arid Accountant, in the Stores office, the Transfer office, the Dividend office, and the Locomotive Department are wholly Protestant. Only two Catholics in the whole concern have salaries exceeding £200 a year. At Broadstone Station, out of 59 clerks employed in the Managerial and Secretarial Departments, 50 are Protestant. It should be noted that the Catholic demand is not for the appointment of Catholics, but for open competition.