Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 3, 21 January 1904, Page 9

Irish News

ANTRlM.— Smallpox Christchurch has no monopoly of smallpox in British territory. Fresh cases of smallpox are in Purdysburn Hospital. The latest patient is Richard Mitchell, who appears to.hfive arrived/ in Belfast scjme few days' sixo from Newcastle All precautions were taken with tpgard to the case, which is said to be of the moderate type. ARMAGH. — A Lurgan Memorial One of the most successful entertainments ever given in Lurgan took place m the Town Hall recently. The oblject was to provide a memorial window in St. Peter's Church to perpetuate the memory of the late Rev. James O'Hare, P.P., who for many years labored in thisi parish, both as curate and subsequently as pastor, and who had endeared himself to the Catholics of Lurgan by his strict, unswerving integrity, his zeal in the furtherance of religion, and the open-handed charity which he ever, dispjemsed to the necessitous poor of Lurgan). Land Purchase Negotiations are concluded for the sale of the Wilson Estate, Armagh, at 21 years' purchase of first term and 24 years' purchase of second term rents, with the current year's rent added to the purchase money. CARLOW.— New Industry In view of the contemplated establishment of a new industry in Bagnalstown for the purpose of giving much-needed employment, a deputation consisting of some of the busuness men of the town waited upon tho Very Rev. Mgr. Burke, P.P., V F., recently to ascertain his views with reference to the project. Monsignor Burke warmly approved of the suggestions of the members of the deputation, and promised to give all the assistance in his power in furtherance of the new and very laudable venture. It is proposed to establish the contemplated industry as a limited liability company, shares of £1 each to be issued As at present arranged to be convened by circular and poster was arranged to be held in the town hall on December 8 for the abovementioned purpose. CORK.— A Death Deep regret is felt throughout the diocese of Cloync at thei death of Very Rev. Canon J. Murphy, P.P , Cloyne, which took place on December 1 The deceased clergyman, who was about 75 years of age, had been in failing health for the past twelve months. ♦Enemies of the Cross of Christ.' The Right Rev. Dr Meade, Protestant Bishop of Cork, Lord Justice Holmes, and Mr. Savage French, J.P., recently constituted a Diocesan Court of Inquiry which sat in Cork to hear an appeal of Mrs Axford, wife of a staft surgeon in the Royal Navy, for permission to re-erect a cross over her brother's grave in Kilbrogan Cemetery From the eudenee it appeared that the lady had caused a plain Celtic cross to bfc erected over the gra\ c in April last, but it had been remo\ed and thrown on the roadside by the Rev B C. Fawcett, B.A , incumbent, and two churchwardens Mr Samuels, X.C , who appeared for Mrs. Axford, urged her case in vigorous language. He could not see what objection there was to the cross, which was the emblem of the common faith Evidence was then given as to the strong feeling which existed amongst the Protestants of the parish against the cross The judgment of thecouit was that it declined to interfere with the refusal of the defendants to permit the erection of the monument, although the Bishop said that there cou>ld be no more appropriate emblem but over the i;ra\e of a Christian man or woman than the cross. What a precious iudgment • It should be treasured up by opponents of the Cross everywhere. ' Strong feeling ' against tho ' emblem of the common Faith ' is all that is necessary in order to have it banished or thrown on the roadsido DUBLIN.— A Trinity College Offer The offer of Trinity College to his Eminence Cardinal Logue was (says the ' Irish Weekly ') an offer of what no Catholic asked for, and no Catholic would accept Thirty years ago a similar otter was made to Caidinal Cullen by the then Board of Trinity College. It was refused, Dr Cullen's reply being to this effect—' That inasmuch as Catholic students in Trinity College, Dublin, were receiving their education in that institution in •direct opposition to the known wishes of the heads of their Church, he must decline interfering in any way in providing them with religious instruction.' The Cardinal took the wise and indeed the only possible course in this matter A contemporary very aptly remarks that 1 the action of the Board was about as practical as would be that of the Synod of the Protestant Church, if it proposed to allow Catholics to have Mass said in

the crypt or one of the side-chapels of Christ Church ' The offer referred to by our Belfast contemporary was this : The Trinity College Board recently approached his Eminence Cardinal Logue and made him an offer to provide religious teaching for Catholic students by members of their own Church, and they further asked for his Eminence's sanction of this arrangement. The answer, we are toLd, was simply a direct refusal. In view of the fact that ,(as stated above) a similar ' settlement of the University Question ' by Trinity College 30 years ago to Cardinal Cullen was peremptorily declined it speaks volumes lor the immobility ot the authorities of that centre of ascendancy to come forward and renew the proposal after all these years of strife. The 1 Daily Independent and Nation ' thus refers to the offer of the Board : 'It is difficult to treat seriously such a palpable piece of humbug as that in which the majority of the Board have indulged.' A Rampant Professor ' ' Professor Tyrrell, of Trinity College, nas been making a fierce and bigoted attack on his Catholic fellowcountrymen. In the course of a deadly reply to him, the ' Freeman's Journal ' says : ' When a Protestant Don of Trinity College talks about " exacting money from an impoverished peasantry," the answer will rise upon every lip, Where do the fat salaries of Trinity's professors come from ? Who are asking twenty-eight years' purchase for bogs in Kerry ? What Church or creed in Ireland extorted even to the cost of blood its revenues Irom a famine-stricken peasantry to whom it brought neither religion nor education ? Whence comes it that the Church to which Dr. Tyrrell belongs can boast through its bishops, as it did the other day in Derry, that it " asks nothing from the people " ? Asks nothing? It has taken all.' Land Purchase Colonel Henry T. Finlay, Cookagh. Clondalkin, has sold a portion of his Clondalkin estate and over 1000 acres of his County Kildare property at an average price of 23 years' purchase. FERMANAGH.— A Munificent Bequest In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, betore Mr. Justice Madden, the case of Owens v. the Attorney-General came on recently upon the settlement of the scheme for the administration of a charitable legacy of £50,000 bequeathed by Miss Sarah Crudden, late of Carngans, in the County of Fermanagh, for the purpose of establishing a Catholic orphanage tor the diocese of Clogher, and of a legacy of £2000 bequeathed also by the will towards the payment of a salary to the chaplain of such orphanage Certain difficulties originally arose in connection with the administration of the charity. The testatrix had expressed a preference for Bundoran as a site for the orphanage, and had indicated by her will that while children of both sexes should be admitted to the orphanage there should be only one building These matters had been [nought before the Vice-Chancellor in April labt, and he had decided that the trustees should not be confined to Bundoran m their selection of a site, but might select, any site or sites within the diocese of Clogher He also decided that the institution should be divided into two branches. The matter came on a few weeks ago before Mr .Justice Madden, sitting for the Vice-Chancellor, and the details of the scheme were ful- \ settiled., LIMERICK.— GeraId Griffin Centenary A meeting of the citi/ens, con\ened by the Mayor, was held at the Town Hall a lew weeks ago for the purpose of taking steps to commemorate the centenary of Gerald Griffin The Mayor felt sure the movement would be heartily taken up in the city, and remarked i b.it Cork had done a very laudable share of work in that direction. Father Le , Adm , St John's, suggested that a aheap edition of Gerald Gnmn's works should be brought out, i-o as to bring them within range of the poor Mr A Hall, J.P, suggested the reno\ation of the Christian Brotheis' Schools in Quay lane, which were situated in Guttin's native pansh Father John Lee, C C , suggested the erection of a statue in some public place to the memory of Gerald Griflin. Several other suggestions made with a view to commemorating the centenary, and finally, on the motion ot Mr. Dundon, the gentlemen present were constituted a committee to cons der the various proposals, and report to a meeting to be held later on. Land Purchase The sale of Mai or O'CJrady's estate at Bilfcoa, Doon, County Limerick, has been completed, the terms being 20i years' purchase and an abatement of 30 per cemt. on current half-year's rent The landlord has, however, reserved the sporting rights. LOUTH.— A Rostrevor Deputation Rev. E. M'Givern', C C, Rostrevor, accompanied by a deputation of his parishioners, journed to Dundalk re-

wsntly in order to present to the Urban Council, on behalf of the people of Dundalk, an interesting and valuable memento of the event of the incursion of Orangemen into that peaceful Catholic v ll'age on last July 12th. At meetings of the lodges for some months beforehand vengeance was vowed against the Catholics of Rostrevor because of the Government's prohibition of the Orange meeting in July, 1902. In these circumstances Father M'Givern asked the Dundalk Urban Council to join with others in a request to the Government to prohibit the invasion. Not only did the Urban Council do so, but when the Government failed to take action, a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, as the result of which 500 Dundalk men left here on July 11th by special steamer, and over 150 left by road the same night, with the determi nation to hdld the village anjd defend the Catholics and their property if need be As a result of this determination the officer in charge of the police at Rostrevor gave an undertaking that no Orangeman would set foot in the village next day ; and at the request of the Rostrevor priests the Dundalk men returned home the same night. The presentation took the form of a. large and handsome oil painting of the Rostrevor Church and Convent. Mr. Hamil, J.P., and Mr J M Johnson acknowledged the gift on behalf of Dundalk. Subsequently the Rostrevor delegates were entertained to supper in the boardroom. MAYO.— A New Colle^ His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Conmy, Bishop of Killala, is about to build a new Diocesan College for £11,000 The site is an exceptionally favorable one, and commands some of the loveliest \iews m the district ROSCOMMON.— Land Purchase The following terms have been agreed on between the landlord of the Flannery estate, Co . Roscommon, and the tenants —Twenty years' purchase to small tenants, and one year's rent added to purchase money and all arrears forgiven , game rights reserved to tenants TYRONE.— A New Church His Eminence Cardinal Logue will lay the foundation stone of a new church in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, on Sunday, February 28 The occasional sermon will be delivered by the Very Rev. Joseph M'Rory, D.D , Professor of Scripture, Maynooth. GENERAL. The Fiscal Proposals Mr. Redmond is inclined to agree with Mr Dil'on and Mr. Davit t that Mr Chamberlain will not succeed in carrying his fiscal proposals — at any rate in the near future. The real interest of Ireland in any case in those proposals, he said, was not at present economic but polit icail The business of Nationalists and of the National Pafrty would be to watch the developments of the situation and to take advantage of their opportunities, acting always with a view to a satisfactory solution of the question of self-government Irishmen did not care from which party in England such a solution came, so as it was c solution that the mind of the country approved. A Grasping: Spirit The spirit in which the landlords are acting in connection with the carrying out of the new Land Act and the transfer of the land to the tenants may be gathered from the resolutions of a representative public body in Shgo. A special meeting of the Board of Guardians of Shgo was summoned, and was attended by a huge numbjer of prominent ratepayers, to consider the attitude and conduct of the local landlords The following lesotiori was unanimously adopted • ' That, as the Land Bill of 1903 was passed for the purpose of conciliation, prosperity, and contentment in Ireland, we strongly condemn the determined and combined action of the \ast majority of the landlords \n endeavouring to prevent the working of the Land Bill by refusing to se'l or by asking exorbitant and unreasonable prices from the purchasing tenants, prices that the tenants could not aflord to pay , that, as the tenants are anxious to buy and willing to give fair and reasonable prices, we call upon the Government to refuse assistance to the landlords, m the shape of police protection or asistance at the expense of the State or taxpayer, for the purpose of extracting exorbitant rents from the tenants . that v\ c look on dual ownership as the sole cause of all the poverty, crime, and discontent in this country , and that we hail the present Land Bill as the ora'v means- to remedy these evils ' There is not (says the ' Irish Weekly ') a word of exaggeration in this language Many landlords, by their demand of exorbitant prices, are doing what they can to cause the Act to break down