Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 51, 21 December 1905, Page 9

Irish News

ANTRlM— Warning the Landlords | Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P., opened the autumn campaign of the Ulster Farmers' and Laborers' Union by a meeting in the Ulster Hall, Belfast. Mr. Russell said in his speech that when the Land Act of 1903 was passed £23,000,000 had been advanced, and 718,000 occupant owners created in Irish agriculture. During the two ycai^ of the Act thirty millions had passed by agreement from tenant to landlord, something like 1)0,000 tenants being afiectcd. The agreements for sale had outrun the money available, and the Government, then proposed part payment in land stock The tenants | were not consulted in that scheme, though it affected them, and so the scheme was abandoned, lie warned the landlords not to be too exacting. The bonus was not compulsory. It could be withdrawn without an Act of Parliament, and should the landlords prove extortionate the tenants' representatives must woik for the wilhdrawal of the bonus after a given period of warning. Sordid and Unprincipled Politicians Addressing the members of the Independent Orange Society at Ballymoney, County Vntrim, the other day, Mr. Lindsay Ci aw lord said Mr Atkinson, the. Attorney (ieneral for Ireland, having served his masters, now sighed for Ihe quiet seclusion and largo emoluments of the (. 'ourt of Appeal of the House of Lords, but a vacancy could only be secured if North Derry accepted Lord MacN aught en's son in place of Mr. Atkinson. Vvas that political honesty 1 ' No, but it was Ulster Union ism. Lawyers and place-huniers had waxed fat while Ireland was growing leaner and leaner. Was it any wonder that the Nationalists of Ireland clamored lor Home Rule or any City ol Refuge irom the reign oi such serdid and unprincipled politicians 7 CARLOW— Death of a Priest A Carlow paper reports the death ot Rev. Patrick C. Ryan, who passed away at a private nursing home in Dublin The deceased was in failing health for the past few years. CLARE — The Bishop on Emigration At Kilmaley, County Clare, on Sunday, October 2il, the Most Rev. Dr Fogarty solemnly blessed the parish church, which has undergone a complete renovation owins to the veal of Father Glynn and his people Aftew Mass his Lordship addressed the \ety large congregation which had assembled to take pail in the ceiemonie-. lit concluding an impressi\e discourse he appealed to them to listen to bun on Hie tcruHc (\il ot einigiation They heard golden stones of the suciess of those who had emigrated There weie some who had been success ful, but they were the lew It they went thiough Manchester, Liverpool, or anj other b'g English cil\, what would they <-cc '' They would walk tinough sheets ol grand and wealthy bouses, and l!nn suddenly sinW upon some nnseiable spot They need not ask who lived thete It vas then own people That was the average condition of the Irish emigrant The average Irish man or 'woman was never so happy as in his oi her own Tnsh home, where the air was puie, and then 1 was a feeling of real religion and sympathy about Money wa-, not every thing, and the same thnft and industry and self-discipline which the lush emigrant mus',, exhibit abroad to hold his own in the haul race of life, if resorted to at home would give him a competency and a measure of success in his own lieland sufficient to gratify the longings of the average human heart. DOWN — Death of a Nationalist The death is announced of the Rev. Richard Lyttle, of Moncyrea The deceased, a native of Dromore, County Down, was a Unitauan inuiistei, bul alwa\ » took an active pai t in achmating the amelioration of the lot ot the asrt icultutal lannet and laboier. In htm they had at all times a self-sacufn mg champion. As hon secret tiiy of the Faunets' and L.iboieis' l'uion"\lr Lyttle tendered splendid mm vh c to the land movement, and Mi T W Russell Vdd K\w)n to recognise his worth in recent campaigns in I IsUt, notably in East Down, where his elect lonoei ing know ledge and peisuasive eloquence played no si.u'll pai t in sec ut ing Ihe return of the candidate of the Fanners' and Laboreis' I nion. Always an advocate ot Home Rule, Mr lytile was an evet welcome 1 or.ilot cm ihe \.ifional plalionn, vheie his reception was mv.iutibly ol Hie mo*- 1 enthusiastic chat act er. His piesence al gicat National gatherings' was wannlv appieciated by the people, who admired and respected him as much loi his genial, kindly disposition as for the inanlv, straight forw aid, and independent attitude he adopted towatds the cause they so dearly love.

DUBLlN— Australian Sympathy At, the Convention of the United Irish League the delegates expressed their gratitude for the generosity of the Irish in Australia and New Zealand towards Ireland during the past three years, especially thanking Cardinal JVloran fot organising the Home Rule tribute H At the instance of Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the Convention recorded their appreciation of the Commonwealth Parliament's address to the Crown in favor of Home Rule. A Successful Student Amongst the very remarkable successes of Catholics at this year's cvaminniions of ihe Royal University, ono of the most striking is that achieved by Mi. Denis O'Kecle, M.A , Holy Cross College, Clonlifie. In winning the Studentship in Cental and Moral Science he has only continued the brilliant line of distinctions won by him in the course of ins University career. To speak only of his later and latger successes, he obtained the first place in the list of first-class exhibitions in the Second Arts Examination of 1902 ; first place with firstclass honors in Mental and Moral Science in the B.A. Examination of l!) 03; first place and lirst-class Honors m Mental and Moral Science in the M.A. Examinationof 15)01. A Generous Offer Mr. Thomas II Kelly, of New York, who was recently on a \isil to Jii'l.uid, has oiler ed £3UU to the ( dthohe SduiUiship iund to endow two scholarships ol' £"><) a year fot the next tluee years, with a request. thitt the Scholarships Committee would aw aid these two scholarships to the two Catholic .students who at ne\t year's .Senior Grade examination (1906) shall have obtained respectnely the highest maiks — the one in classics, the olhei m mathematics— with the further coin di (ions that the students thus selected shall enter next October at the I niversity College, Dublin, and pursue; their studies in that college for the degiec of the Royal University. Catholic Scholarships The Catholic- Scholarship Committee appointed at the suggestion of the lush Hierarchy have* made tho following awards J .J. Doyle, Christian Schools, North Richmond street, Dublin, scholarship in Modern Literary Course. J. J. Webb, same school, scholarship in Expmmenlal Science. Classical Course: First-class, F. Gallagher ami T. M 'Coulter, both ot St. Columb's, Deny, second class, J .J O'Connell, Clongowes. Modem Literary Course : First class, M. Cotter, A. Godley, and E. Devme, all oS Dominican College, Ecclca stieet, Dublin , \1 O'Connell, Loieto Convent, Wexford. Second cla<-s, C M H'ayden, Loieto College, Dublin. 1 xpcMimental Science Fust class, E. J. Cuddy, Chrislian Schools, Lnneiick, E \ Co\. Helvedore College, Dublin Second class, \1 H 'Cionin, Lorelo College, \\e\lord , R Fit/gerald, Lam el Hill Convent, Limerick, It 1-, tin 1 unanimous ik'siic oi the Committee that tint study ■>] the lush language should be lostercci and pro-. moled in all lush schools, and that, for the encouragement ol thai stud), at least two In sl-clas.^ scholar 1 ships ol i;,")!! a ycai lor thiec years — tenable for boysi ,il I'niveisitv College, Dublin, and for gills at t ho Dominican College or at Loieto College — should be' ofieied to the two students (boys or gills) who, at thp, Si nioi CJrade Intel medial c Examination of I'Hlfi, shall have obtained the highest maiks in the Tush language, and shall ha\e malt lculated in the Royal I mveisity. GALWAY— A Lady Appointed Inspector At a recent meeting ol the Galvvay County Council^ Miss Cust was appointed Veterinary Inspector lor the Mountbellew Ruial District There was another candidate tor the position, Mr Mofielt. who got 10 votes to 1 I recorded for Miss Cust KERRY— The Kenmare Estate \ meeting was held recently between the clergy delegated by the tenants i>;i the Kenmaie estate and the l.mdloid with regard to the sale to the occupiers oV their holdings Loid kennuuc ofieied the fusl-ter m ten • anK i>s in the pound ti'duction C-A\ yeats' puiehase), his lot mer ofTer being .is f.d C2'2\ yens' purchase) Thf: clergy then olTered to accept <«s 8d {ll\\ yeais' purchase),, but no agieeine'it was aimed at Mr Leonard, the agent, su jested (>s Id (l2iU ycais' purchase), but the clcigy relused to agree. vs regards second-teim rents, Lord Kenmare ofTeted Is (>d (2 -if v ears' purchase), his former offer being Is (I\\ \ ears" jnuchase). The clergy staled they weie not authorised to offer niniP than f>s in Hie pound (H years' piuchase), and no ngicemenf was an i\ ed at LIMERICK— The Late Dean Flanagan The late Dean Flanagan, of Ada re, was associated \ery closely with two eminent men One was his fellow-Oratonan, Cardinal Newman. A few years ago

a -letter of the Cardinal's was published, in the course of which he said : ' I met to-day, after many years, my dear old friend, John Flanagan. I was delighted to see him.' The Dean possessed a number of letters written to him by the Cardinal, but these were some time since given up by the Dean to Cardinal Newman's literary executors. In the early days of his ministry Father Edward Thomas O'Dwyer— now Bishop of Limerick — was the Dean's curate, and the two men became united by the closest ties of regard It is said that it was partly owing to the Dean's initiative that on the death of Bishop Butler, the parish priests of Limerick paid Dr. O'Dwyei the almost unique honoi of his name to Rome as ' Dignissimus ' while he was still a curate — a choice, as everyone knows, ratihed by the Pope. MEATH— A Tribute to the Christian Brothers Many non-Catholics now feel constrained (writes a Dublin correspondent) to pay tribute to the splendid work done by the Christian Brothers Scarcely a week passes, but some well known Protestant divine or layman bears testimony to the excellence of the great Order whose lives are devoted to the .spread of Catholic education. The latest to lay a wreath on the Christian system of education is the Rev. Mr. White. At the Meath Protestant Synod he said • ' They should remember the wonderful work done by the magnificent system of the Christian Brothers throughout the country. They should note the fact that out of 37 exhibitions gained m the Junior Glade under the Intermediate Board, 3f> were won by pupils taught in the schools of the Christian Brothers. This- fact spoke in thunder tones to their Protestant fellow-countrymen, and should make them- active in ihe field of education if they were not to be simply the hewers of wood and drawers of water.' Where there is a fair field and no fax or Irish Catholics can more than hold their own with all competitors, but in the positions of greatest importance they are badly handicapped owing to the fact that these are either filled by nomination, or by those who ha\e had the benefit of that higher education which lush Catholics are denied. Dr. White did not of course mention the fact to his audience. QUEEN'S COUNTY— Death of a Religious In the Church of St. Fmtan, Mount rath, on October 26, the funeral obsequies of the late Res Motliei Mary Clary, St Bngid's Coin cut, ueic celebiated In the unavoidable absence ot his Lordship Di Foh-v , t're Very Rev. Father Brennan, PP , piesided a t the (Mine Immediately after High .Mass the final absolution was pronounced, and the sad corteire quickly wene'ed its way through the convent grounds to the piettv little cemetery which lies at the end of the chinch, the colTm being borne by the Brothels ot St Patrick's Monastciy.

GENERAL

Catholic Colleges

In the course of an address at the Christian Biothcrs 1 Schools, Noith Richmond street, Dublin, his Grace Archbishop Walsh said" We aic all, 1 liusl, aware of the recent marvellous, but to me jii noways unexpected, success (it our Catholic colleges in the unequal contest with their well-endowed n\als— the thice Queen's Colleges I lefer to the results of this yeai's degree examinations of the Royal I ni\eisity 1 am concerned here with only one ieatwrc oi ih.n success— the signal successes of oui Catholic colleges ,in tlie\eiy department that 1 am now retelling to, the department of mathematics. At Ihe examination foi the degree of 8.A., the honors standatd being most piopeilya \eiy high one, honors in mathematical science wcie aw aided to just five students for all lieland— fii s( -class honois to two of them, and second-class honois t« the liner others. Now both the liust-class honois' men aie fiom our University College m Stephen's (Ireen, and ot the three who obtained second-class honois one is fiom Blackroek, another again liom Siephen's (ireen, the icmaining one being a young lady iioni the \le\andia College, so that m this mipoitant degiee e\,uninat ion, with special honors in mathematics, neither the Queen's College, Belfast, nor rilher ot its discredited associates of Cork and Gal way has e\en made an appeal am c Then there are those special pn/es m mathemat k s, the University Mathematical Scholarships, open for eompelition amongst the .students ot the second year ot the undergraduate course Four of these scholai ships wne awarded, and how many ot them went to Queen's College, Belfast, or to any of the three Queen's Colleges, or to any other than a Catholic college Nolc\en one Two first-class .scholarships go to Blaekrock, and of the two second-class .scholarships one goes to the Presentation Brothers' College in Coik, the other to 'Blaekiock.