Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9, 1 March 1906, Page 9

Irish News

ANTRIM— A Candid Confession At the last (meeting of the Belfast and Ulster Vintners' Association, the drunkenness which disgraced the Northern capital on Christmas Day was discussed It was pointed out that while the great festival was observed as a holy day elsewhere, in, Belfast it was looked upon as an outdoor festival, when football, racing and theatrical and music-hall performances formed the principal means of recreation. Total closing,' it was added, ' would inevitably result in illicit trading of all sorts.' This is truly a candid confession, to say the least. CLARE— Demise of a Priest Very Rev. Canon Hayes, P.P., V.G., Tulla, died on January 5 in the 7'3-rdi year of his age and the 50th of his religaous life. Deceased was born at Portrol County Tipperary ; he studied at the Irish College' Paris, and was ordained by Bishop Vaughan During his pastorship of Tulla, which lasted twenty-five years he built several! [schools and a splendid church. ' CORK— Death of a Solicitor The death is announced of Mr. John Walter Bourke solicitor Cork, which took place at Mount Clarence House, Kingstown, the residence of his brother-in-law Dr. P. A. MaeDermott. ' Clerical Appointment His Lordship the Most Rev. Dr. Kelly, Bishop of Ross, has appointed Rev. Peter Hill, who has been managing the Baltimore Fishery Schools most successfully for the past eight years, to be parish priest of Timoleague. DONEGAL— A Plea for Total Abstinence The Most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell has issued a powerful plea for ftotal abstinence to his people, in the course of which he says no man has better health or more enjoyment than the total abstainer; and out of selfrespect, and to end the reproach upon our race, aa well as to guard against a deadly danger, our young people should be careful not to know the taste of intoxicating *Jl nn TT S * A™ th . e + sakeof Fait * and Fatherland alike! £, f° r l X ? wr^ e !i let the y° un S P^Pte at the openl ing of the twentieth century do the noble service to Ireland of being the generation to break once for all the woeful haJbit of using intoxicants. A celebration S^jJ s , held annually in every parish of the diocese of Haphoe for those who have taken the pledge until the age of twenty-one. DUBLIN— Death of the Royal Astronomer Professor Charles Jasper Joly, who has been Royal Astronomer of Ireland since 1897, died recently at the Observatory, Dunsink, County Dublin, aged 41. Law-abiding Condition of the Metropolis *+™d* i?vi- '^^^S of the City Sessions in Green tr^'.S ?i °^ Jamiar y 5 » the Recorder warmly congratulated the G-mnd 'Jury on the orderly and lawabiding condition of the metropplis of Ireland. St. Patrick's Training College Tr .. RR ® v - J?- _ °i' Dal y has been appointed Professor of Irish in St. Patricks Training College, Drumcondra. Temperance Reform At a conference of temperance reformers held in Dublin the Right Hdn, Lord Clonbrock in the chair, important proposals for legislation were unanimously adopted, and (a committee appointed to act in concert with existing associations* for the promotion of reforms in the licensing law®. Lefcfoers symp-atMaing (with the .object of the meeting were received from his Eminence Cardinal Logue, and the Most Rev. » Dr. Alexander, Protestant Archbishop, of , -Armagh. The former expressed -the opinion that anything which .would contribute to reduce the number of public-houses, especially in small ■country towns and rural districts, would operate most effed rally for the promotion of temperance. Bis Eminence also held that unless means were found to discriminate between the man who took refreshment because he was obliged to travel, and the man who travninL«f CaU ff ce + he Wl{ £ ed 1° S et refreshment, the Sunday Closing ,Act would become la -farce. Dr. Alexander purged that all publicans should be compelled to have a temperance bar for light refreshments.

KERRY— Proposed Presentation v »*Z h& ' P '^ pl ! of^ Kenmare » where he spent eighteen years as a curate have decided to present the Rev P gonTnd^eenT^ ntm**^ eXpreSSiVe Of their KILDARE— Appeal Against a Conviction forM? SSJS*? a g is i rates a g re edto state a case SS;- T 1 Buck ley, Maynooth, whom they fined lor ?h«,, h 15 s hl ? + name in le SiWe letters on his cart, although the letters were in the ordinary Roman charaoLIMERICK— Informal Election White Gloves for the Judge At the Limerick city winter sessions Judge Adams 7rZ^T^ d V th White S loves . as there was criminal business to go! before him. LOUTH— Mr. T. M. Healy's Election A contest was threatened in Mr. Healy's constituency but Cardinal Logue and Archbishop Walsh intervened and peace/ was proclaimed to the joy of everyone who detests turmoil and disorder. Early on Monday January 8, a telegram was received by Mr. T M. Healy, while prosecuting his canvass in Dundalk from the Archbishop of Dublin, which ran as follows I aifnJT + 1S + hh ° P) } feel called *V° n t0 Probst against the statement ascribed in to-day's "Freeman's Journal ' to one of your opponents, that their cause f t c * oa^ se x ol the Bishops and priests of Ireland Certainly it is not mine. On the conhi,S, in I + , con^eo:ed that any portion of my contribution to the General Election Fund of the Irish S,. in? en^ rr L Party w . as being upended on the maintenance of the present deplorable contest in North Louth I should deeply regret having contributed to it +h* t«™. w^ in da 7 a convention was held in the Town Hall, when a letter from Mr. John Redmond, MP. was read and, on the motion of Mr Hughes, Chairman of the County Council, seconded by, S? in ; Lawl ess, P.P., Faughart, it was decided not to nominate a candidate at the forthcoming election at S? t +°* th^ Mr ' * edmond . the course of his letter, stated that m deference to the 'wishes of Cardinal Logue, he decided to advise the supporters of the party in North Louth not to oppose Mr. Healy He collea° Jes mUCh reluotance ' after consultation with his MAYO— Papa! Honor The title of Count has been conferred by the Holy Father upon Colonel Llewellyn Blake, of Clouarhballvmore County Mayo, in recognition of his munificence towards the African Missionary College, Cork. MEATH— The Vacant Sea In St. Mary's Church, Navan, County Meath on January 4, a meeting of the parish priests of. the diocese was held to select three names for submission to the Holy See, with a view to the appointment of a successor to the Most Rev. Dr. Gafiney. After long deliberation the following selection was made : Monsignor Gaughran, Vicar-Capitular (dignissimius) 43 votes ; Very Rev. Father Callary, P.P., V.F Tullamore, 6 votes ; Very Rev. Dr. Dooley pp v F Killucan, 4 votes ; Very Rev. Denis Flynn, President St. h iman's Seminary, Navan, two votes ; Most Rev Dr. Kelly, Bishop of Ross, 1 vote ; Very Rev. Joseph Geoghegan, .Phibsboro', 1 vote. QUEEN'S COUNTY— The New Member Mr. P. A. Meehan, Chairman of the Queen's County Council, who has succeeded Dr. Mark A. MacDonnell in the Parliamentary representation of the Leix Division, is a life-long Nationalist and " a gentleman of sterling integrity. SLIGO — A Dominican Passes Away At the Dominican Convent, v Sligo, on January 9 the Rev. C. C. Keenan, 0.P., passed away at the age of thirty-four. He made his studies first at St Columba's College, Derry, after which he entered the Dominican Novitiate, Tallaght, County Dublin ; from, this, he proceeded to Rome, where he studied theology under the Very Rev. Father Lepide. He took his degree in Canon Law at the Apollfnaris University, and was ordained' at St. John Lateran's in 1905 by Cardinal Parocchi.

TIPPERARY— CIericaI Appointment Very Rev Father Hickey, Adm., Thurles, has been appointed Parish Priest of Ballingarry, County Tippefary, in succession to the late Very Rev. Canon Cantwell. Death of a Priest From New York news comes of the death of Rev. J. Heffernan, St. Mark's Church, Sheepshead Bay, Long Island, a distinguished priest, and a native of Carrick-on-Suir.

GENERAL

Released from Gaol Mr. John O'Donnell was released from Kilmainham Gaol on January 8, affer having undergone three months' imprisonment, in default of giving security for good behaviour, for delivering a speech which, as it was alleged, influenced tenants who had been evicted to retake possession of their holdings. Services Appreciated The National Teachers of the South of Ireland have presented an address to Mr. J. C. Flynn, M.P., in recognition of his exertions on their behalf in Parliament. President Roosevelt and Irish Affairs Dr. Douglas Hyde thus speaks of his visit to President Roosevelt — ' I was amazed at his information about things Irish. His acquaintance and knowledge of Irish literature is larger than I could have expected to find in an American. He displayed a marvellous memory of names of noted Irishmen, orators, statesmen, and poets. That, of course, was not astonishing in\ an educated man of broad information, but what was astonishing was President Roosevelt's familiarity with the productions of ancient Ireland. His conversation upon the Gaelic language and customs, the music of Ireland, and kindred topics, was replete with interest to me, and I confess that I learned) from him things about my own country I never knew before. He talked on with a smoothness as though Ireland of the old days were a subject of the most frequent and familiar conversation with him.' Over-taxation in Ireland In a speech delivered recently Mr. T. W. Russell called attention to the over-taxation of Ireland, and the extravagant system of Government, illustrating his statement with the following interesting facts and figures : — ' The system of government in Ireland is extravagant and costly. England extracts from Ireland something like ten millions per annum in the shape of taxation. The cost, of the government of Ireland is something like seven millions. That is to say, after the government of Ireland is paid for out of Irish taxation, three millions go to England as the Imperial contribution of Ireland. Here is a country (Ireland) poor and neglected, yet this great, rich country of England extracts three millions as Imperial tribute to pay for an army from which Ireland gets no benefit. Moreover, you tax Ireland more than Scotland, which has a population about the same in number. The Lord Lieutenancy costs £30,5-57. In Scotland it costs nothing. The Local Government Board in Ireland costs £7'2,8i75. In Scotland it costs £15,825. The Registrar-General in Ireland costs £22,913 ; in Scotland £12,229. The Supremo Court of Judicature, County Court and law charges in Ireland cost £421,687. The Scotch legal expenses cost £250,376. The P.oyal Irish Constabulary and Metropolitan Police cost £1,509,214. The whole of Scotland is policed for £539,000.' Banking- Returns The Irish banking returns for the first ,six months of last year, which have been issued by the Department of Agriculture for Ireland, are very pleasant reading, telling as they do of a great increase in the thrift of the country. The balances in the Post-office and Trustee Savings Banks 'on June 30 were £12,496,000, an increase of £344,000 over the same period in 1904. Ever since 1894, when the balances were but £6,627,000, there'has been an increase-«each year, the increase in the eleven years being no less than £5,8'fr9,000. The largest increase in any one year was in 1895, when the savings increased by £'7i44,000. In 1903, however, the increase amounted to £729,000. As compared with last year, the deposits and cash , balances in Irish joint-stock banks (£44,999,000) showed an increase of £418,000, and (was also the largest ever recorded in the history of the country.