Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 9

Irish News

DUBLIN— LocaI Industries The Spring Show at Ballsbridge was the largest yet held by the Royal Dublin bociety. A most important feature of it was the fine exhibition of Irish furniture and allied industries. Charitable Bequests Mr. George Delany, of Burlington Road, Dublin, who died on March 3 last, left estate valued at £12,038. Subject to other bequests, he left the residue of his estate in equal shares to the Brickfield Night Asylum ; the Hospice for the Dying, Harold's 'Cross ; and the Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook. Temperance Demonstration A great temperance demonstration was held in the Round Room, Rotunda, Dublin, on May 27, at which the Re/. Father Aloysius, 0.5. F.C., delivered an address setting forth the principles of the temperance crusade at present! being conducted in Ireland, and urging on the working people to tale an acthe part in the crusade. Mr. Lindsay Crawford, in proposing a vote of thanks to Father Aloysins, said he regarded that meeting as a most hopeful sign of the .forces that were working for the regeneration of Ireland The iV^odre Memorial At the last meeting of the executive committee of the Moore memorial fund it was reported that the money already recened was ample to provide a large Celtic cross in the churchyard at Bromham, Wiltshire. It is hoped that the cross will be erected this summer, and then the committee would arrange to replace the existing statue in Dublin by a group or figure that would do fitting honor to the poet and beautify a splendid site. In reply to Mr. Justice Meredith, the hon. secsetary stated that they Jiad not yot in\ited designs, but had recei c-d some unfinished sketches from Mr. Conners, the well-Known American sculptor. Death of a Religious At St. Joseph's Monastery, Clondalkin, County' Dublin, cm April 25, Brother Michael passed away in the 53rd year of his age. Deceased, who spent thirty years in religion, was much respected, and his death at a comparatively early age is regretted by all who knew him. Catholic Truth Society At the quarterly meeting of the Council of the Catholic Truth Society of Inland in Dublin, a vote of congratulation was passed to the Right Rev. Mgr. Mannix, D.D., President of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, on his appv intment to the position of Domestic Prelate to the Pope, and reference was made by the committee to his great sen ices to the Society. QALW AY— Grazing Lands During the last week in April an inspector to the Estates Commission and staff of assistants were engaged in dividing about 2500 acres of untenanted laird on the Daly, Trench, and Smith estates. All the tenants on the estates and the small tenants in the neighborhood .got their holdings enlarged, and several sons of tenants were given new holdings. Four evicted tenants were reinstated in their former holdings, and ha\e been given grants for building new hounis and stocking the lands. Ths Estates Commissioners have also been at work on the Smyth estate, in the parish of Cummer, selecting the grass lands (close upon 2000 acres} for distribution among the old residents as well as the newly-created tenants. The sale (20 years at the valuation, with all arrears of rent wiped out) took place about a year aigo. This is the second extensive estate in the parish secured for the tenants within the last couple of years through, the exertions of their good P.P., Father Eagleton. Spread of Temperance The Rcdemptorist Fathers Magnier and Coyle gave a week's temperance mission recently in Athenfy. The establishment of the Anti-Treating League was the great work of tlie mission. The people responded with enthusiasm. AH, or nearly all, entered their names and took the pledge for life. Abiout 1500 badges were taken. A very large number gave in their names for the l Heroic Offering,' and the Confirmation pledge was renewed until the age of 25 years. Very Rev. Canon Canton expressed himself thoroughly pleased with the work done during the week by themi^Sioners. At the close Father Coyle thanked the people for their magnificent response to the call of their priests. and the Archbishop. He believed the people would persevere and' show all men that the Anti-Troating League would be the salvation ■of Ireland. Treating was at the root of nearly all drunkenness.

KERRY— A Distinguished Visitor Sir Thomas O'Shaugdmessy,. the Presklenl of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been on a visit to Ireland, and spent some time seeing the beauties of Kerry from which county his iarents^emigrated. ' KILO ARE— Death of a Christian Brother Rev. Brother Dunne died at Kildare the other day a victim to an outbreak of scarlatina which had occurred in the district. LIMERICK— A Former Resident Passes Away On April 5 there died at his home, Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, Mr. James Shea, a native of the city of Limerick, which ho leit 40 years ago for America. He was employed with Messrs. J. Ma'tterson and Sons, Limerick, and was superintendant of the packing house of the late Mr. Isaac Atkinson for many years. Mr. Shea was always a liberal contributor to Irish National movements. Leaving for the Philippines The Rev. John Creagh 2nd the Rev. Father O'Sullivan, iof the Redemiptori&t community, Litnerick, leaive for the Philippine Islands shortly. Father Creagh, who has acted as director of the Archconfraternity meeting of the Holy Family during the past four ' years, was instrumental in starting a Workman's Industrial Association and a savings bank for the benefit of the men of the Confraternity. Eoth he and Father O' Sullivan are Limerick men by birth. *^*»- A Commercial Transaction It is announced that the Irish National Condensed Milk Company, including factories at Limerick, Clonmel, Carrick, and Fethard, has teen purchased by Messrs. Cleeve Brothers. The price is stated to be over £50,000. A Judicial Definition In giving judgment at Bruff Quarter Sessions against a number of farmers for drainage charges, his -Honor Judge Adams said the deri /a/tion of ' drainage schemes ' was this — ' Scheme ' meant that it was carried out by schemers, and • drain ' meant that the money of the farmers was drained. LONGFORD— A Friend at the Castle At Longford Quarter Sessions, before Judge Curran, Thos Gillespie, a bailiff living at Derrycasscn, was charged with pointing a re.olvfr at Patrick Reilly on Christmas Day last. The e.idcnce went to show that Gillespie c<allcd Reilly a Popish rebel and pointed a revolver at his breast. The jury foui d the accused guilty. His Honor said that was tin third time he had tried Gillespie for the improper use of a revolver. He forfeited his license lefoie, and he i.nderstood he was no sooner out than some of his friends in high quarters in Dublin Castle arranged to get it back again for him. He would direct the accused to give up the revolver and license and find bail, himself in £100 and two securities of £50 each. He was determined to stop his right to use a revolver in the County Longford. TYRONE— Venerable Voters The death the other day of George Fletcher, of Killary, Pomeroy, County Tyrone, the oldest subject in the British Empire, at the groat age of 118 years, will lender it of interest to record the fact* (says the 'Freeman's Journal ') that this grand old man, with two other patriarchs, aged respectively 94 and 97, last January came to the polling booth at East Tyrone election to vote for Mr. Doogan, the Nationalist candidate, who won the election by the splendid energy and organisation of the Nationalist party in the division, although on the register there was a Unionist majority against him — 99-| per cent, of the Nationalist vote was recorded, and the remaining £ per cent, was accounted for. GENERAL Irish Athletes in Greece At the Olympic Games at Athens the hop, step, and jump resulted in a triple Irish triumph, O'Connor, Leahy and Cronan finishing in the order named, and C. Leahy won the running high jump. St. Vincent de Paul Society The annual report of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Ireland, which was read at a meeting held in the Catholic University, St. Stephen's Green, on April 29, is a splendid record of work done for the suffering poor of the country during the past year. The field of operations is so immense, as the report says, that not even from the most careful study of the district returns can any adequate idea be farmed of the countless sufferings, temporal, physical, and moral, with which the members have been brought face to face in 1905, «or the methods by whictti they tried to assuage them during

their visits, exceeding 130,000, to the abodes of the destitute. The total 'amount discoursed during the year was £22,652, an increase over that of the previous year of £4072. The receipts and expenditure exceeded those of any year since 1880. ' Reference is made in the report to the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Glasnevin where over 150 boys, taken chiefly by the conferences from abodes of destitution, are not only housed, clothed, and fed, but admirably educated and judiciously placed in the World by the Christian Brothers who work the institution, the upkeep of which cost £3076 for the year, or £236 more' than the receipts. The English Education Bill The standing committee of the Archbishops and !ishops of Ireland have issued an important statement in which they say that if the Ministry persist with the Education, Bill, there is nothing for it but resistance to the utmost limit of constitutional action. They say : 'We shall rally to our own in their fight for what is dearest to them and to us. Our representatives in Parliament will not fall short of what their countrymen in Ireland as well as in England «xi:ect of them.' How History is Written An instructive instance of the manner in which history is written (says the ' Irish Weekly '), is 'afforded by a paragraph in an English newspaper o n the marriage of Lady Mabel Crichton, daughter o[ the Earl of Erne, to Lord Hugh Gros^enor. ' Lady Erne,' says the writer, ' has haxl her experience of politics, too, and once at least they were \ery unpleasant. She' was driving with the late Sir Stafford Northcote when an Irish, Nationalist threw a bit of Belfast limestone 'at the carriage. Lady Erne was struck in the back and rather badly hurt. The piece of storne she now has in use as a paper-weight.' The excuse for this amazing announcement ia probaMy I)r. Jchnson's 'ignorance pure ignorance,' but it is none the less a grotesque perversion of a well-known incident. The truth is thatin 1886, when Belfast was fiercely agitated over Home Rule, a mob parading in honor of Sir Stafford Northcote attacked Ballynafeigh Convent, and fired stones into the building and revolvers into the air a proceeding which drew from Sir Stafford N o rthc o te at an Orange gathering the next day, the advice that the friends of the Union ' should not fire off their guns in the gaiety of their hearts.' And if there is to-day any lady who uses a stone of the kind described as a paper-weight, it is not Lady Erne, but one of the nuns at Ballynafeigh. The Financial Relations During the discussion on the Budget Mr. Asquith made the most important statement on Irish financial relations that has yet, been elicited from an English Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. John Redmond took occasion to call attention in his lucid and forcible style to the unfairness of the existing incidence of taxation as between the three countries. With a decreasing population Ireland had now to bear rapidly increasing taxation, mainly the result of the vicious outbursts of militarism indulged in by England, from which Ireland secured no advantage whatever The Chancellor .of the Exchequer said it would be his special care to see that in Ihe matter of education particularly— in connection with which Ireland had a real grievance— lrish funds were not unduly encroached upon, and that the Treasury should contribute all it prssibly could. The Chief Secretary had framed a scheme for teaching Irish to which he hoped to be able to give full assent. He felt and admitted that the financial relations between Ireland and England were unsatisfactory and inequitable, and he hoped in the course of the next few months to consider the whole subject and do something to adjust these relations on a fairer basis.