Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 18 October 1906, Page 27

Irish News

ARMAGH— The Financial Position Replying to 'addresses presented to Mm in connection with the dedication of the Ballymahom church his ■ imminence. Cardinal Logue said there could not be. a^ better "proof of the capability of the "Irish people to~ : manage their 'own afiairs than that which was sup- c plied since the Local"; Government A.ct was -passed. In spite of the prophecies of evil and forecasts of '' the mess and confusion that would follow their affairs', were better Conducted than ever, and he believed that if all our national government were' handed over to us— all the national government that belonged by right to the people of tlie country—they would have ' the same thing to say as they had to say now of the - small modicum of self-government that had been en.- - trusted to them. They would have the same thing- to say regarding the general as they had to the local. ' Our financial position would be better, and we would foe ' more prosperous, and we would not be robbed as We were at present by- a Treasury., filching' from us everything they could. The" favorite trick was to withdraw Imperial grants, and to throw institutions -and financial: responsibilities on the local bodies and local ' resources. One that was in the air just at present, and which politicians seemed to have in view, was to throw a great part of the expense of education on the local rates. We were fleeced of two or three millions a year in respect of ordinary taxation. There was only one remedy, and that was Home Rule for Ireland. . , .

CORK— The Failure of Queen's College

At a recent meeting of the Cork Corporation the report of Dr. Windle on the failure of "the local^ Queen's College was considered. On the motion .of Councillor Horgan, it was unanimously resolved that the declaration of one so competent, from experience and attainments, to form, a clear and independent judgment on the question, casts upon the Government the imperative duty of grappling promptly effectively with the causes of failure which Dr:"Windle has - so ably and courageously indicated, and of taking advantage of his special knowledge and capacity to bring about in the' case of the Cork College a change as salutary as that which, mainly at his instigation, resulted in the establishment of Birmingham's prosperous University. 'We are convinced,' the resolution added, ' that the conversion, of the Queen's College into a properly constituted and equipped University centre - would tend! to elevate the whole standard of education -develop the intellectual life, and promote the general' prosperity of Munster, Interesting Ceremony , The ceremony which took place on Sunday, A«g us t * 26, at Youghal, was an extremely touching one, and deeply significant. During the rising of 1798, Father Peter O'Neill, P.P., of Ballymacdda, near Youghal was flogged in the streets of that town, and subsequently transported, on the' suspicion of having, obtained, in his priestly capacity, knowledge as to the person who killed an informer named Murphy who was found buried in the strand at Knockadoon. On the sides of the pedestal of the monument are inscriptions in Irish and Knglish recording the facts that Father O'Neill and Patrick M'Carthy were" flogged, and that Charles O!Brieiu and Charles Gallagher were hanged by the English' soldiers in Youghal, in 1798 The memorial was appropriately unveiled by- Sir Thomas li,smonde, and amongst the speakers on the occasion were Captain Conelan, Monsignor Keller; and '-<•" Canon Peter O'Leary. The inscriptions on the pedestal -are Irish as well as English, and it " was in the fitness of things that there should be an Irish speaker; such as the Canon, as well as those who spoke only English DONEGAL— Sale ol a Prison Lifford Prison, County Donegal, in which the famous Napper Tandy was at one time incarcerated, is toeing sold by the County Council to a Belfast man for ~£ 7 00°"" subject -to the sanction of the Local Government Board. DOWN— Church Renovation "On Sunday, August 26, Very Rev." Dr. Keane' °- p-A.st-,Saviour's,p -A. st -, Saviour's, Dublin, preached- a charity sermon at St. Marys Chmch, Barr, County Down, ,to help in defraying the expenses incurred on the "renovation of the church and erection, -.of a muoh-needed parbohial house. Since his appointment to the pastoral charge of the parish Rev. F. Magennis has been engaged .in the work of- providing long-needed and most necessary accommodation to make the sacr-ed edifice' worthy of its purpose. The new church is of strikingly hand-

" ™3!L § n ' aM c ' lnteri or has -been entirely refurnished and remodelleH. .The paroWiiaP- housed la .substantial building, and willfor the future be the resift!s£n +t' pa i* sh ' priest * " Ri e ht Rev, Dr. O'Neill, ■Si^ dwoese,- warmly -apprwed- of- -'the under- - "Hrl fU ™A 7 i the J en erosity of friends' and parishio•SSilri aS * oW , "' been: completed;- 'A Jsum of £000 lemaineci due, .and. in order- '-to pay off -- this .r^i nt Hi Fath t r v M r a S ennis ™ obliged to appeal- to *E charitable public for assistance. V - Returning to the Fold K f ,ror? e^ N^ eWIT Gu fi:fliahs, at a recent meeting, had -before them. a report of the Master stating that three weeks before Ins death the ambulance driver, thotta's w^v 6 " ln ?™ ed r^^otesta. n t nufse of hisdeStbbecome a Catholic, and asked to see a priest. Father Mackle .attended,, and at his request the deceased fnfn ih? SS r r ff/ r T th t ward and recSved into the Catholic -Onurch. .The nurse, in reply to the chairman, .said- that Browne was in his right -mind at the time -he expressed his desire to change bis""Sli--lafsfacloiT. eXP ° n *° £ c M aster was considered ' DUBLIN— The Question of Fire Insurance rtia'^ a ' m ? etih S the ' .North- Dublin Board of. GuarMv «i un , ani J nousl 7 adopted a. .resolution proposed by Mr. Sherlock, seconded by Mr. Orozier, approving of an Vo 5S? 1 tJ- h nS n[ ant l T com P an y worked on lines si ml« riPHaKL + hUr^? Property Jnsurance Company, unS n fj, tO r glVe V th f, nion "trance to ;thJm, ' and asking the General Council df bounty Councils to call ..a conference of- all public bodies on 4e subject. A Local Industry 'me °vv a rd VliS 'S t + 2 h HHe\ ei Kr Wa? n laUnC > ed from th « buildw s n y , o£ J^ C Dubhn - dockyard Company North" Wall, a splendid new. steel screw steamer of 1500 1 w being the Sl xteenth vessel that has bee? ' built by the film. She was christened; the < Berne ' by Mrs. Smel\hk^l c ° f ° ne ° f the P art «ers, and if the fourth o^Lo2?on? mpan7 aVG ? UUt lorI or Ml "- John HarSS? The Horse Show '^ The influx of visitors to Dublin during the .Horse Show week was greater than -has been the case" for years past Thousands who had no interest- in ■ the c r a a t oo j of the cheap excursions from f,lio P . the kin S dom visit- the metropolis of i fr^iff* fT 01 ' 6 ,T cU repaid for the trouble entailed in tiavellmg from their various districts.-- It is"admitted on all sides that no finer scenery can be viewed anywhere than in and mound Dublin, Ld the visitors took advantage of the fact. By tram, train and though last not least, by Irish jaunting car, they expored the beauties of Howth, jSray,- Kiugfetown another, well-known suburbs. The HorSe " Show shortd xi sult in advantages not alone to the -.metropolis, but to Ireland generally. In response to^an appeal from the Industrial Development Association, a splendid di™ play of Irish manufactured,- goods was given by the shopkeepers of the oityj The windows in the leading streets were filled with goods made in Ireland VfejL tors were present from France, Austria' - Italy Ger manyv Belgium, Holland, and/ other Continefe counl Charitable Bequests „r Th ?,, Wtp; .Canon Conolly, St. Kevin's, Dublin by his will left £300 for ..Masses foiv the- repose T of\- his soul; £200 to .the -Little Sisters of.ithe AssuSntiolf Camdcri-street ; . £200. to the Conference of *St VmS -de Paul attached to St. Kevin's Church ;J; J J'2BO FTSc -obtaining a site aijd erecting a Catholic' church Tin 2r fnfiL C^ ta r Sll '? treet ' Dubli "' £300 to r ;the relief of infirm Uathohc clergymen,; £200 to "the Conference "■ of "* Sf- Vinee nt de Paul; Society attached toth SholS paiisb of St. James's, Dublin; £200 to the Fatw Jam& Healy Memorial Fund; £150 for the T improved mc-nt of he Dalkey Church ;' £lorfor4bel o rfor4be poor LhS attached to the Loretto^ Convent, Dalkey Other S^.Jevi^s W pTnsr dC . fOr it KERRY— Appointed^Sub-ShyrijK now Mr. Roche is a -member .of^-.a- much respected family and his appointment by- tfie High Sheriff Mr ■ -^Sn° r ?n *&%&&??**' haS *™ SSTigj: LIMERICK— Women and Temperance In the course of a lecture, on .-temperance by the ¥L On ' n? crt . rand , Russell delivered- in the Village^Hall of the Munster-Connacht Exhibition, the dftin|uishcd

lecturer said that in London wohien, and often young girls, were in -the- habit „ of, drinking in public-houses, and he believed that insufficiency of fopd and, sordid surroundings were the principal causes of excessive drinking. Father Uiegan, who proposed a vote of thanks to the lecturer, . said he was ' .very happy to say from long experience in Limerick that such a thing as women ;gdmg into a public T house'.and standing in an open shop at a counter to take drink— what none but women of the lowest principles would be guilty of— was very rare. Public opinion in that" respect was sound. -.-.,", LOUTH—A Generous Benefactor - The late Mrs., Mary Ann' Kelly, of Drogheda, left personal estate valued at £11,074 6s. Probate has been granted, to the Right Rev. Mgr. Patrick Segrave, V.G., Mr. Michael M'Govcrn, and Mr. John Greene, Drogheda. Among the charitable b&quests are £200 for Masses, £300 to- the Society for the Propagation of the Catholic Faith, £300 to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Drogheda ; £1000 for placing a white marble high altar in St. Augustine's Church JDrogheda ; £200 to the Presentation Convent, Drogheda ; £200 to the Sisters of Charity, Drogheda • £100 to the Ladies' Association of Charity Drogheda ; £50 to the Convent of Mercy, Droghißta : and the residue of her estate to such charitable "institution in Drogheda for the training of girls as Monsignor Segrave shall choose. - ' ROSCOMMON— lmpressive Ceremony

On the Feast of the Assumption there took place at the ancient cemetery of Oran, in the County Roscommon, a singularly impressive ceremony. It was the exhumation and translation thence of the remains of four Franciscan Monks of the Regular Third Order of St. Francis to the cemetery of their Order, at Farragher Monastery, a few miles off. The remains were those of Rev. Brother Benedict Farmer, who died on January 28th, 1871"; Rev. "Brother Patrick Luttrell, April 21st, 1884 ; Rev. Brother Francis Owens March Ist. 1885; and Rev. Brother Joseph Ward, April 7th, An Appeal for Assistance

At a meeting of the itoscommon County Council a discussion took place on the failure of the potato crop, and a resolution was adopted calling on the Government to provide employment during the coming winter and spring for the laborers and small tenant tanners* TIPPERARY— The University Question

Cardinal Logue, in acknowledging the resolution of the Cashel brban Council on the University question says that resolution proves that, whoever may capitulate to ascendency, the Catholics of Cashel and of gallant Tipperary are not likely to haul down the flag and end a long fight by a shameful surrender WEXFORD— A Monument

A handsome monument of Irish marble which has been erected over the grave of the late Very Rev Canon Doyle, Kamsgrave, County Wextord, was unveiled on Sunday, the 9th of September

GENERAL An English View In the 'Evening Standard' there is a leading article entitled • Old and New Ireland,'- which after referring to the threatened famine goes on to say that Ireland is far too dependent on "agriculture, seeing tnat nature has not made her a propitious country for - farming. A- people, of bold" fisherman and hardy boatmen, of merchants and traders ami seafarers, that is says the btandaid, 1 what the Irish should be The ' tru« business of Ueland is to be the bridge from the OW World- to the'^ew. It is thrust, far out into the Atlantic as if for that express purpose, and if full advantage were taken • of its situation the journey from some Canadian or Newfoundland; or even New England, port might be. accomplished by a modern steamer well under four days, and then with a train \ er . x Z> ,°. r Perhaps even a tunnel across or under the Irish Channel the journey to 1 America .will be shortened by a full four and/ Verity hours or more and nearly three -days lopped- off the passage of the ooen oV?e n ni C> nr ai S Ireland wi " have annually the handing of tens of thousands; of passengers and of hundreds of thousands of "tons of merchandise making the' fast transit between:- the -East- and West It is t ' H e^ 0t but it is nearer "realisation than seemed . possible a few years ago. •