Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 39, 26 September 1907, Page 27

Irish News

'-. ~i ~^~. — :—: — • ■ ANTRIM— A Valuable Discovery A new industry is being developed in County- -Antrim, due to the recent discovery ' of pottery clay : -near ' the village of Doagh. The, clay -is practically identi- ■ cal in composition with that found in 'the famous pits of Cornwall, which have furnished the raw material for potteries all over the" world. • • The Union in Danger r . - Mr. Sloan, the Orange member for South Belfast, delivered a manly speech in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Evicted Tenants' B"ill. He did not mince his words in repudiating the part which , the Unionists were playing in fighting, the landlords'' game under the guise of maintaining the Union. l I am sick, sore, ■ and ■ tired of - this humbug about the ' Union being in , danger, and if they want to defend line landlords' interests, why' don't they come out in. tne open and proclaim' themselves.? ' ' Mr. Sloan added: that the Bill was promised by the Tory party, that he would not be a party to pledge-breaking, and that lie would not be afraid to justify his attitude in South Belfast. The Belfast Strike . At a meeting in Dublin in support of the Belfast strikers the principal speaker was Mr. Lindsay Crawford, Deputy Grand Master of the Independent Orange Order. In the course of .his speech he said :— They heard a great deal about the weaMli of the - people .generally in Belfast. Well, he had seen more of that grinding genteel poverty in the boasted prosperous ' Belfast ' than he had ever .seen in Dublin. The boasted wealth of Ulster meant the wealth of a few. According to the London/ Daily Mail,' which had been blackguarding the men in this contest, the average wages of the men out on strike amounted to fifteen shillings a week for a ninety-hours week. How could a man decently support his wife and children on 15s a week ? Ninety per cent, of the men on strike were members of the old Orange Institution. Dublin Castle had endeavored, even over this police question, to introduce the religious bigotry questions, but they could never succeed in it in Belfast again. They had ruled Ireland for generations along sectarian lines. Another, generation— and he stood for a section of them— were determined to stand with their backs to the past. They were determined that religious bigotry and party strife would no longer separate the people when common interests demanded that they should unite The men who had' gone before them had laid sure the foundation of national unity in Ireland— men like Parneu and Davitt. No man took a greater interest in the question of labor than the late Michael Davitt. He (Mr Crawford) had the honor of enjoying his friendship before he died, and he knew hoY keenly he looked forward to the cause of labor as a platform 2?uld! Unite thC men Of Ireland as »° °«S CARLOW— Tenants Purchase Their Holdings The tenants on the estate of Miss Lucy Canning ?3 vP^' near IUIIOW'I UllOW ' £ ouni y Carlow ' have agreed to 23 years' purchase. Rev. Father Lawlor, Adm., Tulfartrum^t 1 ?! XeS ¥ d ?n bChalf ° f the tenaAts ' and ™* instrumental m bringing matters to a successful issue. CLARE— Serious Damage by Storm . Svers which J«L °k - 1X ours - In , the meantime two overflowld into^th d^ S '- -° re aWay their * anks > a ™* trees that Stnn* ? adjoining lands, uprooting huge

DERRY— The New Bishop, . , \... The 'consecration of the,' Right Rev. Mgr.McHugh -as Bishop of Derry takes place in St;, Eugene's Ca'the-'" dral^ s - ; perry, on' Sunday next; ' Death of *a Priest „.-,'. i " v Our Horne 1 exchanges report the' death on 'August :l of the Rev. M. Mclvor, pastor of *Deseftmartin. Father Mclvor was born about the -year 1840 in- Baltea'gh:, After ' a distinguished course in- Carlow College,he-w.as ordained priest in Derry by Dr. 'Kelly, and ministered in the following parishes : Cappagh, Glenelly,' ; Gam, > Drumquin, Magilligan. , Fifteen years ago he wag : promoted to the parish of Desertmartin. , '*- LIMERICK—A Prominent Public Man The death is reported of Mr., Robert Pigott,' J.P.,' Co.C, at his 'residence," Croagh,'- Rathkeale, ' County Limierick. The deceased was a long, time in public life, '.and for a number of ' years- occupied '• the position of chairman of the old Rathkeale Board of G-uardians, and .was chairman of the " District Council under the newregime up to two years ago, and- was up to the 'time of his' death a- member, of the. Bimerick County Council. He was a prominent Nationalist, and was very, much" respected' and esteemed "by 'all classes. ' ,••' LOUTH— Mr. Healy's Views _ At the opening of "the Irish National ' Foresters' Convention in Dundalk, one of the principal speakers was Mr. T. M. Healy, M.P., who said :— With regard to the. parliamentary movement, it might be said- that there were, better and stronger methods. All he (Mr. Healy) would say was this— the duty and responsibility, which had been placed upon them was to represent the" Irish people in the English Parliament, and try to get out of _it as quick as they could. They could make This defence for themselves— that if they ha"d not done mtuch good, they, had prevented a great deal of harm. But was it a fact that they had done nothing for Ireland during their twenty-seyen years in Parliament ? , Before this movement began every tenant farmer in Ireland was at the mercy of his landlord, an-d every laborer in Ireland was living in a hut in which they would hardly put; a dog at the present day. To-day they had the farmers independent of their landlords atid! 'their bailiffs, and a movement had been started for the betterment of the laborers, both in town and country, so that the homes of the people were more pure and more wholesome than was dreamt 'of thirty years ago. Again, the county government was. in their 'hands, and instead of having Grand Jurors, whose carriages bespattered .you with mud along the road, managing their affairs, they had men like Mr. Peter Hughes chairman of the Louth County Council. Evicted Tenants Reinstated " Mr. Patrick Callan, of Kane, and Mr. Wiseman (son of the late Mrs. Wiseman), of Shertstone, Dundalk have been reinstated in the -lands from which they were evicted over 25 years ago. Mr. Callan and Mrs. Wiseman were tenants on the estate of the late Colonel Macartney Filgate, and held SO and 40 Irish * acres respectively. About the year '82, being unable to pay the rack-rents demanded by the landlord, they ,were evicted. A wooden house was erected by the Land League close to the old farm for Mrs. Wiseman,- 'and there she resided until her death, and Mr. Callan went to reside in Dundalk. The little ceremony of restoration -was performed by an Inspector of " the Estates Commissioners in presence of a large number of neighbors and friends. The lands, during t thfe 25 years that they have remained derelict, Save naturally deteriorated,, and the once fine house and out-offices belonging to Mr. - Callan are now in a' state of decay ?^ n ? g J the absence of Mrs. Wiseman and Mr. Callan' the lands were in charge of emergencymen, and tlie landn lord must have lost a considerable sum of money since no tenants could be induced to take possession WATERFORD— Excessive Valuation The Waterford Corporation have decided to appeal against the award of the arbitrator in connection with the purchase of the Waterford Bridge. The price named (£65,000) is, according to the Corporation extravagantly in excess of the value of the structure WEXFORD— Freedom of the Borough At a recent meeting of the Wexford Corporation 'it was decided to confer the freedom of the tforough upon ' Mr John E. Redmond, M.P., in recognition of his distinguished services as chairman of the Irish Parlia ' mentary Party. • , A Link with the Past , Mr.' Benjamin Hughes, who has just been elected to a seat on the Wexford Harbor Board (says, the ' Free-

man's Journal '), is not. only the doyen of Irish journalists, but is the -last survivor of the Slaney Amateur Society that greeted. Torn Moore at Bannow, in August, 1835, 72 years ago. He was a class-fellow of D'Arcy M'Gee, and was one of a -Juvenile Temperance Society that assembled to do , honor to . Father Mat-hew, at Wexford on April 8, 1840. His memoirs would^ make most interesting "-reading. Mr. Hughes was Mayor of Wexford in, 1897. The Work of the Irish Party Sir Thomas Esmonde, who said some time ago that the Irish Parliamentary Party had practically done nothing for Ireland, had the tables nicely turned on himby Mr. -P. J. Fanning^ at a recent meeting of 'the Gorey Board of Guardians. Mr. Fanning made the » following quotations from a speech delivered by Sir Thomas in July, 1904: 'A number of" 1 questions have been settled recently in Ireland through the efforts of the Irish Party. We have the land question" settled., or practically settled ; w.e have the evicted tenants' question settled in our own county under the operation of the Land Purchase Act, which would npt have been passed but for the Irish. Party. We have under- the operation of that Act, within twelve months, at least 30 per cent, of the evicted tenants restored to their Homes. I was looking at the Local Government report the other day, and I saw that we had in the County Wexford some 1700 laborers' cottages erected. We have more laborers' cottages in our county in proportion to its size and valuation than in any other county in Ireland. And you are aware that there is not a one of these laborers would have a decent roof pver" his head if It were not fpr the action of the .Irish Party. They have in one hundred ways looked after the interests of the people. .We must thank them for getting technical education. We must thank them for getting very considerable advantages for The National teachers, ' as the Party secured £24,000 for the National teachers ,last year. It is impossible for me to enumerate the one hundred ways in wHich the Irish Party has served this country.' GENERAL » The Parliamentary Fund The trustees of the Irish Parliamentary Fund acknowledge receipt from Tasmania of a sum. of £234 odd, being the net result of the Irish Envoys' visit to that colony. A Characteristic Wedding A characteristic Irish wedding was celebrated iv London recently, when the lion. Henrietta O'Neill, daughter of Lord and 'Lady O'Neill, of Slane Castlej married Mr. Charles Leith-I-lay. Instead of hats, the' eight bridesmaids wore wreaths of shamrock in - their hair, and a bunch of the national emblem in the bodices of their white chiffon gowns, which were' trimmed with gold. Australian Sympathy Colonel Freehill, of Sydney; the distinguished Australian citizen,, who is now on a visit to" Ireland (says ,the ' Irish Weekly '), in the course of an interview said that the people, of Australia, whether Irish or not, were in favor of Home Rule for Ireland. . He spoke of various missions 'to Australia in . the interest of the .Irish cause, and said that the recent visit of Mr. Devlin and Mr. Donovan was pre-eminently successful, and showed the widespread, practical character of feeling with which Australians regard the National movement. Success of the Catholic Colleges Whatever be the value of Royal University distinctions (says the ' Freeman's Journal '), a point is being reached when they will .be practically the monopoly of the Catholic colleges. This year it is a case of Eclfpse .first, and the rest nowKere. The two Catholic W:oiren's Colleges— St. Mary's, Eccles street, and Loreto, St. Stephen's Green— which do not receive a penny of" public endowment of any sort, direct or indirect— more than account for, the three Queen's Colleges, Belfast included. While the appearance in force of Maynooth makes the Catholic predominance more striking than ever. University College, Dublin, it now goes without saying, leads off, and has no less than 93 distinctions ;' Maynooth, which is just getting into its stride, comes second with 46 ; St. Mary's equals Belfast with 29, obtaining more first-class distinctions, while that excellent College, Queen's College, Cork, wi*th s Mr. Birrell's - encomiums thick unon it, winds up the list with'jjust six distinctions. There are thirty-two Art Scholars in Cork ; they have won two first-class honors and four others. Either the' Royal University honor list ,is a sliam, or there is woful waste of public money on this Cork Queen's College.