Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 30 July 1908, Page 27

Irish News

ARMAGH— The Cardinal's Return Cardinal Logue left America for Ireland on Sunday, June 7, on board the Campania, after a round of visits, interviews, -and speeches, in which he has said many flattering things' of 'Americans, illuminated by kindly wit and humor. He was called upon by Mr. Rockefeller, with whom he has been photographed. Where the Cardinal has been critical of the tendencies of this country (says ' The Times ' correspondent) he has pointed t v o the luxurious living and the alarming increase in the number of divorces as being its greatest menace. All the honor which is his due as a prince of the Catholic Church has been paid I him. CARLOW— White Gloves His Honor Judge Brereton Barry, K.C., opened the Trinity Quarter Sessions for the County of Carlow on June 8. Mr. Norris Goddard, Crown Solicitor, said he had no criminal business to bring before his Honor. His Honor :' It shows the very satisfactory 1 state of the county. I think it is a year since I had a criminal case to try. That shows the very quiet condition of the county.' Mr. Robert Thorp, Sub-Sheriff, then presented his Honor with a pair of white gloves. CLARE— The Bishop and the Irish Party The Most Rev. Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe, has sent ■ £*>> as his subscription to the funds of the Irish Parliamentary , Party, ' who, in the face of great and most -disheartening difficulties, continue to serve their country well and wisely.' DOWN — Church Progress In Australia In the course of a lecture on Australia in Newry on June 8, Mr. W. Redmond, M.P., said: 'There is no chapter in the history of the Catholic Church more interesting than the chapter which deals with Australia. The progress is simply marvellous. A hundred years ago the Catholic Church in Australia consisted of a comparatively few persecuted convicts, mostly without a priest ; and even when they had a priest he was hunted and persecuted like themselves. The Catholic Church then was the rough-hewn cabin of a faithful Irish settler. That was more than a hundred years ago. To-day Australia has at least half a million Catholics in Sydney and Melbourne. And in all the other great centres and throughout the land generally there are cathedrals and churches of exceeding magnificence, and everywhere upon all sides there are Catholic schools, colleges, and institutions such as any nation, even the oldest in the world, might be proud of.' DUBLIN— A Venerable Voter At Dundrum, during the course of the election for the County Councillorship, an interesting incident occurred in the appearance of an old lady, Mrs. Brien, of Rosemount, who, despite her age of 104 years, took a very lively interest in tho contest, and walked down to the booth to record her vote for the candidate of her choice. Clongowes College The annual meeting of the Clongowes "Union was held on June 7 in that well-known college, Lord Chief Baron Palles in the chair. As usual, there was a large gathering of members and their friends, who on arrival were received by the Very Rev. M. Devitt, S.J., Rector, and hospitably entertained. In proposing a vote of thanks to the Rector and Fathers of the Community, the Lord Chief Baron paid a warm tribute to them for the excellence of their work. Whilst proposals with regard to education were being made by Governments and rejected, suggestions being made by Royal Commissions and not carried out, there was, he said, one body that always stood the same and immovable, whose policy and whose action in reference to Catho- - lie education never changed, and that body was the Society of Jesus. To his mind the existence of Clongowes Wood College had been a jxiost material factor in bringing to the front the ( great question of Catholic higher education. Father Devitt, in acknowledging the vote of thanks, expressed the deepest gratitude for the Chief Boron's many acts of kindness in the past and for the beautiful and touching words which he had just spoken. Death of a Religious - The death of Mother Mary Scholastica Geary, Superioress! of Jarvis Street Hospital (writes, a Dublin correspondent), at the age of sixty-two, will be widely mourned. Deceased, who be-

longed to an old Cork ' family, joined the Order of Mercy at an early age, and ever since devoted her life to the work- of -ministering to the sick in the various establishmeats with which she was connected. The early part. of her religious life was spent in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, after which she was transferred to St. Michael's, .Kingstown, and given full control of it, with most gratifying results. Some twenty years ago she came to Jervis- Street^ Hospital, one of the busiest in the city, where she worked almost unceasingly ever since, with the result that the institution now ranks amongst the .very best in the country. Her funeral took place on June 6 from the Mater Hospital, as " did also, "that of • Mother Margaret Mary Malone, Superioress of Beaumont, Drumcondra. As the coffins were borne to the hearses in waiting, a large number of students lined the corridor leading from the chapel to the front entrance of the hospital, and a great number of citizensjollowed the remains to Golden Bridge Cemetery. ■ * ' A Well Known Citizen Mr. John Harrington, J.P., died on June- 4, at an advanced age, in v ßlackrock, County Dublin. He had been for many years a director of the ' Freeman's Journal.' Mr; -Harrington in his younger days engaged largely in the /cattle 1 ' trade, in which. he amassed a large fortune. His firm- was one" of the first to send supplies to besieged Paris, after ' peace .had been proclaimed. A cHaritable, kindly Irish gentleman, he. enjoyed the esteem of all classes, and his death is deeply regretted. A Training College . With the approval of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, the "Dominican nuns have "decided to open a Training"' College for women as secondary and university- teachers at Eccles street. - The curriculum will embrace a wide -range of subjects dealing with the the'ory' and practice of teaching, and - the students will practise in St. Mary's "University College, and the Dominican College, which are attended by over four hundred pupils. Lady Candidates Lady candidates did remarkably well at the Poor-Law elections in North and South Dublin. Not alone did they hold their own, but, despite uncalled-for opposition, they increased ' their number at both boards. Satisfactory State of City and County Mr. Justice Dodd tendered his congratulations to the Grand Juries for the City and County of Dublin on -June 2 at the opening of the Commission. His Lordship commented on the fact that offences against persons were almost entirely absent, and that there was not a single case of malicious injury to property in the county. The New University and Maynooth College Mr. John Redmond, speaking in Committee on the Irish Universities Bill, with reference to a proposal by Mr. Hutton to exclude Maynooth College from affiliation to the Dublin University, said they protested against imposing on these new universities restrictions which are not put upon similar universities in England. Neither in Birmingham nor in Liverpool were there such restrictions ; yet while Mr. Hutton and hl9 friends said they wished to set up a free University, they, .wished to impose upon Ireland a condition which they did not regard as necessary in England. - They had no right to deal differently with Ireland. Why was this proposed? He had no doubt that what was in the mind of Mr. Hutton was not the danger of affiliating pettifogging colleges, but the danger of affiliating Maynooth. For his (Mr. Redmond's) part, he was convinced that there was nothing more important for the future of Ireland than that the Catholic priesthood should have the advantage of a University education. — (Hear, hear.) It would be good for themselves and good -for. = the country, but if thiß proposal werq carried they, would be depriving of^that advantage.. At present,- under the Royal University/; they- could obtain and were obtaining their degrees, and to deprive' them of this opportunity was an inconsistent and- im'pbssitile , poiskion to" take up. Personally, he should like to see the 1 priests coming up to Dublin and taking their degrees, 'but that woukf mean a heavy financial burthen. Then it was said, that .if "Maynooth were affiliated the new University would be" swamped. by' priests. Let him point out that the new University would already start with some 1500 graduates of the Royal Uniwfsityy of. wfiom about a quarter were Protestants, and only' about a Hundred priests, for it was only lately the, Maynooth students had entered the University. That "being so, was- it" not ridiculous to say that the new - University would be swamped. In.' his opinion, the proper way was to leave the matter free.

Decrease of Crime The statistical tables of the Dublin Metropolitan Police for the year 1907 show that the total number of indictable offences committed within the district was 2980, as compared with 3151 in the previous year, in connection with which 1203 persons were made amenable, and 845 were convicted. Two thousand six hundred and . twenty-eight of the offences were offences against property without violence, 78 offences against the person, 188 against property with violence, 36 of malicious injuries to pro- • " perty, and 50 other offences. OALWAY— Catte-Driving Condemned On the occasion of his visitation of the Milltown parish, the Archbishop of Tuam strongly condemned cattle-driving. He exhorted the people not to be misled by public speakers and politicians, who might seek to persuade them that ' cattle-driving ' was not wrong and against the law of God ; such persons were only the agents of the devil in seeking to discolor the truth of • the Word of God. In doing it they were breaking the law of God, and, if any temporal advantage was gained by it, it was ■ paid for too highly. People paid too highly for any temporal advantage that they broke the law of God to obtain. Looking .at it, from the lowest point of view, cattle-driving was not of any advantage to them. He had' been speaking recently in Dublin to two of the Estates Commissioners, and amongst other things they talked of was cattle-driving in the West. He did not like to quote the words that passed between them, but this much, he thought, it was no harm to say : ' Of course (said . they) the agitation won't prevent us buying land where there has been cattle-driving if "the landlords sell to us ; but it will be a very serious questions as to whom we will give this land tJ. They,' continued his Grace, ' have the right to subdivide these ( lands, and although they did not say they would do it, they left it to be inferred that they would not select those men who had taken part in, or advocated, cattle-driving. I confess,' added his Grace, ' that if I had the power I would not give one sod to the man who would be a party to cattle-driving. I don't think he is an honest man. When I say that, I don't mean that he would pick pockets, but I say that any man who conspires to injure or cause loss to another is not honest, and is doing what is not lawful in the sight of God.' LONQ FORD— Death; of a. Canon Very Rev. Canon Fullam, President of St. Mel's College, Longford, died on June 4. He was held in much esteem by the clergy and laity of Ardagh diocese. During his administration of the Diocesan Seminary he made many useful changes in it. TIPPERARY— AJight Calendar Addressing the Grand Jury at Nenagh Quarter Sessions on June 10, County Court Judge Moore said there were only two cases to go .before them, and one man was charged in both cases. He was glad to say that these were the only cases, and for the last several sessions there had been very few cases. GENERAL Agricultural Laborers The main points in the anuanl report of the Department of Agriculture on Irish agricultural laborers are as follow :—ln: — In 1907, approximately 24,000 agricultural laborers migrated for an average of five to seven months to England and Scotland, where they found employment as farm laborers. The average wages earned by these men laborers may be placed at not less than 18s a week when engaged by the week, month, or season. When working on piece work, much higher earnings were made, exceeding in some cases 30s a week. On the whole, employers of these Irish workers have a high opinion of their capacity as workers. The number of agricultural laborers in Ireland has seriously decreased, and in the Census Returns for 1901 the number of agricultural laborers amounted to 217,652, in addition to which there were 76,870 general laborers, most of whom are agricultural laborers. The respective numbers in 1871 were 446,68 a and 193,839. While, in some cases, the wages of agricultural laborers in Ireland reach from 14s to i6s a week, and even higher, the average wage, taking the country as a whole, including the value of the allowance in kind, is estimated 10 be not more than 12s a week. The number of farms exceeding 30 acres, on most of which hired labor is required, exceeds 165,000, and embraces three-fourths of the total area of Ireland.

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