Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 14 July 1910, Page 1107

Irish News

CORK—American Visitors ~ The Right Rev. Dr. Donahoe, Bishop of West Virginia, who-was accompanied by his private secretary, the Rev. O. H. Moya, landed in Queenstown from the Cunard steamer Caronia on May 22. Death of an Esteemed Charleville Man

T. j. e Re Y- Monsignor Mannix, President of St. Patrick s College, Maynooth, has the sympathy of a large circle of friends in the bereavement which has fallen upon him through the death of his esteemed father, Mr. Timothy Mannix, Moatville Cottage, Charleville. . Home-coming Tourists The first of the Irish home-coming tourists arrived at Queenstown on Sunday, May 22 by the Caronia and the .Baltic, and comprised first, second, and third class passengers, all actuated by a desire to see something of the land or their fathers. The Caronia landed as many as 170 passengers, and also the Irish mail, while the Baltic shortly after midnight landed 360 passengers of all classes. 'Great Nationalist Demonstration A great Nationalist demonstration was held in Cork on bunday. May 22. On the previous evening Messrs. J. E. Redmond, John Dillon, Joseph Devlin, and Richard Hazleton, who arrived by express train from Dublin, received a splendid welcome at the railway station, and were escorted by bands and a great crowd to the Victoria Hotel, where they were welcomed to the city by Mr. Coroner Murphy. At Sunday s meeting, which was attended by about 15,000 persons, addresses were delivered by Messrs. Redmond, Dillon, Devlin, Roche, and Captain Donelan. ’ A counter demonstration, organised by the opponents of the Nationalxx 1 arty, was addressed by Mr. William O’Brien. The attendance was about 4000. The proceedings passed off peacefully enough, there being only a few isolated skirmishes. The English Tory press, from which apparently the Australian cable agent gets his reports about Ireland, attempted to show that there was a riot, but it is quite clear fiom the reports of the Irish newspapers that there was no ground for the exaggerated assertion. The Dublin Independent, which is O’Brienite in its sympathies, writes: Happily the rears of a serious collision between the supporters of the United Irish League and the rival organisations, the All-for-Ireland League, in Cork were not realised, and the worst that occurred were isolated skirmishes at street corners and at the railway stations. . . Both or y se d excursions on a large scale,. special trains being run from various parts of the country. . . Fortunately , however, the day passed off comparatively peacefully so far as the large crowds were concerned. There were some people injured in hand-to-hand scuffles before and after the meetings.

DUBLlN—Castleknock College w Q Te {j iam °o d Jubilee celebrations of St. Vincent’s College, Castleknock, were commenced on May 24, and, as the P r f I f.. sugg f sted 111 one of his happy speeches, there was something of the clear sparkle of the diamond in the whole days proceedings. A most beautiful beginning was the f™? s ohant, rendered by - the 200 boys at the High Mass nri.vwi D +t Um n 111 . the morning. The Archbishop of Cashel the Brib the President of the College was celebrant, and the Bishop of Canea_ preached a learned and appropriate sermon. He also had preached the golden jubilee-sermon. A successfu meeting of the College Union, of which the late Lord Russell of Killowen was the first President, followed presided over by the Bishop of Canea, and the Archbishop colWe 16 paid a brief but finely-worded tribute to the college. After luncheon, toasts were honored and the President (Rev. P. Cullen, C.M.) delivered an address, in which he raised important questions affecting the State and secondary schools. The Lord Mayor of Dublin was also a ] a |° ] llg t s P ea kers, and he made a tasteful reference to an old boy, Captain Kane, who saved his ship in Samoa Bay. A Contradiction

Some of the papers endeavored to make capital out of the announcement - that the Lord Mayor of Dublin had declined to take part in the funeral procession of the late King How p unfair such an announcement was is clearly shown by the owing letter addressed to the Irish Independent bv Dublin s Chief Magistrate: —‘ The heading given the paragraph appearing in th q Independent relative to my attendance at the funeral of Ins late Majesty King Edward VII may be smart journalism, but I do not think many citizens will consider it as treating, the Lord Mayor of Dublin fairly When I received the invitation to attend the funeral of Ins Majesty, I decided to do so as an Irish Nationalist and Lord Mayor of Dublin, simply as a mark of respect to a Sovereign who was regarded as friendly to the National aspirations of the Irish people But Lord Mayors have thefr duties as well as their rights, and cannot leave the city without T first appointing a locum tenens to act on their be^ S - In the beginning of the year I appointed Alderman Dr. MeV alter as locum tenens , and on making inquiries, I

was informed that he (Alderman Dr V , ; : after deciding to go ( was r cl-vl ? nTeT “ the idea that face. Snell is aKoluWy „oe e t by W ““ e ° UtS i ind »- formed that I can annmn+ o C o °J lec ,V , However, I was ingoing to attend his P late Majesty’^ funeral tene J}\ 80 1a “ no more influenced bv 10 J;,:J: y S lunral and hence am than by the uS cSictmTonS?*-* 10 " 8 ° f tbe pres 9 The Accession Oath

0. -J h n g* M c \sjvf' m favor of amendment of the Accession OatT 1^8 strongly it should be possible to safeguard the Protest tbat and yet not use staf.pmon+o +l,o+ -riotestant succession to the Catholic subjects of the KinT Tkch”',? 1 ° ffensive nothing to the point t" write "f Mr W.t ‘t is done to the London Tim pc r ’xi aer Walsh has Catholic laity subscribe to the decrees of th? fm** i th l ho’pe that TheGovln,meni°wm a h r< f alks: ' We sincerely tilt the enlightened , du™,?' 0 "!" 11 ‘tis point, and Bishops may weight t“ . f “I the E “S Hsh teresto is oie thing toutw „™t fg <" lrd P r »‘estant inanother.” Such a’declaration f°fi, nee £ ll e ss , offence S Irish Protestantism ought to dfscSSS mtirew'l?. 1 of vent° S late? on. 0r>11 « e obscurantism which is y sure lg to 0 tel

The Nationalists Misrepresented have^eme^u^on°the*opportunity n’ff dl d g 7+u Post, of sympathy ™ of‘ the 6 Irish “people.' 17 ’ Iris views the recent motarufnf event Tit' h f, h F showed a ‘ writers that it indicate! no cha„g“ wLteve? „ Jhe” aspirations of the Irish uennln r - natl onal strongly Unionist, puts S matter although political faith of im one is cZvvZZr V W ' hen ‘ the ful sympathy, which we hope will do much to d^‘ ‘the decreasing antagonism of the uarties to dim . lni sh the spirit which prompted the action of Dm lse in , th . 6 colleagues another nroof that +v.n « be ,h'. orc f Mayor and his foelinf for wMIS" ,t ‘f-* our peo^er^We^o^^that^ vhen 8 th™ I *^^ U m^ority’of may not be long delayed-the a l l^ ff e «- a , n d it show that they can be as onn «• ilro + t x S i of Ire . lan d will their Roman Catholic ”» olics have been of theirs.’ y en as the Roman Cath-

FERMANAGH—An Interesting Ceremony Whitehall o on^l^nffiiy 7 MT S 22°h o Peri ! a " agl ;xlT bled a two crosses with auAiqueVsLv W & H b l essing ° f ago, on the night before they were S’ 1 ! 8 fort y- fi /e years gables of the parish church ?hey were stolen of Orangemen and thrown into a bog hole The p^+^ a r ty of the parish immediately purchased turn these were erected, and fo? a SSrahW.C orosscs ’ a . nd by night and by day. In the LotCl? a Were . gu . arde<l laborer named McQiJid was making “Sins whin"!’? 8 * 5 the crosses. With all haste be urains G when he found parish priest, Rev W C V« informed the had made. Father O’Dohertv °™f ** ’ of the discovery he kers, and the crosses were soon brougLlafe?#toThe °h W °A‘

LOUTH— Rare Event in Drogheda MayS“fh tS g ‘KctfrlSe ?*} H ft* Boyne that a Catholic Mayor in W bat ® of I the English Sovereign in that 'historic city proclail ” ed an WATERFORD—A Popular Magistrate after practising at his profession for or.™ 11 « -“ ar an d pointed a Eesfdent MalSrS^wten, B 'teVtf« ff unpopular character of the position his SliLss fi ? was quickly perceived by the public Hp +1 ° f hear the late Mr. Bourke of Thornhill’ r*A 6 was the son of gentleman of some property, who increased y i k laie rick, a a Local Government Board Inspector Rio ls in W? as Sir Richard Bourke, had a successful’ carSr^' granda Governor, and in the early Victorian period hold Colo A nial I fie n ids GO '' ernorßhiP a ‘ the time of discoveVof the GENERAL The Country in Mourning everywhere’

mg for the late King, Business was suspended in all the large centres of population. Religious services were held in thanksgiving for the world-wide peace secured by the deceased Monarch’s prudent counsels, and asking guidance from. God for his successor. A Solemn Votive Mass, ‘pro quacumque necessitate,’; was celebrated in the Pro-Cathe-dral, Marlborough street, by the Right Rev. Dr, Donnelly, Bishop of Canea, about the time the King’s funeral was taking place. His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin presided at the ceremony, which was most impressive throughout, Every available seat in the sacred edifice was occupied, and the clergy of the Cathedral were reluctantly compelled to refuse tickets to thousands who sought admittance. The attendance included representatives of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, Judges of the High Court, County Court Judges, members of the Bar, Foreign Consuls, members of the Corporation, members of the Senate of the National University, representatives of University College, the College of Surgeons and College of Physicians, members of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce and the Incorporated Law Society, representatives of the Army, Navy, and public departments, as well as a large gathering of representative citizens. Old Age Pensions

The drastic measures adopted by many of the Old Age Pensions’ officers in stopping or reducing the pensions in the cases of many of the old people have not been supported by Mr. Birrell. In future the certificate of a clergyman is to deemed sufficient evidence of the age of the applicant, unless there is full evidence of deception. Those on the border line of the statutory age are to have the benefit of the doubt, and will receive the pension. The recommendations of the Treasury are marked with a spirit of great generosity. Intermediate Education • - The annual report of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, which has just been issued, shows that the number of students who presented themselves for examination in 1909 was 7676 boys and 3656 girls, or a total of 11,332, being a decrease of 60 (or 8 per cent.) in the case of boys and an increase of 9 (or 2 per cent.) in the case of girls. In honor subjects, 10,786 were examined in French, 6569 in history and geography, 6076 in Irish, 5043 in Latin, 4266 in Experimental Science, first year course, 3559 in the same, second year course, 2077 in German, 2002 in arithmetic and algebra (honor papers only), 1157 in Greek, 1086 in geometry (honor papers only), 946 in trigonometry (senior and middle grades only), 13 in Italian, and 3in Spanish. Of the 6076 examined in Irish, 1321 were examined in honors, and 754 passed with honors, being a percentage of 57.1, 3825 passed without honors, or 62.9 per cent.; 1497 failed. The total percentage of passes was 75.4.

Mr. Redmond and Compromise ’After some kindly words in regard to the late King, Mr, Redmond at Cork on Sunday, May 22, addressed himself to the question of the conflict between Lords and Commons. That conflict, he rightly said, was inevitable, for the democracy of England had burned their boats, and retreat was impossible. Compromise would mean the betrayal of the principle of popular liberty. So long as Mr. Asquith and his Ministry acted up to their pledges, so long and no longer would they receive the enthusiastic support of the Irish Party. Delay there might be, defeat there might be, but such delay or defeat could but be a temporary check, and the democracy would win in the end. And with the victory of the democracy over the privileged and hereditary House of Lords would come the chance of Home Rule for Ireland. Nothing would make him and his colleagues swerve a hair’s breadth from their policy. Considering the power of the Nationalist vote in Mr. Asquith’s coalition Government, it may now be assumed that there will be no weakening on the part of the Ministry. With Mr. Redmond will side the Labor members, and as soon as the unavoidable business has been transacted, Parliament will be engaged with the question of the removal of the Lords’ block on legislation of a distinctly democratic character. Until that block is removed, the Liberal Party may as well be out of office, as in office but out of power.