Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 29 June 1911, Page 1207

Irish News

ANTRIM—Irish Goods Boycotted ~,. /',-,'_ A joint meeting of the Belfast Industrial Development Association and the sub-committee appointed to organise a Permanent Exhibition of Irish Industries in Belfast, discussed at their latest meeting the display of non-Irish goods in local tobacconists' windows, and it was agreed to petition these traders regarding the matter. It is understood that certain' English tobacco manufacturers; intend entering into a campaign in Ireland with the object of pushing their own manufacturers to the, exclusion of Irish goods. _ ' ARMAGH—SaIe of an Estate The tenants on the estate of the Earl of Caledon, near Middletown, Co. Armagh, have signed agreements to purchase their holdings, non-judicial and first term tenants getting a reduction of 6s 9d in the £l, and second term tenants 4s B£d in the £l. Sporting rights are reserved to the tenants. DONEGAL—A Magistrate on Handball Three young men, named Hutchinson, McNulty, and Collum, belonging to Ballybofey, Donegal, were summoned before the Stranorlar Petty Sessions, charged by the police with playing handball on the public streets at Ballybofey. thereby preventing the free passage of persons. The prosecuting policeman said the defendants were playing against the gable of Mrs. 'McGlinchey's premises, and complaints were made that people, especially cyclists, could not pass. Captain Herries-Crosbies, R.M., the presiding magistrate, said he sympathised with the; defendants, as the game was an admirable one when played under proper rules, but it must not be played on the public street. He believed that if a proper ball' court were provided, and the game played under the rules,, large numbers of young men would take advantage of such an excellent pastime. . He would be willing to subscribe £5 himself towards providing a proper court, where the game could be played as it should be played. The Queen and Cottage Industries i Much satisfaction is evinced by the continued interest of the Queen in the attempt which is being made to establish a new knitting industry. Her Majesty has ordered a second hand-made woollen coat. It is eighteen months since the experiment was started of producing hand-knitted coats in the villages of Donegal. The industry, flourished thirty or forty years ago, when the introduction of knitting machinery practically put an end to the hand-work of the Donegal peasants. For the purpose of reviving the industry, classes were established in Donegal, where the populace do the work in their own homes, and visit a central depot once a week to hand in the result of their labors and receive a fresh supply of yarn. The number of workers has rapidly grown from 100 to 1500, and there is still room for further development. DOWN—Substantial Damages : : In the Nisi Prius Court, Dublin, the other day, before Mr. Justice Madden and a common jury, -Henry Kinney, Newry,; who claimed £2OOO damages against the Great Northern Railway Company for serious injuries at the defenders' premises at Goraghwood, owing to the negligence of the company's servants, was awarded £BOO. ~•,.. Sale of a Tow. 3 ;: In the Land Judge's Court on May 10, before Mr. Justice Ross, the offers made by intending purchasers for various lots of the estate of Aubrey do Vere, Beauclerk, in the Co. Down, which were offered for sale by public auction in Belfast, came up for confirmation by the court. The property includes the little town of Ardglass, an important fishing station, about six . miles from Downpatrick and twenty-four from Belfast. The town contains the remains of five strong castles, and of these two —St. Margaret's and Jordan'swere purchased by Mr. Francis J. Bigger, Belfast, the well-known antiquary and editor of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, who will see that the monuments are preserved from ruin. In some cases the intending purchasers of lots increased their;bids; in others the bids already made were accepted, and the sales were in the majority of cases confirmed. A Strange Will Dispute '/The. hearing began, before Mr. Justice Barton, on May 5, of arguments in connection with the disputed will of the late Patrick Murphy, of Marcus square, Newry, who bequeathed his.-residuary personal ; estate, after deducting certain payments, to the Newry Urban Council for the purpose of paying off the debts of the town and relieving the rates, but declared .that as he had no confidence either in the ability or the good, sense of the present Urban Councillors, the estate should hot be handed over to the Council for a period of twenty-one years. The plaintiffs are A. Gartlah, solicitor; A. McCann, merchant; and C.Warnock, commercial clerk, executors and trustees of the deceased, and the defendants are Teresa Kelly, sister of the deceased; the Newry Urban Council, and the Attorney-General. The defendant, Teresa Kelly, said that the bequests were.,for purposes which were not charitable, and were therefore void as' infringing the law against perpetuities, and further con-

tended that the Newry Urban Council had not power to hold the lands for the purposes mentioned. , ;;: The value of the personal estate amounted to £90,622," and the real estate t0:£17,422. Certain legacies had been paid, and there now remained the following legacies to ? be discharged:: Mater Misericordise Hospital, Dublin; £SOOO ;I f Science -and Art Museum, Dublin, £5000; Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, £5000; Bodleian Library, Oxford, £5000; poor of Killough, £100; and the committee of the "NewryvNewsroomy £IOO. i tr&i&i .-, •. :.- :.v,g 7 ? fiSii SLIQO—A Centenarian ■■'■ : ' ' 7> '' ■*'& ■'•-rThe death was recently announced of Mrs. ' Bridget Clancy, Castle street, Sligo, at the great age of 105 years. The deceased lady, who belonged to an old local family, frequently declared that she had never had a day's illnesa in her life. ; -- . :-•■■• - v-- hm. DUBLIN—The Irish Trade Mark ' E The Irish trade-mark, said Captain the" Hon., Otway Cuffe, who presided in Dublin at the annual meeting of the Irish Industrial Development Association, has, .now been registered in France, Australia, and New Zealand, and they had great hopes, owing to the action of Mr. John Redmond, M.P., in bringing the matter before; President Taft, that they would also have it registered in the /United States. The Association, he added, had done much to prevent the public being misled by Irish titles and emblems being given to goods not made in Ireland/ and the ease with which the association was now able to put an ends to those attempts at fraud had struck a certain amount of terror into the hearts of those who had the inclination "to; carry on that sort of business. :; Captain Cuffe thought Mr£' Redmond deserved the best thanks of the association for his services to the organisation, and the representatives from Belfast, who said they did not agree with all Mr. Redmond's speeches, at the same time said that, the ' people of the northern city were thankful to him for his good offices with America. KERRYA Very Pleasing Function A very pleasing function, in which people of . different creeds took part, was held in Tralee on May, 3/ when Mr. Thomas O'Donnell, M.P. for West Kerry/* was presented with an address, a gold watch, and a cheque for a substantial sum. by his constituents in recognition of his public services during the ten years which he represented the constituency in Parliament. Mr. R. Latchford, a Protestant Nationalist, in associating himself with the tribute to Mr. O'Donnell, referred to the cry which had been raised that the Protestant minority would be : persecuted under a Home Rule Government. He said the best friends lie had since he commenced business were of the/majority, and he had no fear as to the future. He was sorry to. see that Irishmen were to be found joining with -those 'who were vilifying their country and their people by raising /the baseless charge of religious bigotry. As one of the'iproposers of Mr. O'Donnell for West Kerry Division, i ho earnestly joined in appreciation of the splendid services which he had rendered to all his constituents. -' ' ••- LlMEßlCK—Excessive Railway Rates , , :y 4 Messrs. Hewson and Co., carbide manufacturers,' and acetylene engineers, Askeaton, Co. Limerick, have written to the Cork Industrial Development Association, pointing out ' that while every facility is being afforded the importation of foreign manufacture, the home producer is handicapped on every side. The heavy railway charges to distant parts in this country entirely preclude us,' they say, from entering into competition there with the foreign manufacturer, who gets his stuff carried at remarkably low rates.' As proof of their statement, Messrs. Hewson quote rates. For instance, the charge from Norway to Dublin is under 10s per ton for goods similar to theirs, while from Askeaton to Dublin the rate is 33s 4d per ton —that is, 234 per .pent, more, the goods being carried many times the distance of the home article for considerably less than one-third of the cost "of carriage of the home-manufactured goods. Then, ordinary cross-Channel steamers' refused to carry carbide at any price. The Council of the Cork Association were of opinion that when the matter was put clearly before the Cork Harbor Board they would decline to abolish (as they have been requested to do) the restrictions on the' landing of foreign-made carbide at the port of Cork. WICKLOW—An Address to the King and Queen Mr. Pierce O'Mahony, ex-M.P., . who, at Wicklow, recently, seconded a motion for the presentation of an address of welcome to the King and Queen, said he had been a Nationalist for over forty ~ years, and .had"* not in least weakened in his Nationalist views, but he had come for the express purpose of showing .that he.did not see .anything inconsistent between holding strong Nationalist views" and being devoted loyal to the throne. - >,.„; ,, jMi 2 , GENERAL '.',' • .3'%*% SlLtt Eggs and Poultry Mr. T. W. Russell, speaking in Dublin on c May 4, said tho value of the eggs exported from Ireland in* 1910u was £2,744,138; poultry exports amounted to £927,075,' and feathers to £32,460, making a total of £3/703,673; There

had latterly been an average i annual increase of v £353,372 in the exports, and since "'■ 1904 the increase had been nearly £1,1300,00?). -V. 1,i~% - '• The Voice of the Empire r \ ' .

The fact which makes the claim for Home Rule irresistible (remarks the Catholic Times) is its endorsement by the vast majority of the people of the British Empire. The English working-classes support it. So do the people cf Scotland and Wales, and of all the colonies and dependencies. ;, ->, Mr. Redmond pressed home this conclusive argument on behalf of the Irish cause in his eloquent speech at Edinburgh, and his sentences were punctuated with enthusiastic applause. On the following day, Mr. Asquith used it with no less telling effect in Manchester. There was not, he asserted one of the Premiers of the great selfgoverning dominions who, if he had to give a vote according to the community ho represents, upon the expediency of granting self-government to Ireland, would not feel constrained to vote in the affirmative. As Mr. Redmond insisted; in; the- Synod Hall, Edinburgh, the voice of 'the Empire calls for the satisfaction of the people of Ireland's demand. As to the suggested provision of special safeguards against the persecution of Irish Protestant by Irish Catholics, we hope we shall hear no more of it. There never has been in any other country such a petted, pampered, privileged minority as the Irish Protestants. The Irish Catholics who have never persecuted at any time will not begin to do so now. -. / . The Emigration Drain If the concession of Home Rule prevents in any appreciable measure the drain of emigration from Ireland it will render a valuable service to Ireland and Great Britain, for the employment of workers at home must be of advantage all round (says the Catholic. Times). Unhappily, the exodus still continues in large numbers. According to the report of the Registrar-General for Ireland, which has just been issued, 32,923 emigrants left the country during the year 1910. These figures show an increase of 3600 over the record for the previous year. The most comforting thing that can be said of the emigration for 1910 is that it is below the average for any of the decennial periods for which records are available. _ In the years that immediately followed the great famine the annual figures rose over one hundred thousand, and in 1852 were no less than 190,000. But though the loss to Ireland is comparatively much slighter now, it is still very serious. It is the young men and women who go. Of those who left last year 86.9 per cent, were between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five years. The colonies, and especially the United States, get the benefit of mental and physical energy which should be applied to the furtherance of Ireland's'commercial and industrial progress. c . Ireland and Wales Mr. John Redmond, M.P., and Mr. Ellis Griffith, M.P., leader of the Welsh party, were the principal speakers at a Liberal, demonstration in the Town Hall, Holyhead. /In the course, of his speech Mr. Redmond said there was no conflict of interests between Ireland and Wales. Mr. Balfour had described the present majority in Parliament n.s a great log-rolling conspiracy, and said that .Ireland supported Welsh ami Scotch schemes, not because Ireland believed in them or approved of them, but because Wales and Scotland supported Home Rule for Ireland; and that Wales and Scotland supported Home Rule, not because they believed in it, but because. Ireland was supporting Welsh Disestablisment and Land Reform for Scotland. Nothing could be more scandalously untrue. He made bold to say that on all those great National issues the oeople of Ireland and Wales were absolutely at one in conviction, in principle, and in policy. The claim for recognition of their distinct and unconquerable nationality was the same in Wales as it was in Ireland. Ireland struggled for Home Rule for themselves ; and so much of Home Rule as the Welsh desired for themselves the Irish would aid them in getting with all their heart. The Irish Church was disestablished" many years ago, and largely by the aid of Welsh public opinion and Welsh votes in Wales. With the desire for the disestablishment of the Welsh Church Ireland fully, and naturally sympathised:' and; I say here to-day,' added Mr. Redmond, 'that Wales imay rely upon the Irish party helping her by every means in her power to insist that Welsh Disestablishment shall be carried into law in this Parliament.'