Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 9 January 1913, Page 39

Irish News

GENERAL. The Manchester Guardian estimates that the revenue derived by the British Treasury from Ireland between the years 1809 and 1911 exceeded the Government’s expenditure in Ireland by an aggregate of not less than £329,000,000. Since 1911 the balance is the other way" about. Ireland costs the Empire a million and a half annually more than Ireland yields. But deducting the paid-up excess of £329,000,000 at 2| per cent., leaves the Empire Ireland’s debtor to the amount of eight millions yearly. In Sligo Cathedral on November 14 Mass of the Holy Ghost was celebrated, Most Rev. Dr. Healy presiding, after which a meeting of the Diocesan Chapter was held, with the object of selecting clergymen, wirose names are to be submitted to the Holy See, with a view to one of them being selected successor to the late Most Rev. Dr. Clancy. According to the Freeman’s Journal it is understood that the first of the names selected was that of Right Rev. Mgr. O’Riordan, Rector of the Irish College, Rome.