Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 21 May 1914, Page 39

Irish News

1 .\ GENERAL. ) The death has taken place at the Workhouse Convent, Mullingar, of Sister Mary Xavier Cantwell, in her eightieth year. Deceased was in the fifty-eighth year of her religious profession. She had spent over a half-century in Tullamore. '"'.■» The Cork Corporation has adopted a resolution repudiating the proposal made by Mr. William O'Brien that Ulster representatives in the Imperial Parliament should have a direct suspensory veto on any Bill passed by the Dublin Parliament during the first five years of its'existence. The Gorey District Council is raising a loan of £12,000 for the erection of 70 cottages on a plot of land purchased from Sir George Errington. A garden of half an acre will be attached to each cottage and trees will be planted in the open spaces of what will be a very large and beautiful garden city. The appointment of Archdeacon Ryan as the new Dean of Cashel is a most popular one. lie has had a most distinguished record, and was for many years President of the Diocesan College in Thurles. During his term as parish priest of Fethard he did much in the way of furthering parochial interests, and took a keen interest in all local affairs. The Deanery of Cashel, to which Archdeacon Ryan has now been appointed, has been vacant since the death of the late venerated Dean Kinane. His Honor County Court Judge Drummond (successor to Judge Curran) opened the Birr Quarter Sessions. Mr. Bull, Sub-Sheriff, presented white gloves to his Honor, saying that the absence of crime would be very gratifying to his Honor on this, the occasion of his first visit to the King's County. At the opening of Boyle Quarter Sessions, Mr. Ryan, registrar, on behalf of Mr. Dignan, Sub-Sheriff, presented County Court Judge Wakely, K.C., with white gloves. His Honor expressed pleasure at the peaceful state of the Boyle division of the county. Limerick being- free from crime, County Court Judge Law Smith was, at the opening of the Quarter Sessions, presented with white gloves by Mr. Stephen O'Mara, High Sheriff of the city. Very Rev. Canon Power, who passed away recently, was one of the most beloved priests in Munster. Born at Crowhill, County Limerick, in 1832, after a brilliant career in Maynooth, he was ordained in 1857. Having gone through eighteen years of faithful and strenuous work as a curate, he was appointed parish priest of Emly.. When he came to that historic parish he found that it held rather a backward place from the point of view of ecclesiastical equipment. But by the noble work of the late Canon and the generous co-operation of the priests and people of Emly, a great transformation set in. A magnificent church, complete and fully furnished . in all its details, was erected at"a cost of nearly £20,000. He was instrumental in bringing about the purchase of the holdings of every one of his parishioners under very favorable conditions, beginning with the Ashbourne Act, and such confidence had landowners in his fairness that they always left the terms to his arbitration. About four years ago he negotiated the completion of the sale of the town of Emly on the Considine Estate. " COVENANTERS AND NATIONALISTS. The Westminster Gazette asks: If it is to be conceded that the Covenanters must not be resisted, even if they proceed to break the public peace, what is to happen to Irish Nationalists if they say that their conscience forbids them to accept the present form of government, and proceed, like the Covenanters, to arm and organise for the purpose of resisting it ? Nationalist Ireland could 'probably within a very few months get about 200,000 men .into "the field, and, according to the doctrines now prevalent in the Unionist Party,

they are not only fully entitled to do it, but ought to do it, if they have the same belief in their cause, as the Ulstermenhave in theirs. If they, did it, what is our soldier going to do ? Having intimated that he refuses to execute the decrees of Parliament when they are unfavorable" to the Ulstermen, is he going to say 'that he is cheerfully willing to execute them ; when they are unfavorable to Nationalists? And s is 0 he going to ask the majority of Irishmen to submit quietly to being governed by a Parliament which cannot carry-its laws into effect when they are favorable to one party in Ireland, but which executes them without hesitation when they are favorable to the other?' . CATHOLIC TOLERANCE IN DUBLIN. Reference was lately made to the generous treatment of one of its Protestant chaplains by the Richmond Asylum Board (Dublin), which is mainly composed of Catholics. This week we (Glasgow Observer) would like to call attention to a further instance. of the rigidly fair manner in which Catholic Boards generally in Ireland deal with persons professing different religious views. At a recent meeting of the North Dublin Board of Guardians, the constitution of which, it may be stated, is 55 Catholics and 4 Protestants, a report was received from the Visitor as to the manner in which the Protestant children in the Cabra Institute were looked after, and the Board was pleased to hear of the satisfaction expressed. Evidence of the anxiety displayed by the Guardians of this Union, as indeed all other Unions controlled by Catholic Boards, to deal not only fairly, but liberally, with their co-religionists of other denominations is afforded by the fact that while the Protestant children in the Cabra Institution number on an average about 10, in order that they may be properly educated and brought up in their own faith the Guardians have provided them with a Protestant teacher at a salary of £69 per annum, and a Protestant chaplain at £SO per annum. In the general workhouse the Protestant inmates number about 170. For the care of these inmates and the safeguarding of their religion, the Guardians have appointed a superintendent of the Protestant Infirmary at a salary of £ll4 per year; 5 Protestant nurses receiving a salary of £319 10s per year between them; a ward-mistress at £2B (all with rations and apartments), and a Protestant chaplain at a salary of £IOO a year. There is also a Protestant organist provided for the church. Some years ago it was suggested that some of the inmates being Presbyterians might object to the Protestant service, with the result that a Presbyterian chaplain was appointed at a salary of £3O. The persons he is required to look after hardly ever number more than two or three. In addition to those already mentioned, several others of the employees of this practically exclusive Catholic Board -are Protestants, such as the diet clerk, receiving £l4O per annum; a bricklayer with £113; two doctors receiving £195 each; the analyst (Sir Charles Cameron) with a salary of £BO, and a wardmaster with £44. On turning to the pension list, we find that though it is optional with the Board to grant superannuation, two retired Protestant officers are in receipt of allowancesa doctor £llß and a nurse £26. In proportion to the number of inmates, the salaries paid to the Protestant officials are relatively greater than those paid to Catholics.