COUNTY NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 13, 28 March 1901, Page 9

COUNTY NEWS.

DONEGAL-— A New Industry.— A Scottish (inn— Messrs. Morton and Darvel, Ayrshire — aie building a place at Killy beers Donegal, to accommodate over 100 workers for the purpose of manufacturing ' Turkey ' carpets by hand-loom weavers. Much attention has been called to this industry, from the fact that the late Queen Victoria ordered a Donegal carpet. The design chosen is in shaded red of a very fine quality, and on handsome ro'-e-colored ground. The variety of beautiful designs was particularly remarked on by Sir FJeetwood Edwards when conveying the order. This new industry will give employment to many hundreds of girls and boys, and one of the most important features will bo the rearing of sufficient sheep on these western highlands to supply the full requirements of a business whose goods are made entirely of wool. This wool will be spun and dyed on the spot. Turniug to the statistics on which this industry is based, it is reckoned that 0119

girl will work up in a year ihe wool of 22."> sheep. The difference between a cirpet produced in thin way in much the sam, 1 as that between an ml pamtinsr and a colored lithograph. The method requires human thought in the process ; it is, therefore, an industry whi h cannot bu superseded by power loom TIPPERARY —Prospective Mining.— There is at last a prospect, says the financial writer of the J<Ji-ho, of some attempt being made to exploit Ireland's mineral resources. The Hibernian Development Co., we gather from interesting notes in British Mtniny, have taken over the Silvermines property in the County of Tipperary. 1 his particular mine is supposed to have been discoVcldl ill IGOG. What Ihe old. Uiinc in jJoilig Lv piuJui^o in liui oicaT, but both silver, lead, and quicksilver have been extracted from it, according Lo what we jluubL Leiui Iradiuuu. TYRONE — In Memory of the Inniskillings — The officer* of the Royal Inni-killing Fusiliers stationed at Dover gave an amateur diainatic porformance entitled 'The Jacobite' on January 17 and is in aid of the Royal Inniskilling Fusilierß' Memorial Fund The memorial, which is to perpetuate the gallantry of the regiment nt Cieter's Hill, will take the form of an Irish cross in stone, and will bo erected near the railway station at Omagh, the heauqimre^ of the regiment. Of the "21 officers of the regiments who went inlo action on that day nine were killed and only four prcap d unwounded. Of the men 227 were killed. It was the tank of the Fusiliers to hold the front while the turning movement was being 1 made, and they were 72 hours facing the enemy. GENERAL. Reported Retirement of Mr. Horace Plunkett— The London correspondent of the Mtmclu *ter Guardian says : 'There is reason to bt lit ve that Mr. Horace Plunkett contemplates an early retirement from the po-t of \ ice-president of the new Irish Department (it Agriculture ;md Technical Instruction, which he was so largely instrumental in i stabhshing. It is not a matter of compulsion that he should withdraw, but. having lost his heat in P<ulmment, and meet'ng a diiliculty in rinding another constituency, he thinks it to be in the interests of the Department that he should make wav for some man who can rf present it at St. Stephen's. There is the possibility th.it even at the eleventh hour the difficulty referred to may bj overcame, but information obtainable from the Government Whips docs not encourage much hope. In the event of Mr. PlunkettV n tir"muit he will duubtlos be succteded in the viee-r n <-idency by Mr. Edward M. Archdal", Conservative Member for North Fermanagh. A Peculiar Industry.— A Lancashire man came across a peculiar little linlu-rry in the nrdlanris of Ireland the other day ; it wasnothii'g le-s than the manufacture of clog oolts for Lai.oishire A < onple of enterprising Lancashire mm had pun based a eerain numb* r of tre*s m the well-woo ied districts in the heart of Ireland. They unp mod natne lubur. and of the wood itself they made the ( ln» snlisul variou- H/.e*. casting away the refuse and selling it fur firewood. By this means they nuved the cost of frtightage to Fngland of a eettain amount of timber, and this, as everyone knows, i*, a considei >ble item. The trots usi d for the purpose are principally alder, an 1 ah the «pu:ulators pay reasonably good wages th(yha\e but little difficulty in obtaining plenty of asni-tance. The Lord Lieutenancy— The retirement of Lord Cadogan from the \ ice-R->j:i!ty in the conrt-e of the present year has now been verified. Mr. Wyndhatn. <"hiet St cretary, will then be t .ken into the Cabi-iet, .md eiih^r the Duke c,f Marlborough or Lord Dudley will be ma ie Lord Lieutenant. Either of the two noblemen abo\e-mmed will fi r the ornametiial part of Vice-Regal duties with tolerab'f sikvi The Duke of M.irlooruugh, however, has the Hamilton mil j n c and the V.iiiderbilt doll.ins at his command, and he is accordingly first favoriu at present. The Intoleiance of the Board of Education-— A new »»- stance (if the intolerant spirit of the Xanon-il Board of Education in Ireland is tunnelled in the matter of the Ballycastle District Coudcil and the appointments of a School Attendance Coinnmtee following the iuiuption by the Council of the Compulsory Education Act. In the district involve 1 th- re are ;>8 elementary schools, ][) Catholic and l.i non-Catholic, apportioned among various denominations. A committee of 10 members fell to be appointed — five by the District Couucil and five by the National Board. The District Council appointed three Catholics and two Protestants, and the Catholics as a result of an amicable arrangement petitioned the >ational Board to appoint three Protestants and two Catholics so as to fjive all parties equal representation on the committee. But tne Bciid disregarded the petition, and appointed one Catholic (.ii ly and tour Protestants, thus givii-g the Protestants six out of 10 members, thoi,gh the local Protestant representatives defairt d only equal share ot representation. The glaring injustice of the proceeding is more m.miftst from th° fact that the pupils in the Catholic k hooK much outnumber the pupils in the non-L'athohc schools. Father Con\eiy, P P. of Cushenl.il!. has publicly protested against the iinl,.irne-s, and the matter will be brought beto-e Pcitlntment on the uirliest opportunity. Meantime it bupplies an excellent bumple of Dublin Castle methods.

The Grand Prix was the highest award obtainable at the Paris P.xbibition, and the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, of Chicago, secured this coveted honor, and not only this but they obtained more special prizes than all other competitors. Surh a tribute to the worth of the McCormiek machines is proof positive of their excellence. Messrs. Morrow, Hassett and Co, C'hn-tohurcr', Annburton, and Dunedin, are the agents for the Company's manufactures in New Zealand.—,**