Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 3 July 1902, Page 9

Irish News.

ANTRIM.- Shipbuilding. Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, have entered into an agreement with the new shipping corporation (Morgan and Co.) whereby in consideration of being shipbuilders and repairers to the combine they undertake not to build for any other shipowners, provided orders from the corporation suffice to keep the works at Belfast fully and continuously employed. Under any circumstances they must not build for any competitors without purchasers' consent. The work will be carried out on commission terms, and the agreement is to be for ten yeans from date, and terminable at the expiration thereof, or after five years" notice by either party. CLARE.— Heavy Sentences. Befone Messrs. J . Newton Brady, R.M., and P. J. Kelly, R.M., at a special court under the Crimes Act, held at Ennis, P. J. Lennane, chairman of the Ennis Urban Council and vice-presiflent of the East Clare Excutive of the United Irish League, T. Flanagan, J.P., chairman of the Corofin District Council, M. Griffey, and M, O'Brien, district councillors, Joseph Sullivan, and two others were convicted of having taken part in a criminal conspiracy to compel certain parties not to continue in occupation of certain lands. Flanigan was sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hand labor, Lennane to three months without- hard labor, Sullivan to three months, and the others to two months with hard labor, except in the case of Griffey, who is nearly eighty years of age. CORK.— Local Manufactures. The following is a list of exhibits of Irish manufacture at the Cork Exhibition, which was opened on May I:—'1 :—': — ' Cottons and linens from Minister as well as from Ulster , umbrellas, hats and caps, boots, shoes, and boot leather from Cork, Dublin, and Killarney ; jewellery made in Cork ; hosiery, shirts, and ties , lace and crochet from different centres ; furniture of all kinds, chiefly of Cork manufacture ; pianos and organs, also made in Cork , chimney pieces and grates, carriages, saddlery, and harness, and horse shoes ; cushions for cars, yachts, and church purposes ; bicycles from the south and east of Ireland , baskets from Castlecomer ; garden arches and ilowcr stands ; ornaments made of Killarney arbutus wood and bog oak , sporting guns, rifles, and shooting requisites from Belfast ; bookbinding, printing, books, pens and ink stands, stationery and paper of every description ; fancy leather and picture frames ; stained glass ; Irish marble; bricks, roofing slates ; china , bottles , brushes from Dublin and Cork ; brewers' casks ; joinery , billiard tables ; agricultural implements ; scientific implements ; tobacco and tobacco pipes , fishing tackle and flies ; matches, soaps, candles, glycerine, starch, and blue and blacklead ; m.u stand ; cornflower ; salt ; sauces and sweets ; bacon, hams, and pork ; butter ; biscuits and cakes ; oatmeal and flour ; condensed milk , whisky, stout, and beer. The list is a. long one, and will probably surprise those persons who have been in the habit of taking it for granted that Irish manufactures were more of a name than an accomplished fact.' A Candid Opinion. An Irish correspondent, said to bo the Rev. Courtney Moore, of Mitchelstown. writing in the London ' Church Times ' on the relations which exist between Protestants and Catholics in the South of Ireland, says : — ' Tho wr.iter of this letter has some 200 parishioners of his own, while the Roman Catholic

population is between four and five thousand, and seldom a day passes that some of the latter do not seek him for advice on every - day matters. ' When it is understood that a clergyman of the Irish Chunch is not a controversialist, the local Catholic clergy will allow him to exercise any amount of undenominational philanthropy ho pleases without let or hindrance towards the members of their flocks — e.g., one can visit them in their cabins and cottages and talk with them on the most friendly terms and see them in sickness also. Poor people ! they are wonderfully lovable and attractive ; I have often wondered how and why it is that the Irish are so hard to govern as a nation, when, individually, they are so delightful. The feature of abusing the Government, be it observed, is one common to all creeds and classes in Ireland Nationalists as in duty hound do it ; but just now Conservatives do it as loudly and pronouncedly. The Chief Secretary is as violently attacked by Trojan as by Tyrian. Howeven, politics are not in my line. I speak of kindly, social intercourse 'with the Roman Catholic poor. . .A clergyman, as such, is gi eatly respected and regarded — indeed, there is no member of the community who is treated with such marked and affectionate deference. It is well to bear this in mind, and to perceive and know that in so many almost purely Roman Catholic districts in Ireland our clergy are so popular and are able to do such an amount of practical, kindly good among tho Roman Catholic poor. It is very creditable to all parties concerned that this is so. Judging from the newspapers we might fancy Ireland was always and ever a political boiling cauldron. No doubt it is too much so. Yet, on the other hand, what is said above about tho kindly relations existing between different creeds and classes is absolutely tr.ue ; but this sort of thing is not sensational, and does not find its way into the Pjrcss or Parliamentary debates. . T There is no doubt whate\er that the relations between tho Roman and Anglican clergy in Ireland are greatly changed for the better within the last half century.' DUBLlN.— Control of Tramways. Some correspondence published in tho 'Freeman's Journal ' as passing between Mr. Davitt and Mr. Wm. Murphy, chairman of the Dublin Tramway Company, is of general interest because of the advocacy embodied m Mr. Murphy's letters of private as opposed to municipal ownership of tramways and similar enterprises m cities like Dublin. Mr. Murphy pits the Dublin tram senvice — privately owned — against that of Glasgow, owned by the community. Yet he is compelled to admit that in Glasgow the trains yield over lid per mile, as against something like B£d per mile in Dublin. He contends that this adverse circumstance is due to the fact that in Dublin the trams run in thinly-populated districts That is another way of saying that they run where there is no demand for them ; not a favorable testimony for their management. In Dublin, he contends, tho trams pay £14,000 a year in way-leaves to the Corporation : in Glasgow, but £12,000. But in Glasgow the trams are owned by the citizens, who pay way-leaves to themselves , in Dublin by a pmvate company, which has every right to pay a heavier wayleave- than a public department. Glasgow gets -id fares, and also the biggest value known in longer distances, e.g., a three-mile run for a penny. Dublin does nothing like that. Of course, it stands to reason that, as between private and public enterprises of this kind, public companies can give the best value. They have no dividend to earn. Alter the private company has paid its usual working outlay it must accumulate

dividend, and that can "be done only from revenue, which in turn must be collected from the public. MAYO.— The Cathedral. Father T. H. Quin, of Ballaghadereen, who spent some time in Scotland collecting funds for the Ballaghadereen Cathedral, is now in New York on a similar mission. Father Quin, on his return to Mayo after his sojourn in Scotland, was presented with an address from the people of Ballttghadereen expressing their gratitude for his labors in collecUng bo assiduously and successfully in Scotland for the cathedral, and wishing him similar success in his American tour. WATERFORD. The Protestant Bishop of Cashel, Dr. O'Hara, in the course of a sermon in Coleraine, was reported to have reflected on the Catholics of Tipperary and Waterford in a most offensive manner. The Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, in addressing a meeting; at Waterford, referred to the matter and said : ' You are all aware that the feelings of the Catholics of Waterford city and county have been deeply stirred duning the last few weeks by reports which appeared inj the Belfast and Coluraine papers, in which certain words arse said to have been used by a high dignitary of tho Protestant Church in this city in the latter town. I have no desire to refer at length to these reports to-day, and what I say will, be short. Indeed, I speak on the subject with pain. The Waterford Corporation, by a unanimous vote, called on the dignitary in question to write to the papers to contradict tho statements. Wo know through a third person that his words wero grossly distorted. So far so well ; but up to this, so far as we know, ho has not complied with tho request of the Waterford Corporation, and under these circumstances it becomes my duty publicly to ask the dignitary in question to comply with tho request of the Corporation. T cannot believe he vv ill allow Waterford Catholics to remain under the grievous imputation cast upon them on account of the words alleged to have been used by him.' A few days later Dr O'lTara addressed tho following letter to the Bishop of Waterford — ' 1 wis,h to write to you in reference to a sermon lately preached by me in my old chunch in Coleraine, which you referred to in .\our address at Mount Sion. I have carefully read the report of my sermon given in some northern news-i papers, which I have compared with my sermon notes I can say with confidence that my meaning has been entirely misunderstood here. That report, which I never saw until a week elapsed, in consequence of its brevity and inaccuracy, does not express what I intended to convey or what I personally feel with regard to the mutual relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants in this part of Ireland. Thc^e relations I can only say 1 h a \c found most friendly, and I have often spoken both in the north and hero of tho kindness and courtesy which I have received from all creeds and classes in Waterford, and of the way in which I ha\e been able to co-operate with you in public work for tho common Rood lam sorry that remarks which were intended for Protestants have caused pain to others who have heard them, and L gladly avail of the opportunity of making the explanation which you have so couiteously invited I should have undo it long ago were it not that before 1 was aware that the sermon vras in print, attacks were made on me that could only l>o met by silence You will pleaso regard this letter as a public one. and believe mo to be yours faithfully,' etc. GENERAL. Envoys in America. A New York cable messages to the Dublin ' Freeman's Journal '

states that Messrs. W. Redmond and Devlin were meeting with great success m their mission on behalf of the Irish Parliamentary Fund in the United States. At a meeting of the United Irish League in New York, Mr. Finnerty, who presided, submitted a manifesto thanking the race in Amenica for their response to tho appeals oi tho envoys, and declaring the mission a remarkable .success. An appeal for fui ther sympathy and support was maue. and adopted on the motion of Air. Bourke, seconded by Air. !• it^pati ilk. Mi. Redmond proposed, and Air. Devlin seconded, a resolution of s.vmpathy on the death of Archbishop Corrigan. It was decided to hold a convention early in the autumn. Mr. Pitzpatnck read the treasurer's report, which stated that £.2000 had been subscribed by the branches started by the envoys. Licensing Scandal. The Irish members of the House of Commons have agreed to the unopposed passing of • a Bill to stop the issuo of new licenses, unless in exceptional circumstances, in Ireland ' for five yeais The Bill will be brought forward by Air. Clancy, AI. P , and is backed by Colonel Sa undersoil, M. P, Sir .James llaslett. M 1 , Air. Samuel Young, AI P , Air T. L Corbett, M. P., Air .Jordan, AI. I. A Turn in the Tide. Tho splendid Liberal victory in Bury was a great Mow to the'Covorninent r i he Tories weu> absolutely certain of victotv, and their amazement at the lusult v,is very pronounced The Lite mei.iber, though a military fossil, enioved a sweeping inaioritv, and the Toi les were confident that the son of the prop- let or oi the ' Daily Telegraph,' being a candidate of gre.it energ.v . gre.it ability, and great, wealth, would vastl.v increase that majority Mr Law som i eckoned that in v ie\\ <-f the Education Bill he would also captme the Irish vote, and to make u'-'-.ianre doubly sure he declaied against coeicion, but all in vain lie was a Radical and a Home itulii up till ,i \> w months ago and the Irish would iuue nothing to do with the turncoat As soon as he reca.nl rd hi> political t.uth the Tones took him up, ,'nd Bui.\ as promptly put him down Jle bee. > me a deserter to get into Pailuunent, and he is Still outside Emigratior. Accoidiug to tie Kegistrar-Cener-al's letui.ns Ihe number of emigrants who lfl! lirlaud dm rug the quarter ended :', 1-t March last was 4.'U)."> (26s:i males and 1712 females), being ,~)7'.> li -s than in the coi responding qiiaiUt oi the \car 1 ( .)01 , and 749 undii the ci\ei,\!_o number for the (iis| (pin vi ot the ten years isi>2-r.K/i Canadian Opinion. The C.ip.idi, 1 n ( ; (a ( i inn. ut passed a i esolni k iii J.l,e oilur ii,iv uiging that a police oi i.ij'iiuinimit 1 should be adopt' d b,\ 1 >ie Biitish Government as regain-, the Moers in South Africa Some lem.ukable speeches were made in ihe niuiM^of the d-e-bate, m whuli even Imperialist, members loined la'.oiiug the mo! ion, but the most s].j niiu ant ami mtei estmg of all wa - th.it of Sn Wilfrid Laiirier, who 'aid — \s to the i miit of this P.ti liani'Mil to iii U'l fei c in tin-. question, to al!u m Ims resolution, I, for mv pa i t unhesit .it mglv say tin re* can be no discussion whatever 'Ihe Parliament of Canada to-day is a sovereign I'ai lia meiit It is a sovereign l'ai li.uiient within the British Empue 'Manx \<<ms ago the Parliament of ('.uiada asset ted this authority, and claimed not or.lv the privilege but the light to mt ci tore in tiny question vvhuh might aflect any part of the British Empire, ot which we foran a poition It is now almost twenty v eai s since the Parliament of Canada passed a resolution in favor of granting Home Rule to Ireland. We were not directly concerned with tho question ; but why did Parlia-

mont twice in succession affirm the position that Home Rule should be granted to Ireland ? Because we felt that it was in the interests of Canada that the wrongs of Ireland should bo righted.' All this indicates more or less that Mr. Chambenlain's wonderful system of Colonial Imperialism may not, perhaps work exactly as ho expected. It would surely be the greatest piece of irony in the history of politics if it became the greatest, factor in bringing about Home Rule for Ireland. Yet that is just one of the easy possibilities to which we may all not unreasonably look forward.