Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 45, 10 November 1904, Page 9

Irish News

ANTRIM.— A Wealthy Firm Last year (says the 'Financial News') Ihe capital of Hariand end WoliT was app' oxunat ely hdd as follows -Mr. Violii, £38,000 ; the evecutors of the I*l c Sir hdwnrd H,>il,ml, ±,123 0011- Lady Hariand £:-S8 UOO the Right Hon. \\ . J. Pirrie, £212,000 Mrs' Pi'rne' ,£3OOO, a^d Mr Walter II Wi'son (since deceased/ £80,000. Slackness of Trade Over 1000 workers in Messrs. Hariand and Wolffs shipbuilding ) ards m Belfast have been paid off. Unreason is not officially stated Hundreds of workmen have also been discharged from Messrs. Workman, Clark, and Co.'s concern. • CLARE. — A Promising Industry During his recent visit to Ennis Mr. William Redmond, M.P., inspected the work being done at the Clare Knitting Company's factory, where a number of girls are employed turning out in good style all sorts of Knitted woollen goods. The industry is but a new o ne, having come into existence only last year, but even now there are signs that it will succeed, and the greatest credit is due to the looal gentlemen of Ennis, who have made this eftort to give work to tho^e who stand so sorely in need of it. Hosiery in every variety, gloves, ladies' underwear, jerseys, shawls, caps, and s c ' forth are made by the Ennis girls under thesupenision of competent teachers, and up-to-date machines are in use. DONEGAL.— A Centenary In Letterkenny Cathedral on September 23 the 12th centenary of St. Eunan, ninth Abbot of lona and first Bishop of Raphoe, was celebrated. The Most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell presided at the ceremonies. The panegyric o f the saint was preached in Irish by Moiuignor M'Glynn, P.P., V.G. DOWN.— Newrv Cathedra! The congregation at St Peter's Church, Warrenpoint, on a recent Sunday subscribed £125 m lcsponse to an appeal by the Bishop of Dromorc for funds for the structural alterations and improvements in progress in the Cathedral, Newry. Tenants Purchase their Holdings The tenants on the Forde estate, which is situated near Ardglass, have agreed with the agent, Mr. J. \lev M'Connell, Downpatrick, for the purchase of their holdings on the following te-ms :— A reduction of 4s, in the £ on all rents fixed since 1806 ; a reduction of fis in the £ en all rents fixed pnor to ] FOG ;md non-|udicial rents. Interest at the rate of :H per cent, to be paid by the tenants on their respect i\e purchase monies from Ist May, 1901, to date of nesting older , all sporting rights, mines, and minerals to be vested m the tenants. A Factory Closed The disappearance of a once flourishing industry is always a matter for regret, and theiefore it is sad to announce (says the ' Freeman's Journal ') that the last remnant of the famous Port law Cot ten Spinning Mills is now ottered for sale by private treaty In the loth century Maylield was the prapeity of Sir Jameis May, hence the name, and in 182!) it was acquired by a ■worthy Quaker named Malc o mson. In 1 KM) Mr. Makomson started the ' Mayheld ' factory at Portiaw, and in a few years, a 1 ' Inglis, the tourist, describes, it employed f)00 persons, at good wages, well housed and well fed In 1811, being an insignificant hamlet, Portiaw had a population of 37-00, and in IMG Uieic were 1500 hands employcu, tiie population being tdien about ■1 000 At length, in l(S7fi, the Malconvons became bankrupt, and so, in 1801, the population dwindled down to U!)') Even after the crash the mills were Kept on, but on a .small scale, a n d 50 hands were employed till lasrt. April The factory closed for ever in June, and now the entire plant is in the hands of a Belfast furni, who has advertised it for sale. GALWAY.— Agricultural Training There has lust been established in Mountbellew, County Oalway, by the Franciscan Brothers, with the approval of his (frace the Archbishop of Tuam, a college for the practical training in agriculture of youths from 15 yeais of age upwa/ds, whose avowed obiect in life is to nccome farmers The college has been equipped by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction. The land belonging to the community will be given up t n the purposes of p-actical agricultural instruction, and a large garden laid out for expeiiments in horticulture All work done on both farm and carden will be under the direction of skilled teachers in the various branches.

Brother Daly, of the Mountbellew College, and Rev Jailor Koynane, P.P., of Mountbellew, are at the head oi the movement. KERRY.— Golden Jubilee of a Religious On September 15 the GoUlon Jubilee of Me Rev pother k'inuus (O'Connell), Piesentation Convent, tastlusland, was celebratO! with c\ cry manifestation of iejo,cmg Priests attended Iron, \anous parts of the diocese w'nle the people of the parish flocked i n hundirris 1o n.-ihnp,ite in Ih,> ceremonies, and tender their congratulations lo one who hoks a warm place in their a'VvtKlK His ,m( nore^arr lo refer here to Ihe eieat work accomplished by the Plantation Comcnt of Nazareth, Casiiusland, m the cause of religion and education, and it is no exapgc alien to say that the greater part o t that wou was accomplished through the, indefatigable zeal a n d enfeipiise of Mother Ignatius. louclnng and giatcfui tribute, were paid her in the eloquent panegyric preached by Very Rev. J. Murphy former President of Blackrock College, now President of Bath College, and also in the beautiful address read to her on behalt o f the panslnoners. The New Bishop In Killarncy's fine CaUiodial on Sunday, September 18, m the prebwite of a n unusually latge gathering of pnests and people, the Most Rev. Dr. Mangan was consecrated Bishop of Keriy, m succession to the lateDi. Cofrey The con^en ntin ; prelate was his Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Fennelly, Ar,hlnshop of (Jashel, who was assisted by the Mo.L Rrv Dr. O'Callaghan, Bishop of Cork, and the Most Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Clojne. The other prelates present were Dr. O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick- ; Dr. Shcehan, Bishop of Waterford; Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of KUlaloe , Dr. LysteT, Bishop of At homy ; Dr Foley, Bishop oi Mldare , Dr. Donnelly, Bishop of Canea, and Dr. Stanley, Bishop of Emmaus. The consecration sermon was pi cached by Very Rev. J. T. Murphy, Pi evident Prior Park College, Bath, and until recently President oi Blackrock College, Dublin. In replying to the addresses The Bishop dealt with many subiects of great uiteiest to the lush people, such as the education question, the industrial movement, the Re-fo-ni Association, and the Land Act. The latter notwithstanding us diawbacks, is in his opinion a measure calculated to do muth good foi the country. Replying to addresses from tr.e Couniy, I'iban, and Rural Councils of Kerry, his Lordship said he took a keem and anxious interest in the manner in which the public bodies conducted their business As they were all proua ot the success which undoi great difficulties they had attained, so should thoy be pained and humiliated by any serio<i<-- shortcomings on the pait of their public bodies. Therefoie he deemed it of the greatest importance that the elected representat nes of the people should he men of iireproaehable character. They should be actuated by honorable momes; they should keep before them lofty ideals of what the public good demands ..ot them. In this way only could they confound their enemies and prove to the woila thai, they were worthy of the tiust imposed on them and equal to the more extended national icsponsibihty which could not be long denied them If lie read the signs of the times correctly, all things were tending in that direction. One of the mo ( -t hopeful was the recently started organisation known ai the Reform Association I!e welcomed it for tins reason, amonjr other"-— that it was a confession, if a brlatcd one, on the pait of those gentlemen that the Irish pponle were all the tune w < ill ing on the right road. Ibiung walked so far on it, let, them not lose heart now. Let. them pi ess on resolutely arid unitedly, remembering that the building up of a nation was not the work of a year, nor e\en oi a generation. LIMERSCK.— Oirect Labor At the half-ve.irlv meeting of the Limerick District, Corn* il Air John lloran, County Surveyor, submitted his estimate for Ihe financial year to end of March, I'tOo. The estimate was £7001) odd, and in bringing it before the Council he stated that thiect labor was working satislactouly and economically, the amount required showing a decrease of £200 in expenditure, as compared with the standard year before the old Grand Jury went out. Death of a Centenarian News has been received of the death in Nazareth House, Cape Town, of Miss Shine, formerly of Ballysimon, County Limerick, at the lemarkable age of 101 years. Miss Shine, who left Ireland twenty years ago, was closely related to Napper Tandy, who was one of the leaders of the United Irishmen in '08, and whose name has become famous in Irish history. She wa-3 possessed of art extremely good memory, her recollections go.ng back to O'Connoll's Repeal Campaign, and she used to entertain visitors with vivid descriptions of that staring period, and used specially to dwell on his historic add ess on Tara Hill just previous to his arrest.

Nuns as Nurses The foundation stone of a residence for Uie nuns of the Order of the Little Company of Mary, who are in charge of St. John's Hospital, Limerick, was laid the other day by the Most Rev. Di. O'Dwyer. In the course ol an address to those present his Lordship said he believed that nursing would be well and permanently done only by those who were mlluenced by strong and high motives. 'I here was the love of the mother, the love of the- wile, the naluial <t flee hull of \\ liolii mspuid the motives that sustained them and lengthened and sweetened their labor as nurses. Out-vide oi thai natural love, if nurses were wanting those should be got who substituted for the love of the mother and ihc wife some higher motive. The nuns did that, form the case of the poorest person struck down by infirmity, they were reminded by fneir Saviour that in every act they did they stirred up in tmnr hearts as an incentive to their work the promise : ' Amen I say to you, as often as you do it to the least of these little ones you do it unto Me.' King' John's Castle Much indignation is felt in Limerick at an act of War Office \andalism. The ancient city is vciy proud of ids old Castle of St. John, a building that has come down nearly Intact from the days of that pnnce, and forms a very nch object in city views. The Castle played a great part m the sieges, and within a bowshoL of it is the Stone on which was signed ' the Treaty broken ere the ink was dry.' A fine feature of the castle is, or rather was, the round Norman tower over the rivei. This building was, up to a few months ago, crowned by a most graceful, and picturesque conical loof, such as that of Reginald's tower in Waterford. The castle is now occupied as a barrack, and this ancient roof of the tower became dalapidated by weather a few months ago. The Wai Office removed the roof — which no one could complain of — but replaced it by a hidoous, almost Oat, wiiiie, concrete roof, which makes an eyesoie of the ancient edifice. It is rumored that the War Office contemplates entirely taking down the castle and building new barracks on the site. If this is done, thereon will disappear the last important relic of the fortifications behind which Sarsheld fought, and befoic which William was defeated. QUEEN'S COUNTY.— The Late Mr. Dease Mr. Edmund Dease, of Bath House, Queen's County. D.L , who died on the 17th July last, left personal estate valued at £7<i,l7U Ids .:Sd, and probate of his will of the 6th March, 18!)0, has been granted to his w ldow, Mrs. Mary Dease, of Rath House, Ballybridges, and his son, Major Edmund James Dease, of Tewstown, Nenagh, Tipperary. ROSCOMMON.— The King=Harman Estate The Kmg-Ilarman estate, ■which comprised portions of -'O counties of Sligo and Roscommon, on which is situated Rockinghara, the beautiful residence of the Lord Lieutenant, has, after extensive negotiations, been disposed of to the tenantry, the purchase money imohing over half a million stealing. The average abatement for the six classes is 21 \ per cent., or Is Id in the t, which represents an average price of 24. \ yeais' ouichase, or, with bonus added, 27-} years' purchase. The year's rent was added to the purchase money "where the tenants owed a year's rent last November, so that makes the total years' purchase a year's purchase higher in the ca<-c of all these tenants. The owners retain the sporting rights, and as the bogs will be transferred to trustees the tenants will pay bog lents as usual, in addition to their purchase instalments. SLIGO. — A Contradiction The Most Rev Dr Clancy has written a letter to the ' Times ' contiadictine; a statement made in its columns by Mr. Moore, M P., to the effect that the Department recently appointed a veterinary inspector iron* the port of Sligo who owed his success to the fact that his claims ' Avere pressed by they Catholic Bishop of Elphbi.' Dr. Clancy says he neither pressed nor recommended the appointment of the candidate who got the post, and that the public have a righi. to expect before compromising statements are made their truth should at least be inquired into. WATERFORD.— Technical Education At a recent meeting of the citi/ens of Waterford the Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan paid a high tribute to the work that is being done in the cause of technical education by the Chnstian Brothers of Mount Sion Schools. He said no man who knows what Irishmen are capable of doing when they are properly instructed— m other words, when they get a fair field and no favor— no man who knows what "Irishmen are capable of doing in industrial work will fail to hope that the tune may come when Irishmen may be fully equipped in tins direction.