Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 52, 28 December 1905, Page 9

Irish News

ANTRIM— A Presentation V Father M'Donnell, P.P., St. Brigid's, Belfast, was presented recently with an illuminated address by his former parishioners at Ligoniel, where he ministered for a period of ten years and won the warm esteem of all classes. CORK— A Peculiar Case At Kinsalc Petty Sessions Mr. E. O'Neill, BA , a •well known Gaelic Leaguer, was fined sixpence for signing his name in Irish when taking out a dog license. As Mr. O'Neill declines to pay, he will probably be imprisoned. A Profitable Transaction At a meeting of the tenants of the Arnott Estate in Bandon, the Very Rev. Canon Shinkwin, P.P., V.F., made a calculation based on Sir John Arnott's affidavit before the Master of th^ Rolls to show that the landlord wanted a profit of £112,000 on the amount paid to the Duke of Devonshire for the property. The Gaelic League In the course of his presidential address at the Cork branch of the Gaelic League, Very Rev. father Augustine, O.S.F.C, said the nationality which the Gaelic .League was building up was not founded on hatred of England, but on love of Ireland. No great and grand .and noble cause could be built on hatred. The cause of the Gaelic League was great, grand, and noble. DERRY— Reported Gold Discovery The rumor that gold was discovered the other day an the neighborhood of Dungiven in a field of sandy soil, near a stream, is verified by local correspondents .(says a Deny paper). The glistening of the sand struck the farm-owner as out of the common, and' having a "bucketful carefully washed, he got the yellow metallic tdeposit. This, submitted to expert tests, proved to be alluvial gold. A further try on the rocky boulders got 'distinct traces of the metal. Specimens of the stone .are streaked with it. Further experiments are awaited with interest. DONEGAL— The Diocesan College Rev. 11. Gallagher, Gweedore, has left Derry for a tour in America. He is commissioned by Bishop O'Donnell to collect for the Diocesan College, Letterkenny. DOWN— The Act of Union Mr. T. W. Rusself, M.P., addressing his constituents Aughnacloy, alluding to Redistribution proposals, said the Act of Union was a treaty, and England must stick to her bargain. DUBLlN— Charitable Bequests Mrs. Doyle, late of Synge street, Dublin, who died on September 10, left a laige number of charitable bequests, including £50 each to the following :— The Magdalen Asylum, Gloucester street , the Catholic Orphan.age, Golden Bridge ; the Little Sisters of the Poor, Kilmainham ; the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, Portland Row ; the Hospice for the Dying, Harold's Cross ; the Magdalen Asylum, Drumcondra ; the Magdalen Asylum, Donnybrook ; the Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Glasnevin ; St. Joseph's Night Refuge, Brickfield Xane ; St. Joseph's Orphanage, Mountjoy street ; Vincent de Paul Orphanage, North William street ; the Children's Hospital, Temple street ; Carmelite Convent, Delgany ; St. Vincent's Hospital, Stephen's Green ; the Poor Schools, Coombe. • Lakelands Orphanage, Sandymount ; Presentation Convent, George's Hill ; the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Eccles street ; Jervis street Hospital ; St. Vincent de Paul Society, Harrington street ; Sisters of the Assumption, Camden street ; and the "Maternity Hospital, Holies street. School of Medicine The Irish Bishops have comcio the aid of the'Cath--olic University School of Medicine 1 with the generous gift of £10fl for the purchase of scientific apparatus for the use of the Medical School. The Catholic University School of Medicine has deserved well of the country. "With no public endowments, it is at present the largest and the most successful School of Medicine in Ireland. Its teachers are the most brilliant, its pupils the most successful. But it is an alien to the State. It is boycotted by the Treasury. Like all bodies or institutions that do good work for Ireland it is hindered, not helped, by Dublin Castle, and is dependent on private generosity ior even the most essential scientific apparatus.

A Gaelic _MJss|on 5 _ ,~, ;Df. c Douglas- Hyde, president pf~ the Gaelic League, has left' fdr> the* United States on a mission of Gaelic propaganda.- He received an enthusiastic send-off from the people of Dublin. He drove in the Lord Mayor's carriage to the .railway; station, escorted by an immense procession. A Charitable Object Collections in aid of the Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society, a great non-sectarian charity, were made on November 5 in all the Catholic churches o£ Dublin, by permission of his Grace the Archbishop. A Disputed Will A DUblin special jury, by direction of JVIr. Justice Johnson, found recently in favor of the will of Mr. John Colman, ;who had practised as a solicitor iri Dublin from, 18G8 to 1892, and who left the bulk of his property, staled to amount to about £20,000, to Catholic chari- * ties in the city of Dublin. The will had been contested by a nephew of testator ; but it was stated in Court that a settlement had heen arrived at between the beneficiaries and the next-of-kin, and the nephew withdrew his opposition. Mr. Justice Johnson decreed probate of the will. QALW AY— Motor Car Accident. Lord De Clifford's motor-car was smashed to pieces in an accident at Castlehackett, County Galway, and the driver seriously injured. An Appointment His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam has appointed the Rev. M. J. Conroy, Tullycross, to the Vice-president-ship of St. Jarlath's College, in room of the Rev. T. F. Macken, appointed Adm. of Tuam. P'ather Conroy also fills the Irish Chair in the -college, vice Mr. Michael Walsh, who has left for Germany. A Welcome Home On his arrival in Ballinasloe from America, where he had been collecting funds for the completion of Loughrea Cathedral, Father Joyce, Adm., was accorded a warm reception. The town was brilliantly illuminated and there was general rejoicing. KERRY -Death of a Merchant The death is announced of Mr. Wm, Horgan, Shelbourne House, Kenmare, one of the most widely respected merchants and public men in the locality. Deceased was a supporter of the old Land League movement, and later of the United Irish League, of which he ,was local treasurer. As a Poor Law Guardian for a period •ii twenty years, the ratepayers had always in him a capable representative. Ll Mßßlv^K— Death of a Priest. The death took place recently of Rev. Edmond O'Lcaty, Bruree, after an illness of some weeks. Deceased was brothci to the Rev. Arthur O'Leary, the newly-appointed President of St. Munchin's College, Lnnenek. The Butter Industry A meeting has been held at Limerick to consider the question of ' faked butter.' It was decided to appoint a depuiation to wait upon the Department of Agriculture on the subject. Reopenmg of a Church JMcelick Church, in the parish of Parteen, was reopened early in November by the Bishop of Limerick. Plays Condemned The Bishop of Limerick has issued a Pastoral Letter condemning immoral plays, and urging Catholics to avoid witnessing such productions. His letter is believed to refer especially to a local theatrical production. TIPPERARY— Tenants Purchase their Farms The Ballybrophy tenants of Sir Kildare Borrowes, accompanied by Father Dillon, met their landlord at Ballybrophy recently. The landlord agreed to sell the evicted lands to the Estates Commissioners, the latter to fix the price, and reinstate the Kelly family, who were evicted over twenty-five years ago. The other tenants then agreed to purchase on the following terms : First term rents, 21 years' purchase ; second term rents, 23 years' purchase. The landlord accepted the half-j ear's rent to 'be now paid at 15 per cent, reduction. The tenants will in future be required to pay' finm last gale day interest at the rate of 3| percent. mtil the purchase money is paid over. Sporting rights go to' the tenants. Nearly all the tenants have had "innd term rents fixed. In view of the downward .r>s in cattle, the tenants would have been inclined to

hold out for better terms ; but they wished to have the old dispute over, ' the Black Farm ' closed, and to have their old neighbors, the Kellys, again restored to their home. , WESTMEATH— The Bishop's Resignation The Westmeath Council has passed a resolution, joining with the other Councils and Boards in the county in respectfully urging on the Most Rev. Dr. Gafiney, Bishop of Meath, the vital necessity of reconsidering his resignation. WEXFORD— The Position of the Irish Party Mr. John Redmond, M.P., addressing a United Irish League meeting in the Town Hall, Wexford, said he thought the returns of the last few weeks sufficient to dissipate the, hopes of their enemies that the Nationalist ranks would be broken. He rejected the proposal recently made in favor of a Conference of various sections in Irish political life, both on account of the manner in which the proposal was made, and also because he objected to the Irish question being submitted to the arbitrament of such an assembly. At the coming national convention several important issues would arise. Of these one of the chief was what should be the attitude of the Irish Party towards the Liberals if they gpt into power independently of the Irish vote, and what their attitude if the Liberals were dependent on the liish vote ? At any rate, the convention would plainly show that if the Liberal Party at the next election attempted to betray its pledges and betray Ireland it would have to deal with the organised and determined opposition of the people of Ireland. GENERAL Fontenoy Memorial Fund Mr. Justin McCarthy, in sending a subscription to the Fonicnoy Memorial Fund, says that though he has lived most of his life out of Ireland, he feels himself as closely associated with national memories as if he had never left his early home. Ireland owes it to herselfto pay tribute to the memory of Fontenoy. Grazing Ranches When men are being sent to gaol by the dozen by packed special jurors of Galway for agitating for the. redistribution of the grazing ranches (says the ' Freeman's Journal '), it is interesting to have the opinion of one of the very ablest of the Irish Judges on the subject. At the recent meeting of the Law Students' Debating Society Lord Justice Fitzgibbon declared': ' Our people were quick to learn if they were taken the right way. The first industry of Ireland must be, as it was, agriculture. The propagation of knowledge, teaching, and experience, instructing the people to make the most of the soil on which they live, was tho first the necessary cure for the emigration, which all deplored. If the people could learn to live at home by making the land produce food for them a good thing would be done. It was a sorrowful thing to sec grass farms everywhere as far as the eye could reach. If the land of Ireland were cultivated it would produce food enough for three times its present population.' Where Boards Accumulate A modern Goldsmith (says London ' Truth,') might, ■write of Ireland, alter its long spell of Conservative Government, as a land ' where Boards accumulate and men decay.' It Dublin is not a ' deserted ' capital, its leading residential squares and streets are declining in social popularity. The Agricultural Board is now practically in possession of Merrion street, a fine thoroughfare leading from Mcrnon Square towards St. Stephen's Grem. In this street the first Duke of Wellington's parents lived, and there the great man was born. The salaried officials swamp both town and country, increasing yearly, whilst the population decreases. Ireland has a strange past history, but its future one will beat the record, if things go on as at piescnt. The great. land departments will have no one to give the land to r the Boards will supply an army of teachers without, pupils,, /the Members of Parliament will haive no Constituents, and yet no doubt the Irish question will .still remain. The Irish themselves have their own opinion on the lasting nature of the Irish question. The people Of Ireland have been given many things by England, bui never those that they wanted. In fact, the country has always been ruled on the principles of the great Bumble towards those under his dominion. They do not, ask for more Boards, and they get them, nor for Royal Commissions, and they get them. The things that, they ask for, under the reasonable idea that they have the best knowledge of their own needs, are never given. Supposing the Bumble policy were reversed, might not the nature of the Irish question change too ? It would at least, be worth a trial.