Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 6 September 1906, Page 27

Irish News

ANTRIM— Death of Mr. Devlin's Brother f The death; took place on July 17, at his residence, Abercorn street,*" Belfast, of Mr. Patrick Devlin -youngest brother of Mr. , Joseph Devlin, M.P. The father oL Mr. Devlin died but a very short time ago. Sad to say, the deaths of both father ' and brother have" taken ' place during the absence of Mr. Devlin in Australia as envoy of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Ttte keenest sympathy is felt by his Belfast' constituents and friends with Mr. Devlin in this second bereavement which has befallen him. Mr. Patrick Devlin, who has . been removed in the prime of his manhood, had been 'ailing for some time. He .was an unostentatious -and sincere Nationalist. . ' - ' --*■*•--. ARMAGH— An Interesting Story - ; /An interesting story "has leaked out-in connection with the -Orange celebration of the- Twelfth in County Armagh. An accident, it appears, happened to the drum belonging to the_ Orange Lodge in? Newtownhainilton.' -The Master of the Lodge, however, 'solved -the . problem. He obtained the loan of the drum of V«Nati- •- onalist Ivand, and the Twelfth was . accordingly, fittingly '" celebrated. This recalls another Ulster story. On the . morning of the 13th, July, many years ago,. a- page of type of, a Catholic paper was overturned just "before going to press. What.'was to be done? An Or^iige j>a- . per was appealed to,. and the only page it could, give was one containing speeches made the previous day on the ' Twelfth ' platforms. The Catholic paper accepted^ the offer, as it was the only , chance of publishing at all. But a~ sub-editor saved the situation. He put -at the top of the speeches a heading which Jtead : '■ This is the kind of thing served up to its readers fogr our Orange contemporary.' -" CORK— A Light Calendar In opening the County/ Cork Assizes, Mr. Justice Madden congratulated the Grand Jury on the exceedingly peaceable N state of the county. The calendar -was the lightest in his recollection. Death of a Canon The death is announced ~of the Very Rev. John Canon Ryan, af Aghada, at the age "of 80 years. The deceased priest was born at- Buttevant in 1820, and was priest in 1844. He was the oldest priest in the ■diocese > of Cloyne, and - probably in the County .Cork. After being ordained &2 years ago, hcw£s first appointed curate in Midletdn and chaplain to . the Presentation Nuns. Subsequently he was -cufate-in Fer-..-moy, Doneraile, Buttevant, and Milford. Afterwards hex was promoted parish priest of Ballyhear whence " after some years he was,, in 1879, transferred to the .parish of Agihada, as successor to the late- Canon Smiddy, which Efarish he worthiiy presided over as pastor for the past twenty-seven years. DOWN— A Priest Passes Away The Rev. Henry O'Boyle, P.P., Sacred Heart-parish, Belfast, died at Rostrevor on - July 13, after a long ill- ■ ness. Deceased, who was only, in his 49th year, was a native of Staffordstown, County Antrim. For more . ' than a quarter* of a century- he labored with great zeal in various purls- of v the diocese of Down and Connor. Everywhere he went he won the esteem of priests and people alike by .his- .sterling worlh. • ' ' __ ; DUBLIN— A Peculiar Industry - 'v -. At a recent meeting of the.CounciJl of the Royal ' Zoological Society of Ireland- the secretary reported that a lionesMiad just iT _ been despatched to Scotland. The Irish-toed lion has, af the present period, been exported to most of the known countries of;, the-vworld. , The society, has, since the beginning\qf the ,lion industry, sent specimens "of the lion ' stock to ' Gerntanf , . America, and Burma, and' only^recentiy6 one -tiny -::•; cub, : about ten. days old, was carried off. bj.a lady with a I small! ■ terrier to keep it ' Warm jaftid - comfortable^ to Paris, where -it is to drive about? in its-_o.wne.r!s\nlotpr, seated, in a : place of honor. Scotland, wanted an i animal from Dublin Zoo, and thus a lioness was forwarded. •- Another went to swell the., show of a travel^ling menagerie, which -will .mean -going the rounds of allthe English towns which such shows, frequent. FERMANAGH— Sad Fatality • Master James Bailey, aged 15 years, attending Por--tora school, was bathing ins a lock 'five miles' from En- ' niskillen, County Fermanagh, when he got into difficul- . ties. His cousin, Mr. Thomas Lowry Scott, aged 30 years, jumped into the water fully dressed to effect a rescue, but he became exhausted and both were drowned.

KERRY— An Appointment Very Rev. Canon Hayes, Adm.; Killarney, has been" appointed parish priest of Ballylongford in room of: the Jate Father Pierce. The announcement has Ween received in Killarney and surrounding district, where he -spent fifteen years, with unfeigned satisfaction, mingled -with regret at parting- with a pastor who lnwl won theifl love. - - . A Veteran of the Civil War The death occurred on. June 13 of Captain John J Cofiey,., of Iveponset, Dorchester, one of the best known irishmen of - Boston, a veteran of the Civil War, a generous -benefactor to the poor a.nd a warnr and practical friend. Mr. Coffey was a native of Beaufort, Killarney County Kerry. He was a son of Mr. James D. Cofiey relieving officer and county assessor" of the Killarney union: He was educated in the National Schools. The Irish Party Thanked - t «r -$t_ a; general meeting of the Catholic Clerical •..Managers . Association of the diocese of Kerry, "a resolution was- adopted thanking the "Irish Party for their work on behalf of the- Catholic schools on _ the Education Bill. .A- number of- resolutions dealing with primary education were also , adopted. LIMERICK — Purchase of a Newspaper ■-L he ' M - Unster News,' a paper published in Ldmerick . has, -been purchased by Dr. Counihan, a relative of the . founder, who was an intimate friend and sterling: sudi p_orter of the Liberator. ■ - TYRONE— The New: Member _ -Mn-T. M. Kettle, 8.A.,. of Dublin, the new M.P. for rryrone, is a product of. the' new scho*J of Irish Nationalists. He was the first president of the Young Ireland Branch of the United. Irish League— consisting mainly of_ yoiungj University "graduates— founded- a J!ew years ago in the Irish metropolis through the instrumentality of Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P. Until recently ■ Mr. -Kettle -edited the • Weekly Nationalist,' a journal devoted to th|e G^jlic -Revival movement. He is quit© a young man, fruing slilk- in the twenties, and gifted with splendid oratorical' powers. He is likely- to make -a name for himself .in the Parliamentary arena, and is undoubtedly a brilliant acquisition to. the Nationalist Partly. ,

, GENERAL, A New Railway Route - - A new railway route for travellers fioin England to Ireland, and vice versa, via Fishguard and' Rosslare was recently opened. It is" likely to become popular, as the 'distance between the _two ports is only fifty-four /tmiles, land a. visitor can ,b<rerf<fast in Lcfidoui a i nd. be In ;time for tea iri-Killarney, the same day.f School Attendance , * , „ Dr.'Massie (says the •-' Irish -Weehly ') has elicited valuable information regarding;, the attendance <at sqhool of children over fourteen year's of :age. In England and Wales the number is 0t,..i:», or 1u.6 per thousand of. -the toitfal number of schdla.vs " att'nddi;tg ;" in Scotland 22,815, or 23.37 per tth.ousan.dt ; and in Ireland, 47,173* or 64= per. .thousand. That hmgland should not- compare fasyorajj'lv' with Sco.tlan-d in such a la^'e causes no surprise, 'bfut the simple Saxon, who is usually so ill-in-formed regarding' Ireland, fs fairly, astounded at the fact ■ -that -Ireland so outdistances boih - England and Scot- " land. : -English- educationists would be:wildly enthusiastic if they ithought it possible Hhat they would.- ever. ' have- such-.. a proportion, as M per thousai*d -of their^ school over; fourteen- years of age.- /, Rewards for .Bravery. - The. Royal Humane .Society at a' recent meeting made r the following awards in cases of: -life-saving- in /Ireland: Testimonial to - Michael.- Bo wen, Clerk -of .Petty Sessions, Cahir, .County Tip<perary-, for hisigiallant action-, there on June 16. > Shorjbly -before midnight" a . nutn tiamed Butlor fell into the-Suir. Mr. Bowen was called ."from, his house, near, and, although Jt-he nigfit "was- da'rk, he plunged .in, fully clothed, and -succeeded in saving- the 'man; ttns .being the seventh'life ■saved 6y Bowen.^ Testimonial 10~ Owen O'Mahony, Castle, street, , Dunmanway, County* Cork,- for his. plucky rescue of W. O'Regan flom the river' at Bandon on - June 10."" O'Mahony was clutched in^Oft ofwater, and ' only.- after ahard struggle was he abJe to free — himself a nd.- - save the man . Testi vn w a l : ' to Mi ss. " Hissie Mullen, shop - assistant, Clifden, County Galw;ay, for rescuing a boy named Burke from the river on May 19.' A certi-.__ticate-was awarded lo KdLt.h S. Jones for restoring Burke, which she did after wor-king over an hour. Testimonial to Bridget Dowd, Louisburg, County Mayo, for her uescue of a boy from the river there on June 14.

The Independent Orangemen - Mr. Lindsay Crawford, Deputy Grand "Master of the Independent Orange Order, speaking at a .meeting near BeHast on. the Twelfth of. July, said:- Their propaganda in Ulster had been attended with- gratifying! results, and their policy had appealed to the intelligent thinking, classes in the community. For theirs- was an intellectual revival, and was a revolt - against - the tyranny of ignorance, bigotry, and unreasoning .prejudice. That was why the Ulster Tory- press hated their movement, and why the Ulster Party feared their growing power. They were opening the eyes of Ulster.Protestants, who had so long sat in Tory darkness, and they »h«d set Ulster thinking. They appealed from an - Ulster intolerant and ignorant to an Ulster tolerant and enlightened, and they were not ashamed. They appealed as a moderating force in the political' life of their coun- - try. They stood for toleration^ which was the first step . towards the light of liberty, and -towards that reconciliation between North and South for whioh every true Irishman prayed. Wherever the flag of Independent Orangeism had been unfurled there they found a marked improvement in the relations between - Protestants and - Roman Catholics, and an absence of that sectarian hate which in .former years had led. to disturbances, and often to bloodshed. For) generations Orange leaders had pandered to the lowest instincts of the mob,* and had encouraged sectarian and party divisions- among the people for their own selfish ends. Independent Oran- ', geism had chosen the better part, and while their Roman - Catholic countrymen might disagree with" the doctrines of the Protestant religion, they were determined, God helping* them, that their creed would not be identified With ignorant bravado^ and : j)ot-house oratory, ; but that J its principles would be "respected even" by its opponentsThey held out the right hand of fellowship to their Roman Catholic countrymen, and hoped the day would soon dawn in Ireland, when the only rivalry between ' them would be in loyalty ,to their country and in > whole-hearted service in her cause. But their Institu- 1 1 tion had justified its existence- on other grounds It had taught "the Protestants of Ulster that Ireland was their -native land, and that they could not be true to themselves or loyal to Empire,' if they were not first loyal to country. A Close Corporation . ' * ' The idea of religious intolerance being manifested in the administration, of a railway is so ludicrous ' (says Mr. Labouchere in ' Truth '.), ' that I dare say a great many people could scarcely cred.it the statements that there were made in the discussion on the . Great Northern (Ireland) Railway Bill in the House • of Commons. But, as I showed some three or four years ago, it is unquestionably the fact that Irish : Protestant bigotry has been - extensively manifested in railway management, 'Catholics , being more or less ' rigorously excluded from all but the hum-blest berths. Some of the lines on which this was done wp- ; largely owned by Catholic shareholders, besides being • almost wholly dependent upon the Catholic population , for their traffic, and in consequence of the protests that were made the directors adopted a system of competitive examinations for clerkships .and other appointments. The directors of the great Northern Railway, however, were obdurate, and at the present time that railway 'is almost entirely staffed by " Protestants, chosen for their situations on account of their Protestantism. The House of Commons has now very properly decided .that an end shall be put to this scandal by the .insertion in the company's Bill of a clause providing that appointments to clerkships -and other positions . shall be made by open competitive examinations. It is nonsense to aigue that this is an improper interference with the company's affairs. The State is asked to grant the company valuable facilities for carrying on its business and it is entitled to say on what condition it will do this.'