Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 27

Irish News

ARMAGH— Accident to Cardinal Logue / On Sunday evening,' September 16, while his Emin-~' : 'ence Cardinal Logue was crossing the- roadway near - his summer residence, in , Carlingford he was- run -into ~ - by a cyclist and knocked down. The Cardinal, who- • sustained a somewhat severe shock, was attended' to-~-~ by Dr. Finegan, J.P. - Very Sudden Death s : . Mr. John Murphy, of Mayobridge, an extensive catr *'' tie dealer, died very suddenly on returning from ---the--; Keady fair. The deceased was well known and highly Tr respected throughout the Irish cattle- markets. - - - CLARE— Death of a Canon The death took place on September 12 -of Very Rev. James Canon Vaughan, P.P.,Kildysart, County Clare. Deceased was one of the oldest priests of- thediocese of Killaloe. In Maynooth he was a college - companion of the late Most Rev. Dr. Egan, Bishop of Waterforcl, and * Very Rev. Dean White. His first - curacy was Kildysarb, and later on he was Administra-' tor of ISiewmarket-on-Fergus,-and about a quarter of a century ago he was placed in charge of the KiMysart parish. ~ - - CORK— Boating Fatality On September 14 a - pleasure boat - was capsized at ' Youghal, the two occupants, Dr.- George G-wynne and Mr. Charles R. Day Murphy, being thrown into the water. The later gentleman was drowned, and •his~'companion was picked up in an unconscious condition. A Memorial An ornamental stained-glass window has just been placed in position- in the new Parish Church of the Most Holy Rosary at Midleton. The window, on which are depicted life-like representations of St. Bernard and St. Dominic, has been erected to commemorate the silver jubilee of the Confraternity of the Holy Family in the parish. ' A Local University At a recent meeting of Cork Corporation a notice of motion was handed in calling upon the Lord Mayor' to convene a public meeting to consider the best means of establishing a University at Queen's College Cork. A letter was read from the President of that College, pointing out the advantages which the city would reap from the -possession of a University College with whiph its inhabitants were completely satisned. DUBLIN— A Change for the Better The Dublin Main Drainage Works were inaugurated on September 21. None of the sewerage of the city now enters the Liffey, an improvement whioh has long been looked forward to by the citizens. An Appointment tit ;f Dublin evening paper announces that Mr..Mathias McDonnell Bodkin, K.C., a leader-writer on the 'Freeman s Journal,' has been appointed to the position of Legal Estates Commissioner by the Government. "The Royal University The Very Rev. Daniel Mannix has been appointed a member of the Senate of the Royal University of Ireland, in the room of the late O'Conor Don. The Archbishop of Dublin The Archbishop of^ Dublin, was, with his chaplain, ™,c, c father Ryan and the Rev. Father Walsh, of Clonhne, a passenger 'on the ' Amsterdam ' from Harwich to the Hook of. Holland on August 21. An almost impenetrable fog prevailed.- When- Hearing- the Hook it was found that the .steamer had gone on a rock. The place where she struck was just at the lighthouse at the point of the pier— which is about a mile in length— and she- was there held apparently hermetipally sealed. The officers and crew behaved "with commendable calmness, promptitude, and" judgment, and their example save confidence to all on board. A large steamer .was signalled - and came to the rescue and his Grace and the other passengers, with their belongings, were taken. on board and safely landed All hands reached land in safety, and at low tide in 'the morning his Grace took some photographs of the rock-bound ' Amsterdam.' . The Bible Society's Gift In the course of. a letter to the * Daily Exnress ' Mr. J C McWalter, M.D., M.A., says; « hit me say in reply to some of .your correspondents- that if the

?t? t ~ — I. Irish Bible of the Hibernian" "Society were a miracle of . scholarship ,aawl tt a, marvel "of learning— were it*i a mbnument of classical"" Irish undefiled afid-; anar&azirigreram:_ple of accurate translation from the /Heßfew^ahdVthe Greek, unsullied by the" aid of any. English version— yet ,1 should refuse to accept it because of the'^traditions and the history"' of this Biblel^Society. ,- TJie Bible in question is the identical -one whioh was Offered to every starving peasant 'in the West durttfg^ait „the black years from !_847 to 1867 as the embJenV "fof . apostacy. The faminer stricken, fevered poor fellow, who could no longer bear hear the <cries of his perish- , mg children and. fainting- wife, believed when he tookthis Irish : Bible .that,-- it- was the token \- of having sold his soul, as firmly as "did Faustus^.when he received - the ring from Mephistoplieles. .A,- million Irish people ■they say, died from, -staryation'and. its effects in^tbeso -years.. Most of thenrjnight: have - beeir saved had' they" accepted this Irish Bible from the. soupers;, -who -had: the money so freely to spend. Yet when some of us refuse to -accept a. gift of these same "Bibles, when we will not have .them enshrined- on the municipal bookshelves of this city, when we -refuse-official patronage to -the -products of the Hibernian Bible Society: -becausethinking of its history and its doings, we can • say with Shakespeare : "Its offence is rank ; it smells to Heaven ; it hath the primal eldest curse upon it " we . are denounced as bigots by our opponents and.maligned , as. meddlers by our" friends.- I find Wat Alderman Kelly's organ calls upon the citizens to turn Mr Harrington, M.P., and , myself out of the Corporation for our action: m this matter, and denounces us as " mounteJbanks. In reply, I have to say that- the electors can put me out if they do not approve of my action, but - 1 have no apologies to offer, and would not act otherwise if I were; offered/ the Mayoralty.' " , - KERRY— A Tdwnfe^ld to Tenants > Purchase, negotiations in reference to the sale of the • town- of Brosna have been completed, the town tenants .purchasing on the same terms as the agricultural tenants— lßf to 19f years on first" term reivts> according to the amount of arrears .due. ... Death of a Listowel Man . .' _ The death recently occurred at 1 his residence ' killenn House r - Listowel, of - Mr. Maurice O'Halloran Deceased, who had attained his 53rd year, was a member of an old" local, family, and his loss is 'deplored by a large circle of friends and relatives. "- . ; . The Killarney Cathedral The Most Rev. "Dr. Mangan, Bishop of Kerry, has •decided to organise, a bazaar foß^the^purpose of procuring funds to clear off the heavy detftrofi- the fine Cathedral at Killarney, and to make some necessary im-, provements in the sacred edifice. v - LIMERICK— An Important Historical Work .The 'Black Book of Limerick,' which throws so great a light on the history, social, reli-giousvVarid civil, of the people of Munster during' the period between the poming of the Normans and the so-called Reformation, is about to be published. It is being prepared for the press, with introduction and notes, by the . Rev James MacCaffrey, S.T-:L. Father MacCaffrey is Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Maynooth College and he possesses -special = qualifications for editing this and' other manuscripts now" in hand. The ♦ Black Book of Limerick 'Js one of our most valuable -historical documents. It deals minutely with the events of local nistory, and elucidates much that happened in Ireland in those stirring times. The manuscript has not hitherto > been printed m, whole or part. i LOUTH r -The Christian Brothers Rev. Brother O'Brien, who has been, for some years - past a member- of the Community.- of the^" Christian Brothers in Drogheda, has been transferred to Dundalk tj He has been .replaced by-Rey./Brother^O'Sullivan. ' ROSCOMMON^-The Old Dominican Abbey At a recent- meeting of : -the Roscommon- District Council a letter was read from the Board of Works -in reply to a communication sent fronv the council, requesting that should repair the. old Dominican Abbey in which are interred the remains of the last of the Irish Kings. The Board wrote, to the effect -that J as the Ab- - bey was not vested in them they had no power to incur . expense m putting it in repair. v TIPPERARY— Appointed Chairman m Y^t ?e? cv v dan <>n Flavin, P.P., SS. Peter and Paul's Moranel, has been .appointed chairman, of the-Clonmel Asylum Committee. ' . v^uiiuwa WATERFORD— Death of a Well-known Lady ; The interment oL .Mrs'." Maugan.-Carrignagour Lismore, was very largely attended. Thedeclased tdy

was the mother of. the Rev. Father Bernard, C.P., Mount Argus,' ±)ublih, ' and Rev. J. Mangan,'anditev. D. Mangan, both of the- American mission. - - f ; -■

GENERAL Transfer of Franciscans Rev. Father O'Neill, Superior, the B'ranciscan Friary, Multyfarn-ham, has -been transferred to Cork, and. Father Ohrisostom to Killarney. Father Stanislaus has been appointed Guardian of Multyfarnham*. Rev. P. F. Kavanagh,- author of the ' History -.of. -Ninety-Eight,' has'been transferred from Carrick.-on-Suir to Wexford', his native town. Getting at the Root of the Evil The Commission appointed to deaf with the question of Irish- poor law reform advises the abolition of the present workhouse system, since, in its judgment, poverty can only be lelieved by the development ■of the" resources of Ireland. • - The Under-Secretary's Appointment In the House oi Commons last week Mr. , Bryce (Secretary for Ireland), in reply, to Mr.. T. H. ■ "Sloan, said that there was no record except of a purely formal nature connected with Sir Antony MacDonnell's appointment as Under-Secretary for Ireland. The Government had no connection or control in relation to any correspondence between its predecessors and Sir Antony MacDonnell. Mr. Bryce added that Sir Antony had asked him-. _to say that he had no -personal objection to the! publication, of the correspondence mentioned, - and .that he saw no reason why hie should initiate the publication. Sir Antony thought, however, that if his own letters^ were published all the others relative to the matter should likewise be published. Intermediate Education The exhibition and prize lists, which have l)een issued by the Intermediate Education Board (writes a Dublin correspondent), shows that our Catholic colleges have not only maintained their high standard of previous years, but in some cases, such, for instance, as that of Blackrock College, County Dublin, considerably improved on the brilliant past. Nearly JI.UOO pupils presented themselves for examination at the various cen-tres,-a fact which proves the earnest desire of the Irish youth for learning. The O'Conneil Schools, North Richmond street, Dublin, conducted by the Christian Brothers, again holds the first place in all Ireland with a grand total of twenty-one exhibitions and many minor prizes. The Christian Schopls, Cork, an excellent institution which is fast coming to the front, secured sixteen exhibitions, the Christian Schools, Synge street, Dublin, nine, and the Christian Schools, Youghal,- five' Four exhibitions went to the Christian*' Schools, Westland Row, the Christian Schools, Mount Sion, Waterford and the Christian Schools, Limerick, respectively. Many other schools, conducted by this excellent Order throughout the country, won exhibitions and prizes notwithstanding the keen competition. Religion in the schools proved no bar to education in- their cases, but the contrary. Clongowes Wood - College, County Kildare conducted by the Jesuit Fathers, and Blackrock "College County Dublin, conducted by the Fathers of the Holy Ghost, come next to the great O'Conneil Schools which are for day pupils alone, with a grand total of eighteen exhibitions each. They, occupy the premier places among the colleges of the country," Catholic and nonCatholic included. Clongowes Wood College, S.J has • far surpassed the* brilliant record -which placed it foremost amongst all the colleges of Ireland in 1905. This year it has with the lrexhrbitions 35 prizes. The advance is most marked in those departments which especially *test skill in teaching. Clongowes "won-seven first places, five medals, and 17 composition prizes; "Cast year Master Aubry Gwynn won the medal for Latin in the Junior Grade and second "place in the aggregate ; this year he wins second place' in the ■ Middle Grade and the medal for Latin with marks above the maximum' He also won three special- prizes in Latin and Greek. In the Senior Grade alone Clongowes obtained six exhibitions, three medals for- first places, and twelve prizes The successes of boys educated" in Blackrock at the higher civil service examinations is well known. Recently they took second place in the United Kingdom for Police Superintendents in India and- for the Exchequer , and Audit Departments. The Inspectorate of National Schools is mostly filled by Blackrock College boys Rockwell College, Cashel, again holds a high place amongthe colleges with nine exhibitions and 13 prizes The Presentation College,- Cork, did very well,, and so too did many^pf the diocesan seminaries,-, such as. St Macarten's, Monaghan, St. Colman's, Fermoy, St' Jarlath's, Tuam, and St. Brendan's, Killarney.