Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 27

Irish News

COJSK— The Oldest Poor-Law Official . " / -Irishmen (says -the ' Irish Weekly ') ;w«QI learn with, t regret of the death bf Mr. - Maurice Healy, - father of Mr. T. 'M. Healy, M.P., The late Mr..Heaiy was the oldest- poor-law, officiaL in 1 the .co-uox-'. try, _ and waMts : appointed., - clerk, of -the Bantry - Union in 1846, when he was only " nineteen. In -186S'"' 1 ; he was appointed clerk of. the Lismore Union, which '*" post he held till his . death. . . -. DERRY— Postal Appointment . Mr. D. O'Doherty, postmaster of Castlebar, has'been ? promoted to the postmasfership " of -Oavan. Mr. (O'Doherty is a native of Oolerainej in which town he- is .- held in the highest esteem -by all classes "and-creeds',-^-and his well-merited promotion gives much 'satisfaction ■ to all who knew Jam. 7 ' DUBLlN— lrisfi?Fruit " - • Mr. F. W. Moore, the Curator of the Dublin Bor /fcanic Gardens, delivered an extremely interesting and" ' practical address at the Fruit Growers' Conference, which was held in connection with the. Show of the Royal Horticultural Society at- Ballsbridge. He pointed out .that the first Irish Fruit Show had' been, held at . Cork,- during the Exhibition there.' He declared that' the present year's Show was. -the best that had yetbeen held, and ' was a ,"lar better. Show than that of the Royal Horticultural" Society, of- England!^ .. T-lie_;; quality -of ffie fruit _ was -up to the very "highest standard; all round the fruit was better, though" at""' - the English Show there were some in>di\*Mual - classes - superior.' GALWAY— The Rival Candidates In his election, .address Mr.. Stephen Gwynn, the successful candidate for Gal way, said': ' I staild in. support of every , measure for the better housing, of .'"the laborers, of every -enterprise that will offer more employment in Ireland, and of every effort to improve" education in all its . branches. I do my best to help in keeping alive the ancient language' and literature of Ireland, which are.,the pride and .ornament of .Gal way,' • His opponent, Captain Shaw-Taylor, who stood as a -devolutionist, made the following profession of his politi- _ oal faith : ' I stand for the extension of self-govern-ment on lines equitable to all sections of Irishmen; for the re-instaternent of every evicted tenant ; for economic holdings for all m agricultural tenants ; for „ fair play for the town tenants ; for justice for the laborers; ' for the revival and the betterment of Gal way manufactures, the fishing and 'other industries,— God - Say Ireland.' KINO'S COUNTY— The Agricultural Department The committee thai has been inquiring into the working of the Agricultural and Technical Instruction Department had the evidence before it recently of Father O'Reilly, P.P., of Kilcormack: He declared that the Department was an un-Irish Department, and ~ that it was largely staffed from abroad.. He referred also to Sir Horace Pluukett's notorious book, which ■ he declared, was one of the' factors tbat militated against the Department, and very nearly destroyed the Department's work in the King's County. Father ' O'Reilly started- very fian'kly- .that gentlemen ' who (praised everything, foreign and— discounted everything home-grown were doing a great deal' of harm to the country.' TIPPERARY^_A Local Industry A meeting for- "the purpose of establishing a branch of the Industrial Development Association was held in the Town Hall," Neriagh, recently. The Very Rev.~Dean White presided, and said that some time ago it was hoped that a woollen industry could be started in the neighborhood. Ther|£wjere obstacles in* the way then, but -now they had , been removed, and, igiven a fair - amount of. capital , and ' intelligence', he thought there • should not be much di faculty in starting a woollen industry in Nenagh. In Nenagh there was a great deal , of work in .this, line going to other towns, and ..lithe" money thus spent .could be kept at home it would be so , much the better. _ A committee was appointed for - the purpose of -eliciting information " with a V.ew to* starting a local-industry. -