COUNTY NEWS

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 17, 25 April 1907, Page 27

COUNTY NEWS

..CORK— The National Teachers In a letter enclosing £5 as a subscription to , the Irish National Teachers' Benevolent Fund, Most Rev. Dr. Browne, - Bishop of Cloyne, pays a warm tribute to the work done by the teachers for the moral and mental training -of the youth of Ireland. DERRY— Appointed Vicar-Capitular Very Rev. Bernard M'Laughlin,- P.P., Donagjhmore, has 'been appointed Vicar-Capitular of the Diocese of Derry pending the appointment of a successor to- th<e late M"ost Rev. Dr. O'Doherty. Father M'Laugh.lin< was placed dignior. on the list of names submitted to- the Holy see' upon the last occasion on . which the Bishopric was vacant. - _ DONEGAL— Protecting Irish Industries ' It's Donegal^ tweed and all wool, and you'll never get it -at Gfd a yard again,' said the. salesman at Messrs. C. and A. Daniels, Kentish' Town Road, _ London, to Mrs. Sheehan, when she casually called'and asked for some of the ' Donegal tweed ' advertised by the firm in question. Mrs. Sheehan will never again get the stuff ' at the price : bub it was not Donegal tweed, nor was it ' all wool ' — it never was in - Donegal, and it was just half cotton anjd' half shoddy. Mrs. Sheeban " acted •on 'behalf of the - Irish Industrial Development Association, who prosecuted Messrs. 'Daniels at the Marylebone Police Court. The . fraud was proven clearly, and the London magistrate inflicted the maximum penalty' of £20, with 25~ guineas costs, on the worthy English traders, at the same time paying a tribute to the necessity and- usefulness of the Association. DUBLIN— The Holy Father's Reply The Archbishop of Dublin has received from his 'Eminence Cardinal Merry del Val, Secretary of State to his Holiness, a letter in acknowledgment of the resolutions recently adopted by the County Council of Dublin and by several other repiesen'tative bodies in, the diocese of Dublin, and forwarded to Rome by his Grace for presentation to the Holy Father. His Eminence writes : ' The Holy Father is greatly consoled by this; spontaneous expression of such noble sentiments.'

KERRY— An Example for the North Bishop Bunbury, of Limerick (says the ' Irish Weekly '), 'died- some time ago"";' and the prelates of the Protestant Church in Ireland chose as his successor Archdeacon Orpen, .who lives in the rebelly Papist town of Tra'lee — a prospering place notwithstanding its geographical situation*. When the news reached this Papist town the other day that the Protestant AreShideacon had been matte a Bishop, :the people assembled to discuss the event. A band from a place called Boherbee appeared on the scene and began to play. Protestants, . whci aye a body more influential than numerous in the. ■ town, and who own fine shops;- fill important public - positions, and generally thriye and prosper in peace and '- comfort amongst the vast majority who never bowed before their altars, joined the throng. Headed by the Boherhee band, the multitude marched to the house of the newly-appointed Bishop and cheered for him. They said they were glad of his promotion. They congratulated him', and they . "cheered again. Then. t the report says : ' His Lordship, who "was much affected, thanked the people for their kind display of goodwill.' TIPPERARY— A Successful Bazaar Friends of the Christian Brothers everywhere will be' gratified to learn that the Knocknagow Bazaar in aid of their splendid schools in Clonmel realised £2,519 net" profit. TYRONE To Avoid Persecution On leaving the courthouse, Strabane, after the nomination of candidates for the representation* of North Tyrone, Dr. Todd, Mr. Barry's conducting agent,, stopped to inform the waiting pressmen that only the names on two nomination papers of the 'thirteen for Mr. Barry would be available for publication, as a numibeir of the names were those of Presbyterians, and they might be subjected to annoyance if their names were published. He said that at the last election a. number of Presbyterian gentlemen signed the nomination paper of Serjeant Dodd, and from the day of the nomination to the 'day of the poll these gentlemen were subjected to such persistent pressure, annoyance, and persecution that their lives became a, burden. ' This time,' added the ■doctor, ' I determined 1 would not expose my Presbyterian friends in the constituency to what I am sure would be an even, more violent form of persecution.' WESTMEATH— Parliamentary Representation Mr, Donal Sullivan, M.P. for South Westmeath, dted at his London residence on March 3_ The body w^is removed to Dublin on the following day. The interment took place art Glasnevin. Deceased was 'one of five brothers whose services to Ireland have been invaluable. Two of them, Richard and Alexander Martin, were brilliant journalists. Of the two others who survive, one, T. D., is widely known as a writer of Irish songs and ballads. The "other is Mr. D. B. Sullivan, K.C. The Premier as a friend of the deceased has written a kind letter of sympathy to~ Mr. T. D. Sullivan. The vaqancy in the representation of South Westmieatfo has been filled by the election of Sir Walter Nugent, Nationalist. WEXFORD— An Heir Found One of the first cousins of the late Patrick White, of Brooklyn, who died intestate, leaving an estate valued at £40,000, is James Nolan, of County Wexford'. As it seems probable that the estate will be divided only among- the first cousin.s of the deceased, Nolan's portion of the property will be one-fourth, or, if another claimant proves his rtght, one-fifth. This will mean between £8000 and £10,010 for an old man who to us© Ms own words, ' had nobody to give him even so much as a box of matches.' v '

The Most Rev. ' Dr. Francis Bourne, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, despite his exatted position, is one of the . youngest prelates of the Catholic Hierarchy in J>he British Isles. He yet lacks a month of the completion of his forty-sixth year, 'though he is in the fourth year of his Archiepiscopate. A native of Clapham, he was educated at . Ush>aw, Ware, Paris, and *" Louvain, before being'ordained priest in. 1884. Five years later he was appointed Rector of the Southwark Diocesan Seminary. He was named Domestic Prelate to Pope Leo XIII, in 1895, ami a year later was appointed titular Bishop of Epiphania and Coadjutor lo the Dishon of Southwark, whose successor he became in 1896. *