Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 18 June 1908, Page 27

Irish News

DUBLIN— An Appreciation Dr. Clara E. Garry, in a' recent lecture on 'Hospitals and Nurses,' before the Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston, said: 'One of the neatest hospitals which I ever have been in is the "Hospital of the City of Dublin, which is maintained solely by the Sisters of Mercy, who solicit subscriptions from the residents of the city. Everything in this hospital, from the dainty, snowy beds to the kitchen, was immaculate, and the place where all the cooking was done for the patients looked like a parlour.' The New University The names of the first Senate of the new Dublin University for Catholics include those of Archbishops Walsh and Healy, Sir William Butler, Dr. Delany, S.J., Dr. Douglas Hyde, Lord Chief Baron Palles, Monsignor Mannix (Principal of Maynooth), Justice Barton, Mr. S. H. Butcher, M.P., Mr. Stephen Gwynn, M.P., Miss Mary Hayden, and the Principals of Constituent Colleges of Dublin, Cork, and Galway. The charter provides that the University shall not hold real property exceeding the annual value of £50,000 over and above the value of any site, buildings, and hereditaments used and occupied for the immediate purposes of the University. Provision is made for the affiliation of other colleges or institutions, or branches, or departments thereof, and for the withdrawal of such affiliation at any time. The Crown reserves to itself the right to be a visitor of the University, acting through the Board of Visitors, to whom any Professor or Lecturer who is removed by the University from office may appeal. If the Board do not concur in such removal it shall not take effect. The first Chancellor is to be elected by the Senate, and succeeding Chancellors by Convocation, which is to consist of officers, Senate, professors, lecturers, and registered graduates of the University. On the expiration of the first Senate its successors will consist of elected, nominated, and co-opted members. KERRY— LegaI Appointment Mr. -Patrick Lynch, K.C., has been appointed senior Crown Prosecutor for County Kerry, in room of Sergeant Bourke, K.C., appointed Recorder of Cork. Fighting Consumption The Most Rev. Dr. Mangan, Bishop of Kerry, and Lady Aberdeen, to whom his Lordship paid a tribute of gratitude for her visit to Killarney not less deserved than it was graceful, made two suggestions which will not, it is to be hoped, be lost sight of in the warfare against consumption. The Bishop urged that the importance of the open window as a requirement for good health should be borne in mind. As a proof of the benefit of pure, bracing air, Dr. Mangan stated that whilst the Western seaboard is remarkably free from tuberculosis, in the inland, where the people, being better housed and better fed, should be less liable to the disease, the percentage of deaths from consumption is very high. Lady Aberdeen desires the Irish children to strike against tea-drinking, a practice which has become very prevalent within recent years in Ireland. Under the best of conditions tea is not a wholesome beverage for the young, but when, as is often the case, they drink it after it has been stewed, it is not too much to say that the effects are, in the words of Lady Aberdeen, simply poisonous. LIMERICK— Death of a Well Known Lady Lady Monte'agle, wife of the second Baron Monteagle, died on ~ April 27 at Mount Trenchard House, Foynes. Lady Monteagle was a daughter of the late Most Rev. Dr. Butcher, Protestant Bishop of Meath, and leaves as surviving issue Thomas, present heir to the title, and the Hon. Mary Spring Rice. Lady Monteagle interested herself in every movement to benefit the poor, and her name will be long identified with the movement to humanise the Poor Laws. She was an energetic member of the Rathkeale Board of Guardians and District Council. Lord Monteagle and his family have great sympathy in their bereavement. ■

MONAGHAN— Domestic Science On April 27 an interesting ceremony took> place at tie Vice-regal Lodge, Dublin. It consisted of the presentation of _ a shield and medals to children of Industrial Schools by her Excellency the Countess of Aberdeen. The shield is. a very handsome trophy, made of Irish silver, mounted on Irish bog oak, with medallions representing the four branches of domestic economy — namely, cooking, housekeeping, laundry work, and needlework. The shield was designed by an Irishwoman, and all the work connected with it was done in Dublin. It was offered for competition amongst all the Industrial Schools in Ireland, and as a result of the examination by the inspector and assistant inspectors of reformatories and industrial schools it was awarded to St. Martha's Industrial School, Monaghan. There were nineteen schools entered for the competition, and of these five were selected for the final contest. The shield was won by the Monaghan School, and her Excellency decided to give medals as consolation prizes to the pupils of the other four. The other schools were Hampton House, Belfast ; St. Michael 's, Wexf ord ;• St. Vincent 's, Limerick ; and St. George's, Limerick. Girls from all these schools were present at the presentation, accompanied by their teachers or other representatives of the schools. TlPPEßAßY— lntermediate Education The annual distribution of prizes took place at Eoekwell College, Cashel, on April 23. The President of the College (Very Rev. Father Pembroke), in the course of his address, referred to the manner in which secondary education was treated by the Government. He said : ' The Board which controlled secondary education had two incomes — a fixed income derived from the Irish Church Surplus and a fluctuating income derived from the yield of the Local Taxation Account. This fluctuating income does not depend on the number of students or the educational needs. It depends on the amount of whisky consumed in Ireland. It laid on the Irish parent the duty of getting drunk on 'Saturday night in order that there might be more money to educate his children on Monday morning. Now, for some years past a wave of temperance has been passing over the land. Less whisky is being consumed. The Local Taxation Account has, therefore, gone down, and with it down go the funds available for secondary education. Assuredly that is a scandalous state of affairs in a Christian country, and under a Liberal Government that champions temperance. It might be naturally inquired : How has Eoekwell fared last year in the intermediate examinations in the face of such difficulties ? There were two facts which spoke for thern^ selves. In the list of exhibitions, which were the highest distinctions offered by the Intermediate Board, Rockwell came out second College in all Ireland last year, their sister College of Blaekroek being only one ahead. When compared with the other Colleges of Munster, not only was Eoekwell easily first, but they even carried off twice as many exhibitions as any other College in this province.' GENERAL Unseasonable Weather Very unseasonable weather was experienced all over Ireland during the last week in April. There was a heavy fall of snow even in the Southern counties. The Want of Legal Knowledge In the statement which they have issued with respect to the qualifications and appointment of Irish resident magistrates, the Council of the Irish Bar have made out a case for an alteration in the present system. Ireland' (remarks th'o 'Catholic Times') appears to be the only part of r the United. Kingdom, if not of .the whole world, .where paid magistrates are not obliged to have any legal qualifications and the unpaid judiciary are left without legal assistance. Of the sixty-six resident magistrates, as many as twentyseven are ex-officers of constabulary. Even the exigencies of the Coercion Act of 1887 are not met. The first section of that measure requires that the resident magistrate appointed to hold an inquiry and take evidence must ,be a person of the sufficiency of whose legal knowledge and legal experience the Lord Chancellor has expressed himself satisfied. In many cases the legal knowledge of the magistrates, is nil. If they were without prejudices, the absence of legal qualifications would no£ matter so much, but as a rule aH

their views are tinged by partisanship. Their decisions are unduly affected by their feelings, inasmuch as they aTe not governed by the restraints which an accurate acquaintance with the law would impose. The Council of the Irish Bar is not asking too much in demanding that, in the interests of the public, paid magistrates should be persons of legal skill. The Hierarchy and the Temperance Movement The following manifesto df the Irish National Temperance Executive has been endorsed by his Eminence Cardinal Logue, his Grace the Archbishop of Tuam, and their Lordships the Bishops of Ferus, Clogher, Elpbin, Kilmore, Cloyne, Waterford, Galway, Kerry, Meath, Eoss, and Ardagh : ' We, the Irish National Temperance Executive, sensible of the gravity of the duty cast upon, us by the introduction of the Government Licensing Bill, have carefully considered the policy which we should adopt and recommend to all advocates of Temperance in Ireland in the present juncture. We warmly approve of the measure, in its main lines, as an able and courageous effort to deal justly and temperately with a great evil, and we specially welcome the recognition of the principle of Local Option, the gradual decrease of the excessive number of licenses, and the application of a time limit. While we regret that the Government has not dealt with the Irish Licensing Question in this Bill, we feel bound to recognise the increased difficulty which .such an extended sphere of operation might present to the passing of the Bill, and we feel that we are justified in entertaining a strong belief that the Government — and especially the Chief Secretary for- Ireland — will take an early opportunity of offering to Ireland its own Licensing Bill, so long needed and desired. In order to establish beyond question the fact that the voice of Ireland calls for Temperance legislation, we have submitted these views for the consideration of those best qualified to express the opinion of the larger masses of the people — the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland. We therefore earnestly invoke for the Government's measure the active aid of all those able to assist its passing into law, especially the Irish members of Parliament, and the goodwill of all who believe that the true interests of our country are inseparably bound up with the cause of Temperance.' An Irish Trade Mark The firm of Cardiff flourmillers, who applied to the Eegistrar of Trade Marks for leave to register the Irish word 'slainte' as their trade mark (says an English exchange), were in this way, no doubt, bearing testimony to the popularity of the song, ' Here 's a "health to you, Father O 'Flynn, slainte, and slainte, and slainte ag 'in. ' Their knowledge of this magical word, it may be presumed, was derived from Mr. Alfred Percival Graves, but not even its witching power which he has so happily illustrated won the approval of the Eegistrar for the application. The Irish Industrial Development Association jointly with Bolands, Ltd., took objection to the use of this trade mark under the circumBtances, holding that it would be regarded by many buyers in Ireland as indicating that the firm's flour was Irish milled, and the Eegistrar has in consequence refused leave to register. He" had,^he said, to recognise facts, and judging from facts within his knowledge 'slainte' as a trade mark might become deceptive. There is in Ireland a movement for giving preference in purchases to articles of purely Irish manufacture, and amongst the Irish-speaking population people on reading this trade marie in Irish characters might be misled. The Eegistrar has displayed a Spartan and praiseworthy severity in dealing with his countrymen. He will have them run no risk of sailing under false colours. A Present for the Pope It will, no doubt, interest our readers (says the 'Freeman's Journal') to know that his Holiness Pope Pius X. will in a few days be the recipient of a very beautiful souvenir from Ireland to mark the occasion of the jubilee of his priesthood. It takes the form of a very handsome fine gold chalice, standing ten inches high, and weighing 30 ounces.