COUNTY NEWS

New Zealand Tablet, 16 July 1908, Page 28

COUNTY NEWS

CORK — A Comprehensive Scheme

The Clerk of the Middleton Union has just forwarded to the Local Government Board, in pursuance of instructions given him by the Middleton Rural Council, a petition requesting the Local Government Board to confirm a Provisional Order for the carrying out of a scheme of laborers' cottages in the Union, at the estimated cost of under the Laborers Act of 1906. The scheme includes the erection of upwards of 250 cottages. DUBLlN— Success of Dominican College Pupils

The final concert in connection with the Dublin Feis was one of the most successful of its kind ever held in the Irish metropolis. A feature of the concert was the success of ..he pupils of the Dominican College, Eccles street. In the prizes given for competition to pupils of intermediate schools the representatives of the Dominican College secured four silver medals^ and 10 bronze, the awards being as follow : — Preparatory grade, first individual prize ; junior grade, first group prize, and two individual prizes ; middle grade, group prize, and three individual prizes ; senior grade, group prize, and first individual prize. As the school which secured the highest marks in the preceding four competitions the pupils of the Dominican College were awarded the Challenge Shield. Regarding this competition a Dublin contemporary says : ' This year the shield goes for the second time to the pupils of the Dominican College, Eccles street, they having obtained the highest combined average score for all intermediate grades in the inter-class competitions. Not only did they secure the highest combined average score for all the grades, but they also obtained the greatest average score in three of the four grades — viz., junior, middle, and senior — the highest average in the preparatory grade being scored by the Christian Brothers' Schools, Synge street. This is certainly a high testimony to the efficiency of the work of the Dominican Nuns and their pupils, and it is a record of which they have every reason to be proud.' In the essay competition the pupils of the college secured two first awards, and for the writing of a commercial letter in Irish another pupil was awarded a special prize. In the class for best young Gaelic speaker a pupil took second place, for the best young writer a first award was given to another pupil, whilst the first for Irish history in Irish was also won by a pupil. KILDARE— An Invitation from Canada

Mr. George Wolfe, of Kildare, has accepted an invitation to represent General Wolfe's family at the tercentenary celebrations in Canada. LOUTH— White Gloves for the Judge

- At the Drogheda Summer Quarter Sessions his Honor County Court Judge Kisbeyj K.C., was presented with, white gloves by Mr. Russell, sub-sheriff, there being no criminal business to be disposed of. His Honor, in returning thanks, said it was a very creditable thing to find no crime amongst them. He hoped that this state of things would long continue. MONAG HAN— Presents for the Holy Father

A number of the Catholic ladies of Clones, with the members of the Children of Mary Sodality in connection with the Convent of St. Louis, are presenting to -his Holiness Pope Pius KMX M on the occasion of this jubilee, two beautiful chalices of Celtic

design and Irish workmanship.. They are being executed l>y an eminent Dublin firm, and will, when finished, "reflect credit both on the donors and the manufacturer.