Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8, 25 February 1909, Page 307

Irish News

ANTRlM— Shipbuilding in Belfast

All things considered (says the Manchester Guardian) the shipbuilding output from Belfast yards during the' past twelve months, if not equal to previous years, has been fairly satisfactory. ■ Although Messrs. Harland and Wolff have been handicapped for building space in the year just ended, they have, been able to launch 107,000 tons pi new slupping, which will probably constitute a world's record in a year remarkable for a depression in the shipbuilding trade all over the United Kingdom. CLARE— An Octogenarian

The death took place on January 4 at Moy House, Lahinch, of . Major George S. Studdert, J.P., one of tbe oldest magistrates in -Clare, and a former Grand Juror for the county. He was in his 87th year, and had been ailing for some time. The deceased gentleman was a son of the late Mr. Charles Studdert, Newmarket House, and was one of a family of seventeen brothers, many well known in Clare in their time. He "had been agent over the Fitzgerald and other estates in Clare and Cork. He was very popular with all classes.

CORK— A Military Chaplain

The Catholic liegister, Madras, chronicles the death oi Very Rev. Dominic Hammill, Catholic military chaplain at Jullundur. Father Hammill was a native of Fermoy," County Cork, joined the Capuchins at Bruges in March,' 1877, was ordained at St. John Lateran's, Rome, in 1880 and went to India in 1881. DONEGAL— A Venerable Pastor

When the last mail left Home the Right Rev. Mgr. MeFadden, the venerable pastor of Glena, Falcorragh, was very seriously ill. Monsignor MeFadden was born some eighty years ago, and after" ordination was appointed to his native diocese of Raphoe. He was a participator in many stirring episodes of the land war, including tho Glenveigh clearances, with which his name is inseparably connected. The history of that awful time of sorrow and wrong, and the noble part taken by Father MeFadden, as he then was, were vividly set forth in New Ireland by the late Mr. A: M. Sullivan. "That happier times have come for the persecuted tenant farmers of Ireland is -due in no small degree to men of Father McFadden's type, whose hearts bled' at the sufferings inflicted on a noble peasantry and who worked heroically and unselfishly to improve their sad lot. DUBLIN— The Parliamentary Fund

The trustees of the United Irish Parliamentary- arid National Fund announce that the fund for the' year 1908 is closed, and that the total amount subscribed during the twelve months, exclusive of the moneys received' from America and Australia, was £7413 Is lOd. Old Age Pensions

. In Dublin over 4000 septuagenarians received old age pensions on the first day of the new year. Freedom from Crime

Freedom from crime was the subject 'of the Recorder's address at the opening of the Quarter Sessions in Kilmainham on December 31. County Dublin had "maintained the law-abiding, peaceful, and orderly character for which it was remarkable, he, said, during many years. -_ KING'S COUNTY— -An Appointment "

-. Mr. Harry J. Campbell, the manager of the Hibernian Bank' at Birr, King^ County, has been appointed" to tho ' important position of manager at the head office,.- College Green, Dublin. Mr. Campbell, who is the youngest "of the officials of his rank, is the second son of the* late Mr. H. A. Campbell, of Haddington Road, Dublin. 'He was educated by. the Jesuit Fathers at Clongowes Wood College, where he had a brilliant career, being successful year after year in winning' scholarships and other prizes at the Intermediate Education Examinations. LIMERICK— The Augustinian Order The death is reported of \ae Rev. P. J. Glynn, O S A who passed away in his native city of Limerick on January 2 at. the age of 68 years. On attaining the age of manhood, he joined the Augustinian Order, and became attached' to the House at John street, Dublin. After some years he was sent to -Drogheda, from whence he returned again to Dublin. In 1879 Father Glynn was sent to Rome, where he was constituted Prior of the House of Studies of the Irish Province of Augustinians. Whilst serving in that

capacity— a young and energetic, priest .as he was— he took ait active interest in the erection of St. Patrick's Church in Rome, and Irish visitors— lay or clerical— to the capital of Italy -shared generously in his hospitality and in the -sunshine of his genial and pro-Irish personality. After thirteen, years' sojourn in Rome, Father Glynn went back to Ireland, and became Prior of the Limerick House, a position he retained up to the last Chapter of the Order- in November, 1907, when he was succeeded by Very Rev. John McSweeney, the - present highly-esteemed Prior at Limerick.

White Gloves Presented

The Limerick Quarter -Sessions were opened-, in the , County Court House on January 4 by County Court Judge P. Law Smith, who was accompanied by the newlyappointed City High Sheriff-(Mr. W. L. Stokes). The -High Sheriff said it was his very pleasing duty, the first in connection with his official capacity as. High Sheriff, to ask his Honor to accept a pair of .white gloves as emblematic of the peaceful conditon of -.the city and its immunity from' crime. His Honor, in accepting the white gloves, said it was to him an especial pleasure that the first act of the new High Sheriff of that city should take its outward and visible form in the presentation to him of a pair of white gloves, emblematic of the freedom of the city from crime,. It was an especial . pleasure to his Honor, considering that their iiew High Sheriff was"W6rn in only that morning, that his first act should be as the bearer of a message of peace. They all had heard a lot "about good resolutions at the beginning of the year. His Honor looted upon those gloves of January, 1909, as the result of the good resolution formed in 1908, and he thought he would be expressing the wish of everybody in the city in hoping that each t succeeding January would bring forth the same crop of white gloves. He desired to 4 associate himself with the High Sheriff and %he public bodies of the city, with the expression of universal sympathy and regret at the loss whiph the city had sustained by the death of Sir Thomas Cleeve. It" was his privilege to have received from Sir Thomas, on three different occasions, white gloves, when -he -filled the position, which he did so honorably, of High Sheriff. Through his sterling ability, commercial industry, and absolute .uprightness, Sir Thomas had done a lot to re-

animate and restore the commercial prosperity of the city. It was sad to think that such- a man should be cut off .at his time of life, but it was not for them to question the ways of Providence. .-In conclusion, he wished them all, and the people of the city in- general, a happy, prosperous, and sober New Year.

LOUTH— An Illuminated Address The students of St. Mary's College, Dundalk, have presented the Very Rev.^J. Corcoran, S.M., president, with a vory handsome illuminated address on the occasion . of the opening,: of a new wing of the college. The addition has been, erected at considerable expense, mainly through the untiring energy of its worthy president and staff. No Criminal Cases N At the Drogheda Quarter Sessions on January 5, before County Court Judge Kisbey, Mr. J. J. Russell, SubSheriff, presented his Honor with w.hite gloves, there "being no criminal business to be disposed- of:- ' His Honor .congratulated the -citizens of Drogheda on the peaceable state of the town and district. He hoped the present state of affairs would long continue. -■-•--

SLlQO— Death of an Archdeacon

. The- death of. the venerable ""Archdeacon of Achonry, , which, took place at the .Parochial House, Ballymote, on December 30 (says a Dublin correspondent), will be deeply regretted not alone in -the diocese of which" he was such an esteemed clergyman, but all over Ireland - and . far -beyond her -shores. He was a fine specimen of the Irish priesthood, -who devoted himself whole-heartedly, -to the spiritual and temporal interests of his people. Born in the parish- of Kilmactigue close on. 70 years" ago, he decided in early boyhood to embrace the religious life. In Maynooth College -he studied theology, being ordained in due course. That he worked untiringly for the -salvation of souls it is scarcely necessary to say. He never N wearied. So ' highly, did his brother priests think of him" that* they selected him as one worthy to" 'fill -the. -bishopric of his native diocese.. To his great joy the burden, of episcopal cares was placed on tother shoulders, "and he was allowed to labo^ in a> less" exalted sphere. > . - - GENERAL

A Profitable Industry

In tlie course of a-- letter to the secretary of an English grocers' association, Mr. -T. W. Russell,- Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruc-

tion for Ireland, gives the following particulars regarding the export of eggs from Ireland to England: — In 190Athere were 677,000,000 cggsserit to England, valued at £2,257,000; in 1907, 801,000,000 ' were, exported, valued _' at £2,920,000. 'ihus.in the short space of- four years the exports have increased -by 124 millions of eggs, the increase in value being £663,000. In regard to value, Ireland now holds first place as an exporter of eggs to" Great Britain. The New Land Bill ,

Mr. J. E. Redmond, M.P., in the course of a letter to a friend in Enniscorthy on certain features of the ■new Land Bill, says : On the question of finance, it must not be forgotten that. so far, at any rate, as the fifty-two million pounds of completed agreements are concerned, the Government accept the proposal by the Irish Party in the report of their committee, by throwing the entire cost of flotation on the Treasury, and they lift the entire liability for the whole Land Purchase transaction from the ratepayers. You are aware that, as the law at present stands, this loss, amounting to something like £20,000 a year for 68£ years on every £5,000,K)00 of stock raised at current price, falls directly on the ratepayers of Ireland after the Development Fund has been exhausted. This fund is now practically exhausted, and -unless a new Act of Parliament be passed this liability cannot be evaded by the ratepayers. You, no doubt, have also % noticed that what are called incidental expenses are also taken over hy the Treasury. You will see how real an advantage this is when you remember tliat these incidental expenses for one year amounted <to £70,000, and were actually levied off the County Councils.