Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 31 August 1911, Page 1699

Irish News

CORK— Death of Well-known Lady ; The news •: of the death of Mrs. Hannah Cohalan, wife of Judge Cohalan, of the Supreme Court of America, has been received in the County Cork; with feelings of much regret. Mrs. Cohalan was a native of Timoleague, and was educated at the Loretto Convent, Killarney. Her happy married life was inaugurated at SS. Peter and Paul's Church, Cork, where she was married to Mr. D. F. Cohalan, the gifted young Irishman, who has progressed in the legal profession in America as few men have, all owing to marked ability.

DUBLIN— Royal Visit , The cordial welcome given to the King and Queen on Saturday, July 8, in the city as well as at .Kingstown, accorded well with the traditions of the Irish people for generosity and hospitality (says the Freeman's Journal). The prediction of the Irish Party that the King. would be received with the kindly feeling characteristic of the people was fully verified. Is it too much to hope that this attitude will not be misconstrued for political purposes? Experience of British comment on previous Royal visits does not encourage the hope. But, unless popular opinion greatly errs, the King will hot misunderstand. In his reply to the address presented at Kingstown, he described his interest in the Irish people as ' deep and abiding.' That friendly concern is reciprocated by a people who believe that the King is determined to discharge the duty of a constitutional monarch, and will not play "a partisan part at the behest of cliques either in England or Ireland. It would not be necessary to say so much if English commentators had not on previous occasions wilfully misrepresented the significance of the greetings extended by Irishmen to Royal -visitors. Consideration for the newly-crowned Monarch, called upon to act immediately in a', momentous crisis, should dictate a different line on this occasion. .

DONEGAL-Better Terms Early in July Mr. Agnew, agent of the Congested Districts Board, attended at- Inver, County Donegal, and received formal possession of the Sinclair (Bonyglen) Estate, Inver. Years ago, lengthened negotiations were carried on between Very Rev. Dr. Maguire, Inver,, on behalf of the tenants, and the landlord's agent, when as high as 23 years' purchase was offered to the landlord to sell the estate, but the offer was not accepted. Then the Congested Districts Board Act became law, and the tenants, taking advantage of its provisions, placed themselves in the hands of the Board. The Board sent down 1 surveyors and valuators, who placed the value of the estate at 17 years' purchase six years less than the tenants had previously offered to the landlord. The estate was bought by the Board at this valuation, and will be handed over to the tenants on the same terms, their rents being thus reduced from 6s 8d to 7s 6d in the £.

LIMERICK—White Gloves for the Judge At the opening, of Limerick City Assizes, Mr. Wm. Holliday, J.P., High Sheriff, presented Lord Justice Cherry with a pair of white gloves, there being not a single criminal case for trial.

The Bishop's Silver Jubilee The Right Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer has received from his Grace the Archbishop of Tuani, the Bishop of Ferns, the Bishop of Cloyne, and the Bishop of Ardagh, who were his Lordship's, class-fellows in Maynooth, a beautiful and appreciative address in connection with his silver jubilee. After warmly congratulating the jubilarian, the address says:—'ln the College of Maynooth, as we remember well, your Lordship gained the highest honors amongst the most distinguished rivals of a singularly brilliant class, and at the same time you won the affection and esteem of all by your kindly sympathies and the manly straightforwardness of your character. ; Even then we all predicted for your Lordship a brilliant career in the Church • and now all men know

how amply verified have been those predictions. As a • writer, a preacher, a ' scholar, and an V administrator, your Lordship has during the past twenty-five years rendered signal services , not only to the diocese . of Lime*rick, but to the whole Church of Ireland. To your brilliant evidence before Lord Robertson’s Commission was largely due the satisfactory settlement of , the Irish University question. On that occasion your Lordship expounded the authoritative views of the whole Irish Church with singular power and eloquence; and ■' on many other great occasions the same eloquent voice was heard and never passed unheeded by your countrymen. We rejoice that God has spared your Lordship so long to Limerick and to Ireland, and we join with your Lordship’s flock in their heartfelt prayers to heaven to-day that you may be spared for many years to come to labor with the same , zeal and success as hitherto in the service of your diocese and your country.’

QUEEN’S COUNTYLabourers’Cottages The Rural District Council of Mountmellick have formulated a scheme for the building of laborers’ cottages in the district on an extensive scale. This involves the erection of 265 cottages on allotments, with 20 additional plots, at a gross total expenditure of £47,692. '

TIPPERARY— Death of an Abbot • ', The death is announced of the Right Rev. J. Camillus Beardwood, Abbot of Mount St. Joseph's, Roscrea. The deceased, who had attained his 60th year, •entered the famous Cistercian house at Mount Melleray in 1873, and was elected Abbot of Mount St. Joseph in 1887. It was in that year he came there merely loaned to the monastery— take down the present plans of the church, monastery,\andi of course, the famous college, which was raised under his supervision, and which became so distinguished and successful. Indeed, it may be said of him that he made' Roscrea quite an important little town in itself. Everyone who had the opportunity of meeting the Abbot very much regret his death, and the Community, are sunk in the deepest grief. He was a man of deep learning and of wide information, dignified in manner, humble in his dealings with all classes, and the soul of good nature and charity. The Community at Roscrea, in their great loss, feel that the Right Rev. J. Camillus Beardwood's equal will be difficult to find. It was in the year 1878 that the late Monsignor Persico visited Ireland in the capacity of Papal Legate, when the late Abbot received from him the Abbatial Blessing. Visitors to the monastery will treasure pleasant memories of Dr. Beardwood, who was a man of deep religious instincts and inspiring personality. - His health at the best was never robust, and of late -*t was a cause of special concern to the members of his Community.

TYRONE—A Public Contradiction »

At a meeting of the Strabane. Urban Council, Mr. Gallagher said he would like to be granted permission to refer to a statement made at a meeting of Dungannon Urban Council, and published recently, to the effect that Strabane had as representatives three ’Catholics to one Protestant on the County Technical Committee. As this statement was absolutely untrue, he considered it was the duty of the committee to give it a public contradiction. As was well known, the population of Strabane was very largely " Catholic, there being two Catholics to one Protestant, yet notwithstanding this the local Technical Committee was composed of six Catholics and six Protestants, whilst there were three Catholics and two Protestants on the County Committee proportion which he considered very reasonable having regard to the population. Instructions were given Mr. Peely, Town Clerk, to write to Mr. Hamilton, Town Clerk, 'Dungannon, acquainting him of these particulars, and requesting him to have same read at the next meeting of the. Dungannon Urban Council.

WEXFORD—Providing for Catholic Education

A bazaar was opened on June 29 in aid of the Christian Brothers’ Schools, Wexford, on which there

is a debt of "£I7OO. The opening ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop ;> of ' Ferns, and associated with his Lordship was Mr.'i Howard Rowe; T.C., the Protestant Mayor of Catholic. Wexford. In opening the bazaar Right Rev. Dr. Browne paid a graceful tribute to two distinguished Wexford men who were prominently associated with the town for many yearsthe Rev. Dr. Sinnott, a distinguished educationist and champion of Catholic doctrine in the days before the rigor of the Penal Laws was relaxed, and Mr. Richard Devereux, a great Catholic layman, who about forty years ago, when the Christian Brothers were endeavoring to educate the youth of Wexford in a very humble building, erected new schools and a house for them in order that the education of Catholic boys might be conducted with a greater measure of success. > GENERAL A Buttress of the Throne A correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle pays a striking tribute to the loyalty of Irish Catholics to the Church, in the course of an article on ' The New Ireland.' After pointing out that the vast majority of the Irish people are Catholics, he goes on to ask: Was ever loyalty equal to theirs to the Church of Rome France has been styled the eldest daughter of the Catholic Church, but what has French loyalty been compared to the loyalty of Ireland to the throne of Peter? From Henry VIII. to George IV., from the Reformation to Catholic Emancipation, almost without intermission or respite, Catholic Ireland suffered for her devotion. Loyalty to faith and Fatherland is the mainstay of the Nationalist manhood and vitality ; it can easily be made a great buttress of the Throne. Nn Ex-Governor on Dairy-farming

At the All-Ireland Industrial Conference in Dublin on June 15, Lord Plunket said:The Department of Agriculture can give the farmers of Ireland very great assistance. At present a cow in Ireland gives about 450 gallons of milk, and yet in many other parts of the world I understand that a cow gives up to 900 gallons—certainly 700 gallons would not be out of the way. In New Zealand they calculate that a cow that does not give 800 gallons was a cow that ought not to be kept in the herd. The only other thing he wished to say was that as they had been talking about.emigration, to his mind one of the causes of emigration was the want of cheerful and right amusement in the country. They wanted, if possible, to brighten the lives of the people, and to that end the Gaelic League had done a great deal. The Society with which her Excellency's name was so honorably associated had also done a great deal in the same direction. They wanted a Board to push that forward. If they could manage to get one more Board for Ireland headed by a Minister for Amusements and Recreation it would have an excellent effect in this country. Civil Pensions A list of the civil pensions granted by the Prime Minister during the year ending March 31 last was issued recently. The pension granted amounted to £I2OO, and there are two Irish recipients: Mr. W. B. Yeats, £l5O a year in recognition of his distinguished literary attainments and of his eminence as a poet; Mrs. Kate Scott, £ls a year in addition to her existing pension, in recognition of the services of her father, the late Dr. Sullivan, President of Queen's College, Cork, to literature and his labors in developing the industrial resources of Ireland. to Proportional Representation During the annual meeting of the Proportional Representation Society at Westminster, on June 16, Lord Avebury read a letter from Mr. John m which the Irish Leader said:— Proportional representation has been suggested in a remarkable letter from Lord Courtney. The end which he desires I desire and we all desire. We want a thorough representation of all the elements of Irish life.'