The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-05-16
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On the morning of April 18th, short
~ before high water, Messrs Harland
& Wolff launched from their ship yard.
on the Queens Island. Belfast. a splen-
did new screw steamer for the Missis-
sippi and! Dominion Steamship Co. line,
between Liverpool and Canada. The
steamer on leaving theways was named
the Labrador" by Mrs. Montgomery.
wife of one of the managers, and the
launch went off most successfully. The
Labrador is AS feet long, Al feet beam.
and about 500 tons gross register, and
will have triple expansion engines, con-
structed by Messrs. Harland & Wolff,
of about 8 500 horse power.
CAVAN.
Mr.. Vesey Knox, Nj. p, for Cavan.
repudiates the assertion that the Bishop
of Fillmore has shown any prejudice
against him because he is Protestant.
He states that he has met with great
kindness at the hands of Bishop Nc
Gennis--his experience. in this respect,
being very different from that Of Cath
Ollie gentlemen who seek public posi-.
tions Ii England.
CLARE.
The young man John Neylan, who
was fired at and wounded by the police
during the attack on the house Of
Michael Shaughnessy, on the night of
April Sd, is so far recovered as to be
able to leave his bed in the infirmary.
He received three pellets in different
parts of the body; two have. been ex
tfacted, but the locality Of the third
cannot be traced. On April 18th. the
tour men III CUSTODY IN connectlon with
the affray in which NeYlan was shot,
were brought up at the Ennis Petty
Sessions before MIR. Holder, r. M. On
the application of D. l. Dunning they
were again remanded.
CORK.
A public meeting was held on Sun,
day, April 18th. at Ladysbridge, under
the auspices of the Irish National Mon
ument Committee, to promote a move
ment for the erection of Celtic cross
to the memory of the Manchester Mar
tyrs at lachtermurragh, the birth place
of one of the Martyrs, Michael O'Brien.
Mr.. F. Gleason, of Lisquinlan, presided,
DERRY.
A young school teacher named James
McGrorty, was drowned in the river
Bann, at Coleraine, on April l4th. He
was rowing, with three others. when
the boat capsized and filled, and in at
tempting to swim ashore he was
drowned.
DONEGAL.
The Irish Secretary is being urged to
establish an experimental lobster
hatchery in some suitable locality on the
Northwest coast of ireland. The ex-
pertinent will not involve anv serious
expense. Lobster catching is easily
managed in open boats, and the canning
factories would give employment on
shore to numbers of men, women and
children. At present the Irish lobster
catch is only worth $4,000 year. The
would follow the lines
of that already made near Plctou. IN
Nova Scotia.
DOWN.
In Newry, on the morning of April
18th, all the men who had been on
strike from the firm Of Messrs. Caryill
Bros, timber merchants. Merchants
quay, resumed work. Messrs. Redmond
& Co.'s men also went to work. The |
dock laborers' strike in the town has
also practically terminated. most Of the
men being engaged at work along the
quay.
DUBLIN, !
The Irish judges at recent meeting
adopted q resolution to the effsct that,
in case Parliament should think fit to
vest in the high court Of justice in Ire
land the jurisdi lotion in respect ct all
matters Of 8 legal character which. BY
the !. Purchase OF Land Bill" and the
Land Department Bill /" it is proposed I
10 confer upon the Land Department.
me judges Of the queens bench and exs
che quer divisions of che high court will Il
IS willing "a Discharge lin conf unction I
,nlylE nth the Judicial Land Commss- /
iioners referred to III the said bills Il
Igiithont incres of salary ~ the dotiesl