The Irish standard., 1893-05-06

GlOQ OF GQlS year There Ii picture VI LIS
of most pathetic subject, blind girl,
which has been universally admired as
work of art, pervaded by much tender
ness and feeling. Mr.. OReilly had been
all;ng for some time, bat few thought
the end of such q bright and promising
life was so near at hand. His interment
took place at Glasnevin, from his fathers
residence, Upper Grangegorman, Dub
lin. and was largely attended.
GALWAY.
The new mackerel fishery off the Ar
ran Islands. which was opened last year
by the Congested Districts Board showed
sufficiently good results to induce others
to try it this yeBr. There are some thir-
ty-six boats belonging to an English
syndicate, in addition to the local boats
(about twenty in number), which are as
sisted by the Congested Districts Board.
The first consignment this year arrived
in Galway on April A, consisting of 259
boxes, containing about 10000 fish, of
fine quality, and we're promptly dis
patched by the Midland Great Western
Railway, the managers of which are Of
fering every facility, it's special trains,
&C., for the quick transit Of the fish to
Dublin and England. A new siding has
been made from the goods station down
to the docks, so that the boxes can be
placed direct from the steamer into the
wagon.
The mackerel fishery, since April LIST.
is being prosecuted with unprecedented
success at Dlngle and Fenit, the takes at
the former place being enormous. Large
consignments are being daily brought
over the Dingle and Fenit lines, and
sent direct to the English markets. Ga
April 4th, 527 boxes, equalling 26 tons Is
cwt. we're brought over the Dingle rail
way; on the 9th, 585 boxes, equalling %
tons II cwt., and next day the largest
consignment ever brought over the line,
the number OF boxes totalling 1909.
equalling 81 tons 6cwt, portion of which
was brought by ordinary, and portion by
special tram. A telegram from Dingle
states that the takes were enormous, and
that the consignments far exceed any
ever made before.
KINGS.
AT meeting of the Birr Town Com
missioners, on April A, MIR. J. @. O'Neil,
chairman, Mr.. John Dixon moved the
following resolution: ''That we, the
Parsonstown Town Commissioners, view
with much satisfaction the bill at pres
emit before the House of Commons for
better government of Ireland, and trust
that under the able leadership Of the
Right. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone,
the principles embodied in the bill will
speedily become law believing that such
a measure of local self-government will
minimise the religious, political and
class ascendancy, to which Ireland has
been subjected" Mr.. Dix quoted sta
tistics to prove that religious, political,
and class ascendsncy did exist, and chal-
lenged anyone who doubted it to con-
suit Thom's Almanac. Mr.. Mitchell,
Seasonal Grown Solicitor, opposed the
motion, and held that it was out of Or
der. After an animated discussion, Mr.
Dixon postponed his motion in order to
have special meeting on that day week.
LIMERICK.
A public meeting was held at Murroe,
on Sunday, April I'd, to denounce land
grabbing. The respected pastor, Very
Rev. M. Ryan, Y. F., presided. He said
that land-grabbing, always mean and
malicious, was doubly criminal now that
8 benefcent legislature was about to re-
store the evicted tenants to their homes.
The Rev. r. Fennelly, G. c., also spoke
in denunciatory terms of land-grabbing.
Resolutions IN accordance with the OBJ
ject of the meeting were adopted.
LOUTH.
Few priests during the past quarter of
a century rendered greater service to the
cause Of Church and country than the
late lamented Rev. Henry Mckee, P. p,
Monaster boice. He has passed away,
but his memory remains green with his
late Pensioners and the Nationalist OF
his native Ulster. The former, aided
by his relatives, have given
evidence of their will to raise monu-
ment beneath the ancient round tower
of Monasterboice to mark the site where
mis- remains were laid at rest over twelve
oon A. nroront momoria1