The Irish standard., 1896-01-25
news FROM IRELAND.

| NEWS FKUM lKELANlD
ANTRIM & . I. s...s..:.s !.
! On January 2, in ST. Mary's Hall,:.Bel.
! fast, the executive committee of the. Bel.
4 fast branch of the Irish National Federa-
i ton entertained Messrs.. j. J. Mcdonnell
I J. P, honorable treasurer, and John Roo
ney, hollora able secretary, to a compliment
/ airy dinner About fifty gentlemen sal
down at table. Mr. S. Young, p. M.
president, coupled the chair, and several
eloquent speeches were delivered.
At public meeting Of the Conservative:
of North Belfast, on January 2. Sir James
H. Haslett, formerly Member for the
| Western Division of the city. was unanin,-
ously selected as candidate for the vacancy
caused by the sudden death of Sir Edward
Harland. The only other candidate now
| in the field IS Mr.. Adam Turner, independ
! ent.
Flax is now selling in the North OF Ire
land at IS. Cd. per stone. A few years ago
| the ordinary rate was considerably more
than double that.
| Early on the morning Of December 20
destructive fire broke out in the licensed
I pESNklSSS VI MI. JOoCPll ~. laws, oAAAsLAA
field, Lisburn. which fell complete prey
to the flames, and in less. than two hours
were reduced to ashes, nothing scarcely
being saved. Mr. Davis was absent in
Dublin, and the house was in charge of
his sister, Miss Davis, who had 1nirac-
ulous escape, having to make her escape
through window and across a roof at the
rear of the house. 1853.
! The Catholic citizens of Belfast have
adopted petition in reference to the new
bill for the municipal extension OF the
city boundaries. At their meeting they
expressed their thanks to their fellow
Catholics in Derry who have Joined hands
! with them in the struggle for common
right. They point out that the Catholics
of Derry, though a majority OF the popu-
lation, are quite ready to accept the cumn-
! lative system OF voting, provided similar
Justice is done to the Belfast minority.
AS usual, the people who have been SO
long cheated out of their rights, teach
their opponents lesson in liberation.
On Sunday, December 20, special COL
lections were made on behalf of the ship
building laborers affected by the ship
building strike, in all the Presbyterian
churches in Belfast. It is lated that the
master engineers are preparing circular
repeating their Offer of an Immediate ad-
vance of a farthing in March, and de-
claring that, IL this be refused, they will
open their yards to nOn-society engineers.
ARMAGH.
On January 1 news reached Armagh
of the death of a farmer named Arthur
Hart who resided in Kileen, three miles
from the city. Deceased, along with an
other farmer named Mann, was engaged
roofing cowshed, when he somehow
overbalanced and fell headforemost to
the ground, distance of only seven feet,
his neck being broken by the fall, and
death being instantaneous.
4 melancholy burning fatality took
place at Maghery, along the shores OF
Tough Neagh on New Years day. A girl
named Mary O'Neill was left alone in the
house to transact some business, and on
her return found her daughter burned to
death. The girl being of weak intellect
it is believed her clothes caught fire, and
bfore any assistance had arrived she was
burned to death,
CLARE. u.
While proceeding to Mass on New
Years morning, Mr.. J. Dwyer, brother
to the landlord of the Cahar estate, was
fired at, at a spot about a mile from his
residence, at Cahar, Feakle. A number
of shots from revolver were discharged,
but fortunately Mr.. Dwyer was not hit.
The police are pursuing inquiries. It is
generally believed the outrage is due to
the il1-feeling between the tenants and
the landlord (Mr. P. Dwyer), who is an
official in the custom house, Dublin, since
the purchase by the latter of the prop
erty, which belonged to the late Mr.. w.
O'Hara, J. P, Caher House. The ten
ants alleged they were themselves con-
templating purchasing their holdings un-
der the land act, when Mr.. Dwyer,
whose family were tenants also on the
estate, stepped in and bought it.
Christmas and New Years day were
celebrated auspiciously at the Kilrush
workhouse. On Christmas day the in
habitants were treated to a sumptuous
breakfast and dinner, while the children
had been provided with Christmas
tree by DR.. ]. e. Foley, medical officer OF
the establishment. The entertainment
took place in the schoolrooms, which
were gaily decorated with evergreens,
Chinese lanterns and appropriate scrolls.
The decorations had been most artist
cally carried out by Mr.. ]. T. O'Dwyer,
principal and teacher.
CARLOW.
Mr. Hoan, who occupies the position
of professor of music at Carlow College,
and organist of Carlow Cathedral, was
the recipient of well-deserved and
handsome presentation on December 60,
from the male members of the Cathedral
choir. The presentation consisted of
baton of ebony, mounted in silver, and
bearing an appropriate inscription.
CORK.
The directors OF the Cork Gas Company
met on January and had before them
the applications for the secretaryship,
rendered vacant by the lamented death
of Denny Lane. The board did not,
however, make the appointment, but de-
cided to have special meeting for the
purpose. .,.-...
On the morning of January 2, the two
poor boxes in St. Augustine's Church.
Great George street, Cork, were found
to have been broken open and their con-
tents distracted. The amount taken is
OF course a matter of surnise, but 1t
was known that one of the boxes con-
tanned close to e.. ~
The Tory papers are making great cap
ital out of the election of Sir John Scott
as Mayor OF Cork. They take no notice