The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-11-02

town. hall, the use of which was given
by the Urban council. The, chairman,
Slattery, delivered the annual ad-
dress. Resolutions were adopted eX-
pressing deep regret at the resigna-
ton of Most Rev. DR.. Walsh from the
National Educational Board, and ten
EdcrinS His Grace heartfelt thanks for
his able advocacy of the teachers
just claims; demanding full and i'm
partial inquiry into the working of
the education office; requesting the
government to pay off the arrears Of
the residual grant at an early date;
and setting forth the teachers 'griev-
;Lnces and proposed remedies.
DOWN.
| At Hilltown, on October Sth, at a
special court Of petty sessions held
before Mr.. Henry Turner, r. NJ, Con-
stable John James Pratt, of Hilltown
police barracks, was put forward i'll
custody, charged with an offense I'M
der the Criminal Law Amendment
Act at Ballymaghery, OH the previous
day. After hearing the evidence at
length, the resident magistrate re-
turned the accused for trial at the
winter assiZes to be held in Belfast
in December, refusing the application
of the accused's solicitor to admit
Pratt to bail
DUBLIN.
The London correspondent of the
Dublin "Freeman's Journal states
that there is a probability of parlia-
ment being called together, shortly,
to vote more money to carry on the
war. 1t is said that the ministry will
need G17,000,OO0 over tie amount
which parliament has already sane
toned. During the last six months
the government have spent 100000
600 Give hundred millions of dollars
on the war, which was declared to
have been ended over q year ago; and
the said war is continually beginning
over again, with the same disastrous
results repeated with monotonous
regularity.
DERRY.
Speaking in Derry on October 9Th, OH
the anniversary of his return to par
lament for the city, the Marquis of
Hamilton, addressing a crowded
Tory-Unfonist meeting, referred to
the royal commission on university
education, composed, he said, Of
gentlemen Of great ability and wide
experience, who would not be biased
by party or sectarian motives; but if
they should recommend the establish
ment and endowment of state uni
versity for Roman Catholics lie would
oppose it in every possible way. That
university, he said, would be captured
by the priesthood and become mere
college for dogmatic theology, big
otry, and disloyalty. AS to the kings
oath, he was in favor of letting well
enough alone, and letting the oath
stand as it was''
GALWAY.
Borough of Galway, rendered vacant
by the succession Of the Hon. Martin
Morris to the peerage, does not de-
pend on the fulflment, as parlia-
mentary step. of the elaborate for
malities which are conditions prece-
dent to the issue of a writ by the
Lord Chamberlain of England sum-
moning Mr.. Martin Morris to the
House of Lords. The speaker of the
House Of Commons will take official
notice of the vacancy, on the receipt
of certificate, under the hands of
two members, that the Hon. Martin
Morris has become peer. He will
then give notice in the Gazette" and
after six days from the insertion of
such notice, to enable Mr.. Martin
Morris, if he has any reason for so
doing, to deny that he has become a
peer, the speaker will, under the pro-
visions of the statute, issue his war
rant to the clerk of the crown to
make out a new writ.
KERRY.
In Killarney, on October 9th, Coun-
ty Court Judge Shaw, addressing the
grand jury, said he was glad to be
able to tell them that their work on
the present occasion would be very
light. There was only one case to so
before them, bill against woman
for endangering the life Of her child.
He congratulated them on the peace
full state of the district, which, after
the long intervalf which elapsed
since the last sessions, showed that
the pcope were behaving themselves
very well.
KILDARE.
Sir William Henry Rattigan, whose
return fort the Scottish seat of North
East Lanark is a gain of one for the
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