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spected the new church, the finest
parochial church in Munster, and after
proceeding through the cemetery at.
tached, visited the Presentation Con-
vent and schools.
DUBLIN.
The selection of Alderman Dowd for
the office of next Lord Mayor of Dub
lin hclnlds we believe, the first ap-
polhtment 10 that position CT Labor
member of the Corporation: and the
circumstance is the more noteworthy.
lnasmuch rs the Labor member did
not Slip i'll between contending sec
ti"ns, but was adopted over all his Ii
walls by clear maiorities. The choice
offered to the Council was not. how
ever, an embarrassing one. \ Tory
would be impossible, and the orner
candidate nominated had voted for THE
address to Queen Vistcria. Mr.. Har
rington did not desire a third n9mina-
ton.
FERMANAGH.
At the Derrygonnelly monthly Petty
Sessions, on Sept. LIST. before Messrs.
w. ]. O'IIara, r. NJ, presiding, Jere-
miah Joldon, NJ. F., ]. C. Mason,
James Reilly, James Timoney. and
John Breen, Justices. Bernard Ma
guire. OF C;mriclbeg. Secretary of the
Ncl'tlh FelnnalaSh Executive q. 1. L.;
John McGinnis, Reyfad: Patrick Nc
Manls, Tonneel; Owen Mcguire, Killy-
drum: Joseph Colrigan, Agllamore;
Christopher Carson, Jr.. Carrickbey;
John Gallagher, were charged by Dis
Tict Inspector Townsend with having
at Reyfad, OH the 18th OF June. I'M
lawfully used intimidation towards
Patrick and Owen NIagee. about
farm held by Magee. After hearing
the case presented by the police, the
magistrates consulted, and the chair
man said the decision of the majority
Of the bencll-trom which he strongly
dissented-was that THE cases be dis
missed. THE defendants thanked the
magistrates and left the court
GALWAY.
His Grace the Most Rev. DR.. Mac
Evilly, accompanied by Rev. w. J.
MacHugh, G. c., Tuam, raid his usual
triennial visit to ClifGen on Sept i, for
the purpose o. administering the Sac
rament of Confirmation to tile children
of the parrish Over four hundred boys
and girls We're examined in Christian
Doctrine. The venerable archbishop
congratulated them up IN their answer
ing, which was all that could be de-
sired.
KERRY.
1t is announced that arrangements
are almost completed for a contest for
the Irish handball championship. and
ESQ aside, between Tim Twohill, of
Kanturk, and Con O'Regan, Jr, Of
Tralee, who recently challenged the
world for home and home-l'ubber CT
handball. Articles are not yet signed.
but it is understood that all the details
will be arranged in few days. The
rubber will consist of the best of 81
games, 81 aces to each game, the first
10 to be played in the Trace Court, and
the remaining II in lIartv,rk.
LIMERICK.
The Limerick County Council have
unanimously adopted Il resolution, re-
ceived from the Clare County Council
protesting against the Coronation Oath
taken by King Edward as insulting to
his Catholic subjects.
LONGFORD
On the evening of August ~, IVY
young men, named Patrick Keurney,
aged 80. and James Kelly. aged 81,
lost ther lives, While bathing in the
River Inny, at place called Newport,
about four miles from Edgeworths-
town. About 3 o'clock on that even
ing Kcarney, who was a native OF Kill-
nard, got in to battle and was seized
with cramps, and called for assistance.
Kelly, who was a native of FJNllall,
Parish of Logan, and who was on the
bank, Invested himself of some of MS
clothes and Went to his assistance.
kearney. it appears, caught hor. "
him, and they both sank and We're
carried away by the current. A man
named William Hench, stcpfather Of
Kelly, arrived on the scene soon after,
and dived for the bodies. and after re-
pcatetl attempts recovered thom.
MAYO.
The death is announced at Tun-
bridge Wells, in her 101St year, -
Goorgina. Youngest daughter of the
late Joseph lambert, eff BrookhiI,
county Mayo, and widow of Charles
Bowen, speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives of New Zealand. Mrs. Bow
ell was one of the first settlers of the
Canterbury settlement of New Naa-
land, and her II. the Hon. Charles
Bowen, was for some wears minister
of justice there. Sh" had outlivcd all
her contemporaries. but retained her
mental faculties to the end Her
father died % years ago. and her
grandfather, Francis Lambert. lived
in the reign Of Queen Anne.
ME- tH,IT