The Irish standard., 1905-12-16
NEWS FROM IRELAND
Armagh.

At conference of Representatives
from Rural District Councils in Arm
agh, held in Armagh, on November
goth, resolutions We're adopted disap-
proving of the direct labor method of
road repairing, and requesting that
the roads of the county be declared
district roads,
Antrim.
On Nov. 22d, the regular meeting
of the National Branch of the United
Irish League. Belfast, was held, in
the National Club, Mr.. Thomas Nc
Guigan, President, presiding. The
principal business was the election Of
delegates to represent the branch at
the National Convention, in Dublin.
After some discussion, the following
We're selected: Messrs. James Rodg-
ers, Francis O'Neill, Clonard street;
j. Doyle, j. f. Clarke. John German.
Frank NARROW, Felix Kennedy, and j.
J. ONeil
On the night of November 21st, ow-
ing to breakdown at the Ennis Gas
works, the town presented an extra
ordinary spectacle. Many of the prin-
cipal places of business were shut at
an early hour, While in those that re-
manned open, business was carried on
w NV of ri low, nc
and candles. On inquiry at the works
it was found that some of the main
pipes about the purifiers had become
closed up the main supply to the town
being thereby cut off.
Cork.
On Nov. 21st, the Cork Industrial
Exhibition was opened in the NUM-
cipal Buildings. There was large
and representative attendance includ-
ing the Bishops of Waterford and
Cloyne and many delegates from the
branches of the COX Industrial De-
velopment Association; Captain Dom
CAaA A1. L., MI. :" III. " bilel, M. T.,
Captain Shawe-Taylor, DR.. Windle,
and Mr.. T. P. Gill, and others.
The great feature of the Cork Elk
hibition is the number of Irish ex-
hibits, of manufactures, especially
which the average person imagined
We're not made in Ireland. When the
Tn %,;e
was large and representative at
tendance, including many delegates
from the Cork Industrial DEVELOPMENT
Association.
Carlow.
In the Court of Kings Bench, on
Nov 10Th, before Justice Gibson and
Justice Boyd, in the case of Finn and
others VS.. Lennon and others, Mr.. D.
j. O'Brien instructed by Mr.. NJ. j.
Bannin, (solicitor) applied, OH behalf
of the defendant, John Lennon, for
an order that all proceedings be stayed
on such terms as the court may direct
on the ground that the said defendant,
being the occupier of the present ten
ancy of the lands sought to be recov-
cred, has at present pending before the
Civil Bill Court, of the County Car
low, an application under the Land
Acts, to fix judicial rent on the ten
ancy.
Derry.
On Sunday, Nov. 10, Mrs. Agnes
Hart, proprietress of the Royal Hotel,
Bushmills, went to her bedroom at
midday, and some hours afterwards
was found by her brother, lying face
downwards on the bed, life being ex-
tinct. DR.. Watson was summoned
and was of opinion that death was due
to suffocation and heart failure. De-
ceased's husband had left Bushmills a
few months ago, and it is supposed
that he is in South Africa, having
served in the late campaign there.
Dublin.
The funeral of the late Canon
MGrath, who died at Weybridge,
England, on Nov. 22d, took place on
the Gath. Over one hundred and fifty
priests, mostly Irish, were present
at the Pontificial Requiem, which was
sung by Bishop Amigo, in st. Georges
Cathedral, Southwark. The Right Rev.
Patrick Fenton, D. D., Bishop of
Amycla, was also present. Canon
Murnane of Camberwell, the success
sor of Canon M'Grath in that popu-
ious Catholic quarter, preached the
sermon.
Lord Mayor of Dublin alderman
Joseph Hutchinson) has appointed
Alderman VIM. Coffey, ex-High Sher-
iff. as his locum tenens during his alb
sence from the city.
Fermanash.
Mr.. Harry Cassidy, Enniskillen, was
accidentally killed, at Clones Railway
Station on the evening of November
10th.
On November 18th an inquest was
held in Kesh Courthouse touching the
death of an old woman named Sarah
Magee, whose dead body had been
found on the Great Northern Railway
line, near Kesh station, on the pre-
vious afternoon, shortly after IL cat
tie train had DaSSad