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speaking at DefVOCk, on April "a,
Mr.. VIM. Moore, M. p, said the ques,
tion of Devolution overshadowed all
others, and was the main issue on
which the next election in Ulster
would turn. Sir A. MacDonnell had
come in as their enemy; and if the
Ulster Unionist members could com.
pass it, he was going out as their
enemy. Ii the Government feared or
hesitated to do the right thing, by
transferring Nationalist partisan
official from the Executive of Union,
lst Government to some other part OF
the Empire, they woud do so with the
protesting OF Irish Unionists.
At meeting of the Belfast Catholic
Association on April 21st, a resolution
was unanimously adopted, agreeing to
appoint representatives to confer with
an equal number appointed by the Bel
fast Divisional Executive of the
United Irish League, in accordance
with a resolution previously passed
by both organizations.
Armagh.
At Nationalist convention, held in
Newtownhamilton, on April 22d, Rev
A. p. Smyth, c. c., REORGANIZATION
presiding, Mr.. H. J. Mckee, Armagh
was unanimously selected as the Ma
tionalist candidate for the County
Electoral Division. The Unionist can
uidate is Mr.. Alexander Wallace, j.
p, Ready. 1t is expected that the
contest will be an exceedingly keen
one.
On April oath Portadown was Wis.
tied by large number of Orange
bands and drumming parties, from
Belfast and the surrounding towns
A football match at Shamrock Park,
between an English team and the
Portadown club, attracted large
crowd of the townspeople and a con
siderable number of enthusiasts from
a distance. The annual meeting OF
the Postmans Federation, and other
functions, also, brought many strang
ers to the town; so that the streets
were densely thronged for the greater
part of the day by people on pleasure
bent. The Belfast visitors, as usual,
having filled up with vile liquor, be-
gan to indulge in their old-time prac,
tice of pistol firing, with at least one
fatal result. A man named Patrick
Falcon was standing on the footpath
at the entrance to the Tunnel, when a
man named Thomas Cordner, cloth
passer in a local factory, approached,
and drawing a revolver from his pock'
ct, deliberately fired two shots at him.
The first shot missed. and the bullet
lodged in the shutter of Mr.. Megar'
rity's shop, opposite which Falcon
was standing, but the second bullet
entered the poor fellows body, and he
died a few minutes afterwards. Cord
ner was arrested. Falcon leaves a
wife and family, for whom much sym,
pathy is felt. He was a Catholic and
his assailant a Protestant.
Clare.
At the quarterly meeting Of the
Clare County Council, on April I'd.
Mr.. P. J. Hogan, J. P, chairman, pre-
siding, the business on the agenda in,
cluded the appointment of assistant
county surveyor, in the room of Mr.
Gilligan, resigned.
There were five applications, from
Mr.. Blanchard, Queenstown; Mr.. G.
R. Milward, G. E. Ennis; Mr.. R. Dow
ling, G. E., Ballynacally; Mr.. W. j.
Holmes, Limerick; and Mr.. Thomas
r. Griffin, G. E., Kilkee.
There was good deal of confusion
outside the barrier while the applica'
tions were being read, and cheers
were given for the National candi'
date, Dowling," again and again.
The voting on the first poll was
Griffin, 12; Bowling, 10, and Holmes,
4. In the second poll Mr.. Griffin re-
ceived Is votes, and Mr.. Bowling 10,
and the former was declared duly
elected.
Cork.
Mrs. Jackson of Market place, Fer
moy, was killed by accidentally fall.
ing downstairs, in her dwelling house,
on April 21st.
An eviction-that of man named
Daniel Healy-was carried out on
Dursey Island, in Bantry Bay, on April
26th, under the protection Of two hun.
dred police. The landing of the police
was resisted by the islanders, and
some exciting scenes took place. in
which batons and drawn bayonets
were used. The police have since re-
mained on the island, and are supplied
with provisions, evidently intended to
carry them through a campaign of
evictions.
On the morning of April 25th, in
Cork County Jail, ex-constable John
Foster, of the City Police force, was
hanged for the murder of William Re.
gan. an American army pensioner.
jeremiah Lynch, respectable
farmer, residing at Ballyvourney, near
Macroom, committed suicide on Sun
day morning, April 23d, by drowning
himself. Medical evidence showed
that the deceased suffered from hallu.