The Irish standard., 1908-05-09

tlon not only in the Maghera district.
but throughout Ulster. where Mr. o.
Neill is well known.
Galway.
On Thursday evening last, at the
Convent of Mercy. Tuam. to the in
tense sorrow of the whole Community,
Sister Aloysius Henderson, sister to
the late Mr.. William French Hender-
son, Crown Solicitor for County GAL
way. died. aged 6S years. This morn
ing. after celebration of High Mass,
at which His Grace the Archbishop Of
Tuam presided, the interment took
place in the Convent Cemetery.
Interesting particulars of the work.
ing of the Clements Lead Mines Co.,
Ltd, formed for the purpose of de-
veloping minerals on the shores o.
Lough Corrib, where over 5000 acres
of land have been acquired were Civ
en- at meeting of the company held
in Glasgow. at which many Irish
shareholders attended.
Kerry.
AT Killarney. on Tuesday next. the
annual congress OF the Irish Nation
al Teachers will commence. The Most
Rev. Dr. Mangan, Bishop of Kerry, a
lifelong friend of that hard worked
and badly paid body of men, will open
the proceedings. From his Lordship
sound advice may be expected with
regard to the steps which must be
taken by the teachers to assert their
rights. Among the subjects to be con-
legged inefficiency which have greatly
increased within recent years. 1t is
claimed that no inspector. whether ex.
perienced or inexperienced, should
have the power to deprive a teacher of
his means of living without first Civ
ing him an opportunity of defending
himself. With this object the teachers
ask that Court of Appeal be estab-
lished, to which those who consider
o1NlS IlSelIGN SdIl nave dC-
cess. and that the resuest Of the man
ager or teacher be sufficient to put the
court in motion. They also ask the
Government to provide sufficient money
to place Irish National education on
a basis equal to that Of England and
Scotland. not an extravagant demand
certainly.
Kildare.
The Association for the Preservation
Of Memorials OF the Dead in Ireland,
sent to Lord Walter Fitzgerald. NJ. R.
l.. have issued a circular requesting
to be A.. Kilkea Castle. county Kill
dare, who is honorary editor Of the
journal Of the Association particulars
tions and photographs. coats of arms.
or other carving, extracts from chap
of notable tombs with copies of inscrip-
ter books. and descriptions of ancient
fonts, bells. and church plate are also
invited. The Association has been in
strumental in repairing the tombstone
at Douglas. county Cork. Of Richard
Millikin, author Of THE Groves of
Barney"
Limerick.
a majority at a meeting Of the ten
ants on the Knight of Gins estate in
Co. Limerick have decided in favor Of
purchasing at the terms offered by
the landlord OF giving Il reduction of
seven shillings on first term rents and
$ shllngs on second term. which, it
is stated. are the terms the tenants
had been asking for The tenants on
the estate of Mr.. Goggin, also in Glin
district, have signed agreements to
purchase at an abatement OF Shil-
lings in the pound on second term
rents. and future tenants eight shill
ings in the pound
Queens.
II is satisfactory. however. to see
the Commissioners at last coming to
deal with the question of the cvicted
tenants in this county by the appli-
cation of the compulsory clauses Of
the Evicted Tenants Act Some few
evicted tenants have been already re-
instated in their holdings by tho orcli-
nary procedure under the Land Act
the latest being Mr.. Peter Fingleton,
the hero Of the Rallinalill cattle. drive.
who is hack again on the old farm at
Ballypckas-but with the compulsory
acquisition of land we may expect to
see the work of restoration consider
ably accelerated and the victims of
landlordism again in possession of
their holdings. or of farms equivalent
to. if not better than. the old ones.
! louth.
| Amidst manifestations of keen re-
gret. the remains OF Rev. James Pur-
CELL y. S. A.. ex-Prior OF the August
inian Church. Drogheda, We're laid to
rest in the vaults attached to that