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resolutions applying to the public
works board for loans for 936,117
for the erection of working class lodg-
ing houses, and s29,347 1Ss I'D for
the purchase of the Abbey sanator.
ium. A recommendation of the pub
lie health committee was adopted for
the ALLEGATION of surplus building
ground at the corner of Durham street
and College street West, for central
tuberculosis institute
DR.. F. ]. Wisely, Belfast, late house
surgeon at the Mater hospital, has
been gazetted lieutenant in the r.
A. M. c., and has gone for training
to Salisbury Plain.
H. G. Goligher, auditor from the de-
partment of finance, member of the
army council, who is attached to the
headquarters of the Irish command in
Dublin, has arrived in Belfast to in.
vestigate the question of the delays
In payment of separation allowances
to soldiers wives.
Armagh.
At the last meeting of the Lurgan
town council it was decided to apply
to the board of works for an addi-
tional loan of e1,2O0 to complete the
housing scheme, and for a loan of
$3.50 to carry out remedial measures
for relieving flooding in the Queen
street end of the town.
The trustees of the Brownlow
House, Orange Hall, Lurgan, have &C.
cepted an offer from the war Office
for the use of the building as re-
cruiting station for some of the bat
talions of the Royal Irish Rifles. The
Lurgan, and is probably the largest
building of its kind in the world, con-
tanning over 400 rooms.
Cavan.
The following deaths are an
nounced: In the Community Of the
Poor Clares, Cavan: Sister Mary Jo-
sephine Miss Kate Mccormack. The
deceased, who had spent q of her
81 years in the Cavan institution, be-
longed to very esteemed northern
family, and was educated in the Do
minican college, Belfast. Sister Mary
Conception (Agnes), youngest daugh-
ter of the late Andrew Clarke, Kill
linkere, Virginia, at the Convent of
Mary Immaculate, Rockferry (near
LiverpooD in the 3Sth year of her age
and tenth Of her religious profession.
James Clarke, of Mcdonnell Bros,
Ballybay, at his residence, Albert
street, Ballyconnell. Mrs. Julia Fin
negan, Pullerea, Mountnugent.
Carlow.
The Dublin Gazette" announces
that the secretary Of state for the
home department has appointed Fran
els Philip Colgan, f. r. c. s. L., l.. R.
c. p, of Greenville, Carlow, to be one
of the medical referees under the
workmen's compensation act, 1906, for
the county of Carlow, in place of DR..
]. ]. Nolan, deceased.
Cork.
The Duke of Devonshire having re-
fused a request of his Gonna tenants
for reduction of rs per cent on their
existing rents, it was decided that
deputation consisting of Father Muir
ply, p. p, and four farmers should
go to Lismore Castle and explain to
the agent, Mr.. Penrose, the disap-
pointments of the year as regards
crops in order that the duke might re-
consider his decision.
A Celtic cross at St. Joseph's Gene
terry and memorial tablet in the
sanctuary of St. Finbarr's church,
Cork, have been erected to the mem.
DRY of the late Canon Mcnamara at
cost of G130.
At the last meeting of the govern
ing body of University college, Cork,
two valuable gifts were reported, one
from Sir John O'Connell, of the gate
lodge and house adjoining the Honan
hostel, to be used as the residence of
the chaplain of the hostel. The other
gift was from committee of past
students of the college and friends of
the late E. D. j. Wilson, who was
scholar of the college, 1S62-1S6S, of
sum of between $3.50 and $500,
which they had collected, for the pur-
chase of standard works in history.
Major Lyle Cummins, son. of DR..
Ashley Cummins, Cork, who is serv-
ing in France, has been made an Off
Ger of the Legion of Honor for bravery
in the field. After his student days
in University college, Cork, Major
Cummins held the professorship of
pathology in the Army Medical school,
Millbank, London. Last year he was
awarded gold medal for thesis on
the Typhoid Carrier" at the M. D.
degree examination at the National
university.
Down.
A presentation has been made to w.
H. Boyle by his colleagues in the
Newry postoffice on the occasion Of
! his transfer to the wireless branch Of
the service at Crookhaven, County
Cork.
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