The Irish standard., 1915-01-02
[ XNEWS FROM R0ANDK

9Th and 18th Lancers and the Con.
naught Rangers created disturbance
in O'Connell street recently. A general
fight took place. several civilians be-
ing assaulted by the military. In try
ing to restore order police constable
was knocked down by the soldiers. A
few civilians who came to his assist
ance were also maltreated. When ex
ira police came. on the scene the
crowd dispersed, with the exception
of the soldiers, who had assumed a
threatening attitude. Three soldiers
were arrested and an attempt al
rescue failed.
MIR. Birrell has informed William
Field, M. P, that the Courts Elmer
gency Powers) Act, 1914, applies to
town tenants in Ireland in the same
way as it applies to such tenants in
Great Britain, except in the case OF
proceedings for the recovery of pos
session of small tenements. The omis
sion was due to the very special cir
cumstances in which the Act passed
through both Houses, and he would
endeavor to remedy it at the earliest
opportunity.
At the request of Cardinal Bourne
says the Tablet" half of the add
tional chaplains now being sent to the
front have been selected by Cardinal
Logue. A Catholic chaplain, who has
been at the front says his experience
is that chaplain is better attached
to field ambulance, as, when he be
comes regimental, the three other
regiments of his brigade see little of
him, and then. regimentally, lone can
only see the wounded of ones own
particular unit, whereas in the
ambulance all the brigade pass under
observation" 1t is impossible, he
adds, to give the Last Sacramento on
the field in present conditions.
The following deaths are announc.
ed: At his parents residence, l33
Francis street, Dublin, Matthew Nc
Caffrey, brother of the Rev. Father
Felix and Patrick Mccartney, o. C. c.,
and Sister Mary Rose, Presentation
Convent, Crosshaven.-George A. MOT.
row, who, as a cricketer was promi
nent player of the Phoenix Club. He
was selected more than once to repre-.
sent the Gentlemen of Ireland, and
toured with the team in the United
States and Canada, topping the bat.
ting averages.-F. P. Fawcett, Rath-
gar road, Dublin, clerk for twenty six
years to the Rathmines, Urban Coun.
Gil.
A farm laborer named John Hughes
Of Palmerstown, Chapelizod, has been
admitted patient to Stevens Hos.
pital suffering from fracture of the
bones of the right leg, caused by acct.
dentally falling on the roadway, a
horse of which he was in charge
trampling on the limb.
Down.
On the occasion of his marriage, the
Rev. John Porter, B. A., was made the
recipient by the members of st. Pat.
rick's Church, Ballymacarrett, of a
roll-top desk and chair. Rev. J. Kelly,
b. A., presided, and the presentation
was made by w. ]. Bedford, the ad.
dress being read by F. G. Russell.
A settlement was reached, but the
terms were not mentioned, in the Mis-
Prius Court, in the case of Peter Mol
10y. spirit grocer, Woodstock road,
Belfast, against Henry and Daniel
Murray, County Down, to recover
$500 damages for personal injuries
resulting from motor accident.
Whilst attaching young, plungiag
horse to cart. Arthur Kelly, of TIT
crum, Forkhill, near Newry, slipped
and fell beneath the cart, one of the
wheels passing over him. He was
fatally injured and died shortly after
wards.
Frank Gallagher has been appoint
ed District Superintendent of the Irish
United Assurance Society, Newry.
Derry.
William Douglass of Derrybeg,
Limavady, met with a tragic death at
Dumfries Railway Station, County
Donegal While inspecting some
horses which he had purchased at
Cardonagh Fair. he slipped from the
platform to the permanent way and
was mangled by the train which had
at the moment started. He was hur-
ried to Derry but expired before ar
rival.
American citizens in Ulster holding
regular or emergency passports
were officially requested to present
themselves on or before the 7th inst.
at the Consulate. Belfast. or at the
Consular Agency in Derry, bringing
with them small unmounted photo
graphs OF themselves.
The Derry Chamber of Commerce
has passed a resolution protesting, as
an injustice to Derry, against the no.
tice sent from the Headquarters of
the Irish Command, Dublin, to Derry
contractors that for the future all
grocery rations will be supplied direct
from Dublin.