The Irish standard., 1915-02-13
elected to membership in succession
to the late J. E. Goodbody.

to the late J. E. Goodbody.
Monaghan.
The Monaghan urban council has
agreed to call the site of working class
houses recently built Belgium
Squares" houses now occupied by Bel
gian refugees to be known as Ma
lines Terrace" The chairman IT. Gal
lagher, ]. P.) declined to accept an
amendment in favor of the name Red.
mond Square" on the ground that it
was not in order.
The profession took place at the
Convent of Mercy, Newry. of Sister
M. Cecilia Joseph Miss Eta O'Do-
herty, Clones). Most Rev. DR.. ONeill
presided and Rev. D. O'Hagan, C. c.,
Newry, was the celebrant of the mass.
There was representative attend.
ance of clergy and lay guests.
AT Castleblayney quarter sessions
County court Judge Johnston was pre-.
sented with white gloves. He said the
dearth of criminal business was indi-
cative of the state of the county at all
times.
Meath.
Dunshaughlin workhouse having
been Communicated several months
ago by the military authorities. who
have since found the premises insult
able for their purposes, the guardians
recently requested the l.. G. board to
permit the inmates, who were trans
ferred to Navan, to return. This re-
quest has been refused, as it is thought
probable that the workhouse may be
required for other purposes before the
war is over. The guardians have, by
resolution, reiterated their request on
the grounds Of cost and convenience.
The Ardee guardians, at their last
meeting adopted an estimate of a5,SO5
for the ensuing year, being an in
crease of e265 over last years &C.
count. .n
Robert Fannin Olphert of Heaths-
town House. Athboy, died recently in
Dublin. Mr.. Olphert was the third
son of the late MIGRANTS Olphert Of
Ballyconnell House. County Donegal.
He was deputy lieutenant and a resi-
dent magistrate.
Mayo.
The Ballinrobe district council have
| nronorod q oohoroo for nm ;,.,o,o,,oa
water supply OF the town at an
estimated cost of $4,000, toward which
the congested district board have made
a grant of e1,500, on the condition
that the tenants agree to an additional
years purchase being added to the
price at which the holdings were
bought, and that the council provide
certain town lands purchased by the
board with water. The council. &C.
cepted these stipulations.
The amount of the demand submit
ted to the Ballinrobe guardians for
the ensuing year was $4,000, as COM
pared with s2,617 last year, and the
difference was explained by the fact
that last year they had substantial
credit balance. The demand, how
ever, was reduced to $4,000.
Queens.
Replying to the Mountmellick guar
dams resolution on the land drainage
act, 1914, and the Barrow drainage, T.
w. Russell explains that the measure
Is an emergency one, applicable to
England alone, and that there is no
possibility of amending it's provisions
so as to make it applicable to Ireland.
He always understood, he adds, that
the main difficulty here was to get the
treasury and the interests concerned
to agree as to terms. w. Delany, M.
p, reminded the board that IA public
bodies, including five county councils,
were prepared to pay their share. 4
The late Lieutenant Lord Congleton
of Rathleague, who was killed at I'll
liebeke, Ypres, on Nov. 10 last, left
unsettled property Of the gross value
of s5,26O.
Tyrone.
A deputation from the Clogher
Cathedral Vestry have waited on the
rural council with request for the
provision of a new cemetery, the old
one-stated to be 1900 years in use
being overcrowded. The matter was
adjourned for month.
The Donegal county council have ap-
pointed A. Snodgrass of Strabane as
veterinary inspector for the Union dis.
trict Of Letterkenny.
Mark McCann, retired manager of
the Strabane branch. Hibernian bank,
who served the company In many
towns in Ireland, was found dead in
bed In his residence in Dungannon re.
Gently. He had lived very secluded
life and his non.appearance had not
been remarked by the neighbors. On
the discovery of the body it was ap-
parent that deceased had been dead
for some weeks.
II Waterford.
Very Rev. M. Sheehan, M. A., d. PHI,
Maynooth college, presided at the
january quarterly meeting of the COM
mtttee of management of Ring Irish