The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-11-17
MUNSTER.


Limerick Seasonal Bar Association
appointed for the ensuing year the
following officers: T. H. Kenny, pres
ident; ]. S. Gaffney, Crown Solicitor,
hon. treas; ]. H. Dundon, hon. sec.;
B. harrington, ]. Dodds, M. D. Nc
Coy and ]. Condor, as committee.
M. Gleason, Bodyke, who spent IA
days in Limerick Jail for refusing to
pay fine for collecting for the Ma
tional Aid Association without a per-
NIT, was heartily welcomed home. He
was presented with an address from
the Thos. Ashe Sim Fein Club, Tom.
graney.
Cork Corporation referred to COM
mittee a letter from the local indus
trial association stating that they
were authorized by an English manu-
featuring firm to make an offer to pur-
chase in fee a certain portion of the
Marina for the erection of factory
buildings.
Surgeon T. ]. Lane, Abbeyfeale, son
of Jas. Lane, j. P, coroner, has been
awarded the parchment certificate for
operating on a monitor during bonn
bardment of the Turkish coast bat
teries.
For 916O audit fees, writs have
been served on the two Tipperary
Co. Councils. The Clonmel Lunatic
Asylum Committee has decided to in
vite other counties to join with them
in contrasting the legality of the audit
fees charged by the L. G. Board.
Members surcharged for e1O gratuity
paid to a retired official protested
that such payments had been passed
previously.
A strike of 80 Limerick gas work
ers occurred yesterday, the men de-
handing 6s a week extra, but in the
evening they accepted as.
Waterford Corporation have asked
the Irish shipping controller and John
Redmond to request the government
to provide special sailing from the
port for government cattle, and allow
local shippers to avail of the usual
service.
Judge Law Smith, at Limerick, gave
decree at the suit of Frances Cor
coran, Rathfarnham, against w. Kidd
and j. Flynn, proprietors, Cruises Ho-
tel, for 955 odd, rent of premises.
Defendants said they were willing to
pay, but counterclaimed for $40 odd
for roof repairs, and his honor al
lowed the counterclaim.
Dennis Bourke, Reiska, Thurles;
Jer. Ryan, Inch, Upperchurch, and D.
Fitzgerald, Inch, have been arrested
under the D. o. r. A., charged with
forcibly entering, in search of arms,
the house of soldier named Con-
way, home on furlough. Conway next
day smashed the windows of public
house in Reiska, and he, too, has been
arrested.
Buttevant branch l.. and L. Associa-
ton passed resolution stating that
the scale of laborers' wages laid down
by the Wages Board is absurdly ia
| adequate; stating that less than 3Os
a week would not be living wage for
man with a wife and three or four
children, and that a ten hours work
ing day leaves little time for meals,
and none for legitimate recreation.
1t. P. F. Martin, gassed in the
trenches some time ago, son of VIM.
Martin, ]. p, Killarney, was inferred
at Killeaghy, Muckross. A detach-
ment of the MINISTER'S, with band,
marched to the graveyard. The cof-
fin, draped with the Union Jack, was
covered with wreaths. At Killarney
P. S., on the motion of Lord Kenmare,
a vote of coincidence with his rela-
tives was passed.
A claim for $500 damage to ma
chinery by the removal of vital parts
was made by the proprietors of the
Cork Co. Eagle" at Skibbereen quar-
ter sessions. Mr.. Moloney, B. L., for
the applicants, said the editorial ar
ticles had denounced the Sim Fein
policy, and boycott of the paper
had, in consequence, been advocated.
But decent Sim Feiners condemned
the outrage. The value of the stolen
parts was estimated at G98, and con-
sequential damage at G139. Mr. Mo-
riarty, B. L., for the County Council,
agreed that consequential damage was
inadmissible, and County Court Judge
Hynes, while holding that the damage
was malicious, adjourned to next ses-
sions his decision on the legal point
raised.
ULSTER.
Hunter Moore, Newry, has pur-
chased Laurel Lodge, Keonan, Dona-
cloney, with las acres of land, for
93,400.
Rev David Moe Eorran uho hos