The Irish standard., 1918-06-08
CoNNAUGHT.

dne bv the Urban Council to coal con-
tractors, was adjourned after horse
and some coke and lime had peen
sold.
The Department of Agriculture has'
with the approval of the Agricultural
Board. made an extra grant to KOS
common Co. Committee of 5SS pounds
for agricultural development. The
committee appointed E. Drumm, DUB
lin. and N. Cottef, Dublin, animal in
structor and agricultural instructor,
respectively.
Roscommon Co. Council elected
Rev. M. Creighton, P. P, Ballyforan' a
member of the Management Commit
tee Of Ballinasloe Asylum, and j. >.
Browne, storkestown, a member Oh
the Agricultural Committee. Ine
Council has approved of a loan OF
5000 pounds to Ballinasloe Asylum TO
nurchase additional land for turf.
Ballinasloe Gas Work have been
seized for a debt of 800 pounds, al
legged to be due to coal contractors.
The town is without light.
The death took place at Mother
House, Lanesboro, Of H. Mapother,
aged 80, first cousin of ]. A. Mapother'
d. L., Kilteevan House, Roscommon'
and relative of the O'Connor Don.
Galway Co. Council Proposals Com
mittee granted each Of the Assistant
Co. Surveyors a war bonus OF ~
mounds. ]. Leonard, who was wound
ed in Flanders, was restored to the
motor tax collectorship.
Judge Doyle, Recorder of Galway
dismissed without prejudice the action
by Miss Bride Lane, Killeely, Kilcol-
gan, Galway, against the "Connacht
Tribune" for damages for alleged libel
in publishing an advertisement from
the National Aid Committee, Dublin,
that Miss Lane was about to proceed
to America as delegate on their behalf,
hut that she had not been appointed
to act in that capacity. Mr.. Kenny,
solicitor for defendants, said he mad
been served with notice of withdrawal
by DR.. Comyn.
Expressing the opinion that Private
Patrick Dooley, who took a ticket by
the L. and N. w. Railway from Eus-
TO to Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, in Au-
gust, 1916, was no longer living, JUS
tice Madden granted an application
for leave to presume his death. The
soldiers father, John Dooley, of Gran
nagh, Ardrahan, stated that his son
had been discharged from the army at
the time and was coming to Newcastle
for treatment The suggestion was
that he had been killed in an air
raid.
The Defense of the Realm Commits
sion affirmed in claim by the Cal
way and Salthill Tramway Co. for 354
pounds for losses due to the impress
ment by the army authorities of nine
of their horses, their inability to give
consequential damages.
On the grounds that he is OF mill
tary age, and that young doctors are
needed for army, the Local Govern
ment Board have refused to sanction
the appointment of DR.. P. Muldoon by
the Mohil Guardians as medical Off
Ger of the Ryan dispensary district.
Rev. P. Murphy, P. p, presided at
meeting in Fearglass at which about
1000 people signed the anti-conscrlp
ton pledge. At the request of the
South Leitrim Comhairle Ceanntail
all Sim Fein Clubs in the Division
has cancelled arrangements fol
dances and other amusements during
the menace.
Between three and four hundred
spectators were treated to splendid
contest in the football final for the
set of silver medals offered by the
Carrick-on-S Shannon branch of thu
Gaelic League on Sunday, between
Fenagh and Eslin, at Carrick-on-Shan
non. Eslin won by one goal one poin
to one point.
Kiltoghert parish contribution Y
the Defense Fund amounts to 6O'
pounds, including 80 pounds from
Carrickon-Shannon town and district
l2O pounds from Gowel; "a pounds
from Leitrim, and Sc pounds from
Jamestown.
Owing to the absence of quorum
there was no meeting of the Pre-
posal and Finance committee of tn
Leitrim County Council on Wednes
day. A special meeting OF the CON
mittee has been called for Wednes
day next at 1 o'clock.
Nearly all classes of produce wer
{ dear at the Carrick-on- Shannon mai
ket on Thursday. Hay fetched fror
IS. to 9s. per cwt.; hen eggs, 27s. pc
12O, and duck eggs, 30s.; potatoe:
+ 6s. to Is. Cd. per cwt.; chickens, 5!
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