The Irish standard., 1918-03-30
News from Ireland
CONNAUGHT.

Subject to the defendants making
discovery of documents by March 20,
Justice Gordon fixed for April Is the
trial of an action by the owners, mas
ter and crew of SIS. Dun Aengus
against the owners of the schooner
]. A. Kroman for damages for salvage
services in Galway Bay. Mr.. Fether-
stonhaugh, X c.. and Mr.. Mccormick
for defendants; Mr.. Fitzgibbon, K. c.,
and Mr.. Swayne for plaintiffs.
Mr.. Stenson has been reinstated on
a holding on the O'Connor-Power prop
erty, at Brackloon, Co. Mayo, from
which he was evicted over % years
ago.
Arising out of the sale Of bank
rupt's premises in Drumsna Wild
scenes are reported, about 100 police
having to be drafted in. Local resent
ment arose when the premises passed
out of the possession of the popular
owner and demonstrations by the peo-
ple of the district in disapproval OF
the transfer of ownership have been
held. The purchaser, it is announced,
has surrendered his right to the prem
ises.
The flax movement in the West has
been begun by John j. Rodden, Car
rick-on-Shannon, who is breaking up
lands at Woodbrook, HughestoWn, Cal
dra, and Drumlummon, for fiaX-grOW-
ing.
Mr.. M. O'Donoghue, Hon. Sec. of
the Cumann Sim Fein Club, Clifden,
states that T. Joyce, the prospective
purchaser of Clifden Castle and lands,
has resigned the presidency of the
club.
Five men--Wm. O'Neill, T. Cahill,
r. d. c.; p Murray, d. Kelly, and j.
Earls-were bound to the peace at
Longhren on a charge of unlawful
assembly with intent to intimidate G..
D. B. workmen on a farm at Cara,
near New Inn, held for distribution.
Murray declined to give bail, and was
sent to Jail for two months. One con-
stable said the crowd was most exem-
plary, and carried no sticks or Wea-
pons of any kind.
For malicious injuries committed on
Roman, in the Court of Appeal, allowed
$50 on an application heard at the
Connaught AssiZes, and as he found
that, though the injury took place in
Kings Co., the persons responsible
were from Co. Galway, he levied G49
on the Ballinasloe Rural District, and
e1 on Kings Co. His Lordship had
adjourned his decision pending a
Kings Bench decision on the proper
form of decree.
A party of over 400 men, with bands
and banners, assembled on the Duke
ranches at Killarraght, Co. Sligo, and
staked out so acres as allotments.
Sligo plumbers are on strike on the
refusal of the employers to, as the men
allege, conform to trade union rates.
The workers of the Sligo Gas Co. have
also gone out.
Co. Galway Insurance Committee
elected Fl. J. O'Donoghue, District
Superintendent A. 0. H., to the chair
manship, and granted Miss Ryan, the
Clerk, war bonus of $40 per annum.
Owing to the action of the police,
buyers who attended Loughrea pig fair
made no purchases, sellers refusing to
dispose of their pigs at the price fixed
by the Controller, 6 Cd. Cd. per cwt.
Ejectment proceedings against three
tenants on Col Jordan's estate were
again adjourned by Kiltimagh Petty
Sessions Court in the hope of settle
ment. When the Court rose, Mr. Grin
nell, M. p, who appeared for the ten
ants, but had been refused hearing
by the magistrates, addressed meet
ing of the tenantry in the market
place, which Col. Jordan attended to
make an offer of so p. c. off the five
years arrears due, with an under
taking to put the tenants as to future
rents in the same position as if the
C. D. b. had purchased. The offer
was hailed as S. F. victory, and Mr..
Ginnell described it as ''the greatest
triumph on the Western front" The
tenants afterward accompanied the
Colonel to consider the offer.