The Irish standard., 1919-08-09
News from Ireland

| elstOWn, who have registered as CO.
operative society, with 260 sharehold-
ers holding shares value for $4,000.
IA committee and officers were ap-
| pointed.
The death occurred in London of
E. O'Sullivan, director of Salter and
Stokes, Smithfield Market. He was
the eldest son of D. O'Sullivan, Cahirc-
tween. He was prominent figure in
the social and political Irish world of
London. Death was the result of a
tram accident. The interment took
place in Cahirciveen after requiem
high mass.
Very Rev. D. A. Crotty, o. S. A.,
Drogheda, was appointed Provincial
of the Order by the Chapter now being
held in ST. Johns Priory, Dublin, and
of which Most Rev. DR.. O'Gorman,
Commissary-Gen is president. FIR.
Crotty is native of Mullinahone. He
filled the office of Prior at Galway
and Drogheda and for the last four
years he has been secretary to the
Provincial, DR.. Bowen, whom he now
succeeds. His advancement will be
received with pleasure by all who
know him.
The death of George Groves, which
occurred at his residence, Balydwyer,
Ballymacelligott, last week, at the
grand old age of IS years, removes
one of the oldest and most respected
inhabitants in the district. He was
a man of fine physique and retained
all his faculties to the last moment.
Very Rev. Dean Mayors, Lismore,
has been appointed Protestant Dean
of Waterford.
The Marquis of Huntingdon, in open
ing the Comrades of the War Club at
Lismore, paid tribute to the Irish
soldiers as he did also Col. R. H.
Keane, Col. and Mrs. Keane enter
tanned the visitors and comrades.
Father Prendergast, Carrick- on SUR,
has been appointed P p, Ballybrick-
en-, Waterford, in room of Very Rev.
Canon Furlong.
The first motor tractor manufac-
tured in Ford & Sons factory, Cork
Park, has been completed.
John McGovern, aged IA, has been
recommended by the Middleton, U. D..
c., to the trustees of the Carnegie
Hero Fund for saving another lad
from drowning.
The death has occurred of James
Darcy, Galte View, Tipperary, father
of j. F. Darcy, solr. Deceased was
for 60 years prominent in the COM
mercial life Of the town. M. Noonan,
Main street, Lismore, has died, aged
l82. Miss Alice Cunningham, a native
of Ballyraggett, Lismore, has died at
Boston, Mass, at an advanced age.
Two stained glass windows in the
Cathedral, Lismore, were erected by
her.
The following were ordained to the
priesthood at the African Mission
Church, Cork:. Rev. Frs. T. Conway
(Limerick), ]. M'Donnell (Longford) +,
M. McEnery (Achonry), P. O'Connell
(Limerick), j. Stanley (Kildare), c..
Taylor (Leeds).
Youghal Urban Council unanimously
passed vote of congratulation to
Most Rev. Dr. Browne, who has at
tanned his sacerdotal jubilee. Regret
was expressed at the departure of Rev.
M. Fitzgibbon, &C., on his transfer to
Doneraile.
The Cork tailors' strike has been
settled through the Intervention of
Very Rev. FIR. Thomas. A committee
appointed by Youghal U.D.C. have Sc
cured settlement of the bakers
strike by compromise by which fore
men get Sos and men 46s, their de-
mand being for SIS and AS per week.
Most Rev. DR.. O'Sullivan, Bishop of
Kerry, on his episcopal visitation to
Milstreet, was presented with ad-
dresses Of welcome by the people and
public bodies. The town was decor
ated for the occasion, and on his lord
ships arrival procession was formed.
Confirmation was administered to 42O
children.
Father Watson, chaplain to the
Middleton Presentation Convent, has
left for the diocese of Portsmouth. He
is succeeded by the Rev. J. Cotter, who
had been an Army Chaplain.
;! w. and G. O'Donnell, margarine
makers, Waterford, were held entitled
by the London Kings Bench to recover
the amounts claimed against the War
Risk Maritime Co. for loss sustained
through the going down of the Fromby
on voyage from Liverpool to Water
ford in December, 1917.
DR.. j. ]. Seaman, son of the late