Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-08-18 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STATE OF IRELAND.  The condition of the Great Southern and Western Subway of Ireland, as revealed in the reports of its directors, is a good Mdes to the cominereial and industrial prospects of the country, an I in this view the report presented at the recent half-yearly meeting is very encouraging. In moving its adoption the Chairman (NI, Colville) said the coim any might congratulate Vasselves on a very successful half year. An increase of £19,292 in the remipte compared with the corresponding half-year of 1882, following the preceding half-year, in which there was an increase of even a larger amount of money, was very encouraging, making the total increase in 1883 very nearly £40,000. This increase was distributed over every claw of their traffic, with one exception. In cattle there was a decrease— £27l7 easily accounted for by the outbreak of foots and-mouth disease, and the consequent interference with the mot ingot cattle through the country. On first clam return tickets there was an increase in numbers of nearly 6 per cent. ; on second class returns the increase wan 41 per cent., and on third class return tickets 44 per cent. In first class si ,gle tickets the increase was 41 per cent.; second class sing'm, 6.14, and second class returns nearly 51. On third eta • singles the increase was only 1;28 per cent., and on third-class return 1.41 per cent. In the military traffic there was a decrease in numbers of 24 per cent. (Hear, hear.) Taming to the goods traffic, they had an increase in tonnage of 141 per cent., and of £17,557 in receipts. In coal traffic there was an increase of 121 per cent. tons carried, and nearly 201 per cent. in the receipts. In grain there was an increase of 22,000 tons. Some people thought the increase in the quantity of grain was a sign of north of prosperity in the country and a proof of a had harvest, but he did not think that was a sound conclusion. Ireland was not a wheat-growing country, and, in fact, it was better as a rule to grow any other kind of crop than grain. Referring to the ehw ge made against the company by the Inspector of Fisheries, and reproduced in the Whitehall Review, of discouraging the fishing industry by exorbitant carriage rates, the chairman said the natural inference from the statement was that out of £l4 155. realised by the sale of 49 boxes of mackerel, the railway companies received £l2 16e. Those consignments of fish happened to come at the very end of the mackerel season, when the herring season was commencing, and when the average price or mackerel in the London market had dropped from 40s. to 6s. But the cost of conveyance, instead of being £l2 16s. Id., as the Commissioners' report conveyed, was only £8 19s. ed., as far as the railways were concerned, the difference being made up of commission, porterage, and empties in the market. Of what was that Ls 19s. Bd. composed? From Skibbereen to Cork was 53 miles, for which that railway got 43 90. sd. The Corporation tolls were only 10d., cartage in Cork was its. al., and then for the 166 milm by the railway from Cork to Dublin the charge wan Li 18s., being Is. per cwt. For the charge of fish the company had to provide vans constructed in a particular way, and they had to run them as quickly as the pamenger trains, and therefore no one could say that one shilling a cwt. for In 6 miles was an extravagant rate. The reports and accounts were adopted unanimously. On the motion that the outgoing directors be re-elected, an amendment eras moved by Mr. Atkinson, of Cork, providing that a larger number of Cork residents should be on the board, but it was negatived by a large majority without a divi,ion. Bart. Connelly, father of one of the men who were at the recent Sligo Commission sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude for the murder of Gibbons, son of Lord Arddands woodranger, haa committed suicide by drowning in Lough Mask. Addressing a crowd of persona opposite Sligo Town Hall, some days ago, hir. Sexton, M.P., said he supported the candidature of Mr. Nicholas Lynch as • man who promised allegiance to Mr. Pamell and the Irish party in Parliament. The Irish party would, he said, hose strong in the next Parliament that a leading English member of Parliament had lately said it was no longer a question whether Ireland should get Home Rule or not, but what sort of Home Rule she should get. He denounced the attempt of the Tories to get back the representation of the county, and said as the National party had killed the Whig fox, so they would crush the Tory scorpion. He asked the farmers of county Sligo whether they would not prefer the Irish to the Tory party, and he proceeded to argue that the Land Act, the Arrears Act, the Deep Sea Fisheries Act, the Labourers' Bill, and the Tramways Rill were all due to the Irish party. Mr. Benjamin Green, a gentleman farmer, of Raheen Moate, county of Westmeath, has written to the Under-Secretary, Dr. Kayo, a letter, in which he says : r• I received your communication of June 2, informing we that the Lord Lieutenant has awarded me £BO compensation for injuries sustained by me on the night of Nov. 21, when I was shot, which sum is to be levied off the parish of Ballymore. I respectfully decline to accept mach compensation, because I do not wish to receive any compensation to be levie I off the parish, as I firmly believe, and, in fact, am fully convinced that no person in the parish fired the shot from which I suffered so mach."