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Show CHILD IIMTES OF liSJilOUSES Poor Little Prisoners Shut Inside In-side Walls Is a Sad Sight. BY THOMAS EMMETT. Special Cable to The Tribune. DUTtLIX, Oct. 2:. In a report to the local government board on the boarding out of children system, Miss l"Itz Gerald j Kenny deplores tho fact that there are more than 5000 healthy children inmates of various work houses in Ireland. She says; "Inside the same four walls arc gathered all sorts and conditions of peoplegood peo-plegood and bad, the worthless vagabond vaga-bond and the innocent child. All kinds of influences arc at work, but the good are few compared with the eyll. I know no sadder sight than those poor little prisoners shut away, except for an occasional occa-sional walk, from the fields and trees, excluded from the fresh air and the liberty lib-erty that children have." Irish Vice Koyalty. There is some discussion in the environment en-vironment of the court as to whether tho king would be favorable to the abolition of the Irish vice royalty. If he wore to I put in a residence of three weeks in Dublin Dub-lin In the spring, the time hitherto allotted al-lotted In court annals to a Mediterranean Mediterran-ean trip It, Is argued that the needs of the situation wo.uld be met. This' "Would , lncnn the retention of. Dublin castle. Will Soil to Tenants. Several Irish lnnd owners have -agreed to sell their land to tenant farmers. Terms have been agreed on for the purchase pur-chase of tho estate of Sir Godfrey Thomas, in Tyrclispays and Newtown, "Wcsliucath. under the land act of 1000. rtev. Peter McNamce assisted the tenants ten-ants In effecting a settlement. The extensive ex-tensive I'ackcnhani-Mahon estate, which Includes the town of Strokcslown. Roscommon, Ros-common, has been sold, to the estates commissioners. com-missioners. The estate .is one of the best and most extensive in the province of Cohnaught. A To Hold Court Montlily. At nanbrldgc Tctty Sessions court a meeting of magistrates was held for the purpose of considering the advisability of holdlnc the courl monthly in future, in-stcijr in-stcijr "of fortnightly, owing to the fact (hat thero has been a considerable diminution di-minution in tho business of the court. This result is appaient as I lie cfforls of th." temperance propaganda by tho Catholic Cath-olic and Protestant temperance sociolios The business of the eourt, which fornicr-lv fornicr-lv occupied several hours dally. Is being disposed of In fifteen minutes each court dav for the past few months and in the ma'jorlty of Instances there were no cases or drunkenness docketed. |