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Show j - ; -t : j Eatest Trtsb news - j T" I CITY OF-DUBLIN. , ' 1 (Dublin "Weekly Freeman, July 15.), J On Monday the 'opening: meeting of f , 1 he photographic convention of the . I United "King-dom, Ai4iich was continued I iuring the week, was held ct the The- I stre of the Royal Dublin society, Kil- I is re street. Pcofessor Joly, president, delivered -the opening- address. j While some excavations were being I made in St. Peter's churchyard, Aun- 1 Sier street, on Saturday, with a view I ro the probability of discovering the 1 burial place of Robert Emmet, part of Ia slab which had lain over a grave in the Emmet' family vault was discovered. discov-ered. The vault itself could not be found. The body of Robert Cunningham, one of the men drowned in the boating disaster dis-aster off the Poolbeg lighthouse last week, was found floating ' near the scene of the accident on Sunday. A -watch which deceased had upon him was found to have stopped at 7:5, which was the precise hour of the evening when the disaster occurred. . . f r- On Thursday morning a woman of 60 years named Bridget Boy lan was discovered by her married daughter at 30 Glorney's buildings. Rutland street, in the &t of gashing her throat with a 7izor. The 'razor was taken from her and she was conveyed to Jervis street hospital. The wound is not very seri-nus. At Thursday's commencements in Trinity college, honorary degrees were onferred on Mrs. Margaret Byers. Sir Thomas TJrew; P. R. H. A.; Miss "White. Sir Arthur "Wilson, Sir R. D. Powell.', Surgeon H. .Swanzy. Professor Scnaeffer. "Mr. Sidney "Young. 'Profes-! 'Profes-! sor Graham, the Hon. Mis. Emily lawless and Signor Esposito,. : --r.,:..: . ; :. On Wednesday, at the -weekly meeting meet-ing of the North Dublin union, a deputation depu-tation waited ' on tbe guardians from the Saddlers' association, and a resolution reso-lution was adopted, on the motion of Mr. Sherlock, asking the trades council to supply the board with the names of "fair wages houses, and resolving that no house in future get work except those on the list. A discussio also took place on a motion of Mr. M.chael Doyle in favor of direct labor, and the matter was allowed to stand for . a week. On Friday a special general meeting of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland was held in the Solicitors' building?. Four Courts, to consider n hat steps should be taken to facili- late the working of the land purchase arts. A resolution was unanimously passed protesting against the delay which at present exists in carrying out sales under the land purchase acts, and caHing on the government to Sraake pueh financial arrangements as may be necessary to facilitate the working of the estates commission,' and to relieve the present deadlock. m x |
