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Show J Caccsi Irish news ! ' ; : I i ' LKIXSTKU. Loulh Sumncr asf-izes were opened on July 11 by Justice Dodd '. the I Crown court, who. addressing in: . , . grand jury., siiid there was very !it-tie !it-tie for thvm tjo d, as there were only i two case to go before them. ' ; Mejjih county council has appointed L. M. Magee, V. S., Xavan, as veterin- j ry inspector for tlie Xavan rural dis- ' ? tri.-t, at a salary of 4 0 per annum. i' On July 9 Thomas Canning Straide .5 . signed a surrender of the grazinp farm i J ( he holds at Carnacon. on the Ormsby- Miller estate. 1 he farm has now been J ' banded over to a number of the ad- i joining tenaiits, who will graze it pend- i"g its acquisition by the congested districts board, to whom it has been S . offered for sr.lc. P. F. Tuohy. J. P., ' ; ' has surrendered the large grazing. farm he held for many years at Er- : row Monastery. : A strange monster described as a j seahorse has been seen disporting I ' himself between Bettystown and ' Mornington. Recently, while some !: visitors at Bettystown were having a : bathe, the monster appeared over the j waves snd was seen coming in their direction. They lost no time in mak- I Ingr for the shore, after which the etvange visitor disappeared. I MUXSTKK. Uy direction of Lore Dor.i -cvon, j, Jimes X. 'Xorth, auctioneer, Dublin, i . 1'Ut up for sals on July 12 the rents 3'ayable out of a large part of the town j f Croom. The tenants attended in J ' ' considerable numbers. Mr. Xorth, re- " IVrred to the previous sales of Lim- ' erick, Athbay ami Tramore town tenancies, ten-ancies, and remarked that the tenants had in most cases purchased their holdings, and be hoped they would do so now. In practically every case the j tenants purchased their holdings. I Sir John Wrixon Becher, Bart., has, I ! through his agent. Mr. D. J. O'Connell, I " ' ' solicitor, intimated to the Skibbereen 1 Urban council his intention to present j , the Windmill Hill to the township a? j ! a recreation ground, provided the I ( council's plans for laying out the 1 , .; grounds meet with his approval. I . The late Major General Brook, C. B., I i ' f Ballynahown, Fermoy, left personal I j ; . estate of the value of 1,928. To his , ; widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Brook (daug'u 1 '. !. ter of Mr. M. Bourke of Fermoy), ha I 1 ' has left the whole of hisproperty aVo. 1 : liitely. Ii ' The Xationalists of Cork have sub- j scribed 1300 to the Irish parliamen tary funds, a far larger surr than has been subscribed in Cork City for mar. i years. ULSTER. Most Rev. Dr. Tohill on July in, j Ja'd the corner stone and blessrj a I magnificent new convent of the festers I ' f the Good Shepherd at Bally.iafeigh j 1n the presence of a distinguished I gathering. I , Out of thirty-eight candirates. manv I of them Irish, the Belfast, corporation I ' . has appointed John Duilop Smith of I Stirling, Scotland, to the position of I manager of the Belfavt gas works at a salary of 800 per vnnum. ;" A firo broke yut In the mining j-.' premises of JJfc.ssrs. Tomkins and Courage, Henry street, Belfast, on the evening of JuiV 14, ami before it was Vit "fJlsh-d damage to the extent of 20,000 was.-done. Mp. Montgomery, for many vears eashr.er m the Ardee branch of the Lisrer bank, has been transferred to Ca.-tlederg, County Tvrone. COVX.XUGHT. In opening the assizes for County Jy 14,Jhe ,ord chief baron fiid that there had been some attempts at-tempts at cattle driving, but they were insignificant, and the countv, on the whole, was in a sound state of law and order. .In opening the summer assizes at Wnpatrick. on July n. Justice u rtght congratulated the grand jurv on. the peaceful state of the county. " Married. At the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar. n Monday "morning, by the Very Rev Canon Lyons. P. p., y. F.. with ; mass, Harry, youngest son of the late Mr. P. Waters. Lucan street, Castlelir. to Bridgie. second daughter daugh-ter of Mr. Marion McGowan, Linen-hall, Linen-hall, Castlebar. B-allinrobe guardians have granted a -pension of 36 per ear to Mrs. Con-cannon, Con-cannon, for thirty-tw0 years school teacher in the Union. Mrs. Concan-non Concan-non will reside in the Union with her husband, Mr. Concannon, master of that institution. |