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Show : j ; Eatest Irish news .1 . 4 ; ".'!'' '. t j ; . ; ' ; j ULSTER. -; v John Masee, one of the best known ' , " j Cattle dealers, with an extensive con- f nectlon of both sides of the Ohai?.iel, ' has passed awa,v at Holyhead in his j , j . &4th year. He was the owner of the ' ' ; J Liverpool hotel, Warran point. ; '"' t Damage estimated at 600 which ' ? ' was covered by insurance was '. .' caused by a fire which broke out in f , and destroyed a grocery establishment; ; in Mill street, Larue, the property of - Kobert Craig, car driver. ' - i . The West Cavan Executive U. I. L. i has unanimously adopte.l a resolution ; j Regarding the recommendation of the , j JJoard of Studies re Irish in the Na- ' tional university as unsatisfactory, ' . and asking the Cavar. county council S to refuse a vote-in-aid unless the een- , ate declares for essential Irish. j In the cathedral. Cavan. on April ' ' , j 2S. his Eminence Cardinal Logue pre- j ided at the scrutiny of votes for the J : vacant See of Kilmore. The follow- i ing was the voting: Very Rev. Father I O Connell. P. P., V. G., 15 Dignissi- j nius; Very Rev. P. Finnegan, P. P., ! V. G., Hallinamore. 14 Dignior; Rev. f ' Father Judge, President St. Patrick's College, Cavan, 4 Dignus: Rev. . Father McManus, Professor, St. Pat rick's College, Cavan, 3; Dr. McOaf- I Ires-, Maynooth. 1. I -SIUNSTEU. . The death has occurred of Mother -.'. M. Borromeo Doherty. Sacred Heart !' convent. Ferrybank. AVaterford, in the forty-third year of her age and the twenty-fifth of her religious profes-' profes-' sion. The deceased belonged to an j old and much respected county Kil- Ikenny family. The scene of her labors la-bors was mainly at Seafield House, Seaforth, Liverpool. Some six years s ago she returned to her native, coun try in failing health. At the age of over 100 years the death has taken place at her residence lllakefield, near Tcmplemore, of Mrs. Shea. Deceased, who lived in a mountainous district, belonged to the . , farming' class, and always enjoyed good health until a few years ago. The election of Mr. Donovan as Lord Mayor of Cork is declared invalid, in-valid, and the application quo war-' war-' , rants granted. LKINSTKIi. The lord lieutenant has appointed William Francis Thomas Butler, M. A., to be an assistant commissioner of intermediate education in Ireland. Mr. liutler is a nephew of General Sir William Butler, and the son of Mr. R. Hutler, Dublin, a retired resident magistrate. mag-istrate. He was educated at Glon-gowes Glon-gowes Wood college, and subsequently ' at University college. Dublin, where he obtained a studentship in modern lan-i lan-i guages and a fellowship. Mr. Mathew Keating, M. P., was entertained en-tertained on April 27 at a complimentary compli-mentary dinner at the Holborn restaurant, res-taurant, in recognition of his many , years of work in the national move ment in London, and in celebration of i . his return to parliament as member , for South Kilkenny. Mr. Swifts' magistrate in the southern south-ern police court, Dublin, recently dismissed dis-missed a summons against a Dublin 1 suffragette for chalking on the foot- path words announcing the visit of : ' Miss Christabel Tankhurst, thereby having, so the summons ran, "wilfully prevented and interrupted the free passage of certain persons along the pathway at Dawson street." The di? missal was on technical grounds. A handsome new chime of bells has been erected in the Longford cathedral. cathe-dral. COXXAUG1IT. The Galway county council have decided not to seek to recover the arrears ar-rears of rates due by the Arran Islanders, Isl-anders, on the understanding that the islanders pay their rates promptly in future. The statue of John Stepson, which is to be erected by the Stenson Memo- j rial committee, is at present being prepared by Mr. Carr, a Dublin sculptor, sculp-tor, and will be ready for erection in August. Officials of the congested districts beard are actively engaged surveying and mapping the town of Castlerea, "with a view to purchasing from the landlord for sale to the tenants. Mr. W. Scott of Mountjoy Square, Dublin, the designer of the church at Spiddal, the town hall at Enniskillen, and other structures in Ireland, has been commissioned by his lordship, the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dea, to prepare the plan of a new cathedral in Galway, Gal-way, and also of a newr diocesan college. |