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Show t;lafe iri$i liews j ; ' CITY OF DUBLIN". 'M (Dublin Freeman, .Dec. 26.) Alderman Leuehau died suddenly on Sunday from heart failure. ' - . The Irish technical instruction committee has decided to hold its next congress in Dublin on June 8. . ' On Sunday the ceremonies in celebration of the consecration of the Church of Mary Immaculate, Inchicorc, by the Archbishop of Dublin, took place in the presence of several members of the hierarchy, a large body of clergy and a crowded congregation. The lord lieutenant is giving Mr. J. B. Yates, R. II. A.; sittings for his portrait. The picture will form part of a series which it is understood will eventually , be presented to the Irish nation. At the annual dinner of the students of the Catholic University. School of Medicine, hold on' Saturday night, important speeches on the subject of Catholic university education were delivered by Mr. John Dillon, M. P., and Sir Christopher Xixon. , . ' - Thursday night a man named John Edge was seriously innjured by falling down the ferry steps at the Xorth.Wall. He was taken in an unconscious condition and conveyed by the corporation ambulance ambu-lance to Jervis street hospital, where he was detained de-tained for treatment. At the annual dinner of the students of the Catholic University School of Medicine on Saturday Satur-day night, Mr. John Dillon, M. P., said that if the government thought they coula throw aside university univer-sity education they would have a rude awakening. Thursday niglit at the Mansion House a conference, confer-ence, which was presided over by the lord mayor and attended by representatives of the technical instruction in-struction committees in; various parts of Ireland, was held to demand funds for building technical schools. The Bishop of Waterford was the principal speaker. A man named Peter McDermott, of 46 Main street, Beldoyle, was engaged on Friday felling a tree in the grounds of the Christian Brothers' Institution, In-stitution, Baldoyle, when it fell on him, striking him on the head. ' He was conveyed by train to Dublin, and treated at Jervis street hospital by Dr. W. F. Delaney and Mr. M. P. Scanlon for an ex-tensive ex-tensive lacerated frontal wonnd. t - . Sunday night a meeting organized by the Wex-fordmen Wex-fordmen of Dublin was held in the Mansion House for the purpose of forwarding the project for the erection of the Vinegar Hill memorial to the men of '98. There was a huge and enthusiastic attendance. attend-ance. The speakers included Mr. John Redmond and Sir Thomas Esmond, M. P.'s. The Lord Lieutenant has remitted a sum of 801 14s lOd, which had been charged to the county Roscommon for extra police. . ALL AROUXD IRELAND. The death is announced of Thomas O'Donnell of Tarbert. County Kerry, at the age of 103. Deceased De-ceased was a victualler.: , I . The death took place on Wednesday at Inchicore of the Very Rev, Father Mclntyre, provincial of the Oblate order. : . . ' The skating' ring at Restrevor, together with an adjoining public house was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning 1 ,' ' ' , ; . . ; .. The report that the government had decided to sanction the raising of twenty-six battalions of volunteers vol-unteers Ireland is authoritatively denied. Mr. James McCann, M. P., gave a public banquet ban-quet .in Xavan on Thursday afternoon to inaugurate inaugur-ate the new bacon, factory he has established. f . The first annual distribution of prizes in connection con-nection with the new Presentation Brothers' college, col-lege, Glasthule, took placeoji Thursday. Lord Dunraven writes : "My name has been published pub-lished as a member of the Irish university confer ence without rny knowledge and consent." In the court house; Howth, an inquiry was held in reference to the application by the fishermen of Ringsend for leave for their small sailing boats to trawl in Dublin bay during the winter months. ... ; i The outgoing. Unionist councillors at Derry are to be opposed by Unionist candidates willing to submit sub-mit to a strict sectarian pledge as to candidates for official positions in the corporation. . Lord Mayo, having been in communication with the head office of the Fiscal Reform league in London, Lon-don, has received,- a communication to form, with the help of leading Irishmen and prominennt Dublin Dub-lin citizens, an Irish tariff reform league. ' Captain Shawe Taylor writes that his proposed university conference stands by till January, ready, if necessary, to sit then and offer a practical solution of the Irish university question for endorsement en-dorsement or repudiation by the public opinion of the country. A mild sensation was created at Queenstown on Thurs'day in consequence of the receipt of a telegram tele-gram from the postal authorities refusing permission permis-sion to land a huge mail for England and tlie continent, con-tinent, consistinpr of 2.020 sacks, which had been brought by the White Star liner Arabic to Queens-town Queens-town from Xew York. ' Mr. John Redmond addressed a great meeting at Bunninadden on Sunday, and declared that an amending act must 'be introduced next session to checkmate the tactics of the Castle lawyers in respect re-spect of the provisions for the benefit of tho congested con-gested districts and the evicted tenants. Reference was also made to'the extra police tax and the question ques-tion of home rule. ., f :- Following the discovery of the body of the young man Flanagan, buried in a manuo heap at Clones;1 it is reported that the police are now continuing digging operations to see if they can discover any trace of a horse dealer, who also disappeared mysteriously from Clones some time ago. By the omission of the word "not" Mr. Dundon (law adviser) was made to say in the report of the Limerick corporation proceedings that Alderman McDonald was JiaWe for improvement rate on certain cer-tain houses' of his occupied by married soldiers. Mr. Dundon gave it as his opinion that the houses were not liable. At the weekly meeting of the executive committee commit-tee of the Greater Cork international exhibition on Thursday afternoon it was unanimously agreed to accept the option of Captain Jennings to purchase the portion of the grounds, extending up to the Ferry Walk, for 1,250 pounds, as an addition to the Fitzgerald -Park. t-4 , Mr. Gerald Scanlon, eldest son of the late Patrick Pat-rick Morris Scanlon of Ballinasloe, County Gal-. WW has been . admitted a solicitor in the high court of justice in Cape 'Colony, where he is now practicing. practic-ing. Mr. Scanlon, 'who served his apprenticeship to Messrs. "Scallan & Co., Suffolk street, was, previ- ous to his departure for South Africa, a few months ago, admitted a solicitor under. the supreme Court of judicature in Ireland. |