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Show T EafcsJ Trisb news ' I l CITY OF DUBLIN-. Mr. Swift MacXeill, M. P., is still confined by illness to his residence, 17 Pembroke road. 4 On "Wednesday the death took place v of Lady Dowries, wife of Sir Joseph Downes, J. P., at her residence, Summcrville. Clontarf. On Wednesday the Lord Lieutenant opened the new Ililx-rninn Marine School which has been recently re-cently built at Seaficld road, Dollymount. - On Sundiy afternoon the Mount Argus branch of ihe J aelic League successfully held their first aeridhearht for the present season at Sion Hill, Haroldseross. Satisfactory irogress with the "Iona'' bazar reporied at the monthly meeting of the general connnitlee of parishioners of Dmroeondra and (ilasiievin, hold in the parochial hall, Glasnevin, on Sundav. after 12 o'clock mass. Xorth Dublin rural council on Wednesday decided de-cided to carry out the llowth portion of the water scheme as a test, and abandon the southern (or Sut-i?n) Sut-i?n) for ihe present, without prejudice to carrying it out hereafter. A requisition on behalf of the Earl of Ifowth for leave 1o withdraw his opposition to the Xorth I Dublin (rural) provisional order bill has been de- I posited in the private bill office of the house of commons. !Tl;e annual meeting of the Xational Literary soeioty -was held on Monday night at f St. Stephen's Steph-en's Green, when the annual report, which was of a satisfactory nature, was adopted, and council and I ofiieers were appointed. J In the Xorthern police court, on Wednesday, I before Mr. D. Mahony, divisional magistrate, a I ; number of licensed hawkers were prosecuted by the j commissioners of public works for hawking wares I in the Phoenix park, near the scene of the tragedy, j and Mere fined l's ld each and costs. I On Thursday the trial was concluded of the ! action in which Messrs. Slevin V; Son, quantity surveyors, of Dame street, Dublin, sought to recover I 2".-; pounds ISs 10d from tlje Rev. Mother and ,f Community of Loreto Convent. Xavan, in respect of work done and money expended. The jury were unable to agree and were discharged. 4 A meeting of the senate of Trinity college (Dublin) was held on Saturday for the purpose of .submitting to the senate graces for the conferring i , of honorary degrees. The ladies upon whom hon- ! orary degrees are to he conferred are: Litt.D., Miss .lane Barlow and Mrs. Sophie Bryant; LL.D., Miss Isabella Mulvany. , On Sunday a child named Patrick J. Keary, rv ! - .voars inK' ' months, was drowned under Fad M I f'1'' peculiar circumstances at 1 Beechwood ave- ' ruo- 'he residence, of ihe parents. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Keary. It appr-nrcl that Mrs. Keary was . bathing ihe child in a bath, in which there were be- twecv two and three inches of water. She went to ' . hok after a baby that was crying downstairs. When I 's- Keary returned she found the poor little fel- f ; J'.'f unconscious in the bath, his face under water. I ; ho husband rushed at once for a doctor, and was j fonmiaie enough to meet Dr. Haddon just outside the house. For three-quarters of an hour Dr. Had- i ; ri"n endeavored to restore respiration, but without f success. 1 |