... The wely meeting of the Publio Noele : CwCQtnitte. Wa; hold in the Municipal ,Buildings. The chair was taken by Couneillor 'EutehinsoL 1%heother memibers present were -The Right Von ?? Mayor, Alderman the Right Hon 3 M Meade. P Cz Alderman D Bourke; Couneaillor Joseph Hatch, Thouas I Leneban, George Healy, 3 P * Patrick Monks, Thomas Sherlock, Edward Holoban, Alfred C Thqrnton. and Matthe ...

... NEW CRUNCH AT FEaBANE. The new and beautiful Church of the Imma. culate Ctionception at Ferbane is now eompleted. Its imposing tower-a rare specimen of archi. tecture-is also fiished. The newf church, which is decorated Gothic in style, consists o* nave, with gallory at west end, ehaheel, north and south trausepts, sacris- es, and baptistry, and affords Beating accom- modatiga for about 700 ...

... THE LAND COMMISSION- IN CORK. . 'THE LANI)LORDS AND THE FRY COMMISSION.- Cork, Thurtsday Evening, To-day the Land Commission .Ooatoeconsist- ing of Mr Justice Bewley, Mr CcKb~missione J I Wrench, and Commissioner the. lon Gerald I Fitzgerald, Q C, sat at the Courthouse, Cork, I I and continued ste hearing of fair rent appeals I from the county of Cork. At, the sjttidg of the court 1Mi. Justice ...

... [ PROVINCItL MAYOB.S. I BELFAST. THE RIGHT HON. W. J. PIRRIE DECILINES OFFICE. The members of the Belfast City Council attended yesterday in the Council Chamber to receive the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, and Alderman Sir Daniel Dixon, in a brief speech, conveyed to the Lord Mayor the unani- mous wish tha he should accept office for another year. He was followed by Alderman Sir Jos Haslett, ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDEN. : I _ _ , ISw OPNOIAL WIR2.11 (FRO. Qua OWN CQaSPONlDT,) London. Thursday Morning. The proceedings fif the National Liberal Federation Council at Derby and the speech i of Sit Robert geid at the Eighty Clb have t both attraeted more attention than they f otherwise would, because they both give tho I go-by to Homeo Rul* as the foremost plalk a in the Liberal plattorm. This ...

... =: in Go~- - - OUTLOOK FOR THE [ WINTER. = DISTRESS IN CONNEMARA. MEETING AT L3ErqNq COUNT GALWAY. A public meeting was held at Leenams,. County Galway, for the purpose of eallingj public attention to the threatened distress in! that locality. The meeting was large and re. I presentative. The potato supply being almost exhausted already, the pbor people of the 'mountainous districts around ...

... TO THE SDITOR OF THE PREBMAN'S JOURNAL. Dzsa Sia-I am sorry I accidentally missed Colonel Browne's 'evidence to-day before the Royal Commission on the Land Acts. Iin in- formed be gave evidence that an account of mine of th. relations between himself and his tenants, published in the Freemnan's JXufla of June 2nd, 1897, did not contain any truth. It will no' be forgotten that on the 24th of ...

... IINDIA. |FEW PENATL LEGISLATION- [ (sauna'si TELEGBAMiri.)j Calcutta, Tuesday, mr Chalmers, speaking in the Viceroy's Council to-day, explained that the objects of the. proposed legislation amending the Peaal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure were, first, the redrafting of Section 124a of the India Penal Code, bringing the same into accord writh English law, and adopting and affirming ...

... | -THE - Lt'Ti RED LARK. TO THR EDITOR FREENIAN'S JOUUNAL Sin-I have been asked by a musical artist here to pub Irish words to the Little Red Lark, one of thse most beautiful of ancient Irith airs,,as it seesa that the original Irish words are not naowa nown. Mr A P Graves has writte6n English words to this air. They have considerable merit, but he seems to have made a mistake in making a ...

... I THE SWBD1SH DAIRY INDUSTRY.- A Foreign Office report has been issued on the dairy indu6try of Sweden. Starting with a comparison between our own and the Swedise trade, Mr Arthur Herbert, First Secretyto her Majesty's Legation at Stockholm, states that the value of the milk production of Great Britain, at 5d per gallon, is sid tobe worth £33,000,000, calculating 400 gallons per cow a year on ...

... l PROVINOJIAL NEWS. . . ?? LOUGHREA COMMISSIONERS AND VVERTAXATIO.- Loughres, Wednesday0 -At the usual fortnightly meetirg of the Lcughbea Town Commissioxers here, Mr Thomas Mulkern presiding, a letter was reeeived from the secretsary of the Irish Financial Reform League, requesting to linow what steps hed been taken in tie matter in the diitrict, if a branch bad bsen formed to for- ward lisc ...

... FTE[ TRAMWAY EXTES16ONb. i~~ ;e I .~ I ATiENInES TO THE SEA. T!he important extension of the United Tramway,, system which will tannect athl- mines by direwt route with the electric trami nea Ballsbridge is being punhed forward ner- getically. Already a lage portion of the'linte is laid down. In order to Carry 0ot the work with'the miinium disturbanse to the traffi. ?? being laid down in ...