... T TF ISWSTER TN THE ARAN IST.EsST T4jhe Editor of thle Freem:an's Joirnal,' f4r Sir-The gloom with wvhich the Aran kI \Whave been overcast by the etfects of the siot~i cit lDeceibc:. 28th last is! but very faintly portfayed by the note of Y Your Corresp.:pdeot ti'3U srile oi Friday. ?? a casual observer Lb sceaes that are to be witnessed on adl sides eu $a, iontJ44. hardly ?? any idea ot ...

... iI 5THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF C' MAill' PAI I _ _ S - ?? (SPECIALLY CONTRIBUTED.) i The Fttrtni ,hst'y Review fonr .7Insar. 1iSO, s ?? Sir (.r ,Ie X hit?'s forc kuen tible ta ?? tihe ltrxr a-is'. !c, in Natal, the prt ietC- r'l tc n.: .ii uol d have tilten a different -attiC ?? 1-Itt: t ititit1il inte-mled ti Ullqefi ,e# . t j: Oirt i- vi ,it's ;t U'avrsra:'his irni of rit-'.?iov t ii ps on the ...

... . ANNUAL, GENERAL MEETING. On Saturdav the annual general meeting' af the irish Civil Service ?? manent Building Societv was held j in the offices. 25 Wetamorelend street. -Mr I A D Kersnedy, Chairman of the Directors' Board, presided, and there was a good attend- -The annual report, aoready published, was taken as read. The Chairmen said he had no doubt they had' all carefully studied the ...

... l I~ ~ ~~ . __ . . 1 The Government has infringed a well-recog- I nised tralition by appointing a member of Par- ! -Jitmenr trt the, Green street prosecutorship. The I late 1ord Justice Barrv resiuned the office when r ! elected for Dungarvan, and when Mr (deorge WVrigt, Q C. was a candidate for Dublin Uni- ver-ditr he wras understood to have given an undertaking that if elected be too would ...

... RENTS IN CO-OPERATIVE I DISTRICTS. I I I To the ?? of the Freeman. Dear Sir--Mr Arthur S Gough t.bies t) 3prove i me Wrong by misquotigto me. I wrote Cavan c. n~ains 275 members of the Co-operative A Agricultural Societies for the purchase of seeds, erc, and the boy;cott of the shopkeeper; I -nearly half the number of such societies in tile whole of tUister. Mr Gough in citing, I this ...

... I~ ~ ~ ?? i _ By the retirement of Mr Justice North th. Chancerv Division is deprived of olle of ablest jddges. On the Bench. Sir Ford Nort: wias distinguished by the rhoroughne .; which he tried every case that came before ciii He never aimed at achieving the repu'iml ?? list-smasher. A4iwavs slow, he was almn4 invariably sure. His judgments, deitvered ?? a literary polish in pleas:ng ...

... I ,) F. 1, ?? r o.N -DENCE. ? 1?100- ,5KCjg- Ii INT i' ill hi wlove4i hr theI heny ampbell Bautlcz at ow- , the (Opptsitlo-l til th urposal I have 110' 'eula~lii11t I .c-i.10 Ihe 11 0Isure ?? cllet', foi te atl ,~0¾t o attak the ovtei d a rL I~d eleaders if their PI1. o'ithe AdministrativeI -. Citety good onei ui itoe Ut ~~ b,1~. re t rn-c ort et teoflatefleftis of le -: ig-o i5 that, the ri ...

... ' CHARITY SERMON. Yesterday in the Church of St Andrewr. West. land row, the annual charity sermon w2.a preached by the Very Rev Thomas Wheeler, S 3, in aid of the House of Mercy and Sick and Dvinu Poor Inder the care of the Sisters of Merec Baggot I street. In the former institution protection is given tb deetitute young girls of good claracter. who are trained as houshold servants and taught ...

... | T Yesterd'ay the Local Government Board Inquiry ae into the public health of Dublin was caontinueld tc in tire City Hiall, M~r Charles P Cotton, il Int Zc C E, Chairman of the Committee, presiding. al The other members present ?? bight Hon Alderman Meae. P C: Dr J W Moore, m Presid'ent Royal College of Physicians; Mr R L Y' Swan. President Roysl College of Surgeons; Dr Theodore Thomson, F R ...

... THlE IRISH UNION. -- - - : TilE REAPPEARANCE OF INRY UGRATTAN IN THE IRISH a HOUSE OF COMMONS. fi b Br J G StWI IT MACN EILL, Q C, M P. I I: ve nut either growrn weary of rmy task i, n dirtc !ni p'ib attention to the closilln h nv''d' tts n thl life of the Irish Parlamuit, b nir have I faili T any Efforts to obtain in- Fo-rnatin fr *m contemporary sources of t ih-.s Sirting and historic ...

... 'at 7MUMUS :Fmmw &T40 ti 4-- A N D --I- A. I anal fc DUBkIN: THURSDAY, JAN 25, 1900. -. - = At the War Office last sight there was still! an absence of news for publication. General, Buller's announcement of his tatencibn to take Spion Kop and the Boer accounts of the fialht- fag at Olivier Hoek Road-where it wa stated there had been a large slaughter among the English-and at Spion Kop Road ...

... I ~~THEI IIN('ORPORATED ORTHOPGEDIC I HS08PITAL OF IREIAAND.. 1 . I .ANNt'AL AKTNEINUG. t Yeiterday th3 tnent--fourth annual meeting fre !af the subsoribers and friends of this ?? wz ar held in ?? hospital. Great Brunsnick th street. There wzs a numerous attendance. ml I The cha.ir wv. t -Ien bv the -- RIGHRT HO.. LORD JUSTICE WALKIPB. I Captahi Bcrthisft'e. the Secretarv, read the Ith ...