Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Saturday 20 August 1881, page 5


IEELA»D.

On May 15, a new bridge at Middleton was for, mally named ' Dillon Bridge.' ' ' Salmon angling on the Suir and Shannon was yielding excellent sport. Major John Kearney, MOltown Souse, Clomnel, lon, has been appointed High Sheriff of county 'Meath. Lady Loftus's residence, Belvoir Castle, Six-

mile-bridge, county Clare, has been burnt down, the damage amounting to £5000. Kilmainham prison is now a legal place of confinement for males only, and all female prisoners, have been removed to Grongegorman prison. May 18 was the fourteen hundredth anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in the Archiepiscopal See of Armagh, by St. Patrick in person. At Tralee, one night recently, as a soldier of the 48th Regiment was returning from patrol duty to the married men's quarters, he was set upon by four men, knocked down and beaten, and received several cuts on the face. While returning from a dinner party on May 19 Mr. Robert Pringle, a Scotch farmer, residing in Ireland for the last five years, was fired at near his own residence, at Grehan, near Hollymount. He was fired at three times, but fortunately received no injuries. On May 16, a fire, of a very destructive character broke out in the extensive sailmaking and ship chandiery manufactory of Mr. Ritchie, Corpora tion-street, Belfast. The entire premises and saleable property, to the value of several thousand, pounds, were destroyed.