January 6, 2010

Police taxThe extra police tax in Newcastle, Athenry, which is heavier than that about to be imposed for the Athenry water supply, is to be continued and the people of the district should make some attempt to settle this miserable dispute at Tourkeel. Why it can’t be settled is a mystery.Those whose duty it is to settle such petty disputes seem to take no interest in such cases. Every policeman employed in connection with this dispute costs the ratepayers of the county £22 a year. The reduction which the farmers have got under the Land Purchase Act will be more than gone in the police tax.

Mountbellew trampsNext Tuesday’s meeting of the Guardians, being the winter quarterly meeting, will probably have a full attendance, and it would be well that they would take some steps to mitigate the tramp nuisance.It reflects very little credit on the Guardians to be housing at the expense of the ratepayers an average of seventy or eight tramps each week in the Workhouse. Many of these travellers call much more often that the regulations allow, and that is a state of affairs that should not be tolerated.

These wanderers are a public nuisance, and it is a surprise that the Guardians would not instruct the officials to make use of the law that no able-bodied man or woman would be lodged at the expense of the ratepayers oftener than the law would allow.

Serving a drunkAt the City Petty Sessions, the King, at the prosecution of District Inspector Mercer, charged Mrs. Flaherty with selling drink to a person under the influence of drink.

Contable McGloin swore that on the 20th December he was on duty. He saw a woman [who was also on other charges] on the defendant’s premises. She was drunk. Witness questioned the defendant as to why she supplied her with drink, and she said she did not supply drink to her, but she did to a man.

Chairman: If the publicans did not supply this woman, a habitual drunk, with drink, she would not now have to undergo a term of six months’ imprisonment. It is a scandalous thing for them to do so, and if there was any decency in them, they would not do so.Mr. Mercer: It is an exceedingly bad case.

Mrs. Flaherty was fined 20s and costs. The Chairman said such offences were the worst under the Licensing Act.

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Tinker’s tentAt Gort District Court on Saturday, a farmer and road worker from Lisbrien was charged by the State with the larceny of a tinker’s tent on Christmas Eve at Gort – Julia McDonagh, of no fixed abode, said that a bale of tarred canvas which she had bought in Gort was stolen from her cart in George’s Street.

Promoting Galway“Keep your money at home ... and keep prosperity in Galway. (1) To present to the reader a time-saving reference guide to the leading business and manufacturing houses in Galway. (2) To give reasons why every family in Galway and district should support these business houses, is the two-fold aim of this advertisement.

“By spending money outside the town you can help to prosper some other town which in NO way can benefit you, because it is a loss to the town in which you live in and in which you hope to get your living in. Every penny you spend outside Galway is lost forever to the town, and means the undermining of the prosperity of the town.

“REMEMBER THIS: The Galway stores are not behind the times and they carry as large and as wide a range of goods of the same quality as the leading Dublin or other city stores. They can sell for cheaper than city stores because their expenses are half those of city stores and consequently they can sell at much lower prices.”

90 new homesThe monthly meeting of Tuam Town Commissioners was held on Tuesday evening. Mr John P. Moran, engineer, submitted plans etc in connection with the proposed house building scheme on Kelly’s and the College field at Toberjarlath. He said this part of the scheme proposed that ninety houses be built.

Illegal maltAt Spiddal Distrit Court on Monday, before Sean MacGiollarnaith, D.J., the Attorney-Genral, at the suit of Supt. Neville, prosecuted a couple from Slieveneen, for being in illicit possession of a quantity of malt.

Guard Reilly, Moycullen, said that he was on duty with other guards at Slieveneen. When he was approaching the house of the defendant, he saw a woman leaving with a pile on her back. He asked her what was in the back.

She said it was “stuff”. It was malt. He searched the house and in one room, he found four stone of alt spread on the floor. Neither of them gave any excuse or explanation. A fine of £2 was imposed in each case.

For more, read page 30 of this week's Connacht Tribune