Galway In Days Gone By

1919

Shipbuilding in Galway

A well-known London syndicate of shipbuilders which has recently established the industry on a considerable scale in Swansea, is anxious to secure a site for a shipbuilding yard on the west Coast of Ireland.

The name of Galway has been mentioned and we are led to understand that the Company would come to Galway if it was given an encouragement to do so.

Should Galway Harbour Board express the readiness to provide facilities and afford a site, negotiations will immediately be opened, and should those be successful, the work of erecting a yard would be begun almost at once.

Showing at The Victoria

There will be no lack of attractions at the premier picture house next week. It is a good while back since there was a “visit” from Queenie Thomas. No daintier and cleverer film actress ever stood before the camera, and she will take the chief role in a superb picture, entitled, “It’s Happiness that Counts,” on Sunday night.

The “Circus King,” such a favourite with those fond of thrills, will finish up on Monday and Tuesday nights, when its last episode will be screened.

On those nights, too, will open a great new serial, “The Silent Mystery.” It will be well worth seeing the first episode to learn of its enthralling plot.

Arms raid

Between eight and nine o’clock on Sunday night a raid for arms took place at the house of Lieut-Colonel Bernard, Castlehackett, near Tuam.  A party of nine or ten masked men entered, went to the butler and demanded to be shown where the guns were, and threatened him.

He gave them a shotgun. They also went to the gardener, Jackson, and made a similar demand, and were supplied by him with another gun.  The raiders took away about thirty rounds of ammunition, and it is said that they came across money which they did not take, saying it was guns they wanted, and adding that they would return them safely when they got their own back.

Lieut-Colonel Bernard is in England at present. The police are diligently pursuing inquiries into the matter, but so far no arrests have been made.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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