Miss Maggie J Murphy at present of Wms' Bridge, New York and late of Fostra, Aughnacliffe, one of the Irish girls saved from the Titanic, writes to us to ask us to correct a statement made in the yellow (tabloid) press in New York to the effect that on her trip on the ill-fated ship she was eloping with John Kiernan, one of two brothers drowned in the disaster.

As a modest, respectable Irish girl, Miss Murphy, rightly complains of the cruelty and injustice both to her, and the poor young fellow, who drowned of this typical American invention. We have much pleasure in giving her flat contradiction and assuring her that the people at home did not, and do not believe any such a Yankee yarn.