People we Near About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 35, 31 August 1899, Page 31

People we Near About.

Herr Leopold von Liliencron, the oldest journalist in Europe, died in the early part of July at Vienna at the age of ninety-six. Up to the time of his death he had been night editor of the Vienna FremAcnblatt.

Lord Clifford of Chudleigh is the head of a family which ranks among the most distinguished Catholic families of the kingdom. They are descended from a Norman knight and inclode among their progenitors the celebrated ' Fair Rosamond,' of the Court of Henry 11.

A cable message a few days ago announced that Vice-admiral Lord Walter Talbot Kerr had been appointed Senior Naval Lord of the Admiralty in succession to Admiral Sir F. W. Richards, who had relinquished the post. Rear-admiral Archibald L. Douglas has succeeded Lord Kerr as Second Naval Lord. Lord Walter Kerr is a leading English Catholic.

Mr. M. C. Macinerney, Q.C., a leading member of the Irish Bar, 1 was called to the English Bar by the Benchers of Gray's Inn early in i June. Mr. Macinerney, who was educated at St. Vincent's College, Castleknock, Co. Dublin, practised in early life at the New York Bar, and of late years has frequently appeared as counsel before Parliamentary Committees. Another Catholic barrister, Mr, Joseph , Walton, Q C. (says the Tablet} has been elected chairman of the General Council of the Bar for the coming year.

Mgr. M'Evay, the new Bishop of London, Canada, was born at Lindsay, in Ontario, in 1852, and educated at St. Michael's College, Montreal, St. Francis's Seminary, Milwaukee, and the Grand Seminary, Montreal. After being parish priest at Fenelon Falls for five years, he was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Peterboro, but on Bishop Dowlintr's translation to Hamilton he accompanied him, and obtained a titulus for the diocese. He also became rector of St. Mary's Cathedral, Hamilton, and administrator of the diocese of London.

Mr. Daniel Francis Sugrue, whose name was recently added to the Commission of the Peace for the borough of Swansea, is, says the South U'aliau, a director of the Swansea Improvements and Tramways Company, and of the Merthyr Electric Traction Lighting Company, Limited. He is also district superintendent for South Wales of the Electric Traction Company, Limited. Mr. Sugrue iB the youngest son of the late Mr. Charles Sugrue, J.P., of Fermoyle Castle, Inveragh, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He was born in the city of Cork in June, is:s6, and was educated at Stonyhurst. His father was a landed proprietor in Ireland, as also was his late brother, Mr. John H. Sugrue, J.P. for Cork and Kerry, and deputy-lieutenant for the city of Cork. He has travelled largely, is a good ancient and modern linguist, a fluent writer and a ready public speaker. In religion he is a Catholic, and in politics a progressive Conservative.

Mr. Joseph Arch, who foreshadows his retirement from Parlia mentary life on the ground of the indifferent state of hia health, is .seventy-three years of age. Born in lS2f>, he was the Bon of an agricultural labourer at Barford, in Warwickshire, and he still lives in that village, in the pretty cottage where the Prince of Wale* and the Countess of Warwick visited him a year ago. Aa a mere child Mr. Arch was sent to earn wages in the fields, but he was indebted to a good mother for the rudiments of an education, and with the help of Shakespeare and the Bible rapidly improved it. He set himself to learn mensuration and land surveying, and studied logic. It was he who in 1872 founded the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, of which he was elected president. Mr. Arch was elected M 1\ for North-West Norfolk in ISB.~>, and although he lost the seat in 1SS(», he was re-elected in ISD2, and again in lMtr>. All his life he has • lived laborious days,' and was in danger of a destitute old age when some of his political friends, headed by Lord Tweedmouth, subscribed a fund for his benefit in 18%.