People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 10, 8 March 1900, Page 30

People We Hear About.

Mr. Benjamin Hoare, one of the best known Catholic journalists in Australia, has a good chanoe of being made editor of the Melbourne Age, of which he is the principal leader writer. Mr Windsor, the present editor is in feeble health, and is now taking a holiday.

Her Majesty the Queen has approved of fhe appointment of Mr. James Tisdall Woodroffe to bp Advocate-General at Calcutta in eucceisHion to Sir G. C. I'aal. Mr. Wcodroffc. who wn° ywivpfi into the Church many ypars ago, has long been the leader of the bar in India, where the greater portion of each year has been

Herr Schoenerer, the Los von Pom man, who is every year looking in vain for perverts, is said to have struck out for himself a new religion. He finds Protestantism too ' clerical,' so he is organising a cult in which Luther is to be ohief prophet, assisted by the God Wot&n, Prince von Bismarck, William I. and Frederick BarbarosHa.

Sir Thomas Esmonde's ancestor. Dr. Esmonde. (says the London Universe) was hanged in Dublin as a rebel in 1798. His body «as thrown into the 'Croppies' Hole,' a great public ashpit, into which the filth and rubbish of the west end of Dublin used to be dumped. The bodies of all ' Papiah rebels " done to death by flogging or hanging in the metropolis, were cast, as a last dishonour, into the ' Croppies' Hole.'

Among those who have joined the special Dublin company of the Imperial Yeomanry is the Earl of Fingall. Captain Lord Fingall, who is a Catholic, was born in 1859, and was formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Meath Militia. He is the eleventh Earl, the title dating from 1628. He succeeded in 1881, and in 1883 married Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Mr. George Burke. The heir to the Earldom is his son, Lord Killeen, who was born in 18%.

Mr Hugh Charles Clifford, who has been appointed Governor of British North Borneo, and is a son of the late General Sir Henry Clifford, V.C., and cousin of Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, entered Malay Straits Civil Service at the age of 17, aDd steadily rose until he received an important appointment as British Resident in Pahang. Mr Clifford, who has written numerous valuable works on Malaya and its people, is now called upon to rule a territory some 31,000 square miles in extent.

Mr. Justin McCarthy, who still makes his home at Westgate, on the Kentish Coast (says the Xtw Era) has not been vt ry well during part of the winter. He is now, however, able to work steadily on the completion of his History of the Four Georijes. The first two volumes appeared some years ago , the other two we are to get during the coming year. When they are ready we shall have an historical account, by Mr. McCarthy of this country from the accession of George I. to the present day, with one gap — the reign of William IV. It is to be hoped that Mr. McCarthy may one day write of that period also.

Mrs. Hinkson (Katharine Tynan) has undertaken to edit and compile for Messrs. Blackie and Co a new edition of The Cabinet of Irish Literature, a vast compilation of pro6e and verse by Irish writers of the last three centuries. The work was originally edited by a Sligo man named Charles Anderson Read, who only lived to complete three volumes, the fourth being edited by T. P. O'Connor.

Mrs. Hinkson intends to bring the work up to date by eliminating a good deal of dull and uninteresting matter, and the introduction of a number of new writers, who have either risen to prominence since the first edition of the book, or escaped the notice of the original editors.

Cardinal Gotti, whose name has been mentioned recently by correspondents of the secular Press as a likely successor to the present Pontiff, is a man of great piety and modesty. Now about 64 years of age, he has always lived the life of an ascetic, and, despite the dignity of a Prince of the Church, he always sleeps in a cell and on a hard mattreßs. Mgr. Gotti, then Internuncio to Brazil, was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1895 He is a Genoese by birth, and waa the General of the Discalced Carmelites. His father was a dock labourer at Genoa. His elevation to the Sacred College came as a reward for the skill which he displayed in arranging various difficulties with regard to the interests of the Church in Brazil after the overthrow of Dom Pedro. He was educated at the Jesuits' College in Genoa, joined the Carmelite Order and quickly became its head.

Innumerable stories are told about the veteran war correcpondont, John Augustus O'Shea, who was recently stricken down by paralysis. One of the best refers to the time when, as special correspondent of the Standard, he went to Cyprus to assist at the initial occupation by our troops. Lord (then Sir Garnet) Wolaeley was High Commissioner of the island, and one fine day ' the General ' received an invitation to dine with his Excellency. O'Shea immediately went to Sir Garnet's aide-de-oamp and explained that he Lad not brought a dresa suit with him— indeed, that his wardrobe was very soanty. ' Never mind,' said the aide-de-camp, ' any black coat will do.' Accordingly, • the General ' appeared at the festive board magnificently attired in a rather large frock coat, and he also displayed immaculate linen cuffs and collar. His brethren of the Press marvelled at 'the General's' splendour. After the feast was over and coffee and smoke joined issue, Sir Garnet said : ' Gentlemen, it's oppressively hot ; pray take off your coats if yon have a mind to.' And he set an example by appearing in his shirt sleeves. Everyone followed suit, including ' the General.' A roar of laughter followed his undraping. And well it might. Beneath the frock-coat 'the General' wore only ' dicky ' and cuffs.