People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 25, 20 June 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About

Mr. W. n. Pursse, who for many years carried on the business of 'hermit' at Island Bay, Wellington, is a nephew of General Sir Binden Blood. Mr. James Brown, of Wellington, who was formerly a sergeant iv the Eighteenth Royal Irish Regiment, has known the family in Ireland for many years.

The Speaker of the Commonwealth House of Representatives (Mr, Holder") and the President of the Senate (Sir Richard Baker) both receive £1500 a ye&r, in addition to their ordinary Parliamentary salary of £400. The Chairman of Committees in each House will get £900 a year.

The oldest musical society in the world, the Academy of St. Cecilia, in Rome, now in its 316 th year, has just granted the • Order of St. Cecilia.' in the form of a medal, to Miss Lilian Blauvelt, to mark its appreciation of the lady's singing in the recent commemorative performance of Verdi's' Requiem.' Miss Blauvelt is the first woman to be thus honored by the Society, and only the eighth foreigner thus honored during the past 316 years.

Copenhagen has been celebrating the 700 th anniversary of the death of Bishop Absalon, who founded that oity. At that time there were only a few fishermen's huts where now stands the Danish capital, a city of about 500,000 inhabitants. A century ago only 100,000 people lived there, but the growth of the la->t 30 years has been enormous. A great copper monument of the Bishop, provided by public subscription, has been unveiled in front of the new town hall.

Lord Ffrench. who has left England in the Dunvegan Castle for Capetown, was a resident in Johannesburg before the war, having Bettled there chiefly on account of the delicate health of his wife. This young Catholic peer (says the London Star") is an ardent Home Ruler. One of the former holders of the title was removed from the Commission of the Peace for attending a Repeal meeting in O'Counell's time, and it is said that the title was originally conferred on the widow of Sir Charles Ffrench in 1798 in the hope of modifying her son'B ardor in the cause of Irish independence.

The editor of the Siam Free Press at Bangkok, Siam, is an Trinhman, Michael O'Leary Dempeey, who comes from Clonakilty, in the neighborhood of which many of his friends and relatives still live. Fifteen years ago he went East as a teacher in the Christian Brothers' Institution at Singapore. In 'M he was appointed head master of the Assumption College at Bangkok. After Bix years spent there he took up the editorship of the Siam Free Press, a daily evening paper, having the largest circulation in that territory.

Creighton University, at Omaha, Neb., received 75,000d0l as an E ister gift from Mr. John A. Creightou, the brother of the man in whu^e honor the institution was namud. This is the latest of a Ferieb of magnifi ent donations which the Creightons have given to Omaha. Edward Creighton's widow endowed Creighton College with 1.j0.000d01. This endowment was supplemented by Mr. John A. CreiKhtun and his wife with large donations. On the death of his wife, who had bequeathed ."iO.OOOdoI as a nucleus to build a hospital, Mr. Creightou built and equipped St. Joseph's Hospital, Omaha, ut an outlay of 2">0,000dol. The'-e are a few of the many gifts made in the cause of religion and charity by this Catholic family.

The Daihj A< « > is endeavoring to establish a connection between the lea'ier of the Opposition and Ireland. It Bays : — ' If the sentimental ties of the past have any influence with the Irish Party in the 110 ii-e, its members should be united with the regular Opposition by other bonds than those of a common policy and common expediency ; for in the Liberal leader they have a man whose family connection with the ' Land of Laughter and Tears ' is a historic one. On hus motuer's side Sir Henry Campbell- Banner man is the grandson o Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and great-grandson of Thomas Sheridan, "the manager" and tutor of the Prince Regent. From the same source he is the direct descendant of Ohey Moyvane, the Monarch of Ireland, and the latter's eldest son, Brian, King of Connaught. Ohey was also father of Nial the Great. The last chief of this Royal sept was Sheridan, the founder of the famous patronymic that was to become so justly celebrated centuries later as the name of the man of whom Byron said that his reputation was enviable, in bo much as he had written the two best comedies, the best opeia, and the beat farce, and made the best speech of his age.'

The best remedy yet discovered for Influenza is TUSSICURA. it is a wonderful tonic. — „• * The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company built and Bold 213,625> machines in the season of lSDtt. This is the greatest sale of harvesting machines ever made by one company. — mm * t The efficacy of Tussicura in all lung and throat complaints is undeniable ; it " tou( hes the spot; " every time. Price, 2s 6d. Kempthorne. Prosser and Co., agents. — mm * m Mykrs and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of George street They guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Their artificial teeth give general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while the gums are healing does away with the inconvenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate. The administration of nitrous-oxide gas is also » great boon to those needing the extraction of a tooth. Read advertisement. — »•,

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