People We Hear About!

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 33, 15 August 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About!

When the last mail left England Lord Morris was lying dangerously ill in London. y g Mr Justin M'Carthy is stated to be enjoying better health now than for many years past. The legions of his admirers will rejoice to hear the good news. J Father Sheehan'a work, My New Curate, has been translated into German, and is now running through the Kolnitche Volhszeitung. _ Mrs Craigic, more widely known as ' John Oliver Ilobbes ' has just been elected a member of the oounoil of the Authors' Society in England being the fifth woman to be thus honored. She is a convert, and author of A School for Saint*. «" » • wn The name of Mr. Charles Schwab, president of the new billion cSb New York 'cUy' ™ ** membershi P *t the OathoS Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, whose verses must have nearly as many admiring readers m England as they have in America is at Et^ofZ iTl?* iS"** Ch "™^ «» g^f or the JV"! PW of . Mr * nd Mrß Clement Shorter. Oxford is to be revisited by her fervent laureate from across the Atlantic ; and Miss Guiney will be found by her old friends at the University to be none reCeDt experiences aa a Postmistress in New rvp A , mon{? A the . Boer Prisoners sent to Ceylon was a Captain ? S 7 ' aU Ame f rica^ cltl^ D . who is an engineer by prof ession, and a mining expert. He has been commissioned by the Ceylon oanT^ 6 /,°K Proß ? eCt *£* Colony for old ' which is confident M oP n nd v. th , ere ' frOm the So ol ***™! formation of the country. Ocelli? had an experience extending OVW » V"*** ©f a CcL tury in gold mining m Nevada, and come years ago went to the war^bro a keo W ut? re £OllOWing hiß P rof^n when the Mrs. Howard Gould has planned the erection of a replica of Kilkenny Castle which is now in course of erection at Sands Point, on Long Island Sound. This will be the most original country house in the United States. Kilkenny Castle occupief a co^rnaS ing position on the summit of a precipice above the River Nore. It was originally built by Strongbow, who was Governor of Ireland » J ' f a ■ Wa £ rebUllt hy William le M "eschel, in 1175, and See st:t:^i%i c oT Ty and tranßform^ into «-»-- nnn 1 * Vi !^ °f fc n6n 6 faCt that ' F1 ? rO(l0ra> was recently produced in Dunedin the following personal item will be of interest :— The Celebruy adlome 'in the World this week happens to be a Catho-lic-Mr. Leslie Smith (says the London Tablet). As Mr. Barrett, he was known in Manchester as a church organist. Coming to London, he made tame and fortune under his professional name as the composer of light music-such as • Florodora,' and, among ' Soldiers of the Queen and ' Louisiana Loo.' The list of Catholics who make honorable livelihood in connection with the popular entertainments of London would be a very long one were it to be mSays M?t^ V^^r *" * * ~ > d ™<*™™ Ptv-. n Faith and Famine,' has been composed by the Rev. 1». S. Dmwn MA. The plot is founded on a well-anthen-ticated inodent of the famine period, when the soupers made an unsuccessful attempt to proselytise the poor starving Irish. In the preface to the play we read : ' A widow in the North-west Kerry beheld her three children rapidly sinking through sheer hunger and was in despair of being able to save them. Opposite her cottage, on the other bide of the road, there was a souper establishment tt uh no evil intention, the heart-broken mother asked her eldest boy, who was not above ten years of age, to go over and present himself at the establishment in the hope that the very eight of his wretchedness would move the soupers to pity his wants without assailing his faith. The little boy answered promptly, "Ah! mother, death is better." The heroic child and his two brother. accordingly died of starvation. The bereaved mother, who survived never ceased to grieve for the temptation she offered to her faith-