People.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 52, 26 December 1901, Page 10

People.

Rumor has it that the Duke of Norf ° lk is going to marry Lady Alice Mary Fitzwilliams, who was recently received into the Church.

It is stated by an American Catholic exchange that there are in that portion of Canada which lies in the valley of St. Lawrence numbers of J lasers, Campbells, Mactavishes, and Macdonalds who speak nothing but Irench, who are Catholics, and have nothing but the memory of certain Scotch tunes to remind them that their grandfathers once served the king in a Highland regiment. General Patrick Murphy, of San Francisco, who was one of the land kings of the early days in California, died on November 1. He was once immensely wealthy, owning great ranches and thousands of head of cattle, but he had little more than $1,000,000 left when he died. Gen. Murphy once counted his ranches by leagues and his cattle by thousands. Like Vallejo and many other large land holders he wasted much of his fortune in princely hospitality. He inherited the land from his father, who loaned money to Spanish-Ameri-can ranches and finally foreclosed and took possession. Martin Murphy, the father, died leaving 150,000 acres in various ranches, all well stocked with cattle. Patrick inherited about onethird of the estate. He took a prominent part in State politics for 20 years. He was known as the

' Black Prince,' because of his swarthy complexion. General Murphy was 62 years old.

The Republicans of Plymouth, Connecticut, U.S.A., on November 1, nominated as a candidate for the constitutional convention, the Rev. John Neale, rector of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Terryville. Father Neale 's opponent for the nomination was the Rev. Charles M. Smith, of the First Congregational Church.

Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has sent an altar-cloth, worked in gold with lace trimmings, to the Rev. Joseph McGee, pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Washington, D.C.

His Holiness the Pope has received in audience Kubelik, the Hungarian violinist, who is to niak*» a tour of the United States next month. His Holiness received the young maestro very cordially, and said to him : • Kubelik, when Cardinal Vazzy Suggested to me that 1 present to you the order of St. Gregory the Great, I objected on the ground that you were too young yet to receive such a distinction. Since then f have found out, though, that with all your youth you have proved yourself worthy of the distinguished honor which falls to but few. I hope that you will continue to make good use of the talent winch our Father has endowed you with. What causes me especial pleasure is that you are so fondly attached to your old mother. Here are two rosaries, one for your 1 dear old mother and one for yourself.'

Mr. P. A. M ell ugh, M P., on whom the freedom of the city of Dublin was conferred recently, is the nineteenth recipient of the honor. The last recipient of the honorary freedom of the city of Dublin was the Right Hon Stuart Knill, Lord Mayor of London, who obtained the freedom on the 2nd January, 189. C 5. Tl* first name on the roll of the honorary freedom of the city is that of Mr. Butt, who introduced into the House of Commons the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill, and was made an honorary freeman in September, 1876. Tho second name on the list is that of Mr. Gladstone,who was made a freeman in November, 1877. Some other names on the roll of honor are those of President Ulysses Grant, Mr. Parnell, Mr. John Dillon, Senator Collins, Mr. William O'Brien, Lord Ripon, Mr.

John Morley, Cardinal Moran, Mr. Thomas Sexton,, the late Lady Sandhurst, and the Rev. George Salmon, D.D., Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.

Mr. Leonard Lindsay, whose engagement to Miss Clare Vaughan has just been announced, is the son of the late Hon. Colin Lindsay, at one time President of the English Church Union, and afterwards a convert to the Catholic Church. Miss Vaughan is a daughter of Colonel Vaughan, of C our to" eld, and a viece of Cardinal Vaughan

On Sunday evening, October 19th, 1794, a remarkable event in the Dublin journalistic world occurred outside Taney Church, Dundrum, namely, the horse-whipping of Mr. James Potts, proprietor of ' Saunders' NewsLetter,' by Mr. John Giffard and his son, Ambrose Giffard. It appears that an acrimonious war of words had been going on between John Giffard, • wner of the 'Dublin Journal,' and James Potts, and an unusually offensive paragraph having appeared in ' Saunders'" reflecting on ' The dog in office,' as Giffard was called, the latter and his son took the law in their own hands and whipped Potts. This incident naturally created tremendous excitement— the more so as Giffard was High Sheriff at Dublin— and Potts brought an action against the Giffards in July, 1795. From the ' Hibern ian Magazine ' we learn that ' Hardinge Giffard was acquitted, but Mr. John Giffard had to pay £20 to the poor of Taney, £20 to the poor of Stillorgan, and £10 to the Dublin Marshalsea.' Potts died in May, 1796, but Giffard (whose mother was Dorcas O'Morchoe, of Oulartlcigh, County Wexford) survived till May, 1819, and his grandson became Hardinge, Baron Halsbury, Lord Chancellor of England.

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