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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 5, 30 January 1902, Page 10

People

The late Lord Morris by his will left personal estate of the "value of £127,766 9s 7d, including £43,314 Is 4d in England. Major John D. Keiley, brother of the Bishop of Savannah and an intimate friend of Cardinal Gibbons, died at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., on November 20. He was city treasurer of the old city of Brooklyn. In 1875 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of Gregory^ the Great by Pope Pius IX. The • general committee of tho National Club, Whitehall, London, have, according to the ' Daily Mail,' called upon Mr. Hall Came to explain his action in opening a Catholic bazaar at Douglas, and in his new novel referring to the Pope as the ' Holy Father ' and ' his Holiness.' Jf not prepared to explain he will be called upon to resign his membership. The late Dr. Brownlow, Bishop of Clifton, England, was interested in archaeological matters. A brief reference to this side of his personality we find in the London ' Athenaeum,' which notes that he was one of the editors of the English edition of ' Roma Satternanea.' He published also a memoir of the late Sir James Marshall, Chief Justice of tho Gold Coast, and like, himself, a convert from Anglicanism to the Catholic Church. The announcement of the death at Mercer's Hospital (.says the Dublin ' Freeman's Journal ') of Gerald Conn Felly will cause much regret in Irish literary circles. Mr. Pelly was practically the founder of the Pan-Celtic Society — established in Dublin in 1888 — the first definite sign of the Irish literary renaissance. He was born in 1865 at Gurtymadden, County Galway, and was educated at Summerhill College, Athlone, and at Blackrock College, County Dublin. There was no family more prominently associated with Belfast a generation ago than that bearing the honored patronymic of Bonn (says the ' Belfast Weekly "). We are now reminded of bye-gone men and times by the death of a highly -respected member of the Benn family — Miss Harriett Benn, the youngest daughter of Mr. John Benn, who lived in Glenravel House, at Glenravel, County Antrim. Miss Bonn, who had resided for a length of time in Derryvolgie Avenue, died on the 26th ult., having attained the ripe age of 87 years. Up to the last she took an active interest in charitable work in Belfast, and her demise will be regretted by a wide circle, not only of those who knew her intimately, but many who benefited by her kindness and sympathy. The London ' Daily Chronicle ' tells' the following story: — During the recent fog, when it was at its worst in Piccadilly, the van of the Sisters of Nazareth was returning from its round of begging food for the poor. The amateur driver, an inmate of Nazareth House, was unequal to tho difficult and even dangerous situation. A Sister in charge therefore alighted and led. 'the horse. Three smart young men emerging from a club at once took charge of the horse's head, sent the Sister inside, and themselves escorted the van through the city of dreadful night two miles westward, to the door of Nazareth House. There they disappeared before the Sister had time to express her gratitude. ' Perhaps they* were angels,' suggested somebody, who had begun to believe that the age of human chivalry was dead. ' Yes,' said the Sister, ' I might have said the same but one of them was smoking a cigar.' ♦ The municipal administration of Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Novem-

ber 11, passed into the control of Denis Mulvihill, the ' stoker mayor,' and ' rugged honesty ' will be the watchword of his administration, as it was of his campaign. Mr. Mulvihill was ejected on the Democratic ticket; with a majority of 3387. v0tes in a community which had- not elected a Democratic mayor since 1895. His majority startled old campaigners. He was born in Ireland 56 years ago. He went to the United States 32 years ago. For 30 years he has worked at the furnaces of the power plant of the Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company. He was but little known outside of his voting district until 1897, when ho was elected an alderman. Twenty or more prominent men declined to go before the Democratic Convention because they thought the Republicans were sure to win. Some one suggested Mulvihill. He was laughed at by the leaders, but the workiwgmen were in earnest, and the stoker was nominated. In an interview with a representative of the New Haven 'Leader ' after his election Mr. Mulvihill said : ' I never sought the nomination, never even thought of such a thing. My friends did it all, though I suppose the reason why they thought me lit for the position was because of my course during the four and a-half years I have been an alderman. I believe the city's affairs should be administered with the same economy and care that a man applies to his own business, and that a reckless expenditure of the city's money is unwise, if not wicked. I have never had a dollar in my life that I did not work for with my two hands, and I know the value of a dollar and what it ought to buy.'

The cable message to the effect that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Colonel Lynch recalls the famous phrase used by Sir Charles G avail Duffy in his first speech on the Australian soil. He refused to apologise in any way for his Irish career or the part he had played in promoting the '48 Insurrection. As regards Ireland, he proclaimed himself to be still ' a rebel to the backbone and spinal marrow.-' The speech created tremendous commotion at the time, but it did not prevent his election to the first Parliament of Victoria or his attaining premiership or receiving knighthood from the Queen. The question was again raised in July 1880,' when the Hon. Peter Lalor, another Irishman, succeeded Sir C. G. Duffy in the Speakership of the Victorian Parliament. A member of the Government violently protested against the highest honor in the gift of the House being bestowed on a man who had fought against the soldiers of the Queen-. The Conservative Premier of the period, the latq Hon. James Service, severely .rebuked .his subordinate, said the -''incident referred ' to 'in no way - reflected discredit on Mr. Lalor, rather the reverse. Mr. Lalor was Commander-in-Chief of the rebel gold diggers of Ballarat, who, on December 3, 1854fought an engagement with Imperil forces.