People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 22 May 1902, Page 10

People

.Lord de Freyne, whose name is in pretty frequent mention just now, is the fourth holder of a title whiicli dates from 1839. The first Baron was Arthur French. His father, another Arthur, was Ml' for Rosconunon from his commg-of-ago till his death— l7B3 to 1820. He was offered an earldom to support the Union, ajid subsequently a barojiy without any conditions at all. However, it was Arthur 11., also MP. for Roscommon — 1821-32 — who was presently created Baron French of Artagh

Mr Michael I)a\itt was 56 years old on the 27th of iMarcih At four years of age he tasted the bitterness of eviction, at ten he lost his arm, in a cotton null in Lancashire, next ho was a printer's devil , at nineteen he joined the Fenian brotherhood, and was shortly in prison, lie is now, first of all, a staunch Nationalist, and afterwards an advancod reformer on both political and social lines lie has not sat in Parliament since 3 899, when he resigned his seat for North-East Cork as a protest against the war m South Afuca Since then he has Msited the iield of battle and interviewed the principal oflicers on the ISoer side

Bugler Dunne, of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, to whom, m recognition of Ins gallantry at Colenso, <£ueen Victoria presented a silver bugle, has taken his discharge from the Aimv on account of ill-health He left Dover (s.ivs the 'Tablet ' of Match 22), whete he had been stationed for home tune, on Monday nig,ht Some of his enthusiastic bu-gler-boy comi.ules bi oke out of bartacls on the occasion and pla.v ed Dunne to the station After much inhibition at the station the lads wete arrested by the pickets, and tlie Jjveie sentenced each to a week's imprisonment by legimental courtnun tial

Supet mtendent Melville, the head of the political detective department at Scotland Yaid, hails ti om the county of Kerry He has been m all the celebrated cases for ;\ ears The Anaichiits at London are as familiar to him as the members of his own stalT He spuiks Fiench well, and ought to be one ot the Assistant ( oniinissionei s weie it not that, as in so many othet cases m England, ptoniolion is haiied owing to t lie Co*, eminent of the countiy being in the hands of the (hisses thus blocknig the wav ot talent in favor of half-pnv oflueis and su<h-like, the nominee of 1 he pi i v ileged In the early Victorian era there was a Loid Carlisle, who was Irish Secretary m the Melbourne Munstiy and afterwatds Loi d-Lieuteiuwit Like hus successor, Lot d Crewe, the Lord-Lieutenant was somethrng of a poet, and was noted for his amiable wa.vs He used to stroll about the IMioonix I'atk m a shabby old coat, and chat m a friendly' way with st i angers. One ( ( t . y lie shared a bench m the i'.u k wtt.h some schoolboys and a young Ri (• i ecru it fiom the adioining depot They watched a boss encket match, and Loid Cai lisle kept the scute, no one siispec-img who he was The match o\ei he sti oiled with tho constabulaiv man to the depot gates 'Come into the canteen and have a dunk,' said the fuendly lecruit 'No thanks ' apologised Lord Carlisle I must hui iv to the Vice-regal Lodge . you know, we have a ball to-night '

One effect of the French Associations Law will he to deprive the tiouiisls m tho. Daupihine of the frugal, but cheerful hospitality of the (Irand Chartreuse Formerly male visitors were welcome to two days' board and lodging, and the scenery

between tho monastery and Grenoble amply repaid the journey. Queen Victoria, by special permission, was allowed to pass the monastic enclosure, and was pleasantly surprised to find atn English monk, who showed her t/he cells, the cemetery, and the churoh, and then served her with tea. He was a prelate belonging to the Clifford family who exchanged the purple for a Trappist's cowl The leading Irish-American actie.s b , Miss Ada Rohan, who has arrived an London from New York is according to American rumor, about to retire from the stage. 111-health is given as the reason for her withdrawal from the scenes of her Transatlantic triumphs. Born in Limerick City, in that portion of the new town known as Mount Kennet, Miss Kenan belonged to an old familyi long resident in the Shannon city. At the age of ten she was brought to the States by her parents. Her brothers and sisters, who have also taken to the stage, have also met with success, though, of course on a much more modest scale than their famous sister, who is classed as the leading actress of the New World. Miss Kenan, who is a frequent visitor to her native city, is said to be contemplating the erection of a residence on the Clare side of the Shannon not from Limerick. Her extreme wealth makes her rumored retirement from the profession an easy matter from a financial point of view.

A well-known authority gives the following sketch of the life of the Lord Mayor of Dublin —Mr Timothy Charles Harrington, M.P. for Dublin City (Harbor Division), son ot Denis Harrington, was born at Castletown Bere, in the County Cork, m 1851 He studied at I runty College, Dublin, and at the Catholic University. He is a member of the Irish Bar, and was engaged as counsel in most of the recent Irish political trials, inoludm X the ' 1 imes ' Special Commission, where he appeared as junior counsel for the defence of Mr Parnell and his Parliamentary colleagues. He has had considerable experience asf a journalist, having founded and edited the ' Kerry Sentinel,' and in more recent years he was connected with the 'Irish Daily Independent' and ' United Ireland ' He was secretary and ch,ief organiser of the Irish National League from its esablishment in 188:2 until after Mr 1 ai nells death, and had been closely associated with the great Irish leakt „ 1883, while imprisoned in Mull mg ar gaol for a speech delivered in support of the claims of tho agtioultural laborers, he was returt'ed to Parliament as junior representative of County Westmeath, and at the general election of 1885 he was returned for the Harbor Division of the City of Dublin, which constituency he has still represented. He is the author of several pamphlets connected with the Irish movement . including ' A Diary of Coercion, • Impeachment of the Maamtrasna Trials,' etc When the division occurred m the ranks of the Irish Parhamentry Party, he in company with Messrs John Dillon \\illiam O'Br'en, T 1' O'Connor T D Sullivan, and T P. Gill, were on Hie delegation to America Five of the delegates declared etgainst Mr Parnell, whilst JMr Harrington suppoi ted t;he I rush leader, and remained a supporter of his to the end He vvas married in 1892, at Dublin to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Dr Edward O'Neill, of that city