People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 22, 29 May 1902, Page 10

People

Mr. 11. A. Isles, who has for 63 years served as a member, and latterly as chairman, of Cirencester Board of Guardians, has resigned his post. Mr. Isles is a convert, having been received into the Church in IPB4. Father Sheehan, author of 'My New Curate, on whom the Holy Father has bestowed the double honor of a D.l~>. and a special medal in recognition, of his services to Catholic literature, is engaged on a new work, which (says the 'Ecclesiastical Keview ') is likely to astonish the Philistines still more than his first anonymous venture into the Held of clerical novels. Reports ha\o been circulated for some tuno by certain newspapers, representing the young- King of Spain to be mentally and physically incompetent Minister Storer, who recently returned to the United States from Madrid on leave, characterises these reports as nonsense. The fact tint Alfonso has been carefully trained in accordance with Catholic ideas, may be accepted as the busis of fal.se stories disseminated with regard to his mental qualifications and so forth. Mr T W Russell is perhaps the most striking figure in the British Parliament According to the ■ Daily News,' his personality largefly go\erns t,h© Irijsh debaties^. It represents, of course, a great reinforcement for the popular cause. His line is still Unionist , but it is antiUo\ eminent, and, abo\e all, it re\i\os the Crusading spirit of Liberalism in its best da\s— the passion for large change, for a great human settlement. Mr Russell's own side die beginning to hate him bitterly. r l b<..\ ami at dislodging him from Ins cot 10 an the high benches below the gangway on the Toiy side. They try his quick spirit, but they do not mo\e him Day by day he renews his plea in short, nervous sentences, beaten out like hammer-strokes ' Rev Reginald Collins, the latest recipient of the 1>S(), is the same Father Collins who, m the Eg\<ptian campaign of '«5, gallantly helped m the defence of McNeil's Zareba, when, it will lie remembered, the square occupied by the Marlines was rushed and oven broken by a large Arab foice His peisonal courage on this occasion— for which he was meni innod m despatches — went far to a\eit what might justly be termed a catastrophe. Lord Wolseley, late Conwnander-in-Chief, has a portrait of Father Collins hanging- on the wall in Ins loom, to which he alludes as that, of one of the finest soldiers and comrades of Ins acquaintance (ieneral Sir 'William Butler has presented to the London Jrish Literary Society the MS of his Cromwell lecture, so that its publication maybe effected m the manner most agreeable and beneficial to the body before whom it w .is lately deh\eied Mr. Robert Roinney Kane, County Court .Judge and Chairmm of Quarter Sessions ior mo counties of Carlow, Kildare, Wexford n ,1 \\ , k- clow, died tow aids the end >i <MurU, at his residence m I'ublin. I--ceased was a son of the late Sir Robert Kane and a brother of RearAdmiral Kane, who, when <\tp»ain. commanded and siwl IT MS. Calliope m the hurt ie me at Apia in 1S8"), when so m,\ny ships wei c destroyed. He was ilso a brother of Rev Robert Kane, SJ , the distinguished preacher. A son of the deceased, Ijio.u tenant Harold Kane, was killed in the fight at Fort Itala last December The following particulars regarding the Lord Mayor of Cork, appeared in a recent issue of ' Donahoe s Magazine ' :— The Right Hon

Edward Fitzgerald is a man with rather an eventful career. He commenced life as a carpenter, but the rare gifts of head which he possessed were bound to bring him into public notice, and some 16 years ago he consented at the request of his friends to stand for a position as Poor Law Guardian. Though perfectly unknown at tho time to public life, and though having to face and wage a stiff fight with the e&tu-bhshed representatives of the division which ho contested, he was elected at the head of the poll. Since that time he has been the man of all others in the public eye of! his native city. Whatever position he sought ho secured it. He was High Sheriff of the city some 11 years ago, and were it not for the unfortunate split which divided all Irishmen at that time, and which, not unnaturally, had its effects on the municipal life as well, ho would ihave been elected Mayor of Cork the followhng year. Nino years ago he was elected alderman tor the ward he represented, and has held that position since, and now he enjoys the distinction of being the first Lord Mayor elected to that position by tho popular vote, which is the predominant one in the Council of the, Borough of Cork. He is the representative for the City on the Agricultural Board in the Department of Technical Instruction for Ireland. The exhibition project was his idea alone, and in bringing it to a successful issue he has gathered around him a number of leading representative citizens to whom, ho has impar-i ted much of his own tireless energy, with the result that wherever they go all over the country, from the southernmost part in Bantry or Skibhereen to the Maiden city in Londonderry, they have been received with a remarkable display of public enthusiasm.