People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 47, 20 November 1902, Page 10

People We Hear About

Cardinal Gibbons, it is said, expressed his disapproval of an elaborate celebration of his silver jubilee this month and the project has been abandoned. The Cardinal thought it inadvisable in view of the large numlately smular observances that have been celebrated The Rev James Mackintosh, who, on account of failJ£&Ji« i ;; i i l dS il , oljli^ wma time ago to resign his position at the Glasgow Cathedral and seek a milder cliM«r«lri a '\ ilt Antipodes (says the Glasgow • Catholic a *£) I attached himself on arrival to the diocese of Auckland News has just reached Glasgow that Father n ££S n 1 °h Sh ha \ bG T aS , kcd by the Bish °P of Auckland to accept the pastorate of an important, rising suburban SamTSf PaiSn °H Auckland/j-ejolciiig in &c UStSffi name of Parnell. His many friends in Glasgow will reJinlJ ml C hi. tO nn e w a ss P here hiS **"" he&lth and rapi * Potion The Beef Trust in the United States will throw together exporting firmj, whose aggregate properties run in value up to a total of over £30,000,000. Among tho | foremost directors of the new Trust will be the Cudahy brothers, John and Michael. Both are Irishmen and Catholics, who emigrated to the States in early life, and I have since, 1 waxed wealthy through the operation of Irish industry and Irish brains. Few Irishmen who emigrate succeed to such an extent, but the success of the Cudahys proves that, given equal opportunity, Irish acumen will hold its own in any field. i + + T he , Champion,' which has been seized owing i I? i> ballk u ru Ptcy proceedings against Mr. P. A. McHugh i \h»U k\r J)} x mt6r « s ting career. Originally it was edited by Mr. Edward Gayer, a journalist of the old profY™ school, who never received payment of an account | Horn a lady without handing her back something ' tx> i ouy a hat. It was afterwards published by Mr T ! * f ll &* ni T' H and , t] }2 n the editorship passed into the hands I of Mi . McHugh, then a professor in tho Sligo College of the Immaculate Conception. He continued the dual duties for some time, and then devoted himself entirely to the newspaper, which, as is well known, he made one of the most vigorous organs of National opinion in the West of Ireland. Mr. McHugh is a thoroughly whole-souled insh patriot, making many heroic sacrifices for his dearly loved country. *' A singularly large gathering of Catholics representative of all classes assembled on September 24th at Carenno near Lecco, to attend the funeral of Don Albertario late editor of the ' Osservatore Cattolico,' Milan. 7u Al '-> ertarl ° s influence as a journalist was widely felt throughout Italy, and it is said that a copy of his paper lay regularly on the Holy Father's table at the Vatican. Ho was above everything a combative pressman For suavity of tone he had a certain contempt. Endowed with a fine i hysique and a powerful voice, which caused him to i,o compared to O'Connell, he indulged in fiery periods, that excited enthusiasm amongst his friends lonu' 0 ! u had no laI 'K° part in his articles, and when in 18 I JB he thiew himself into the cause of the toilers his advocacy of it cost him three years' imprisonment. He bore the hardships of it in a manly spirit, but they told upon his constitution, and he was never perfectly well from the time of his lelease. His death at the present moment is a serious loss to the Church in Italy He was, i,s it wcie, a connecting link between the forces of labor and the ecclesiastical authorities. A convinced Christian Democrat, he was also a most dutiful son of r^htiTtl^HotrSee 3 .^ 7 O^ ortu^ to defend the Tho hero of the Calliope incident (writes a correspondent of MAP) was Commander Kane, not Came, and the Aenue was the icef-lined roadstead of Apia, m Samoa m the J acilic Ocean. The hurricane in which the Calliope and her gallant company figures so creditably fell upon Apia on St. Patrick's Hay, 1889, and the two brave Irishmen whose pluck and resource saved the British man-ot-war must June had their patron samt interceding for them on that awful day. The other six men-oi-war in Apia at that (ime~three Germans and three ai , 11 f STS T» WCrC fTallf T all h°lJclesslyh °I Jclessl y wrecked. A memorable featuie of the affair occurred when the Calliope was forging her way out of the roadstead, through the narrow channel in the coral-reef to the comparative safety of the open ocean. As the English ship struggled on, with full head of steam up, and yet only making one knot an hour, as the R alu was dead in the eye, she passed the last An.oncan vessel just as lt was sinking. The American sai lois, earned away with wild enthusiasm by the dogRed hetoism of the ' darned Britishers,' forgot for the moment their own impending danger, and loudly cheered the gran-faced Jack Tars on the outgoing ship. KearAduiLral Kane retired from the service three years ago with a modest C B. on his breast to remind him of that blinding day in what ho does not regard as the 'Pacific ' Ocean ; but his compatriot Bourke, who should have had something, accoiding to Kane himself, got nothing JJourke was the chief eticrineer of the Calliope, and if he had not proved himself the right man for one of tho toughest jobs that over fell to a member of his profession, the frame of tho British ship would now be Ivinir with the pthe:s on the reef at Apia, fulfilling tho inglorious mission of a roost for the seabirds