People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 4 December 1902, Page 10

People We Hear About

On Wednesday, November 19, his Grace the Archbishop of Adelaide completed his 56th year. tt ,Tli?, Tl i? ' Oss ervatore Romano ' severely criticises Mr Hall Caine's play, ' The Eternal City,' especially its treatment of the Pope and the Holy See. The Duke of Norfolk has accepted the invitation of the Arundel Town Council to become Mayor of the ancient borough for the ensuing year. His Lordship has previously filled similar offices at Sheffield and Westminster. TOIrtUMi. Lady Jerningham, wife of Sir Hubert E. H. Jernintrham late Governor of Trinidad, and formerly Governor of Mauritius, and prior to that M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed, died on October 9 at her residence, Longridee y^ti'a^ affeCti ° n ° f the heart sge The only surviving daughter of the late Sir Anthony Brownless, the Chancellor of the Melbourne University died recently in London. She was buried at Bromoton according to the rites of the Catholic Church to which her father, during his early days in Melbourne, became* convert Her three young sons, Russell, Neville, and Granville Robertson, were the chief mourners. The bye-election for Orkney, the outcome of Mr J C. Wason s secession from the Unionist party has' re^ su ted in the return of Mr. Wason as an Independent Liberal. He polled 2413 votes, Mr. Wood (Radical) 2001 and Mr, Angier (Unionist) 750. Mr. Wason was Bo impressed with the inaction of the Government in pushine on a comprehensive Land Bill lor Ireland that he, after t-7h"?U Hr I**1 ** ■ > y est »? f J reland > severed his connection w w e « v . moms . ts - Mr. Wason sat at one time as member for Selwyn in the New Zealand House of Representatives. XW.HH7Madame Albani, who was the bright particular star of this year's Bristol Musical Festival, is a Canadian and like Bernhardt, and other stage celebrities, a convent pupil The Sacred Heart Convent, Montreal, has the distinction of educating the lady who is considered, probably, the most popular vocalist of her sex in the Mn f ak t ing W ° rld - Jt iS 30 y earS SinC * She took Jhnn h I m ?n , , aI J °P emtic appearance, and since then she has not yielded an inch of the position she quickly attained alike on stage and platform. Queen Victoria had a great liking for Albani's sinking, and showered on the gifted Canadian many marks of queenly favor and esteem. Sir Thomas G rattan Esmonde, who went to Rome to present to the Holy Father the congratulations of the Irish Parliamentary Party, was born at Pau just 40 yeais ago. He has been a chamberlain of the Papal household for the last four years, and was a member of the House of Commons for more than four times that 1 fiOS aF r?u etCy ° nC ° f tHe ° ldeSt; lt datGS frOm o?)t id^. Al'A 1 ' Th ° mas ls ">« 31 th of his line. He was nn-td^v, o^- boy— when he succeeded to the title on the death of his father, whose marriatre with a Grattan had gi%en Sir Thomas a double line of Parliamentary forebears He himself married in 1891, Miss Alice Donovan, of Frogmorc, Tralee, County Kerry He has made somewhat adventurous travels in America, Africa Australia, and the South Sea Islands, the record of which his own hand has written. It may not be generally known that Fanueil Hall tmn nf 1 ?*! 8 suildl5 uildl . n * ™ Boston where the -reat Convention of the American United Irish League was held .reLibertv 1 ' 8 S l7 le t in the^L 68 '*!" Cmdle of Amori<2i not ! ♦ r. ♦ wa V n this historic structure that the Patriotic Boston • tea party ' met to celebrate the desS°" ° f the English cargoes of that commodity in the city s harbor, and which marked the initial stage in the subsequent victorious struggle against the British forces Nor is its connection with glorious chapters in American w^'wX^Ti* 0 t hh £ WW - r ° f Independence. WiE fts walls WilJ am Lloyd Garrison, the great friend of netrro ™^?fh OI VV rred the . national conscience in revolt against the State connection with slavery. * n , Xt W n U + b0 J velcorn c n^s to those who are old enough to recollect George Francis Train, who created such a sensation in Ireland a quarter of a century ago to /lk'or (S n7 t t he Freenian>s Journal ' that the wfmlerful In h «' 4"tr itor> P svchic v telepathist, etc . now iii his 7oth year, has his autobiography in the Press. JJ cc m of , our - V . OUII £ readers may need to be told that ZIT/L fi ran i C1 5- Trn V n . , WaS feled in th « most unique style by the ladies of Cork, and receded quite a royal ovation from the fair dames of the city by the Lee. His forthcoming book, Mv Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands ' will be at least entertaining, and a H,?rnw XO ™^ tor lieI ieS ' ?e? c tells a talc of the late Li Hung Chang with whom he was once travelling from Hong Kong to Shanghai on the P. and O. boat the S" nYn Vp Tt . appears that Li was intensely interested in Mr Train s walking exercise on deck, and the great ( hineso statesman inquired of the first officer why i.eoige Francis was daily promenading When told that !.- T£ S r£*- r excrc i. s , e -' L * Huil & Chang was fairly amazed. *v w Chinese. tn , ou ff h ye industrious, cannot fathom the Western idea of what they regard as so much ' unnecessary work.' The great dignitary thereupon scorntully said, Number one foola.' Georp-e F adds- 'I hardly need explain that "number one" throughout the East means tho superlative degree.' b»uuu me