People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 28 May 1903, Page 10

People We Hear About

iv> a^s u^ 3 - Shanahan, an Irish Catholic boy (says the Michigan • Catholic'), won first prize in the oraiw m" at the « fc ato University of lowa, and Eugene Marshall, a colored Catholic student, carried off the same honors at Ann Arbor University. it™" v report p d that Sir Henry Blake, the Governor of Hong Kong, whosp term of office expires this year, is to be transferred to Ceylon, in succession to Sir West Ridgeway. It is believed, however, that Sir Henry will ,m ¥ il^ Coylon f or \ short time only, and that he takes Pj h P, appointment merely in order that he may seive the qualifying period for a colonial pension. i • + T5 c Xin S.? f Denmark, who celebrated his 85th birthday recently, is still wonderfully active and ener1C + r AISA 1S ye , arSl Hi - S u P ri £ht soldierly figure little suggests the veteran which he is, and he still adheres to the early to bed, early to rise ' principle which he has always practised, and to which perhaps his continued good health may be ascribed.

Iho English Protestant Reformation Society must be considerably disturbed by the action of Royalty, for hot foot on the news of King Edward's visit to the Pope comes the intimation that Rev. Father Vaughan S J before leaving Dublin, where he had been engaged in preaching a course of sermons, lunched with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and

Miss Lucy Douglas, who has just been appointed iiv structor in horticulture for County Louth, under the County Committee of Agriculture, is the first lady to hold such a post— in Ireland at all events. Miss Douglas received her first training at the Bctanic Gardens, Masnevm, under Mr. F. W. Moore, the Curator She has since made a special study of fruit culture, and recently gained a prize for a practical demonstration in pruning, organised by the Gardeners' Association

• £?n,? n , £ urlos « ]} y sOIUO Spaniards regarded as the nyhtful King of Spain, and by others as the Pretender is now 55. The title of Alfonso XIII. rests on an abohtion of the Salic law by Ferdinand VII., which, according to Don Carlos and his followers, was unconstitur tional. In 1873 Don Carlos entered Spain, announcing that ho came to sa\e his country. He fought for two years, first against the Republic, and then against Alfonso XII., and on losing Toloso, in 1875, fied to France whence he was expelled in 1881 for intriguing with the Comte de Chambord. He now lives quietly at Venice. To-day, May 28, is the 73rd birthday of the Right Rev. Dr. Torreg-giani, Bishop of Armidale, who was bom m Italy in 1830. In his 17th year he entered the relvgious Order of Capuchins, at Camermo, in Uinbria, on the least of St Elzear, whose name he subsequently took m lehgion. When raised to the priesthood, m 1853, he piotioded to England, where he was distinguished by his untiring labor and yeal at the various Capuchin missions at Peckham, Pantasaph. and Pontypool, of the last named of which he was the founder and rector when he iecei\ed the brief of his appointment to Armidale Ho was consecrated Bishop on March 25, 1879, and arrived in Australia towards the end of the same year. A prize of £50 presented to the Irish Literary Society of London by Sir Thomas Lipton, to be given for the best essay on the Irish language, has been awarded to Patrick Lynch, late pupil teacher at Trim Model School, and now a student at the Waterford Training College He is a son of My. Finian Lynch, teacher of Kilinakerm National School, Promod/an establishment that since the starting of the Gaelic movement has achieved great success in the teaching of the national tongue.

As the Earl of Dunraven took a prominent part in the conference between the Irish landlords and tenants the following particulars of the Wymlham-Quin family will be of interest :— Wvndham is a Welsh family connection, but the Quins are as Irish as was Brian Boru, and their name is perpetuated in Clare, from whence they came, in the Barony of Inchiquin. In 1645 one Thady Qurn acquired some lands near Adare, and in 1711 his graiu\son, W Quin, MP. for County Limerick, purchase* the Adare estates of the Earl of Kildare. His descendants were first created Viscounts Adare, and subsequently, as a result of a man iage with the heiress of the Wvndhams of Glamorganshire, Earls of Dunraven The beauti fml manor house of Adare was designed and built by the second Earl, and is a specimen of what can be done by native labor working on native stone. The architect was the Earl himself, the material used is the gray limestone of the district relieved by blocks of sandstone from tho County Limerick. The work was altogether accomplished by local labor, carried out under the superintendence of an Adare stonemason. On the front ol the magnificent Tudor mansion is carved the following inscription 'This goodly house was erected by Wvndham Henry, Eai 1 of Dunraven, and Caroline, his Countess, without borrowing, selling, or leaving a/ debt, A I> 1850 ' Tho Earls of Dunraven were not alone the builders of their own house and fortune. They rebuilt the village of Aciaie and made it what it is now, one of the beauty si ots of Ireland. The imposing ruins of the Ceraldme Castle wei c carefully preserved. The Augustinian abbey has been lestored and converted irfto the Piotestant parish church, while the Trinitarian abbey was fitted up and presented to the Catholics for a church by Valentine, first Earl of Dunraven,