People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 31, 4 August 1904, Page 10

People We Hear About

The memorial to Robert Lours St civ ens, tin, sul^ribed ior by adnmers m Great linUax, the Lmte,d states uls's h , C ES"i oC|h0 C|h. llaS b€CU C ° mplCtWl d m St! -M,uch importance is attached to facial VannMtelli.s visit to Armagh, as no of the Catholic Chiuich resident m Rome has, ,a modern times at a r^h,r ill su f d i/ eiami - ihc '' ut he shuuh cijnoof of the interest taken by IMus A. m the OrcJn Mrs. T P. O'Connor, who has taken up the odiior''f a \?™*? a society paper, has been associated all sh P £™ \\^7 work - Whlie still in h«r teens she was a contributor to several American journals was ior several years on the .stall of Harper Bio/ .he lamous publishers, and since she man ietl Mr T p' UCoj.nor has been a constant contributor to 'the columns of his newsipapers. All Rome ha.s dibctncicl thai Pope Pius has an abundant, sense of hunn.i The other day the Vatican arch, cct, Constant me Schnc.dcr, had oocas on to the Holy Fatiier ,n order 1O1 O submit some plans As he ulas reining, P u ,s \ snnlnrgly .said :\] r '^ c . itiei, do you kmw tihat we arc leUldJ i ' The aichi tut uas aMloni-hcM, but Puks \. : \u'L, ScJmeiuer in German si^nfios just what Sarto means samo tl |am^ a ' tWllor ; Clol<l we from the The Du-ke of \oifolk C^avs tiie 'Freeman's Jourtlu UnaoVVV/h^ '? J r la ' nd Un {h ° of t'u Vnaac,h ( athedia!, has nevei been m our uoimirv be oie Peihaps it he knew a htlle more alwut ii h,s AntHjush Jeanings V()lll(1 11()t 1)Cq(lllU> pn^^ed By the way, lt 1S s<l ,d that the Uches^ of Somerset does not at all rel.oh suncmlcnng her pi credence at Court liuution, to the uumg Durhrss of \\orft>Tl So lone > as, the Duke of Xoilolk was a w idowef the Du L h ss of Somerset took the lead of all the other dud esses hu<^ now she has to yield it to the Duchess of .\orl The Kins, of Italy is very fond of fishing, but it is the on- snort at winch he has no lack One day out tor several hours, and was returning homewaid with a keeper, on foot, w.Ut three poor hsh on a < S li!!, K «r ?CU? CU !" IC Y, m ' L a I>Onr niVul Wlt ' h * magfl.fuent King Mil asked for a light foi Ins pipe, «un|d wilien he had received lt , sm<i w,th scorn . • ou seem to be no i i Jll^ s I V llh rcsard t(> flvhin X T() look at your ah, 1 snould say yoXt were the King.' Ihs JVJaiestv i.i her ml in tlic face, asked wiiv. '()?!,' rpt-ur-ndd tic. ;»ta«"r, • lv- thinks \,.ry mUc h of hunself, rat he sa n, r b«.cly, more ht, to be a king t | Ujl a S p ortlSJll an >' ' Sir Kdwin Arnold's passion f,, r all Ihmtrs Ja*) ( inese is well known When in Tnkio he would icsi'do crtily bu the nati,\e qmutei ot the city, aaid it is suid tiwt, ,n olden to eva,cle the legulation rhat forcible as, u'nlc-ss the sei\ants of Japanese, must rc^le m Uie foieiwi quar(•r, hc| cmr^cd hnnsel! at a nonnnal sal-arv a.s tutor to he thildicii ol a wealthy Japamese RWitlcmaji. In October, h!) 7l S,r Kdwin was mamed t o Tama KuroKawa, a -Japanese lady, who had received hrr fmishm«-pdut-.it.on in J.>n K iaiKl. The J iUp ,,nese Minister and Madame Kato were pn",pnt on th- occasion Lady Vrm.ld is probably l|he only Japaiu-e latlv beaim,^ iUI ' JrvH f , CJ , n Um \ hmv^ means JeweN of the Dark Jiuei The courtly Japanese Almislci, \is?o.umt Ilavashi owes his career to a cuiimis kirn of Fm tune's wheel' He was a jouns; student at Innetsify College London, whenthe -mat rebellion brrtke out in Japan and tihrowin.ee in his lot with H u > rebels was t<>,k( n prisoner conHncd ,n a wooden cat^e, hm\ duly scnte-nctid L death' Jor woeKs he w- a . ted with Uie gfim fctoieis-m of the Oi Kintal tor uv summons to his oxecutk* anil one "voijuns the door of his caee was opened arid he was led Corth as he thought, to his death. liut the tide of rebellion had pasted, and the Em-pcror, awakened lo tihe uvl needs of his lou'nliy, was seeking FnHishfJ,)pa.kina: Japanese whom he could seild to Kncrland and \meiua to wtHjfdy Western mshl-utions and Western moOhods in older (hat W.cv iniphL be intr(vluc-(M into t)'ie I and of tihe Rism^ lSl , n . Tadaslv, llnva-slii was otrored the chairr of hemo one ot tlip hand and as soo.il as (he svdieme was cxpl.nnrt] to him he !scu/c*d the oixp.oiMtutv, tor he saw fhat (he Kn^poior's moio-t was fai .ihe.ad of a ny of Hie ren olut imwry schemes of yoi-.nc; J.wan Thus it, came about tliat at twentv-tw-o vouuk Ilayash. fourrrl afn^sHf secretary to the Japanese Lmbassy Lo the Courts of Europe