People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 15 December 1904, Page 10

People We Hear About

Mr. and Mrs. Donlan, of . Lawrence, who, hail been on an extended trip to Eirrope, returned to New Zealand last weefk, coming ,via the Bl,uH aj.fci Holiart from Melbounne.

Rev. D. J. O' Sullivan, rector of St. Mary's Church, '' S,t. A 1 bans, Vt., has been re-elected by the Democrats as representative oiver Col. A. A. Hall, the Republican nominee. Fat,her O'Sullivan's majority was 133, the total number of votes cas.t being 1135, Tfiis was tlie only fight in the local campaign, hoU\ parties ptitting fiorth tiheir best eltorts to win the election. Party lines 1 were lgjnoiretd,, many Republicans Voting for the Democratic canfciiHate, and vice versa. Father O'SulliVan.distinguished himself in the last Legislature by the part he took as chairman ot Uie committee on temperance, and wfas ltnrlue-ntial in framing and to the passage" of the high licemse local op turn law. He was also prominent in all the important matters, and was one of the leaders iln the House. His majority two years ago was 260.

Mr. Robert J. Wynne has been appointed PostmasterGemeral of the Unitod States. In apJpsointijQg Mr. vvynne, the President did it with a desire to publicly seal with apiprjojval his Avork as Assistant Postmaster-General in ferreting out) frauds in the postal department duri/ng the recent ' investigation Mr. Wynne was appointed First As*>ii>tant P*stma,ster-Gcineral on April 17, 1902. For •nearly a quarter of a century he had been >a Washington newspaper correspondent, ser"Ving at 'Various times some of tihe' most important newspapers in the country. Mr. Wynma 'had iDot 1 been m the ofhee of the First Assistant many months bctoie he became convinced ttiat some of tihe affairs of tilie deijiartment were mot beilig conducted homestly. (Quietly he set about t© determine for himself wlh'at fiotundatiqn there was for the Qharges. He obtained definite information bearing upon the matter. This he lairi before Postmaster-Gtineral Pay^e amd ,the fresideint. It was upon his first information that President Roosevelt oiderek the inquiry, which is now a matteir of his-tlory. Mr. Wynne is a Catholic and a member of Wasjhunig(lio,n Oou\ncil, Kni'gjhts of CoLunvbdis.

Mr. T. U. Sullivan, the doyen of Irish journalists, who i$ now in his 7,Bth year,, is about tio publisji hiff remilniscances u^ider the title of ' Recollectioms ol Troubled. Timeis' un Irelajntt ' (says the ' Westminster Gazette '). As the autb,or of Ireland's National Anthem and the poet of the Parnellite Paity, Mr. Sullivan is best known un England. Fifty years ago he joined the ' Nation ' staft Un Dublin, ajiid it was as proprietor ante! editor of that journal, when he was LiOirkl Mayor of ,iAiblm in IHB6-7 amd Member of Parliament, that he was imprisoned for Press ollences tinder Mr. Balfowr's ' coercion Alct. While immured for two moiirtlhs i^ TuUamore Gaol he wrote ' Prison Poems,' which forms one of several volumes of verse that he has published. His principal pr,ose publication is a brief life of his brother, tfce late A. M. Soilhvajn, M.P., whom Mr. Gladstone described as 1 the eloquent member for Ltomtih,' a cotnsitituency appropriately represented iji recdnt years by "Mr. Sullivan's som-Jln-law, Mr. T. M. Healy.

Mr. Michael Davilt writes to the secretary of the Miltownmalbay Branch U.I.L. in response tlo an invitation tio become the Parliamentary candidate for West CDare,, staling that he has n!o intemftuom of ' again submitting to tihe penal sen itmde of Parliamentary life.' Mr. Dalvitt's Erieinds will be glad to krnow that his wife, a,n Amenca-n, has inherited some property recently. The in:omo from it is between three artd four hundred per year, anjd its possesskm will relieve Davitt of the anxiety whiciln, of late years, ihe has ©xper-idpiced .in the effort to make ends meet. He was always comparatively |)icfc>r, aitfd the stru^glte ha<d recently become acute. It is twenty-two years since Profesteior Windle, the new Pries idemt of (Queen's College, Cork, became a con\ert, ajiwi since theta he has taken a practical interest in every Catholic movement. When the- Education Committee was formed m Birmingham uh»ler the new Act hp was placed upon it as the Catholic representative. A rioter of 'his was read at the last annual meeting of the Cat)hbli,c Tx/utW Society which was held in that city. Until, he camie to Englamd to take an ap|jfc>intmenfc he lived ail his lite, tr.om the age ot two, in Ireland. He has always described himself as an Irit-hmtan, and is not a little proud of the tact that m Sir Jonah Barrington's list' of members of the last Irish Parliament,' il is great-grandfather, Lord Cihief Justice Bushe, is described as ' incorruptible.'. • - ' ", ;/f; /f 'j

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