People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 32, 10 August 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

Miss Florence Nightingale is now in her 85th year. Father Flock, who resides at Shanghai, has received the ' Gold Medal for ' Art and Science ' from the G-eiman Emperor, in recognition of his remarkable typhoon studies. It is proposed to erect a statue of the Marquis of Ripon in Calcutta. The Marquis, while Viceroy of India, proved one of the best friends of the ' native Indian.' He is a convert to the Catholic Church, Recent e\ents in Sweden and Norway remind us that Oscar 11., the present ruler of Sweden, is in his 76th year, and that September 18 will be the 33rd anniversary of his accession. Mr. Justice Day, of England, celebrated recently the 73th anniversary of his birthday at Prior's Court, Newbury, where he was joined by his son, the Rev. Father Day, of St. Francis Xavicr's, Liverpool, and other members of the family. On May 30 at Nazareth House, Ilammersmit/h, London, the death took place of John Griffin, a relative of thogre&t Irish poet, Gera'a Griffin. He was in his 90th year, ha\ ing been born on Juno 24, 1815, at Castleisland, County Kerry. His declining years were happily spent under the care of the devoted Sisters of Na/.areth. Re,-. John J. Farrell, who is assistant pastor of St. Nicholas' Church, Atlantic City, New Jersey, has invented a coin-counting machine that will lighten the labor of ban\ clerks and employees in large establishments, who have to separate and wrap up large quantities of metallic money. Ihe machine will count an a wrap up coit.s and, if desired, print the amount on the wrapper and the date on which the coins are put up. The political unrest in Hungary reminds us that the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will lie 75 years of age on tlie,lßth inst., and w ill have reigned 57 years as Emperor on December 2. Notwithstanding his age and the great responsibility of his position he is still a very acti\e man, due, no doubt, to the fact that he has always lneil a \ery simple life, is a very early riser, and takes a great deal of out-door exercise. Hall Came, who is fifty-twoi years of age, was trained a« an architect. He was for six years on the literary staff of tl c ' Liverpool Mercury ' ; then went to London (that aas twenty-fnc years ago), an-d for a short timelne-1 with Dante Gabriel Ros.setti. The names of Hall Caino.ai.U Mi<-s Corelli arc usually lin! cd together in England But in South Africa, if one may judge by a loadii-g bookseller's first orders for new fiction, Mr. Hall Came is nowhere— 9o copies sufficing while his rival's extend to 320. Viscount Gormanston, who has just celebrated his 08th birtilvday, is the premier Viscount of Ireland. He us al.so Bar/,n Birmingham of Kell.s in Ossory, a title which dates apparently to the second Baron' GorniaustO'ii, born m the middle oi the fourteenth century The 1 recent peer is the fourteenth Viscount, and, like most of Ins predecessors, Lears the cuiious Chiistian name of Jen co. \ iscoimt Gormanston, ' during his term as Govenurof Tasmania, was descnedly popular. lie set a good example to the Catholics of -Tasmania by his genuine i,uty and zeal for Catholicity. Me is now m the enioyment of an Imperial pension, having served his Government employers faithfully and well for years in many climes. One of the greatest of our Imperial statesmen who watched the proceedings in the Parliamentary arena m<m the distant post in which lie was serving the Empire, declared four years ago (saj s Mr. Stead, editor of t-he Review of Reviews') that, in his opinion Mr Redmond was the ablest Parliamentarian in the present Ho he (f Commons. Mr. Redmond is a politician first a nohtu i«iii second, and a politician third. As an individual cno'ty he is almost unknown to any except his intimates. Out he has brought keen intelligence to the sfi-dy of the science of privies. He hris piven his nmrd to if, and snent days and 'nights in acquiring Imw ledge of all the niceties, and rules of Pai hamentarv pnerd-re. He is rmlanassM by no fear of mutinies in his ioir, ,m! he is conscious (f ] eing anno 1 with the maiidato of 'ho lush ni' c As a sponker re is effective, fluent, and (lo'ji'snt, In •< mm uons Ih,>ugh it may anprar to .soipo unr-fioeihe prisms, it is dear enough tnat the only rovih'c linnet ulism which can leep the Emmre lonelier is lim-oi i ilism of the Home Rule strine ImncriaJiMn of tlu> John Bull jingo strain would sierdily wreck the Empnc The homage paid by ih<- colonial Piemurs in coionation j ear to the Irjsh Nationalist leaders was significdnl.