People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 47, 23 November 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

The death has occurred at his home in Toronto of Mr. .Edward Francis Blake, second son of the Hon. Edward Blake, M.P. A committee has been formed at Frauenburg to provide a memorial, there to Copernicus. The famous astronomer spent forty years of his lifa at Frauenburg. The King of Spain's visit to Vienna is to take place during the current month, and he will reside at the Hofburg as the guest of the Emperor. King Alfonso is to be accompanied by the Queen-Mother, who will be the guest of her brother, the Archduke P'rederick, at his palace. Arthur Duffey, the famous amateur sprinter and holder of several world's records, who visited New Zealand a few months ago, has signed a contract with the editor of a physical culture magazine in New York, under the terms of which he is placed in charge of the athletic department of the publication. The Marquis of Donegal, who has just celebrated his second birthday, enjoys the distinction of being the youngest marquis in the British peerage. He is also hereditary Lord High Admiral of Lough Neagh and Governor of Carnckfergus Castle. Three years ago, at the age of twenty-two, his mother, a Canadian heiress (nee Miss Violet Twining), married the eighty-year-old Marquis of Donegal, who was still a remarkably handsome man. She was his third wife. He died last, year at Brighton. The death of De Brazza, the great explorer, recalls the fact, that France has received the most brilliant services from men ot foreign birth or extraction. Those of German birth or extraction were the Marshals Saxe, i\ey, and Kellerman ; of Scotch, Marshal Mac Donald and Marshal Lauriston ; of Irish, Marshal MacMahon and Marshal Clarke But it was from Italy the very greatest Frenchmen came — Mazann, Bonaparte, and now De Bra/za, who captured halt a continent with a corporal's guard and caused the Tricolor to fly from the Mediterlanean to Lake Chad. * The Marquis of Bute has the unique distinction of possessing no fewer than twelve titles. He is the Marquis of Bute, Earl of Bute, Earl of Windsor, Earl of Dumfries, Viscount Ayr, Viscount Mountjoy, Viscount Kingarth, Baron Mount Stuart, Baron Cardiff, Lord ('rich ton ot Sanquhar, Lord Mount Stuart, CUmrae, and Inchmarnock, and a Baronet of Nova Scotia. His Lordship last year issued an order that all his workmen at Rothesay must m future wear kilts of the family tartan. The Marquis is owner of an annual income of nearly £200,000. There are few people outside the Carnegie household who ha\e any idea of Mrs. Carnegie's solicitude for the material comforts of her husband. In this she can be compared to the late Mrs Gladstone Like all good Scots, Mr Carnegie likes his porridge, and has it ser\ed up m real Scotch fashion The millionaire is an caily riser— he is usually out in the grounds at Skibo ', astlc at se\ en-thirty e\ery morning— and, as Mrs. Carnegie will not allow anyone except herself to cook the morning dish, she must get up at least an hour earlier. Mr Carnegie has declared that if it were not loi the fad that Mrs. Carnegie had learned to cook the early morning meal he could not have lived in the United Stales. Many Catholics (says the 'Glasgow ' Catholic Herald ') ha\e doubtless come across the name of Father Ross-of-Bladensburg, S J., and some of our rcadsrs must ha\e encountered its estimable owner. The Jesuits don't hold much with territorial designation, and the hyphened appendices to the ' Ross ' are really integral items of the family name. How the family came to possess it is told m a ' Westminster ' paragraph printed apiopos of an interesting wedding -—Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg, from whose home at Rostrcvor, County Down, the wedding of his niece, Miss Skeffington, cousin of Viscount Masserene and Ferrard, takes place, bears a name which commemorates the Anglo-American war of INLI He is the grandson of General Robert Ross, who defeated the United States forces at, Bladensburg, near Washington, and captured the capital itself. "To his descendants the Prince Regent, by a Royal warrant in 1815, gianted the right to be named Ross-of-Bladens-burg as ' a mcmoiial of hi.s loyalty, ability, and valor.'

At St. Joseph's Convent, Narrandera, on October 29, Sister Mary Alphonsus Ryan passed away to her leward after a short illness. The deceased, who was 32 years of age, was a native of Clonoulty, County, Tipperary, Ireland, and came to Australia fourteen years ago to join the community of Sisters of St. Joseph, at North Gouiburn.