People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 50, 14 December 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

Boston has resolved to erect a splendid memorial of Mayor Patrick A. Collins. The committee formed [or the purpose includes leaders of both political parties?, and representatives of several lace-hnes and religions. Some served with Mr. Collins on a similar body for the memorial to John Boyle O'Reilly. Administration was granted the other day in London of the peisonal estate of Li Hung Chang, the Chinese diplomat, a widower and intestate, reported to have been one of the richest men in China. His estate in the United Kingdom has been valued at fourteen hundied pounds, and administration has been granted to his son. Relative to the elevation of Father Duhig to the Bishopric of Rockhampton, a Brisbane correspondent wines . The name of Duhig, or Duagh, takes us back to the history ot St. Colman MacDuagh, the first Bishop of kilmaeduagh, in the barony of Burren, County Clare, who died in October, b'l'6. The name for the most pari nourishes in Limerick. The fact that Lord Londesborough is Hereditary Vice-Admiral of the Yorkshire Coast, may render it ol inteiest to know that other Irish Peers have quaint, maritime titles. Thus, the two-year-old Marquis of Donegall is ' llereditaiy High Adnnial of Lough Neagh' ; Lord Talbot of Malahide is ' Hereditary Lord Admiral of Malahide and the Seas Adjoining,' a title conferred on the head of his family — which is one ol the most ancient m Ireland — long betorc the Peerage creation ; and the Karl of Gosford, is V ice-Admiral o? the ( oast of the Province ot Lister. It is interesting to relate that one play which Sir Henry Irwng announced more than a quarter of a centuiy ago, was ready for the stage, and would, at an eaily date, ifonn a principal item in his piogramme, has ne\er been pioduced On July 26, 187J), Sir Henry Ir\ing, in making a speech before the footlights, at the. close ol his season at the L}ecum, stated that a play m which the leading incidents in the caieer of lloberl Emmet, the leader of the lush insurrection of 1803, would be pointed, had born rehearsed, and would be staged in the following year. The piomise was ne\ei; iulhlled. (Jueen Ainelic of Poitugal, who was born at Twickenham in 18fi5, is consideied one of the piettiest and most fascinating ot the sovereign ladies of- Europe. Her exceptionally tall and graceful figure is always quietly and simply clad, but her se\ere tailor-made costumes bear the indefinable stamp of elegance that always charactenses the well-diessed Fienchw oman. She has a gicat antipathy fen jewels, and only weais them when obliged to do so on official occasions Even as a girl the Queen's greatest talent was nursing and medicine, and there is no doubt tli.it had she been bom in another rank of life she "would ha\e become a lady doctor After a couple of years' haul study, she succeeded in passing with H> ing colors the dillicult examination which entitles her to piaitise as a physician within the limits of Portugal. She is the fust lady born to the purple to become a full-fledged doctor of medicine. Two Inshmen (says the ' Fieeman's Journal') have be (mi piomuieutly identified with the construction of the new thoioughfates ot Aldwych and Kmgsway, London, which \\eie opened by hmg Edwaid recently. Mr. Maui ice Fitzmamice, (' MG , M I.C.E , Engineer-in-chief to the London County Council, is responsible for ihc plans , and for the last two years the woiks havo been condiu ted under the supeiwsion of Mr. Pieice F. Pure ell, C I'] , Engineer to the Works Department of the Connty Council. Mr. Fit/nuuuice conies of an old Kerry family. Mi Puiccll is a sun of Captain Purcell, Chief of the Dublin Fhc Brigade He was educated in Castleknock College, and it only 2T> years of ago lie graduated with distinction in Trinity College, IHiblm, of which he is a 'Senior Moderator and BA. The following particulars will give some idea of the gigantic nature of. the undertaking involved in the construction ot these two great thoroughfares '—About 28 acres ot stieets and slums weie purchased and demolished, nearly 7000 peisons being dispossessed and rehoused in better dwellings. Filty-one pubhehouscs were abolished at a cost ot £180,0(10, the licences being surrendered The land and interests purchased cost £s. (iti i, 000 The estimated cost of the actual construction of the thoroughfares was £500,000.