People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 25 January 1906, Page 10

People We Hear About

Sir Joseph Ward is to be entertained at a banquetby the leading citizens of Wellington prior to his departure for the Postal Conference at Rome. 'The banquet will take place on February 8. Mrs. Thomas Addis Emmet, who was prominent in New \ork society for many years, died in Decmber of heart disease, aged 7-6 years. Dr. Emmet, her surviving husband, is a great-grand-nephew of Robert Emmet According to a contemporary, the eldest daughter Mar, Z m W C * ove ™ or ot Queensland is named Bridget Mary. His Excellency evidently doesn't tavor names Relde^' thC Cheap romances of thG ' London In giving an account of Archbishop Bourne's career as a celebrity at home, the ' World ' says his Grace can never allude to the gentle care bestowed by his mother without the strength of his atfection fo/her being 81110 dau^er ol John Byrne^ This is how Mr. Justin M'Carthy describes hismaiden speech ' in tho House of Commons : 'Although I hid iTVTv' \ T h , mana Sed to get through whit I had to say. And what a relief it was to me to sit down and feel that the trial was over ! I felt il,ri n 1 t C t 1C L Wrnat anyone tnou S ht about me, I was so glad my task was done. But John Bright spoke on come S to ie tl b ;e b ii e ouse.' and SaVe ™ * k^ "«' Mr James Brycc, who assumes the Chief Secretirv ship ol Ireland, is hk e M r. Morley a literary men Sit prudence,' and ' Studies in Contemporary Vography > t ~4^ than I could do when I was thirty. lam always wellThe seventh Earl of Aberdeen, the new Irish Viro tors, and turned out to gue them a national k e - The Marquis o! Ripon, Lord Privy Seal is the only Catholic in the now Liberal Ministry, lie is prudent IndTi rnucT^ J* I™ • he wa^ appointed Viceroy India, much to the chagrin of the Dissenters who held a meeting of protest at Exeter Hall. His poi J in India was not a newspaper popularity The Peopll mourned his departure. peopleApropos of the new King of Norway not many crowns have been disposed of in the last thirty yearl V» Ur °pr^XaJTl^ar^ "ppoSE It will be forty-throe years next March since^ the crown of Greece was bestowed upon the King of Den mark's son George, the brother of Queen Alexandra iSVnt fh b f? °T? cmi tO ° ther Rumor said that the late Earl of Derby might have had ZtToZ^nV^; kS had a ver/high'rpLo?^