People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 14, 5 April 1906, Page 10

People We Hear About

In recognition oi' "the skill *oV Miss. Maud MacCarthy, the- talented" Irish- violinist, a. number of admirers in London are taking steps to make her a presentation of -a -valuable Cremona violin; It is believed-that-with such an instrument Migs' Ma^Carthy .will * surpass even her present fine performances. -Whilst Mr. Lloyd George >was addressing his constituents at Bangor (Wales) one of his audience kept shouting, ' Your father used to drive -a ■ cart and donkey, 1 whereupon the speaker responded : ' Quite correct. The cart quite slipped <my memory ; but I see the , donkey is still alive.' He had silence the rest of his meeting. The Marchioness of Bute is amongst the members of the Royal Irish Society of Antiquaries just elected at the annuaK meeting of that body. Lady Bute is the accomplished daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham, Bart., of Castle Bellingham, County Louth, who is a recognised authority", on antiquarian matters. Sir Menry's home contains a vast collection of curios collected in various parts' of the world. Sir Francis Cruise is Physician-in-Ordinary to the King in Ireland. No case (.says the ' Evening News ') is considered hopeless in Dublin so long as there still remains Sir Francis to consult. He is musical, and in spite of his two-and-seventy years, carries himself bravely among the best of shooting men. The literature of his profession has been enriched by notable contributions from his pen. A romantic wedding toolc place on February 7," at the Catholic Church of Our Lady, Grove Road, St. John's Wood, London, when Sir James Langrishe, Bart., of Knocktopher Abbey, County Kilkenny, and Lucan Lodge, County Dublin, led to the altar Miss Algitha Maud Gooch, only daughter of the late Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart. The bridegroom is in his 83rd year, and the bride is 48 years his junior. He was attended by Sir James Power as best man, and the bride was given away by her uncle, Mr. George Gooch. M. Loubet is one of the few rulers of Republican France who have completed their legal seven years of office. Marshal MacMahon ' came out ' prematurely at the bidding of M. Gambetta ; President Carnot fell a victim to the assassin's dagger a fe.w months before his term was to conclude. His successor, M. Cassimir Perier, succumbed before unwarranted assaults on his personal character ; and in turn M. Felix Faure's term was cut short by sudden death after four years' tenure. M. Grevy served his full seven years and was elected a second time, but resigned after a few months. An analysis of the' New House of Commons has been made, and there have been found among the members a Fox, a Bull, a Wolff, two Lambs, a Finch, a Schwann, a Haddock, a Roche and a Roe. In colors there are Black, Grey, White and Reddy. 'Rural life has its Hills, Field, Brooke, Parkes, Wood, Grove, Hedges, Cane, Branch, Hay and Greenwood. There are a Mildmay and a Rainy, a Rose and a Thorne. Timber has its Hazel, Cherry and Woodhouse. Trade generally is represented 1 by a Baker, Taylor, Glover, Butcher, Mason, Smith, Cooper, and a Whiteley, as well, as Cotton, Holland, and a Remnant. M. Fallieres, the new French President, like his predecessor springs from a peasant family, his grandfather having been a blacksmith in Mezin (Gascony), his father a magistrate's clerk, and himself a lawyer. He, like most Frenchmen, rises early, and takes a very small breakfast. That done and some urgent "business" attended to, he seizes his big stick, just the kind of a stick a man from the country loves, and sallies forth for an hour and a half's walk. He is inclined to be too stout, and it is one of the efforts of his "life to keep himself from gelling unwieldy. He is a well known figure on the Boulevards from this morning's walk.Mr. T. P. -O'Connor, the brilliatft journalist and Member of Parliament), lately paid & visit to . his home in Athlone,| (Ireland's geographical centre. The Tuarci 'Herald' says of his visit: ' Mr. % O'Conftor was accompanied by Mr. William O'Malley, M.P.,, the member for Connemara. Mr. O'Connor, we are 1 glad to say, found his aged and revered mother in excellent health. Mrs. O'Connor is over eighty years of age, but she is still . strong and hearty, ' while her ' gifts as a conversationalist . remain ■ undiTninished. ' Mrs. O'Connor tells many a story of Daniel O'Cbrinell and of the prominent Englishmen and Irishmen of that . period, and her graphic' descriptions of men and events are quite as eloquent as the -pen sketches of her gifted son.'