People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 26 April 1906, Page 10

People We Hear About

There are sixteen. Jewish members in the present House of C/ommons. Mr. Michael Davitt, who is called the father of the Land League, celebrated his syth birthday on March 27. Cardinal Vincent -Vannutelli will enter on. his /70th year next December. Mr. Charles Santley, the celebrated singer, who is still popular with English audiences, has entered 'on his 72nd year. Mr dWarconi, of wireless telegraphy fame, celebrated his 31st birthday on April 25, and was in Ins 21st year when he took his invention to England. iix- Judge Foster, of New South Wales, treasures in his home the despatch-cox which his grandfather used in the old lush Parliament that sat in Dublin before the Union. His grandfather was Speaker in tuoie days. When r.r.f'er examination in the witness box by the late Sir Frank Lockwood, Henry Labouchere remarked that he had spent between £40,0U0 and £50,000 in law costs-, "'ihen,' said the jocular Sir Frank, 'on b:half of the prolcscion, Mr. Labouchere, I must thank j ou.' Madame Adclina Patti celebrated her 63rd birthday en l-'eLruary 19. fche made her debut at the Academy of Mus.c, New York, in November, 1859, and, accoidm^ to a leading .Lnalish daily, her incomparable voice sill retains muA of its early power and beauty. Ccr.s table Franc sP. Quirk, an officer of Sydney police, who studied in h.t> spaie tame and won his B.A. degree at fcyeney lin.crsity, is about to leave foB Glasgow, to pursue his studies in medicine. One detail ot Princess Ena's trousseau (says the 1 Freeman's Journal ') has a particular romance about it— the lace which it n understood her mother intends to give her. For tins lace belonged to Queen Kathennu of Arragon. It was found some years ago, accoiding to an Knjili-h paper, in a walled-up cupboard in at. James's Palace. Queen Victoria gave it to Pnncess Beatrice, and thus- alter some 40U years an Kiv-hsh Prmcebs baLes back what a Spanish Princess brought. A phenomenon which 1 daresay rather startled the younj; meiiiLer v.lien ho entered the House for the first time (wrues ''i ,P.') was the warm exchange of greetings between old memters who are separated from each other as the Poles by their political convictions. as L'oloi.cl Saunderson entered the House he Idund time lo shake hands with Mr. Redmond ; ,Mr. Walter Long, btand ng at the Bar, exchanged greetings with Mr. John Dillon, and there was some friendly chaff o\er the Lig fight between him and the Nationalists in South Dublin. His Grace the Archbishop of Wellington entered on his ooth on the Bth met., having" been born at the Lower Hanyard, Tixall, Staffordshire, on April 8, lSol). lie arrived with his parents m New Zealand in November, 1842. The late Mr. H. P. Redwood settled soon alter his arrival in the Colony in Nelson, and the iuture Archbishop studied there tor a while under the late Archpriest G-arin, S.M., and aiterwards in France and Ireland. He was ordained priest at Maynooth College on June 6, 1865, and was consecrated Bishop of Wellington by Cardinal Manning on March li 7, 1674. Dr. Redwood was appointed first Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand on May 13, 1887. The South African papers announce the death of Mr. Moses Cornwall, of Kimberley, one of the most prominent Irishmen in South Africa. Mr. Cornwall went out to the, Cape very early in life. He came 2jUJM£o°d stock, one of his ancestors on his mother's .side having "been, hanged as a~Unftecf Irishmanf" On' this side lie had a distant connection with the P>arnells. Mr. Cornwall was one of the pioneers who created the present city of Kimberley, of which he was three times Mayor. He was a staunch Home Ruler, and was the representative of South Africa at the Irish National Convention held in the Leinster Hall in Dublin in 1896. On that occasion he expressed himself very strongly in favor of Irish National Self-Government, in a speech which was warmly received by the delegates. During his residence in Kimberley Mr. Cornwall was the means of sending £2000 to the Irish National funds.