People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 23 August 1906, Page 28

People We Hear About

niiv Iti i a i x ls . re P° rLcd oE M rs. Craigie (John Oliver Ilobbes) the well-known novelist and dramatist Ihe deceased, like those other lady novelists, Lucas MaJel (formerly Miss Kingsley) and Adeline Sargent was a convert to the Catholic Church. ' iim A M rr ° POS ° F f , a great flghfc which is S° in g on in \ht n? f-, Lol<d , s ,over, over the Earldom of Norfolk, Jl Daly Llnonicle' says -.-There is no money nor Idwls attaching to it-nothing but empty title; but the antagonists arc very much in earnest. The dm Il}I 1 } v ls f ,, hh L eld T at . lhe present time b y the K.,nn L ( ? lfolk - 11 ls Maimed by a fellow-Catholic, J" ' M 2 w^ ra 7' fec &rave and Stourtou. Curiously enough both lie and the duke have married into Loid Hernes's family. The present fight is only a nnnVl^lr, ° l & " tvu^ ]e the resusciatioJ of E Th,H V WaS hCgUh by lhe present Peer's father Stem ton aiS as °' When he Was sim PlyP lv L(ml w rt J?v,i, deatll . has r occuricd of the Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, uncle of President Roosevelt, who had been or many yeais a well-known lawyer of New York Oa giving up the practice of the law about thirty ytais ago, he turned his attention to literature His wife, who predeceased him, was a daughter of Mr John O Shea, for a long period editor of the Nenagh (County lipperaiy) 'Guardian,' and niece of Mr \j, <■ Gll i l > editor of the ' Tipperary Advocated liei distinguished brother, Mr. John Augustus O'Shea who was coirespondcm for the London ' Standard ' in the Franco-Prussian, Uarlist, and other famous Avars diod recently in London. ihm I \t 1S S t lr n nge> f l? iU ', S an anll q. u arian correspondent, i\, , m tlile ) ? i ih(i lal e O'Conor Don was almost h II 77 M ltlen , aS^ The °' Coi '°r Don,' whereas the couect form should be ' O'Conor Don ' The error arose from a confusion of ideas as to the affix Don several eminent schoUis holding that it was he ■disluiguis-lung adjective of one branch . of the OConoi family as opposed to 'Roe.' Certainly Turlogh Ruadh O Conor, giandson ot King Felim U'Conoi, was called 'O'Conor Roe,' from the color of Ms rVnnJh t» m U n e Ca i? ° f hls rival and namesake, 1 uilogh, the allix • Don ' had no such significance tho fifSt Tm mCCt TUIT Ul the name 'O'^'onor Doa 1 for He hist time and ever since the head of the family ivn, U nr t? y S™? " {Yivd ' 0V °»°r D^- ' Alexander, d e ,,? <i dlCd , 1111 1' 1 ,J62o', J62o ' and Wllh hlm e " d^ the descent in the male line of Hugh OSO S O'Conor of Castlerea. The headship of the family g then devolved VLn W ? i? L ??, Or ?- £ Belana -Sare,, who had previously acquued the Clonahs estate, and whose death occuircd in June, IMI. Denis O'Conor Don died in 18 h, and was succeeded m the title and estates by his eldest son, Charles Owen, the late O'Conor Don. Money can purchase many things but not wealth Ihere ore the man who enjoys good health, even though poor, is far better off than the millionairo without health. Mr. Rockefeller, for iStince is voith an enormous sum, and his income is £6 000 000 a year \\ c are told that since 1891 he has' been so delicate that it is impossible for him to eat a hearty h!n .. Oll H lllS estate f of 2000 acres in the Pocantico hills he often works for days at a time in the fields -hoping to regain his strength, but thus far His efforts have been in vain. Alter a day of exer cisc he sits down to a supper of crackers and slammed milk, which is served at a temperature of Js 2-5 degrees, for nothing may pass his lips at a temperature lower than blood heat. Ice has been for years a forlndden luxury for him. Mr Rockefeller must walk every day, whether he wants to or not He often walks from; his home, in Fifty-fourth street, New York, to his oilice, 2G Broadway He cannot smoke cigars, drink wines or liquors drive his fast horses or sail in his fine yacht. Anyone of these pastimes would upset him and make him sick lor months.