People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1906, Page 28

People We Hear About

Although • Rolfe Boldrewood ' (Mr. T. A Browne) nov P i ei^hr al:S TT 0 i d ° n Aug , usfc 8 ' his well-known novel, Koibbery Under Anns, 1 was only published 48 years ago. «r» M i a< !i ame u Cu \ ie> who ls a P' oas aiul practical Cat-h-one lady, has been appointed Professor of General Physics at the Univcisily of Sorbonne, in succession to ; her husband, who, with her, was co-discoverer of L ci q i v m . Although he lost his right arm in a mill accident in his boyhood, the late Michael Davitt was able to *rrf ? a ?v. orn 1l1 lo c us amount of neatly-written manuZ?X W /V} hIS left ' hand - NoL onl y did he write lengthy letters to Irish-American and Irish-Australian journals, but he published about a dozen bulky books. n .I. It 1 . i ?, lundcislood1 undcislood tllat Mr - A - Wilson, the talented aiHl highly respected lector af the Dunedin Boys' High School, is about to sever his connection with that in'f?,^ the end of the present year for t-he pur- £ i I g up the P° sitio » of editor of the ' New Zealand Times.' One of the best-read men of the British Labor Paity is Mr. James O'Grady, the member for East Leeds, who is an. Irishman and a Catholic, and who has already made his mark in the House of Commons He is in his fortieth year, and a furnitme maker by occupation. The names of the following Catholics appeared in the recent Birthday Honors' List -G.C.B. President of Mexico and General Sir William Butler, t i n-n ' geOI1 ; G f" eral Xe °g h . C 'B., Major-General Bart OCoiinor > V - C ' and Su Christopher Nixon, A telegram horn Sofia states that the funeral of the wife of Mr. Pieicc O'Mahony,*- Urangecon, Irefounder of St. Patrick's Orphanage, Sofia, for Macedonian oihpans, wheie she had lesided for the past, two and a half yeais, was attended by Macedon-ian societies, and the people of Sofia.. Telegrams of condolence were received from Pnnce Ferdinand and fiom many otheis in all paits of Bulgaria. Theie were over ten thousand spectators at Stamford Bridge eaily in July, when the Amatour Athletic championships were decided. The high luanp was by C. Leahy, Dublin (holder;, 6ft. lin ; and the lon-g jump by P. O'Connor, Waterfoul (holder) 23ft o£in. The putting the weight championship 'which Morgan, now m America, won iji 1905, was not "defended. A good story of Mrs. Burns is told by the Newcastle Daily Chronicle ' : ' Lady H recently wrote to the wife of the President of the Local Government Boaid i egret ting that, as Grosvenor Square was so far from Battersea, she could not call on Mrs. Burns, but hoped Mrs. Buina would come to her party on the . Mis. Barns replied, declining as Battersea was just as far ■ from Grosvenor Sqiiare as Grosvenor Square was from Battersea.' In connection with the address from the Scottish priests educated in Spain to King Alfonso, it is pointed out that Senor Legido O'Felan, who is the Chancellor to the Spanish Consulate in Glasgow has expressed great satisfaction the-relat. Senor O'Felan is not an Irishman, but his mother is Irish, and. in Spain the custom is to use the name of the father and of the mother, the mother's name coming last The Marquis de Villalobar, who is Chancellor to the Spanish Embassy in London, does not carry out this custom, because, no doubt, of his title. But he is proud of the fact that his mother is an O'Neill which shows to what an extent Irish and Spanish families are associated. The Red River Rebellion of the early seventies which brought Colonel (now Viscount) Wolseley and Captain (now General Sir William) Butler into prominence is recalled by the deatli of Mrs. Riel recorded in the Canadian papers. She was the m'ather of Louis Riel, the leader of the rebel halfbreeds and had attained the age of BS. Riel escaped across the border into the United Sta.tes on that occasion, but in 1885 he headed a second rebellion in North Western Canada, was captured, and executed. By a coincidence Gabriel Dunaount, who was Kiel's chief lietutenant, d-ied almost simultaneously with Mrs Riel, at the age of 68.