People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 21 March 1907, Page 28

People We Hear About

- The Hon. Judge Fitzgerald, who presides at *Ue sensational trial ot -'lhaw, the American milUonaFre, „ was born in county (Jiaie, and educated- at the Jesuit; College, .Limerick.' ' - " _ - Among the distinguished visitors . at present hunting . in Bfljeaiii are two of me young Princes cf Orleans. " They are the guests of Mr. jt\ F. (Jollier, an Ameri- • can sportsman, who has hunted in Ireland for several seasons. He is master of the Meadowbrook hounds, JNew ,YorK State. The Hon. J ohn ' Bqresford Campbell, who has, " been „ appointed" t/he High bheriii of Galway for I»u7, -is the son of Lord StraGhedtfn and Campbell, and therefore the grandson of the celebrated hcot who became .baron -in 1-841, when he was appointed Lord Chan^ - cellor;. of Ireland, a position which -he held lor .six wc-e^s only. The -Hon. oohn Campbell is now a domiciled Galwayman, with a residence at Moyculleh, •in Cofihemara, once the home of the fighting O 'Flaherty s.As Pius" X. (says- the- ' CathoAc Times ') was re-, turning the other day ' from has daily walk in the - Vatican Gardens, three Church digriita. ies of high- rank inquired after his 'health. ' 'lhanit you,' the Pope is, said to have smilingly replied, ' 1 need have 'no, fear, for I know I have yet six years "to live.' When some astonishment was expressed as to what led "him to such a positive prediction, he explained : '' I was vicar at Tomibcilo nine ,years, .head priest nine years at Solzano, • nine years Canon ,at Treviso, Bishop of Mantua and Patriarch of Venice for the same length of time. 1 have been Pope for three years, sci, you see, I have" six years left to me in which to accomplish my task.' 4 I am very glad to hear (writes, a correspondent of the oeylon ' 'limes "') that Mr. Hugh. Clifford is to be our Lieut. -G ovtfrnor, and exceedingly sorry to hear' of - his, wife's death, as 1 have, known them both -for ' over 23 years. He and 1 were boys together— in France, and .in the days of the- high bike had many a ,taur through Brittany and elsewhere, where a bike In those days had never been" seen, and often did we have to run the gauntlet of stones, sticks, and furious dogs through various villages. Clifford was. a- fine boy, _ good cruueter; ' rugger ' player, oarsman ; .and i am sure will be well liked in Ceylon. "They are all " devout - Catholics ; and a young brother of -his, I - think, is a priest.' Six Henry Bellingham, who' some time ago inaugurated at Castlebellingham, County Louth, the' system, of setting up the wayside cross in Ireland, has been a . convert for nearly forty years. He -has given the following account of his conversion : ' The personal example and simple fauh of the Irish poor were the lirst things that impressed -me. I compared it favorably with the class- of Protestants, in Ireland amongst' whom I mixed, and whose doctrines consisted moreen hatred of Rome than in any definite belief. The language they used first irritated and' then disgusted me, and predisposed me tci make At Oxford I was still further impressed by the conversation of many of my acquaintances, especially -of the late Father Clarke, S.J., then a 'Protestant minister and Fellow of St. John's College. .1 always cansid-' ered that my conversion was largely owing .to him.' ■Antoine Watteau," whose fame as a painter- has "been recalled by the discovery -of one of his pictures in Dunedin, was born at Valenciennes, in France, in 1684: Gioing to Paris as H a penniless, youth, and getting employment at the sorriest backwork^of painting, he' began to ' come into his own about the year 1717, when he was niade a member of the Academy.' His wiorth had been so far recognised as to procure him an associate a few years earlier. He died in 1721, at" the age of -37. His paint'ihgs were chiefly small landscapes presenting generally < 'some ' idyll of mock pastoral with r figures ' in court dress. .In virtue of the exquisite precision of their drawing, the, grace of- their'design and the charm and brilliancy" of their coloring, his . works still live, although his reputation as an art- - ist is but .a shadow, of what during his lifetime he en- ' joyed. The largest collection of Watteau's — that .made by Frederick the Great— now belongs to the German Emperor, -but many are in the. hands of English . col-/ lectors. . - • - ' .

Australia produced last" year 15,000 tons o! sugar more than she could consume, ' the figures' being 204,634 tons produced and -189,540 terns consumed.