People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 20 February 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About.

Chnfch' ChJ^^^-^ ud^' pastor of St - Finbar's *£j V ?u ag0 ' and edl tor-in-chief of the 'New World - Sr reS,r * e S, at^ayioot a con V £y° vp on R rm. the -. titie ° £ P°^ « M A AuJrfit Be n ?? a ?' wno / will make *»r second tour of Australia and New Zealand next year was in a«s S al f « in kl VX ' Madaffie **a*dt is 7 s&ty!tw 0 ■ ytars. ?Lr g P '• Sbe Was educate d at Grandchamp Convent 18?2 %H rf W T ih ? Paiis Conservatory pr£e & in 1872 %J ?r \ h ? r . d f bu t at the Comedie Francaisedn X Ih St ™f ted London in 1879 » and AmericaSSfiSettr^ tU haVi^ K arv r is Cl tL iTr 1 - the ~ a S ed Emperor of Austria-Hun-S,- i'«J n y - Ilvlns sovereign who can boast of having led an army in actual combat with an enemy It Si fa TsiS^thX"^? 6 th , e ascension ot Franc * J°?£\r i V hat he turned the fortunes of the day at the bloody battle of Santa Luci a by a magnificent ofd Va y Ar?^ r f led T. T in person b y* he then ndneteS-yS-tLrJ~ ? % •* H i- S • dra e°<> ns cashed through the S tev loni\ Sardl ' niaM and captured the guns which all day long had poured a murderous fire into them«£Sr 1 ir fl s ie S^oS°d a 'a withouta sci * m '- th<w^ +>,«% Charles Santley, the veteran vocalist, who spent S? £lISl 1S £ ma f hOl 4 days wilh Natives in Liverpool, vSted the Produce Exchange in the city, with which he SLtSS^S* p U eariy , i ife " He had an enthusiastic,' reception. Mr. George M'Kibbin, one of the oldest provision brokers, alluded to Sir Charles going into his. SK office in 1849 and remaining about five yeafs .The people- of Liverpool, he said, were proud of Sir £52 ' nd + u hop^ the - Oit y Council would confer thefreedom, of the city upon him. Sir Charles made a. happy speech m reply, giving recollections of his early lite in the provision trade and the misgivings which had WhMl he d6CHed *° lf » c tt «« 1,1 The * ai . ser has ' Dee n able to solve the difficult proDiem of being a generous employer and at the sanre time earn substantial 'profits in connection with the Imperial pottery works which he established at Cadinen some years ago. His workmen live in neat 'little cottages built for them by their Imperial master, which they are enabled to occupy at low rents. Each cottage has a garden, and is constructed on the most approved sanitary methods. Every workman receives an old-age pension, or a life-long pension from the time at which he becomes, through accident or illhealth, incapable of working. The widows and orphans of the workmen are provided for on the same generousscale, all the funds required for these purposes toeing: taken from the profits of the business. The workmen are thus made 1& feel that they have a direct interest in the concern, while they, on their side, do their utmost to turn out the best possible products. A recent issue of the San Francisco ' Monitor contains, under the caption ' A Precursor of Luther Burbank,' an interesting sketch ,of the late Mr. A. D Pryal, an Irish arboriculturist, who .went to San Francisco in 1853. We (' Aye Maria') are told that ' for years he sent trees and plants from his nursery to all portions of the Pacific coast. He established ' a reputation • for fair-dealing and honesty that was second! to none among nurserymen. His trees and plants were always true to name, a desideratum much desired by tree and plant-growers. At an . early date in ' tne State's history, he began experimenting by raising new plants and trees by means of hybridizing. Some of his creations were exhibited at the fairs and won prizes years 'before Mr. Luther Burbank becarce a-resident of the State. Mr. Pryal sold the latter many trees which the Santa Rosan used in his experiments ' Two years ago Professor Brewster showed that the " 'California^ « Wizard ' Burbank has been able to do, in part what he has accomplished, « because of the work of one clear-headed priest '—Abbot Mendel, a famous Aus-r trian monk of the .middle nineteenth century ;- and now. it 'appears • that Mr. Burbank has also been .indebted to the work of a clear-headed Catholic layman in our own country. An imitative wizard- at most.