People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 2 April 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About

/ ? race , Archbishop Dunne has been forty-four l*£Lter?7m f ' h<lvin S" arriv^ ln thatjDolony fa r«rJ2T£ S ' aimo , unced recently that the King had con- '££?«*• H Cal rank of En^ Extraordinary and MhL ?!£• PI £ m P°. tentiaJ T «Pon Lieuteuaut-Colonel Sir JoSi pffi ,™ rmr * n & t j on > at present Jus Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor Menelik 11. of E^iS, Sir John is an Irishman a nd a Catholic. - »mnn"^ n + £ armen ss y lva i s the only working journalist *T SLfi r ownert liea , ds o£ Kurope ' but * er **w •Sirf late , years ad(!wl a bookseller's shop to the Sa L°tU h ? H ta '\ This may be . see * « Bucharest, opeU* rboSop 5 SJTiS. trade -; tGly * A p S \, are a i wavs ' interesting, and just "now it "is: T I Mr. Wm. O'Brien is only 56;.. Mr TS n (5w m l" d 1S + a T ar older I Mr ' T.M. Healytes3: J^Tt,>/ Secretary for Ireland, although of -a shorter political career x than any, of the gentleiren named, is ttoeir senior in_jears, being 58. i# t Queen Amelie of Portugal has a chemist's shop !n Lisbon, registered m her own' name. This establishment is conducted solely in the interests of charity and, consequently, when the Queen attends to the wants JL?ISS? P e . rs o nallv 7- Sh * often makes' up prescript • ' Sir Rolert' Hart is succeeded in the control of the CMnese Customs by another Irishman, Sir Robert E Bredon Like Sir Robert Hart~who, by the way,- Is .Ms- brother-in-law-he comes from Ulster, before ioining the Chinese Customs Service he had qualified as a medical doctor, and was attacned to the 97th Reciment on entering the Army, in 1867, from which he retired six years later. During the Boxer rising he took part m the defence oKthe Legations, f£r which he holds the bronze medals and clasps. Sir Robert Breflon retired eleven years ago from the Chinese Customs, on completing twenty-four years' service, but re- . joined the sa/me year, and since then Jhe has acted as Deputy Inspector-General. , *<««»» The^garl-of Dudley, who has been appointed" Gover-nor-General of the Commonwealth, »is just over forty years of age. He is a Conservative in politics, but as Viceroy of Inland showed cmite unexpected boldness an sympathising with Lord Dunraven's devolution, scheme— an action which caused him to be much critir«™ < He was Lieutenant of Ireland from 1903 to1906. No Viceroy in- our time (says a writer in the London, 'Daily Mail,') has been -more popular with alt classes of the community in the Emerald Isle, and Lady Dudley and he have performed their social duttes with Bonhomie and tactT' At the same time the •Mail ' writer has a flanking shot at devolution and S!r Antony MacDonnell by ."remarking : 4lt is equally true that in the atmosphere of Dublin Castle he has at times been somewhat too easily led, and perhaps over-iriatched, by the -extremely able but sometimes par- " tisan officials 1 by whom he was surrounded?,' An Irish barrister, describing in the « Sunday Chronicle ' the ' scenes ' during the hearing of the Bodlhn case in Dublin, says : llt was felt that Judge Bodkin was the principal attraction,- by reason of an. incident in r his own career. Some years ago he was con»~ ducting a case before Lord O'Brien, with whom he got into loggerheads, the upshot being that the Chief Justice threatened to order him out of court? At the conclusion of the case, Mr. Bodkin rose. He contrived by his manner and tone to make everybody, including the jddgies, believe that he was going to offer an apology, and .Lord O'Brten, smiling in the most gracious way, replied, ' Certainly, .Mr. Bodkin, we shall be pleased to hear you.' Mr. Bodkin, however, suddenly changed his tone to one of jsreat acerbity. *My Lords,' said he, * I merely wish to say that, in- reference to your lordship's threat to expel me from courtby the police, I can only find one previous instance in which a judge threatened a member of the Barf while conduc-tingi' his client's case, with actual physical violence, and on that occasion, unlike the present, the judge had the cou»*esy and manliness afterwards : toapologise for his conduct.' Next- morning, in- »the > columns of the ' Freeman's Journal,' Mr. Bodkin informed the public that the judge he had referred to wasr the, late Mr. Justice Keogh, and the cbunSeb whom thelatter threatened and 'then apologised to was— Lortf .(then Mr.) O'Brien himself.