People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About

A sister of Sir Robert Hart, . who has retired from the post of Director-General of Chinese Customs; : and -a sketch of whose work in the East during $he last fifty years appeared in a recent issue of this paper, resides in the Northr Island.

Mr. Justice Williams, of Dunedin, has a record for Australasia as a Judge of the Supreme Court, as he was appointed thirty-three years ago. Other New Zealand judges who served lengthy periods were the late Mr. Justice Richmond, who sat for nearly 33 year®, and the late Mr. Justice Johnston, who sat for 29£ years.

""" Among those on whom the M.A. degree was conferred at the University Commencement in Melbourne was t-ne Rev. Brother James Joseph Fitzgerald, of the Christian Brothers' College, Adelaide. Brother Fitzgerald, who took has B.A. degree two years ago, during his connection with the North - Melbourne College, was present at the Commencement ceremonies.

Lord. Dunraven, of ' Sweet Adare,' who might -ybe called the originator of ' Devolution,' is in his 67th year. His father, the late Earl, was a convert to the Catholic Church, having been received into the fold about the same time as the late Lord Emly, Sir Stephen De Vere— and Aubry De Vere. He !is a popular landlord, and owns a big slice of the County ' Li,me-> rick. He is one of the few Irish peers who can boast a Celtic origin, and does not owe his title to corrupt purchase at thetime of the so-called Union.

Col. Arthur Alfred Lynch, who fought with the Boers, was elected M.P. for Gal way, sentenced to death for treason and released, has since been -pursuing journalism, combined with his medical studies. News- has been received by his brother, Captain Lynch, of Smythesdale (Vie), that the soldier-journalist has passed his final examination in London as a physician awl surgeon. Dr. Arthur Lynch, who te a brother of Drs. Peter ans Maurice Lynch, of Melbourne, is also a Master of Arts and Civil Engineer of' the Melbourne University. The Lynch family are natives v of Smythesdale, and are sons of the late Mr. John Lynch, minting, surveyor, who was one of the captains under Peter L'alox in the action with the British soldiers at the Eureka Stockade on December 3, 1854. Dr. Arthur Lynch has been Paris correspondent of the New York ' World,' and has done some brilliant work for other journals.

We opined the other day that Archbishop Colgan, of Madras, is perhaps^the oldest Bishop in the British Empire. The ' perhaps ' was superfluous (says the "Tablet '). We thought it possible that Bishop Cameron, of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, was his senior. We now learn frorw our excellent contemporary, the 'Casket' of Antigonish, Nov,a Scotia, that the Indian prelate holds the record. Archbushop Colgan was born at Do■nore, County Westmeath, on April 1, 1824 ; Bishop Cameron was born at St. Andrew's, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, on February 16, 1827. Archbishop Colgan landed in India in 1844, and Bishop Cameron entered the College of Propaganda, Rome, in the same year. Dr. Colgan * exchanged his title of Bishop of Aureliopolis for that of Archbishop of Madras in 1886, the year in which Dr. Cameron exchanged his title of Bishop of Arlchat for that of Bishop of Antigonish. On Low Sunday was commenced the celebration of one of the most notable events '-in the history of the Catholic Church i^i the United States, when the onehundredth anniversary of the erection of the diocese of New York was observed. The present Archbishop of New York is the Most Rev. J. M. Farley, who is now in his 67th year. He was ordained in Rome thirty-six years ago. Since then his advancement has been marked. At one time Archbishop Farley was assistant rector of the little church of St. Peter's, on Stat&n Island. Then he became secretary to Cardinal McCloskey for a period of twelve years. Pope Leo XIII. created him Chamberlain, y»lth the title of Monsignore, Vicar-General of " the archdiocese of New York, Domestic Prelate, Prothonotary Apostolic, Auxiliary Bishop o£ New York, Titular Bishop of Zengma, and— on the

death/ of Archbishop Corrigan in May of 1902— he was first appointed Administrator, then later in the year the .fourth Archbishop of New York. He is a kindly man, dignified and courteous, a great friend oi the and a loyal New Yorker. He has never done much

writtavg, though once he answered some ' ungenerous and -junjust » remarks of Bishop Potter in the .' Catholic World.'

Many a painted jtbins: has been written with a blunt pen.