People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 1 October 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About

The Archbishop of Boston has acquired The Pilot of that _ city. It is one of the oldest and most influential of Catholic journals. Miss Katherine Conway, who had beeiT editor of The Pilot for some time, has joined the staff of the Boston Republic, owned by ex-Mayor Fitzgerald. Donohoe's Magazine has ceased publication. Its subscription list has been purchased by the Catholic World offtew York, published by the Paulist Fathers. Mr. John Pius Boland, M.P., has represented South Kerry in the House of Commons since 1900. He is an accomplished . athlete, and distinguished himself in sports at the Universitj'. He was among the successful competitors at the Olympic games held at Athens in 1896. Mr. Boland was born in Dublin in 1870, and was the second son of Mr. Patrick Boland of that city. He was educated at the Oratory School; at Christ Church, Oxford (where he graduated M.A., and was president of the Newman Society), and at Bonn University. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1897. He married, in 1902, Eileen, daughter of Dr. Patrick Moloney, of Melbourne. His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster, who took the leading part in the recent Eucharistic -Congress in London, was born in Clapham in 1861. His father was Henry Bourne, of the Post Office Department of the Civil Service. The future Archbishop was educated at Ushaw ; at oid Hall, Ware ; at St. Sulpice, Paris, where he received the diaconate in 1883 ; and at Louvain University. In ISB4 he was ordained by Bishop Coffin, of Southwark, and spent the next five years as assistant priest at Blackheath, Mortlake, and West Grinstead. He left West Grinstead in 1889 at the call of Bishop Butt to found the Diocesan Seminary at Wonersh. In 1895 he was named Domestic Prelate to Leo XIII., and the following year he was consecrated titular Bishop of Epiphania and Coadjutor to the Bishop of Southwark, whom he succeeded in April, 1897. While yet the youngest member of the English Episcopate ,he was transferred in August, 1903, to the Archbishopric of Westminster in succession to the late Cardinal Vaughan, and received the pallium in November of the same year. Among those raised to the peerage by King Edward on the occasion of the bestowal of the birthday honors was the Hon Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and now a member of the Privy Council, the son of John Fitzpatrick, of Quebec. Born in 1853, he was educated at Quebec Seminary and Laval University (8.A., LL.B.), called to the Bar, appointed Crown Prosecutor for Quebec District, 1879; leading counsel for Riel 1885, member of Quebec Legislature 1890-92, refused portfolio in De Boucherville Provincial Government, 1891 ; having resigned his provincial seat, was returned to Dominion House of Commons for Quebec County, 1896 ; Solicitor-General, 1896-1901 ; Minister of Justice, 1901-06. Sir Charles (a statesman who by his character and .his ability strengthened thi Laurier Government during a time of difficulty as to the settlement of the Manitoba school question) retired from the Cabinet to succeed the late Sir Henri Taschcreau as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of, Ottawa in "1906. Sir Joseph Ward, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of this Dominion, who celebrateu on Saturday the twenty-first anniversary of his entry- into politics, -and was the recipient' of several presentations on that occasion, is almost wholly a New Zealander, for he came here from Victoria (his birthplace) with his parents when quite a child. 'iney settled in the Awarua district, and there the young man early set about making a living. 'After •receiving an- elementary education he entered the Postal Department as a messenger when he was thirteen years old, but he soon resigned to take a place in a merchant's office. Next we find him in the Railway Department — that was thirty-two" years -ago. A year later, when he was twenty-one years of age, he set up for himself in business in the grain trade. About this time he was elected a .member -of the Campbelltown Borough Council, and was later on Mayor of that borough for five years. For. many years he was member of the Bluff Harbor Board. He entered Parliament for Awarua in- 1887. Shortly after the election of 1890 he entered the Cabinet as. Postmaster-General, and three years later became Colonial Treasurer. Since then he has held many portfolios, but it is especially as PostmasterGeneral and Minister of -Railways .that he has made his mark. In 1901 he received the honor of Knighthood, Sir Joseph Ward is a very keen, powerful, arid fluent debater, and very popular among men of alt shades of political opinion in Parliament.