People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1909, Page 1108

People We Hear About

Rev. Mother Mary Aubert, of the Sisters of Our Lady of Compassion, whose charitable and philanthropic work in Wellington has met with the support and appreciation of all classes, has just entered on her seventy-fifth year. Miss Florence Nightingale entered on lier nintieth year on Wednesday, May 12. It is 55 years since she went out to the Crimea, with the support of Mr. Sidney Herbert, then Secretary of War, and organised a nursing service for the troops. According to a letter received by Dr. O'Donnell, of Melbourne, Mr. J. T. Donovan, who, with Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P., was, in 1906, an envoy to New Zealand of.the Irish Parliamentary Party, is threatened with serious chest disease, and has been ordered to the tropics for change of climate. Last year, when Blessed Gabriel of the Congregation of Passionists was beatified, his brother, a man of severity, was naturally an object of curiosity to many. Similar curiosity was manifested in Rome by the presence of sisters and nephews of some of the 34 martyrs who were beatified in St. Peter's recently. Two sisters and nine nephews of the priest, Pere Neels, martyred in China; one sister and three nephews of- Pere-Neron, martyred in Annam by decapitation, and a nephew of Bishop Stephen Cuenot, who suffered martyrdom in the same manner, were received by the Pope. London has just ' discovered ' a remarkable artist in the person of Rev. Father Hickey, an Irish priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor. Soon after his ordination Father Hickey showed such artistic talent that his Provincial allowed him to take regular lessons in art. Father Hickey later on studied abroad, and visited in turn the great centres of Catholic art at Rome, Florence, Venice, Perugia, Munich, and Assisi. The remarkable thing about Father Hickey's method of work now is that he never makes a preliminary sketch, but attacks the canvas xight away with his brushes, and finishes the picture by the aid of- his eye and hand alone. Father Hickey, who is now in his 37th year, has completed a very life-like and expressive portrait in oils of the Archbishop of Westminster, and he has, besides, many other commissions on hand. The Westminster Gazette says that two of the English Catholic prelates recently assembled in conference at Westminster — Dr. Casartelli, Bishop of Salford, and Dr. Amigo, Bishop of Soxithwark — bear foreign names, but both were born on British soil. Dr. Casartelli first saw the light in Manchester in 1852, the son of an Italian emigrant from Como. Dr. Casartelli is an M.A. of the University of London, and a Doctor of Oriental Literature by grace of the University, of Louvain. He has written various works on Oriental subjects, one of which has been translated by a Parsee priest. He was Rector of St. Bede's College, Manchester, before his appointment to the Bishopric of Salford. He has interested himself in a number of Maiichester activities — president of the Statistical Society, the Dante Society, and various other organisations. His Lordship Dr. Amigo was born in Gibraltar in 1864, and ordained in 1888. He ministered in Stoke, Newington, Brook Green, Commercial road, and Walworth before he was appointed Vicar-General of Southwark in 1902. A couple of years afterwards he became Bishop, in. -succession to Dr. Bourne, promoted to the archdiocese of Westminster. The death took place at Croydon (England) recently if Mr. Henry Driver Holloway, head of the firm of Messrs. Thomas Holloway, makers of Holloway's pills and ointment. His original name was Driver, but when he inherited control of the business, of which he had previously been manager, and a large fortune from Mr. Thomas Holloway, iiho founder of the firm, he changed his name. The wealth which the original Mr. Holloway amassed out of the sale of his pills was enormous. Another pill-maker who did remarkably well in his business was Mr. Beecham. He was born at Oxford 87 years ago, was trained as a chemist, and he began business by selling pills from a small stall in the open Market at St. Helens.. One of his custpmers, it is said, made the remark that his pills were 'worth a guinea a box,' and the phrase ,so struck Mr. Beecham that he at once adopted it. Through judicious advertising — at present the advertising, bill is said to be well over £100,000 a year — the business extended till Beecham became a household word the world over, and the owner of it amassed a considerable fortune. Mr. Beecham, who was a man of tireless energy, relinquished the control of the business a dozen years ago to his son,, Mr. Joseph Beecham. _^______________