People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 2 September 1909, Page 26

People We Hear About

The Archbishop of Adelaide will be^ sixty-three years on November 10. ioo~ Th -?T Bisll £P "f-Wilcannia was consecrated on August 14. IHB/. He will complete his 63rd year on September 21, haying spent over 38 years in Australia. His Lordship is a native of King's County, Ireland. ' - -Cardinal Merry del Val, Pontifical Secretary of State, will enter on his forty-fifth year on the 10th of -next month. He was born in London, his father being at -the time secretary of the Spanish-Embassy, - and his another a member of ail old Waterford family. :For a year or two' after his ordination he was on the mission in the'archdiocese of Westminster. He speaks the English language fluently, and also- Spanish, Italian, French, and German. Dean Freemantle, preaching at Ripon Cathedral, referred to the late Marquis of Ripon as one who , devoted himself strenuously, perseveringly, and religiously to the public good. Though he separated from the Anglican Communion no one doubted that he was most truly a servant of God, and at one with liis brother Christians in his wide tolerance and readiness to co-operate with them in all good work. From first to last his mind was fixed on the interests of the weaker classes of mankind to help and to raise them. Sir Hugh Clifford, Knight of the Pen, now adds K. before the C.M.G. conferred on him nine years ago for services in Pehang (says the London Tablet). In his new honor, Sir Hugh has followed in his father's footsteps, for it is not quite thirty years since the late General the Hon. Sir Henry Hugh Clifford, V.C., received a Knighthood in tne same Order after the Zulu Avar. The new Knight is a great-grandson of Cardinal Weld. Sir Hugh, by the way, is at present administering the Government of Ceylon, his duties as Colonial Secretary being temporarily transferred to another. Of the new colonial knights proper, perhaps the most interesting is a Catholic, Sir Richard William Scott, the veteran -of Canadian Liberalism, who, at the age of 85, can regard Sir Wilfrid Laurier as a very young junior (writes the London Tablet). Sir Richard's service as Secretary of State at Ottawa goes back to the Liberal lease of power under Mr. Mackenzie from 1873 to 1878. During the lonoConservative tenure which followed, he led the Opposition in the Senate; and on the formation of the Laurier Cabinet in 1896 he was reappointed to his old post, from which he retired only a year ago, when his place was taken by that very able man, Mr. Charles Murphy. It was Sir Richard Scott who carried through a Bill 46 years ago empowering Catholics to establish separate schools in Upper Canada — then the name for Ontario. A few years later he became Speaker of the Ontario Legislature, a body which at that time, numbered bub two other Catholics besides himself. The late Lord Ripon was the first Catholic to enter the British Cabinet since the Revolution (says the Freeman's Journal). He had, before his conversion to the Catholic faith in 1877, been, in various Administrations in the Cabinet, as Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for India and Lord President of the Council On his return from India, where he had filled the office of Viceroy, he became a member of Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet in 1886 as First Lord, of the Admiralty, and was in succeeding Radical Cabinets Secretary of State for Iho C>J< - nies and Lord Privy Seal. Mr. Henry Matthews, now Viscount Llandaff, was, after the resignation of Mr t'Jiadstono's Government in 1888, appointed to the position of Home Secretary, and was the second Catholic to enter the Cabinet. Mr. William Monsell, who was created Lord Emly in 1874, and was a convert to Catholicism, held various Ministerial positions, including that of Postmaster-General from 1870 till 1873, but was not a member of the Cabinet. Michael Cudahy, of Chicago, is the oldest of the Cudahy brothers, of whom there are four living and prominent in the commercial and industrial world. The Cudahy family emigrated from Kilkenny, Ireland, over sixty years ago Michael Cudahy was then eight years old. Originally the family settled in Milwaukee, and Michael was employed in a Milwaukee packing house when only fourteen years of age. All of his brothers took up the same line c.f work. In 1873, Michael Cudahy became a partner with Armour and Company. The Cudahy Packing Company was organised about twenty years ago, and has its headquarters at Omaha, St. Joseph and Los Angelos. The Cudahy Brothers Company located at Cudahy, Wisconsin is a separate concern. Some years ago Michael Cudahy showed his interest in the Catholic University by a donation of £10,000. Since that time he has been a trustee of that institution. From a redent bond circular, issued by Lee, Higgison, and Co., of Boston, it appears that the Cudahy Packing Company has assets amounting to £4,000,000. • And its" sales average over £14,000,000 a year — surpassing the entire foreign trade of England in the days of Queen Elizabeth. The annual net earnings of the company have averaged close on £400,000 the last nine years. Certainly such a showing entitles the Cudahy Brothers to be rated as magnates of commerce.