People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 2 December 1909, Page 1908

People We Hear About

Ar^bishop^fyg^g^/^^i^^^rfj^ted his 63rd birthday on^NbAmkr^/ consecrated Bishop of PortijAsugustaqron lMayr.ol,6-1.8887i-tfnao^a^ fftrans- - * ei ™£ tontheuSeendl?dAdela r M4-Kby <4n.'9a,m£ky 5, 1895. • .fflibncjoJiyanSL -" When"' fitst^HSi'kßp^r^Wor^i^^l^iv^B^ Crooks, the English;^afea^MrP^, of >New- Zealand^ had"'.t6 fi"gh©a org>employ:eritoffdsbor, and he v- was every wliere^m^t c-nFitßotliei kfnerff >£ Wlid H§ nhimCfkbtcti ? He has m o; stake in" J -tliejWuhtry.Vt t'SLti have^a^«.wlfe'> 'and. ■.six kids,' retorted the;. dembcrat,u< aiidqß wtfnttto maKe^fthis a^good country- *•£ or i thdm' f t6'"iliVe--'- i inl^f l il ?Ad irA osiftqesc ' , "Marshal $&^ft^s^ - memorial jis to be ;ei;ected ; in| , Aiitu^i, „ birth, m, which Jus^family, haye^liy^ the descendant of ;^trick. fought of the yiolated s .,^re [ a l ( 1 y, i ;.intp r exile,rri JBXtipq OsSwSi .Mahon,. of- Autun, -^married , an^ hgiress^-janAoWas .created Count d'Equilly \J# Sep^b^S fe4SWJSSu^S^SS was .the grandfather; - of . the; Campus x'MarshaV^^afiplied i*o the Irish .Government .pfj.thq, da.ya^accpm'panyi'ng "his; ippli- . cation, with,- the, Wce^sary^f.eesi.fps^e,; 9flicer.%pf:itheiol?kt^r King of Arms t to, liave, his genealpgyiKith^the^r^cprtaaaofnlijs family duly.,authenticate4, K collec*edj >< %n4 ' E&c^dsdbmth^U necessary, verification/,. m^oij4pr-tliajb } h^^childr^iirta.itdwthe'lr posterity, in jFraiipe migl^ l^v.e\kl>sijflicj[enfcjcP^tfpf"-,ofie'ihe proud fact, that s they \ '.were. tlrish^ „ 3 Thjis.{3vas3 J afleprdingly done, as may be seen, 4 in the.,Castle,-farchiv t es, ii dou»it«er.sigjied by {the Lord Lieutenant,-. of tt -thevday,.jan,d Jibe, tarjousiiother necessary signatories. In these records he is describedras .of the .noble, .family. f patei3iity,',of MacMahon-.iof LQlonderala, County Clare, and i maj;erjiaUy.,ojf> t th!e>noble-:f-4mi3y pf iOlSulhvan Beare. <i^&) ' , S k WMfridvtliaiiKJer^^he^ Catholic Prime Minister of Canada, lias just entered on his sixty-ninth- year. Sir Wilfrid was born in the province 11 oFQtfeiie'g-in^lgil^^From Assumption. .College eh% pase'ed^Sißo McSilln University? "'Svhere he.graduated, T -and}. after tpractising> sosSe years at --thS'Sltr entered the Quebec Parliament in 1871.. .As headi^of Inland .Revenue, in, tlie,,.Ma ) clf:enzie.7Miriistry,un ! ,-187^, he showed, qualities .whioh led.'ito.llis electipn* fits • leader of the Liberal.Party in. thevDquunftfndfo 189JjjL-by l, which. sjfinfe,' he was— what, he , fttill,..is T =inf es»bprf-. for.^Quebec;. -East ii m >the 1 eder al House" , of .- Commous>.? •, rt f W-hen;, he jv^acetepted wtthe Premiership.^ thirteen /years .-ago,- „he othef fiKSt iJFcerichCanadian to take officerra'j.tpiumph^atK-ojicesfor Jbis-firace and for the political system under which the ..fittest man hi. Canada, though French byy blopd s ajid, ,Ca£liofic by religion, succeeded Sir':Char],es vA 'rupp > er as~r r uler pf the country. The Laurier Admjnistijationha^ begn/' associated not only with the" materuiT'success Canada .arid his 'own personal display of high powers of statesmanship; but has been m a rk / d £*€MMt i ll|an^'M| ) | )ll l ? ||'|^||;g and affection between England and the Doihinfon new to history. A perfect bi-linguist, Sir Wilfrid Laurier has won fame as an orator in.^EngJjsL. ,as,.well as in French. Perhaps his m'dst memorabife^s'Syililc in which he summed up the position of Canadians under British rule:— 'ln. effect, we B we|are a<conquered race, have also maXle^aconqHiest— the conquest of liberty.' The golden -weddingCQsleb.najtipjiSiiof -the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, which were held at DalkeUh- last >rerifin^s us tl|afe|Ke iheadAof tfi3 hfeufe, the Marquis- of- Queeiisblrfy.-^vas-Teceived-int^he-eaffic Church early m the present war v . The anpient earldom of Queensberry Wafer rn^l6B3^ rfiSsW* W'W °ditkedom ; but, on the death of the last^dfak&SWwKW unmarried, in 1810, the higher dignity thenJiecame-merged in the Dukedom of Buccleuch. The vicissitudes of fortune have brought to the prweutj^Mpjg'Rojigprt 'jftgg^ possessions held in past centuries Tby the great House oFDouglas one of the most important — a1?a 1 ? it Avas one of the most uowerfHl^of.the^BoMdOTamiWeilTM^&omikgJM^atfiolicSfa Queensberry has the^xamflle of his near kinswoman, the late 'C^rbhfi l ef-Ma*chT'd%ess^bf Queensberry so well known for her'^iety""aTid"^liarity~duTin~g~te"r~life e "ln during, its closing years in the nineteenth century, i ceses of o<Wes!bMjittsteT- aiftll S«M>KwAtJt|i[«hQ9Sfi^ne will bfe for ever honorably associaifid_»witli the foundation of th > Lady Gertrude Douglas, apjfflea many years of earnest an I |elf-saorificing labors. THeir accomplished sister, the lat ) Lady FlorenQeD^isfet^isMdsatfiLhfedaimdai© fields of litera-