People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 31 March 1910, Page 508

People We Hear About

The Archbishop of Paris, who displayed such zeal recently on behalf of the sufferers by the floods in the French, capital, is now in his sixtieth year. He was born ■at Douiville (Eure) in 1850, made his ecclesiastical studies at St. Sulpice, and was ordained priest in 1873. He was appointed Bishop of Bayeux in 1898, and Coadjutor, with right of succession, to Cardinal Richard in February, 1906. He has had a very difficult position to fill since he came to Paris, but all sides agree now that he has filled it with marked ability and success. A short time ago some volunteers were carrying out manoeuvres in the neighborhood of Lord Wolseley’s home at Glynde, Sussex. Presently his lordship sauntered up to where a young officer was in charge of a few men and entered into conversation with him. He ventured to criticise the officer’s tactics, which rather nettled the latter; who none too politely told him that when he wanted his advice on military matters he would let him know. Lord Wolseley smiled, apologised, and walked on. ‘ Who on earth is that old chap ? ’ asked the officer of a group of villagers as the veteran soldier disappeared from view r . ‘Oh, only Lord Wolseley! .. Didn’t you ; know?’ w 7 as the response. Lord . Strathcona has been High Commissioner for Canada since 1896. He was born in Scotland in 1820, and ,at an early age entered the Hudson Bay Company’s service. The last resident Governor of that Corporation, he was in 1870 appointed a member of the first executive council of the North-West Territory, and subsequently became a Canadian legislator. ' He is a director-general in several railway companies and president of the Bank of Montreal, and holds several honorary degrees from universities. The Canadian Commissioner, who commenced life as Donald Alexander Smith, was raised to the peerage in 1897. The suggestion in the Daily Chronicle that the Earl of Granard may in the event of a change in the Vice-royalty of Ireland, despite his disability to hold that position ow 7 ing to his being a Catholic, recalls the fact that the late Lord Coleridge, who was first Chief Justice of the * English Common Pleas and subsequently Lord Chief Justice of England, in reply to a question put to him, when At-torney-General, in the House of Commons by the Right Hon. Serjeant Sir Coleman O’Loghlen, stated in a very elaborate answer, which occupies two columns in Hansard’s Parliamentary Reports, that after a careful examination of the various statutes imposing or repealing religious disabilities in their relation to each other, he had come to the very decided conclusion that a Catholic without any change in the existing law was eligible for the position of LordLieutenant of Ireland. The opinion of Lord Coleridge w 7 as invested with an additional interest from the fact that Sir Coleman O’Loghlen, whose question elicited Lord Coleridge’s views, was himself the son of the first Catholic who had been appointed to the Bench in those countries since the Revolution —Sir Michael O’Loghlen, who was a Baron of the Exchequer and subsequently Master of the Rolls. The pocket wireless telegraphic apparatus, regarding which a cable message .was recently received, was described in our issue of January 27. The inventor is not Professor Gerebotan as stated in the cable message, but the. Italian savant, Monsignor Cerebotani, Papal Nuncio at Munich. .The invention is an instrument like a large watch - which enables a person to receive messages transmitted from ‘ wireless ’ stations. The apparatus is merely a pocket receiver, and the only accessories are a bobbin of ire and a metallic encased cane. A person thus equipped can at a given moment receive communications from a station within, a radius of twenty to thirty miles. In order to do this he halts in the vicinity of an elevated point, or at* the foot of a tree, unrolls his bobbin of ire, and fastens one end to the highest branch or any other support. The other end •of the wire is fastened to the apparatus, which is connected on the opposite side with the cane firmly planted into the earth. The telegraph receiver is now complete, and all that remains to be done is to w 7 atch" the movements of the single needle, stimulated by the Hertzian waves of the transmission post. The needle points successively to the various letters or signs inscribed on the apparatus, and thus messages are formed which can easily be deciphered after the fashion of the Breguet system.