People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 29 September 1910, Page 1586

People We Hear About

vpiiW*"' i Eouis Brennan, the famous Irish Australian unmtor, has been awarded the grand invention. flip Ano-ln Japanese Exhibition for his monoraU invention, g °‘ Lady Butler is said to be writing the memoirs of her recently-deceased husband, General Sir William Butler g% ‘“vffe £ f,° Tioe , <“.«« pen, being the sifter of fl\ienfwritihg yn and glfted with the family work A an t ,fnitt°b Dr ' J M I l °"’ t he 3 reat lexicographer, "the Fitzgerald ß F S f A '\ elld£ . no i™ London Catholic, Mr. Percy of h s s J l s } be , en unveiled at the Church the ™S^3‘ t Danes, Strand, London, associated with the memory of the late famous writer. ™ A nr, Sn H ii ram Maxim, who celebrated his seventieth birthday recently, confesses that in his young days he thought of adopting a, pugilistic career. But when he was fourteen years old his inventive faculty made itself manifest. While still a boy he invented a wheel bub and a clockwork mouseii, ?fisa h ii he evoived the first incandescent electric lamp; the cfcaij Maxfm 6 "" gaVC h ' m the idea Which resulted “ Father Angelo Barbieri, of Milan, has invented an inemous f machine > which, affixed to a piano, records the notes of the performer, fulfilling the purpose of a typeKndon in a nd l’® 00 ’ T j rument is being exhibited in Mac ’ - an( la s cr< r ate d great interest among musicians. M M S Wn ! mg hl - s new °P era with the machine, which is called the auto-musicograph. wrft+? da ”'+i ■^ 6 /V ) * , i °7- w l l £ m 7 Y xrgxnxa Crawford recently vviote in the Catholic World under the apt heading ‘A Champion and His Labors,’ has just published a new book called On Anything. To those who do not know Belloc’s. vork, it might be explained that former successes of his were On. Everything and On Nothing. He is a true cosmopolitan—! on his father’s side, English on his mother s, with an Irish grandmother not very remote, and an American wife, a Californian at that! . . T h - e te 1 Society’s Albert Medal, which was instituted m 1862 as a memorial of H.R.H. Prince Consort, a:id which is conferred annually for ‘ distinguished merit in promoting arts, manufactures, or commerce,’ has this year been awarded by the council to Mme. Curie for the discevery of radium. Mme. Curie is the second woman to. [n°V«S7 tlie n Cety i^i Jort Medal, it having been conferred in 188/ on Queen Victoria ‘ in commemoration of the progress of arts, manufactures, and commerce throughout the Empire during the fifty years of her reign.’ Another instance of the success achieved by persevering young Irishmen is furnished by the recent promotion of James 1 Collins, formerly of Castlebar, County Mavo, Ireland, to the position of superintendent of the Marconi Wireless lame Point station, Quebec, Canada. Mr Collins is just over twenty years of age, and has been in charge at Giosse Island only two years. His new appointment is the most important wireless telegraph station- in Canada, as it is the one that controls the Gulf, and the position as officer in charge is one that calls for an intimate knowledge and strong common sense in dealing with the different questions which arise in the St. Lawrence chain of stations. 0 r , r A friand ° the Apostolic Mission House, Washington, l J .writes the following significant note: —‘ These English Bishops have been converts— Challoner Hav Braraston, Griffiths Weathers Patterson, Coffin, Brownlow, Vilkmson, and Cardinal Manning. These American Bishops have been converts—Whitfield, Eccleston, Baylev, Wood, Northrop, Gilmour, Rosecrans, Young, Tyler, Wadhams, Becker, Curtis-r Priests? Innumerable, and many gieat heroes among them! Can Protestantism show any such record— any record at all to compare with this? What oecomes of the converts from the Catholic Church to Protestantism That is % very pertinent question. What becomes of them, really? ? 1 § ll ' 1 Ja “ es P er p y Fitzpatrick, Kt., who defeated General Botha tor Pretoria East, is a Catholic, and was born in King William’s Town in 1862. He is the son of the Hon. James Coleman Fitzpatrick, of Nenagh. He was Tn U^sl d i at St + p r x? or y s College, Downside, near Bath. In 1884 he went to the Transvaal, and in 1889 he married a daughter of Mr. John Cubitt, of Pretoria. They have three sons and one daughter. In 1891 he accompanied Lord Randolph Churchill through Mashonaland, and the following year he was put in charge of the Intelligence Department of H. Eckstein and Co., in which firm he became a partner in 1898. He was the lion, secretary of the Reform Committee, and president of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines in 1902. He has written several books—2hc Transvaal from Within, The Outspan, Through Mashnnaland, With Pick and Pen. It was the first-mentioned publication that brought him to the front