People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 2 February 1911, Page 207

People We Hear About

The Hon. Charles Doherty, Conservative and Imperialist, and one of the most distinguished lawyers in Canada, contributed to the Irish Nationalist funds. The Daily Mail, doubting the assertion that he did, telegraphed to him and has received a reply saying he did subscribe, and thinks the granting of Home Rule would be the greatest service the English people could render the Empire.

During the British elections the electors in three constituencies had some difficulty in placing the winning cross against the successful candidate, as tfie candidates had the same surname. In Chelsea S. J. G. Hoare, Unionist, was opposed by H. E. Hoare, Liberal; in North West Lanark, A. S. Pringle, Unionist, faced W. M. R. Pringle, Liberal; and for Tyneside, M. M. Robertson, Unionist, crossed swords with J. M* .Robertson, Liberal.

Writing in the Daily Chronicle of Mr. Garvin, ‘The Conservative Dictator,’ Mr. W. T. Stead, says;—‘To think that a plain man from the North of England, an Irishman to boot, without a penny in his purse, without anything excepting the brains in his bead and the pen in his hand, should be, not to say lording it as the master of many legions, but dictating to Lord Lansclowne and the Peers what they should do; compelling Mr. Balfour one day to declare that Tariff Reform stands where it did, and the next day compelling his henchman to adjourn Tariff Reform to the Greek kalends—to do all this by the might of his own rhetoric and by the immense dynamic of his inexhaustible adjectives is a spectacle for gods and men. We have seen nothing like it in our time.’

Sir Edward Elgar, the distinguished Catholic composer, numbers kite-Hying amongst his hobbies, but has devoted himself more of late years to chemistry and cycling. He spends much of his leisure time in the laboratory. In writing for the violin Sir Edward is returning to his early love, for he was a, fine player himself in his youth. Indeed, it would be difficult to name an instrument he cannot play. For five yeans he was bandmaster at the Worcester County Lunatic Asylum, the band being formed by the asylum attendants, and it was thus that he became familiar with instruments, ranging from a French horn to an organ. In those days—and it is not so many years —England's greatest composer wrote polkas, waltzes, etc., for which he received 5s a set, while for nigger-minstrel ballads for the use of the asylum inmates he received Is 6d each. Miss Anna T. Sadlier, the well known Catholic author, was born January 19, 1854, the daughter of the late James Sadlier, of the publishing firm of D. and J. Sadlier, New York, and Mary A. Sadlier, a pioneer writer of Catholic fiction. Miss Sadlier went to New York with her family in 1860. She was educated at St. Mary's Academy and at the Congregation Convent of Villa Maria, Montreal, where she graduated in 1871, being the valedictorian for that year. She began to write for publication when about eighteen, devoting herself chiefly at first to translations from the French and Italian, and some short stories and verses. In the early eighties she went to reside with her widowed mother in Montreal, where she remained till, in 1903, her mother died. Leaving Montreal, she went to Ottawa, where she now resides with a younger sister, Mrs. Francis ChadvPick, also a well-known contributor to American magazines. Miss Sadlier's short stories number over a hundred., while her articles, chiefly biographical, historical, and religious, exceed that figure. We (Melbourne Advocate) are indebted to the courtesy of a member of the St. Mary's Monastery, Wendouree (Ballarat), for the following interesting particulars of the career of the Very Rev. Father Chine, who has been appointed Bishop of Perth. Father Chine was born on January 6 1884, and received Cardinal Gotti's cable announcing his appointment on his birthday. His birthplace was Au<?hrin Kuan, near Ennis, County Clare. He entered All Hallows' foreign Mission College, Dublin, at the age of seventeen and took first place in his class at once. He was a prizeman all through his course. The young levite was ordained on June 24, 1886, and came to Australia by the Garonne. He labored in the Goulburn diocese as secular priest till 1893, when he went to Ireland to join the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. He was professed on September 30, 1894, and returned to Australia about the time the Perth house of the Order was founded. Father Clune gave missions throughout Western Australia, and founded the house of Mt. St. Gerard/Oriental Bay Weiington. Father Francis (Passionist) is his brother, and Jus only sister is a member of the Convent of Mercy Goulburn New South Wales. He was appointed, rector of .Perth Redemptonst House about a year ago.