People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 27 April 1911, Page 777

People We Hear About

* ——-— Signor. Fogazzaro, the Italian novelist, died on Monday morning, March 6, at the ago of sixty-nine. Before passing away he received the last rites, of' the Church. Signor Fogazzaro was* a member of the Italian Senate. .Lady Halle, the, distinguished Catholic violinist,; whose death took place last week, was a native of Austria. She began her English career at the ago of nine years, that is over sixty years: ago. Her maiden name was Neruda, and her first husband was Norman Ludwig, of Stockholm. Her second husband, Sir Charles Halle, died in 1895, since when her appearances in public were comparatively few. His Grace Archbishop Redwood, who entered on his 73rd year on April 8, came to New Zealand with his parents, in November, 1842. His Grace studied first at Nelson, under the late Archpriest Garin, and afterwards in France and Ireland. He was ordained to the priesthood 46 years ago, and was consecrated Bishop of Wellington by Cardinal Manning on St. Patrick’s Day, 1874. Thirteen years later he was appointed first Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand. i Mr. John Lee Carroll, former Governor .of Maryland, who died in Washington, February 27, was a great-grandson of Charles Caroll, of Carrollton, the Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1889, ..when the centennial of the American hierarchy was held in Baltimore, Governor Carroll was the leading layman to attend, and was chosen to preside over the congress of laymen, which convened in old Concordia Hall and continued in session for two days. £ Very Rev. Joseph P. Lynch, who has been appointed Bishop ,of Dallas, in succession to the late Right Rev. Edward J. Dunne, was born a few miles outside of Chicago, and like a number of others in the American Catholic hierarchy, was once a lawyer. He was engaged in the practice of law at the time the late Bishop Dunne was looking for volunteers for his diocese. Under the Bishop’s influence he began his course of theology at the Kenrick seminary, in St. Louis, where he was ordained priest by Archbishop Montgomery about eleven years ago. ,*. A large audience, which included many members of the House of Commons, assembled at the Palace Theatre, London, on March 6, on the occasion of the production of a dramatic sketch by Miss Johanna Redmond, the young and talented daughter of Mr. John Redmond, entitled ‘Falsely True.’ The dramatic power of the sketch was such as to hold the audience spellbound. . At the fall of the curtain the house burst into a tornado of applause and the artistes were repeatedly recalled. There were enthusiastic calls for the authoress, and eventually the curtain was again raised, and Miss Redmond, a girlish figure in evening dress, was' led forth by the members of her company, and gracefully bowed her , acknowledgments of the ovation accorded her. Amongst the audience were Mr. and Mrs. John Redmond. Lord and Lady Aberdeen have been most popular with the people, of Ireland. They have had two terms, as viceregal representatives in Dublin. First,...from January to July, 1886, when the Earl was' appointed with the mission of carrying out the Home Rule policy of the Government ; and the scene in Dublin on the departure of himself and Lady Aberdeen, after the fall of the Gladstone Cabinet, is said to have been such as was never before witnessed at least not since the departure of Lord Fitzwilliam In 1795. Their second term began in 1905, with the return of the Liberal Party to power. Lady Aberdeen, who is fifty-fourten years younger than her husband the daughter first Baron Tweedmouth,'■ and ' married the Earl in 1877. She is an industrious worker on behalf of her sex and her Irish neighbors. She was president of the International Council of Women from 1893 to 1899, and from 1904 to 1909. She is president of the Irish Industries Association and the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland. During her husband’s term as GovernorGeneral _of Canada she founded the Victorian Order of Nurses in that Dominion. She is an LL.D. of Queen's University, Canada, and the author , of Through Canada with a Kodak. 1 .' ‘ % y-v '.