People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 29 June 1911, Page 1209

People We Hear About

■ in vast* ' His colleagues of the Irish party ; entertained Captain Donelan, their Chief Whip, to dinner at'the House cf Commons on May 9, in recognition of his long and loyal services to the Irish cause. Twenty-four members of the Irish party""voted for the Women's Suffrage Bill in the House of Commons, and only nine voted against it. ;/. « . JJI ; * : A Parisian newspaper says that the operation ; which is to be performed upon Prince Jaime, the .second 1 son of the King of Spain, will be carried out by a specialist at Fribourg in Switzerland. The young Prince will stay in Switzerland two months, Queen Victoria accompanying him thither and afterwards proceeding to England. _.;...,„.- " Sir Arthur Robert Guinness was born in Calcutta in 1846, and was educated in Christchurch. He 1 was admitted to the Bar in 1867, and has practised at Greymouth since that date. He entered Parliament in iBB4, and has" represented the constituency ever since. He was elected Speaker in 1905. , . ;..:,:-■-.-•'.' - ' - - - Sir John George Findlay, M.L.C., LL.D., 1 was born in Dunedin in 1862, and educated at Scott's Academy, Hokitaka, and Otago University. He gained his LL.D., in 1893. On the death of the Hon. A. Pitt he accepted'the portfolios of Attorney-general and Colonial Secretary in the Ward Administration in 1906. He was made a King's Counsel in 1907. ;/ <■■*•;■-..;' ■// :; /; M Sir James Carroll, K.CM. Acting-Premier, was born at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, on August 20, 1857, being ' the son of . Joseph Carroll and Tapuke, of Ngatikahungunu. He was educated at the Native School, Wairoa, and at a school in Napier. Since 1887 he has been a member of the House of Representatives. In 1892 he was made a member of the executive, and on being elected for Waiapu became a Minister of the Crown. ./•..-...■ .</-.". • ■■■aui 'n.i¥?ii ■ Colonel R. J. Collins, Comptroller-general, who has Been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael arid St. George, was born in Gavan, Ireland, in 1848. He first joined the New Zealand Government service, in July, 1865, and in August, 1890, he was appointed Accountant to the Treasury, Assistant Secretary in 1903, and in 1906 he was appointed Secretary to the Treasury, Receiver-general, and Paymaster-general, and also appointed Finance Member of the Council of Defence in 1906. ■;"/."•... Sir Joshua Strange Williams, M.A;, LL.M., judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, was born in 1837 in London, and was educated at Harrow. J Continuing his studies at Trinity ; College, Cambridge, he .was second in the first class in the law tripos of 1858, and a junior optima in the mathematical tripos of the following year, gaining also the gold medal given by the Chancellor of the University, the late Prince Consort, for legal studies. ..Sir Joshua took his degrees M.A. and LL.M., and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in the Michaelmas term of 1859. r In 1861 he left England in search of' health, 'and;came;to/New Zealand.;; After practising his profession in this Dominion and filling important public positions, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in March;' 1875. The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, Bart., was born at Emerald Hill, Melbourne, on April 26,. 1856, and was educated privately in Melbourne, and afterwards at the State school at the Bluff, having arrived in Southland with his,parents. At thirteen he entered the Post and Telegraph Department, but left and joined a merchant's office. At the age of twenty he entered the Railway Department, and a year later started in business as an export merchant* He entered early into the arena of local politics, and was one of the first councillors of the Borough of Campbelltown, being a member of the council from. 1878 till 1881, when he was elected Mayor, and held the office for six years. He was for many years a member and for six years chairman of the Bluff Harbor Board, and was also for many years a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1887 he successfully contested the Awarua seat at. the parliamentary elections,- and after being three years in the.. House accepted the portfolio of Postmaster-general in February, 1891, in the Balance Ministry. He held various portfolios at different times in the Seddon Government, and was three times Acting-Premier during the absence of Mr. Seddon from New Zealand. By his persistent advocacy he achieved penny postage for New; Zealand, and received special recognition in his creation as K.C.M.G., in 1901. Whilst Sir Joseph was absent from New'Zealand, the Right Hon. Mr. Seddon died, and on his return the Premiership, which had been temporarily assumed by Sir W. Hall-Jones, was relinquished. in his favor. He represented New Zealand at the Imperial Conference in 1907, securing recognition of the colony as a Dominion.' He was created a Privy Councillor by the late King. * : ""'"'