People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 12 October 1911, Page 2037

People We Hear About

Porto Rican residents of New York have formed a society, the * Alli'anza Puertorriquena,’ and the president is Gonzalez O’Neill. Father Bernard Vaughan will shortly make an extended tour of America, remaining there some months, and visiting the principal centres of population from coast to coast. The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, as com-mander-in-chief of the armed forces, has decreed that his officers should seek redress for insult or indignity from the law courts, instead of resorting to duelling. The Holy Father has sent to the Queen of Spain and to the Infanta Isabella a gold medal each, as a sign of his recognition of the assistance they gave towards the success of the recent Eucharistic Congress of Madrid. People who think the police force of New York is exclusively Irish, must have had their eyes opened the other day by a news item saying that the Police Commissioner of that city had appointed a Jewish rabbi as a chaplain to the department to attend to the spiritual welfare of the Jewish members of the force of whom there are 600. - The Baroness Elisabeth von Egger, who has qualified in the Oxford. Higher Local Examinations for Women to enter the University examinations, is thelast direct lineal descendant of St. Jane Frances deChantal (says _ the London Catholic Weekly). The Baroness, who is sixteen years of age, is a pupil of the Sisters at the Convent of the Visitation, Roselands,. Walmer. The fifth Lord Camoys, whose coming marriage to Miss Sherman will add yet another to the number of American peeresses, is head of the ancient Catholic house of Stonor. His great-uncle (writes D.0.H.8. in the Catholic Herald is the venerable Archbishop of Trebizond, who has been a conspicuous figure in ecclesiastical Rome for the past forty years. Lord Camoy’s barony was created nearly seven centuries ago, but was in abeyance from 1426 until the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria, who called it out in favor of Mr. Thomas Stonor, M.P. Stonor Park, the family seat in Oxfordshire, has been Stonor property for hundreds of years. It is a long, low Tudor house with two wings, and has an ancient private ■ chapel 'attached to it. ' ..... ■ Apropos of the exceptional youth of the recently consecrated Bishop of St. George’s, Newfoundland— Mgr Power is only thirty-four A ction Sociale remarks; We have done better than that in Canada. Mgr. lache, the deceased Archbishop of St. Boniface was consecrated at the age of twenty-six.” Our Quebec contemporary adds (says the Ave Maria) that the youthful Abbe Tache was extremely loath to assume the burdens of the episcopate, assuring his superior. Mgr. Mazenod, that he was too young, had too many faults' wanted to remain an Oblate, etc. ; to all which reasons the superior general replied: ‘The Sovereign Pontiff has named you, and when the Pone speaks, ’tis God Who speaks ’ And so in November, 1851, the Oblate .r atner, eight years younger than is Mgr. Power received episcopal consecration. ’ Of the Knighthoods conferred on the occasion of the coronation of George V., one that will interest Americans is that bestowed on Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kane, who, as Captain Kane, saved a large number March r lorS in A the harbor ° f Pia, Samoa, in rnarcli, 1889 (says an American exchange). A terrible storm, which wrecked three German and three American cruisers then in port, burst on Apia harbor, and captain Kane, seeing that no anchor or mooring would old, sailed out in the teeth of the storm, saved- his ship, and rescued the survivors of two American vessels Admiral Kane is a brother of Brother Kane, Superior of La Salle Institute, Waterford, who spent several years as an architect in the United States before he entered the Christian Brother congregation • and a first cousin of Fathers Robert, Patrick, and William Kane of the Irish province of the Society of Jesus :*■