People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 29 August 1912, Page 41

People We Hear About

The Prince of Wales, in the course of a motor car tour through Normandy, stayed at Rouen, where he was conducted over the Cathedral by Mgr. Loth, the Archbishop. As he entered the building the organist played the British National Anthem. The Prince, before leaving for Paris, visited Jumieges Abbey and the Church of Bon Secours, with its monument of Joan of Arc.

The most striking fact about the visit of the Parliamentarians to the Fleet, says the Daily Chronicle, was that it included quite a dozen members of the Irish Nationalist Party, headed by their universally esteemed leader, Mr. John Redmond. This is the first naval review at which a delegation from the Irish Parliamentary Party has been present. Mr. Samuel Young, a Nationalist member, who is over ninety, was of the party, and stood the fatigues of a long day better, than many men half his years.

General Sir G. O’Moore Creagh, Y.C., who is expected to succeed Sir George White (of Ladysmith fame) as Governor of Chelsea, was born in Cahirbane, Co. Clare, in 1848. He was the seventh son of Captain Creagh, R.N. He has held many important posts in India and elsewhere, seen much active service in both China and India, won his V.C. in the Afghan war of 1879-80, and has been Commandcr-in-Chief of India since 1909.

Mr. Harold Bride, the assistant wireless operator of the ill-fated Titanic, was recently in Sydney as wireless expert on board the fine P. and 0. steamer the Medina. Busy reporters waylaid the modest hero without eliciting any details concerning the terrible disaster. It will be remembered that Mr. Bride was at his instrument on board of the Titanic when the captain announced the disaster. Phillips and Bride stuck to their posts up to the time the vessel sank. Bride was rescued but Phillips lost his life. *

Chief Justice White of the Supreme Court of the United States, a graduate of the Jesuit University, of Georgetown, in receiving this year from Princeton University, the degree of LL.D., was introduced as follows by Dean West: ‘I have the rare honor of presenting for the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Edward Douglass White, the Chief Justice of the United States, nominated by President Cleveland to the Court, and by President Taft to be Chief Justice thereof a profound jurist of comprehensive learning, energetic power, habitual courtesy, and a controlling love for justice primus inter pares in the court of the first importance in the world.

Mr. Benjamin Hoare, principal leader writer on the Melbourne Age, has just celebrated his 70th birthday. He was born in England, and received his early education at the Chesham elementary school, and later on at a school conducted by the Alexian Brothers .at Kentish Town. He came to Australia at the age of fourteen years, and in 1890 joined the Melbourne Aye, and became its chief leader writer. Tall, straight, and powerfully-built (says the Catholic Press), no one could look more unlike an old man than this great pressman, who has riddled more political humbugs and helped to make and unmake more Ministries than any other Australian .writer. Mr. Hoare has always been a militant defender of Catholic principles and advocate of Catholic rights. For his services to religion he has been decorated by Pius X. with the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.

The appointment of Dr. George Morrison, the wellknown correspondent of the - London Times, as political adviser to the President of China for four years has been most satisfactory to all classes of Chinese. Born at Geelong, Victoria, in 1862, Dr. George Ernest. Morrison was educated at the Melbourne and Edinburgh Universities. For a time he followed a seafaring ; life; on one occasion walked from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne. In 1863 he took charge of a pioneer expedition to New Guinea. He has long been recognised as one of the greatest authorities on Far East matters.