People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 26 September 1912, Page 41

People We Hear About

The career of .Most Rev. Neil McNeil, D.D., who has just been transferred from Vancouver, 8.C., to the See of Toronto, Canada, reads like a romance. He began life as a blacksmith, but his talents and ecclesiastical vocation were quickly discerned by his parish priest, who strongly recommended him to his Bishop. 1 Very Rev. Lord Archibald Canon Douglas, parish priest of Girvan, and member of the Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Galloway, is a member of the Queensberry family. Although over three score years, he x is an excellent cyclist. During the storm last November he went in the lifeboat to Ailsa Craig to succor the | famished quarrymen. Speaking at a farewell dinner in Adelaide to Dr. Jones, the Rhodes Scholar from South Australia for 1912, and an old pupil of the Christian Brothers, Rev. Brother O’Dwyer said that there were now at Oxford eight old pupils of the Christian Brothers, some from South Africa,, some from Newfoundland, and several from Australia —all Rhodes Scholars, upholding the reputation of the Brothers. In Grand-Duchess Marie Adelaide, the new Sovereign of Luxemburg, the people of that country have a ruler after their own heart. Although 250,000: out of a population of 260,000 are Catholics, the Grand Duchy, on account of the Salic Law, abrogated in 1907, has not had a Catholic Sovereign for half a century. In her first speech from the throne, Marie Adelaide, who is only eighteen years of age, promised, to reign not for herself, but for her people, in accordance to the traditions of inherited patriotism, - and in the interests of peace. The Earl of- Ashburnham’s only daughter, who has just taken the veil in the Sacred Heart Order (saysthe Standard), is only one of the many nuns of exalted birth. In the same Order is Lady Leopoldina Keppel (a god-daughter of the late King of the Belgians), sister of the Earl of Albemarle. The Duke of Norfolk has a sister in the Carmelite Order, and an- 4 other a Sister of Charity, and the Duchess has four aunts in different convents. The Earl of Abingdon’s daughter is a nun at Harrow, and the Earl of Denbigh, Lord Petre, Lord Ffrench, and Lord Clifford of Chudleigh are only some of the English Peers who have sisters members of various religious communities. A few weeks ago (says the Register, of New York) we commented editorially on the practice of. Hebrew and Italian gangsters assuming. Irish aliases. In the Rosenthal murder case, before the unfolding details of which the city now stands aghast, two seeming Irishmen have been mentioned, “Jack Sullivan” and “Paul Kelly.” Yet neither of these men has so much as a drop of Irish blood coursing in his veins. “Sullivan” is a Hebrew, whose true name is Reich, “Kelly” an Italian. The Irish in America are deeply wrongedby this theft of their family names by men utterly without title to bear them.’ His Grace Archbishop Dunne, of . Brisbane, entered on his 83rd year on September 5. • His Grace is in excellent health, and daily celebrates Mass in his private chapel. Lismore, County Waterford, gave to Queensland one of the most eminent of its sons, and after a brilliant career, that was divided between Rome I and Ireland, Dr. Dunne arrived in Brisbane in 1863, entering upon his mission with the zeal and energy that have characterised his long life. He was secretary to the late Bishop O’Quinn, and at various times was Administrator of the Cathedral parish priest of Toowoomba, and Vicar-General. On June 18, 1882, his Grace was consecrated by Archbishop Vaughan, and on May 10, 1887, Dr. Dunne was raised Jo the dignity of Archbishop by Papal Brief.