People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 9 January 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

The names most frequently mentioned as the probable three new Justices of the Federal High Court are: Mr. P. McMahon Glynn, M.P., K.C.; Mr. B. R. Wise, K.C.;. and Mr. W .M. Hughes, Federal Attorney-General. The oldest man in the House of Commons is Mr. Samuel Young, the Nationalist member for East Cavan. He will be 91 on,next St. Valentine’s Day.« Mr. Young* to his credit, was not one of the absentees in the snap division oblast month. He was one of the 62 members present and voting against the Banbury amendment. Mr. Leonard Stowe, clerk of the New Zealand: Parliament, has been made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. Stowe, was born in Buckingham, England, and has been resident in New Zealand for many yeais. As far back as the sixties he was secretary to superintendents of the Marlborough Provincial Council. He was appointed clerk to the Legislative Council in 1865, a position which he still holds, and became clerk of Parliament in 1889. Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., a wealthy runholder of the Wairarapa, and a strong supporter of the present Government, has been made a Knight Bachelor. Sir W. C. Buchanan, who is in his 75th year, was born ■* n - Argylshire, and when 18 years of age came out to Victoria. Later on he was attracted to New Zealand, and engaged in farming in Canterbury. Over forty years ago he purchased his present property in the Wait arapa, and since then has taken a leading part in pastoral affairs. The growth of the Irish vote and influence in American politics has become very marked. At the recent elections the number of Irish names in the list of elected members to Congress was far larger than on U Previous occasions, and all the Irish-Americans are of the Democratic Party. Even Connecticut, the home of New England Puritanism, has now five IrishAmericans for its representatives in Congress, Dr. Woodrow Wilson, the new President, is, of course, a Presbyterian, and the elder of a Presbyterian Church, but his party and its machinery are mainly in the hands of Irish-American Catholics. With the death of Cardinal Capecelatro, attention is called to the fact that Cardinal Gibbons is now third in point of seniority among the members of the Sacred College. Practically, he may be considered second, Cardinal Neto having retired from active participation in Vatican doings on account of his great age and failing health. Cardinal Oreglia, the present dean of the College, is himself bedridden. Cardinal Gibbons was created Cardinal-priest of the title of Santa Maria in Tractavere on June 7, 1886.' Cardinal Capecelatro is the fourth Cardinal to die since the consistory of 1911 one German, one French, one Austrian, and one Italian. There remain now only .sixty members of the Sacred College. Among those whose names figure in the New Year’s Honors’ list is that of the Right Hon. Sir Edward P. Morris, P.C., Premier of Newfoundland, who ; has been made a Knight Commander, of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Edward Morris, who is in his 54th year, was educated at the Ottawa Catholic University, and first entered the Newfoundland Parliament about 28 years ago. He was appointed Attorney-General in 1890, and, on the resignation of Sir Edward Bond,, was chosen leader of his party, and at the general qlection of 1909 his Government was returned by a large majority. He was knighted in 1904, and in 1909 he represented Newfoundland at the Imperial Defence Conference in London. Of’ the three Catholic Premiers who attended that conference Sir Edward Morris is the only one at present in office.