People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 10 July 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

King Alfonso signalised his birthday by pardoning six men who were lying under sentence of death. The extreme penalty, however, is to be demanded in the case of Sancho Alegre, whose trial for his recent attempt on the King’s life will take place shortly. His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons has addressed a letter on the subject of Women’s Suffrage to the antisuffragists of Maryland, in which he asserts that in deprecating the suffrage he is pleading for the dignity of woman. Further, he considers that to restrict the field of woman s action to the gentler avocations of life is not to fetter her aspirations after the higher and. the better.

By the death of Miss Charlotte Louisa Hawkins. Dempster, the world, says a correspondent of the Times,. loses a lady who enriched it by her writings. . She: was a constant contributor to the Edinburgh Review.. Miss Hawkins Dempster died on May 7 at Cannes, and was buried in Brookwood cemetery according to the; rites of the Catholic Church, of which she had become; a member.

Sergeant J. F. Moriarty has been appointed Solici-tor-General for Ireland, in succession to Mr. Molony,, the new Attorney-General. Mr. Moriarty was educated at Stony hurst and Trinity College, Dublin. He wascalled to the Bar in 1877, and since 1908 has been. First Sergeant-at-Law in Ireland. He married in 1909Mabel Agnes, daughter of Henry de Blaquiere, of Fiddan House, County Galway, and widow of Hubert. Peter Dolphin, of Turve, in the same county. A correspondent of the Irish independent, discussing the personal character of King Alfonso, saysthat with all his gaiety the Spanish monarch knowsthat he carries his life in his hand. As a practical. Catholic aware of his dangerous surroundings, he keeps, his conscience ready for any fate that may come to. him. The King is much attached to his wife and children, and in particular to his second boy, Dorn Jaime, who has been a deaf mute from birth.

Lord Petre, who was married last week in Westminster Cathedral to Miss Catherine Boscawen, is thepresent head of an old English Catholic family which, dates back, as far as its title of nobility is concerned, totimes of James I. The father of the first Lord Petrewas a principal Secretary of State under Henry V 111.,. Edward VI., Mary and Elizabeth. The fourth Lord: Petre was committed to the Tower at the time of Titus; Oates s plot, and died there five years afterwards. The; present Lord Petre was born in 1890, and is the son; of the fifteenth baron. He owns about 19,100 acres and! has estates in Essex, The heir presumptive is Mr.. Francis William Petre, architect, of Dunedin. Miss; Catherine Boscawen is an only child, and her father is the youngest son of the sixth Viscount Falmouth. Lord Petre, who was married recently, has three; aunts in convents— is a Sister of the Good Shepherd in Glasgow, another is a member of the same; Order at Hammersmith, and a third a Sister of Charity at Carlisle Place, Westminster. The present Duke off Norfolk has one sister a Carmelite nun and another a Sister of Charity, while the Duchess has four aunts,, sisters of the late Lord Herries, who are nuns. The; late Lord Abingdon’s sister is a nun at the Convent; of the Visitation, Harrow, and Lord Braye has ai sister who is a nun. One of Lord Killanin’s sisters is: 3-11 Irish Sister of Charity and two others are Carmelite; nuns. A sister of Lord Denbigh is a Sister of Charity at Shanghai, and four of Lord Trimlestown’s sisters ar© nuns.