People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 7 August 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

A wonderful record African "travel has been set up by Lady Lever, wife of the soap magnate, who has been elected a Fellow ,of ~ the '■ Royal Geographical • Society. She, accompanied her husband> on his 7 recent journey to the Belgian Congo, a district in which she has probably made a more comprehensive tour ' than S° - l er Euro P ea n; woman. ' Lady Lever travelled 7000 miles in Central Africa, crossed the Equator four times, and visited many villages" of -former cannibal tribes, as well as those in which cannibalism is not yet extinct. -• J u King Alfonso's thirst for information led him recently to inspect the new plant of El Impartial, one of the principal newspapers of Madrid. In company with Count Romanones, his Prime Minister, the ruler of bpam went through in succession the editorial rooms, the business offices, and the composing rooms.- In the atter the printers set up in linotype the words: Long live the King!' which his Majesty, insisted on carrying away as a souvenir. As he stood watching one of the new rotary presses at work the . King turned to his Prime Minister and said: i Ah ! those are ASMachine for "roasting" politicians.' ™ The Right Rev. Dr. Keating, Bishop of NorthS r ad , d ?v? S d6livered at the Lerment of Lord Stafford, said they were committing to the earth of e the cSfpr l f " raC6 that had well ot the Catholic Church m England. Not for one generation or two generations, and not for one centurv Z^lT tUn l S '^\ ior man ? cent ™es in that tS nfl, raC^ ad , held U? undauntedly the banner of the Catholic Church. For as many centuries that race bad been as unswervingly loyal to the Church Tit had been to king and country. In the days when to be a Catholic was no longer a title of honor, but of dis death' a th° h S red ' im ?™™™« * persecution, and death—even then this race was more than ever faithful St of r fi e tllGy ? eriShed the ht of tbeSaTfe spite of fines and imprisonment, and what was per W harder even than those penalties, the being leTfrom thL 3001 ! 1 :' 6 A wMch rank and 2«3 his ?Ztl* l!• 6 m & !f led the:glorious confession of ePecS VratitnJf °f-, Those > >ere.titles to especial gratitude, and it was naturally right that ™ such an occasion as that the Church frorh his mouth should give frank recognition to that titlT that^o^ has resigned his See, and has been appointed iftukr Metymn °, S - HIS G --, P who t a nat " of ol County Tipperary, where he was born 67 years Jo is a member of a family which has suppHed some honored names to the Irish priesthood anfepiscopTte at home and abroad. His great uncle on hfiSSSK om 1825 P to 186? yan, / U + led *? di ° CeS6 of Limeri <* oaterntl fw to 1864; and two of his uncles on the paternal side were successive Bishops of Madras He made his classical studies at Thurles Seminary and Ft SS 8 ' CaStle]nock ' and after a distinguished ecdt dated in C °l8 S 7O W FT at » he was orFar Wini v 1S firSt CUrac y was with an uncle prlest\f J toyX%n * £"£" ministered a cathedral parish" Coadjutor to ArchbrshoT Croke InTqoT^l-" of n Emlv Ar ; l r iS ! loP ° f ° ashel - d Adm of "to His Grace resides at Thurles. g year --