People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 28 August 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

Father Bernard Vaughan, S.J., has been ordered to take a complete rest after his arduous life during the past 18 months. ' ■ , The marriage of King Manoel and Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern will be celebrated at Sigmaringen early in September. Father j. Hoffman, of Ranchi, and Sister Catherine, of the Leper Asylum, Rangoon, have been awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind silver medal. Dr. W. J. Maguire, the Medical Commissioner of the National Insurance Commission in Ireland, who has just been appointed member of the Senate of the National University of Ireland, is a brother of Mr. Thomas Maguire, solicitor, Belfast. Mr. Samuel Young, M.P., was one of the Irish Members who voted in the division on the third reading of the Home Rule Bill. Mr. Young, who is over 90, has quite lately recovered from an attack of pneumonia. His health is still somewhat delicate, and he suffers from a strained muscle which necessitates the use of a stick. But all this did not deter him from travelling from Belfast to London to vote for the third reading of the Bill. fa There were several marriages among the leading Catholic families of England during June. On June 28, at Westminster'Cathedral, Lord Petre, Coldstream Guards, was married to Miss Catherine Boscawen, daughter of the Hon. John and Lady Margaret Boscaweu, and niece of Viscount Falmouth and the Earl of Strafford. Sir Joseph Doughty Tichbourne was married to Miss Denise Greville a week earlier, Mr. Wolston Berkeley, son of the late Mr Robert Berkeley, of Spetchley, Worcestershire, and Lady Catherine Berkeley, and a cousin of the Earl of Kenmare, and Miss Alice Vaughan, daughter of - Colonel and Mrs. Vaughan, of Courtfield, Herefordshire, were , married on June 25 at St. Mary’s Domestic Chapel, Courtfield. The ceremony was performed by Father Herbert Vaughan, D.D. (brother of the bride), and Father Oswald Berkeley, 0.5.8. (brother of the bridegroom). There were great rejoicings on Monday week, August 18, in Austria, on the occasion of the Emperor Francis Joseph’s birthday. The Emperor was born on August 18, 1830, and is therefore in his 84th year. The Kaiser held a banquet in honor of the birthday of the Emperor, and thanked him for his effort to preserve peace during the Balkan crisis. He added that the Austro-German alliance would be preserved for the benefit of the world. The Emperor is a marvel for his age. Up to a few years ago he was the most noted sportsman in his dominions. A visitor to Austria, writing some time ago, says:Francis Joseph has a high sense of his duty as a Sovereign, and so the time is short that he consecrates to hunting—the, great passion of his life. The day before a hunt he is at work at 5 o’clock in the morning receiving his Ministers of State all day, omitting none of his daily work. It is only at 6 o’clock in the evening that he enters the train for Mursteg, which is reached about 8 o’clock, when having dined on the train he immediately retires to bed in order to be ready at 5 o’clock the next morning. It is among the mountains hunting chamois all day (returning, often under snow, to the little pavilion which shelters him and his suite) that the Emperor forgets the difficulties of Empire, the fierceness of politics, and the anxieties of daily life. The Emperor spends his summer holiday at Ischl surrounded by his daughters and grandchildren, hunting nearly every day. When a stag has been scented the Emperor is immediately informed ; he hurriedly dons his hunting clothes and proceeds to the appointed place. When some hours later the Emperor returns to Ischl/ he is seen wearing a little fir twig in his hat, for it is the custom for a hunter to break off a twig from the fir tree near the spot where he has killed his game and to place it in his hat.