People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

The oldest member of ; the Society of Foreign Missions, Paris, Father Auguste Desgodins, has died at Padong, on the Tibet frontier, at the age of 85, having spent 58 years of his life on the missions.

Nelson O'Shaughnessy, whose Celtic surname balances well his Anglo-Saxon given name (says the Sacred Heart Review), is at present our representative in Mexico. Into another troubled land, San Domingo, another American with a Celtic name is going to look after things there for the United States. This is Mr. James M. Sullivan, the newly-appointed Minister.

The Spanish Government delegated Count St. Stephen de Canongo to represent it at the International Students' Congress at Ithaca, New York, and the Hygiene Congress at Buffalo. The count is a descendant of The Sullivan Beare and treasures a fine painting of his famous ancestor. He is reported to be an excellent Catholic and very proud of his lineage. The dispute in Dublin over the tram strike has been largely a duel between two menLarkin, the Labor leader, on the one side, and William M. Murphy, ex-M.P., on the other side. Mr. Murphy is the virtual owner of the Dublin tramway system. He is also head of the company which owns it. He is also the owner of the Independent newspaper. Mr. Murphy is a wealthy man, with tramway interests in many places. It is said he has considerable holding in some of the rural trams in Renfrewshire and Lancashire. Besides these possessions he is also the virtual, if not the entire, owner of the Imperial Hotel and also of Clery's Drapery Warehouse, which adjoins it. Lord Kenmare, whose mansion was recently destroyed by fire, is in his fifty-third year. He succeeded his father (who for many years was a prominent member of Queen Victoria's household) eight years ago. He himself acted as Master of the Horse to Lord Dudley when the latter was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord Kenmare married a sister of Lord Revelstoke, and the elder of his two daughters acted as one of the Queen's train-bearers at the Coronation two years ago. Father Bernard Vaughan was, one of the guests of the Lord Lieutenant and Countess of Aberdeen during the Dublin Horse Show recently. Their Excellencies had quite a cosmopolitan party, another of the guests being the Yuvarajah of Mysore.

It is said that Jim Larkin, the Dublin strike leader, is the grandson of Larkin, the Manchester martyr, who was executed in connection with the Fenian trouble in 1867, and that this accounts in great measure for his popularity in Dublin. Larkin is a teetotaller and is described as being entirely regardless of his own personal comfort, reckless and irresponsible in his utterances, but possessed of an intense personal magnetism so great that 'in. his most persuasive vein he would inflame a piece of ice.' The London correspondent of the Irish News, writing on the authority of a survivor of the Fenian movement, says that Larkin is in no way related or connected with the Irishman who died on the scaffold with Allen and O'Brien.

Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, the American Ambassador to Denmark, has undertaken during a month's leave of absence to study the working of the co-opera-tive system of agriculture in Ireland. He is making this study with the special view of being of service to the Southern States of America.

The late Earl'Stafford, a Catholic peer who died a few weeks since, left estate valued at over £27,000. His will, made in his own handwriting, on a sheet of notepaper, bequeathed all his possessions to his cousin, Sir Henry Stafford Jerningham, who is also a Catholic. . • ; .