People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 11 November 1915, Page 43

People We Hear About

Mr. Charles Phillips, editor of The Monitor, ' San Francisco,- recently severed his connection with that piiolication to devote himself exclusively to literary work. He . will be succeeded by Rev. John B. Duggan, a versatile and scholarly member of the Californian clergy.

The Democrats dt Delemont says the Grand Duchess of Luxemburg, who is a fervent Catholic, has expressed the intention to become a nursing Sister and to resign the throne in favor of her sister. Princess Marie Antoinette, aged nineteen. The Grand Duchy is at present occupied by sixteen thousand German soldiers.

Mr. Alfred Percival Graves is editor-in-chief of. a series of volumes to be published shortly under the title of Every Irishman’s Library. The expert assistance of Lord Dunraven, Sir Douglas Hyde, Professor Kettle, Mr. Swift Mac Neill, Canon. Hannay (‘George Birmingham’), Mr. Padriac Colum, and others has been requisitioned for the enterprise.

The London correspondent of the Irish News, describing Mr. McKenna’s successful Budget speech, says it will yet be accounted that no more competent or resourceful Chancellor of the Exchequer than McKenna has reigned over the Treasury since Gladstone’s Chancellorship fifty years ago.

Among the new boys who arrived at Eton on September 17, was the Duke of Brabant, elder son of the King of the Belgians. He is 14 years of age, and will board with Prince Henry, King George V.’s third son, in Mr. S. C. Lubbock’s House. Notwithstanding his youth he has been serving in the trenches in Flanders as a private.

Dr. T. P. Mclnerney, Warden of the Senate of the Melbourne University, was, on October 19, made the recipient of a solid silver salver from members of the senate in appreciation of his services as warden for 25 years. On behalf of the senate the Vice-Chancellor of the University (Dr. McFarland), Professor Sir Harry Allen, Professor Orme Masson, and Mr. G. Higgins congratulated Dr. Mclnerney on his long and successful term of office. In responding, Dr. Mclnerney said since he graduated there had been many changes in the University. Its schools and courses had been revolutionised. Not only had the University grown in number of degrees and students, but its influence in the community had also spread.

News was received in town on Thursday afternoon that the Rev. Father Joseph Leberre, the oldest identity of this colony, has passed away, at the advanced age of 85 years (says the Polynesian Gazette of October 23). The late Father Laberre came to Fiji in the year 1859 and has resided in the colony ever since. He was recognised as the oldest colonist and oldest European in Fiji. Tho death took place at Naidiri, the Roman Catholic Mission Station at Kadavu, on Monday the 18th October. Deceased was born on June 27, 1830, and left home in his 29th year for missionary work in the South Seas. Father Laberre was well known amongst the early settlers and those who have met him in late years could not but admire his sterling qualities and his wonderful’ physique, which enabled him to attend to the spiritual care of his parishioners right up to the last moment. "