PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 22 January 1920, Page 29

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

Mr. J. L. Fawsitt, Consular-General of the Irish Republic, has opened his Consular headquarters in New York. It is also announced that he is in charge of the Trades Commission of the Irish Republic in America. Mr. Fawsitt is a well-known Cork man. Dr. John Neville, Bishop of Carrhae, and Vicar-Apos-tolic of Zanzibar, whose mission field extends for thousands of miles through the dark continent, was lately a visitor in his native Dublin. He is the only Irish Bishop in either East or Central Africa.' At St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, .Kensal Green, London, on Saturday morning, October 25, the remains of Mme. Adelina Patti were placed in the lower catacomb, where they will repose until the special tomb which is being erected in the Pere La Chaise. Cemetery, Paris, is ready. The committal service was conducted on that day by Canon Fleming in the cemetery chapel. The death is announced of his Eminence Felix von Hartmann, Archbishop of Cologne. He was born at Minister, in Westphalia, on December 15, 1851, and ordained at the age of 23. In 1890 ho was appointed secretary to the Bishop of Munster, and in 1903 he was made a canon. In 1911 he was chosen as Bishop of Minister, and a little more than a year afterwards he was chosen by the Chapter of Cologne as successor to Cardinal Fischer. His titular church was St. John at the Latin Gate. The appointment is announced of the Hon. Frank Russell, K.C., to be one of the Justices of the High Court of Justice in England in room of Mr. Justice Younger, appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal. The new judge is the third son of the late Lord Russell of Killowen, and is 52 years old. Mr. Russell was leading counsel for Cardinal Bourne and others in the recent important case heard in the House of Lords, in which bequests for Masses were held to be legal. Abbot McDonald, 0.5.8., of Fort-Augustus, Scotland, who now holds ono of the most important positions in the

Benedictine Order in Northern Europe, and who endeared himself to Liverpool Catholics ; during his six years' rectorship of St. Anne's, Edge Hill, revisited the city recently to receive a testimonial from his former parishioners. Abbot McDonald has outstanding ' gifts of organisation, and is also a fluent linguist. For some years he was confessor in Gaelic for the Archdiocese of Liverpool. , : ; The Rev. Ronald Knox (son of the Protestant Bishop of Manchester), who was received into the Catholic Church last year, was ordained as a Catholic priest on Sunday, October 5, by Cardinal Bourne, at St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, Ware. Father Knox was a distinguished Oxford student and one of the ablest and most brilliant . men of his time. Since the reception of Mgr. Benson (also the son of a Protestant Bishop) the Catholic Church in England has received no more promising recruit. Since his conversion Father Knox has shown himself to be a very brilliant and fearless controversialist. His gifts and influence will not bo left unutilised. Remarkable scenes were witnessed in Manchester and tho adjoining borough of Salford on Saturday, October 4, „the occasion being the funeral of the late Sir Daniel McCabe, D.L., K.S.S. Never within the recollection of anyone living has such a public manifestation of respect for an individual been shown, and the population as a whole, as reflected by the press, regard the death of Sir Daniel McCabe as a public affliction. Thousands lined the thoroughfares from St. John's- Cathedral, Salford, to St. Josoph's Catholic Cemetery, Moston, a distance of over four miles. Traffic was held up, blinds were drawn in houses, shop window's were shuttered, all flags were lowered to half-mast, bells were tolled, and all heads were bared, whilst expressions of sorrow at the loss of a good man were heard on all sides. . The Catholics of Manchester are about to promote a memorial to the late Sir Daniel McCabe, formerly Lord Mayor of Manchester and the first Catholic to hold that position. Sir Daniel's Lord Mayoralty reflected credit on the Catholic body as well as on himself. His tenure of the office and his success in it finally dispelled any lingering remnant of bigotry tending to keep Catholics from civic equality in Lancashire.