Mostly About People.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 138, 7 December 1901, Page 3

Mostly About People.

Mr William O’Brien, member for Cork in the House of Commons, has arrived in Melbourne on a visit.

Bishop Stuart, leader of the Anglican mission in Persia, has arrived by the Victoria at Fremantle. Bishop Stuart was formerly Bishop of Waiapu. Colonels Sommervillo and Collins, who have managed the -affairs of the late New Zealand Rifle Association since 1885, have been requested by the Government to occupy their old positions as chief executive officers in the management of meetings under Government auspices. Sir William MacCormac, the famous surgeon, is dead, aged 65. Sir William MacCormac, born at Belfast on January 17th, 1836. was the eldest son of the late Mr Henry MacCormac, M.D. He was educated in Belfast and Paris, became Bachelor and Master of Arts, also Master in Surgery and Doctor of Science, “ honoris causa ” of the Queen’s University, and received its gold medal. He saw service at Metz- and Sedan during the Franco-German war of 1870 71, and during the TurkoServian war in 1876. He did great work as a lecturer, consulting surgeon, and examiner. In 1881 he acted as secretary-general of the International Medical Congress in London, and, in consideration of his services in this capacity, the late Queen conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. Sir William was the author of “ Work under the Red Cross ” and treatises on “ Antiseptic Surgery ” and “ Surgical Operations,” besides numerous surgical papers contributed to medical journals and addressed. to medical societies. la 1899 Sir William want to South Africa on a special mission for the British Government and as consulting surgeon to the hLtrnj Medical Corps.