People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 2, 10 January 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About.

The Rev. P. A. Sheehan, the author of My New Curate is a Kerryman. ' Mr. Justin M'Carthy continnes to enj ->y better health and is now weak ing «,teaJily on his i,cv I rub n->vel. Mrs Alice Worthiujftou Wmthrop, who died recently at Washington, was v Catholic v, riu-r of considerable merit. Don Perosi has set to mucio Pope Leo's ' Hymn to the Creator ' and it was to have been sung ut St. Peer's in Home on Christmas Jcjve. A New York correspondent slates that the sum of £40 000 bequeathed by Michael Durning, an undertaker, of Elizabeth is in dinpute, and that tho most notable claimant is his Eminence Cardinal m she5 he dea * h , ifl announced at Netherland, State of New York, of Mr Marcus Day, of MonUin, ' the Copper Kin<r.' He was a native of Ireland, and w«s born in 1842, but since 1876 had been identified with the intereetfl of Montana. Captain J. L. Harrington, British Resident at the Emperor Menelok s court, has left England to return to his post in Abyssinia Captain Harrington, who is an old Stonvhurht student, is taking with him a number of valuable dogs sent by the Queen as a present to the Emperor and Empress. The Archduke Charles D'Este, who is just 13 years of age has been permitted by the Emperor Francis Joseph to attend the classes in natural science at the Scotch School of the Benedictine Monks at Vienna. This is the first time that an Archduke has ever been allowed to attend a public school, and it marks a great innovation in Austrian Court life. Adolphe HatzfeJd, the distinguished European Bcholar, who died in October, was of Jewish extraction, but early became a Catholic. He was born in 1824 at Paris. With the late Arsene Darmesteter he compiled the Dictionaire General de la Langue francaur, from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present date, a highly laborious and scholarly work, which took nearly 30 years to complete. Mr. John Boland, sines his return as M.P. f ir South Kerry has di?po*ed of the interest he recently acquired in the London Weekly Brgittcr. The double difficulties of an Irish member's proprietorship of a paper for Engli-h Catholics are not new. They were experienced when Mr. Lucas sat for an Irish seat and in the editorial cair of the Tnh'it. It is a coincidence that the Weekly Iteqitter which was m^rted 50 y ars ago by Mr. Hemy Wilberforce as a pro' test airait^t the T<ihhf* Nationalism, should itself now feel some of the minor complications of the position. Lord Forester, who has h^ld the office of Mayor of Wenlock this year, pos»p H ee-> the privilege, by a grant to his family fro.v King Jlriiry VIII. of wranner hie hat in the presence of royalty Lord Forester is the only English nobleman who enjoys this puviHro, wh.ch was conferred on his ancestors as commoners Lord kiupaie, the premier baron of Ireland, also enjoys the hereditary privilege of wearing his hat in the royal presence— a favor granted to hia anocstor, John de Courcy, by King John. A fa*hionable mirriape took place at tho Catholic church St. J.une.*n, Spanish Plaw, London, about the middle of November when Cap üm Arthur H. E. Wood, of the Scottish Rifles (son of General Mr Kvelyn Wood), and Mi«s Ethel Mary Duncan, youngest daughter of Mr. A. Duncan, barrister-at-law, wpre wedded. The service was soni-choral, and the entrance to the church handsomely decorate*]. The Rev. U. H. Lan^hton officiated. The bride's father gave her away, a»d Captain Oakley, of the Scottish Rifles, was best man. Captain Wooi is Adjutant of the Imperial contingent now in New >outh Wale*. Lord and Lady Henries («ays the London Star) will entertain large shooting parties at Ev-eringhain Park, near Pocklington, during November and December. Everingham, a fine structure, although comparatively modern, stands in a well-wooded park, where the fallow deer are to be fonnd in considerable numbers. A feature of Evermgham is the chapel, which is an exact oopy of the Siatine Chapel at Rome, only turned inside out— the inside of the chapel at Everingham reproducing accurately the outside of the famous chapel at Rome. Itch Lord and Lady Herries are ardent Catholics and some of Lori BerripV 8 sipters are nuiw. The present peer has no Bon, only twin daughters, and his brother, Mr. William Maxwell is the heir. Lord Herries is one of the trustees and executors of the will of the late Lord Bute. Mr. Shee, Q.C , who has been appointed a Special Commissioner to the Isle of Man for the purpose of presiding at tho trial of the dire tors of Pumbell'a Bank, is an Irishman. His appointment has given rise to the following doggerel :— ' 'Tia only natural and human Each sex should score — if it can ; And as man is judge of woman, Shee should be the Judge of Man.' *" Sir Ralph Moor, th« able Consul-Genera 1 for the Niger Coast Protectorate, having enjoyed a holiday at home, is about to return to the West Coast. For a young man— he is only 40— Sir Ralph (nays the Daily Chronicle) has done an immense amount of valuable work. At 21 he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary, in which force he remained for 10 years. Then he left to try his fortunes on the Niger, where everything he touched turned into go;d. He has held the present important position since 1896, and supervises affairs in a most masterful manner all along the coast taking in the Cameroosi and Fernando Fo, '