People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 5, 31 January 1901, Page 10

People We He ar About.

Lord Edmund Talbot.M.P., has been appointed assistant private secretary to the Secretary of State for War. Sir Wilfred Laurier has ee< t from Canada £80 to the fund for the erection of a statue to Bossuet in the Cathedral of Meaux. The amount collected for the purpose is £2,000 The Government will provide the marble for this monument. Mr. T. B. Curran, iun., late Nationalist member for North Donegal, left England on 4th December with his wile for Australia, where he intends to practice at the Bar. The late Queen some time ago ordered a three- fold carved screen, tho design being in shamrocks, to be made by the Killarney Industries School. Her Majesty intended this as a gift for the Empress Eugenic. Mr. Marcus A. Daly, the ' Copper King,' who died recently in New York, though in poverty when young, amassed 40,000,000 dollars as a mine owner in Montana. The funeral services included a Requiem High Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Father Lavelle officiating. The death took place recently of the Abbe Dufresne, a blind priest, who was an Apostolic missionary at Geneva and Soissons. He was a grandson of M. Foisset, author of a life of Pere Laoordaire. Abbe Dufresne became suddenly blind while studying his theology and was allowed to go on preparing for the priesthood by special permission of Pope Pius IX, Before his departure from Rome, where he had been on a visit, Mr Chamberlain had a lengthy conference with Monsignor Stanley with reference to Catholic missions in the East and affairs in Sooth Africa. Monsignor Stanley afterwards paid a vißit to Cardinal llampolla, Papal secretary. The Right Rev. Mgr. Nugent, of Liverpool, has been paying a visit to Washington. He called on President McKinley, by whom he was received in the most friendly way. A reception recently given in honor of the Monsignor by Mr. and Mrs. Nugent, friends of his, was attended by a large number of distinguished people and was a brilliant affair. Mr. Bowen Rowlands, QC. whose appointment as County Court judge in succession to Judge iLuahington, resigned, was recently announced (says an English paper), has been transferred to Circuit No. 7, embracing Birkenhead, Northwich, and Warrington. The new judge, who is a convert, is a man of high ability both as a lawyer, a speaker, ami a writer. The appeal issued a year ago on behalf of Mr. John Augustus OShea was not as successful as the committee expected. They hoped that at least £2">o would be subscribed, in which event there wus reason to look forward to an equal amount from the Royal Bounty Fund. The subscriptions, however, amount only to £180. The app. al lias been renewed with a view to obtaining an additional <~0. This distinguished and versatile litterateur, who is now incapacitated from work in his declining years, has laid the public, and especially Catholics, under a large debt of gratitude. Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene O'Sullivan, whose masterly defence of Master-(Junner Acheson has resulted in a verdict of acquittal, was Brigade-Major at Mioeburyness before he retired to the reserve ot officer-, from which he returned lately to do duty as BrigadeMajor, R.A., South-Eastern District. He stands over six feet in height, and would make an excellent advocate, being a P.S.C., and having hud much legal experience in his official capacity. He iB very little over fifty years of age. He never had any active service, but has a son, a captain, who is out in China at the present time. A marrif ge has been arranged between Mr. Charles Vaughan, 7th Dragoon Guards, eldest son of Colonel F. B. Vaughan, J.P., D.L., of CounuVld, Herefordshire, and nephew of his Eminence Cardinal Vaughan, und Katie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Purcell, of Beauheu, South Norwood Hill, and Saltillo, Mexico. Mr. Charles Vaughan has had an adventurous career. He was given a commission iv the <lth Dragoons, went to the war, was almost immediately wounded, returned home and acted as best man at a marriage at which Miss Purcell was bridesmaid. He is the eldest of the three sons of Colonel Vaughan, of Courtfield, one of his brothers being a priest and the other on his way to become one. Cardinal Vaughan will officiate at the marriage of his nephew, who, by the way, still carries in his body the bullet that sent him from war to love.