People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 6, 7 February 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About.

Lord Wolseley, whose retiring allowance is only £1300 a yean is, in consideration of his services, to have it increased to £2600. Jeremiah Lynch, aged 72 years, th« last surviving member of the crew of the Confederate battleship Alabama, died at his residence in Inman Park, Atlanta, Ga., recently. The value of the estate of the late Mrs Gladstone, of Hawarden Ca«tle. has been proved at £ 10,88 i. The Gladstones never got any wuttlLLi uuL of t,Lo Co .ujnu.cnt. Patrick M'Carthy, a veteran Irish soldier, has been driven by rheumatism into Bkipton Workhouse, though ne has a pension of lfl lid per day. He went through the Crimean war, and was in the charge of the Light Brigade, being wounded in the hand. He waa nix weeks in the hospital, and his nurse was Florence Nightingale. He also served in the Indian Mutiny, and was in at the relief of Lucknow, where he waa severely wounded in the face, the soars of which remain. Among the persons recently presented to Leo XIII. was an aged wormn named Catherine Tantnrli, who is in the one hundred and second year of her age. The Pontiff received her with great kindness. She was born amid the Sabine Hills, and her long life was mostly passed in that district. Far back as the memory of Leo XIII. goes in the century, that of this old Sabine woman goes back still farther. The subscription list for the'memorial to the late Lord Russell of Killowen is fairly progressing. Amongst recent subscribers are the American Ambassador, who sends £30 ; Lord Rosebery, who gives an equal amount ; the new Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, and the Attorney-General, who gave 25 guineas each. Sir George Lewis and Mr Ernest Cassel each subscribe £100. Mr C. W. Mathews, in addition to exacting services as honorary secretary, gives 2.') guineas. Mr Frank McDonnell, senior member for Fortitude Valley, Queensland, was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, 37 years ago. He received his education at the Christian Brothers' school in that town. Mr McDonnell is prominently identified with the Queensland Labor movement, and has taken a very keen interest in factory ami shops legislation. The Catholics of Queensland are especially indebted to him for having secured for them the right for winners of State fccholarships to take them out at any Catholic school which has been approved by the Government as giving a sufficiently high standard of education. He also secured this same right for any other private schools which qualify themselves for it. It is one of the peculiarities of the present British Ministry that it din 1-*1 -* no' include a single Catholic. In the last Ministry the Duke of Norfolk held the office of Postmaster-General, and in the ISSi) to l.v.i:! Ministry Mr. Henry Matthews, now Viscount Llandaff, was Home S.-crt tary. Dirftinguibhed Catholics in the Liberal ranks hu\e been Lord Kipon, who was Secretary for the Colonies in the Roseb-ry administration, and held high office at earlier dates ; the late Lord Chief Justice, who twice held the office of AttorneyGeneral under Mr. Gladstone ; and Lord Emly, who. like the Dake of Norfolk, was Postmaster-General. Mr. Fitzalan Hope, the seconder of the Address, is one of the four Catholics who represent English constituencies in the House of Commons, On December 21 the death took place, at his residence in Belfast, ot Mr. Vere Foster, the well philanthropist, in his eightysecond year. Mr. Foster, who was the second son of Sir Augustus Foster. liart. was some years in the diplomatic service. During the Irish famine in 1 54 7 he and his brother organised relief committees all over the country and saved thousands from starvation. He afterwards devoted his life to emigration legislation, Irish national education, and improved schoolhouse accommodation. Mr. Foster was also the author of an assisted emigration Bcheme for females, about 25 <Kio Irish girls being assisted after the distress in 1867, chiefly out of his own purse. His well known series of writing, drawing, and painting books is still in use in Irish National schools througdout the country, and in many other parts of the world. One of the social events of the recent London season was the exhibition of Art and Industry at Earl's Court. Among9t the side attractions was a show of women of all nations, for which a prise of £130 was offered for the prettiest group from any country. The contest, for this prize, according to Leslies Weekly, was protracted and exciting in the highest degree. The award was eventually made to a group of Irish lassies. They had 33,095 votes in excess of all others, the group of English women coming second with 24,029 votes in excess of other competitors. Scotland third, and Canada fourth. It was a proud moment for the winsome Irish maidens when the prize was announced, and it was the unanimous opinion of the people that the award had been fairly and justly made.