People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 9, 28 February 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About.

Princess Clementine, daughter of King Leopold of the Belgians has entered a convent. Last month Mr. Aubrey de Vere, Adare, Limerick, the venerable poet, celebrated his 87lh birthday. The late Sir Edward Stafford was the son of a oountry gentleman in County Loutb, Ireland, and was born on April 23, 1820. Mr Mic^nel Pivitt i g at pre°cnt bu o ily engaged at his residence Mount Salus Villa, Dalkey, in writing a book on the South African ■war, Mr. Theo. Cooper, New Zealand, who haa just been appointed to the Supreme Court Bench, began life in the sixties as a reader's boy and compositor in an Auckland newspaper office, In the current North American Review, the name of Robert Fulton is incidentally referred to as the first builder of a submarine boat. Fulton was the son of an Irishman from Kilkenny. The Nestor among the priests of the diocese of Vienna, RevJos. Boeck, has died, aged more than 97 years. He was a priest for 72 years, and celebrated twice his Silver Jubilee as pastor of a parish ; in 1853 in one parish and in 1878 in another. Miss O'Connell, whose engagement to General Charles Tucker is announced, is the daughter of the late Sir Maurice O'Connell, second baronet, and a sister of Sir Daniel Ross O'Connell, third baronet, of Lake View, Killarney. The family is Catholic. Princess Clementine of Coburg, who is in her 84th year, is suffering from an attack of bronchitis. She spent a week iv Rome, attending services in all the important churches, and being present at the closing of the Holy Door, and it was in Rome that she took cold. She travelled to Vienna to be there on Christmas Eve and arrived much depressed and ill. The Rev. Dr. Kolbe, who severed his connection with the South African Catholic Magazine soon after the commencement of the war, as his political opinions ran counter to those of many of the readers of the magazine, has consented to resume the editorship again. His determination will b« hailed with delight by hia many friends in South Africa and his numerous admirers in other parts of the world. The rare books, manuscripts, and curios, the gift of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy to the Royal Irish Academy, inolude a notable item in a large volume entitled ' Illustrations of Irish History.' In this book all the Irinh eras, from Grattsn down to the present day, are separately illustrated with portraits of the leading men, Irish and English, historical scenes, and current caricatures. The next most notable item is a book of autographs containing letters or autographs of nearly all the distinguishe i men who have appeared in Ireland and Eng'ard for the last sixty years. The Duke of Norfolk is said to be the possessor of a vast number of Rosaries. He has one of those which Mary Queen of Scots used on the scaffold. He was presented with a Rosary before leaving Home, the gift of hiß fellow-pilgrims there. It was contained in a little box bearing an inscription which expressed the general sentiment of the pilgrims for his unwearied efforts to make their journey one of spiritual profit and temporal pleasure. 'The Grace of the Pilgrimage ' was the title which had been bestowed upon him in Home. A Birmingham barrister writes to cay that he believes the sustention that Kaid Guilooly, who recently upset the tranquillity of the Ha-ha tribes, is of Irish extraction is correct. He says that in Morocco, Algiers, and the northern parts of Africa generally, several native family names — such as Daly — strongly suggest Irish origin. It seems that down to a comparatively recent date the piratical Moors of North Africa were in the habit of raiding the South-west coast coast of Ireland for booty and slaves. One of the most terrible and sweeping of these descents was that known as the 4 Sack of Baltimore (Cork) ' in lf>3l. Lord Dunboyne, who has been elected an Irish represtatative peer in the place of the late Lord Oranmore and Browne, only succeeded his father in the title two years ago. He is a member of the Bar and one of the Masters of the High Court. One of his predecessors (says the Catholic Tunes) was Catholic Bishop of Cork, who inherited the peerage unexpectedly through the death of a nephew. Wishing to perpetuate hiß family, he applied to Pope Pius the Sixth for a dispensation to retire from the episcopate and marry. The Pope replied in the severest terms of censure, whereupon Lord Dunboyne broke bis vows and married a Protestant lady. There was, however, no issue of the marriage, and before his death Lord Dunboyne returned to the bosom of the Church. He performed many acts which showed that he was genuinely penitent for what he had done, and he it was who founded the Dunboyne establishment at Maynooth .