People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 12, 21 March 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About.

Mr. Arthur O'Connor, Q.C., has been appointed Judge of the County Courts of Durham, etc. (Circuit No. 2). in place of Judge Meynell, deceased. Mr. O'Connor is an alumnus of Ushaw College. Most men when they enter the House of Commons remain silent for a long time in order to learn the ways of the House. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, however, who was 52 on October 5, was ordered by Mr. Parnell to speak the very night he took his Beat. It ie 30 years since he first went to London in search of a situation, and 20 sinoe he was returned to Parliament. Mrs. Harriet Crehan, mother of Miss Ada Rehan. the gifted Irish-American actress, died at her home, Brooklyn, New York, on January 15. Mrs. Crehan. whose maiden name was O'Neill, was born in the city of Limerick, Ireland, 77 years ago. She went to the United States 35 years ago, with her husband, Thomas Crehan, a shipping merchant. Their eight children accompanied them. Four still survive. General Wolseley, who, perhaps, finds the adulation of FieldMarshal Earl Roberts, K.G., just the least bit trying, is about to make an extended tour of Canada and the Hudson's Bay territory, where some of his earliest triumphs were achieved. After that he would like, it is hinted, to go on to Australia, if an invitation were sent to him to come to the Commonwealth with the Duke of York. Lieutenant a Beckett, the young Catholio officer whose character was unjustly aspersed and afterwards vindicated by the recent court-martial at Dover, has been elected a member of the Junior United Service Club, which numbers Earl Roberts and Sir William Butler among its members. His election is practically a vote of confidence in the young officer from a representative military organisation. The transfer of a member of Parliament from the floor of the House to the Reporters' Gallery is much more rare than the reverse process. Mr. D. Crilly, who represented North Mayo up to the general election, has just made the change, having been appointed the Parliamentary correspondent of the Dublin Daily Independent. Mr. Crilly is known in Irish literary life as a capable journalist, a poet, and a critic. To a much wider circle he ia known as a clever, warm-hearted Irishman. Brevet Brigadier-General James Kavanagh, for over 40 years connected with the famous Sixty-Ninth Regiment of New York, died on January 7in hia home, Brooklyn. Sixty-nine years ago he wa3 born at Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland. Though but a young 1 lad, he took part in the '48 movement, for which he had to flea from his native land. He became captain in the Sixty-Ninth Regimpnt. He led the charge at the first battle of Bull Run and earned the life-long friendship of Thomas Francis Meagher for his bravery on that occasion. ' The Fighting Little Major,' as he was called, with Colonel Nugent, led the historicjcharge of the Irish Brigade at the battle of Fredericksburg and fell dangerously wounded within a hundred feet of the enemy's position at Mary'a Heights. The fact that Father Maher's work on Psychology id in its fourth edition, combined with the praise of such able non-Catholic psychologists as Messrs. James and Ladd, of Harvard, and the present action of London University, are eloquent testimony to the merits of a really great book. Students of Tullabeg in the seventies, Bays the Freeman, remember Michael Maher as one of the then 'leaders of the House.' Father William Delany, S.J., who, by the way, is Father Maher's uncle, was at that time rector of the College, and Tullabeg was in its moat brilliant period. At least half a dozen of the ' boys ' — including Father Maher — had graduated at London University, and so critical & visitor as Professor Mahaffywas immensely struck with the high standard of the school. Old schoolfellows of Father Maher will recognise in his fame and honors the fruit of a brilliant promise, and will rejoice, moreover, for the sake of St. Stanislaus' College.