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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 16, 17 April 1902, Page 10

People

It is said that the Earl of Pembroke will be the next Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Mrs.. Dick - Cunyn&ham, widow of the late Colonel Dick - Cunyngham, who fell at Lady&mith, who recently mourned the loss of her son has now sustained a fresh bereavement (says tin exchange) in the death of her daughter. The Dick-Ounynghams are Catholics; and the bereaved lady haa for .some time been lady-in-waiting to Princess Christian at Cumberland Lodge.

Mrs. Allies, who has just passed to her reward (says the -Catholic limes ') was received into the Church whilst her distinguished husband, Mr. T. W. Allies, was yet an Anglican clergyman. In ' A Life's Decision ' Mrs. Allies tells how her conversion preceded his own. For many years sho resisted his advance towards Catholic views, and then ■she went forward more rapidly than he did.

lhe marriage at the Brompton Oratory of Miss Enid Dickens daughter of Mr. Henry Fielding Dickens, X.C , Recorder of Maidstone, and granddaughter of the novelist, with Mr E. B. Hawksley solicitor to the Chartered Company of South Africa, is an event (says the 'Catholic Times') in which a w-ide interest has been taken. Charles Dickens m some parts of his works shows strong prejudices against the Catholic Church", but they are manifestly the prejudices of an honest man, due- to misunderstandings

It is- suggested that a mural tablet to the memory of the late Prolessor r [ ho mas Arnold should be placed in the L Diversity Church, Stephens Green Dublin, where he worshipped :-o often It is a \eatsince the death of this member" of the group of distinguished scholars who enteied the Church with Newman

Lieutenant Robert C L Stap'eton Bretherton, Ro\al Fusiliers, M I who was killed at Konderan, m the Frankfoit District. South Africa, on January lid, was the son of Mr V Staplelon Bretherton, of Heathlield Hall, Faieham The deceased ofhecr had only been three weeks m South Africa when he met his death The deceased was educated at the Jesuit College, Beaumont Ile is the fom th othcei- lrom l.eaumont who has lost his hie m tin 1 war

i"' 11 H I) Courtney, a well-known apostle of the Gaelic revnal, is about to male a tour of the United Stales and Canada, accompanied by Gaelic speal-ers <u:d lady \ocalists, for the pin {lose of promoting and popularising the Gaelic language movement A strong committee, headed b\ Dr Douglas Hyde, Canon (> Haiilon, Brother Kenny, and Father Nicholas has been formed to make ai rangunents

A flutter of excitement was caused at the National Liberal Club, London, recently by the report that Colonel Lynch was in the smokingroom v. ith a number of Irish compati lots Jnq.mry elicited the information that Colonel Lynch had taken part in a farewell dinner earlier in the evening, and later was to lea\e Waterloo for America, having booked passage hy the steamer which took out Prince Henry of Prussia There was a mild inquiry for the police, and one ex-member of the House of Commons left hurriedly, explaining that he ' did not wish to be mixed up in a scene.' Then iti leaked out that the Colonel Lynch vho had created such a flutter was not Ihc fugithe member for Gal way, (hough an Irishman, and by a noticeable coincidence was at Ladysnuth during the imestment, His

friends at the National Liberal Club secretly derived no little pleasure from keeping up the imposition, which seems to have been taken quite seriously by members. „-■'- perhaps a little difficult (says, the London; 'Sun') to associate the House of Commons with the flower of sentiment, and yet in the specomHlv i ftlr , + James Oathcart Wason quietly knitting a pair of woollen stockings m an obscure corner of the smoking-room, while hon members ™ d ?'?? P^ Naughts and Siel™ nT?h ' l l stories . embodied one of these refreshing little stories that reconcile us to life even in these modern times. When Mr. Wason who represents Orkney and Shetland,' and rightly supports the Government on Unionist lines, on his return to the House after an illness, sat down in an obscure corner of the smokingroom, and, pulling out an unfinished pair of Shetland woollen stockings and knitting needles, got to work the men around him stared for the moment, covertly snickered, and exchanged a few humorous references In time gentle badinage died away as these things do. Mr. John Burns Major Jameson, and a few others who take life seriously insisted on the- right of a gentle-man to entertain himself in his own way without comment or observation.

After a long and honorable connection with the police force of this Colony, Inspector Ponder retired from active service a few days ago in Wellington. Seventy-three years ago ho first saw the light in Wexford, and at the age of 17 he joined the Irish Constabulary (it was not the ' Royal ' Irish then). After only four years of service ho became sergeant, and after serving eight years he volunteered for service in the Crimea, where he remained for two years, being attached to Lord Raglan's mounted staff. He accompanied Colonel Grant to Turkey, and assisted in organising; a Turkish cavalry corps. On returning to Ireland ho got back his rank as sergeant in the police force, but only to relinquish it in a few months, as ho had decided to try his fortune In Australia On the way out the crew mutinied, but were subjugated by Mr Ponder, assisted by three of his Crimean war mates, three Royal liish Constabulary men, and some of the passengers Shortly after his aru\al m Melbourne he foined the police, and in that capacity had several brushes with bushrangers. In IHHI he was selected with Mr. Shearman to come to New Zealand to organise the Canterbury Police Foi cc Soon after his arrival he rose to the tank of Inspector, which olhce lie had filled until his retirement with ciediti to hmiselt, and to the satisfaction of the public, having been stationed for a number of .\ears m Chi istchurch. Timaru, and Wellington. No police official (says the Wellington ' Free Lance ') ever carried out his duties with less of red tape and more bonhomie. He was never a martinet, never fongot lie uas a citizen as well as a policeman, but when the occasion demanded it there was always the iron hand beneath the \elvet glo\e. Inspector Pen dm* retires from the force without ha\ing made a single enemy. Ho has been singled out for the special kudos of the Chief Justice and the- Grand .lury, and the public are now recording their appreciation in the solid and convincing form of so\eieigns.