People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 12 June 1902, Page 10

People

Cardinal Gibbons has become one of the vice-presidents of the National Anti- Vivisection Society. . The Marquis of Bute comes of age this year on June 20. The tenantry at Cardiff propose to present him with an illuminated address. The hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lacordaire was celebrated on the 12th May. The distinguished Dominican was born on May 12., 1802, at Recey-sur-Ource. At Capetown, South Africa, a Catholic lady, a member of the Victorian League, has accepted the task of caring for the graves of all the Catholic soldiers who have fallen during tihe war. Hon. Anthony M. Keiley has resigned as a Judge of the International Court in Egypt. He is a Catholic, a brother of the Bishop of feavannah, a former Mayor of Richmond, Va., and a prominent member of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union of the United States. The young King of Spain learnt English in his childhood,* and; now reads, writes, and speaks it very well. French he speaks with fluency and a slight Spanish accent. Of Germa« he is master. But, most important of all, under a distinguished professor of Madrid University he has become deeply interested in political economy, social questions, and politics generally. From Honolulu comes the statement that; a wealthy Belgian Catholic lady, Miss Maria Roosevelt, hag asked permission to take up Father IJamien's work among the lepers of Molokai. Sho proposes to use her own means in bettering the condition of those unfortunate people and in supporting Herself. 'Pretty soon (says the 'Catholic Union and. Times ') there won't be any other than Irish-Catholic Mayors in the New England cities. Boston has Mayor Patrick Collins ; Bridgeport has Mayor Denis Mulvihill • another Connecticut city has Mayor J ohn Foley ; and now comes Mayor Ignatius A. Sullivan, who was elected Mayor of the aristocratic old city of Hartford. If this thing keeps up, the name of that section will' become New Ireland. The English are going from it— going with a vengeance ! ' Mr. Burke Cochran, the distinguished American Democratic leader and one of the strongest and most influential supporters of the Irish causo in the United States, was recently entertained at dinner at the House of Commons by Mr. John Redmond, who asked the following members of the Irish Party to meet him : Mr. Blake, Mr. Dillon, Mr. T. & °^ Conno1 '. Captain Donelan, and Mr. P. A. M'Hugh. Mr. Burke Cochran had just returned from Rome, where he had the honor of being received in audience by tho Pope. Mr. MacVeagh will evidently be" a captain in the Nationalist host sooner or later (says the ' Pall Mall Gazette ). He has been a member only two months, but his readiness and self-pos.se.-ision are already recognised. He exercised the former qualll 7. o A 1 , Earl Percy - Stm in Pursuit of Colonel ' Lynch, friend of the Boers, Hotspur wanted to know whether ' steps would be taken by making him an otitlaw or otherwise to prevent Mr. Lynch from using the King s courts for recovery of rents.' Up shot Mr. MacVeagh to 'ask whether it wasl not true that three of tho i^arl s ancestors had been hanged for high treason. There was a prodigious explosion of mirth, in which Ministerialists as well as Opposition joined, Earl Percy, however, hardly seeming to see the joke.

Mr. T. M. Healy, M.P., who is a King's Counsel, was recently opposed in the assize courts to a distinguished barrister, remarkable for his capacity to talk against time. This lawyer asked for the postponement of a trial in which he and Mr. Healy were interested on opposite sides. 'On what ground do you seek this postponement ? ' queried the court. 'My Lord,' replied the barrister, I have been arguing a case all day m Court B, and I am completely exhausted.' At this point Mr. Healy arose and exclaimed that he, too, was weary and would gladly consent to a postponement. ' What have you been doing to tire yourself ? ' asked the now curious judge ' M.y Lord,' answered Mr. Healy, with just a suspicion of a yawn, ' I have been listening to my learned brother.' Mr. Stead's observations on men and things have an individuality of their own. We take the following from a recent issue of the ' Review of Reviews.' :— ' Ireland is the grave of reputations. But it occasionally creates them. Just at present it is making three. The session has brought into clear relief the fact that Mr. Redmond is the ablest Parliamentarian in the House, and if he were not Irish he would "inevitably be the next leader of the Opposition. Mr. T. W. Russell, who is being driven irresistably from Unionism into Home Rule via compulsory lai^d purchase, may be Chief Secretary for Ireland when Mr.' Redmond is Prime Minister of the advanced Administration that will issue from the social turmoil which may be expected when tho war brings forth its bitter fruit in bad trade or lack of work. The third reputation which Ireland is making is that of Mr. Wyndham. His Land Bill has already achieved no small measure of success, and his speech explaining its provisions, was ,a model of lucidity. Everyone admits that he is «. veritable Prince Charming, but most people fear he is,, too light a weight to ever attain the Premiership, which would otherwise be at his feet.'