People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 16 July 1903, Page 10

People We Hear About

Sir Bryan O'Loghlin, Bart., ex-Premier of Victoria, has just entered on his 76th year. He is one of the few people who have been elected to the House of Commons in their absence, but he never took his seat in that Chamber. Mr. C. E. de Trafford, a famous Leicester County cricketer, belongs to the old Catholic family, the Lancashire de Traffords, whose estate near Manchester, close to the Ship Canal, figured largely in the financial speculations of Mr. Hooley a few years ago. Colonel Patrick FitzGerald Gallwey, late R.A., died at Onslow Avenue, Richmond, Surrey, on May 20. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. Michael Gallwey, Pingle, Kerry, and was born in 1838. Colonel Gallwey served in the Afghan war of 1879-80 in charge of the field parks of the Ist and 2nd divisions of the Peshawar Valley Field Force, and took part in the operations against the Zakka Kheyl Afridis in the Bazar Valley under Lieutenant-General Maude, being mentioned in despatches for his services. He retired in 1895. Writing of the late Archdeacon Slattery, of Geelong, the Daylesford ' Herald ' relates that ' generous himself, he could not bear meanness in others. This was illustrated when a swagman, being refused work) or food at a Daylesford farm, pulled up a billy of potatoes from the farmer's 20-acre crop and was given in charge for theft. Father Slattery assured himself of the facts of the case, lectured the f aimer on hits inhumanity, presented himself in court, and pleaded successfully for the discharge of tho hungry tramp.' A cable message received last week stated that the Dublin University had conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Sir Frederick M. Darley, Chiefl Justice of New South Wales. Sir Frederick Darley is now in his 73rd year, and is a son of the late Henry Darley, of Wicklow. He was educated at Dungannon College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1851. He was called to the Irish Bar just half a century ago and went the Munster Circuit. He came out to Australia later on, and commenced the practice of his profession in New South Wales in 1862. In 1886 he was appointed Chief Justice of Now South Wales, and was knighted in the following year. Mr. William Redmond's humorous and pointed interjections are becoming quite a feature of parliamentary life. The House of Commons was favored the other day with another laughable interruption from the hon. member. Just before the House adjourned an Irish member managed to move the second reading of the Town Tenants (Ireland) Bill. Thereupon Sir F. Banbury arose to perform his customary function of talking out the Bill. The member for Feckham succeeded in speaking for many minutes without saying anything in particular — much to the disappointment of the Irish members. ' For these reasons, Mr. Speaker,' concluded Sir F. Hanbury — 'They ought to send you to the House of Lords,' put in Mr. Redmond, amidst a roar of laughter. Mr. Michael Davitt Is on his way to Bessarabia for the New York ' American.' to investigate the recent massacre of the Jews at Kishineff, and to bring financial succor to their friends and relatives from funds subscribed in tho Republic He has not an easy task before him, if we (' Freeman's Journal ') may judge by a letter from ' a well-informed quarter in South Russia' which has just been published by the Berlin ' National Zeitung ' He declares that the Kishineff explosion is only a symptom of the deep, latent dissatisfaction among the Russian peasant classes, and that the fury of the mob in this particular case happened to be vented on the Jews for purely local reasons. Mr. Davitt has, it will be seen, undertaken a serious responsibility, and, with characteristic courage, has gone to a scene of real danger, where, from the very nature of the case, he must run many serious risks. Though the late ' Max O'Rell ' adopted an Irish form of nom-de-guerre, and paid several Msits to Ireland, he declined to write a book about that jiait of the United Kingdom. ' I have many times been asked why, having written on the subject of Fneland and Scotland, I had no intention of publishing mv impressions of the Irish,' lie wrote in his first book on America. 'My answer is this In speaking of a people I like to touch on their net transpiessions, their faults and weaknesses, and I ha\e never been able to find any in the Irish.' According to that observant Frenchman. Now York is the real capital of Ireland. After tho city had been conquered suoe-ossholy by the Dutch, the English, and the Yankees. it is to-da'v 'in the hands of the Trish ' — so he wrote in 1889 He explained that Americans favored Homo Rule in the hope that ' when the Irish get Ireland they will go home.' ' F, too,' he wont on, ' would like to see tho Irish in possession of Ireland, but for other reasons First and chiefly. because they are good patriots, and though in a foreion land, even naturalised Americans, they do not forcret their beloved country. They give their allegiance to America, but their hearts remain true to Ireland.'