People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 32, 6 August 1903, Page 10

People We Hear About

f£ ?7? 7 5o inc^ I<llz e eral d has been elected ' chairman ' of Wexford Board of Guardians. The vice-chair and deputy vice-chair have also been filled by ladies. The University of Brussels has confeired the degree of Doctor of Medicine on Dr. J. C. McWalter, M.A., of the Catholic University School of Medicine, Dublin. The name of Mr. Timothy Michael Ilealy, described as a Member of Parliament, and one of hi, Majesty's Counsel in Ireland,' is the first on the list of the Honorable Society of Gray's Inn for call to the English Bar this term.

Mr. Redmond presided recently at a dinner given by the Irish Party in the House of Commons to Senator Bourke Cochran, the distinguished Irish-American statesman. In his speech Mr. Redmond invited the Senator to become a member of the Irish Paity. It is reported in England that Mr. T. P. O'Connor is about to embaik on a career as a professional lecturer. As Mr. O'Connor is in the front rank of public platform speakers in the United Kingdom he should be a great success as a lecturer.

I he Rev. Father Laikin, Catholic priest at Ongar, in tt'.ssev, has mst appointed a child of eleven years to the j.uMUoh of uigam.l m Ins chinch. Her name is Kathleen Nouih Mills, and her father is sergeant instructor in the local company of Volunteers. Little Miss Mills played the organ lor scvcial Sundays, and on Whit Sunday she conducted the musical service, accompanying the full High Mass throughout, so satisfactorily that she was promptly given the peimancnt appointment.

Mr. Tom ' Dunne, of New York, must have been bom under a lucky .-.Ui, for he is one of the most fortunate of the many Tippcrary exiles in the States. ihough proclicaliy penniless when he landed there from Clonmcl many yeais ago, he has by that force of character, natnc ability and tact that distinguishes so many lipperary men, carved his way to fame and fortune, rising to one of the highest positions in the gift of the cay of New York— that of Shcrill.

Mr. Fitzgibbon, chairman of the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Woiks, was born in Cork, but went with his parents to leside in London when only fi\e years old. He armed in Melbourne in 1852, and after an expenence on the diggings became Town Clerk of Melbourne in !«")(>, which position he held until he was appointed picsident ot the Mctiopohtan Board of Works

Count PlunKelt, t!ic secretary of (hat gieat industrial enterpnse, the (.'oik Inhibition of 100.3, is (says 'New Ireland ') one of the most notable and \ersatile of pre-sent-day Irishmen Educated at Clongowes Wood College, he early developed a tasfe for ait, which ho gratified by visiting the pinuipal gallcnes of Europe, an aesthetic pilgrimage which aiteiwaids had ample r-'ntr -'nt mi ,ny delightful vv tilings on .painting, sculolure, ?i,d architecture, wlich (Mined for him the position of lecturer in the Dublin .Museum on tne great works of the Italian Renaissance He lias also lately published an admirable work on Botticelli Count Plunkett is, in addition, an archaeologist, an historian, a musician, a linguist, a philanthropist, and a barrister. lie helped to found the Irish Aits and Crafts' Association ; he has zealously labored for some 20 years in the Society for the piesenation of the lush Language, of which he is \ ice-prc.sidcnt and tieasmer, he is \ ice-president of the National Literary Society, which he helped to found • he> is vice-president of the Celtic Association, and he 'has been five years an active Governor of the Royal Irish \cademy of Music These are a few of Count Plunkett's many claims to the regaid and icspect of his countrymen Most of u.s will agree that they aie thoroughly whd ones