People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, Issue 42, 19 October 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

Cbunt Lorenizo Sarsfield Salazar has just been appointed Italian Consul-General for Ireland. This appointment is regarded as a particularly happy one, as Coimt Salazar is of Irish extraction and has always had a great love of that country. His father was Italian and his mother Irish. Influence is being brought to bear to induce Cardinal Merry del Val to visit England. The Pontifical Secretary of State is descended from a gallant Irishman named Merry, who took part in the Peninsula War, and married a wealthy Spanish lady, whose name he assumed. His father was Secretary to the Spanish Embassy, and he himself was born in London, and educated at Slough and Ushaw College. Sir Joseph West Ridgewiay, whose article in the 1 Nineteenth Century ' has attracted so much interest, is n« stranger to the inner workings of Dublin Castle. He held in 1887 the position now filled by Sir Antony MacDoMiell, when Lord Londonderry was Viceroy. The Chief Secretary was at that time Mr. Balfour. Though still a youmg man, Sir Joseph has 1 seen much service in India and elsewhere. He fought in the Afghan campaign,, has been Governor of Ceylon and the Islo of Man, and has been Ureder-Secretary to the Crovemment of India and Envoy-Extraordinary to the Sultan of Morocco. Rev. Father Murray, 0.P., St. Saviour's, Dominick street, Dublin, has invented a system of wireless telegraphy that promises to revolutionise existing methods. Father Murray is a native of Dublin. When he joined tbe Dominican Order about twenty years ago he went abroad on the Foreign Mission and spent several years m America. 'He has been foir a considerable time in the hou&o of the Order in Trinidad, where he perfected his system of wireless telegraphy. He returned to Dublin Decent ly, and 1s now stattdoned in St. Saviour's. Father Murray has shown remarkable talent for scientific lwention, and no fewer than a dozen patents ha-ve been granted to him. Many stones are told of the late Dr. Kevin Izod O'Ddlierty. It is 'said that one of the judges who tried him for hinh treason in 1848 exclaimed in humoroiis horror . '■ llea\ ens ' How ootuld a man with a nam© lik'o tlh'at help being a rebel ? ' In his ' History of the lush in Australia,' Mi. J. F. IlO'gan narrates how Dr. O'Do'herty, when he sUxal for the lust time as a Parliamentary candidate for Brisbane, was called away on the en en i tig of polling clay to an -urgent case some distance outside the city, (in his return he met some horsemen coming from Brisbane. In response to his inquiry, ' Who's m '! ' he received the gratilyinig, if some■\\lut' ungracious, reply : ' That old rebel, O'Doherty ' ' .Mr Ju.stin M'Carthy, was msi ted recently in his home «it We-stgidle-on-Sea by one of his former Parliamentary collm^nies, who foultvd the Irish veteran in the enjoyment of excellent health. He is more vigorous than he has been at any time since he retired from Parliament, and happily his eyesight has been completely restored to him. Another volume of his greatest literary achievement, the ' History of Our Own Times,' is now passing through the press, and will be issued shortly, whilst the distinguished autJbor is now putting the finishing touches to the manuscript of the last volume of the series. ll's work will thus be brought up to the arcession of King Edward VII., and the \olumes will include a retrospect of the important changes in the public life, the literature, art and science, and the habits and manner of the last, half-oem-tury, and an analysis of the leading characteristics of the famous mem and women of the time. The recentt a isrt of the Prince of Wales to the Marquis of Ripon supplies occasion for some particulars'of the distinguished politician who resigned the ■ Grand Mastership of English Freemasonry when he became a Catholic some thirty years since or over. The Marquis cf Ripon, who has had the honor of entertaining the Heir-Apparent at Studley Royal, is a descendant of William Robinson, a Hamburg merchant, twice Lord Mayor of York. Studley Royal came to the family by the marriage of Sir William Robinson, first baronet, with Mary, daughter of George Aislabie, heiress of the property. But greater good fortune awaited the family when Thomas Robinson, segond Lord Orantiham, married Lady Mary Jemima, daughter of Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, by Jemima, Marchioness Grey in her own right. He was the well known diplomatist. Studley Royal is a modern erection, containing traces within its walls of an anterior building dating back to the fifteenth century, about which time, probably, the old Norman Manor House was replaced.