People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 28

People We Hear About

■ v Eight .of the thir ly- three ' cities -of Massachusetts have Catholics in the mayor's chair. Lord Cork, who' has entered his' forty-sixth year, .enjoys two earldoms, two .' viscbunties, and three bar- « onies in the peerage 'bf Ireland. His Lordship Bishop v Delany, ' the coadjutor of his ~ Grace Archbishop Murphy ( of Hobart, completed-his 54th year on February 1; 'He was- educated in Ireland and in France, and came to ' Australia 22 ( years ago. - Mr." J. V. O'Loghlin, of South Australia, who was married the other day, has been a wheatbiiyer,- journalist, politician, and Minister of the Crown. He, was Chief Secretary in Mr. Kingston's long-reigning Ministry, ' "- ■* Sir Wdlliam Howard Russell, the doyen of war correspondents, - died last week at the age of 86 years. Sir William established his war correspondence fame - as special lor the ' Times ' in the Crimean*- campaign, - and' incidentally laid bare the - blunders of . the War Office and the dishonesty of army contractors*. He also did reporting work for the' - f Times "" in O'Connell's Repeal days, • and, was,- it is said, the reporter whom -the Liberator outwitted on one occasion. by addressing . great meeting in: Irish. Mr. Bryce, who succeeds' to ttoe^vpost -of British Minister, at Washington, was described- by the- late Speaker of the 1 House of Commons as a walking- encyclopaedia. Ho was born .in Belfast 68 years ago. His father was Scotch .and his mother Irish, and he was educated at "Glasgow University, -Trinity College, . Oxford, and Heidelberg. .Since his youth he has been writing classics. % For twenty-three' years he was Regius Professor of Civil Law 'at Oxford, anh- he can put more letters after his name than any other living t statesman. ~ ' _, Very few British statesmen have received as much as £100,000 in official salaries. Mr. Gladstone's" total receipts from office' came to a little over £102,000 ; I Lord Salf^ury's fell just short (of \ £100,000 ;•-- the Duke of Devonshire ' has received ' approximately £64,000 ; Lord Cross, £74,000 ; Sir Michael HioksBeach, £172,000; Lord Goschen r £70,000 ; and' Lord George Hamilton, £08,000 ; while Lord Halsbury throws all these emoluments into the shade' with a total of well over £200,000. ~ ..: Lord Muskerry, is one. .of the great champions of the sailor-man iv "the House of Lords. He has served in the t Navy himself, and* belongs to the little ,group of sailor peers who include Lords Glasgow, Orford, Elibank, and Clanwilliam. The ' Plimsoir of the Peers,' , as- he has been called", owing to Ms continued and ■ practical interest in the welfare of sailors, is maternally a /cadet of the great . house of Fitz-Maurice, Earls of Kerry. He succeedetL to the title •at fourteen. . JYEr. John Redmond, who was re-elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party the other day, has been" a member of the House of Commons for over a quarter of a century. He entered the House in 1881, and has sat in every Parliament since, yet,, ' Curiously . enough, he has not been continuously a member. This seeming anomaly arose during the Parliamentary recess -of .1891, when he resigned his seat in North Wexford in order to contest the Oity of Cork after the death of Parnell. He was. defeated, but before Parliament got fully under way was returned for Waterford. "Mr. Redmond's warm espousal of the fights and privileges o*l _the clerks of the House of Commans to the freest .use "of the dining-rooms, and of all the liberties of the House to which they have been so long admitted, is probably.toH.be traced to a chapter in his early life. When * his father, the late Mr. . William. Archer Redmond, was member for Wexford,~-for which he sat from 1874 till his death in 1880, the future leader of the Nationalists in the House of .Commons was himself" a clerk in - that House— a circumstance to which is at- • tr'ibutable his accurate knowledge of. its procedure.