People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 11, 14 March 1907, Page 28

People We Hear About

On April 27 Archbishop Williams, of Boston ~ the oklest American-prelate,- will celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday. He was bo.n at lioston in ißax " Archbishop .Ryan was seventy-six on February 20 i Cardinal b-i'tfbons seventy-three on July. 13, All the other Arcu-H-fir 9PS n are un ' aef se>wit y- "'Ai» youngest is Archtostoop Glcamon, of >£ Lo,uis, who win foe forty-nye next June. Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, was eightythree on December 15. bishop McCloskey, of Louis- , valle, was eighty-three on November 10. ™ T h % lU S Liberal Journals welcome the appointment of Mr. Reginald Mcivenna, a -nephew of the late bar Joseph N McKenna, for many years member -for lougiial, to the post Mr. Birrell is vacating at the Education Office. M r> McKenna has been in Parlia--ment twelve_^years as member for Monmouthshire worth and at the time of his first election was a barrister He proved himself one of the finest fighters on the Liberal benches in the last Government, andhe came to the fore, in a contest with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the -question of unstripped tobacco. The Right Hon. J.. P. Nannetti, ' M.P., has been ie-elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. Mr. Mannetti who is member of Parliament for one of the divisions •oi the Irish Metropolis, and Uuef composiHor of the '^reemans Journal, ' was bom in 1851, and is the son of an Italian sculptor and modeller. He was educated at the schools of the Christian Brothers, Dublin. He was apprenticed to the printing " trade, and was ■{tfterwafrds employed in Liverpool, where he was one of the founders of the Home Rule organisation Later he became secretary and afterward president of the irade Council of Dublin, a member of the Corporation of x Dublin and of the Port and Docks Bjoard. The Queen of Norway speaks five languages fluently, including Russian. - Her favorite poet is ' Owen Meredith,' the late Loud Lytoon. Then she knows' many minor arts and crafts, sews, and spins well.' can bind a book, take a photograph, Knit stockings, carve wood, play chess, and use . a typewriter— which is said to be among her favorite amusements. Like most members of the Jtioyal Family, Queen Maud is a keen collector, and her up-to-date fancy seems to be for ivory tusks, of which she has a fine assortment At waad-canving -she is specially clever, and some of her friends possess pipes with grotesque heads, which have "been carved for them by her. A delightful story is related of the Baroness Bur-dett-Ooutts in reference tocher "philanthropic work in the promotion of the Baltimore fisftiing industry. A fisherman, hearing of her kindness of heart, nursed the ambition of having a boat of his own, and dictated aletter in his own quaint language, the burden of it being that he and his family had their slumbers disturbed at night by the frolics of the fish in .front of his doorstep, he having neither boat nor gear to capture- them. Lady Burdett-Ooults entered very fully into the humor of the letter, made inquiries into the case of the original and ingenious applicant for favor and on- being assured that he was deserving gave him has heart's desire. Mrs. Mary Anderson de Navarro, the famous actress, now retired from the stage, was born at Sacramento, California, in 1859. Her mother was of German -descent direct and her father was English She was educated at the Ursuline Convent and the Presentation Academy, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. She herself has laughingly described herself as "rather idle at school and unsuccessful. She began her stage life at 16, and was most successful from the first At twenty-eight ,dn the heyday of her beauty, she left -the stage, refusing the most flattering invitations to return. She married Mr, Antonio de Navarro, and they have had a son and a daughter. It was early in the year 1889 she retired. In' 1896 she published ' A Few Memories.' She lives in Worcestershire., and her chief recreations are music, reading aloud, and singing. While she was on the s£age she performed what had been looked upon as an impossible feat, namely, that of playing Shakespeare's ' Winter's Tale ' at the . old Lyceum for a hundred and sixty-four nights," doubling the parts of Hermione and Perdita.