People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 11 April 1907, Page 28

People We Hear About

Madame s Adelina Patti, who had a birthday celebration on February 19, was born in Madrid, in 1843. Lieutrnant-Colonel Paul A. Kenna, V.C., D.5.0., c<""isiauding 21st (Empress of Imdta's) Lancers, 'has bucn appointed an aide-de-camp to the -King, and is promoted to the brevet rank of Colonel..- Colonel Kenna is a cousin of his Eminence Cardinal Moran. -Mr. Benjamin Hoare, who has written several attractive books for the Catholic Truth Society, is the principal leader writer of the Melbourne ' Age, '/and -he exercises a large amount of influence, (In ,State politics. He is an ardent protectionist. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who has succeeded Pierre Laugier in the Chair of Stage Elocution at the Conservatoire, Paris, has hitherto been refused the Ked Ribbon of the Legion of Honor. But the Chancellery will find it more difficult to refuse it ' to the professor than to the actress. The editor of the ' Daily. Mail,' London, is Mr. Thomas Marlowe,, whose father was a Waterford man. • He is married to the second daughter of Mr. John Morrison Davidson, the well-known ' barrister and iournalist, whose ' Book of Erin ' and other works arevery popular amongst the masses of the people.' * Mr. J . J . McGee, who has been Clerk of the Privy Council, Canada, for twenty-five years, has resigned owing to ill-health. Mr. McGee was born in Wexford . sixty-two years ago; and has been in Canada for upwards of forty years. He is a n brother of the late Hon. Thomas D'Arcy McGee. Commander 'Holland, D.5.0., who took up his duties as Marine Superintendent at Fleetwood, on New Year's Day, is a son of the late Mr. Denis .Holland, of -Dublin," founder of the ' Irishman ' newspaper, nowlong defunct. In 1896 he married the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Edmund Dwyer Gray, proprietor of the ' Freeman's^ Journal. 1 One of the most saKent characteristics 'of .Lord Kitchener's rule in India is his habit of committing •"'as little as possible to paper. To give an order by word of mouth he. will -wire a general to come a forty-eight hours',, journey to seelrim ; and, when, he arrives, ten - minutes' rapid conversation, a curt fare-, well— and the much-dreaded interview is, over. In this, way, riding rough-shod - over time and space and officers, does 'X ' successfully circumvent the constant prying and espionage which surround and gall him. For few men " has exile been' made quite so pleasant as for- Don Carlos, the Pretender to the throne of Spain. Many of his years of .exile -Have been spent in Ms palace in -Venice, where the great wealth . which" his wife, Princess Maria de Rohan, brought him, has surrounded him with luxury and pomp wMcfo are almost kingly. In Venice the tall, stately figure of the Pretender is a familiar sight, either walking with an escort of his favorite dogs or taking his ease in Ms gondola. But the Prinoe is a restless man, and rarely stays long in one place. One day, he is in Paris, another in Russia ; and, in fact, the whole of Europe is his home, until the time when he draws in earnest the sword which his wife gave~ him, and which bears the inscription, "Draw me not without right, nor sheathe me without honor.' Cardinal Merry del Val, the Pope's -Secretary of State, has played a prominent role in .. the recent crisis of the Church in. France. Tall and slim oil figure, graceful of motion, he ■ shows the highest type of the Andalusiah/in every feature. As a you in he . was very fond of 1 pranks. When the Cardinal goes on his rounds he drives in a' vehicle, sombre and heavy, 'drawn by two black stallions wi throwing manes. He is the first Cardinal to indulge in golf, a game which, he plays twice weekly over a private course in the grounds of the* Villa Doria-Pamphili. His ■leisure time is spent at the Papal summer palace °of Castel Gandolfo, 'which the Italian Government has con■nected with the Vatican "by telephone for the greater convenience of the Cardinal. , He is an advocate of all modern labor-saving improvements, and has introduced • telephones, elevators, electric- lights, and typewritefs into the Vatican.

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