People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 21, 28 May 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About

His Lordship, Dr. Seville, Bishop of Sandhurst,, has. just entered on his sixty-fifth year. Kubelik, the celebrated violinist, who will shortly visit' New Zealand, will be accompanied by his wife, who before her marriage was Countess Czaky-Szell, a. member of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the Bohemian nobility. A former Austrian Consul of Sydney, Baron HoenningO 'Carroll, one of the descendants of that famous Irish family, who was lately Consul-General of Austria and Hungary in Sydney, but now holds the same position in New York, has received from his. aged sovereign the cross of Chevalier of the Order of Leopold. Archbishop Bourne completed his forty-seventh year on March 24. Born in Clapham in 1861, he became Bishop of his native diocese of Southwark in 1897, and succeeded Cardinal Vaughan as Archbishop of Westminster in 1903. It is rarely so young a man is raised to the episcopate. Bishop O'Donnell, of Raphoe, is a notable instance. He became a Bishop when he was thirty-three. The dean of the French clergy, Canon Gadenne, priest at Eadez, was 102 years old in April, when he intended to celebrate his centenary, having decided to wait until his hundred years were safely passed before celebrating them. He is in excellent health, and still carries out his duties in his church, which is one of three he has built. His 156 nephews, nieces, great-nephews, and great-nieces were to attend the fete to be given by his parishioners. The death of Judge Adams, who had been County Court Judge of Limerick since 1894, has thrown a profound gloom over the National Liberal Club, of which the learned judge was one of the most popular members (writes a London correspondent). His sparkling wit and unsurpassed powers as a raconteur delighted the circle of friends and admirers who were wont to gather around him in the smoking room. Judge Adams was, however, by no means a mere humorist. He was a brilliant advocate when at the Bar, and on the bench a painstaking and successful judge. He was a man of powerfully retentive memory, and an encyclopaedia of information on historical and constitutional questions. When he started ranching in his" early days, President Boosevelt was looked down upon with some contempt by his hired cowboys, owing to the fact that he wa^ a college graduate and also wore glasses. One bullying fellow, named 'Long Ike,' used to be fond of entering drinking bars and taking up the glass of any man he thought he could frighten. He played this trick on Roosevelt, and was so certain that he was a typical 'tenderfoot' that he did not even make his customary bluff first with the revolver. Before 'Long Ike' quite knew what had happened he found himself on the floor ; then he was picked up, rushed out of the saloon, and flung down again on the ground outside. He was unable to get up for five minutes j and then he quietly sneaked out of the camp. The recent visit of the ex-Empress Eugenic to Ceylon at the invitation of Sir Thomas Lipton calls to mind the great success which has attended Sir Thomas in his business undertakings. He started with a little grocer's shop in Stobcross street, Glasgow. He had only a few pounds capital, so was compelled to be his own salesman and errand boy, for he could not afford to pay for assistance. All the capital he could spare he spent on advertising. His first advertisement cost him seven-and-six. Then he issued a number of notes (like Scotch pound notes) that took the form of advertisements, and they created so much talk that his business began to increase rapidly. His one motto was to keep out of debt at all hazards, and once he resorted to a peculiar expedient to do so. He had an agent in Ireland to buy Irish butter for him, and he always sent this agent prompt cash in exchange for the goods. But one day he found that the agent had bought more butter than he could pay for, and that he wanted thirty shillings more to pay for it. So Lipton went out 'and pawned his watch for thirty shillings, sent off the cash, and redeemed the watch when the butter was sold.