People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 4 January 1912, Page 37

People We Hear About

The Rev. Bernard Vaughan, S.J., who landed at New York on October 2, will preach in many of the • larger cities of the United States. ,--. . ; '£ v.- ■ Official statistics just issued in Berlin show that :•:,. the Kaiser is the greatest landowner in Germany. He possesses eighty-three estates, covering an area of ap- ;:■: proximately - 250,000 acres. The revenues' from these - estates flow into his pocket, : quite aoart from : his allowance of nearly £1,000,000 per annum from the -•'Treasury. - - . o Mr. Sergeant "O'Brien, who has been appointed Solicitor-General, comes of a,well known Cork family. :' It is interesting to note (says' a writer in the West- , minster Gazette), that he is- one of four reporters who migrating from Cork to the Dublin press, achieved ? considerable distinction. The other three were Mr Wm ; / .O'Brien, M.P., the late Mr. J. Hooper, M.P., and the late Mr. W. B. Guinee.' To the list might be added the names of the late Lord Justice William O'Brien . and County Court Judse Adams. ■,'■-■ -■•.... A Committee of the- Nationalist" Party- has been formed to arrange for a testimonial to be given to Mr. - Clancy, who has served the Party twenty-five years in Parliament. ■ 'No member of the Party (says the : Freeman's Journal) is - more/popular" than Mr. Clancy. Not only have his services the drafting of Bills, as : ; well as in many other branches of Parliamentary activity, proved valuable to the Party as a whole, but/by ' innumerable acts of personal kindness he has placed his _ colleagues individually under a debt of gratitude ' • which, they are glad to have an opportunity of acknowledging.' "' - _ A correspondent of a contemporary calls attention : to the high reputation of Beaumont College, Eng- • land, conducted by the Jesuits, ,-' Former students of -■ the college include Don Jaime, Claimant to Spanish- - Throne Prince Alphonso ; &'Orleans y Bourbon, and his % brother Louis, cousins of the present King of Spain; the sons and grandsons of Lord Russell of Killowenthe sons of Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C; j Sir H. de Trafford, Lord de Freyne, Earl of Granard, Lord Bellew, Lord Emly, Sir Grattanj- Bellew, Prince de Croy, Duke of V Santona, Duke of Berwick and Alba, Marquis de Stacpoole,; Baron Boeselager, Major Costello, V.C. ' (Mala;kand,N;W. Frontier), Mr. John Aspinall (manager '• L and Y. Railway and pioneer of electrical traction), : Edmund Gardner/ (the great authority on Dante) % Jenngham ; (the Marmaduke of Truth), Teixeira de Mattos -(translator of many-official "works -and of"*many plays) * Sir/John Knill (the late Lord Mayor of V London), Mr. Heidsieck and Mr.-Hennessey (of cham- : pagne and cognac fame), Mr. Giles Gilbert Scott (chosen % at the age of twenty-four to be the architect of the Liverpool ; Anglican Cathedral), Major Mark Sykes, M.P. for Central/Hull- (traveller and writer).