People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 2 October 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

Mr. John Redmond, M.P., the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, was entertained at dinner by his colleagues at the House of Commons on August 7. The dinner was intended as a compliment to Mr. Redmond from the comrades ,and friends whom he has led from victory to victory during the past thirteen years. . The death is announced of Sir Alfred Moloney, K.C.M.G., late Governor of Trinidad, at Fiesole, Florence. He had served in the Army, and later filled successively the posts of Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast, Administrator of the Government of Lagos, British Honduras, and the Windward Islands, and was appointed Governor of Trinidad in 1900, but retired in 1904. . There are 'deadheads' everywhere. Mr. T. P. O'Connor candidly confessed, at the opening of the new Waterloo Station a few weeks ago, that he had made it a rule for forty-six years of journalism never to pay for a theatre ticket or a railway journey if he could help it. But Mr. O'Connor, one may remark, is the sort of ' deadhead' theatres and railway companies do like, for his pen is worth far more to them than: his gold. -' "-'.-..","' Mr. Joseph Donnelly, Belfast, has been appointed Treasury Solicitor in Ireland,' in succession to the late Mr. W. G. Towers. No more popular appointment than that of Mr. Joseph Donnelly could possibly have been made. As a legal practitioner he stands in the front rank of his profession, and lie enjoys in a marked degree the esteem and respect of all classes with whom, as a solicitor, a public representative, or in his private capacity, he has been brought in contact. Dr. Holger Pedersen, of Copenhagen, the great Danish philologist and Celtic scholar, recently delivered in Dublin a course of lectures at the School of Irish Learning on The Celtic Verb.' Dr. Pedersen is one of the youngest of the group of Continental scholars who during the past twenty years have done so much for Celtic studies. He is a great Slavonic, Armenian, and Albanian scholar. He is the author of a monumental work on the comparative grammar of the Celtic language, three parts of which have been published already, and the fourth and final part of which he is now seeing through the press. One of the best-known mining and wealthiest men in Bolivia is J. B. Minchin, a very fervent Irishman (says J. Miller in the W.A. Record). Associated with him in the -working of several gold mines is a group of young Irishmen, most of whom originally went to South America as teachers in various colleges. The chief of this coterie, to the best of the writer's recollection, is a Mr. P. O'Kelly. He is aided by five brothers O'Donoghue, an O'Connor, a Murphy, and several others. The mining engineer of this group is a Mr. Kilkelly, who, the writer understands, hails from Kalgoorlie. These men, like most Irishmen abroad, retain an intense interest in their own land, and every year contribute some hundreds of pounds to the funds of the Irish Parliamentary Party for the furtherment of the Home Rule movement. A Home exchange states that her Majesty Queen Mary is a good housewife, and believes in prompt payment.. She never lets her house-keeping bills run on, and she is very particular as to details. Each tradesman must send in a bill with the goods on delivery, even if it is only soap and candles. All bills are filed by the Clerk of the Kitchens, who enters up the amount to the account of the various tradesmen. All accounts made out in detail are submitted by the Master of the Household to the King and Queen at the end of each, month. Her Majesty is the chief scrutineer, and never fails to draw attention to any increased item of expenditure. The Queen abhors the idea that carelessness, waste, and extravagance should be considered Royal prerogatives, : and sets an admirable example of good management. After the accounts have been passed they are promptly paid by cheque, through the Treasurer of the Household.