People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 4 June 1914, Page 41

People We Hear About

. Cardinal Farley was the recipient of hundreds- of congratulations from the Catholic clergy and laity of the New York archdiocese on the occasion of his seventysecond birthday celebration, which occurred on April 20. •' 1 In the lobby of the House the other day {writes a London correspondent) I learnt that the Irish Party are so* confident that the Home Rule Bill will pass in due course that they have already made arrangements for closing down the Irish Rational League in England and Scotland. Somewhat doubting the information, I asked Mr. T. P. O’Connor if it was true. ‘ Quite right,’ he said, * although we shall retain a small central office in London.’ I ventured to ask the genial journalist if he would' , desert St. Stephen's and his Liverpool constituency and take a seat in the Irish Parliament. ‘You never can tell,’ he said, smilingly, as he left me to greet a friend. . Under the auspices of the Belgian Government, a monument is about to be erected to the memory of Vesalius, the great Flemish Catholic anatomist. His interest in the subject began in childhood. Butchers’ shops.interested him more than toy shops; and his great delight as a small boy was to get hold of the heart, or kidneys, or other internal organs of a sheep or bullock, and dissect his purchase— a task in which he was encouraged by his father, who was the apothecary of the Emperor Charles Y. His Universities were Louvain and Montpellier, and, at the age. of eighteen, he was actually a Professor of Anatomy at Paris. Accused of having begun to dissect the body of a Spanish nobleman before life was extinct, he was condemned to expiate his offence by a pilgrimage to the Holy Land; but, on his way back to Padua, where he was to have been Professor of Medicine, in 1564, he was shipwrecked, and died of exposure at Zante, where the monument is to be set up. • - r Among the successful Irish exiles of Queensland few there are who by dint of industry, conduct, and character have raised themselves to a higher position in the social firmament than Patrick Real, Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland (says the Irish Catholic). Judge Real was born in Limerick* in March, 1847, and arrived in Queensland when he was four years of age. His father died just before the termination of the long and slow voyage of those - days. His mother went to Ipswich, and there her son, Patrick Real the present Judge—went to school until he was twelve years of age. He served his apprenticeship at the carpenter’s bench, and when he learned his trade he obtained a position as carpenter in the Ipswich Railway Workshops. lie was employed there until he reached the age of 21 years, when-he wisely determined to study for the Bar. He left his employment and entered whole-heartedly into his studies. Patrick Real’s tutor in Latin and Greek was the Rev. Father J. B. Breen, the veteran pastor, who has charge of the parish of Kangaroo Point. To Father Breen, then, Patrick Real was indebted for tuition in languages; but he had to depend upon his own unaided efforts to obtain a knowledge of law and procedure. This he gained by study of the various text-books and legal works. So successful were his efforts that in 1874 the age of 27—the future judge was admitted to the Bar. He rapidly rose to a leading positifin, and his services as an advocate, were eagerly sought for. He was appointed to the Supreme Court Bench in 1890, and in 1903 the title and status of Senior Puisne Judge were conferred, unon him. „ . »