People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 1 April 1915, Page 41

People We Hear About

The new title assumed by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant on his promotion by the King to the marqmsate is: The Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair. Temair is the name anciently associated with the historic Hill of Tara. The word Temair ’is also spelt in the ancient documents ‘ Tamhar,’ the ‘ mh ’ being aspirated and silenced. Prince Hussein, the new Sultan of Egypt, who is sixty-two years of age, is a great friend of France. He was educated mainly in France, and during his youth was frequently a guest of Napoleon 111., and. exEmpress Eugenie, and the favorite companion of their son, the ill-fated Prince Imperial. His Highness, who is uncle of the deposed Khedive, and a highly capable administrator, has a passion for agriculture, and has been termed ‘Father of the Fellah’ (peasant). The tragically sudden death of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman John Clancy, cast a gloom over the city. Only recently his fellow-corporators fittingly recognised his long and valued civic service by appointing him to the highest honor in their gift—the chief citizen’s chair. The late Alderman, though he had passed three score and ten, appeared in excellent health, and was looking forward to a year at least of good work for Dublin, its people, and its interests. Following so soon upon his election to a position that by right of ability and service he had well and truly won, his death has evoked the deepest expressions of sorrow on every side, and the opinion is universal that in his passing away Dublin has lost not only a strong, but also a great, personality, and one who has left the impress of his municipal genius on much that is progressive and good in the city to-day. Mr. Thomas A. Browne, better known as Rolf Boldrewood, passed away recently at South Yarra, where he had been living quietly for several years. He had attained the age of 88, and his death was not unexpected, as ho had been an invalid for over a year. He leaves a widow and family of seven. A large part of his life was spent in New South Wales, where he received his early education. He first took up pastoral pursuits, but owing to losses by droughts he finally relinquished these in 1869. Later he became police magistrate and warden of the goldfields, and it was during his official career that most of his literary work was done. Before taking to novel-writing, he contributed many tales and sketches to various Australian papers. Of his works, Robbery binder Arms was the most popular, and has won favor also on the dramatic stage and in the picture theatre. The , success of his writings may be gauged by his recent statement that he had more than made up for his losses in pastoral pursuits by his writings. Mr. Hilaire Belloc, who has been lecturing on the war in various parts of Great Britain, approaches his subject with the expert knowledge drawn from practical experience. As a soldier in the French Artillery, he was trained on the very ground in which the great Western conflict is now being waged. Mr. Belloc is the son of a French barrister, and after serving in the French Army he brilliantly graduated at Balliol College, Oxford, and became a naturalised Englishman. For four years (1906-1910) he represented South Salford in Parliament, but his sturdy independence, based on a rooted antipathy to the ‘party machine,’ led to' his retirement from Westminster. Mr. Belloc, a friend and colleague of Professor Phillimore and Mr. G. K. Chesterton, is, of course, a Catholic, and one of the most, brilliant and versatile of contemporary writers. Mine. Curie, the famous woman scientist, has installed at her own expense a radiographic apparatus for the wounded at the Pantin Hospital, .near Paris. By means of this apparatus bullets and shell-splinters and fractures can instantly be located—a powerful aid to the saving of life. ' '