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New Zealand Tablet, Issue 43, 26 October 1899, Page 20

The Right Hon. William Kenny, one of the most recently appointed and most popular of Irish judges, is a man of youthful appearance, in spite of his 53 years. With his young, clean-shaven, intellectual face, his slight figure, his charm of speech and manner, he is the Irish counterpart of the English ]udge, Sir Charles Darling As a member of Parliament. Mr. Kenny was the great bulwark of Unionism, and was said to be the only Catholic Unionist returned to the 1892 Parliament from Ireland. When he was at the Bar, Mr. Kenny was as immaculate in his dress as Lord Cadogan. The Rev Dr Kolbe, editor of the South African Catholic MaqazineA*<meoiVae most eminent Catholic ecclesiastics under the Southern Cross. Dr. Kolbe is a member of a Dutch family who have been settled for upwards of two centuries in Cape Colony, and was brought up as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. At the Cape University he won every honour and prize in the subjects of classics, mathematics, and mental science, outdistancing all competitors. His adoption of the Catholic faith and his ordination as a clergyman of the Catholic Church alienated many friendships and severed close family ties, but the sacrifice of so much for conscientious conviction endeared him to the public at large ; and the Pope, in recognition of his high scholarship, conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Kolbe is a very powerful preacher and platform speaker, and charming in conversation and manners, although he suffers from the infirmity of deafness, which, even with the aid of an ear trumpet, renders oral icommunication with him somewhat difficult.