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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 26, 29 June 1905, Page 6

Tuesday, June 20, was the nineteenth anniversary of the death of the Most Rev. Dr. Goold, Archbishop of Melbourne. Victorian industries show an increase of over 2000 hands in 1901 rMe -presents an increased wages -bill of £170,000 over 1903. The nomination of the Marchioness De La Bedoyere (Lord Gre\ille's sister) for the office of District Councillor in Westmeath recalls the sad fate of her ancestor , the Mjyiqiiis De La Bedoyere. This young man, having served Napoleon gallantly, adhered to the Bourbons at the Restoration. He was sent to fight against his old master when the Emperor escaped from Elba. When within a day's march from Napoleon's camp, La Bedoyere broke open the regimental drum, took from it hundreds of tricolor cockades there concealed, decorated with them his soldiers, and hurried onward to join the -Emperor. (He fought gallantly at Waterloo, but in the second Restoration he and Nev were arrested, and shot for high treason. Their execution was never forgiven'to the Bourbons. They were ' blunders worse than crimes/