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New Zealand Tablet, 5 July 1917, Page 23

All creatures unite together, all help one another the toil of each one benefits himself and all the world; the work has been apportioned among the different members of the whole of society by a tacit agreement. If in this apportionment errors are committed, if certain individuals have not been employed according to their capacities, these defects of detail diminish in the sublime conception of the whole.—Emile Souvestre.

No doubt there are a few men who can look beyond the husk or shell of a fellow-being—his angularities, awkwardness, or eccentricity— to the hidden qualities within who can discern the diamond, however encrusted ; but the majority are neither so sharpeyed nor so tolerant, and judge a person by his appearance and his demeanor more than by his substantial qualities.—Mathews.

Lord Edmund Talbot’s appointment as Deputy Earl Marshal during the minority of the young Duke of Norfolk is by no means the first time that that exalted post has been held in commission. When the State Church became Protestant, the Howards, being staunch in their ancient faith, could not execute the duties of the office, and had to appoint deputies until the Act of Emancipation removed this disability. An Earl of Norfolk was Earl Marshal as early as 1306, but owing to the chequered career of his successorsthe first three dukes were attainted and the fourth beheaded—it was not until the reign of Charles 11. that the family were firmly reinstated in the honor which has ever since been hereditary.

Hon. J. D. Connolly, K.S.G., the recentlyappointed Agent-General of West Australia, belongs to one of the best-known Catholic families of the Darling Downs, being the eldest son of the late Mr. Denis Connolly, of Clifton, and of Mrs. D. Connolly, of Eagle Junction. It was at his parents’ home in Allora that the visiting Warwick priest always held the station in the early days. He was Colonial Secretary of West Australia for a number of years. His three sisters are Mrs. Logan (Paddington, Brisbane), Mrs. Brosnan (Greenmouut, Q.), and Miss Connolly, and his three brothers, Captain J. P. Connolly, Messrs. Kevin (Electrol Office, Q.), and Timothy, are well known in Brisbane ; while a fourth is a successful farmer at Hampton.