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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 941, 11 March 1872, Page 2

"We cannot refrain from copying the following sketch of an active judge from an Otago contemporary:—Mr Justice Chapman is certainly " one of the most remarkable men in the country." No sooner does he escape for the " long vacation" from his very arduous duties, than we hear of him delivering lectures for charitable objects in an an up-country township. Like the waiter who spent his sole annual holiday in assisting a brother waiter at another hotel, His Honour seems not to be able to take a holiday without labouring for the benefit of others. Would that there were many more of his stamp! We should then hear less of official drones in fat billets, where the hardest work is to kill time. The " Ballarat Courier" says that during a lecture at Ballarat on " The Irish Church," the Very Reverend Dean Macartney said that "he had often tried to master the Irish language, but never succeeded; had he done so he would have found a wide missionary field for himself in his native land. He related an amusing anecdote, how he had once (whilst he was studying Irish) tried to minister consolation to a sick man by reading to him in the mother tongue, and how the poor fellow afterwards acknowledged that he had almost died of laughing, and the tears had rolled down Biddy's cheeks, whilst the Dean was spluttering through and making a lamentable failure in bis self-imposed task.