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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 23, 8 June 1905, Page 31

Aproi os of the Pone's congratulations to the Archbishop of Dublin on his manner of speaking Italian, it may he stated that it, was at the critical period when (he Plan of Campaign v. as heng <onsidered at Rome that Ins Grace learned to speak Italian fluently His Ora'e whilst awaiting an audience with Leo XIII. devoted himself f nr sonio weeks to the study of that beaut if ',l tongue, and M Hie end of that time astonished people by the success with which he spoke it. Mons enor Nugent, lefenirp- at the time to what the Archbishop bad done, said Ins Grace had ability enough to accoiiiinli'-h am thing The TTon Victor Gibson, son of Lord Asfobourne, the Irish liotd Chancellor, who'o engagement is announced, is imitating Ins eldest broihei in going abroad for a biidc. He iS to mairv Mrs. Salisbury, a New York bd/. \erv soon. A member of Ins father's profession of the law, the Hon. Victor Oib«on has also been a soldier, having <cr\cd as a lieutenant of the Imperial Yootn.wv in South Afrua The Hon William Gibson, the heir to the jVshbourne barony, is married to a French' lad'- His A\ell I'nmMi that Lord Ashbourne's heir holds- political -\ iews diameti iol'v opposed to those of his father Mr Gibson is a pionoi.nce.d Home Ruler.