SCOTCHMAN" OR "HIELANDER"

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12683, 22 December 1906, Page 5

SCOTCHMAN" OR "HIELANDER"

TO THE EDITOR or " THE PHESS." Sir.—So it appears that a man may bo a native of the Highlands ot Scotland and yet not be a Scotchman 1 . This suggestion appears' to have Ihv n made in the Supreme Court in Wellington some days ago, not by some ignorant lawyer who would probably have been laughed at, but by no less an authority than his Honour the Chici who ought to knew betterA bumptious "bobby"' (who obviously knew his man) disclaimed his nationality as a Scotchman, on the ground (suggested by his Honour) that li#was a "Hielander'! Well. 1 am neither a Scotchman rpr a Hielander," but I know a litfi" about 'Bobbie Burns." and I remember what be wrote of a certain Captain Grove, who travr-lled Scotland collecting antiquities. (He .could have found heaps of them in the old kirkyards there), and this is how Burns speaks of Scotland and Scots:— 'Hear, Land o' Cakes, ami brither Scots, "Frae Maiden Kirk to Johnny Groats. For tho information ol Scotchmen (and for t'«*ar they might be unable to sen the r*>int). I may be permitted to explain that tho two points mentioned by Burns aro tho extreme North awl South of Scotland (including the Htz - lands), and embrace the whole fraternity of "Britber Scots." I wonder what would be thought of mc if a man calle:! mc '-an Irishman." 1 and I denied the impeachment, and declared that I was "a Connaught man"! Yours etc.. T.I.J.