THE SCOT ON TOP.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11121, 13 January 1899, Page 4

THE SCOT ON TOP.

Sik, — What has your correspondent " Mahara" to say to the following extract from a London journal : — " The Czar of Russia is a Scotchman — nay, more, a Highlandman. Andrew Campbell, the progenitor of the Romanovs, found his way across the continent through Russia to Moscow, to the Court of the Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky, and his descendants rose to high positions there. The Czar Iva Yasilievitch married a daughter of one of these Moscow Campbells, and this lady became known to history as the Empress 'Anastasia Romanovna.' It was from her brother Nikita that the Komanovs descended. For this information I am indebted to the 'Proceedings of the Anglo-Kussian Literary Society.' I have no doubt myself that if other erudite societies take on the job it will be found that the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor of China, the Khalifa, and the Grand Llama of Thibet are all Scotsmen ! Fallen, fallen, fallen from their high estate, doubtless, but still veritable descendants of the sturdy clansmen who regard the world as their heritage in the inoßt natural way possible," — I am, &0,, O'Gbady, January 12th, 1899.