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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 140, 22 June 1898, Page 3

The whirligig of time does not seem to dim Jacobite patriotism; Despite the fact that 162 years have passed since the memorable battle of Culloden, maDy are still ready to show, when opportunity occurs, that the Stuarb cause has; their sympathies. Saturday, April 16, was the anniversary day of the battle of Culloden, and maDy Jacobites made a pilgrimage to the battlefield, whioh is situated about five miles from Inverness'. The leading spirit in the ceremony was Mr Theodore .Napier, an Edinburgh gentleman, who takes an exceptionally ardent interest in everything Scottish, and may be re membered as having recently caused tha huge petition to be sent to Her Majesty regarding the use of the word " England " instead of Britain." Dressed in the garb of a Highland chief of a bygone age, Mr Napier, even in the .precincts of the Highland capital, attracted special attention. A wreath, sent from the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland and " the Order of St. Germain, bore the words, "What they fought for we will work for." Another wreath, in the form of a Highland targe, was sent by the Ulan Menzies, in memory of 200 Menzies who fell fighting for Prince Charlie, The newly-formed Scottish Anniversary and Historioal Society also sent a floral tribute ; and other floral wreaths were put by private individuals on the memorial cairn erected to the memory of the fallen Highlanders. Upon ihe battlefield rongh 'stones here and there mark the graves of the different clansmen who fell, Mr Napier, in a short address, recapitulated the deeds performed by the Highland clans. Tho party then walked over the battlefield and when beside the cairn erected to the memory of the Olan Cameron drank to the "departed brave." A strange death is reported from Coonabarabran, New South Wales, A woman named Mrs James Cowley complained of toothache. The pain extended to her cheek, and then to her eye, which swelled till tbe eye closed. She became suddenly dolirious and died. Dr. ITailea found a layer of pas in front of the brain, behind the tight eye, which was the cause of death. There were no external indications of mischief in the brain,