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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18341, 3 September 1921, Page 10

The coming, of ago of the fifth Earl of Cawdor recalls the tradition of the building of Cawdor Castle, near the town of Nairn (Scotland). -In a dream, so it is told, the founder of Cawdor Castle was commanded to load an ass with gold, turn it loose, and follow it until it rested, and there build a castle. The ass came to a halt beneath the branches of a hawthorn trees, so upon this spot was built Cawdor Castle. The trunk of the hawthorn tree, with its roots branching out beneath the floor and its top oenet,rating the vaulted arch of stone above, still remains within the tower to argue for the truth of the story, and, in further allusion to the, picturesque legend, the Gaelic salutations to the rooftree of the Thanes of Cawdor is “Freshness to the hawthorne tree.” A blind workman of Venne, ’ South France, claims. to have invented a useful metal boot, It is said to be very, light and strong, and is fire and water-,proat