NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO SIR HECTOR MACDONALD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 81

NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO SIR HECTOR MACDONALD.

The following le-i+^r, dated April 30, 1903, came to hand by the mail via San Francisco last evening — " At an enthusiastic public meetirg held in Glasgow on the Bth mst. an influential committee, representative of the Highland, County, Clan, and Kindred societies in the city, wjs formed .'or tho purpose of rising f finds towards the erect. m of a national rnemri,^' m Scotland to conir.iemo-ate the brilliant mi'-t.iry achievement? and ihe nnr.y gallant services lo his country of the laincnied Generil Sir Hector A. Macdonald, K.C.J5., D.5.0., A.D.C. " District committi es have since been formed' iv other pai's of Scot'and with the same object, and th»y aie co-operati'ig with the Glasgow Committee. "'The nature of the memorial will depend upon toe arucunt raised. We m Scotland are meeting with a generous response to our jippsal, but we arc convinced that, far from it being merely :i local effort, there are many thousands of our courtrymsn in ths colonies and in foreign lands who will delight to have an opportunity of taking a part in tho nio\ement. a. id lint wherever Scotsmen arc to be found their sympathy and their aid will bo assured. "To this end my committee will be deeply gTatafu! 1: you can k'ndlv see your way to publ.sh in yom valuable columns this information and appeal. " There \\:11 probably in every d. strict be fourd some who will undertake to tjat'ier subscriptions freni hke'y soutcps. All thesf subscint'ons and ird ir'uil donations will be gladly iece:ved eif' v '*y 31" or ! v (he hr 10rary treasurer, Mr John Msn-donald, 4 Carlton p ? a^», Ol?«<pw o- pis' b-> «-> ii t-o a.-" ofneo in Scotland of the C!>de3djle Bnnkinj Coniian/ -I an:, etc., ' W. II Ma< D 0N T \m, ' Hon Secretary."

A man, Lin-self ;j. prohibited pei-on, who was com ;rl<xl a f OisNoino th" other tfay of supr»i\ing whisky to a piolnbited person. .•■ec up the defence that the fank bo had offered his fiiend v.as empty. He had liieked it up, " thinking it would bo handy to carry milk in."