THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir. —“Much snow has fallen on Ben Nevis,” says the Inverness Northern Chronicle, “since Prince Charlie made his bold bid for the throne of his ancestors, yet the people of Lochaber—the cradle of the rising—are still intensely Jacobite in spirit.” Nor is it only in Lochaber that the Jacobite spirit prevails; wherever men and women of British descent have settled many of these hardy pioneers have carried with them an affectionate remembrance of Prince Charlie and his misfortunes, and so to-day all over Canada, in India, in the vast island continent of Australia, and in our own Dominion, the name of Prince Charlie 13 a household word, and the events of the ’45 aro as familiar as the events of our own ti*ne. The approaching 16th day of April being the anniversary of the battle of 'Culloden, a wreath was again sent from New Zealand for the meorial cairn on the battlefield —Australia for the first time joining with New Zealand in sending a tribute. It is now 13 years since wreaths were first sent from this country, and descendants of many iof the old Highland families have contributed towards the floral offerings.—l am, _ C. O. BaGxali.. Palmerston North.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3499, 5 April 1921, Page 22
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206THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN. Otago Witness, Issue 3499, 5 April 1921, Page 22
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