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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 336, 26 September 1879, Page 9

Recently a countryman named Henegan was lucky enough to come across quite a heap of old silver coin. Some thirty or forty yards off the shore of Ballysokcery there is a small island — an ancient burial ground — called " King's Island," accessible on foot at low ■water. The man and his child were engaged in collecting seaweed on the Island, and under the bank, quite close to some of the graves, they saw some coin. On further search being made, an old box was found, morr than a foot square, quite full, about two stone weight. The coin are very thin and of various sizes, from a floiin to a three-penny-piece. The insciiption is legible on some of them, and dates of the 11th and 12th centuries appear. The words "David Rex Scotorum " can be read on some of them, and the monarch's head, with long hair and crown.

Over and above the consoling fact that the dead Prince went to Confession and Communion before starting for Zululand, and that his life had always been a clean and honest one, it is a pleasure to be able to record that the motive of his joining in the campaign was not military or political ambition, but merely a desire to do something, lest idleness should lead to mischief. The temptations of a gay life in London were thrusting themselves on him, and it was mainly to give them the slip and to turn his back on them that he went to Zululand. That being so, there is something surely of martyrdom about the tragic death he met by that dark ravine so many thousands of miles from those who loved him most. — Catholic Times,