STRANGE STORY REVIVED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1971, 5 January 1907, Page 3

STRANGE STORY REVIVED.

A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, who recently visited the Auckland, Campbell, and other islands south of New Zealand in the Hinemoa, revives a story of Campbell Island which we think is new to most of our readers. The story is that a grand-daughter of Prince Charles Edward Stunit, had lived, died and was buried on the island. The woman’s graml-motlier, it is said, was Meg Walkensliaw, whom the Prince met in Scotland, and who followed him to France. The granddaughter of Meg and the Prince \vas looked upon by the Jacobites with suspicion,' it being thought that she was a spy in the employ of the British Government. A plot was hatched for her removal from the country. Mr. It. Garrick, in his book, “New Zealand Lone Islands,” says that the seaman Stewart, after whom Stewart land was named, was the agent emoyed, arid that he kidnapped her on Dundee whaler and conveyed her to owart Island. From Stewart land he removed her to Campbell Isnd, built her a rough sod hut arid ft her alone. Sir James Itoss, in s account of the Antarctic Expedion of 1840, alluded to the mysteriis woman frequently seen by whalers ho went in former years to those reions from New Zealand and Austraa, and whalers often declared that iey had seen on Campbell Island a oman wearing the Royal Stuart taran and a Glengarry bonnet with a prig of heather in it. The writer lade an examination of the island for vidence of this story- He found the emains of a hut, and from the hut ,o the sea a footpath ornamented v-ith a rude mosaic of stones. “Asairedly this was the work of woman s lands! Near the ruins the visitors 13 me upon a space clear of scrub, in the centre a mound, the mound covered with a mass of Scottish heather, Was this the grave of the lonely dweller on Campbell Island —the grave o Bonnie Prince Charlie's grand daughter? It was real Island hea tlier, a mass of purple blooms, wet with Antarctic Tains, but fair as though growing on the braes of Ben Lomond.” No more is ever likely tq be found out about this strange story.