"THE HEIGHTS OF ABRAHAM."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9091, 18 May 1908, Page 5

"THE HEIGHTS OF ABRAHAM."

PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO GENI ERALS WOLFE AND MONTCALM. Received May 17, 4.15 p.m. LONDON, May 16. - At a meeting held at Mansion House it was resolved, on the motion of the Earl of Crewe, seconded by Lord Roberts, to support the presentation on behalf of the people of Great Britain of a memorial to Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, as a birthday gift to Canada. "The Plains r,f Abraham -are crowned with all sorts of beautiful things-r-including a gaol and a factory. Montcalm's left wing is marked by the gaol, and Wolfe's right by the factory. There is happily, now a movement on foot to abolish these adornments and turn the battlefield and its surroundings into a park, wh,ich by natuie and association would be one of the mos*. beautiful in our world. "Yet, in spile of gaols on the one side and convents on the other, and the thin black wreck of the Quebec Railway Bridge, lying like a dumped cartload of tin cans in the river, the Eastern Gate to Canada is noble with a dignity beyond words. We saw it very early, when the undersides of the clouds turned chilly pink over a high-piled, brooding, dusky purple city. But at the mint of dawn, what looked like the Sultan Harun-al-Raschid's on private shallop, all spangled with coloured lights, stole across the irongrey water, and disappeared into the darkness of a slip."—Mr Rudyartl Kipling in the "Morning Post" (London).