Notices to Correspondents.
" Correspondent Pro Tempore": Very much obliged, but you will see that our own correspondent has furnished us with the information. "Sandy" : Formerly "The Land o' the Leal " meant to a Scotchman what "Dixie Land" meant to the Southern nigger, — Utopia, an hypothetical land of happiness, loyalty and virtue. Since the appearance of Caroline Oliphant, Earone&s Nairn's, beautiful song, the term is now generally accepted to mean heaven.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1873, 8 July 1884, Page 2
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70Notices to Correspondents. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1873, 8 July 1884, Page 2
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