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Show DEATH OF A SCOTCH CTIIEF. Recently the grave closed over the remains of a well known Catholic Highland laird, Major Alastair Stewart Robinson of Struan. The death took place In London, but the place of in terment was the family burying ground, Dunalastair, Kinloch-Ran-noch, and the funeral was carried out with impressive Highland simplicity. The coffin was carried through the gruonda to the private graveyard by representatives from the Clan Don-nnachaldh Don-nnachaldh society and Rannach men, preceded by pipers playing "The Flowers Flow-ers of the Forest" and "Struao Robertson's Robert-son's Lament." Canon Lavelle, from I St John's. Perth, officiated at the grave. The deceased, who was the twentieth chief of the Clan Donna-chidh. Donna-chidh. was born in Jamaica some forty years ago, but came to Scotland with his parents when quite young. In 1884 he succeeded his father in the Struan estate, but he resided generally in London. For some time Major Robertson Rob-ertson was captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Perthshire Perth-shire militia, and while the latter were in training the youthful captain was well known at St. John's Catholic church, Melville street, Perth |