CAID MACLEAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2113, 12 February 1908, Page 2

CAID MACLEAN.

-RELATIVES IN NEW ZEALAND.

AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.

(Special to Times.) . WELLINGTON. Feb. 11. Caid Sir Harry Harry AlacLean nas three cousins in New Zealand — Dr. Napier -AlacLean and Air. (Stuart AlacLean, of Wellington, and Aliss Hester AlacLean, who recently took -Airs. Grace Neill’s position as Assistant -Inspector of Hospitals in the Dominion. Dr. Mac Lean -and his brother, who -are talented musicians, are very well known in Dunedin, Wellington, and Auckland. Aliss AlacLean, who is a recent arrival, is the daughter of the late InspectorGeneral of Prisons in New South Wales.

As -anything regarding Caid Sir Harry is of particular interest just now, I made -a call upon Dr. MacLean to-day, with a view to learning what manner of man the former is. .Caid JSBi—HaxTx-- -ki? -«oiisin_ jnWioJme, is -the son of General AlacLean, who saw service in India. Sir Harry’ was originally in the British Army, but -being imbued with the roving nature -and the spirit of adventure that are characteristic of -these soldiers, AlacLean took service -in Morocco. Dr. Mac Lean only once had the pleasure of meeting the -Caid, and curiously enough it was a chance encounter in Bond-street, London. As a matter of fact, they met in the sitting-room of their London tailor. Dr. Mac Lean, on noticing him, was struck with his great likeness to Air. Harold Mac Lean, late Con-troller-General of Prisons in New South Wales, aud going up- to him he said, “You’re-a Mac Lean.” “Yes, I am,” replied -the -stranger. “I took you for Harold AlacLean’s brother,” said the -doctor. _ “No; I’m the fellow they call Caid Sir Harry,” was the reply. The doctor then disclosed bis identity, and the two found they were second cousins. Dr. Mac Lean was en route to New Zealand, and the Caid was on his way hack to Alox’occo. Dr. Mac Lean described his cousin -as a man of medium height, and wiry build, with a strong -but kindly face. -He gave one the idea of having at the back of it all a great deal of reserve power. When in conversation with -him one -was always expecting him to make a joke, but on the contrary he would usually say something deliberate. He had lost Iris right eye, and in its place there was a glass one, -hut he seemed to look you through and through .with his left eye, -and, to use the doctor’s words, “ho fixed you with it- as if it were a gimlet.” Nevertheless, he is a man of a very kindly nature, as has been evidenced by his interest in British sailors, who -have been shipwrecked, or who have otherwise been in trouble 'u Alorocco. He lias been the means of saving many a sailor’s life in that turbulent country, and ' has often himself gone into the dungeon, in order to procure some ili-fated seaman’s release, -and if the sailor happened to be a Scot, his kindness was ail the more noticeable. Sir Harry AlacLean must have many stirring tales to tell of his adventures in Alorocco, and not the least interesting should be his story of (bis captivity in the mountain fastnesses of the Berber Chieftain (Raisuli. The latter is described in some quarters as a true -patriot, -and there are those who -think that- some dav he waz. it is not altogeher beyond the as Abdul Aziz is now Abdul _ Azway, it is not altogether beyond the bounds of probability that Caid Sit Harry may one day take service under the -banner of his late captor.