Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1914 — Lands of the Menzies. [ARTICLE]

Lands of the Menzies.

An announcement that Craganour and other Highland estates of the Menzies are for sale recalls the interesting fact that the boat used by the Oxford crew for the very first varsity race is still in existence. She was discovered about 1843 In a boat builders* shed at Oxford by two old Blues, the late Mr. Fletcher Menzies and his brother, Sir Robert Menzies, who carried her off to Perthshire. With the assistance of seven gillies they tried to navigate in her the troubled waters of Loch Rannoch, but a stormarose, and the daring mariners nearly came to grief. She was finally towed ashart, and is now. or was lately, -lung from the roof of the boathouse it Croganour.—Lcndon Chr-micle.