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Scotland.
PEEBLES . Kilwinning Lodge ( No . 24 ) . —On Monday , the 1 st December , the anniversary of St . Andrew was celebrated—Bro . Archibald Donaldson , Jun ., R . W . M ., presiding—when a numerous turn-out of the Brethren were present , and a candidate initiated into the Apprentice Degree . A very happy evening was spent , with toast and song in true Masonic style , when the Lodge was closed at high twelve .
It ought to be stated that upon this occasion the new flute band requested the honour of escorting the R . W . M . to the Lodge , which was most respectfully declined . Nevertheless , the band played the Mason ' s Anthem through the town , and also at the Mason Lodge while the Brethren were met , and was complimented by the R . W . M . On the following evening a Lodge was again held , and a Brother passed to the sublime Degree of Master Mason—the R . W . M . presiding .
PERTH . Ancient Lodge of Scone unci Perth ( No . 3 "} . —This Lodge held their meeting on Monday , December 1 st , and elected the following Brethren to the various offices , viz . : —John Fisher , R . W . M . ; John Mackay , D . M . ; John Baird , S . D . M . ; Matthew Gloag , P . M . ; John Maclauchlan , S . W . ; James Thompson , J . W . ; Robert Peters , Treasurer ; James Galletly , Secretary ; D . Hopkirk , Bible-bearer ; A . Campbell and J . T . Buchan , Key-keepers ; J . Kennedy and Peter Reid , Stewards ; Robert Reid , Tyler ; Alexander Patterson , Esq ., Proxy-master ,
ROYAL ARCH . EDINBURGH SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER . A quarterly meeting of this Supreme Chapter took place at the Star Hotel , Edinburgh , on Wednesday , December 17 . In the absence of the First Grand Principal , the chair was occupied by Patrick Deuchar , M . E . D . Z . : Arch . Douglas , P . P . Z ., No . 12 , acting H ., and Hector Gavin , P . P . Z ., No . 65 , acting J . The minutes of previous quarterly meeting were read and approved of . The business
before the Chapter , on this occasion , was chiefly of a routine nature . Proxy commissions were sustained in favour of E . Comps . Patrick Deuchar , from Chapter Perseverance , Bombay , No . 71 ; Donald Campbell , from Banff Chapter , No . 4 ; A . J . Stewart , from Girvan Chapter , No . 35 ; Stewart Watson , from Charleston Aboyne Chapter , No . 57 ; Alex . Downie , from Paisley Abbey Chapter , No . 76 . On an application from certain Royal Arch Masons of Chapter Carlton , St . John ' s , New Brunswick , No . 47 , duly certified , the Supreme Chapter agreed to grant a
Charter in their favour constituting them into a Royal Arch Chapter , to be held at Fredericton , in the Province of New Brunswick , on the third Wednesday of each month , under the name and title of " Fredericton Chapter , New Brunswick , " and to rank No . 77 on the registry of Scotland . —There were produced and read to the meeting resolutions passed at a meeting held on the 9 th December , of the suspended members of Bon-Accord Chapter , Aberdeen ; wherein they stated the utter impossibility on their part of giving effect to the order which had . been
made upon them to recover the Warrant , which it was maintained by the Grand Chapter had been improperly and illegally issued by them to London , seeing that all connection between them and those working under said Warrant had now ceased . These resolutions , along with their former memorial on the subject , were remitted to the Committee to he reported on quam primum , and from certain
statements made in reference to the subject by one of the members of the London Bon-Accord Mark Lodge , who happened to be present as a regular English Royal Arch Mason , it was expected that the nature of the report to be obtained from the Committee would be such as to put a termination to the unhappy measures which the Supreme Chapter had found it their duty to adopt . —Other business having been transacted , the meeting closed in due form .
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Scotland.
PEEBLES . Kilwinning Lodge ( No . 24 ) . —On Monday , the 1 st December , the anniversary of St . Andrew was celebrated—Bro . Archibald Donaldson , Jun ., R . W . M ., presiding—when a numerous turn-out of the Brethren were present , and a candidate initiated into the Apprentice Degree . A very happy evening was spent , with toast and song in true Masonic style , when the Lodge was closed at high twelve .
It ought to be stated that upon this occasion the new flute band requested the honour of escorting the R . W . M . to the Lodge , which was most respectfully declined . Nevertheless , the band played the Mason ' s Anthem through the town , and also at the Mason Lodge while the Brethren were met , and was complimented by the R . W . M . On the following evening a Lodge was again held , and a Brother passed to the sublime Degree of Master Mason—the R . W . M . presiding .
PERTH . Ancient Lodge of Scone unci Perth ( No . 3 "} . —This Lodge held their meeting on Monday , December 1 st , and elected the following Brethren to the various offices , viz . : —John Fisher , R . W . M . ; John Mackay , D . M . ; John Baird , S . D . M . ; Matthew Gloag , P . M . ; John Maclauchlan , S . W . ; James Thompson , J . W . ; Robert Peters , Treasurer ; James Galletly , Secretary ; D . Hopkirk , Bible-bearer ; A . Campbell and J . T . Buchan , Key-keepers ; J . Kennedy and Peter Reid , Stewards ; Robert Reid , Tyler ; Alexander Patterson , Esq ., Proxy-master ,
ROYAL ARCH . EDINBURGH SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER . A quarterly meeting of this Supreme Chapter took place at the Star Hotel , Edinburgh , on Wednesday , December 17 . In the absence of the First Grand Principal , the chair was occupied by Patrick Deuchar , M . E . D . Z . : Arch . Douglas , P . P . Z ., No . 12 , acting H ., and Hector Gavin , P . P . Z ., No . 65 , acting J . The minutes of previous quarterly meeting were read and approved of . The business
before the Chapter , on this occasion , was chiefly of a routine nature . Proxy commissions were sustained in favour of E . Comps . Patrick Deuchar , from Chapter Perseverance , Bombay , No . 71 ; Donald Campbell , from Banff Chapter , No . 4 ; A . J . Stewart , from Girvan Chapter , No . 35 ; Stewart Watson , from Charleston Aboyne Chapter , No . 57 ; Alex . Downie , from Paisley Abbey Chapter , No . 76 . On an application from certain Royal Arch Masons of Chapter Carlton , St . John ' s , New Brunswick , No . 47 , duly certified , the Supreme Chapter agreed to grant a
Charter in their favour constituting them into a Royal Arch Chapter , to be held at Fredericton , in the Province of New Brunswick , on the third Wednesday of each month , under the name and title of " Fredericton Chapter , New Brunswick , " and to rank No . 77 on the registry of Scotland . —There were produced and read to the meeting resolutions passed at a meeting held on the 9 th December , of the suspended members of Bon-Accord Chapter , Aberdeen ; wherein they stated the utter impossibility on their part of giving effect to the order which had . been
made upon them to recover the Warrant , which it was maintained by the Grand Chapter had been improperly and illegally issued by them to London , seeing that all connection between them and those working under said Warrant had now ceased . These resolutions , along with their former memorial on the subject , were remitted to the Committee to he reported on quam primum , and from certain
statements made in reference to the subject by one of the members of the London Bon-Accord Mark Lodge , who happened to be present as a regular English Royal Arch Mason , it was expected that the nature of the report to be obtained from the Committee would be such as to put a termination to the unhappy measures which the Supreme Chapter had found it their duty to adopt . —Other business having been transacted , the meeting closed in due form .