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ANDREW DAY CELEBRATIONS,
One of the iteris mantioned by Lady Grizel was ten, and tes "frst came to Scotland when James II. wa at Holyrood ne Duke of York in 1879 There it was shown, handed round, se na Aetidla of The patron sulat of Scotland received singular lusory and interest. The first little bonour in his own country: the Scot "ppearance of tea in Lady Grizeľa House- at home left tho celebration of St Andrew's hold Book is in the gear 1710, when sho Day almost wholly to the Sent who hid had to pay nearly 90s, for a podhd ; and gone abroad. There were only two Stet so fascinating was this liquid that she Andrew Society dianers, ons in Edinburgh to have hereil faithfully to it al and another in Aberdeen; and unless through her life." Another item referred nmong the racks of the Freemasons, vory by Lard Rosebery was the potato. fow know of the phasing of the festival. You would have thought there would have until they read in the newspapers of the been nothing an familiar as the potato to every household, but in all her bill of fare and in all her cunts, patatoes life as an article of fand, and that w enly appear once in the course of her long abund and not in Grant Britain, in the year 1739. I believe the first apperance of the petico Sentzish social history we
gatherings of Scots "furth of Scotland.".
In Edinburgh, the principal function ms the meeting of the Grand Lode of Sottish Freemasonry. Grand Officers were talled with ancient ceremony, and noong Those appointed to h korary razk
asan exculant of extraordinary rarity and
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AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of MEMBERS of the abova CLUB will be held i nn WEDNES DAY, the 10th January, 1919. in the Offices of the Jockey Club, No. 3, Chaterware Senior Deneous Darlin Ching in the yes 1701, where the potato appears Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform 60 cents. Road, at 12.30 ... for the purpose of confirming the following Special Resolation C. Dardonjee, Past Grand Masters ing of Members held on Saturday, the 23rd ; India and Grand Marshal John G. ADan, Lothis, as a rawing crop, at any rate, carried at the Extraordinary General Meeti pute of All Sentish Freemasonry do not think it was introduced into Mid- Docenilor, 1911, viz.
Peanng. Grand Master the Marquis of That the wordsKingwan Race Club Tallibardine, was able to give a very good until the year 1746
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E dates of the ANNUAL RACE MERTING originally fixed for tir 18th, 44th and 16th February, 1 12, are altered to one week inter The RACE MEETING will be held on TUESDAY, 20th, THURSDAY, 2nd and FRIDAY 23rd, February, 1012, thereby coinciding with the usual holidays following the Chinese New Year.
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extraordinary good reir," indeed a record yent. The membership shows an increase 12,552; the inceps an increase of 2030, and charters have been issued to 16 new Judges. ·
HCOTTISH LENE CHANGES.
Mr William Hunter, K.C., M.P., Solici Senator of the College of Justice in Scot- tor Genemt for Scotland, is appointed n and, in place of the late Lord Ardwell and Mr Andrew M'Beth Anderson, K.,0. is the Suleiter-General, is place of Mr Bunter
bis Fath r was a shipowner. At the bar
· The new judge is a native of Age, where
Some thrus hundred Scots attended the St. Andrew's Day dinner of the Royal Scottish Corporation, a charitable institu tian founded nearly two and a half centuries ngo for the purpose of assisting Scobs in the Mateupolis who, as it has been put, he made a reputation for tenneity of par have been unable to obtain a fair share Pass, shrewd cation sense, a knowledge of the riches of the South." Lord Minta of case law, and a persuasive and agrorable
ment in 1910,
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was entrusted with the tunst of the evening, ander. He did not take much interest and took advantage of what many called in politics till he was returned to Parlia the privileges of the day to vent a little patristic pride. With all due modesty, he said "it is impossible to deny the saccpse which had attended Scotsmen in public life at home and abroad. He had often wondered why that was no, and he believed it to be the reward of strongly emphasised Scottish character, character moulded or the sterling history of our country, and a character by which determination, shrewdness, and commen sense, had played a greater and more ebe. coraful part than the most brilliant wife. Wherever he had been, his Lordship asserted, he found the Seos in the frst. rank, he had known him on the land and on the ocean; "he had admired
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THE RULISTON TOURNAMENT. The tragic end of the Marquis of Water ford recalls to a render of the Cajas Herald who is searing his
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Old Bt. "Androw's men in Landon baď à "Scarlet Gown Club Dinner." The gather Ings of this Clubs are not conducted quite
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The Han. Launcelot Dougins Carnegie, of the British Embassy in Paris, who is well known on the Braev of Angus, are
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and mainisiced that repute animpaired during the great festival of 1840. In the ganised the St. Andrew's Day celebration graud, opening procession, from Eglinton on the bunka (f the Seino. It was quits Castle to the Lists, the Manju appeared an important function, all the Scate in as Knight of the Dragon, in black, and
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The whisky from Dundee was all right, but why the haggis from Greenock? We can thrak of no funsop for sending the vider
A MEETING will be held the same cvembx at 6.30 in the Y.M.O.A. Rooms Alexandra Buildings, to arrange datas, etc. Each Team entered is invited to send a representative to the Meeting
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