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may be the ultimate outcome, the recent appeal to the electorates has proved that, when put to the test, similar proposals will again arouse the settled convictions of the British people, which are as over- whelmingly hostile to interference in British affairs by any foreign tinkler loot, as Burns declared himself to be in the ren of the French Revolution. To Burns, party shibboleths had no mean EDINITROR, Navetaber 6th.

ing; party warfare was merely a source The St. Andrew's Festival of the of amuser, and he invariably treated Grand Lodge of Scotland will have a it with derision. When the Dumfries particular interest this year for Scottish Burghs election was in full swing it 1780; Freemasons throughout the world, as it he wrote to Provost Maxwell that h will be honoured by the presence of would like to be present on a feld day His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, when Dakes, Earls, and Krights pafil The present Grand Master Mason, the their court to weavers, tailers, and col Eart of Elgin and Kincardine, has urblers, not that he cared three klips of ing his term of office specially desireda er dog for the polities,but heans

When A visit from His-Royal Highness to be desired to witness for himself such Grand Lodge. and when it was learned an exhibition of human nature. early in the present year that the Prince called upon to net. he gave his support was likely to visit Edinburgh steps were urither to Ministries nor messures, buj whether a Grand to men whom he knew, to le men of secse taken to ascertain Lodge function could be included in his and worth, no matter what might be engagements. To the gratification of all their party credentials and colours. Scottish Freemasons the answer was in the afirmative. The principal business

Deceived by the honours paid to the before Grand Lodge will, of course, be the conferring of honorary membership Great Chieftain of the Puddin-race." upon H.RH, the Earl of Elgin," and the late Mr. Crosland spoke of the Seats elaborate preparations are being made as & people who fed on "offal." Ap. An official of the for the ceremonial, all of them, however, parently this kind of criticism has wor or the strict lines of official precedent.ried London Scots There will then follow the installation St. Andrew's Day Aascelation in Londer the haggis, one knows not why, of the new Grand Master Mason. This refers

as the world's unluckiest dish." in the Grand Lodge of Scotland is an annual function. In the Grand Lodge of the dinner of the Association at the England the Grand Masterat present Savoy on St. Andrew's Day the haggis II.R.H. the Duke of Counnught and is to be offered to English guests as a Strathearn-is appointed for life, as are free extra and is to be trumpeted cut of the Provincial Grand Masters also under the dining-ball by English trumpeters. the English Constitution. In our more This will signify the passing of the the Grand baggis into English hands. The shop- democratic organisatio Master Mason is elected by Grand heril of the Hebrid Isles, placed far ami Lodge each year. In some cases a second, the melancholy main, will probably re and ir special cases ren a third, termark that the dinner itself, which is to has been given the present occupant of beld" on a Sunday, signifies the the thron having completed his third abandonment, of a Scottish institution term. Cinly on very rare occasions has even more impotsart than the haggis this period of three years beer exceeded.

not without The houour falls to the Right Hon. the PERSONALIA.

Poets are apparently Earl of Stair, E.S.O., the present Grand Master Depute. It is expected that are honour in their own country, although cording to established custom the Right prophets may sometimes he frowned Hou. Lord Blythswood, the present upoo. I hear, for instance, that Char- Substitute Grand Master, will be pro-les Murray, of Hamewith" fame, who moted to the Depute's chair, an appoint has just returned from South Africa to mert which would be popular with crafts his native Donside, is to receive a well- men throughout the West of Scotland.merited tribute from his friends in Aber. Lord Blythswood is at present Senior deenshire. Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of

Mr. R. A. L. Balfour, who is engaged England The Grand Master Depute and to be married to Miss Jean Cooke, Substitute Graud Master are not elected daughter of Canon and Mrs. Cooke, by Grand Lodge, the appointment being in the hards of the Grand Master Mason on his election each year. HOSTESS TO THE PRINCH.

THE ALL-BLACKS AND SCOTLAND.

of Guildford, evidently intends, after his marriage, to spend a good deal of his time at Whittinghame, the family place in East Lothian. It can only be with this view that be has accepted member- Parish of the Whittingehame The Countess of Minto will not lack

ship subjects of common interest to both whet Council. Mr. B. A. L. Balfour is, after she is bustes in the Prince of Wales his father, Mr. Gerald Balfour, heir to She the Whitting hame estate and to the title during his visit to the Borders. was brought up in the Canada to which of Earl of Balfour, the heir to the Throne has given so grati fyingly large a share of his affections, and

The unbroken succession of victories. the ranch acquired by Lord Minto im Alberta some years ago is only a few gained by the New Zealanders in Eng miles south of that owned by the Prince land has deepened the sense of regret Even without so fruitful a subject of that the Scottish Rugby public is to have conversation, Lady Minto would not lack an opportunity of airg this brilliant topics, since she is naturally a good and combination take the field. The trouble. vivacious talker and unusually well in is a moat unfortunate one. It has been formin. The party at Minto House, to said on behalf of the Scottish Rugby meet the Prince will consist largely of Union that the reason why it would not yourg people, including the Eart and arrange matches with the All-Blacks wax Countess of addington. the latter of that the English Union had invited the Lord ram, while it has been previously agreed whom is Lady Minto's sister, Minto was best man at their wedding in that such invitations should be extended Montreal a year ago. Minto Honge. by the International Board of Rugby. Dear Hawick, makes no claim, to be or ly, Our Union is an autocratic, evca among the finest and largest of the a tyrannous body, and by no means re- stately homes of Scotland, but it is car presenta the rank and file of Scottish of the most plensart and homelike among Rugbymen.

them.

FREEMASONRY IN GLASGOW.

There is no hope of their giving way in the very slightest. The feelings of the New Zealand Rugby foot. ball team have been so worked up that An event of more than ordinary in- they are represented as perfectly dis terest to Freemasons in the West Country gusted with Scotland. They will not tock place in Glasgow, Trades House, have & Scot to referee one of "their Glasgow, when the Earl of Eigin, Grand matches, and they are said to bate Master Mason of Scotland. installed do with Scotland for ever. This is Brother 31. W. Montgomery, Lord Pre very awkward, because when there gen vost of Glasgow, as Master for the easteraan go home they will give us a bad with their fellow countrymen, ing year of the Trades House of Gasgewrame Lodge. The occasion was unique in "res hundreds of thousands of whom are of pect that Brother Montgomery holds the Scottish descent. We admit that this is offices of Lord Provost of the city, probably making the worst of an episode Deacon of one of its Incorporations, and which has so far attracted the attention Master of one of its Masonic Lodges at only of those interested in spors. Still the same time. No such triple honour it is disagreeable to find that a party of has hitherto been known in the city's New Zealanders visiting the Mother history. The lodge is composed of bre:['Country for sport should feel that they thern whose first qualification is being a have Iwen outrageously treated by member of one of the 14th incorporated Scotsmen, "while English, Welsh, and bodies of the Trades House, and is there Irish ate delighted to meet them, and fore distinctly a class ledge.

THE POLITICS OF BURNS.

play the game with thein. There is talk in the South of the London Scots put- ting a team in the Geld but the All- Blacks are so incersed at the Scottish

From the way in which Burns is quot ed on political platforms and by the huge boycott that they are not likely to enter- army of open-air preachers of social retain the suggestions for a moment. form, one can only conclude that the in

tention of the orators is to represent FANOUS ATHLETES..

Burns as the outstanding Extremist of his generation. In some of his earlier

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Although various rumours have been.

poems, as, for instance, his Epistle to sing round to the contrary it is now Davie, the case for Labour is put indefinitely settled that both H. M. Abra hams and. Erie Liddell, the respective the strongest of lights, and enforced with winners of the 100 and 400 metres at the much the same argaments as the Socialist

of to-day has rendered us so familiar Olympic Games last July, bave now with; but the whole volume of his poetry finally refired from the track. Abrahams and prose will be searched in vain for work at the bar will no longer give him the leisure necessary for sprint work, a single line that expresses the slightest although he intends to go in for the long

the sympathy with the doctrines of Bolshevism, Communism, and Socialism jump and hop, step, and jump when the athletic season starts again. Liddell, as which are now so loudly proclaimed from I have already written you, has decided the housetops. Burn's philosophy. We to go out to China to teach in a m on a higher plane; his opinions were founded on the axioms of political ethics sionary school there early in the spring. Efforts were recently made to get Lid- which apply to all parties alike, and dell, Abrahams, and Lowe to go to Japan which have been subscribed to by all for the purpose of taking part in sensible men who have thought seriously athletic contests and lecturing in schools

of on the subject. A short compendium and Universities. Abrahams and Lid his political creed, written the year be- dall, however, had to, decline owing to before his death, will be found in "Docs the calls of their professions, but Lowa Haughty Goul," a composition which effectually disposes of the mythical trade likely to accept, and will probably go on to Japan after he has run in America tion that he was a disloyal subject and with the combined Oxford and Cambridge

Bevolutionist. The three parties reteam in the summer. ferred to were not in existence, at least in this country, in Burn's day and we have set them down separately, for the reason that disintegration has not yet gone far enough for an obscrver to de- cide whether the rival tenets are to re main distinct, or be incorporated in a single comprehensive creed. Whatever

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