The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1878.

Dunstan Times, Issue 850, 2 August 1878, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1878.

Beneath the rule of men f.sttrki.y just the pen is mightier than the SWORD.

Owixo to some miserable bungling the laying of the Foundation Stone of the Vincent County Council Chambers, to have taken place yesterday (Thursday, the Ist inst.) did not come off. How the trouble arose, or what the trouble really was, wo are unable to explain ; the fact, however, is that the ceremony which was looked forward to by a great number of people was indefinitely postponed. Tno ceremony was to have been performed by the members of the Masonic Craft, who were specially invited, and who to the number of about twenty, with the Provincial Grand Master, brother G. W. Harvey at their head assembled, but as there was not a single representative of the County Council present, (Vincent Pyke, Esq., Chairman of that body, wo may here explain, and thus absolve him of blame, was, and had been for some days previously confined to his couch, suffering from that merciless disease—gout) the Masonic Brethren declined to act, and drew out of the affair with the best grace possible, but much to the disgust and annoyance of a good few people who had journeyed into Clyde for the occasion and to the no inconsiderable loss of the contractor, who at no small expense and trouble had prepared everything, and moreover, kept his men idle throughout tho day. In matters of this kind, it is always difficult to saddle the blame on the right horse, but murder eventually will out, and when we do discover the guilty party, we shall not be backward in teaching him a lesson that it is to ho hoped he will benefit by. As it happened tho weather was anything but propitious for an out-door gathering, it being bitterly cold with strong squalls of wind, consequently, not so'many were present as might have been ; that was a trouble however, that could not have been anticipated, and can not be advanced as a reason for the disappointment by those who caused it. Lot whoever be to blame, the County Council, to say tho least, have offered a most gratuitous insult to Mr Judge Harvey and the members of tho Masonic craft generally, for which nothing short of the most ample and public apology should suffice.