Lodge Sir Walter Scott.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2506, 17 January 1877, Page 2

Lodge Sir Walter Scott.

The monthly meeting of the above lodge was held last night, R.W. Master T. L. Murrayin the chair. There was a large attendance of the brethren including Past Masters McCullough, Aitken, Hill, Black, Brodie arid Power. The installation of Bro. Black as substitute master and Bros. Carrick, Weston, McLaren and Moore into'the offices of Treasurer, Jeweller, Architect and Deacon respectively, was first proceeded with.

The Key. j. Hill proposed, " Thrat the members of the Sir Walter Scott, S.C., desire to express their sorrow for the great loss sustained by the Provincial Grand Lodge, E.C.,.by the death of Sir Donald McLean, their Provincial Grand Master, and that this resolution be forwarded by the R.W.M-. to the said Provincial Grand Lodge at its next meeting," —a copy als«o to the Corinthian Lodge. In introducing the above, motion Mr Hill at some length referred to the high position held by the late Sir Donald McLean, and the kindly feeliDgs be had always expressed towards the members of the order in general, and to Lodge Sir Walter Scott in particular.

The resolution was seconded by P.M, Power. •

Bro. Brodie also spoke from his interviews wjth Sir Donald McLean as to the estimation in whic'i Lodge Sir Walter Scott was held by him, and the great interest taken in Freemasonry by Sir Donald since his election as Prov. G. Master. -

The motion was carried unanimously. The principal business of the evening, the presentation of an illuminated address to Bro. the Rev. James Hill, P.M., was then proceeded with. The wording of the address has already appeared in these columns. ,

The 8.W.M., Bro. Murray, in well set terms presented the address to Bro. Hill, and regretted that the jewel which was to accompany the address was not in his hands also. He hoped by March next the jewel would be to hand, being ordered from England, when a suitable meeting of all the lodges was. proposed to bo held, at which the presentation would be made. - .

B,ro. Hill expressed the great pleasure he had in accepting the address, which was not only valuable as an excellent specimen of penmanship,. but was doubly dear to him, being the, expression of the kindly feeling of the Lodge towards himself. He had done little to deserve such an expression of feeling, but as long as he lived he would esteem it a pleasure.and an honor to work with and for the lodge.

After some ordinary business the Lodge was closed.