Presentation To Lady Blythswood.

PRESENTATION TO LADY BLYTHSWOOD .

AS an " expression of the esteem in which Lord Blythswoou is held by the Masonio fraternity , and of their gratitude to him for bis invaluable Feiviees to the Grand Lodge of Scotland , " Lady Blythswood was on Friday , the 24 th nit ., presented with a bust ol her husband . The ceremony took placo at Blythswood House , near Paisley , the residence of Lord and Lady Blythswood , nnd the

presentation waa made by the Earl of Haddington Grand Master Mason of Scotland , in tho pruaeneo of a largo and distinguished company . The bust , which is life-size , is the work of Mr . G . W . Stevenson , Edinburgh , find has been executed in Carara marble . Lord Haddington , in making the presentation , raid that from his

position as Grand Master Mason of Scotland—a position to whioh he ¦ was nominated by Lord Blythswood—be had been deputed by the Grand Lodge to present the bust of her husband to Lady Blythswood , as a token of the esteem and regard in whioh he ia held by the fraternity , and of their gratitude to him for hia invaluable services to the Craft .

The fifty-fifth annual Masonic ball of the Old-Concord Lodge , No . 172 , will be held at Freemasons' Tavern , on Wednesday , 31 sfc January 1894 , on which occasion the whole snite of elegantly decorated rooms will be thrown open . Tickets , 12 s each , including refreshments and

supper , can bo had from tho Stewards : —Bros . William Hunt W . M . President , J . N . Street . S . W . V . P ., John Wbaley P . M ., Geo . Evans P . M ., Carl T . Fleck P . M ., F . M . Jordan J . W ., 0 . E . Fuchs ., R . Barrett S . D ., F . Davies I . G .,

H . J . Consent ! D . C , G . Yeowell , A . W . Woods , D . R . McLeod ; or from the Hon . Secretary , Bro . Geo . King P . M ., Charterhouse , E . C . J . Lings Bareham ' s band will be in attendance , while Bro . Jarvis will act as M . C .

Tbo centenary of tho Unanimity Lodge , No . 287 , Stockport , of which we give the report of tho installation meeting elsewhere , was celebrated last year . Tho last event of the kind in Cheshire was afc Macclesfield , and the next will be at Mottram a few years hence ( 1899 ) . I a the year 1906 ,

strange to say , three of the Lodges thafc were constituted in Stockport in the year 1806 , viz ., the Unity , now No . 321 , and held at Crewe ; the Peace , No . 322 , holding its meetings at the Warren Bulkeley Hotel ; and the Concord ,

No . 323 , meeting at the Florist Hotel , as well as the St . John ' s Lodge , No . 104 , held afc the White Lion Hotel , which was revived in tho same year , 1806 , will hold their centenary meetings , or , perhaps ifc may bo wiser to say , they ¦ will have an opportunity of doing so .

The news that the Prince of Wales has re-appoinfced Bro , Robert Grey President of the Board of Benevolence will be welcomed by all Masons , including the poor and disf vessed wherever dispersed over the face of earfch or water . For Bro . Groy does indeed practise thafc special Masonic

virtue of charity , not merely in his public but in his private capacity , as many a poorer brother has experienced . A Londoner bred and born , he was ' 'ought up at Merchant Taylor ' s School , and went early into his father ' s business in Water La > io . Over thirty years ago he was initiated in

tbe Sfc . Andrew ' s-in-the-EuBt Lodge , then meeting at the Old London Tavern , in Bishopsgate Street , where one of hia earliest brother Officers was T . W . Boord , now M . P . for Greenwich . Joining the Prince of Wales Lodge , he had the honour of initiating the Duke of Connaught . No Mason

has received hig her marks of favour from fcho Grand Master , and no one is more deserving of them . No grand Masonic ceremony is complete without Bro . " Bob " Grey , as his familiars call him , and though neither a member of the Chancerv Bar nor , for the matter of that , a barrister at all

he took part , as Junior Warden , when fche Prince consecrated in Lincoln ' s Inn Hall for the first time a Craft Lodge . Although the onco jet black beard is turning silver sable , the President looks as if he has many years of work in him . —Evening Netus ancl Post .

CHRISTMAS BEEF . —The mosfc notable transaction afc the annual Christmas Cattle Market was the pnrchase by Spiers and Pond ( Limited ) of fifty of the very finest polled Scotch boasts ever bronght to London . " The grandest lot ever yon see , " as a well-known connoisseur was heard to exclaim . The modern art of preparing beasts for market is not to obtain mountains of mere fat , bnfc to produce an

animal whioh shall yield a large proportion ot lean and saleable meat ; and tho herd in question fulfilled every condition which knowledge of the subject has devised . The countless customers of the celebrated caterers may indulge tvith confidence , dnring the coming Christmastide , not only in thc Roast Bcsf of Old England , bufc also in the belief thafc fche qualities which first made it famous have , by the li ghts of science , baen so developed that ifc is the ideal food of man .

Presentation To Lady Blythswood.

The Prince of Wales , who above all things likes to bo amused , paid a high compliment to Mr . Frank Lockwood , whom he met on Tuesday night at the dinner given in the hall of Lincoln ' s Inn on the celebration of the formation of a Lodge of Freemasonry , exclusively recruited from the Chancery Bar . At the dinner H . R . H . asked who was

going to respond for the toast of the Bar , and was told it was Mr . Pope , Q . C . Mr . Pope is an amiable and a learned gentleman , who carries a light heart under a heavy weight of fLsb . But he is not exactly the kind of after-dinner speaker who sets the table in a roar . His seniority imposed

on him the duty of responding for this toast , and he might not be displaced . But the Prince wanted to hear Frank Lockwood , and the ingenuit y of the chairman was equal fco the occasion . The toasfc of the visitors was added to the formal list , the Prince himself proposing ifc , coupled wifch

the name of Mr . Lockwood . The learned Recorder ' s speech is not reported in any of the papers , whioh is a pity , since it sparkled with humour . One of its happiest points waa made oat of an incident thafc had taken place before dinner .

At one stage of the installation of the Lodge only brethren who had passed the chair were b y the occnlt mles of Freemasonry permitted to be present . Lord Halsbury and Mr . Lockwood were among the learned brothers whom this rale

temporarily withdrew from the room . Alluding to this incident Mr . Lockwood observed that in a certain class of cases , not unfamiliar to learned judges present , women and children , representatives of all that was beautiful and pure , were ordered to leave the court . " In the same way , sir , "

he said , turning to the Prince of Wales , " at a particular stage of the ceremony over which your Royal Highness presided , Lord Halsbury and I were ordered to quit tho

room , and of what thereafter took place we are absolutely ignorant . " The idea of Lord Halsbury as a type of female beauty shyly withdrawing from conversation unfitted for the ear of a young damsel was so irresistiblv comical that

it , was some time before the shouts of laughter thafc welcomed the hit permitted Mr . Lockwood to proceed . —Sheffield Independent .

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