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through the 2 nd and ^ rd Degrees , as he was about immediately to quit Scotland ; which motion was , after due consideration , agreed to . Bro . A . N . Niblett was then promoted to a Fellow-Craft , and the Lodge having been opened in the 3 rd Degree ^ he was afterwards raised to the Sublime D egree of M . M . The charge at the initiation was given in the most eloquent and impressive manner by the
JLW . M . Bro . Drybrough , who also conferred the 2 nd Degree in an equally efficient manner . Bro . Finlayson , R . W . M . of Lodge Edinburgh Defensive Band ( No . 151 ) , performed the ceremony of the 3 rd Degree . Bros . Turton and Dr . Mae-¦ vitie officiated as Wardens , and fully explained at the examinations anything that the candidate did not previously understand . Mr . W . Wishart , S . S . C ., was also initiated into the Fraternity .
STIRLING . Stirling Ancient ( No ,: 30 ) . —This Lodge held a meeting of emergency in their Lodge-room , Corn Exchange , Stirling , on Saturday the 5 th of September , ^ on which occasion the R . W . M ^ Bro . Adam Dyson , ably initiated a gentleman into the Craft , and passed and raised Bros . Dalton and Kerin Kelly , to the Sublime Degree . Bro . Kelly w < e believe is about to start for New Zealand , which is the cause of his rapid promotion . Bros . Robert Eadie and George Hutchinson acted as Ssenior and Junior Wardens , and ably assisted the R . W . M . in the duties of the chair .
SUPREME ^ BAKJ ) CHAPTER SCOTLAND . A quarterly meeting of this Chapter was held in the Turf Hotel , 3 , Prince s Street , Edinburgh , on the evening of Wednesday , the 16 th Sept . ; Comps . Andrew Murray , P . Z . of the Edinburgh Chapter , No . 1 , acting G . Z . ; Donald Campbell , P . P . Z . for Banff , No . 4 , acting H . ; and A . J . Stewart , P . P . Z . for Girvan ^ No . 35 , acting J . The minutes of previous meeting , with those of Audit and Ordinary Committee , were read and approved of . Twer applications for new Chapters , reported on by the committee as regular , were read and sustained , and charters
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issued in favour of the applicants : one for a Chapter to be held within the city of Glasgow , under the title of " The Commercial R . A . Chapter ; " and the other for a Chapter at Ayr , under the designation of " The Ayr Kilwinning R . A . Chapter , " —to form Nos . 79 and 80 , in the order stated , on the roll of the Supreme Grand Chapter . A petition against the granting of the last-mentioned charter , by the Ayr Chapter , No . 18 , on the ground that , inter alia , the locality was insufficient for two Chapters successfully carrying on the work of R . A . Masonry , had been presented , but was refused , in respect of the reasons assigned not being thought satisfactory .
A report by the committee appointed to visit the Chapters in Edinburgh and south-east of Scotland , was produced and read to the meeting . The committee had found it necessary , in discharge of their duty , to report certain important deviations from the authorized ritual in a quarter where it was believed such should not have existed . After some discussion the report was approved , and ordered to be engrossed ; notice being given to the quarter referred to , of the contents of the report in so far as they were concerned , with a request that they lodge with Grand Chapter a note of any explanations they have to offer thereon .
Two cases , not of public interest , arising out of differences which had taken place between two foreign Chapters and their respective Grand Superintendents , were next disposed of ; the one being at New Brunswick , where the P . G . Z . had , in . the exercise of his duty , found it necessary to interdict a Chapter in the exaltation of a candidate to the R . A . Degree who had previously been received JiatQ the Degrees of Ma * k , Past and Excellent ; and the other at Halifax , where the P . G . Z ., it was alleged , had removed too far from his province to be of service to those placed under his care . Both matters were placed on such a footing as to warrant the expectation of harmony being restored .
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through the 2 nd and ^ rd Degrees , as he was about immediately to quit Scotland ; which motion was , after due consideration , agreed to . Bro . A . N . Niblett was then promoted to a Fellow-Craft , and the Lodge having been opened in the 3 rd Degree ^ he was afterwards raised to the Sublime D egree of M . M . The charge at the initiation was given in the most eloquent and impressive manner by the
JLW . M . Bro . Drybrough , who also conferred the 2 nd Degree in an equally efficient manner . Bro . Finlayson , R . W . M . of Lodge Edinburgh Defensive Band ( No . 151 ) , performed the ceremony of the 3 rd Degree . Bros . Turton and Dr . Mae-¦ vitie officiated as Wardens , and fully explained at the examinations anything that the candidate did not previously understand . Mr . W . Wishart , S . S . C ., was also initiated into the Fraternity .
STIRLING . Stirling Ancient ( No ,: 30 ) . —This Lodge held a meeting of emergency in their Lodge-room , Corn Exchange , Stirling , on Saturday the 5 th of September , ^ on which occasion the R . W . M ^ Bro . Adam Dyson , ably initiated a gentleman into the Craft , and passed and raised Bros . Dalton and Kerin Kelly , to the Sublime Degree . Bro . Kelly w < e believe is about to start for New Zealand , which is the cause of his rapid promotion . Bros . Robert Eadie and George Hutchinson acted as Ssenior and Junior Wardens , and ably assisted the R . W . M . in the duties of the chair .
SUPREME ^ BAKJ ) CHAPTER SCOTLAND . A quarterly meeting of this Chapter was held in the Turf Hotel , 3 , Prince s Street , Edinburgh , on the evening of Wednesday , the 16 th Sept . ; Comps . Andrew Murray , P . Z . of the Edinburgh Chapter , No . 1 , acting G . Z . ; Donald Campbell , P . P . Z . for Banff , No . 4 , acting H . ; and A . J . Stewart , P . P . Z . for Girvan ^ No . 35 , acting J . The minutes of previous meeting , with those of Audit and Ordinary Committee , were read and approved of . Twer applications for new Chapters , reported on by the committee as regular , were read and sustained , and charters
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issued in favour of the applicants : one for a Chapter to be held within the city of Glasgow , under the title of " The Commercial R . A . Chapter ; " and the other for a Chapter at Ayr , under the designation of " The Ayr Kilwinning R . A . Chapter , " —to form Nos . 79 and 80 , in the order stated , on the roll of the Supreme Grand Chapter . A petition against the granting of the last-mentioned charter , by the Ayr Chapter , No . 18 , on the ground that , inter alia , the locality was insufficient for two Chapters successfully carrying on the work of R . A . Masonry , had been presented , but was refused , in respect of the reasons assigned not being thought satisfactory .
A report by the committee appointed to visit the Chapters in Edinburgh and south-east of Scotland , was produced and read to the meeting . The committee had found it necessary , in discharge of their duty , to report certain important deviations from the authorized ritual in a quarter where it was believed such should not have existed . After some discussion the report was approved , and ordered to be engrossed ; notice being given to the quarter referred to , of the contents of the report in so far as they were concerned , with a request that they lodge with Grand Chapter a note of any explanations they have to offer thereon .
Two cases , not of public interest , arising out of differences which had taken place between two foreign Chapters and their respective Grand Superintendents , were next disposed of ; the one being at New Brunswick , where the P . G . Z . had , in . the exercise of his duty , found it necessary to interdict a Chapter in the exaltation of a candidate to the R . A . Degree who had previously been received JiatQ the Degrees of Ma * k , Past and Excellent ; and the other at Halifax , where the P . G . Z ., it was alleged , had removed too far from his province to be of service to those placed under his care . Both matters were placed on such a footing as to warrant the expectation of harmony being restored .