The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-29
CEREMONY IL FREFIAsoNS HALL.

was 50 mucn Iatlgueu tnaL ne HOulu nave 10 lore
60 the pleasure of visiting the Gardens.
cERENoNy1S FREFaAsoNs HALL.
.-Ife Freemason's Hall was reached about !
O'Clock. and Ills Majesty, rs he entered, was
respectfully saluted and loudly cheered. The
object of the visit was to attend Il special meeting
of the Grand Conclaye Of Scotland Of the Order of
the Red Cross of Constantine, which had resolved
to confer on His Majesty the rank Of knight
Grand Cross of the Order. There was a large
attendance of brethren, among those present being
tile following members of the Grand Council.
viz. Captain John Crombie. Aberdeen, Grand
Senior General, Acting Grand Sovereign in the
unavoidable absence of the Earl of Kintore
James Crichton, Grand Junior General, Acting
Grand VIcerOy Robert 5. Brown, Grand Re
corder James Dalrymple Duncan, Glasgow,
Grand Standard Bearer James b. Mercer, Past
Grand Chancellor and the following members
OF the Grand Senate. viz. William Milne, Cap
tain A. NJ. Bruce, james Melville, Sir Molynenx
Ii. Ncpean, Bart. Francis Law, and +. w.
Roberts also William Mann, S.S.C., PIG.
Warden d. Murray Lyon, Grand Secretary.
Grand Lodge of Scotland Councillor Alexander
Henry, c.. S. Terrier, j. Fleming, P.R Haddow,
W. Hamilton, j. Il. NJ. Bairnslather, S.S.B. 4;
&C., &c.
His Majesty was received by the Grand
Recorder, and by the Grand Secretary Of the
Grand Lodge of Scotland, Brother ID. Murray
Lyon, by whom he was conducted to the ante
room, where he signed the attendance-book of
tue OTauu OOuncil, anu me NlelutTS DOOk OF the
Grand Lodge of Scotland. The Conclave was
orened under the presidency of Captain John
Crombie. His Majesty having been introduced
to the COnclaVe, and received under the arch Of
steel, the Acting Grand Sovereign, addressing
His Majesty, then said 80 The members of the
Grand Imperial Council Of Scotland are very
much g~ratifed at having the pleasure of meeting
your Majesty here to-day, and comforting upon
you the highest honor they have it IN their power
to bestow and they have desired me to convey
to your Majesty their grateful sense Of your
courtesy in allowing your name to be added to
the roll Of Knights Grand Cross Of Scotland. |
regret exceedingly that the Grand Sovereign of
the Order, the Right Hon. the Earl Of Kintore,
has been prevented from attending and personally
comforting this distinction upon you. As your
Maiesty's time Is very limited, and as we heartily
concur in every word said by the Lord Provost OF
Edinburgh at the meeting yesterday, L shall only
detain you to say that we all join-and every
Ereemason in Scotland when. he reads of the
event Of to-day will JOHN earnest and heart
felt prayer TO our OmnipOtent Ruler, tho great
Architect of the Universe. that every blessing
and happiness may attend your Majesty through
life, that you may have a safe and pleasant re-
turn to your kingdom that your reign there may
be long and prosperous, and that you may con-
tinue to take Il warm interest in, manifest a zeal
for, and be a credit and ornament TO the craft we
all love go dearly. " The King was then presented
wIth-a copy OF the statutes of the Council, which
he pledged himself to obey. The Acting
Sovereign, in investing him with the Grand
Cross. further said -" Ia the name and by
special authority of the Grand Council Of the
Order, now invest you with the Jewel Of a Knight
Grand Cross Of the Imperial Council Of Scotland;
and may | venture to express the hope that the
Jewel and the patent, which the Grand Recorder
will forward in a few days, may sometimes recall
10 your mind your visit 10 Scotland, where
thousands of Freemasons who have never seen
your Maiesty's face, but know your great
talents as a Mason, and the high position YOU
have attained in the craft, extend to your
Majesty their fraternal feelings of esteem and
love, and will be highly gratIfed to find that
those feelings are reciprOcated by your Maiest, 20
The Acting VIceroy, Brother James Crichton, in
appropriate terms, then offered His Majesty hon
orary membership Of the Edinburgh Conclave,
No. /.
His Majesty, in graciously intimating his &C,
ceptance of these hOnOrs, referred TO the cordial
reception he had met with during his visit to
Scotland. No honor which he had received
would he more appreciated than that which had
been conferred upon him by the Grand Council.
.DEEGHoRx C,sTLE.-The following description of the
Castle, written by Prof. Frank W. Darhon, we clip from
the Friend Of July" The Castle Of Dreghorn stands on
cuFying slopes Of Pentlands, an hour or 50 from Edin-
WV, with tower and turrets and arches, strong and state
", and gray without and bright with all cheer and home
6es1ty within. 1t has seen the Pentlands changing from
GLORIOUS stretches of woodland lead you of on either
side, while down the murmuring stream in the hollow
and there stately dropping trees,and varied with wander
ing white-wOOled sheep and capering lambs. Passing
down the long drive You come to the ancient " Lodge"
with its stone turrets half smother6d in 4 wealth of the
richest ivy. still farther on are the cottages of the
teuautry and the village OF Collington down in the valley
or Clingiug amid the trees to the hillside. And what q
magnificent reach Of country spreads itself ont before
you on every side. There in the foreground, like some
mighty gulf of tenderest green, lighted by bursts Of
splendid April sunshine, and deepened by the shadows
Of drifting clouds. lies a superb forest ridged. village
dotted plain. And there beyond this, where the sun comes
out and the clouds part at its coming, may be seen still,
nOtionless in its verdsnt setting, like 9 silver mirror the
Firth Of Forth in the distance.