in Gordon Hall was one of the most brilliant entertainments ever given in the port. There were nearly three hundred guests, of whom seventy were ladies: the Masons ned their regalia and added much to the brilliance of the scene. If the festivity had fault, it was that of excess in hospitality the supper was fit for Lucullus himself, and its interminable courses had to be curtailed after nearly trio hours of deglutition. The worthy caterers should have remembered Hesiod's paradox: the half is sometimes better than the whole (I think the Greek said larger but no matter). Consul Carles, in reply to the excellent remarks of the Worshipful Master (Mr. J. I. M. Drummond) expressed the warm and appredative gratitude of the Community to the Masonic holy. The dancers left between 4 and 5 am.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.