For many years, indeed for more than a generation as generations are counted in hanghai, the birthday of the songster, Philosopher, and prophet than whom no ritish poet ever known better to paint and touch the heart of his countrymen, one of the makers of Scotland, Robbie Burns, has gone without public celebration in Shangl Andre: i by vigorous hand: mittee, comprising Messi 3. Addis, president, J. H. Maclaren, vice-president, S. M. McLeish, hon. treasurer, G. Lindsay, hon,' secretary, C.' Murray Adamson, W. B. Buyers, Brodie A. Clarke, Morris, John D. Watt, and ned that the reproach neglect of Scotia's favourite son should" no longer be justly cast his fellow-countrymen here, and on Saturday, the birthday of the bard, about a hundred members of the Society, under the presidency of Mr. Addis, with Messrs. Lindsay, Machen, and Prentice sat a Scottish dinner, gs, listen to Scottish ud tak' alf' their drams, at the hai Club. The guest of the evening was Sir James Lyle Mackay, K.C.LE., British Plenipotentiary, and there were also present as invited guests Mr. Pelham Warren, H. M. Consul-General, Mr. H. Wilkinson, Chief Justice of H. M. Supreme Court, the Rev. C. E. Darwent, and Mr. R. W. Little. "The luge private dining: room of the Club was handsomely decorated with wreaths and nds of evergreens behind the hi e the royal arm and behind the vice-chairman a large portrait of the poet, admirably painted for the occasion by Mr. Smedley, and the walls were farther adorned with apr te versions of the royal standard, in hich two quarters were occupied' by Scotland's rampant lion, the leopards of England and the harp of Ireland having each one quarter. The public band, under the direction of Sr. Valenza, played during dinner in an adjoining room, distance lending enchantment to the strains, the following being the programme 1—Mareh—*Sons of the Brave" Bidgood. 2—Selection—" Under the British Flag J.A. Kuppey.
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