The admit of the Prince to membership of the Grand Lodge by the retiring Grand Master, the Earl Elgin, was an impressive cero-monial. Tt was followed by the installation of the Grand Officers for the coming year—the Earl of Stair, Grand Master; Lord Blyths-wood, Grand Master Depute; Sir Alexander Gibb, Senior Grand Warden; the Master of Saltoun, Junior "Grand Warden; Lord Bel-haven and Stenton, Senior Grand Deacon; and Earl Haig, Junior of the piper in the. procession struck the Prince most. forcibly, and when forming up prior to entering Grand Lodge he commented on the fact and inquired whether is, was the invariable custom In Scotland, as he had never seen it elsewhere. "Many lodges under the Scottish constitution have the piper regularly installed as an oflebearer of the lodge, and the same: procedure applies to several pro-Vineial grand lodges. But this. Was quite a novelty for the Pro-Vineial Grand Mi The piper on this Major Ross, Into Guards,
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