WELLINGTON BURNS CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 6

WELLINGTON BURNS CLUB

His earliest memory of a Burns celebration was as a child, when in 1896, he heard Lord Roseberry deliver the famous Dumfries Centennial speech, said Mr. A. McMurray Patterson, who proposed the toast of the "Immortal Memory of Robert Burns"' at the Wellington Burns Club's annual Burns supper on Tuesday. He grew up ir. the Burns he added, and he had only recently realised the intellectual greatness of those he met in Dumfries. Burns had been the first poet to free British verse from formalism:

.'The haggis was piped in by Piper J. McKenzie and the "Ode to the Haggis" was recited by Mr. R. H. Nimmo, president of the society.

Mrs...Webb (formerly Miss Dorothy Spihks), honorary pianist to the society, was presented with a supper wagon by, Mr. Nimmo, /who wished her every happiness in her married life. The Key. J. G. lafcster, of Knox Church, Toronto,' prqSofeed the toast of "Kindred Societies," Which was replied to by Mr. Hector Smith. A thoroughly Scottish musical programmewas presented. Mr. W. H. Church singing: "Scots Wha Hae" and "Hail Caledonia," Mrs. Walter Duncan "Bonnie'Wee Thing" and "Ye Banks and Braes/ Mr. J. Cathcart "The Lea Eig" and •-'Nirvana," Mrs. Pengelly "John Anderson My Jo" and ■ "Kowan Tree," and Miss Stirling "Lassie Would Ye Lo'e'Me?" and "Comin' Thro' the Rye." Miss Jessie Hogg recited "Donald McKay." "Auld Lang Syne" brought the. evening to a close.