HASTINGS (TAPIT CREEK).

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1862, 26 September 1874, Page 2

HASTINGS (TAPIT CREEK).

(ÜBOII OUE OWN COBBESEONDENT.) The Kilkenny Cats hare gone to work at the Bullion once more, and circulars have been issued for .a general meeting of shareholders on Saturday week, when no doubt either active .work or active hostilities will be decided on for the future. One or two attempts at share selling have been tried,'but it is a case of "no go," as outsiders .have a natural, dread of being■mixed F up with such : -a cantankerous lot. I question very much whether anybody would give £50. toe all the work done by y seven ; mbh~;for'the last sis months in the Bullion. Mr Crampton, fonnerly manager of the Eureka, Grahamstown, is now in temporary charge, and if the shareholders are wise in their generation! they, at their general meeting, willoonfirm his appoint' ment. Had aman like Mr Orampton been in command for the last six months, several hundrqd pounds worth of -useless labour would have been saved , to : the unfortunate shareholders, .v.. : : . What strange ideas some folks-have ;of Masonry! At the funeral of Brotkor Beveridge. some rods marked with red were used iir the procession. Seeing which, a woman called • one of the Masons aside,"and asked, ".Are these red marks the depth of Catholic blood which Freemasons are sworn to wade in ?" The woman stated she was certain that either the Masons or , the . Orangemen had to take such an oath. - Mr Beveridge left Dunfermlin, in Scotland, intending to practise his profession in. Melbourne, but found on his arrival there that there *™ some .legal.'disqualification. . It is now about 14 roars since the, writer of, this - came over from Melbourne to Auckland ' in the ship' Commodore Perry,' Captain Kiddie, commander.u Amongst, the other passengers' were -Mrs' Thompson and family, who were so barbarously murdered by Maoris in the Kaukapakapa district; and Mr and Mrs Baveridge and family. Unlike Melbourne, in Auckland "Mr Beveridge found himself at liberty., to carry on his profession as a solicitor, and in a short time he got a lucrative practice. As a Freemason, he: was quite an ,enthusiast. .1 do not-think it i 3 generally known ihat the. first Moderator of .tiie Free Church' of Scotland, the eminently , distinguished thedlogian and philosopher, Dr Thomas Chalmers, was a Freemason. The Glasgow Masons News says that his name is duly recorded in the books of the Grand Lodge* having been initiated in the Lodge St. Yigeans, Arbroath, on the 26th of April,'lßoo. At that time Dr Chalmers,was a tutor in Dr Stevenson's family,- Arbroath. ; ;i