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his services by proposing a testimonial to him in the Lodge that evening . He then proposed , in felicitous terms , the Initiates , con . gratulating the Lodge upon the acquisition of four excellent members , one of whom had already made his mark in Parliamentary life . Bro . Isaacson , M . P ., responded , in a lengthy and humorous speech , in the
course of which , ho regretted he had lost many of the pleasures of this life , inasmuch as he shonld have joined the Craft twenty-five years ago . He was much impressed and gratified with the ceremony ho had gone thr > ugh , and tho solemn and impressive rites ho had witnessed would be remembered by him to his latest honr . The
other initiates also acknowledged the toiist in a few happily chosen sentence- * . Bro . C . F . Hogard said tho Woishipful MasW had desired him to thai . k them for the liberal rnauner in which they had supported him as Steward for the Royal Masonic Benevolent
Institution , ids list had reached within a few shillings of £ o 0 ; he warmly advocated tho claims of that important Charity . The Worshipful Master , in proposing the health of the Worshipful Master elect , congratulated tho brethren npon the wise selection they had made by ehonsiti !/ Bro . Solomon Jacobs as his successor in tho chair . In him
they had a thorough good Masonic worker , a young man of great energy in everything he undertook , and a brother who had proved himself well worthy of the position to which they had elected him . Bro . Jacobs having suitably responded , Bro . Hogard gave the Benevolent Fund of the Lodge of Israel , which , at the present time ,
amounted to just over £ 1000 . They had had heavy calls npon them during the year , between £ 70 and £ 80 having been disbursed amongst necessitous brethron . The fund was essentially for tho benefit of distressed brethren—members of the Lodge—who might need assistance ; and it was done in such a way that no brother except the
Committee knew who it was that had been relieved . The toast was acknowledged at some length by Bro . A . M . Cohen , the President of the Fund , who warmly exhorted the younger members of the Lodge especially to support the Fund . Tho Yisitors were cordially
welcomed , aud the toast was responded to by Bros . Klingenstein , Dale , Seigenberg , Loftus , and Atnphlett . The other toasts were the Past Masters , and the Officers of the Lodge . The proceedings , which throughout were of the most harmonious and enjoyable character , were varied by some excellent singing by the brethren .
WILLIAM PRESTON LODGE , No . 766 . fp HE members of this Lodge celebrated their installation on Thursi day , the 25 th ultimo , at the Cannon Street Hotel , E . C . Among thoso present were Bros . Alfred Le Grand W . M ., A . C . Rees P . M . S . W ., C . Pay J . W ., W . Jerrett Miller P . M . Treasnrer , W . Worrell P . M . Secretary , W . J . Collens P . M ., W . F . Smart P . M ., E . Kidman P . M ., W . J . Heath S . D ., G . F . Edwards J . D ., L . W . Hutchinson I . G ., D . M . Forbes D . C ., W . Johnston Assistant Steward , L . G . Reiohardt
Tyler , 'the Lodge having been opened the minutes were confirmed . Tho ballet was taken for five gentlemen , candidates for initiation and being in their favour Messrs . Edmund John Beadle , Robert C , Wilson , Montagu Woolf , Charles Sansom Taylor , and Tom Lestei wnv duly admitted to a participation of tho benefits of Masonic
light . Lodgo was then advanced , and Brother A . C . Rees P . M . was regularly installed as Worshipful Master of the Lodge . He was saluted in the threo degrees , and then appointed tho officers for the year . Lodge was subsequently closed , and the brethren repaired to banquet . Among the visitors were Bros . Saxb y 1297 , Henry Gnv
W . M . 1706 , James Bnru Organist . 1539 , Henrv Garrod P . G . P ., G . NoyesbYrO , Cooper I . P . M . 1298 , Medwin W . M . 192 , Bilhy W . M . 61 o | James Jo ' instoti juti . P . M . 55 , H . Von Joel 957 , Ries 1-H , Alabone 151 , Lowe 1962 , Hawkins P . M . and P . Z . 65 , Allen S . W . 1065 , W . w ! Morgan jnn . At the conclusion of the repast tho Worshi pful
Master submitted the customary toasts . The first , that of the Qneen , he said was one which was always sure of an enthusiastic reception at a Masonic gathering . They had especial pleasure in honouiing this toast at tho present time , in view o ! th factt . at Her Majesty was abont to celebrate the inbilee of
her accession to tho throne , ihe next toast was that ; of the Grand Master . Wherever Masonry was known the name of His Roval Highness was also known . He was very active in performing the duties attached to his high office , and whatever he did in connection with Masonry was known throughout tho world . The toast of the
Pro Grand Master , the Deputy Grand Master , and the rest of the Grand Officers , present and past , followed , and was enthusiasticall y received . Bro . Le Grand then assnmed the gavel , and proposed the hath of tlio Worshipful Master . Bro . Rees had beeu before the brethren of the William Preston Lodge for years past , and had
steadily advanced , step by step , towards the hi gh position ho had that night attained in their midst . In each of the offices he bad filled lie had won the esteem and reward i f his brethren and would no doubt win fresh honours in his now position . Ho was not entirel y a stranger to the office of Worshipful
Masfcv , . 'H he had passed tho chair many years back in another Lodge . Lit : Bro . Le Grand ) felt their Master would fill his office with eit-titietion to hi'iis-lf and with credit to overy member of the L , jd ge . lie kii > -w he n o I hardl y ask the brethren to snpport the Worshi pfu Master , as t ey vv-io till so anxious to do honour to tho present
occtipant of the ehair , who would havo the entire support of the Lodgr dining his year of office . The Worshipful Muster rose with sotri amount ofdiffi et . ee to reply to the very flattering way in which hi .-health had been received . His business pursuits had kept him awaj from ihe Lodgo very often in the past , but he hoped , now that th
h .. < "h ! VM had placed him nb the hear I of affairs , to amend in this par . ! ral .. . and to be able to regularly attend ttu duties of his Lodge , J ! :- K \ i . fits term of mnster .-thip had opened well , as they had had fiVt
: •(¦! . U-nion initialed into the Lodgo on the clay of his installation . lie ' . ' ' . " ring to some remarks of Bro . Le Gr . ind as to his havin ,, y : v '• ¦ iou : d y ft'led the office of Master of a Lod"o he would i' they approved , give them a brief outline of ° his Masonic ' LwrxM-iences . Many years back he was living on tho gold holds of
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Ballarat in a tent as a gold digger . Tu course of time a dispensation was granted from the Grand Lodge at Melbourne for a Masouio Lodge to be formed at the diggings , aid he was one of the first initiates of that Lodge , which was named the United Tradesman ' s Lodge . As a member of that body ho soon discovered the good feelin »
which was displayed by brethren towards each other , and had been very much impressed with his earliest experiences , especiall y at the way in which strange Masons were received and welcomed by their brethren . As might be imagined it was very wild and rough in those days at Ballarat , and it was not
an nrmsnal thing for strangers from all paifcs of the world to come to the diggings . The reception accorded to such of them as happened to be Freemasons was of such a nature as to make him feel reall y proud o ^ ' being a Mason , but it was only of the same character as he found existing in other parts of the world among Freemasons . His
next experiences were in New Zealand , where he became one of the first Officers of a Lodge at Dunedin , being elected some two or three yoars later as its Master . There again he experinced the good feeling existing among Masons , which he mig ht , say was not , perhaps , so full y shown in England as it . was " abroad . He felt one had to travel to
fully appreciate it . When a travelling brother arrived in a strange place he at once asked if there was a Lodge , and if there was , he was sure of receiving such a welcome as made him at once feel he was among friends . Later on a dispensation was granted from the Grand Lodge of England for a Provincial Grand Lodge—as it was
then termed—of New Zealand , and he had the honour of being ap . pointed first Sword Bearer of that Lodge . Subsequei tly he filled the office of Provincial Junior Grand Deacon , aud was also a member of the Board of General Purposes and the Board of Benevolence of the Colony . He next found himself iu Pernambico , in the Brazils .
and great was bis surprise at there finding an English Lodge . His reception by the members of that Lodge was most hearty , as might bo imagined when he told them that carriages were placed at hia disposal , home * were thrown open to him , and everything done which pointed to that good feeling which follows Freemasons all round the
world . In conclusion , he might say that wherever he had been the right-hand of fellowship had been outstretched to him as a Brother Mason . His remarks had been somewhat foreigu to the toast , but they had perhaps interested his listeners as much as anything else he could have said ; at the same time he fully recognised the hononr
which had been conferred on him by tbe members of the William Preston Lodge and would do bis best to promote its welfare . He had next to propose a very important toast—that of the Initiates . He did not think that since the Lodge had been constituted they had ever had five initiates on one evening before , they had had four , but ,
as far as he could learn , never five . He felt sure the toast would that evening be drunk with enthusiasm . He hoped the Initiates would give Freemasonry their earnest attention , that they would work in it zealously , and that they would put their love thoroughl y iuto it . The newly-admitted brethren severally responded , expressing
their determination to make themselves worthy members of the Craft , aud feeling from what they had heard that a great honour had been conferred on them in admitting them as members of the Order . Brother Woolf felt he conld take a crumb of comfort—on the princi ple that a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind—from the fact that there
were four other initiates in a similar position to himself that ni ght and he conld take another crumb of comfort iu remembering that one and all of those around him had , at one time or another , been placed in a position similar to that the Initiates then occupied He felt it was a great honour to he admitted as a member of the Lodge , and
to have the privilege of calling himself a Free and Accepted Mason . Tho present was the first opportunity he had had of calling so many distinguished brethren as were around him b y the name of brothers , and of breaking with them the bread of friendshi p . Ho felt he should have their heartiest support in his endeavours to
become a good Mason , and he assured them he should do his utmost to deserve that designation . He should live in the hope that at some time or another he might rise to the dignified position now occupied by the Worshipful Master . The next toast , the W . M . s-iid , was another important one—the health of the Immediate Past
Ma-ter , Bro . Le Grand . He was so weli-known , and his goodness of heart aud good feeling to the brethren generally was so much appreciated , that it was not necessary to say much in submitting the toast . Never a chance had arisen but he had come forward and fulfilled his duties as a Mason , while in regard to matters of
charity there had never been a call daring his years of office that he had not responded to , and that most abfy . In every sense of tho word he was a true Mason , and in saying that he meant all that a good man could be . Bro . Rees felt he bad a very cliflLnlt task iu following so distinguished a Master as Bro . Le Grand had
been . That brother tendered his thanks for the toast . Not only throughout the length and breadth but throughout the ritual and the ceremonies of Freemasonry there pervaded the same kindl y feelin " . So kind wero all tho usages and customs that it was ordtiined that tho retiring Master should , immediately he left the chair sic for a
year at the left of the W . M ., where he might bask in the sunshine of the reigning M « ster , instead of at once being shot to tho bottom of the , line of Past Masters . During the two years he bad occupied the hair the Lodgo had lost a great many members from death and ¦ ifcher causes , but they had had but one initiate until that ni"ht—the
last of his term of office—when they had bad the pleasure of receiving into their midst no less than live gentlemen . Looking back he felt , tin re was much for which he had to thank the Past . Masters and Officers of the Lodge , while he had also to acknowled ge the cordial and kind manner in which he had been treated b y every member of
ihe Lodge . What little he had accomplished had simply been done , i the execution of his duty . The charity box having been sent ivund tho contents were , as is usual in this Lodge , put up and sold
o the highest bidder . On this occasion the "desirable lot" realised 83 10 s , a welcome addition to tho Charity Fund of the Lodge . Tbe oast of the Visitors was next given . The custom of visiting led to tv beautiful exchange of idoao , while by intermixing one Lodge with
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Notice Of Meetings.
his services by proposing a testimonial to him in the Lodge that evening . He then proposed , in felicitous terms , the Initiates , con . gratulating the Lodge upon the acquisition of four excellent members , one of whom had already made his mark in Parliamentary life . Bro . Isaacson , M . P ., responded , in a lengthy and humorous speech , in the
course of which , ho regretted he had lost many of the pleasures of this life , inasmuch as he shonld have joined the Craft twenty-five years ago . He was much impressed and gratified with the ceremony ho had gone thr > ugh , and tho solemn and impressive rites ho had witnessed would be remembered by him to his latest honr . The
other initiates also acknowledged the toiist in a few happily chosen sentence- * . Bro . C . F . Hogard said tho Woishipful MasW had desired him to thai . k them for the liberal rnauner in which they had supported him as Steward for the Royal Masonic Benevolent
Institution , ids list had reached within a few shillings of £ o 0 ; he warmly advocated tho claims of that important Charity . The Worshipful Master , in proposing the health of the Worshipful Master elect , congratulated tho brethren npon the wise selection they had made by ehonsiti !/ Bro . Solomon Jacobs as his successor in tho chair . In him
they had a thorough good Masonic worker , a young man of great energy in everything he undertook , and a brother who had proved himself well worthy of the position to which they had elected him . Bro . Jacobs having suitably responded , Bro . Hogard gave the Benevolent Fund of the Lodge of Israel , which , at the present time ,
amounted to just over £ 1000 . They had had heavy calls npon them during the year , between £ 70 and £ 80 having been disbursed amongst necessitous brethron . The fund was essentially for tho benefit of distressed brethren—members of the Lodge—who might need assistance ; and it was done in such a way that no brother except the
Committee knew who it was that had been relieved . The toast was acknowledged at some length by Bro . A . M . Cohen , the President of the Fund , who warmly exhorted the younger members of the Lodge especially to support the Fund . Tho Yisitors were cordially
welcomed , aud the toast was responded to by Bros . Klingenstein , Dale , Seigenberg , Loftus , and Atnphlett . The other toasts were the Past Masters , and the Officers of the Lodge . The proceedings , which throughout were of the most harmonious and enjoyable character , were varied by some excellent singing by the brethren .
WILLIAM PRESTON LODGE , No . 766 . fp HE members of this Lodge celebrated their installation on Thursi day , the 25 th ultimo , at the Cannon Street Hotel , E . C . Among thoso present were Bros . Alfred Le Grand W . M ., A . C . Rees P . M . S . W ., C . Pay J . W ., W . Jerrett Miller P . M . Treasnrer , W . Worrell P . M . Secretary , W . J . Collens P . M ., W . F . Smart P . M ., E . Kidman P . M ., W . J . Heath S . D ., G . F . Edwards J . D ., L . W . Hutchinson I . G ., D . M . Forbes D . C ., W . Johnston Assistant Steward , L . G . Reiohardt
Tyler , 'the Lodge having been opened the minutes were confirmed . Tho ballet was taken for five gentlemen , candidates for initiation and being in their favour Messrs . Edmund John Beadle , Robert C , Wilson , Montagu Woolf , Charles Sansom Taylor , and Tom Lestei wnv duly admitted to a participation of tho benefits of Masonic
light . Lodgo was then advanced , and Brother A . C . Rees P . M . was regularly installed as Worshipful Master of the Lodge . He was saluted in the threo degrees , and then appointed tho officers for the year . Lodge was subsequently closed , and the brethren repaired to banquet . Among the visitors were Bros . Saxb y 1297 , Henry Gnv
W . M . 1706 , James Bnru Organist . 1539 , Henrv Garrod P . G . P ., G . NoyesbYrO , Cooper I . P . M . 1298 , Medwin W . M . 192 , Bilhy W . M . 61 o | James Jo ' instoti juti . P . M . 55 , H . Von Joel 957 , Ries 1-H , Alabone 151 , Lowe 1962 , Hawkins P . M . and P . Z . 65 , Allen S . W . 1065 , W . w ! Morgan jnn . At the conclusion of the repast tho Worshi pful
Master submitted the customary toasts . The first , that of the Qneen , he said was one which was always sure of an enthusiastic reception at a Masonic gathering . They had especial pleasure in honouiing this toast at tho present time , in view o ! th factt . at Her Majesty was abont to celebrate the inbilee of
her accession to tho throne , ihe next toast was that ; of the Grand Master . Wherever Masonry was known the name of His Roval Highness was also known . He was very active in performing the duties attached to his high office , and whatever he did in connection with Masonry was known throughout tho world . The toast of the
Pro Grand Master , the Deputy Grand Master , and the rest of the Grand Officers , present and past , followed , and was enthusiasticall y received . Bro . Le Grand then assnmed the gavel , and proposed the hath of tlio Worshipful Master . Bro . Rees had beeu before the brethren of the William Preston Lodge for years past , and had
steadily advanced , step by step , towards the hi gh position ho had that night attained in their midst . In each of the offices he bad filled lie had won the esteem and reward i f his brethren and would no doubt win fresh honours in his now position . Ho was not entirel y a stranger to the office of Worshipful
Masfcv , . 'H he had passed tho chair many years back in another Lodge . Lit : Bro . Le Grand ) felt their Master would fill his office with eit-titietion to hi'iis-lf and with credit to overy member of the L , jd ge . lie kii > -w he n o I hardl y ask the brethren to snpport the Worshi pfu Master , as t ey vv-io till so anxious to do honour to tho present
occtipant of the ehair , who would havo the entire support of the Lodgr dining his year of office . The Worshipful Muster rose with sotri amount ofdiffi et . ee to reply to the very flattering way in which hi .-health had been received . His business pursuits had kept him awaj from ihe Lodgo very often in the past , but he hoped , now that th
h .. < "h ! VM had placed him nb the hear I of affairs , to amend in this par . ! ral .. . and to be able to regularly attend ttu duties of his Lodge , J ! :- K \ i . fits term of mnster .-thip had opened well , as they had had fiVt
: •(¦! . U-nion initialed into the Lodgo on the clay of his installation . lie ' . ' ' . " ring to some remarks of Bro . Le Gr . ind as to his havin ,, y : v '• ¦ iou : d y ft'led the office of Master of a Lod"o he would i' they approved , give them a brief outline of ° his Masonic ' LwrxM-iences . Many years back he was living on tho gold holds of
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Ballarat in a tent as a gold digger . Tu course of time a dispensation was granted from the Grand Lodge at Melbourne for a Masouio Lodge to be formed at the diggings , aid he was one of the first initiates of that Lodge , which was named the United Tradesman ' s Lodge . As a member of that body ho soon discovered the good feelin »
which was displayed by brethren towards each other , and had been very much impressed with his earliest experiences , especiall y at the way in which strange Masons were received and welcomed by their brethren . As might be imagined it was very wild and rough in those days at Ballarat , and it was not
an nrmsnal thing for strangers from all paifcs of the world to come to the diggings . The reception accorded to such of them as happened to be Freemasons was of such a nature as to make him feel reall y proud o ^ ' being a Mason , but it was only of the same character as he found existing in other parts of the world among Freemasons . His
next experiences were in New Zealand , where he became one of the first Officers of a Lodge at Dunedin , being elected some two or three yoars later as its Master . There again he experinced the good feeling existing among Masons , which he mig ht , say was not , perhaps , so full y shown in England as it . was " abroad . He felt one had to travel to
fully appreciate it . When a travelling brother arrived in a strange place he at once asked if there was a Lodge , and if there was , he was sure of receiving such a welcome as made him at once feel he was among friends . Later on a dispensation was granted from the Grand Lodge of England for a Provincial Grand Lodge—as it was
then termed—of New Zealand , and he had the honour of being ap . pointed first Sword Bearer of that Lodge . Subsequei tly he filled the office of Provincial Junior Grand Deacon , aud was also a member of the Board of General Purposes and the Board of Benevolence of the Colony . He next found himself iu Pernambico , in the Brazils .
and great was bis surprise at there finding an English Lodge . His reception by the members of that Lodge was most hearty , as might bo imagined when he told them that carriages were placed at hia disposal , home * were thrown open to him , and everything done which pointed to that good feeling which follows Freemasons all round the
world . In conclusion , he might say that wherever he had been the right-hand of fellowship had been outstretched to him as a Brother Mason . His remarks had been somewhat foreigu to the toast , but they had perhaps interested his listeners as much as anything else he could have said ; at the same time he fully recognised the hononr
which had been conferred on him by tbe members of the William Preston Lodge and would do bis best to promote its welfare . He had next to propose a very important toast—that of the Initiates . He did not think that since the Lodge had been constituted they had ever had five initiates on one evening before , they had had four , but ,
as far as he could learn , never five . He felt sure the toast would that evening be drunk with enthusiasm . He hoped the Initiates would give Freemasonry their earnest attention , that they would work in it zealously , and that they would put their love thoroughl y iuto it . The newly-admitted brethren severally responded , expressing
their determination to make themselves worthy members of the Craft , aud feeling from what they had heard that a great honour had been conferred on them in admitting them as members of the Order . Brother Woolf felt he conld take a crumb of comfort—on the princi ple that a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind—from the fact that there
were four other initiates in a similar position to himself that ni ght and he conld take another crumb of comfort iu remembering that one and all of those around him had , at one time or another , been placed in a position similar to that the Initiates then occupied He felt it was a great honour to he admitted as a member of the Lodge , and
to have the privilege of calling himself a Free and Accepted Mason . Tho present was the first opportunity he had had of calling so many distinguished brethren as were around him b y the name of brothers , and of breaking with them the bread of friendshi p . Ho felt he should have their heartiest support in his endeavours to
become a good Mason , and he assured them he should do his utmost to deserve that designation . He should live in the hope that at some time or another he might rise to the dignified position now occupied by the Worshipful Master . The next toast , the W . M . s-iid , was another important one—the health of the Immediate Past
Ma-ter , Bro . Le Grand . He was so weli-known , and his goodness of heart aud good feeling to the brethren generally was so much appreciated , that it was not necessary to say much in submitting the toast . Never a chance had arisen but he had come forward and fulfilled his duties as a Mason , while in regard to matters of
charity there had never been a call daring his years of office that he had not responded to , and that most abfy . In every sense of tho word he was a true Mason , and in saying that he meant all that a good man could be . Bro . Rees felt he bad a very cliflLnlt task iu following so distinguished a Master as Bro . Le Grand had
been . That brother tendered his thanks for the toast . Not only throughout the length and breadth but throughout the ritual and the ceremonies of Freemasonry there pervaded the same kindl y feelin " . So kind wero all tho usages and customs that it was ordtiined that tho retiring Master should , immediately he left the chair sic for a
year at the left of the W . M ., where he might bask in the sunshine of the reigning M « ster , instead of at once being shot to tho bottom of the , line of Past Masters . During the two years he bad occupied the hair the Lodgo had lost a great many members from death and ¦ ifcher causes , but they had had but one initiate until that ni"ht—the
last of his term of office—when they had bad the pleasure of receiving into their midst no less than live gentlemen . Looking back he felt , tin re was much for which he had to thank the Past . Masters and Officers of the Lodge , while he had also to acknowled ge the cordial and kind manner in which he had been treated b y every member of
ihe Lodge . What little he had accomplished had simply been done , i the execution of his duty . The charity box having been sent ivund tho contents were , as is usual in this Lodge , put up and sold
o the highest bidder . On this occasion the "desirable lot" realised 83 10 s , a welcome addition to tho Charity Fund of the Lodge . Tbe oast of the Visitors was next given . The custom of visiting led to tv beautiful exchange of idoao , while by intermixing one Lodge with