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Devonshire.
DEVONSHIRE .
THE Provincial Grand Lodge of Devon is to be held at the Allhallows' Schoolroom , Honiton , on Wednesday , 14 th inst , by order of the Acting Provincial Grand Master Major G . C . Davie , J . P ., D . L , P . G . D . England . The time fixed
for opening is 3 . 30 p . m ., but the Committee of Petitions will meet at 12 . 45 . There are now sixty Lodges in the county , and the latest returns exhibit a total of 4 , 149 members , being the largest yet chronicled , with dues paid amounting to ^ 459 1 8 s . The various reports will be made , Provincial Grand Officers appointed , and the usual business transacted .
The Province is in an efficient state , and under the excellent management of the Deputy Prov . G . M ., ably assisted by the Provincial Grand Secretary Brother John Stocker A . G . D . C . of England , the Lodges are prosperous and united . ******** ********
ESSEX .
ON the occasion of the recent meeting of this Provincial Grand Lodge the report of the Board of General Purposes was presented by Bro . J . J . C . Turner Chairman , who moved its adoption . The report , after lamenting the death of Queen Victoria , expressed satisfaction that the King , on resigning
the Grand Mastership of the Order , had graciously undertaken to be its Protector ; and went on to congratulate the Brethren that the Duke of Coranaught had succeeded his illustrious brother as Grand Master . The report also stated , as showing the progress of the Craft in the county , that when
the King was installed in 1875 there were in the Province of Essex but fifteen Lodges , with 665 members , whereas at the present time there are forty-four Lodges , with a membership of 2 , 521 . The Board tendered their congratulations to the Earl of Warwick on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant
of the county , and proceeded to call attention to the Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , over which his lordship presided in February last , and on which occasion the large sum of £ " 4 , 000 was subscribed to the charity by
the Brethren of the county . The returns from the Lodges showed that there had been during the year 266 initiations and seventy-seven joining memoers , against which there had been eighty resignations and twenty-two losses by death , while twenty Brethren had been struck off the books of their
respective Lodges . Grants were recommended of ten guineas each to the three great Charities of the Order—the Girls School , Boys School , and the Benevolent Institution ; and of five guineas to the Loughton branch of the Oueen
Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses . The Board reqommended that the portrait for next year ' s calendar be that of the Right Rev . the Bishop of Barking , Bro . Dr . Stevens P . G . C . The motion for adoption having been duly seconded , was carried .
The report of the Charity Committee showed that since the last Grand Lodge one girl and two boys had been elected to the benefits of the Schools , and that a second girl and a candidate for the Benevolent Institution had been placed well for election on the next occasion .
Previous to the closing of Provincial Grand Lodge Bro . Clowes proposed a vote of thanks to the entertaining Lodge --the Bagshawe—congratulating its members on the admirable way " in which the ' work thus far had been done . This was agreed to .
_ The W . M . of the local Lodge , in his own name and on behalf of every member , tendered thanks for the vote accorded them . That day ' s proceedings were the result ' of a very earnest desire on their part that a meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge should be held under the banner of the Bag-
Devonshire.
shawe . The members trusted their efforts would tend to cement the members of the Brotherhood in the work of Freemasonry . They were indeed pleased to meet the Brethren of Provincial Grand Lodge there , and tendered all who were present a most hearty welcome .
Provincial Grand Lodge was subsequently closed and the annual banquet partaken of , the catering being entrusted to Messrs . Hill and Sons , of Bishopsgate Street , and being
carried out in such excellent style as to win universal approval . The usual Loyal toasts were subsequently proposed by the Provincial Grand Master , the Bishop of Barking and Bro . James Terry responding on behalf of the Grand Officers .
Bro . Richard Clowes next assumed the gavel . It devolved on him , he said , to propose what was really the toast of the evening . Pie was sure anything he might say in praise of their Provincial Grand Master Lord Warwick would be
reciprocated by the Brethren of Essex , who were gratified m knowing they had such a ruler . Those present at the previous day ' s installation of the Grand Master must have been proud
of the high position occupied by their Provincial chief at Grand J _ odge . They all knew what he had clone and what he was capable of in Essex , and many of them were' about to test him . in Warwickshire— -he had little doubt but that he
would also shine there to his credit . Lord Warwick replied , tendering hearty thanks for the way in which the Brethren had honoured the toast of his health and for what had been said in regard to his work . He felt decidedly proud of being the head of the Order in the
important county of Essex , as there was something about Essex Freemasonry that had a genuine ring in it ; it was not the mere good work in Lodge , but with it was the true spirit of Freemasonry and hearty support one towards another . Referring to what had been done in regard to the
Festival of the Benevolent Institution his lordship felt the Brethren of Essex had been almost too generous in their efforts to support their Provincial Grand Master . It was very gratifying that so much had been done on behalf of the
Institutions . In Germany they were very keen about their Masonry , but they lacked what , to his mind , was the most important feature—Masonic Charitable Institutions . For twenty years he had had the honour of being Provincial Grand Master of Essex and when he looked around he
thought there were very few associatea with the Province who could boast a longer service . The toast of the Deputy Provincial Grand Master Col . Lockwood was next given , with it being coupled that of the other Provincial Officers . The Earl of Warwick took the
opportunity , in proposing this toast , of paying a hearty tribute to Bro . Railing , whose long and zealous services on behalf of the Province entitled him to the greatest regard . The toasts of the Visitors and of the Worshipful Masters cf the Province were also honoured .
****************** Somewhat of a flutter appears to have been created ; . mong the devotees of what strict Freemasons sometimes severely call * ' Milliners' Masonry" by the announcement : that the Duke of Manchester is . about to introduce into
Ireland a " temple of the Fraternal Mystic Circle , " or , as it is otherwise described , a " mystic shrine . " From the confused reports that have appeared on the subject it may be conjectured that this intended branch of an American Order is
not one of the " Sheikhs of the Kaaba , Defenders of the Mystic Shrine , " but of the " Nobles of the Mystic Shrine . " The former , " which has its Secretariat in New York— " Sheikh Fakir" is the Secretary ' s official designation . —is declared to have been founded for " the purposes of social intercourse .
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Devonshire.
DEVONSHIRE .
THE Provincial Grand Lodge of Devon is to be held at the Allhallows' Schoolroom , Honiton , on Wednesday , 14 th inst , by order of the Acting Provincial Grand Master Major G . C . Davie , J . P ., D . L , P . G . D . England . The time fixed
for opening is 3 . 30 p . m ., but the Committee of Petitions will meet at 12 . 45 . There are now sixty Lodges in the county , and the latest returns exhibit a total of 4 , 149 members , being the largest yet chronicled , with dues paid amounting to ^ 459 1 8 s . The various reports will be made , Provincial Grand Officers appointed , and the usual business transacted .
The Province is in an efficient state , and under the excellent management of the Deputy Prov . G . M ., ably assisted by the Provincial Grand Secretary Brother John Stocker A . G . D . C . of England , the Lodges are prosperous and united . ******** ********
ESSEX .
ON the occasion of the recent meeting of this Provincial Grand Lodge the report of the Board of General Purposes was presented by Bro . J . J . C . Turner Chairman , who moved its adoption . The report , after lamenting the death of Queen Victoria , expressed satisfaction that the King , on resigning
the Grand Mastership of the Order , had graciously undertaken to be its Protector ; and went on to congratulate the Brethren that the Duke of Coranaught had succeeded his illustrious brother as Grand Master . The report also stated , as showing the progress of the Craft in the county , that when
the King was installed in 1875 there were in the Province of Essex but fifteen Lodges , with 665 members , whereas at the present time there are forty-four Lodges , with a membership of 2 , 521 . The Board tendered their congratulations to the Earl of Warwick on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant
of the county , and proceeded to call attention to the Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , over which his lordship presided in February last , and on which occasion the large sum of £ " 4 , 000 was subscribed to the charity by
the Brethren of the county . The returns from the Lodges showed that there had been during the year 266 initiations and seventy-seven joining memoers , against which there had been eighty resignations and twenty-two losses by death , while twenty Brethren had been struck off the books of their
respective Lodges . Grants were recommended of ten guineas each to the three great Charities of the Order—the Girls School , Boys School , and the Benevolent Institution ; and of five guineas to the Loughton branch of the Oueen
Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses . The Board reqommended that the portrait for next year ' s calendar be that of the Right Rev . the Bishop of Barking , Bro . Dr . Stevens P . G . C . The motion for adoption having been duly seconded , was carried .
The report of the Charity Committee showed that since the last Grand Lodge one girl and two boys had been elected to the benefits of the Schools , and that a second girl and a candidate for the Benevolent Institution had been placed well for election on the next occasion .
Previous to the closing of Provincial Grand Lodge Bro . Clowes proposed a vote of thanks to the entertaining Lodge --the Bagshawe—congratulating its members on the admirable way " in which the ' work thus far had been done . This was agreed to .
_ The W . M . of the local Lodge , in his own name and on behalf of every member , tendered thanks for the vote accorded them . That day ' s proceedings were the result ' of a very earnest desire on their part that a meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge should be held under the banner of the Bag-
Devonshire.
shawe . The members trusted their efforts would tend to cement the members of the Brotherhood in the work of Freemasonry . They were indeed pleased to meet the Brethren of Provincial Grand Lodge there , and tendered all who were present a most hearty welcome .
Provincial Grand Lodge was subsequently closed and the annual banquet partaken of , the catering being entrusted to Messrs . Hill and Sons , of Bishopsgate Street , and being
carried out in such excellent style as to win universal approval . The usual Loyal toasts were subsequently proposed by the Provincial Grand Master , the Bishop of Barking and Bro . James Terry responding on behalf of the Grand Officers .
Bro . Richard Clowes next assumed the gavel . It devolved on him , he said , to propose what was really the toast of the evening . Pie was sure anything he might say in praise of their Provincial Grand Master Lord Warwick would be
reciprocated by the Brethren of Essex , who were gratified m knowing they had such a ruler . Those present at the previous day ' s installation of the Grand Master must have been proud
of the high position occupied by their Provincial chief at Grand J _ odge . They all knew what he had clone and what he was capable of in Essex , and many of them were' about to test him . in Warwickshire— -he had little doubt but that he
would also shine there to his credit . Lord Warwick replied , tendering hearty thanks for the way in which the Brethren had honoured the toast of his health and for what had been said in regard to his work . He felt decidedly proud of being the head of the Order in the
important county of Essex , as there was something about Essex Freemasonry that had a genuine ring in it ; it was not the mere good work in Lodge , but with it was the true spirit of Freemasonry and hearty support one towards another . Referring to what had been done in regard to the
Festival of the Benevolent Institution his lordship felt the Brethren of Essex had been almost too generous in their efforts to support their Provincial Grand Master . It was very gratifying that so much had been done on behalf of the
Institutions . In Germany they were very keen about their Masonry , but they lacked what , to his mind , was the most important feature—Masonic Charitable Institutions . For twenty years he had had the honour of being Provincial Grand Master of Essex and when he looked around he
thought there were very few associatea with the Province who could boast a longer service . The toast of the Deputy Provincial Grand Master Col . Lockwood was next given , with it being coupled that of the other Provincial Officers . The Earl of Warwick took the
opportunity , in proposing this toast , of paying a hearty tribute to Bro . Railing , whose long and zealous services on behalf of the Province entitled him to the greatest regard . The toasts of the Visitors and of the Worshipful Masters cf the Province were also honoured .
****************** Somewhat of a flutter appears to have been created ; . mong the devotees of what strict Freemasons sometimes severely call * ' Milliners' Masonry" by the announcement : that the Duke of Manchester is . about to introduce into
Ireland a " temple of the Fraternal Mystic Circle , " or , as it is otherwise described , a " mystic shrine . " From the confused reports that have appeared on the subject it may be conjectured that this intended branch of an American Order is
not one of the " Sheikhs of the Kaaba , Defenders of the Mystic Shrine , " but of the " Nobles of the Mystic Shrine . " The former , " which has its Secretariat in New York— " Sheikh Fakir" is the Secretary ' s official designation . —is declared to have been founded for " the purposes of social intercourse .