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PEOVINCIAL .
— ¦ n JAMES TERRY LODGE , No . 2372 . THIS prosperous young Lodge met at the Four Swans Hotel , Waltham Cross , on Thursday , the 13 th ult ., on tho occasion of Installation for the ensuing year of Bro . Richard Middlehurst P . M . Prov . G . S . B . who has been selected as the fifth Worshipful Master .
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed . The Auditors' report was received ancl considered very satisfactory . The balance sheet did not exhibit a very large balance in hand , but the Lodge had given freely in the cause of charity , and is
prosperous . A candidate for Initiation was balloted for and duly Initiated into the first mysteries of the Craft . Two Entered Apprentices were passed to the degree of Fellow Craft .
Brother James Terry P . G . S . B . " the founder and father of the Lodge , " presented a very handsome album , in which to hand down the portraits of the Lodge members . *" The Worshipful Master expressed hearty thanks for this , another proof of Bro . Terry ' s good feeling towards the Lodge , assuring him that he had the affections and best wishes of every member of the Lodge .
The ceremony of installing Bro . Middlehurst as Worshipful Master was ably performed by the outgoing Master Bro . H . Trask , with the able assistance of Bro . James Terry , Bro . Trask giving the addresses to the Officers and to the members in the various degrees in a most admirable manner .
Bro . W . Metcalfe the Treasurer was appointed to serve on tho Audit and Finance Committee , also the Charity Committee of the Province , and Bro . W . P . Warren S . W . announced that he was willing to serve as Steward to the R . M . Benevolent Institution , at its annual festival in February next , and hoped the Brethren would assist in sending up through him a large sum .
The Lodge was closed , and the Brethren adjourned to the Banquet Hall , where , in the usual excellent style for which Ye Olde Fovre Swannies Hotelrie is so well noted , a splendid spread of various courses and wines of the best brands and vintages was served up , and done ample justice to .
MINNEHAHA MINSTREL LODGE , No . 2363 . THE regular meeting was held at the Victoria Hotel , Manchester , on Monday , the 24 th ult ., when thero were present : —Bros . W . A . Brabner W . M ., Cyril H . Beever S . W ., Joseph Hilton Treas ., M . Thomas P . M . P . P . G . D . Secy ., Henry Nail P . M . S . D ., Fred
Hilton P . M . P . P . G . D . C J . D ., Seth Wrigley P . M . D . C , J . H . Lloyd P . M ., Edward Roberts P . M ., Sam Luke , F . Todd , Thos . Hamnett , A . J . Holt , W . F . Dearden , S . H . Stubbs , W . W . Hitching . Visitors : —Bros . W . Dyson Fryer P . M . 1375 , John M . Crone 1375 , 0 . E . Daber 317 , W . Thos . Watts 1052 . After the confirmation of minutes , a ballot was taken lor Mr . Harry Bowes , Chemist , Cheetham Hill , and being successful that
gentleman was duly initiated by Bro . Brabner W . M . who was assisted by Bros . Beever and Thomas , the latter presenting and explaining the Working Tools , and the foimer delivering the Ancient Charge . This finished , Bro . A . J . Holt was questioned as to his proficiency as a F . C and afterwards raised to the sublime -degree of a Master Mason by Bio . Henry Nail P . M . S . D ., who was •very impressive in the ritual .
The election of Officers then took place , with the following result , viz ., Bro . Beever W . M .-elect , Bio . Joseph Hilton Treasurer , Brothers Luke and Hamnett Auditors . Several committees were appointed , the bye-laws were read by the Secretary , and the Lodge closed in peace and harmony .
At the festive board , Loyal and Masonic toasts were submitted and responded to . That of the Initiate , proposed by Brother Sam Luke , was enthusiastically received , Bro . Bowes responding in very happy terms . Amongst other things he said that he thanked them for their kindness of that evening , expressed the pleasuie he felt in coming amongst them , and was sincerely grateful for the confidence which they had reposed in him .
Bro . Brabner W . M . in his characteristically racy and humorons style , proposed the health of the newly-raised Brother , to which Bro . Todd replied . The foimer also introduced the toast of the Visitors , in response to wbich Bro . Frjer said that it was two years since his pievious visit to the Lodge , but it gave him very great pleasure in repeating that visit . Ihis evening he had experienced three distinct joys , —
one was in seeing the W . M . teaching lessons of morality and other virtues , whereas he had usually seen him hatching seme diabolical plot as the heavy villain who was invariably iound out in his wickedness . ( The speaker here alluded to Bro . Brabner ' s theatrical associations ) . His second joy had been that of hearing Bro . Nail peifoim the ceremony cf Raising in so admirable a manner , and his third joy was that of seeing a P . M . of his own LoOge placed in the chair of K . S .
The Architect Lodge bad never flourished tetter than when Bro . Beever was its Master , for when he put his hand to anything it was with the intention of perfoimirg lhat thing well . At the time to which he bad referred , all tbe Brethren were satisfied with their W . M . —except himself , and that was because Bro . Be ever had never afforded him a chance to prompt him in his work .
Otter speakers followed , the proceedings being varied by sorgs , recitations , 4 c , given by Bros . Ttdd , Themas , Nail , Luke , Betver , Harrop , and Hamnett .
The musical arrangements were under the control of Bro . W . R G . Emerson Lodge 45 Organist . o o o
Provincial.
WARNER LODGE , No . 2256 . rpHE members of this Lodge celebrated their Installation on JL Tuesday , at the Royal Forest Hotel , Chingford , when the principal chair was occupied hy Bro . James Speller P . M ., who presided in the unavoidable absence of Brother George Hurley
Worshipful Master . Brother Speller was supported by Brother Scoresby Jackson P . M . who acted as Past Master , and Bro . Finch P . M . as D . C , while among other Brethren present were Brother N . Fortescue P . M ., W . Shurmur P . M . of the Walthamstow , Islington and other Lodges P . Prov . G . Treasurer Essex , C . G . Cutchey and others .
The chief business of the programme was tho reception of the Auditors' Report , and the Installation of the new W . M . After the Eeport had been received Brother James Speller installed Brother William Shurmur as Master of the Lodge for the ensuing twelve months .
The Brethren appointed to office were * . W . A . Finch S . W ., George Long J . W ., Eev . Matthew Eees P . P . G . C . and Eev . H . A . Allpass Chaplains , James Speller P . P . G . D . Treasurer , Eichard Kershaw Secretary , C . G . Cutchey P . M . S . D ., Frederick Taylor J . D ., W . B . Whittingham , J . P ., I . G ., H . Dummett D . C , W . Latter P . P . G . O . Organist , John Ives P . M . Tyler .
On the motion of Bro . Scoresby Jackson , seconded by Bro . Cutchey , a resolution of condolence and sympathy was passed with Mrs . Stevens on the death of her husband , Bro . Alfred Durrant Stevens , and with Bro . Walter Latter Organist on the death of his daughter .
On the motion of Bro . James Speller , seconded by Bro . Cutchey , Bro . Scoresby Jackson was elected the Lodge ' s representative on the Provincial Charity Committeo . A letter from Bro . Lennox Browne , the first W . M . of the Lodge , acknowledging the Brethren ' s kindness in offering to subscribe to a
testimonial consisting of a present of Graud Lodge clothing to him on his being appointed a Grand Officer , but declining the compliment on the ground that tbe Empire Lodge had already resolved to make such presentation independently , was ordered to be recorded on tbe minutes , on the proposition of the W . M . seconded by Bro . Finch P . M .
The Brethren afterwards adjourned to banquet , and honoured the usual toasts , which were interspersed with singing by Bros . A . Strugnell and Emlen , under the direction of Brother Walter Latter . In proposing the Queen and the Craft Bro . Shurmur referred to
the intimate association of many members of Her Majesty's family with the Craft . The Queen herself had ever manifested the kindliest feelings towards . Freemasonry , as was evidenced by the personal suppoit and interest she had given to the different Institutions of the Order .
The next tcast was that cf the Grand Master . Since His Eoyal Highness had been at the head of the Craft it had greatly increased both in regard to number of members and Lodges . Ihe W . M . was open to correction but he believed 20 C 0 Lodges and Chapters had been added to thc roll during tho Grand Mastership
of the Prince of Wales , while a much more gratifying feature was thc fact that the subscriptions to the Institutions had increased tenfold during the same period . Much of this success was due to the genial character of the Grand Master himself , who was warmly supported by the Pro and Deputy Grand Masters , with the other Grand Officers .
Speaking to the following toast— the Provincial Grand Master , the Deputy , and other Officers of Essex—Bro . Shurmur said to most Essex Freemasons their Provincial Grand Master was best known under his patronymic of Lord Brooke , a name endeared to every Brother in the Province who had had the good fortune to be associated with the chief of the county . It was a great gratification
to know that he would continue to be associated with them under his new title of Earl of Waiwick , and he would be appreciated under that name . It was equally impossible to speak too highly in praise of the Deputy of the Province Bio . Philbrick , who , he hoped , wonld long be spared to continue his association with Essex Freemasonry .
Bro . Scoresby Jackson was the first to respond . He had heard both the Provincial Grand Master and his Deputy express the wish that their absence from the different meetings ot the Essex Lodges might te excused when they found it impossible to attend , at the some time assuring thc Brethren that they accepted every invitation so far as it Jay in their power to do so .
Bro . Speller also responded , saying how proud he was of the Provincial Office conferred upon him . This latter Brother next proposed the health of tho W . M . The name of Bro . Shurmur was so well known in Freemasonry that it requited no introduction . Blether Shuimur and Brother Scoresby Jackson vere the princirai projectors and prime movers
of their very happy Craft Lodge . r lhe foimer ought to have passed the chair of the Lodge seveial yeais ago , but he was generous enough to give way to him and others . But in the meantime he had been very active in occupj ing the chair in other Lodges , and also very busy and persevering in advocating the claims of the Masonic Charities , which was a most important part of Masoniy .
lhat night the Warner Ledge was honoured in havirg him as its Master . All the Brethren hoped he vould have a prosperous and hajpy year of office , aid that the Most High in the abundance of His goodness would preserve his health . It must not be forgotten that Bro . fchuimur was veiy active in instructing j oung Masons in the arts and sciences of the Craft , and that too at the cost of much valuable time .
Brother Shmmur , in acknowledging the toast , said this was nofc the first time it had been his privilege to occupy the chair of the Warner Lodge , but of course hitherto it had been only as locum tenens . As his gocd and \ alued friend , Past Master Speller , had obseived , he had taken a somewhat prcminent part in the foundation of this Lodge . It was true he was not thc last of the founders who would attain the honourable degree of its Installed Master
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Provincial.
PEOVINCIAL .
— ¦ n JAMES TERRY LODGE , No . 2372 . THIS prosperous young Lodge met at the Four Swans Hotel , Waltham Cross , on Thursday , the 13 th ult ., on tho occasion of Installation for the ensuing year of Bro . Richard Middlehurst P . M . Prov . G . S . B . who has been selected as the fifth Worshipful Master .
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed . The Auditors' report was received ancl considered very satisfactory . The balance sheet did not exhibit a very large balance in hand , but the Lodge had given freely in the cause of charity , and is
prosperous . A candidate for Initiation was balloted for and duly Initiated into the first mysteries of the Craft . Two Entered Apprentices were passed to the degree of Fellow Craft .
Brother James Terry P . G . S . B . " the founder and father of the Lodge , " presented a very handsome album , in which to hand down the portraits of the Lodge members . *" The Worshipful Master expressed hearty thanks for this , another proof of Bro . Terry ' s good feeling towards the Lodge , assuring him that he had the affections and best wishes of every member of the Lodge .
The ceremony of installing Bro . Middlehurst as Worshipful Master was ably performed by the outgoing Master Bro . H . Trask , with the able assistance of Bro . James Terry , Bro . Trask giving the addresses to the Officers and to the members in the various degrees in a most admirable manner .
Bro . W . Metcalfe the Treasurer was appointed to serve on tho Audit and Finance Committee , also the Charity Committee of the Province , and Bro . W . P . Warren S . W . announced that he was willing to serve as Steward to the R . M . Benevolent Institution , at its annual festival in February next , and hoped the Brethren would assist in sending up through him a large sum .
The Lodge was closed , and the Brethren adjourned to the Banquet Hall , where , in the usual excellent style for which Ye Olde Fovre Swannies Hotelrie is so well noted , a splendid spread of various courses and wines of the best brands and vintages was served up , and done ample justice to .
MINNEHAHA MINSTREL LODGE , No . 2363 . THE regular meeting was held at the Victoria Hotel , Manchester , on Monday , the 24 th ult ., when thero were present : —Bros . W . A . Brabner W . M ., Cyril H . Beever S . W ., Joseph Hilton Treas ., M . Thomas P . M . P . P . G . D . Secy ., Henry Nail P . M . S . D ., Fred
Hilton P . M . P . P . G . D . C J . D ., Seth Wrigley P . M . D . C , J . H . Lloyd P . M ., Edward Roberts P . M ., Sam Luke , F . Todd , Thos . Hamnett , A . J . Holt , W . F . Dearden , S . H . Stubbs , W . W . Hitching . Visitors : —Bros . W . Dyson Fryer P . M . 1375 , John M . Crone 1375 , 0 . E . Daber 317 , W . Thos . Watts 1052 . After the confirmation of minutes , a ballot was taken lor Mr . Harry Bowes , Chemist , Cheetham Hill , and being successful that
gentleman was duly initiated by Bro . Brabner W . M . who was assisted by Bros . Beever and Thomas , the latter presenting and explaining the Working Tools , and the foimer delivering the Ancient Charge . This finished , Bro . A . J . Holt was questioned as to his proficiency as a F . C and afterwards raised to the sublime -degree of a Master Mason by Bio . Henry Nail P . M . S . D ., who was •very impressive in the ritual .
The election of Officers then took place , with the following result , viz ., Bro . Beever W . M .-elect , Bio . Joseph Hilton Treasurer , Brothers Luke and Hamnett Auditors . Several committees were appointed , the bye-laws were read by the Secretary , and the Lodge closed in peace and harmony .
At the festive board , Loyal and Masonic toasts were submitted and responded to . That of the Initiate , proposed by Brother Sam Luke , was enthusiastically received , Bro . Bowes responding in very happy terms . Amongst other things he said that he thanked them for their kindness of that evening , expressed the pleasuie he felt in coming amongst them , and was sincerely grateful for the confidence which they had reposed in him .
Bro . Brabner W . M . in his characteristically racy and humorons style , proposed the health of the newly-raised Brother , to which Bro . Todd replied . The foimer also introduced the toast of the Visitors , in response to wbich Bro . Frjer said that it was two years since his pievious visit to the Lodge , but it gave him very great pleasure in repeating that visit . Ihis evening he had experienced three distinct joys , —
one was in seeing the W . M . teaching lessons of morality and other virtues , whereas he had usually seen him hatching seme diabolical plot as the heavy villain who was invariably iound out in his wickedness . ( The speaker here alluded to Bro . Brabner ' s theatrical associations ) . His second joy had been that of hearing Bro . Nail peifoim the ceremony cf Raising in so admirable a manner , and his third joy was that of seeing a P . M . of his own LoOge placed in the chair of K . S .
The Architect Lodge bad never flourished tetter than when Bro . Beever was its Master , for when he put his hand to anything it was with the intention of perfoimirg lhat thing well . At the time to which he bad referred , all tbe Brethren were satisfied with their W . M . —except himself , and that was because Bro . Be ever had never afforded him a chance to prompt him in his work .
Otter speakers followed , the proceedings being varied by sorgs , recitations , 4 c , given by Bros . Ttdd , Themas , Nail , Luke , Betver , Harrop , and Hamnett .
The musical arrangements were under the control of Bro . W . R G . Emerson Lodge 45 Organist . o o o
Provincial.
WARNER LODGE , No . 2256 . rpHE members of this Lodge celebrated their Installation on JL Tuesday , at the Royal Forest Hotel , Chingford , when the principal chair was occupied hy Bro . James Speller P . M ., who presided in the unavoidable absence of Brother George Hurley
Worshipful Master . Brother Speller was supported by Brother Scoresby Jackson P . M . who acted as Past Master , and Bro . Finch P . M . as D . C , while among other Brethren present were Brother N . Fortescue P . M ., W . Shurmur P . M . of the Walthamstow , Islington and other Lodges P . Prov . G . Treasurer Essex , C . G . Cutchey and others .
The chief business of the programme was tho reception of the Auditors' Report , and the Installation of the new W . M . After the Eeport had been received Brother James Speller installed Brother William Shurmur as Master of the Lodge for the ensuing twelve months .
The Brethren appointed to office were * . W . A . Finch S . W ., George Long J . W ., Eev . Matthew Eees P . P . G . C . and Eev . H . A . Allpass Chaplains , James Speller P . P . G . D . Treasurer , Eichard Kershaw Secretary , C . G . Cutchey P . M . S . D ., Frederick Taylor J . D ., W . B . Whittingham , J . P ., I . G ., H . Dummett D . C , W . Latter P . P . G . O . Organist , John Ives P . M . Tyler .
On the motion of Bro . Scoresby Jackson , seconded by Bro . Cutchey , a resolution of condolence and sympathy was passed with Mrs . Stevens on the death of her husband , Bro . Alfred Durrant Stevens , and with Bro . Walter Latter Organist on the death of his daughter .
On the motion of Bro . James Speller , seconded by Bro . Cutchey , Bro . Scoresby Jackson was elected the Lodge ' s representative on the Provincial Charity Committeo . A letter from Bro . Lennox Browne , the first W . M . of the Lodge , acknowledging the Brethren ' s kindness in offering to subscribe to a
testimonial consisting of a present of Graud Lodge clothing to him on his being appointed a Grand Officer , but declining the compliment on the ground that tbe Empire Lodge had already resolved to make such presentation independently , was ordered to be recorded on tbe minutes , on the proposition of the W . M . seconded by Bro . Finch P . M .
The Brethren afterwards adjourned to banquet , and honoured the usual toasts , which were interspersed with singing by Bros . A . Strugnell and Emlen , under the direction of Brother Walter Latter . In proposing the Queen and the Craft Bro . Shurmur referred to
the intimate association of many members of Her Majesty's family with the Craft . The Queen herself had ever manifested the kindliest feelings towards . Freemasonry , as was evidenced by the personal suppoit and interest she had given to the different Institutions of the Order .
The next tcast was that cf the Grand Master . Since His Eoyal Highness had been at the head of the Craft it had greatly increased both in regard to number of members and Lodges . Ihe W . M . was open to correction but he believed 20 C 0 Lodges and Chapters had been added to thc roll during tho Grand Mastership
of the Prince of Wales , while a much more gratifying feature was thc fact that the subscriptions to the Institutions had increased tenfold during the same period . Much of this success was due to the genial character of the Grand Master himself , who was warmly supported by the Pro and Deputy Grand Masters , with the other Grand Officers .
Speaking to the following toast— the Provincial Grand Master , the Deputy , and other Officers of Essex—Bro . Shurmur said to most Essex Freemasons their Provincial Grand Master was best known under his patronymic of Lord Brooke , a name endeared to every Brother in the Province who had had the good fortune to be associated with the chief of the county . It was a great gratification
to know that he would continue to be associated with them under his new title of Earl of Waiwick , and he would be appreciated under that name . It was equally impossible to speak too highly in praise of the Deputy of the Province Bio . Philbrick , who , he hoped , wonld long be spared to continue his association with Essex Freemasonry .
Bro . Scoresby Jackson was the first to respond . He had heard both the Provincial Grand Master and his Deputy express the wish that their absence from the different meetings ot the Essex Lodges might te excused when they found it impossible to attend , at the some time assuring thc Brethren that they accepted every invitation so far as it Jay in their power to do so .
Bro . Speller also responded , saying how proud he was of the Provincial Office conferred upon him . This latter Brother next proposed the health of tho W . M . The name of Bro . Shurmur was so well known in Freemasonry that it requited no introduction . Blether Shuimur and Brother Scoresby Jackson vere the princirai projectors and prime movers
of their very happy Craft Lodge . r lhe foimer ought to have passed the chair of the Lodge seveial yeais ago , but he was generous enough to give way to him and others . But in the meantime he had been very active in occupj ing the chair in other Lodges , and also very busy and persevering in advocating the claims of the Masonic Charities , which was a most important part of Masoniy .
lhat night the Warner Ledge was honoured in havirg him as its Master . All the Brethren hoped he vould have a prosperous and hajpy year of office , aid that the Most High in the abundance of His goodness would preserve his health . It must not be forgotten that Bro . fchuimur was veiy active in instructing j oung Masons in the arts and sciences of the Craft , and that too at the cost of much valuable time .
Brother Shmmur , in acknowledging the toast , said this was nofc the first time it had been his privilege to occupy the chair of the Warner Lodge , but of course hitherto it had been only as locum tenens . As his gocd and \ alued friend , Past Master Speller , had obseived , he had taken a somewhat prcminent part in the foundation of this Lodge . It was true he was not thc last of the founders who would attain the honourable degree of its Installed Master