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THE IMPERIAL HOTEL , HOLBORN VIADUCT , LONDON , Adjoining the TKRMIHBS of the LONDON CHATHAM and Sovis RAILWAY , but distinct from the Viaduct Hotel . THE BEST FURNISHED AND MOST COMFORTABLE HOTEL IN LONDON . HOT & COLD WATER LAID ON IN ALL BED ROOMS . The appointments throughout so arranged ns to ensure domestic comfort . EVERY ACCOMMODATION FOR MASONIC LODGE MEETINGS , public JDtmTers # " ^ STrifotng JBrenhfnste . THB CBITSADBHS LODOR , No . 1877 , AKD PKBSKTBRA . VCE LODGE , NO . 1713 , HOIS TIIBIB AIBKTINGS AT THIS ESTABLISHMENT . GOOD COOKING . FINE WINES . MODERATE CHARGES . The Edison Eleotrio Light . TARIFF on APPLICATION to Bro . A . BEGBIE .

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HOLLY BUSH TAVEflN , HAMPSTEAD , ( Close to the Fire Station ) . ACCOMMODATION for MASONIC LODGE MEETINGS and BANQUETS ; BALLS and ASSEMBLIES s PAROCHIAL DINNERS ; RIFLE , CRICKET , and FOOTBALL GATHERINGS , Ac . Rail and Bus within easy distance . Tho members of tho St . John ' s Lodgo , No . 107 , havo hold their meetings at this establishment for many years . IPvill particulars and TarifT on . application to C . M . FROUD , Proprietor .

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SECOND APPLICATION , April 1884 To the Governors and Subscribers of the Boyal Masonic Institution for Boys . THE favour of the VOTES and INTEREST of the Governors and Subscribers is earnestly solicited on behalf of LIONEL BLENKINSOP J . MANBY , AGED 9 TEARS . The Candidate's father . Bro . JOBS G . MAWBY , was initiated in the Sincerity Lodge , No . 292 , Liverpool , in 1859 , and on his removal to London joined Prudent . Brethren Lodge , No . 145 , and the Chanter , and continued to be a subscribing member of the same until his death , which took place in January 1883 . He leaves a widow and four young children very inadequately provided for . Proxies -will be thankf nlly received by the widow , Mrs . MANBY , Ashwick Cottage , Oakhill , Bath .

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VOTES AND INTEREST ARE SOLICITED FOR MRS . JANE TRIBE , aged 63 , WIDOW of Brother George Henry Tribe , who was initiated-1858 in No . 601 , Lyttelton , Now Zealand ; joined No . 609 , Christchurch , Now Zealand ; was first Worshipful Master of No . 1211 , Ross , Now Zealand ; subsequently District Grand Chaplain Wostland ; and District Grand Treasurer North Island , New Zealand . Votes thankfully received by Mr . C . BECKINGHAM , 415 Strand j or by Bro . C . J . PERCEVAL ( V . P . ) , 8 Thurloe Place , S . W .

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BRO . R . HIRST engages to provide , at short notice , an efficient Band for Annual Banquets , Dinners , Excursions and Quadrille Parties . For terms apply to " R . Hirst , The Three Crowns , 237 Mile End Road , E . "

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Consecration Of The Richmond Lodge, No. 2032.

CONSECRATION OF THE RICHMOND LODGE , No . 2032 .

TXjTE are continually being told that it is of no use brethren who J » seek to establish new Lodges laying the flattering nnction to their sonls that they have a chance of succeeding in securing the coveted prize unless they can clearly show there is an absolute need for any extension of the means of Masonic intercourse . If this assertion

is correct , we fear we mnst accept the conclusion that certain districts within the Metropolitan area have hitherto been most sorely neglected . True it is there has been a rapid extension of building operations in the district we are now about to refer to , but we fail to see the need there has been for the granting of so many warrants as js indicated by the establishment , within the past twelve months of fresh

Lodges at Acton , Chiswick , Ealing , and Richmond . The qnestion has been put to ns , —Does kissing go b y favour in these Matters . Our answer must be , —We snppose it does . However this '" ay be , we fail to see how the prayer of so distinguished a body as is represented by the founders of the Richmond Lod ge , which was for'" ally consecrated on Tnesday last , could be resisted . It had been arranged that Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Secretary , shonld

per 'orm the ceremony of the day , bnt illness prevented his attendance , ? nd his place was ably filled by Brother Thomas Fenn Past Grand Deacon of Grand Lodge of England . The proceedings commenced Punctually at four o ' clock , when Bro . Fenn was snpported by Bros . Robert Grey P . G . D . as Senior Warden , and Bro . W . T . Howe P . G . P as Junior Warden . Tho Rov . A . F . A . Woodford P . G . C . acted as "haplain , and Bro . Prank Richardson P . G . D . as Director of Cere-

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monies , while Bro . Walter Goss performed the duties of Inner Guard . We have lately so frequently detailed tho proceedings of a Consecration ceremony that we may be pardoned for confining our remarks ou the present occasion within modest limits . The oration wa 3 given by Bro . Woodford with telling effect , and the way Bro . Feun oarried out the ceremony denoted he had exercised his wonted care in preparing

himself for the task , and when we remember that Bro . Fenn was called on almost at the eleventh hour , we aro the more justified iu awarding him his duo meed of praise . At the conclusion of the cere , mony of consecration , Bro . Fenn intimated that his official duties as Secretary of the Prince of Wales ' s Lodge necessitated his immediate departure , but that Bro . Frank Richardson wonld undertake the

duties of Installing Master . Bro . Fenn then retired , and Bro . Richardson took the Master's ohair ; the W . M . designate , Bro . B . E . Blasby , P . M . 780 , was introduced and rogularly placed in the ohair as first Masterof the Riohmond Lodge . The following brethren were invested aa Officers : —J . Nunn P . G . S . B . I . P . M ., C . I . Digby P . M . 933 S . W ., E . J . Goodacre P . M . 1260 J . W ., W . F . Reynolds P . M . 820

Treasurer , W . R . Phillips P . M . 975 Seoretary , J . P . Houghton S . D ., E . Dare J . D ., H . Sapsworth I . G ., J . Ireland D . C , T . Callander A . D . C ., C . Maton W . S ., Banks Tyler . The founders of the Lodge were invested with a handsome jewel , commemorative of the occasion ; and the appointment to office of Bro . R . Messum , to whose assiduity in assisting in the foundation of the Lodgo full reference was made ,

was deferred in conseqnence of his enforced absence through a domestio bereavement . The services of the Consecrating Officer and his assistants received the customary recognition of honorary membership of the Lodge , and Bro . Woodford acknowledged tho compliment . Propositions for initiations and joinings were then handed in , and Lodge closed . A oapital banquet was supplied by

Brother Munro , and then the Worshipful Master introduced the preliminary toasts . With the toast of the Grand Officers , the W . M . coupled the name of V . W . Bro . Southey P . D . G . M . South Africa , Liant .-Governor of Griqnaland . In acknowledgment , Bro . Southey thanked all present for the honour they had done him . He had witnessed , with great pleasure , an interesting ceremony—the

establishment of another Lodge under the roll of the Grand Lodge of England . When he looked around , he saw not strangers , but brother Masons—in fact he never saw strangers in a Lodge . The Grand Chaplain had told them that Masons assembled together in love and harmony , no matter what creed or nationality fchey were . In South Africa they had many Grand Lodges , with separate

jurisdictions , but when the brethren assembled there was no distinction . In this country the cause of Charity was nobly snpported , while in the distriot he referred to they endeavoured to do what they could . Whenever the widow of a soldier could show that her husband was a Mason she wa 3 always taken care of and sent back to her own country . He thanked the brethren for their hospitality . The W . M .

next proposed the Consecrating Officer and his Assistants . He regretted the absence of Bro . Col . Clerke , but felt they had been fortunate in securing so efficient a substitute as Bro . T . Fenn . He had never seen the ceremony of consecration more efficiently performed . Bro . the Rev . A . F . A . Woodford responded ; he regretted the absence of Bro . Shadwell H . Clerkethe esteemed and hardworking

, Grand Secretary ; he would have spoken to the toast with full authority , and would have received that reception from the brethren he so well deserved . He equally regretted the enforced absence of Bro . Thomas Fenn , than whom no abler exponent of our ritual existed . For the Consecrating Officers he returned hearty thanks for the kindness extended towards them . His brethren and himself

were only too happy to render any assistance they could . As he was now a very old Mason , he might be permitted to congratulate the brethren of the Richmond Lodge on the success of the day's proceedings , and the nndonbted augury of future Masonic excellence their consecration afforded their new Lodge . He was also glad to have the opportunity—though shortly , as he ventured to think short speeches

wore wisely becoming the order of the day—to impress upon his younger hearers the value and importance of Freemasonry . It seemed to him , after many years' apprenticeship , that its worth and reality increased more and more , and that , amid these divided days , it afforded a rallying point and meeting gronnd for men of different and differing views , where all conld assemble , forgetting severances

and antagonisms , and work together in love , unity , and harmony , ignoring all that might have a tendency to keep them apart in the world without . Let them all believe in Freemasonry , and it would , indeed , afford to them many happy hours of social friendship , and teach them the goodly lessons of brotherly love , charity , and toleration . Bro . Frank Richardson had grest pleasure in taking part in the

consecration of the Lodge , not only because his esteemed friend Bro . Joshua Nunn was connected with it , but because he had other associations with Richmond , and was once himself a member of the Lily Lodge of Richmond . The Grand Secretary , ia responding to this toast , always cautioned the members of a new Lodge ; advising them to be very careful as to whom they admitted to the privileges of

Masonry . Not numbers , but character , was to be considered ; once an objectionable member got into a Lodge it was difficult to get him out again . He congratulated the W . M . and brethren on the excellent start thoy had made , and wished them all success . Bro . the Rev . A . F . A . Woodford proposed " The Health of the W . M . " He always found it a pleasure to have to propose the health of a W . M ., for they

could assume ho would not fill that post of high dignity unless he had received and merited the sincere suffrages of his brethren . He felt this pleasure still more strongly when be proposed the health of the first W . M . of a new Lodge , because , as they all knew , he had been selected by his brethren for the reason that he was emphatically the brother in their opinion bost qualified to guide and direct the

energies and progress of a new Lodge . From what they had seen that evening he felt sure Bro . Blasby justified the choice of his brethren , and he was convinced that at the expiration of his year of office he would have a good account to render of the Lodge . The W . Master , in reply , said that when Bro . Hubbard , the W . M . of the Lily Lodge , was asked , he readily agreed to support the petition for the