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portion of the pages of your important periodical ) , and thus tending to extend in every particular the utility of the Craft , ample space notwithstanding being retained for the diffusion of information from distant portions of her Majesty ' s dominions . With this knowledge , I have to request you will , with your accustomed liberality , afford insertion in your next number to the following recital of the annual installation of the Officers of the Friendl y Lodge , No . 539 , Prov . No . 7 , held in this town .
Agreeable to public notice , the members of the Lodge assembled in numbers at their room on the evening of Thursday , the 3 rd ultimo , when the retiring Master , the Wor . G . L . Phillips , in an appropriate address , installed the Worshipful Barnett Isaacs ( this being the ninth time . ) That Brother very feelingly returned his acknowledgments for this continued mark of their confidence and regard , of which he trusted he should ever prove deserving , and concluded by a forcible description of the benefits derivable from Masonry . He then invested the retiring
Master with the insignia of a Past Master . The following Brethren were then severally installed as Officers for the current year : —Geo . Delisser , S . W . ; S . G . Corinaldi , J . W . ; Bro . Dan . Isaacs , Treas . ; Bro . S . J . Leon , Sec . ; Bro . W . O . Dunbar , S . D . ; Bro . W . Laws , J . D . ; Bro . Jos . Levy , I . G . ; Bro . David Gains , Tyler . The usual honours at the conclusion of this imposing ceremony being paidand the several Officers having returned thanksthe Lodge was
, , closed with the accustomed formalities and with solemn prayer . The Brethren then proceeded to the refreshment apartment , where upwards of forty Brethren sat down . The Worshipful Barnett Isaacs in the Chair , assisted by his Wardens . The following toasts , as well as all that followed , were happily prefaced with appropriate remarks . " The health of a Mason ' s daughter—Her Gracious Majesty the Queen ; and may she live long to govern the land . "
" Our Gracious Queen Dowager Adelaide , and the other branches of the Royal Family . " " His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England . " " His Excellency Sir Lionel Smith , the Governor , with peace and prosperity to the land we live in . " " The Lord Bishop and Clergy of the Island . " " The late MasterGeorge L . PhillipsEsq . with our heartfelt and
, , , fervent thanks for the eminent , praiseworthy , and satisfactory manner in which he performed the important duties of his office for the past year . "—( This toast was received with much cheering , and nine times nine . ) Many other impressive sentiments from several Brethren , expressive of loyalty , attachment , and fraternal good feeling , were appropriatel y dilated on , and conspicuously answered . Several Brethren sang some
excellent songs , conviviality reigned , and cheerfulness was predominant throughout the whole entertainment . I am induced to trouble you with the recital of the proceedings of the Craft in this town , conceiving it is only by diffusing generally such interesting intelligence that the merit due to every properly regulated subordinate Lodge in distant portions of the globe can be appreciated , and with pleasure do I assert , that in no place are the tenets of our laudable and philanthropic professions more zealously subscribed to ,
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portion of the pages of your important periodical ) , and thus tending to extend in every particular the utility of the Craft , ample space notwithstanding being retained for the diffusion of information from distant portions of her Majesty ' s dominions . With this knowledge , I have to request you will , with your accustomed liberality , afford insertion in your next number to the following recital of the annual installation of the Officers of the Friendl y Lodge , No . 539 , Prov . No . 7 , held in this town .
Agreeable to public notice , the members of the Lodge assembled in numbers at their room on the evening of Thursday , the 3 rd ultimo , when the retiring Master , the Wor . G . L . Phillips , in an appropriate address , installed the Worshipful Barnett Isaacs ( this being the ninth time . ) That Brother very feelingly returned his acknowledgments for this continued mark of their confidence and regard , of which he trusted he should ever prove deserving , and concluded by a forcible description of the benefits derivable from Masonry . He then invested the retiring
Master with the insignia of a Past Master . The following Brethren were then severally installed as Officers for the current year : —Geo . Delisser , S . W . ; S . G . Corinaldi , J . W . ; Bro . Dan . Isaacs , Treas . ; Bro . S . J . Leon , Sec . ; Bro . W . O . Dunbar , S . D . ; Bro . W . Laws , J . D . ; Bro . Jos . Levy , I . G . ; Bro . David Gains , Tyler . The usual honours at the conclusion of this imposing ceremony being paidand the several Officers having returned thanksthe Lodge was
, , closed with the accustomed formalities and with solemn prayer . The Brethren then proceeded to the refreshment apartment , where upwards of forty Brethren sat down . The Worshipful Barnett Isaacs in the Chair , assisted by his Wardens . The following toasts , as well as all that followed , were happily prefaced with appropriate remarks . " The health of a Mason ' s daughter—Her Gracious Majesty the Queen ; and may she live long to govern the land . "
" Our Gracious Queen Dowager Adelaide , and the other branches of the Royal Family . " " His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England . " " His Excellency Sir Lionel Smith , the Governor , with peace and prosperity to the land we live in . " " The Lord Bishop and Clergy of the Island . " " The late MasterGeorge L . PhillipsEsq . with our heartfelt and
, , , fervent thanks for the eminent , praiseworthy , and satisfactory manner in which he performed the important duties of his office for the past year . "—( This toast was received with much cheering , and nine times nine . ) Many other impressive sentiments from several Brethren , expressive of loyalty , attachment , and fraternal good feeling , were appropriatel y dilated on , and conspicuously answered . Several Brethren sang some
excellent songs , conviviality reigned , and cheerfulness was predominant throughout the whole entertainment . I am induced to trouble you with the recital of the proceedings of the Craft in this town , conceiving it is only by diffusing generally such interesting intelligence that the merit due to every properly regulated subordinate Lodge in distant portions of the globe can be appreciated , and with pleasure do I assert , that in no place are the tenets of our laudable and philanthropic professions more zealously subscribed to ,