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Obituary.
anxious to pay every honour and respect to his memory , formed a procession , and attended his body to the grave , where it was deposited with the usual ceremonies of the Order . Soon after three , the Brethren moved in procession from their new Lodge room , at the Green Dragon hotel , preceded by a military band . At Montrose , on the t 2 th ult ., at the advanced age of 89 , Mr . JAMES
BURNES . This venerable individual was the cousin-german and correspondent of Robert Burns , and the grandfather of Captain Burnes , the Bokhara traveller , and of Dr . Burnes , K . H . May 21 , of typhus fever , caught in the discharge of his professional duties , " Doctor JOSEPH GASON , in the 35 th year of his age . A distinguished professional career was about to open for this much-lamented gentleman , thus cut off in the prime of life , after a short illness , by the '
inscrutable will of Divine Providence . His numerous attached friends and acquaintances will long lament the loss of one who was endeared to them by every quality which could adorn human nature . The poor sufferers-who had to seek for aid at the public hospital to which he has been for several years attached ( Stevens ' s ) , have reason to mourn their loss of one of the most humane and attentive benefactors . Doctor Gason was Senior Warden of the A ictoria Lodge , No . ¦] - , Dublin ; and , had it p leased the Great Architect of the Universe to spare him , was to have been installed Master after St . John ' s day . AVe understand his Lodge are about to erect a tablet to his memory in St . Paul's church , Dublin .
Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
NEW APPOINTMENTS . Lord Suffield , as Deputy Prov . Grand Master for Norfolk ; Sir Lucius Curtis , Bart . - Ditto - Hants ; Charles Lee , Esq . - - Ditto - AV . R . Yorkshire ; John Auldjo , Esq . - - Ditto - Upper Canada . HERTFORD LODGE—The members of this Fraternity held their last
. meeting for the season on Thursday last , May 4 , 1837 , at the Town Hall , and after the Masonic business of the day had been gone through , the Brethren sat down to a Banquet at six o ' clock . Brother Y . Crawley , jun ., the AVorshipful Master , took the Chair , supported by about fortysix distinguished Brethren . CHATHAM , June 24 . —The Masonic Lodge , No . 216 , lately held at the Sun tavernChathamnow held at the City Coffee HouseRochester
, , , , celebrated the anniversary of St . John the Baptist , by dining together at Brother Munday ' s . SURREY . —Opening of the Provincial Grand Lodge , and installation of the Rt . W . and ltt . Hon . Lord Monson , as Prov . G . M . REIGATE , June 10 . —The Surrey Lodge was held this day under the care of Brother Martin , AV . M . ; and , after the business was concluded .
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Obituary.
anxious to pay every honour and respect to his memory , formed a procession , and attended his body to the grave , where it was deposited with the usual ceremonies of the Order . Soon after three , the Brethren moved in procession from their new Lodge room , at the Green Dragon hotel , preceded by a military band . At Montrose , on the t 2 th ult ., at the advanced age of 89 , Mr . JAMES
BURNES . This venerable individual was the cousin-german and correspondent of Robert Burns , and the grandfather of Captain Burnes , the Bokhara traveller , and of Dr . Burnes , K . H . May 21 , of typhus fever , caught in the discharge of his professional duties , " Doctor JOSEPH GASON , in the 35 th year of his age . A distinguished professional career was about to open for this much-lamented gentleman , thus cut off in the prime of life , after a short illness , by the '
inscrutable will of Divine Providence . His numerous attached friends and acquaintances will long lament the loss of one who was endeared to them by every quality which could adorn human nature . The poor sufferers-who had to seek for aid at the public hospital to which he has been for several years attached ( Stevens ' s ) , have reason to mourn their loss of one of the most humane and attentive benefactors . Doctor Gason was Senior Warden of the A ictoria Lodge , No . ¦] - , Dublin ; and , had it p leased the Great Architect of the Universe to spare him , was to have been installed Master after St . John ' s day . AVe understand his Lodge are about to erect a tablet to his memory in St . Paul's church , Dublin .
Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
NEW APPOINTMENTS . Lord Suffield , as Deputy Prov . Grand Master for Norfolk ; Sir Lucius Curtis , Bart . - Ditto - Hants ; Charles Lee , Esq . - - Ditto - AV . R . Yorkshire ; John Auldjo , Esq . - - Ditto - Upper Canada . HERTFORD LODGE—The members of this Fraternity held their last
. meeting for the season on Thursday last , May 4 , 1837 , at the Town Hall , and after the Masonic business of the day had been gone through , the Brethren sat down to a Banquet at six o ' clock . Brother Y . Crawley , jun ., the AVorshipful Master , took the Chair , supported by about fortysix distinguished Brethren . CHATHAM , June 24 . —The Masonic Lodge , No . 216 , lately held at the Sun tavernChathamnow held at the City Coffee HouseRochester
, , , , celebrated the anniversary of St . John the Baptist , by dining together at Brother Munday ' s . SURREY . —Opening of the Provincial Grand Lodge , and installation of the Rt . W . and ltt . Hon . Lord Monson , as Prov . G . M . REIGATE , June 10 . —The Surrey Lodge was held this day under the care of Brother Martin , AV . M . ; and , after the business was concluded .