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preserve you long to aid us by your counsel , to cheer us by your presence , and direct us by your experience . " T HOMAS OWENS , Master . " CHAS . CoiutY OVEIIKND , P . M . and Sec . " Lodge Rooms , 5 th July , 1842 . ''
ANSWER . " To the Master , Wardens , and Brethren of Masonic lodge No . 6 . " G ENTLEMEN AND BRETHREN , —! receive , with the most endearing sentiments of friendship and satisfaction , the address of LODGE No . 6 , on the occasion of my retirement from the high station which you do me the honour to say I have for so many years occupied with advantage to our most ancient and honourable society . " In the utterance of these sentiments , I perceive the benevolent
principles of our Fraternity intimately interwoven with the private affection and esteem with which , as members of my maternal Lodge , you have always honoured me ; yet , though I cannot claim to myself to have fully merited the warm eulogium your partiality has bestowed on me , I can most conscientiously declare it has always been my most anxious desire to fulfil the duties of that high official situation in such a manner as might have equalled the most exalted expectations of my most ardent friends . " I have the honour to remain , Gentlemen and Brethren , your faithful and sincere friend , ¦ " WILLIAM AVIIITE . "
After the presentation of the Address , the deputation partook of au elegant dejeune prepared for the occasion . A deputation of the Master , Wardens , and Officers of the Masonic Lodge 245 , waited on the R . W . the Deputy Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland , AVilliam White , Esq ., at his residence in Dublin , and presented him with an address on the occasion of his retirement . from office . A very elegant dejeuni was prepared for the
occasion , at which the Brethren forming the deputation were most hospitably entertained-July 14- —Lodge 620 , or the First Volunteer Lodge of Ireland , met at their Lodge-rooms , Kingstown , on Thursday , being Installation-day , when Brother Mark Toomey , AV . M ., was enthroned , and Bro . AVilliam Pasley was raised to the degree of S AV ., and Bro . John Morgan to that of J . W . ; Bro . Henry Humphreys , S . D . ; and Bro . AVilliam Richardson , J . D . After labour they retired to refreshment , and having spent a delightful evening , separated in " peace , love , and harmony . "
GARLOW . — Ihe County Carlow Lodge met ror the installation ot officers according to the ancient and beautiful formalities , when the following were installed for the ensuing year : Thomas Crawford Butler , Esq ., AV . Master ; W . R . Fitzmaurice , Esq ., S AYarden ; AV . Fishbourne , Esq ., of Ilollymount , J . AVarden ; Robert M'Mullen , Esq ., Secretary . BELFAST- —On Friday , 24 th June , being the feast of St . John the Baptist , the Lodge of Concord , No . 40 , met at their new Masonic Hall in Donegal-square . The apartments hitherto occupied by the Lodge
having been found inconveniently small for the ceremonies of the Craft , as well as of the Royal Arch Chapter , and the Knight Templars' Encampment connected with it , the Lodge appointed a Committee , three or four months back , to provide and furnish new rooms . The new Masonic Hall is situated in Donegal-square , having a porch inscribed with the mystic words " AUDI , VIDE , TACE , " opening to the square with vestibules , & c . ; and having a connection also with the Royal Hotel . The Hall is thirty feet long by twenty-five wide , and is fitted up with an imitation of oak pannelling , in Gothic arches of the style of the thirteenth century , with appropriately erected stalls or scats for the
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Ireland.
preserve you long to aid us by your counsel , to cheer us by your presence , and direct us by your experience . " T HOMAS OWENS , Master . " CHAS . CoiutY OVEIIKND , P . M . and Sec . " Lodge Rooms , 5 th July , 1842 . ''
ANSWER . " To the Master , Wardens , and Brethren of Masonic lodge No . 6 . " G ENTLEMEN AND BRETHREN , —! receive , with the most endearing sentiments of friendship and satisfaction , the address of LODGE No . 6 , on the occasion of my retirement from the high station which you do me the honour to say I have for so many years occupied with advantage to our most ancient and honourable society . " In the utterance of these sentiments , I perceive the benevolent
principles of our Fraternity intimately interwoven with the private affection and esteem with which , as members of my maternal Lodge , you have always honoured me ; yet , though I cannot claim to myself to have fully merited the warm eulogium your partiality has bestowed on me , I can most conscientiously declare it has always been my most anxious desire to fulfil the duties of that high official situation in such a manner as might have equalled the most exalted expectations of my most ardent friends . " I have the honour to remain , Gentlemen and Brethren , your faithful and sincere friend , ¦ " WILLIAM AVIIITE . "
After the presentation of the Address , the deputation partook of au elegant dejeune prepared for the occasion . A deputation of the Master , Wardens , and Officers of the Masonic Lodge 245 , waited on the R . W . the Deputy Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland , AVilliam White , Esq ., at his residence in Dublin , and presented him with an address on the occasion of his retirement . from office . A very elegant dejeuni was prepared for the
occasion , at which the Brethren forming the deputation were most hospitably entertained-July 14- —Lodge 620 , or the First Volunteer Lodge of Ireland , met at their Lodge-rooms , Kingstown , on Thursday , being Installation-day , when Brother Mark Toomey , AV . M ., was enthroned , and Bro . AVilliam Pasley was raised to the degree of S AV ., and Bro . John Morgan to that of J . W . ; Bro . Henry Humphreys , S . D . ; and Bro . AVilliam Richardson , J . D . After labour they retired to refreshment , and having spent a delightful evening , separated in " peace , love , and harmony . "
GARLOW . — Ihe County Carlow Lodge met ror the installation ot officers according to the ancient and beautiful formalities , when the following were installed for the ensuing year : Thomas Crawford Butler , Esq ., AV . Master ; W . R . Fitzmaurice , Esq ., S AYarden ; AV . Fishbourne , Esq ., of Ilollymount , J . AVarden ; Robert M'Mullen , Esq ., Secretary . BELFAST- —On Friday , 24 th June , being the feast of St . John the Baptist , the Lodge of Concord , No . 40 , met at their new Masonic Hall in Donegal-square . The apartments hitherto occupied by the Lodge
having been found inconveniently small for the ceremonies of the Craft , as well as of the Royal Arch Chapter , and the Knight Templars' Encampment connected with it , the Lodge appointed a Committee , three or four months back , to provide and furnish new rooms . The new Masonic Hall is situated in Donegal-square , having a porch inscribed with the mystic words " AUDI , VIDE , TACE , " opening to the square with vestibules , & c . ; and having a connection also with the Royal Hotel . The Hall is thirty feet long by twenty-five wide , and is fitted up with an imitation of oak pannelling , in Gothic arches of the style of the thirteenth century , with appropriately erected stalls or scats for the