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warrant of the Atholl Lodge ( Neptune , No . 344 ) , and confirmed the proceedings of the military Lodge , directing all its members to be admitted on the registry of the Grand Loclge . The Craft after this continued to prosper , under the vigorous management of Colonel Sale , of the Madras army ( brother of the illustrious hero of Jellalabad ) , but after his return to the Coromandel Coast , in 1828 , it fell into great disrepute , owing to the improper proceedings and intemperate conduct of the Brother who
was elected his successor . The zealous and unwearied exertions of several eminent Brethren who afterwards presided in the Lodge , among whom may be named the late Bros . T . M . AVard , J . P . Grant , J . AVallace , G Pinnock , of the Madras army , Bro . A . B . Kerr , now of that service , ancl J . C . Smith , of Singapore , failed to meet with that success their abilities aucl distinguished conduct , as Masters of the Lodge , deserved . The odium of the past misconduct of a few appears to have been
indelible , and at the time I am now writing , and owing to these causes , and the diminished commercial importance of the settlement , with the consequent great reduction in the number of its European inhabitants , Neptune Lodge is again extinct , and little hope can reasonably be entertained of its ever being revived . In 1843 the Loclge voted a silver vase to Bro . J . C . Smith , as a mark of its high esteem of his character ancl services during the fifteen years
he had been connected with it ; and at the same meeting a special vote of thanks was tendered to the late Bro . F . Dunnett , then about to proceed to China ; ancl those only who knew him and loved him as a man and a Mason , can sufficiently understand the high claims of this most excellent Brother to this distinction . Honoured he his memory ! for
Masonry and friendship will very seldom meet with one so worthy of such laudation . In 1844 an absurd attempt was made to constitute the then decaying Lodge into a Provincial Grand Lodge ! in order to preserve the fading honour of the notable P . G . AIaster of Sumatra , who by some species of ingenious sophistry , peculiar to himself , has managed to claim Penang as a portion of his province , " the Rising Sun" in Sumatra having set
beneath the Masonic horizon for more than twenty years , and his only other Loclge , in the moon , being beyond the reach of human ken . This ridiculous attempt was very properly and effectually resisted by the worthy Bro It . AV . Stonehewer , then presiding as Master of No . 293 , ancl the late Bro . W . Anderson , who ably supported him in protecting an unfortunate but honourable section of our ancient ancl honourable Fraternity from being decorated with the loathsome trappings of a corpse , and rendered the object of contumely and contempt to the Craft in
general . The worthy P . G . Master , deputed a Master Alason , who had systematically withheld his support from this declining Lodge to take upon himself the office of D . G . Master , or in the event of his being disposed to display a magnificent self-abnegation of the appointment , to nominate any other equally deserving Brother he might select for this exalted office . So much for the legality of the contemplated proceedings of this Provincial Grand Alaster . The attempt was met with the scorn and contempt it so richly merited ; for verily the purple of Sumatra is at
discount in the Malacca Straits , however much it may be esteemed at the Board of General Purposes , Grand Festivals , and other hi gh places in the metropolis of the Craft and of the world . The vase voted to Bro . J . C . Smith was sent to Bro . T . O . Crane , for the purpose of being presented to him at Singapore , with a request that
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India.
warrant of the Atholl Lodge ( Neptune , No . 344 ) , and confirmed the proceedings of the military Lodge , directing all its members to be admitted on the registry of the Grand Loclge . The Craft after this continued to prosper , under the vigorous management of Colonel Sale , of the Madras army ( brother of the illustrious hero of Jellalabad ) , but after his return to the Coromandel Coast , in 1828 , it fell into great disrepute , owing to the improper proceedings and intemperate conduct of the Brother who
was elected his successor . The zealous and unwearied exertions of several eminent Brethren who afterwards presided in the Lodge , among whom may be named the late Bros . T . M . AVard , J . P . Grant , J . AVallace , G Pinnock , of the Madras army , Bro . A . B . Kerr , now of that service , ancl J . C . Smith , of Singapore , failed to meet with that success their abilities aucl distinguished conduct , as Masters of the Lodge , deserved . The odium of the past misconduct of a few appears to have been
indelible , and at the time I am now writing , and owing to these causes , and the diminished commercial importance of the settlement , with the consequent great reduction in the number of its European inhabitants , Neptune Lodge is again extinct , and little hope can reasonably be entertained of its ever being revived . In 1843 the Loclge voted a silver vase to Bro . J . C . Smith , as a mark of its high esteem of his character ancl services during the fifteen years
he had been connected with it ; and at the same meeting a special vote of thanks was tendered to the late Bro . F . Dunnett , then about to proceed to China ; ancl those only who knew him and loved him as a man and a Mason , can sufficiently understand the high claims of this most excellent Brother to this distinction . Honoured he his memory ! for
Masonry and friendship will very seldom meet with one so worthy of such laudation . In 1844 an absurd attempt was made to constitute the then decaying Lodge into a Provincial Grand Lodge ! in order to preserve the fading honour of the notable P . G . AIaster of Sumatra , who by some species of ingenious sophistry , peculiar to himself , has managed to claim Penang as a portion of his province , " the Rising Sun" in Sumatra having set
beneath the Masonic horizon for more than twenty years , and his only other Loclge , in the moon , being beyond the reach of human ken . This ridiculous attempt was very properly and effectually resisted by the worthy Bro It . AV . Stonehewer , then presiding as Master of No . 293 , ancl the late Bro . W . Anderson , who ably supported him in protecting an unfortunate but honourable section of our ancient ancl honourable Fraternity from being decorated with the loathsome trappings of a corpse , and rendered the object of contumely and contempt to the Craft in
general . The worthy P . G . Master , deputed a Master Alason , who had systematically withheld his support from this declining Lodge to take upon himself the office of D . G . Master , or in the event of his being disposed to display a magnificent self-abnegation of the appointment , to nominate any other equally deserving Brother he might select for this exalted office . So much for the legality of the contemplated proceedings of this Provincial Grand Alaster . The attempt was met with the scorn and contempt it so richly merited ; for verily the purple of Sumatra is at
discount in the Malacca Straits , however much it may be esteemed at the Board of General Purposes , Grand Festivals , and other hi gh places in the metropolis of the Craft and of the world . The vase voted to Bro . J . C . Smith was sent to Bro . T . O . Crane , for the purpose of being presented to him at Singapore , with a request that