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Provincial
Lodges in this Province and several visitors from a distance , assembled together to celebrate this annual festival . The Lodge was held in the upper room of the Literary and Scientific Institution , Neweastleunder-Lyme , and was opened b y Bro . Henry Hall , AV . M ., of the Sutherland Lodge of Unity , Newcastle , soon after twelve o ' clock . About one the members of the Prov . G . L . were admitted in the
usual manner , and the Dep . Prov . G . M ., Bro . II . C . Vernon , took his seat at the head of tbe Grand Lod ge , which he opened in due form , and then ju-oceeded to the business of the meeting . He informed the Brethren of the resignation of the Prov . G . M ., Maj .-Gen . Anson , who had received a high military appointment at Bombay , and would shortly leave this country , and read a letter from that Brother ,
expressive of his regret at being severed from the Brethren , over Avhom he had so long presided . The Dep . Prov . G . M . then proceeded to name his successor , and in doing so had much pleasure in stating that the G . M . of England , the Earl of Zetland , had been pleased to appoint a Brother , who had long been known to most of them , and whose Masonic knowledge was such as to leave no doubt as to the future working of the Prov . G . L . He himself felt the
greatest pleasure in investing with the insignia of office one who , he felt persuaded , would perform the duties of the office with credit to himself and satisfaction to his Brethren , and Avas justly entitled to fill the distinguished post that had been allotted him ; for none were more fit to command than those , Avho had been accustomed to obey . The
pleasure he himself felt was , if possible , heightened by the fact , that their future Prov . G . M . was not only a Brother Mason , but a brother by blood also ; he had the greatest pleasure in introducing Colonel Vernon to them . The Colonel was then installed hi the usual manner , and immediately took the chair , amidst the loud and continued plaudits of the Brethren . The Dep . Prov . G . M ., Bro . H . C . Vernon , Avho is likeAvise Prov . G . M . of AVorcesterskire , then tendered his
resignation as Dep . Prov . G . M . Nothing , he observed , Avould have induced him to have taken this step , had he not been convinced that the Brother , who had that day been appointed to preside over them , was in every way fitted to fulfil the duties that devolved upon him . He thanked the Brethren for the great kindness he had always experienced at their hands , and said his thoughts would often revert to the leasant meetings he had had with them . He assured them
p that although he should no longer hold office in the Lodge , he should make it his pleasure to visit his Brethren in Staffordshire as often as he could . The newly-elected Prov . G . M . expressed his thanks for the honour done him in being elected to the high office of Prov . G . M ., and begged to assure his Brethren , that his best exertions should always be used for the good of Masonry in the Provinceand that lie
, would at all times , and on all occasions , adhere strictly to tbe Constitutions of the Order . The Prov . G . M . then proceeded to appoint Bro . Thomas AVard , Prov . P . G . S . AV . of the Prov . G . L ., and P . M . of the Sutherland Lodge of Unity , to the important office of Dep . Prov . G . M . From the respect , in which Bro . AVard is held
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Provincial
Lodges in this Province and several visitors from a distance , assembled together to celebrate this annual festival . The Lodge was held in the upper room of the Literary and Scientific Institution , Neweastleunder-Lyme , and was opened b y Bro . Henry Hall , AV . M ., of the Sutherland Lodge of Unity , Newcastle , soon after twelve o ' clock . About one the members of the Prov . G . L . were admitted in the
usual manner , and the Dep . Prov . G . M ., Bro . II . C . Vernon , took his seat at the head of tbe Grand Lod ge , which he opened in due form , and then ju-oceeded to the business of the meeting . He informed the Brethren of the resignation of the Prov . G . M ., Maj .-Gen . Anson , who had received a high military appointment at Bombay , and would shortly leave this country , and read a letter from that Brother ,
expressive of his regret at being severed from the Brethren , over Avhom he had so long presided . The Dep . Prov . G . M . then proceeded to name his successor , and in doing so had much pleasure in stating that the G . M . of England , the Earl of Zetland , had been pleased to appoint a Brother , who had long been known to most of them , and whose Masonic knowledge was such as to leave no doubt as to the future working of the Prov . G . L . He himself felt the
greatest pleasure in investing with the insignia of office one who , he felt persuaded , would perform the duties of the office with credit to himself and satisfaction to his Brethren , and Avas justly entitled to fill the distinguished post that had been allotted him ; for none were more fit to command than those , Avho had been accustomed to obey . The
pleasure he himself felt was , if possible , heightened by the fact , that their future Prov . G . M . was not only a Brother Mason , but a brother by blood also ; he had the greatest pleasure in introducing Colonel Vernon to them . The Colonel was then installed hi the usual manner , and immediately took the chair , amidst the loud and continued plaudits of the Brethren . The Dep . Prov . G . M ., Bro . H . C . Vernon , Avho is likeAvise Prov . G . M . of AVorcesterskire , then tendered his
resignation as Dep . Prov . G . M . Nothing , he observed , Avould have induced him to have taken this step , had he not been convinced that the Brother , who had that day been appointed to preside over them , was in every way fitted to fulfil the duties that devolved upon him . He thanked the Brethren for the great kindness he had always experienced at their hands , and said his thoughts would often revert to the leasant meetings he had had with them . He assured them
p that although he should no longer hold office in the Lodge , he should make it his pleasure to visit his Brethren in Staffordshire as often as he could . The newly-elected Prov . G . M . expressed his thanks for the honour done him in being elected to the high office of Prov . G . M ., and begged to assure his Brethren , that his best exertions should always be used for the good of Masonry in the Provinceand that lie
, would at all times , and on all occasions , adhere strictly to tbe Constitutions of the Order . The Prov . G . M . then proceeded to appoint Bro . Thomas AVard , Prov . P . G . S . AV . of the Prov . G . L ., and P . M . of the Sutherland Lodge of Unity , to the important office of Dep . Prov . G . M . From the respect , in which Bro . AVard is held