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India.
especial respect and attachment . Of Lord Sandall , his AA orship said , he coulcl give no better recommendation than that he not only is an ardent Mason himself , but that their family was distinguished for their zeal in the cause of Freemasonry , and that his lordship ' s grandfather was the late Most AA'orshipful Grand Master of Ireland . The MARQUIS DE FERRIERE LE VAYER expressed his thanks for the honour done him by the company ; ancl assured them that its impression
should never be effaced from his mind . He travelled far , from the west into the east , and he was glad that he had been at Bombay , where he made so many acquaintances , and where he , for the first time , was entwined into the bonds of fraternity . LORD SANDALL saicl he would not attempt to express his feelings by a long speech for the honour done him by the last toast , but that he was truly sensible of its meritsand felt grateful for the same . He was a
, young Mason , of a few years standing , but from what he has seen of Masonry , he was sure that the more he knew of it , the more he would find cause to admire and respect it . The next toast which the Right AA ' orshipful proposed was one , he saicl , of peculiar interest , it was , " the prosperity to the Rising Star of AA'estern India , " a Loclge erected under peculiar circumstances , and of which the first anniversary was celebrated lately . Its working has
given him , and all interested in its welfare , entire satisfaction , which must be attributed to the zealous exertions of its officers , the European ancl the native . Bro . COMPTON returned thanks , in the absence of the Substitute Master , Bro . Larkworthy , and in the name of the European officers of
the Star . Bro . MANOCKJEE CORSETJEE , in doing the same on the part of the native officers , assured the company that they , the native Brethren , are not insensible of the kindness which prompted the R . W . P . G . Master , never to omit opportunities , whenever he has any , of taking such favourable notice as he hacl that evening done of the Lodge "Rising Star of AVestern India ; " a Lodge expressly erected , ancl for the first time in Indiafor the admission of native gentlemenof acknowledged integrity .
, , That it has already been a source of self-gratulation to the native Brethren , to find that this , their infant Lodge , has been kindly and favourably noticed , not only at the sister presidencies , but even in several of the provincial Loclge meetings in England and Scotland ; that from the circumstance of the presence of their foreign visitor , Bro . the Marquis de Ferriere at the meeting of the Star , and from what has been witnessed bhimthat it was not improbable it would attract like notice at
y , the capital , and in the provinces of France . Manockjee Cursetjee would avail himself of the opportunity to say , how much he is personally indebted to the spirit of Freemasonry in France . Between some of the Lodges there and " the Rising Star of Western India" there exist a relationship , for the first native member of the latter was initiated into one of the former , " A la Gloire de l'Unevers , " under the warrant of dispensation from the Most Venerable of the " Grand Orient" his
, respected and distinguished friend , the Duke de Caze . That there was some difficulty as to the admission of natives into our Order before , but that difficulty was surmounted , to a great extent , by his ( Bro . Manockjee Cursetjee ' s ) initiation at Paris , ancl it therefore gave him no small satisfaction to have been , in some degree , instrumental in introducing our
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India.
especial respect and attachment . Of Lord Sandall , his AA orship said , he coulcl give no better recommendation than that he not only is an ardent Mason himself , but that their family was distinguished for their zeal in the cause of Freemasonry , and that his lordship ' s grandfather was the late Most AA'orshipful Grand Master of Ireland . The MARQUIS DE FERRIERE LE VAYER expressed his thanks for the honour done him by the company ; ancl assured them that its impression
should never be effaced from his mind . He travelled far , from the west into the east , and he was glad that he had been at Bombay , where he made so many acquaintances , and where he , for the first time , was entwined into the bonds of fraternity . LORD SANDALL saicl he would not attempt to express his feelings by a long speech for the honour done him by the last toast , but that he was truly sensible of its meritsand felt grateful for the same . He was a
, young Mason , of a few years standing , but from what he has seen of Masonry , he was sure that the more he knew of it , the more he would find cause to admire and respect it . The next toast which the Right AA ' orshipful proposed was one , he saicl , of peculiar interest , it was , " the prosperity to the Rising Star of AA'estern India , " a Loclge erected under peculiar circumstances , and of which the first anniversary was celebrated lately . Its working has
given him , and all interested in its welfare , entire satisfaction , which must be attributed to the zealous exertions of its officers , the European ancl the native . Bro . COMPTON returned thanks , in the absence of the Substitute Master , Bro . Larkworthy , and in the name of the European officers of
the Star . Bro . MANOCKJEE CORSETJEE , in doing the same on the part of the native officers , assured the company that they , the native Brethren , are not insensible of the kindness which prompted the R . W . P . G . Master , never to omit opportunities , whenever he has any , of taking such favourable notice as he hacl that evening done of the Lodge "Rising Star of AVestern India ; " a Lodge expressly erected , ancl for the first time in Indiafor the admission of native gentlemenof acknowledged integrity .
, , That it has already been a source of self-gratulation to the native Brethren , to find that this , their infant Lodge , has been kindly and favourably noticed , not only at the sister presidencies , but even in several of the provincial Loclge meetings in England and Scotland ; that from the circumstance of the presence of their foreign visitor , Bro . the Marquis de Ferriere at the meeting of the Star , and from what has been witnessed bhimthat it was not improbable it would attract like notice at
y , the capital , and in the provinces of France . Manockjee Cursetjee would avail himself of the opportunity to say , how much he is personally indebted to the spirit of Freemasonry in France . Between some of the Lodges there and " the Rising Star of Western India" there exist a relationship , for the first native member of the latter was initiated into one of the former , " A la Gloire de l'Unevers , " under the warrant of dispensation from the Most Venerable of the " Grand Orient" his
, respected and distinguished friend , the Duke de Caze . That there was some difficulty as to the admission of natives into our Order before , but that difficulty was surmounted , to a great extent , by his ( Bro . Manockjee Cursetjee ' s ) initiation at Paris , ancl it therefore gave him no small satisfaction to have been , in some degree , instrumental in introducing our