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India.
Grand Master ' s request in performing the service , and to the commanding officer of her Majesty ' s 50 th Regiment , for the loan of the band of that regiment . We understand that the sum collected , in aid of the fund adverted to , is between four and five hundred rupees , besides a number of cards which do not specify the sums intended to be contributed hy the donors .
BENARES . —Nov . 1847 . —Laying the First Stone of the New College , Extracted from the Benares Recorder . — " Yesterday being the day appointed for laying the first stone of the New College , the brethren of the lodges of Cliunar and Benares met at the bungalow obligingly lent for the occasion by a grandson of Putnee Mull . Long before the hour appointed for the ceremony , crowds of well dressed Natives ( many of rank and wealth ) thronged the road from the
Mint to the College grounds , some on elephants others on horseback ; whilst carriages , buggies , ancl all the various vehicles which the city could furnish were in universal requisition ; and never do we remember to have seen so gay and cheerful an assemblage . At the hour appointed the Rajah of Benares , accompanied by the civil ancl military authorities of the station , and their ladies , arrived opposite the lodge . The procession was then formed in order , and was graced by Bro . R . Neave , Judge of Azimgurh , D . P . G . M .
The preparations being complete , the architect presented the plan for approval , after which he read the inscription on the plate . The stone being ready , the D . P . G . M . descended , and spread the mortar . The plate and coins were then deposited , ancl the stone was lowered into its place—the band playing the national anthem . The level , plumb , and square were successively applied , and the D . P . G . M . presented a mallet to his Highness the Rajah of Benares , who thrice struck the stone , ancl re-delivered the mallet to the D . P . G . M . who did the same . The corn
, wine and oil were then successively poured out , the D . P . G . M . pronouncing the benediction , and after having delivered the mallet used to the Rajah , and the plan to the architect , the procession re-formed , and marched back , preceded by the band playing masonic airs , and amid the firing of a salute of twenty-one rounds . We have neither time nor space in our present issue to say as much as we could wish as to the excellent management of everything connected
with the interesting ceremony . The Grand Master ' s chair ( of gothic form , covered with crimson ) was placed on a raised dais facing the west , the Rajah was seated facing the east , on the opposite side , with all the authorities , and many native gentlemen of rank . Among the native visitors were to be seen Rajmdra Mittra , the sons of the Raj Guru of Nepaul , Baboo Futteh Narrain Singh , Rampursun Singh and nephew , Muksoodun , Pundit of the late Maharaja Runjeet Singh , & c .
Speech ofthe Deputy Prov . Grand Master . Mr . Commissioner , Ladies and Gentlemen , —While I feel a sincere pleasure in offering you a few words on this auspicious and interesting occasion , it is not altogether untinged with regret , that the duty of representing the masonic craft , this day , has fallen on one so little capable of doing it honour . Had our highly respected and revered head , the R . W . John Grant , been here , he would have delighted you with his
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India.
Grand Master ' s request in performing the service , and to the commanding officer of her Majesty ' s 50 th Regiment , for the loan of the band of that regiment . We understand that the sum collected , in aid of the fund adverted to , is between four and five hundred rupees , besides a number of cards which do not specify the sums intended to be contributed hy the donors .
BENARES . —Nov . 1847 . —Laying the First Stone of the New College , Extracted from the Benares Recorder . — " Yesterday being the day appointed for laying the first stone of the New College , the brethren of the lodges of Cliunar and Benares met at the bungalow obligingly lent for the occasion by a grandson of Putnee Mull . Long before the hour appointed for the ceremony , crowds of well dressed Natives ( many of rank and wealth ) thronged the road from the
Mint to the College grounds , some on elephants others on horseback ; whilst carriages , buggies , ancl all the various vehicles which the city could furnish were in universal requisition ; and never do we remember to have seen so gay and cheerful an assemblage . At the hour appointed the Rajah of Benares , accompanied by the civil ancl military authorities of the station , and their ladies , arrived opposite the lodge . The procession was then formed in order , and was graced by Bro . R . Neave , Judge of Azimgurh , D . P . G . M .
The preparations being complete , the architect presented the plan for approval , after which he read the inscription on the plate . The stone being ready , the D . P . G . M . descended , and spread the mortar . The plate and coins were then deposited , ancl the stone was lowered into its place—the band playing the national anthem . The level , plumb , and square were successively applied , and the D . P . G . M . presented a mallet to his Highness the Rajah of Benares , who thrice struck the stone , ancl re-delivered the mallet to the D . P . G . M . who did the same . The corn
, wine and oil were then successively poured out , the D . P . G . M . pronouncing the benediction , and after having delivered the mallet used to the Rajah , and the plan to the architect , the procession re-formed , and marched back , preceded by the band playing masonic airs , and amid the firing of a salute of twenty-one rounds . We have neither time nor space in our present issue to say as much as we could wish as to the excellent management of everything connected
with the interesting ceremony . The Grand Master ' s chair ( of gothic form , covered with crimson ) was placed on a raised dais facing the west , the Rajah was seated facing the east , on the opposite side , with all the authorities , and many native gentlemen of rank . Among the native visitors were to be seen Rajmdra Mittra , the sons of the Raj Guru of Nepaul , Baboo Futteh Narrain Singh , Rampursun Singh and nephew , Muksoodun , Pundit of the late Maharaja Runjeet Singh , & c .
Speech ofthe Deputy Prov . Grand Master . Mr . Commissioner , Ladies and Gentlemen , —While I feel a sincere pleasure in offering you a few words on this auspicious and interesting occasion , it is not altogether untinged with regret , that the duty of representing the masonic craft , this day , has fallen on one so little capable of doing it honour . Had our highly respected and revered head , the R . W . John Grant , been here , he would have delighted you with his