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Mr . Larkin returned thanks , and gave an interesting account of Masonry in India . He also begged to be proposed as a joining Brother . The healths of the Worship ful Master and Past Masters of the Lodge were also drunk with Masonic honouis . Brother Baker then proposed the health of Brother William Rackstraw , of London , W . M . of the Lodge No . 9 , who had upon the present occasion so ably performed the gratifying ceremony of Installation , and for his readiness upon all occa"
sions in attending the Readfng Lodge of Union , whereby the success of the Lodge had been so essentially promoted . Brother Rackstraw , in returning thanks , said he never saw a provincial Lodge in which Masonry was so well conducted , and that under such favourable auspices it could not fail of standing unrivalled as a County Lodge . He should at all times be happy to give them every assistance in his power . The Brethren then separated , highly gratified with the rich masonic treat they had enjoyed , as well as with the respectable augmentation their Lodge had received .
WINCHESTER , Oct . 19 . —Chapter of True Economy . —A meeting was held this evening , and being the first held by the three Principals since their public exaltation in the Grand Chapter at London , it was well attended . Some interesting communications were made , and the Principals received the well-merited thanks of the Companions for their unremitting and successful exertions in regulating and perfecting the discipline of the Chapter .
SOMERSET . —The Provincial Grand Lodge for Somersetshire , 1 S 35 , was held atShepton Mallet , on Tuesday , the 13 th of October , under circumstances of general interest to the Craft , of peculiar gratification to the Lodge of Love and Honour in that town , and of grateful attachment of the Brethren to the R . W . Clias . K . K . Tynte , Esq . M . P ., their highly esteemed Prov . Grand Master . The Lodge of Love and Honour , from various vicissitudes which no
less chequer and variegate the paths of the world at large than the ground on which Freemasons tread , having for some time past been in a state of abeyance , has , in the course of last year , been resuscitated by the zeal and indefatigable exertions of its present W . M ., Brother Hyat . The R . W . P . G . M . determined to commemorate and confirm this happy event by holding a Provincial Grand Lodge at Shepton Mallet . The regular Lodge room not being sufficiently commodious for the
reception of the Province , the refectory of a Nunnery , recently occupied by a numerous sisterhood , was fitted up for the occasion ; and on this holy ground the Provincial Grand Lodge was opened in ample form . The P . G . M . having addressed his Lodge in a speech replete with Masonic and fraternal admonition , the business of the Province was proceeded in , and the P . G . Officers for the ensuing year appointed and invested in due form . We were gratified to witness our excellent
Brothers Hyat , Bythesea , Maher , Polhill , Maddison ( Rev . ) , among the acting G . Officers for the year ; and we congratulate the whole province on the reappointment of the zealous and able Secretary and Treasurer , Brothers Inman and Stradling . The absence of our highly respected and talented D . P . G . M ., Brother Maddison , whose illness prevented his rendering his able assistance on this important day , was universally regretted . The Brethren assembled were scarcely less gratified by the considera-
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Provincial.
Mr . Larkin returned thanks , and gave an interesting account of Masonry in India . He also begged to be proposed as a joining Brother . The healths of the Worship ful Master and Past Masters of the Lodge were also drunk with Masonic honouis . Brother Baker then proposed the health of Brother William Rackstraw , of London , W . M . of the Lodge No . 9 , who had upon the present occasion so ably performed the gratifying ceremony of Installation , and for his readiness upon all occa"
sions in attending the Readfng Lodge of Union , whereby the success of the Lodge had been so essentially promoted . Brother Rackstraw , in returning thanks , said he never saw a provincial Lodge in which Masonry was so well conducted , and that under such favourable auspices it could not fail of standing unrivalled as a County Lodge . He should at all times be happy to give them every assistance in his power . The Brethren then separated , highly gratified with the rich masonic treat they had enjoyed , as well as with the respectable augmentation their Lodge had received .
WINCHESTER , Oct . 19 . —Chapter of True Economy . —A meeting was held this evening , and being the first held by the three Principals since their public exaltation in the Grand Chapter at London , it was well attended . Some interesting communications were made , and the Principals received the well-merited thanks of the Companions for their unremitting and successful exertions in regulating and perfecting the discipline of the Chapter .
SOMERSET . —The Provincial Grand Lodge for Somersetshire , 1 S 35 , was held atShepton Mallet , on Tuesday , the 13 th of October , under circumstances of general interest to the Craft , of peculiar gratification to the Lodge of Love and Honour in that town , and of grateful attachment of the Brethren to the R . W . Clias . K . K . Tynte , Esq . M . P ., their highly esteemed Prov . Grand Master . The Lodge of Love and Honour , from various vicissitudes which no
less chequer and variegate the paths of the world at large than the ground on which Freemasons tread , having for some time past been in a state of abeyance , has , in the course of last year , been resuscitated by the zeal and indefatigable exertions of its present W . M ., Brother Hyat . The R . W . P . G . M . determined to commemorate and confirm this happy event by holding a Provincial Grand Lodge at Shepton Mallet . The regular Lodge room not being sufficiently commodious for the
reception of the Province , the refectory of a Nunnery , recently occupied by a numerous sisterhood , was fitted up for the occasion ; and on this holy ground the Provincial Grand Lodge was opened in ample form . The P . G . M . having addressed his Lodge in a speech replete with Masonic and fraternal admonition , the business of the Province was proceeded in , and the P . G . Officers for the ensuing year appointed and invested in due form . We were gratified to witness our excellent
Brothers Hyat , Bythesea , Maher , Polhill , Maddison ( Rev . ) , among the acting G . Officers for the year ; and we congratulate the whole province on the reappointment of the zealous and able Secretary and Treasurer , Brothers Inman and Stradling . The absence of our highly respected and talented D . P . G . M ., Brother Maddison , whose illness prevented his rendering his able assistance on this important day , was universally regretted . The Brethren assembled were scarcely less gratified by the considera-