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Ireland.
half-past six o ' clock , for the purpose of attending the Royal Circus , Mary Street , for the benefit of the Masonic F'emale Orphan Asylum . By order of W . M . E . C . Secretary . [ We give publicity to these announcements , although the time has passed , that the laudable example of our Irish Brethren in uniting pleasure and profit in the cause of Charity may not be lost sight of . It is p leasant to know that 60 / . was netted to the Orphan Asylum . ]
KILKENNY LODGE , NO . 642 . —At a Lodge of Emergency convened on the evening of Monday , the 26 th of September , for the special purpose of presenting Brother William Aikenhead , Treasurer of this Lodge , with a Silver Cup , as a token of the gratitude of the Brethren , for his Masonic services . The proceedings were of a highly interesting character . The assemblage of the Brethren was more than usually numerous on the occasion , and almost all the senior members of the Lodge , including Bios . Tresham , Clifford , L . Anderson , Gordon , A . Semple , & c . & c , were
present . The chair was filled by Bro . Bibby Hartford , W . M . Bro . S . Parker , S . W . ; W . H . Bracken , J . W . There being no other business to transact , after the usual series of Masonic toasts had been gone through , with appropriate honours , Bro . A . Semple , P . M ., addressing the Junior Warden , W . H . Bracken , ( Recorder of Kilkenny , ) said , that he had received the command of the Worshiful Master to request that the J-W . wouldon the part of the
p , Lodge , present Bro . Aikenhead with the Cup which he now handed to him for that purpose . The Cup , which was of very beautiful workmanship , and richly ornamented with Masonic Symbols , was then placed before the Junior Warden , who , in compliance with the wishes of the W . M . and Brethren , rose . to present it , and spoke as follows : — Worship ful Master and Brethren—However gratifying to my pride sentiments occasion
it is to have been selected as the organ of your on an which must deeply engage the feelings of all around me , I cannot but regret that the duty with which I have been honoured has not devolved on one whose higher standing in the Lodge would have given greater
effect to the fulfilment of that duty , and whose earlier acquaintance with the distinguished merits of the worthy Brother on whom we are about to bestow a lasting testimony of our regard and gratitude , would have enabled him to do justice to those merits . It would have been more satisfactory , Brother Aikenhead , whether as a record of your Masonic services , or as a tribute to your personal desert , that the sense we entertain of your conduct in every station and department you have filled in associates
our Fraternity , should have been declared by one of your own in the good work which , after many struggles , and not unfrequently , I have been assured , under circumstances of almost overpowering discouragement to even the steadiest friends of Masonry here , has now been brought , by your united exertions , to a prosperous and happy issue . For myself , I can on this occasion only apply the information I have been able to collect the subject of earllabours in the Lodge ,
upon your y from some of the senior Brethren , who , with a feeling that does them honour , although to you it does but justice , have been amongst the first —1 should rather say , indeed , have been the very first—to acknowledge your many claims on our esteem , and are content that even their distinguished services should merge in what they thus admit to have been VOL . in . 4 B
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Ireland.
half-past six o ' clock , for the purpose of attending the Royal Circus , Mary Street , for the benefit of the Masonic F'emale Orphan Asylum . By order of W . M . E . C . Secretary . [ We give publicity to these announcements , although the time has passed , that the laudable example of our Irish Brethren in uniting pleasure and profit in the cause of Charity may not be lost sight of . It is p leasant to know that 60 / . was netted to the Orphan Asylum . ]
KILKENNY LODGE , NO . 642 . —At a Lodge of Emergency convened on the evening of Monday , the 26 th of September , for the special purpose of presenting Brother William Aikenhead , Treasurer of this Lodge , with a Silver Cup , as a token of the gratitude of the Brethren , for his Masonic services . The proceedings were of a highly interesting character . The assemblage of the Brethren was more than usually numerous on the occasion , and almost all the senior members of the Lodge , including Bios . Tresham , Clifford , L . Anderson , Gordon , A . Semple , & c . & c , were
present . The chair was filled by Bro . Bibby Hartford , W . M . Bro . S . Parker , S . W . ; W . H . Bracken , J . W . There being no other business to transact , after the usual series of Masonic toasts had been gone through , with appropriate honours , Bro . A . Semple , P . M ., addressing the Junior Warden , W . H . Bracken , ( Recorder of Kilkenny , ) said , that he had received the command of the Worshiful Master to request that the J-W . wouldon the part of the
p , Lodge , present Bro . Aikenhead with the Cup which he now handed to him for that purpose . The Cup , which was of very beautiful workmanship , and richly ornamented with Masonic Symbols , was then placed before the Junior Warden , who , in compliance with the wishes of the W . M . and Brethren , rose . to present it , and spoke as follows : — Worship ful Master and Brethren—However gratifying to my pride sentiments occasion
it is to have been selected as the organ of your on an which must deeply engage the feelings of all around me , I cannot but regret that the duty with which I have been honoured has not devolved on one whose higher standing in the Lodge would have given greater
effect to the fulfilment of that duty , and whose earlier acquaintance with the distinguished merits of the worthy Brother on whom we are about to bestow a lasting testimony of our regard and gratitude , would have enabled him to do justice to those merits . It would have been more satisfactory , Brother Aikenhead , whether as a record of your Masonic services , or as a tribute to your personal desert , that the sense we entertain of your conduct in every station and department you have filled in associates
our Fraternity , should have been declared by one of your own in the good work which , after many struggles , and not unfrequently , I have been assured , under circumstances of almost overpowering discouragement to even the steadiest friends of Masonry here , has now been brought , by your united exertions , to a prosperous and happy issue . For myself , I can on this occasion only apply the information I have been able to collect the subject of earllabours in the Lodge ,
upon your y from some of the senior Brethren , who , with a feeling that does them honour , although to you it does but justice , have been amongst the first —1 should rather say , indeed , have been the very first—to acknowledge your many claims on our esteem , and are content that even their distinguished services should merge in what they thus admit to have been VOL . in . 4 B