Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ireland.
IRELAND .
TO CORRESPONDENTS . A BELFAST MASON , —Not having heen furnished with the names of the Board of General Purposes , we cannot comply with the request . AN OLD MASON The correspondence relating to a " Fix" is altogether declined . M . T . C . D . —We are ohliged by the suggestion . The parody is sufficient .
" To that man ' s share , such glaring errors fall . Look in his face , and you remember all . " HIBBRNICUS must be in error in supposing that the G . M . of England wrote to the G . M . of Ireland on the subject of a certain appointment . If any one wrote , it might have been the G . S . Certainly , the circumstance altogether is curious . DUBLIN . —Bro . George Hoyte , who has succeeded Bro . W . AVhite
as Deputy Grand Master , possesses the confidence of the Irish fraternity . The recent changes in our executive have considerable promise , and tend to the developement of a more stable arrangement of public business . Although we have it not altogether in our power to rival our elder sister , the Grand Lodge of England , we can emulate what is good in that body ; and by the gradual approach to a more enlarged operation of public discipline and practice , in the course of time we may hope to remove ail those impediments by which we have been retarded .
In the judicious attempt to reconcile many to the change , caution is required , in order that a sound intelligence may herald a merited freedom . By legislating for the many and not for a class , we may proceed both happily and successfully . Our representative system with the Grand Lodges abroad has effected much in the way of kind and amicable relations . The establishment of a Board of General Purposes
will , by the admission of Brethren well-informed and well-disposed to the duties of public business , relieve the Grand Lodge from many debatable subjects ; ancl , provided a due guard be kept—so that the vital interests of the Craft are maintained and protected—we see no objection to such Board . The appointment of the new Grand Treasurer promises well ; he will work at his task , and doubtless prove a
good accountant . Our veteran Deputy Grand Secretary , Bro . Fowler , required able assistance ; and we trust , having found it , he will be enabled to continue his own useful labours without personal inconvenience .
DUBLIN—COLLEGE OF PHILOSOPHIC MASONS , NOV . 10 . —A meeting of this order was held . The secession of a member of 208 , Nenagh , from the order , by the influence of his spiritual director , has caused much surprise , not only in the province , but in Ireland generally . Nov . 14 . —A very elegant entertainment was given at the Royal Masonic Lodge-rooms , College-green , by the Royal Albert Lodge , No . 100 , to William White , Esq ., late Deputy Grand Master , on the occasion of his retirement from that high official situation , when an address
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ireland.
IRELAND .
TO CORRESPONDENTS . A BELFAST MASON , —Not having heen furnished with the names of the Board of General Purposes , we cannot comply with the request . AN OLD MASON The correspondence relating to a " Fix" is altogether declined . M . T . C . D . —We are ohliged by the suggestion . The parody is sufficient .
" To that man ' s share , such glaring errors fall . Look in his face , and you remember all . " HIBBRNICUS must be in error in supposing that the G . M . of England wrote to the G . M . of Ireland on the subject of a certain appointment . If any one wrote , it might have been the G . S . Certainly , the circumstance altogether is curious . DUBLIN . —Bro . George Hoyte , who has succeeded Bro . W . AVhite
as Deputy Grand Master , possesses the confidence of the Irish fraternity . The recent changes in our executive have considerable promise , and tend to the developement of a more stable arrangement of public business . Although we have it not altogether in our power to rival our elder sister , the Grand Lodge of England , we can emulate what is good in that body ; and by the gradual approach to a more enlarged operation of public discipline and practice , in the course of time we may hope to remove ail those impediments by which we have been retarded .
In the judicious attempt to reconcile many to the change , caution is required , in order that a sound intelligence may herald a merited freedom . By legislating for the many and not for a class , we may proceed both happily and successfully . Our representative system with the Grand Lodges abroad has effected much in the way of kind and amicable relations . The establishment of a Board of General Purposes
will , by the admission of Brethren well-informed and well-disposed to the duties of public business , relieve the Grand Lodge from many debatable subjects ; ancl , provided a due guard be kept—so that the vital interests of the Craft are maintained and protected—we see no objection to such Board . The appointment of the new Grand Treasurer promises well ; he will work at his task , and doubtless prove a
good accountant . Our veteran Deputy Grand Secretary , Bro . Fowler , required able assistance ; and we trust , having found it , he will be enabled to continue his own useful labours without personal inconvenience .
DUBLIN—COLLEGE OF PHILOSOPHIC MASONS , NOV . 10 . —A meeting of this order was held . The secession of a member of 208 , Nenagh , from the order , by the influence of his spiritual director , has caused much surprise , not only in the province , but in Ireland generally . Nov . 14 . —A very elegant entertainment was given at the Royal Masonic Lodge-rooms , College-green , by the Royal Albert Lodge , No . 100 , to William White , Esq ., late Deputy Grand Master , on the occasion of his retirement from that high official situation , when an address