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India.
To THE EDITOR . —I have long desired to address you , on a subject relating to the delay attending our applications to the Grand Lodge , and now implore your advocacy . It is now six years since a petition was forwarded from our Lodge , " Sincere Friendship , " to the Grand Lodge , accompanied with the usual fees for a warrant of confirmation , the old warrant being rendered illegible during fifty years service , wherein also the record had been destroyed . A petition was also forwardedwith the
, usual fees for a charter , together with the Grand Lodge dues . We have heard nothing whatever on the subjects . You will not be surprised to hear that this unrnasonic treatment has caused serious discontent . I could write much more , but refrain , in the hope that 1 have said enough to enable you to assist us by your friesdly advice . I believe that in a recent number ( not at hand ) you stated that our petition had been laid before the proper authorities ; if so , why are we neglected ? A MASTER MASON .
|_ We will direct the attention of Bro . A . Grant , the London Masonic Agent for Bengal , to this letter . —En . /] AGRA . —Zealous in the Craft ourselves , we are always ready—nay anxious to give prominent notice in our columns to whatever may advance the cause of Freemasonry , or prove interesting to our Brethren of the mystic tye . It becomes not a Mason of yesterday , as we confess ourselves to beto comment on such proceedingsnevertheless we cannot
, , but stand forth and avail ourselves of the present occasion to notice the opening of a new Lodge , " The Star of Hope , " on the 14 th of August , and the formal installation of the Worshipful Master and Officers on Wednesday the 11 th September , under the able direction of the esteemed and respected W . liro . French , who was deputed by the Right Worshipful officiating G . M . to conduct the ceremony on the interesting occasion . At a little after six o ' clock , P . M . W . Bro . French having
arrived , opened Lodge in due form , and most gratifying indeed it was to witness so auspicious an opening of our Infant Star . The Lodge being then duly opened , the following Brethren were installed in their respective offices : — Bros . Atkinson , W . M . ; Abercrombie , S . W . ; Ramsay , J . W . ; Campbell , S . D . ; Plowden , J . D . ; Delamain , I . G . ; Anthony , Sec . ; Ramsay , pro . tem . Treas . ; and BradyTler
, y Our labour of the evening closed , refreshments were laid out in the banquet room , in a style of eleganbe / and , splendour not to be surpassed .., Ample justice having beendone 'to the many good things on the hospitable board , the Wo ' rship'ful'Bfo . '' A ' tkiri ' sbri proposed "The Queen and the Craft , " which led to a long list of Masonic toasts ; among them '' The G . M . of all English Masonry in England , ' ' b y Bro . Abercrombie .. "All poor ; and distressed Brother Masons , howsoever
distressedandiwhersoeverdispersed alloverthe-Globe , " by Bro . Ramsay . '' The , memory , of ; Robby Burns , '' by Bro . Herbert / "TheWorshipful Bro . French , " who had presided at the installation ( and whose state of health , it was regretted , prevented his joining the refreshment , ) by Bro . ; Ramsay , , Then jfollowed ; the health of the ' Newly initiated Bros . Grant and Shakespeare , " theformer of whom returned thanks in a neat and appropriate speech ; and likewise the health of our visiting Brethren was responded to in a similar manner by Bro . Dalrymple ; also by Bro . Ramsay the health of the " Newly elected Members , " for which Bro . Grisenthwaite returned thanks ; at last Bro . Michell , in all true Masonic
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India.
To THE EDITOR . —I have long desired to address you , on a subject relating to the delay attending our applications to the Grand Lodge , and now implore your advocacy . It is now six years since a petition was forwarded from our Lodge , " Sincere Friendship , " to the Grand Lodge , accompanied with the usual fees for a warrant of confirmation , the old warrant being rendered illegible during fifty years service , wherein also the record had been destroyed . A petition was also forwardedwith the
, usual fees for a charter , together with the Grand Lodge dues . We have heard nothing whatever on the subjects . You will not be surprised to hear that this unrnasonic treatment has caused serious discontent . I could write much more , but refrain , in the hope that 1 have said enough to enable you to assist us by your friesdly advice . I believe that in a recent number ( not at hand ) you stated that our petition had been laid before the proper authorities ; if so , why are we neglected ? A MASTER MASON .
|_ We will direct the attention of Bro . A . Grant , the London Masonic Agent for Bengal , to this letter . —En . /] AGRA . —Zealous in the Craft ourselves , we are always ready—nay anxious to give prominent notice in our columns to whatever may advance the cause of Freemasonry , or prove interesting to our Brethren of the mystic tye . It becomes not a Mason of yesterday , as we confess ourselves to beto comment on such proceedingsnevertheless we cannot
, , but stand forth and avail ourselves of the present occasion to notice the opening of a new Lodge , " The Star of Hope , " on the 14 th of August , and the formal installation of the Worshipful Master and Officers on Wednesday the 11 th September , under the able direction of the esteemed and respected W . liro . French , who was deputed by the Right Worshipful officiating G . M . to conduct the ceremony on the interesting occasion . At a little after six o ' clock , P . M . W . Bro . French having
arrived , opened Lodge in due form , and most gratifying indeed it was to witness so auspicious an opening of our Infant Star . The Lodge being then duly opened , the following Brethren were installed in their respective offices : — Bros . Atkinson , W . M . ; Abercrombie , S . W . ; Ramsay , J . W . ; Campbell , S . D . ; Plowden , J . D . ; Delamain , I . G . ; Anthony , Sec . ; Ramsay , pro . tem . Treas . ; and BradyTler
, y Our labour of the evening closed , refreshments were laid out in the banquet room , in a style of eleganbe / and , splendour not to be surpassed .., Ample justice having beendone 'to the many good things on the hospitable board , the Wo ' rship'ful'Bfo . '' A ' tkiri ' sbri proposed "The Queen and the Craft , " which led to a long list of Masonic toasts ; among them '' The G . M . of all English Masonry in England , ' ' b y Bro . Abercrombie .. "All poor ; and distressed Brother Masons , howsoever
distressedandiwhersoeverdispersed alloverthe-Globe , " by Bro . Ramsay . '' The , memory , of ; Robby Burns , '' by Bro . Herbert / "TheWorshipful Bro . French , " who had presided at the installation ( and whose state of health , it was regretted , prevented his joining the refreshment , ) by Bro . ; Ramsay , , Then jfollowed ; the health of the ' Newly initiated Bros . Grant and Shakespeare , " theformer of whom returned thanks in a neat and appropriate speech ; and likewise the health of our visiting Brethren was responded to in a similar manner by Bro . Dalrymple ; also by Bro . Ramsay the health of the " Newly elected Members , " for which Bro . Grisenthwaite returned thanks ; at last Bro . Michell , in all true Masonic