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of special recognition by the Prov . Grand Commander . The kind expressions of tlie E . C . were unanimously appreciated , and the proposition was enthusiastically received . Sir Knights Jones , Davies , Mills , and Gorton having responded , and other toasts havinn been honoured ,

the proceedings were brought to a close at 10 . 30 by the Sir Knights , as usual , singing the National Anthem . NEWPORT . —Gwenl Encampment . —On Tuesday an encampment of this Order was held at the Masonic Hall . The aspect of the room ,

Very different from that which the day before presented itself in the brig ht and brilliant Chapter Rose Croix , was nevertheless equally imposing , and curious visitors , admitted to view it , wondered greatly over the paraphernalia of the encampment . We shall not attempt to describe

It . About twenty Sir Knts . attended and took their stations under their respective banners . The encampment was opened according to ancient custom by E . C . Colonel Charles Lyne , who is also G . Sub Prior of England . The principal business was the installation of the E . C

for the ensuing year . The ceremony was performed with great dignity by Major Shadwell Gierke , P . P . G . C . ( West Indie ' s ) , and the following officers were appointed . —H . Martyn Kennard , E P . ; A . L . Willett , P . ; H . Hellyer , 1 st Capt . ; S . G . Homfray , and Capt . ; Captain

Pearson , Exp ; 1 ; W . H . W . Homfray , 1 st Std . Br . ; L . J . Chambers , 2 nd Std . Br . ; R . S . Roper , Registrar ; W . Pickford , Treasurer ; Wm . Williams , Herald ; H . J . Groves , Organist ; L . A . Homfray , Captain of Lines ; G . W . Fletcher , Outer Guard . The candidates installed were

Brothers Henry Greene , 471 ; A . L . Willett , 683 ; James Livingston and George Shaddick ( the two latter of the " Virtue and Hope " R . A . Chapter , Swansea . ) The onerous duty of installing the candidates fell , as a matter of course , to the newly-elected E . P ., H . M . Kennard ,

who performed the ceremony with a skill and dexterity which elicited the unanimous approval of the Encampment . Votes of thanks , recognising the services of those who had worked in honour of the Encampment , were cordially given ; amongst the names recorded being Major

Shadwell Clerke , and the P . E . C . The sum of £ , 5 5 s . was voted to the Aged and Decayed Freemasons Institute , and the P . E . C . ( Col . Lyne ) generously added another £ 5 5 s . in order to confer the privilege of a life governorship on the E .

Preceptor of the Gwent Encampment . A Prior of Knights of Malta was then opened , when , in addition to the above candidates , S . K , Bro . R . J . Chambers was duly installed . S . K . Bro . H . M . Kennard was then installed as E . P .

of this Order , and the Encampment closed with the usual solemnities . The fraternal community , consisting mainly of the Ivor Hael Chapter Rose Croix , and the " Gwent Encampment" of the Order of the Temple , met at the social board in the King ' s

Head Hotel , on Tuesday , when a sumptuous dinner was prepared by Host Cretton . The party numbered about twenty , and amongst them were the following : —H . Martyn Kennard , E . P . ( in the chair ); Major Shadwell Clerk , P . E . C . and P . G . Commander ; A . L . Willett

18 , Rose Croix , P . G . Chap . ; Captain Pearson , 18 ; L . Augustus Homfray , . 3 ° ° ; C Lyne , G . Sub Prior of England , and Pro . P . G . M . ; S . George Homfray , 30 " ( in the vicechair ) , M . W . S . Ivor Hael Chapter Rose Croix and second Captain ol the Gwent Encampment

Bros . Walter West , 18 ; l \ y . Greene , 18 "; George Shaddick , i 8 ; J . Livingstone , 18 ° ; William West , 18 ; R . J . Chambers , 18 ' ; Thomas Williams , ( 8 ° ; Henry Hellyer , iS ~ ; C . R . Lyne , M . M . ; W . Pickford , iS *'; R . S . Roper , i « ° ; H . J . Groves , 18 ; D . Bodessa ,

18 ; iVc . The health ol the Queen was right loyally received . Then came that of " Prince Albert Edward Edward of Wales , " a P . G . M . ol England ; each toast followed with musical honours . "The Marquis of Ripon , the G . M . of England . " ( Masonic honours . ) The " Health

of the E . P . ( Brother Kennard ) was proposed by the P . E . C , Colonel Lyne , in very eulogistic terms . The speaker dwelt on the unanimity which characterised all the degrees of Masonry in this province , and heartil y congratulated the President on his accession to the post of ^ E . P . of

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this flourishing Encampment ( cheers ) . S . K . Brother Kennard returned thanks , acknowledging the compliment which had been passed as to the manner in which he had gone through the Preceptorial duties that day . He attributed a large share of the credit to the assistance

rendered to him by his excellent officers , and the brethren by whom he was surrounded ( cheers ) . The President gave " The four candidates duly installed that day , including the brother who took the order of Malta , coupling with the toast tlie health of Brother Livingston

( Swansea ) . Brother Livingston , in returning thanks , referred to the delig ht which he had experienced from the fraternal and social gathering of to-day , promising that his Swansea friends , who had missed the treat , should certainly hear of it ( cheers ) . The President recognising the

eminent services rendered by Major Clerke to the Province of Monmouthshire , and his indefatigable zeal on behalf of Freemasonry in general , proposed his health in a bumper . The company responded with enthusiasm — an enthusiasm which vested itself in a very hearty rendering

of the old refrain , " For he s , & c Bro . Major Clerke returned thanks . He had what might be termed the misfortune to live in London—a long way from the Province of Monmouthshire . He hoped , however , to be present at the periodical meetings of those Orders of which he had the

honour to be a member ( cheers ) . He was only too proud to place his services at their disposal . He was called upon to respond so often to their kind expressions towards himself , that he really felt embarrassed , and could scarcely find words to express his sense of their fraternal

kindness . One thing he might , however , say . and it was this—Having been all over the world , being Past Master in many degrees in Masonry , he never met with more genuine and charty feeling than he had met with in Monmouthshire ( cheers ) . He came here not

knowing a soul , and he found himself to-day with a host of kind friends around him ( cheers ) . Brother Major Clerke again rose . He proposed the health of a brother , distinguished , he might say , in every degree of Masonry . When the direction of what he might term the " revival "

of the Christian degrees in this Province , was confided to his ( Brother Gierke ' s ) hands , Brother Colonel Lyne worked am anmre with him . In the Craft proper Brother Lyne was still more distinguished , for he held the coveted post of P . G . M . ( loud cheers ) . It was significant of the genuine

interest felt by Brother Lyne in the Province of Monmouthshire that he was about to go to the Metropolis , their representarive ;—necessarily at great personal inconvenience and expense—as one of the Stewards of the Masonic charities ; and he ( Major Clerke ) was happy to add that

Brother Lyne would carry with him for presentation at the dinner to be presided over by the Prince of Wales , a golden guerdon , second to few of those Provinces in England ( cheers ) . He [ pro-posedt he Health of Brother Colonel Charles Lyne ( applause ) . Bro . Lyne returned

thanks . He attributed in great measure the conrtsey and kindness of Major Clerke to the well-known feeling which existed between the British sailor and the British soldier . They had rowed in the same same channel , anil had sailed together in Masonic

life ( cheers ) . Many hours of pleasure had they spent in that little island of Malta , lie knew that , long after he left , Major Gierke ' s name was known there as an active and ardent Mason ( cheers ) . He ( l'iro . Lyne ) might be allowed to say that he was the first installed in the modern

Encampment 111 Malta , ami it was a saaslaction to find that one so worthy the honour had followed him ( hear , hear , and cheers ) . If his Bro . Cicike felt a difficulty in responding to the compliments showered upon him , let him look at tilt difficulty that he ( the speaker ) was placid in ,

He had to acknowledge the encomiums passed upon his conduct as P . G . M . of Monmouthshire , and , with every respect to the chivalric degrees , he regarded that position as the hig hest honour in Masonry ( protracted cheering ) . He believed that the intention of the brethren was to cement

the various degrees of our noble Order , because they had but one common object , viz ., the welfare of mankind ( bear , heai ) . Bro . Lyne paid a deserved coniplinjrnt to Bro . S . G . llomfiay ,

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whose work as D . P . G M . had been unexception- > able . The speaker trusted that loye and liarand harmony , which should always characterise Freemasons , would be conspicuous among them '; and whether it was the okl Craft Lodge , Royal Arch , Rose Croix , Mark Master , or the Templar

Order , he believed in the idea of a great Masonic social cordon , which could not be broken . As P . G . M . he would give his ready sanction to everything that conduced to promote the spread of principles essentially Masonic ( applause ) . The health of the M . W . S . of the Chapter Rose

Croix was toasted by the B . P . with many compliments , and responded to by Bro . George Homfray in suitable terms by Bro . Lyne : " The Health of the Officers of the Gwent Encampment , " the name of Bro . Hellyer being connected with the toast , as 1 st Captain . Bro . Hellyer

duly acknowledged . Bro . Capt . Pearson proposed , " W . M . ' s of the various Lodges in the Province , " coupled with the health of one who had evinced a sincere desire to promote the best interests of Masonry since he had entered the Craft--Bro . L . A . ' Homfray , W . M ., Isca , 683

( cheers ) . Bro . L . Augustus Homfray , who , at a social gathering such as this , had thought he might have had a " quiet evening , " was called upon to return thanks . He hoped that the toast proposed would find a response at every gathering of this Order ( hear , hear ) , for he believed

with Bro . Lyne that unity was an essential element in Freemasonry ( cheers ) . If they meant to " dwell together" they must " pull together , " and he was convinced that the present aspect of Freemasonry in this Province warranted him in saving that whilst they dwelt in unity they would

certainly so pull ( cheers ) . He hael experienced some difficulty in Freemasonry . As a conscientious Craftsman he had abstained from asking any one to join their their Order ; ami yet he felt that every good and true man ought to be a Mason ( hear , hear , ? . Bro . Homfray then

addressed himself to the particular toast , and as W . M . of the Isca Lodge 1 , returned his thanks for the high compliment paid to him . Bro . the President proposed the health of Bros . Wm . West and Thos . Williams ( proposed members of the Illustrious Order t ) f the Temple ) . They

respectively returned thanks . Bro . Lyne gave , "The Masonic Charities , " coupled with the name of worthy Brother Pickford . [ The writer of this report has been accustomed masouically to dub bim as the " jolly masonic

beggar . That Bro . Piekiord has laboured for years and years in the ciuse of masonic charity is known to all the brethren , and he has well earned the sol-riijuel which we have given him . Bro . Pickford , in returning thanks , said that he should not be satisfied if the P . G M . of

Monmouthshire ( Col . Lyne ) did not go to the Freemason ' s Uanqtiet , over which H . R . H . the Prince of Wales would preside next month , with less than £ 290 ( great cheering ) . Bro . L . A . Homfray , with a happy allusion to masonic harmony , paid a compliment to Bro . H . J . Groves for his

musical services that evening . Whilst recognising the excellent vocal and instrumental performances which they had all enjoyed , he laid claim to Bro . Groves as his" own organist '' — the organist of the Isca Lodge , — who manipulated the instrument with the hand of a true

artist and the heart ol a thorough mason ( applause ) . Bro . Groves , in returning thanks , mentioned incidentally that he had for fifteen years occupied the honourable position of P . G . Organist . His aspiration that he might be

sparcel lor many years to do duty in the , interest of Freemasonry , was cheered to the echo : for , to tell truth , it must be admitted that 110 one can discourse sweet mus'c in this province more sweetly than Brother Groves .

Hoi . i . owAY ' I ' . I . s : —These I ' uls arc more cfhcaciotis in strengthening a debilitated constitution , fix vital springs ol wliieli were naturally weak , or through hard usage have became relaxed and worn , than any other medicine in the world . I ' ersons of a nervous habit of body , and all who are sul'tciing from weak digestive organs or

liver complaints , eructations , flatulency , constipation , colic , or iriitable bowels , should lose no time in giving these pills a fair trial . Coughs , colds , asthma , or shoitness of bieath , arc also within the range of the curative ( lowers of this very remarkable medicine gout , and rheumatism

bow before them . The cures effected by tbc . se pills : irc not superficial or temporary , but complete and permanent . They are , 1 ¦ . mild a " . Ihcy aie efficacious , and may he given with confidence to delicate females and ycutitr children . —* AOVT .