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United Grand Lodge.
To the report is subjoined a statement of the Grand Lodge accounts at the last meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 13 th day of February inst ., showing a balance in the Bank of England ( Western Branch ) of £ 2697 14 s . 1 id ., and in the hands of the Grand Secretary for petty cash , ^ 100 , and for servants' wages , £ 100 , and . balance of annual allowance for library , £ 13 17 s . 6 d .
6 . REPORT OF SPECIAL BUILDING COMMITTEE . To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England . The Building Committee , in continuation of their report to Grand Lodge of the 4 th of December last , now beg to submit as follows : —
In that report reference was made to certain works , not of mere restoration , but of necessary and substantial improvements , including the re-opening of the old Gallery , the various new exits in case of fire , the ventilation , the removal of the dangerous flues , the extra expense on pictures , & c , & c , & c , none of which were of course covered by the monies received from the insurances , and the Committee promised to report to Grand Lodge on the 4 th of March the . amount required to meet the extra expenditure thus incurred .
The works being now almost completed , the Committee have been able to balance the various accounts , and they have thus ascertained that a sum of ; £ Soo beyond the monies received from the insurance offices will be sufficient to defray the entire cost of the restoration , whereby the Order will be once more placed in possession of their ancient Hall , with increased accommodation , with its portraits restored , with its decorations renewed , and with many modern improvements .
The Committee therefore recommend to Grand Lodge that a vote of £ 800 be made for the above purpose . ( Signed ) J B . MONCKTON , Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C , Chairman . 16 th February , 1885 .
7 . —Report of Bro . Stanley G . Harding , Auditor of Grand Lodge Accounts , of Receipts and Disbursements during the year 1 S 84 . APPEALSBy Bro . Henry Godbier , P . M . of the Victoria in Burmah Lodge , No . 832 , Rangoon , against a decision of the District Grand Master of British Burmah ruling that a complaint made by Bro . Henry Godbier against the W . Master relative to confirmation of minutes was frivolous and vexatious .
By the same Bro . Henry Godbier , P . M . of the Victoria in Burmah Lodge , No . 832 , Rangoon , against a decision of the Deputy District Grand Master in charge of the District of British Burmah declining to give a separate ruling on a second complaint made by Bro . Godbier against the W . Master and the lodge , on the ground that the ruling of the
District Grand Master had covered both cases . By Bro . Rustomji Cowasji Jaboolee , P . M . of the Cyrus Lodge , No . 1359 , Bombay , against a censure passed on him by the District Master of Bombay for printing and circulating documents connected with a complaint which he was submitting to his lodge .
By Bro . Samuel George Davison , S . W . of the Lodge Emulation , No . 2071 , Sydney , against the ruling of the District Grand Master of New South Wales , forbidding the election of a second VV . Master , in consequence of the Warrant not having arrived from England , and the lodge
working under dispensation . N . B . —The papers relating to these appeals will be in the Grand Secretary ' s office till the meeting of Grand Lodge , and open for the inspection of the brethren during office hours . NEW LODGES .
The following is the list of lodges for which warrants have been granted by the M . W . Grand Master since the last Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge : — Lodge 2075 , The Moorabin , Wilcannia , N . S . W . „ 2076 , The Quatuor Coronati , London . „ 2077 , The lipping , Epping , Essex . „ 2078 , The St . Lawrence , Scunthorpe , Lincolnshire .
„ 2079 , The Romsey , Romsey , Victoria . „ 2080 , The Clarke , Melbourne , Victoria . „ 2081 , The Golden Fleece , Leicester . „ 2082 , The Phoenix of Namaqualand , O ' okiep , South Africa
( W . D . ) ,, 2083 , The Ballina , Ballina , New South Wales . „ 2084 , The Biggarsberg Unity , Dundee Proper , Natal . „ 2085 , The Tweed , Tumbulgum , New South Wales . „ 3086 , The Dacre , Stevenage , Herts . „ 2087 , The Electric , Hampton Court , Middlesex . „ 2088 , The Cango , Oudtshoorn , South Africa ( W . D . ) „ 2089 , The Frere , Aliwal North , South Africa ( E . D . )
Festival Of The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
FESTIVAL OF THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
The Annual Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons was held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons' Tavern , under the presidency of Bro . Sir Michael E . Hicks Beach , M . P ., Prov . G . M . . for Gloucestershire . Above 400 brethren attended , among whom were W . Bro . J . Brook-Smith , ( M . A . ) D . P . G . M . Gloucestershire ; V-. W . Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall ( C . C . ) , Patron , G ind Treas . ; Sir John B . Monckton , P . G . W . ;
V . W . Bro . Rev . C . J . Martyn , V . Pat ., P . M . & Sec . 1629 , P . G . Chap ., D . P . G . M . Suffolk , P . G . J . W . Gloucestershire ; VV . Bros . Baron de Ferrieres , M . P ., I . P ., V . Pat ., W . M . 246 , G . S . D ., P . P . G . R . Gloucestershire ; Prof . E . M . Lott , G . Ore . ; George Lambert , ( F . S . A . ) , V . Pat ., P . M . 2021 ; Edgar Bowyer , V Pat . P . G . Std . B . ; William Clark , V . P ., P . G . P . ; Charles E . Soppet , P . M . 1 C 27 , G . S . ; Chas . Belton , V . P ., 1 G 5 , P . G . Stwd ., P . P . G . D . Surrey ; Alfred Ti .-lcy , W . M . 8 S 9 , P . G . S . ; A . F . Godson , D . P . G . M . Worcestershire ; John E . Dawson , D . P . G . M . Herts ; Rev . Evan Yorke Nepean , P . M . 1373 , P . P . G . i isie i ^ iinani » uitcucj james icuy
-nap . nancs ana or vvigiu . -. ^ , , .,-.. « - ,.,. , V P ., P . P . G . S . W . Norths and Hunts ; R . V . Vassar-Smith , V . Pat ., P . G . J . W . Gloucestershire ; J . S . Cumberland , P . M . 1611 , P . P . J . G . W . N . and E . Yorks . ; James M 0 ff . 1 t , P . M . 74 , P . P . G . R . Warwickshire ; . Wm . Goodacre , P . M . 1730 , P . P . G . R . and P . G . West Lancashire ; A . C . Spaull , P . P . G . R . North Wales and Salop ; Jno . L . Mather , V . P ., P . G . D . Herts ; George Kenning , V . Pat ., P . P . G . D . Middlesex ; John Mason , V . P ., P . P . G . D . Middx . ; George Mickley , ( M . A ., M . B . ) , P . P . G . D .
Herts . ; A . Barfield , V . Pat ., P . M . 511 , P . P . G . D . Hants , and I . of W . ; H . E . Dehane , l . P . M . 1543 , P . P . G . D . Essex ; T . Mount Humphries , P . P . G . Supt . Works Staffordshire ; E . Comp . Chas . F . Hogard , P . P ., P . Z . Ch . 142 , P . P . G . Supt . Works Eseex ; VV . Bros . T . J . Pulley , P . M . and Treas . 1714 , P . G . D . of C . Surrey ; E . Comp . D . P . Cama , Patron , Z . 255 , P . G . S . B . Middx . ; Mrs . D . P . Cama , Patron ; W . Bros . J . W , 'Consterdine-Chadwick , V . P ., W . M , 377 , P . P . G . S . Worcestershire :
Festival Of The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
W . J . Crutch , V . Pat . ; Geo . Ward Verry , V . P ., ( P . M . and Sec . 354 ) , W . M . 1421 Capt . Colvill , P . G . S . W . Cornwall ; W . Lake , P . P . G . R ( Cornwall ); Comp . Jno . C . Woodrow ( P . M . 15 ) , ( P . Z . 1326 ) , Ch . 1297 ; Bros . G . S . Recknell , W . M . 172 S ; Henry Stiles , P . M . 1732 ; Wm . M . Stiles , P . M . 1744 ; Comp . Fredk . Brown , P . Z-53 S ; Bros . \ V . J . Murlis , H . D . Cama , Major Torkington , C . Lane , J . Larkin , George Norrington , John Sinclair , 470 , and others .
After dinner grace was sung , and the speeches of the evening commenced .
The CHAIRMAN said : The first toast at every festive gathering of Englishmen is the health of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen . ( Cheers . ) But that toast will be doubly welcome at a meeting of our Craft , whose proud boast and recollection it is that loyalty is one of the first of the attributes of a true Mason , and it will be specially welcome when the occasion on which we meet together is one of Charity . ( Hear , hear . ) For everyone
who remembers the history of the reign of our Queen will know that in her her subjects recognise not merely a great constitutional monarch , but a true and loving heart of a good woman . ( Cheers . ) She follows with her anxious care her soldiers and her officers fighting for her country in the most distant and inhospitable climes , and her sympathies are never absent from their wives and children ; and I may say , alas ! their widows and
orphans living at home . ( Cheers . ) Whether it be to high or low , to rich or to poor , the time of distress always brings her Majesty ' s kindly sympathy . Hence it is that she reigns , and long may she reign . ( Cheers . ) The CHAIRMAN , in giving " The Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales , and the rest of the Royal Family , " said : We shall greet the health of the Prince of Wales not merely with that loyalty which is due to him as
that member of the Royal Family who is the heir to our Throne , but also with that peculiar loyalty which we , as Masons , feel to the head of our Craft in England ; one whose ability and geniality , I will venture to say , has made him universally popular with every member of the Craft . It is a remarkable testimony to the activity with which his Royal Highness performed the public duties which fall to his share that hardly an occasion arises
among those numerous occasions when his health is drunk at public meetings on which is is not possible to find some new duties that he has not undertaken , or some fresh idea that has not occurred to him for the benefit of our country . It is but the other day that we were told that it is the intention of his Royal Highness and the Princess of Wales to pay an early visit to Ireland . A very few days before we must all have seen in the Press
that treasonable and insulting manifestoes were put forth on the other side of the Atlantic by traitors against the life or liberty of his Royal Highness , who shelter themselves under the protection of a foreign country . The answer of his Royal Highness is worthy of his Royal race and of our future King . He accepts the challenge , and will visit Ireland , and I will venture to prophesy that from that warm-hearted and generous , though often
mistaken people , he will receive that cordial welcome which his courage and his genial character deserve , and that the Princess of Wales will exercise over that susceptible race that charm with which she has long ago enslaved us from the first moment at which she set foot on our shores . I give you " The Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family . "
The CHAIRMAN : The next toast I have to ask you to drink is " The Health of the Pro Grand Master , Lord Carnarvon . " ( Cheers . ) I am quite sure I need say nothing to commend the toast to your sympathy here . Vou have too often witnessed the ability with which Lord Carnarvon presides , in the absence of the Most Worshipful the Grand Master , over the proceedings of Grand Lodge . You know full well that scholarly eloquence with which
it is in the power of Lord Carnarvon to expound matters that may be for the welfare of the Craft , or to demolish those foolish prejudices which are the fruit of ignorance of what Masonry means . ( Cheers . ) You have , I think , appreciated his labours for Masonry in the past , and you hope that they will be long continued in the future . I therefore call upon you to drink with a cordial welcome the health of our Pro Grand Master . ( Cheers . )
The CHAIRMAN : The toast which I have now to ask you to drink is " The Health of the R . W . Deputy Grand Master , Lord Lalhom , and the Present and Past Officers of Grand Lodge . " ( Hear , hear . ) I need say nothing of Lord Lathom . His interest in Masonry , his popularity among the brethren , is known to all of you , and I am quite sure I need not bespeak from you a cordial welcome for the toast of the officers of Grand Lodge .
( Hear , hear . ) I wish to speak of these officers as I have found them ; and I will venture to say that when any Masonic work has had to be done in the province with which it is my good fortune to be connected , requiring special care in its performance , we have always found the officers of Grand Lodge most prompt and anxious to help us in the working ; but , brethren , their assistance is also most freely given in the cause of Charity . Only fast
year , on this very occasion on which we are met , the brother on my left ( Sir John Monckton ) at a moment's notice took the place of another brother who was absent owing to illness in order to plead the cause of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . ( Hear , hear . ) When I tell you I have to couple with this toast the name of our R . W . Bro . Sir John
Monckton , I am quite sure you will welcome it , not merely because of his past services to Grand Lodge and to Masonry at large , but because of the good work and the unprecedented results which he last year obtained for this Institution . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Sir J MONCKTON , P . G . D ., in reply , said : I respond with great gratitude to the toast proposed by the Chairman , and to you , brethren , for the manner in which the toast has been received . I have no hesitation in
saying that it is a toast that one may be proud to respond to , connected as it is with the Earl of Lathom , than whom a better Mason , a better man , or better ,, friend to the Craft never existed . The R . W . Chairman has very kindly referred to the proceedings of last year , and has spoken of the result of the Festival as one unprecedented . Let me not be ungenerous if I hope
that it may not last much longer , for my hope would be that this should be an unprecedented Festival . This is a great age for thought reading , and , knowing very well your thoughts and the depth of your pockets , I may predict with confidence that the Festival over which Bro . Sir M . Hicks-Beach has presided will go far to remit to posterity that this Festival of the Benevolent Institution has been the most successful of all the Festivals of this
Institution . The CHAIRMAN , in giving the next toast , said : Brethren , I have to ask your patient attention while I endeavour to put before you the reasons for the welcome which I am sure you will give to the toast of the evening . I ask you to drink " Success to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for that
Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons . " I do not doubt nearly every one present knows as much of the benefits of this Institution as I could convey to them . But it is my duty as Chairman to-night to remember that there may be an ignorant brother among you who ought to know more than he does about it , and therefore I will tell you as shortly as I can what this Institution does , and how it does it , and why it is worthy of
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United Grand Lodge.
To the report is subjoined a statement of the Grand Lodge accounts at the last meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 13 th day of February inst ., showing a balance in the Bank of England ( Western Branch ) of £ 2697 14 s . 1 id ., and in the hands of the Grand Secretary for petty cash , ^ 100 , and for servants' wages , £ 100 , and . balance of annual allowance for library , £ 13 17 s . 6 d .
6 . REPORT OF SPECIAL BUILDING COMMITTEE . To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England . The Building Committee , in continuation of their report to Grand Lodge of the 4 th of December last , now beg to submit as follows : —
In that report reference was made to certain works , not of mere restoration , but of necessary and substantial improvements , including the re-opening of the old Gallery , the various new exits in case of fire , the ventilation , the removal of the dangerous flues , the extra expense on pictures , & c , & c , & c , none of which were of course covered by the monies received from the insurances , and the Committee promised to report to Grand Lodge on the 4 th of March the . amount required to meet the extra expenditure thus incurred .
The works being now almost completed , the Committee have been able to balance the various accounts , and they have thus ascertained that a sum of ; £ Soo beyond the monies received from the insurance offices will be sufficient to defray the entire cost of the restoration , whereby the Order will be once more placed in possession of their ancient Hall , with increased accommodation , with its portraits restored , with its decorations renewed , and with many modern improvements .
The Committee therefore recommend to Grand Lodge that a vote of £ 800 be made for the above purpose . ( Signed ) J B . MONCKTON , Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C , Chairman . 16 th February , 1885 .
7 . —Report of Bro . Stanley G . Harding , Auditor of Grand Lodge Accounts , of Receipts and Disbursements during the year 1 S 84 . APPEALSBy Bro . Henry Godbier , P . M . of the Victoria in Burmah Lodge , No . 832 , Rangoon , against a decision of the District Grand Master of British Burmah ruling that a complaint made by Bro . Henry Godbier against the W . Master relative to confirmation of minutes was frivolous and vexatious .
By the same Bro . Henry Godbier , P . M . of the Victoria in Burmah Lodge , No . 832 , Rangoon , against a decision of the Deputy District Grand Master in charge of the District of British Burmah declining to give a separate ruling on a second complaint made by Bro . Godbier against the W . Master and the lodge , on the ground that the ruling of the
District Grand Master had covered both cases . By Bro . Rustomji Cowasji Jaboolee , P . M . of the Cyrus Lodge , No . 1359 , Bombay , against a censure passed on him by the District Master of Bombay for printing and circulating documents connected with a complaint which he was submitting to his lodge .
By Bro . Samuel George Davison , S . W . of the Lodge Emulation , No . 2071 , Sydney , against the ruling of the District Grand Master of New South Wales , forbidding the election of a second VV . Master , in consequence of the Warrant not having arrived from England , and the lodge
working under dispensation . N . B . —The papers relating to these appeals will be in the Grand Secretary ' s office till the meeting of Grand Lodge , and open for the inspection of the brethren during office hours . NEW LODGES .
The following is the list of lodges for which warrants have been granted by the M . W . Grand Master since the last Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge : — Lodge 2075 , The Moorabin , Wilcannia , N . S . W . „ 2076 , The Quatuor Coronati , London . „ 2077 , The lipping , Epping , Essex . „ 2078 , The St . Lawrence , Scunthorpe , Lincolnshire .
„ 2079 , The Romsey , Romsey , Victoria . „ 2080 , The Clarke , Melbourne , Victoria . „ 2081 , The Golden Fleece , Leicester . „ 2082 , The Phoenix of Namaqualand , O ' okiep , South Africa
( W . D . ) ,, 2083 , The Ballina , Ballina , New South Wales . „ 2084 , The Biggarsberg Unity , Dundee Proper , Natal . „ 2085 , The Tweed , Tumbulgum , New South Wales . „ 3086 , The Dacre , Stevenage , Herts . „ 2087 , The Electric , Hampton Court , Middlesex . „ 2088 , The Cango , Oudtshoorn , South Africa ( W . D . ) „ 2089 , The Frere , Aliwal North , South Africa ( E . D . )
Festival Of The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
FESTIVAL OF THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
The Annual Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons was held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons' Tavern , under the presidency of Bro . Sir Michael E . Hicks Beach , M . P ., Prov . G . M . . for Gloucestershire . Above 400 brethren attended , among whom were W . Bro . J . Brook-Smith , ( M . A . ) D . P . G . M . Gloucestershire ; V-. W . Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall ( C . C . ) , Patron , G ind Treas . ; Sir John B . Monckton , P . G . W . ;
V . W . Bro . Rev . C . J . Martyn , V . Pat ., P . M . & Sec . 1629 , P . G . Chap ., D . P . G . M . Suffolk , P . G . J . W . Gloucestershire ; VV . Bros . Baron de Ferrieres , M . P ., I . P ., V . Pat ., W . M . 246 , G . S . D ., P . P . G . R . Gloucestershire ; Prof . E . M . Lott , G . Ore . ; George Lambert , ( F . S . A . ) , V . Pat ., P . M . 2021 ; Edgar Bowyer , V Pat . P . G . Std . B . ; William Clark , V . P ., P . G . P . ; Charles E . Soppet , P . M . 1 C 27 , G . S . ; Chas . Belton , V . P ., 1 G 5 , P . G . Stwd ., P . P . G . D . Surrey ; Alfred Ti .-lcy , W . M . 8 S 9 , P . G . S . ; A . F . Godson , D . P . G . M . Worcestershire ; John E . Dawson , D . P . G . M . Herts ; Rev . Evan Yorke Nepean , P . M . 1373 , P . P . G . i isie i ^ iinani » uitcucj james icuy
-nap . nancs ana or vvigiu . -. ^ , , .,-.. « - ,.,. , V P ., P . P . G . S . W . Norths and Hunts ; R . V . Vassar-Smith , V . Pat ., P . G . J . W . Gloucestershire ; J . S . Cumberland , P . M . 1611 , P . P . J . G . W . N . and E . Yorks . ; James M 0 ff . 1 t , P . M . 74 , P . P . G . R . Warwickshire ; . Wm . Goodacre , P . M . 1730 , P . P . G . R . and P . G . West Lancashire ; A . C . Spaull , P . P . G . R . North Wales and Salop ; Jno . L . Mather , V . P ., P . G . D . Herts ; George Kenning , V . Pat ., P . P . G . D . Middlesex ; John Mason , V . P ., P . P . G . D . Middx . ; George Mickley , ( M . A ., M . B . ) , P . P . G . D .
Herts . ; A . Barfield , V . Pat ., P . M . 511 , P . P . G . D . Hants , and I . of W . ; H . E . Dehane , l . P . M . 1543 , P . P . G . D . Essex ; T . Mount Humphries , P . P . G . Supt . Works Staffordshire ; E . Comp . Chas . F . Hogard , P . P ., P . Z . Ch . 142 , P . P . G . Supt . Works Eseex ; VV . Bros . T . J . Pulley , P . M . and Treas . 1714 , P . G . D . of C . Surrey ; E . Comp . D . P . Cama , Patron , Z . 255 , P . G . S . B . Middx . ; Mrs . D . P . Cama , Patron ; W . Bros . J . W , 'Consterdine-Chadwick , V . P ., W . M , 377 , P . P . G . S . Worcestershire :
Festival Of The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
W . J . Crutch , V . Pat . ; Geo . Ward Verry , V . P ., ( P . M . and Sec . 354 ) , W . M . 1421 Capt . Colvill , P . G . S . W . Cornwall ; W . Lake , P . P . G . R ( Cornwall ); Comp . Jno . C . Woodrow ( P . M . 15 ) , ( P . Z . 1326 ) , Ch . 1297 ; Bros . G . S . Recknell , W . M . 172 S ; Henry Stiles , P . M . 1732 ; Wm . M . Stiles , P . M . 1744 ; Comp . Fredk . Brown , P . Z-53 S ; Bros . \ V . J . Murlis , H . D . Cama , Major Torkington , C . Lane , J . Larkin , George Norrington , John Sinclair , 470 , and others .
After dinner grace was sung , and the speeches of the evening commenced .
The CHAIRMAN said : The first toast at every festive gathering of Englishmen is the health of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen . ( Cheers . ) But that toast will be doubly welcome at a meeting of our Craft , whose proud boast and recollection it is that loyalty is one of the first of the attributes of a true Mason , and it will be specially welcome when the occasion on which we meet together is one of Charity . ( Hear , hear . ) For everyone
who remembers the history of the reign of our Queen will know that in her her subjects recognise not merely a great constitutional monarch , but a true and loving heart of a good woman . ( Cheers . ) She follows with her anxious care her soldiers and her officers fighting for her country in the most distant and inhospitable climes , and her sympathies are never absent from their wives and children ; and I may say , alas ! their widows and
orphans living at home . ( Cheers . ) Whether it be to high or low , to rich or to poor , the time of distress always brings her Majesty ' s kindly sympathy . Hence it is that she reigns , and long may she reign . ( Cheers . ) The CHAIRMAN , in giving " The Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales , and the rest of the Royal Family , " said : We shall greet the health of the Prince of Wales not merely with that loyalty which is due to him as
that member of the Royal Family who is the heir to our Throne , but also with that peculiar loyalty which we , as Masons , feel to the head of our Craft in England ; one whose ability and geniality , I will venture to say , has made him universally popular with every member of the Craft . It is a remarkable testimony to the activity with which his Royal Highness performed the public duties which fall to his share that hardly an occasion arises
among those numerous occasions when his health is drunk at public meetings on which is is not possible to find some new duties that he has not undertaken , or some fresh idea that has not occurred to him for the benefit of our country . It is but the other day that we were told that it is the intention of his Royal Highness and the Princess of Wales to pay an early visit to Ireland . A very few days before we must all have seen in the Press
that treasonable and insulting manifestoes were put forth on the other side of the Atlantic by traitors against the life or liberty of his Royal Highness , who shelter themselves under the protection of a foreign country . The answer of his Royal Highness is worthy of his Royal race and of our future King . He accepts the challenge , and will visit Ireland , and I will venture to prophesy that from that warm-hearted and generous , though often
mistaken people , he will receive that cordial welcome which his courage and his genial character deserve , and that the Princess of Wales will exercise over that susceptible race that charm with which she has long ago enslaved us from the first moment at which she set foot on our shores . I give you " The Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family . "
The CHAIRMAN : The next toast I have to ask you to drink is " The Health of the Pro Grand Master , Lord Carnarvon . " ( Cheers . ) I am quite sure I need say nothing to commend the toast to your sympathy here . Vou have too often witnessed the ability with which Lord Carnarvon presides , in the absence of the Most Worshipful the Grand Master , over the proceedings of Grand Lodge . You know full well that scholarly eloquence with which
it is in the power of Lord Carnarvon to expound matters that may be for the welfare of the Craft , or to demolish those foolish prejudices which are the fruit of ignorance of what Masonry means . ( Cheers . ) You have , I think , appreciated his labours for Masonry in the past , and you hope that they will be long continued in the future . I therefore call upon you to drink with a cordial welcome the health of our Pro Grand Master . ( Cheers . )
The CHAIRMAN : The toast which I have now to ask you to drink is " The Health of the R . W . Deputy Grand Master , Lord Lalhom , and the Present and Past Officers of Grand Lodge . " ( Hear , hear . ) I need say nothing of Lord Lathom . His interest in Masonry , his popularity among the brethren , is known to all of you , and I am quite sure I need not bespeak from you a cordial welcome for the toast of the officers of Grand Lodge .
( Hear , hear . ) I wish to speak of these officers as I have found them ; and I will venture to say that when any Masonic work has had to be done in the province with which it is my good fortune to be connected , requiring special care in its performance , we have always found the officers of Grand Lodge most prompt and anxious to help us in the working ; but , brethren , their assistance is also most freely given in the cause of Charity . Only fast
year , on this very occasion on which we are met , the brother on my left ( Sir John Monckton ) at a moment's notice took the place of another brother who was absent owing to illness in order to plead the cause of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . ( Hear , hear . ) When I tell you I have to couple with this toast the name of our R . W . Bro . Sir John
Monckton , I am quite sure you will welcome it , not merely because of his past services to Grand Lodge and to Masonry at large , but because of the good work and the unprecedented results which he last year obtained for this Institution . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Sir J MONCKTON , P . G . D ., in reply , said : I respond with great gratitude to the toast proposed by the Chairman , and to you , brethren , for the manner in which the toast has been received . I have no hesitation in
saying that it is a toast that one may be proud to respond to , connected as it is with the Earl of Lathom , than whom a better Mason , a better man , or better ,, friend to the Craft never existed . The R . W . Chairman has very kindly referred to the proceedings of last year , and has spoken of the result of the Festival as one unprecedented . Let me not be ungenerous if I hope
that it may not last much longer , for my hope would be that this should be an unprecedented Festival . This is a great age for thought reading , and , knowing very well your thoughts and the depth of your pockets , I may predict with confidence that the Festival over which Bro . Sir M . Hicks-Beach has presided will go far to remit to posterity that this Festival of the Benevolent Institution has been the most successful of all the Festivals of this
Institution . The CHAIRMAN , in giving the next toast , said : Brethren , I have to ask your patient attention while I endeavour to put before you the reasons for the welcome which I am sure you will give to the toast of the evening . I ask you to drink " Success to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for that
Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons . " I do not doubt nearly every one present knows as much of the benefits of this Institution as I could convey to them . But it is my duty as Chairman to-night to remember that there may be an ignorant brother among you who ought to know more than he does about it , and therefore I will tell you as shortly as I can what this Institution does , and how it does it , and why it is worthy of