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Colonial.
Provincial Gracid Officers , and acting Provincial Grand Officers , preceded and followed by Provincial Grand Stewards , entered the Lodge in procession , solemn music being played by Br . Feneigle the Provincial Grand Organist elect . Bro . J . J , Moody , Past Provincial Grand Junior Warden for Cheshire , Yvas appointed by Captain Clarke the Acting Deputy Provincial Grand Master to
install him 5 and to perform the several ceremonies appropriate to the occasion . Bro . E . Levick ^ P . M . Australia Felix Lodge , was appointed by Captain Clarke Acting Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies . The Provincial Grand Lodge was opened in due form hy Bro . Moody , assisted by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master , Senior and Junior Wardens and Chaplain , Bros . F . S . Gell , H . W . Lowry , T . H . Taylor ( of Geelong ) , and the Bev . C . P . M . Bardin .
The roll of the several Lodges in the Province was called over . The authority to the acting D . Prov . G . M ., the patent of appointment of Captain Clarke by the Earl of Zetland , Most Worshipful Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England , were severally read by the Provincial Grand Secretary Bro . T . M'Dermott , and the appointment ratified by the acclamations of the Brethren . After other appropriate observances , the procession was re-formed , withdrew , and , with those qualified , Bro . J . Moody opened a Board of Installed Masters , and duly installed Captain Clarke Prov . G . M . for Victoria . On the return of the procession to the Prov . G . Lod ^ e . the Prov . G . M . was invested bv Pr ov . G . M .
Bro . J . T . Smith , and conducted to the throne with appropriate remarks , and he then received the homage ' and congratulations of his Brethren . The Prov . G . M . made a suitable response , and proceeded to invest with appropriate observations his Prov . G . Officers . Three important motions proposed by Bro . Moody and seconded by Bro . Levick were unanimously adopted ; namely , a committee of Prov . G . Officers , and a representation from every Lodge in the Province , to frame draft bydaws , and cause to be printed proofs thereof , to be sent to every Lodge , and the same to be considered and ordered on at the next Provincial Grand Lodge .
A committee of the same Members to report on the Regalia , Insignia , Furniture , & c , required for the Provincial Grand Lodge . A committee of seven to report on the best means , with plans and estimate of cost , of a Freemasons' Hall in Melbourne , communicating , and if possible acting in concert , with bodies of Brethren attempting to attain the same object . The Prov . G . M ' .. then closed the Provincial Grand Lodge in due form , and he and the Brethren proceeded to the Criterion Hotel , where a sumptuous banquet , flavoured with the choicest wines , was served up by Bro . Wedel , in his wellknown style of excellence . About seventy or eighty Brethren were present , and
were enlivened by the strains of an instrumental band . The Prov . G . Organist accompanied the vocalists on the piano . The company enjoyed a delightful evening , and separated early .
CANADA . The Toronto papers , in alluding to the late melancholy railway accident , state that , amongst those who lost their lives , was Mr . Zimmerman , who was in Canada the counterpart of what Mr . Dargan is in Ireland : he was the principal promoter of every enterprise for the development of the resources of the province , and is stated to have realized a fortune of between £ 300 , 000 and £ 400 , 000 . He was killed instantaneously . He was an ardent and zealous member of the Masonic body , who honoured bis memory with a funeral rarely equalled in the history of the Craft , of which ( he following is an abbreviated account from the Toronto
uiouc : — Mil . ZTMIMKIIMAW ' S VUNEKATj . The funeral obsequies of TVlr . Zimmerman were performed at Clifton , in a manner wholly unexampled in this Province , as far as relates to the number of those who participated in the melancholy duties and the grandeur of the display . The whole country in the vicinity of Clifton appeared to have turned out en masse , and numbers having come from other parts of the province , a great concourse wa »
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Colonial.
Provincial Gracid Officers , and acting Provincial Grand Officers , preceded and followed by Provincial Grand Stewards , entered the Lodge in procession , solemn music being played by Br . Feneigle the Provincial Grand Organist elect . Bro . J . J , Moody , Past Provincial Grand Junior Warden for Cheshire , Yvas appointed by Captain Clarke the Acting Deputy Provincial Grand Master to
install him 5 and to perform the several ceremonies appropriate to the occasion . Bro . E . Levick ^ P . M . Australia Felix Lodge , was appointed by Captain Clarke Acting Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies . The Provincial Grand Lodge was opened in due form hy Bro . Moody , assisted by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master , Senior and Junior Wardens and Chaplain , Bros . F . S . Gell , H . W . Lowry , T . H . Taylor ( of Geelong ) , and the Bev . C . P . M . Bardin .
The roll of the several Lodges in the Province was called over . The authority to the acting D . Prov . G . M ., the patent of appointment of Captain Clarke by the Earl of Zetland , Most Worshipful Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England , were severally read by the Provincial Grand Secretary Bro . T . M'Dermott , and the appointment ratified by the acclamations of the Brethren . After other appropriate observances , the procession was re-formed , withdrew , and , with those qualified , Bro . J . Moody opened a Board of Installed Masters , and duly installed Captain Clarke Prov . G . M . for Victoria . On the return of the procession to the Prov . G . Lod ^ e . the Prov . G . M . was invested bv Pr ov . G . M .
Bro . J . T . Smith , and conducted to the throne with appropriate remarks , and he then received the homage ' and congratulations of his Brethren . The Prov . G . M . made a suitable response , and proceeded to invest with appropriate observations his Prov . G . Officers . Three important motions proposed by Bro . Moody and seconded by Bro . Levick were unanimously adopted ; namely , a committee of Prov . G . Officers , and a representation from every Lodge in the Province , to frame draft bydaws , and cause to be printed proofs thereof , to be sent to every Lodge , and the same to be considered and ordered on at the next Provincial Grand Lodge .
A committee of the same Members to report on the Regalia , Insignia , Furniture , & c , required for the Provincial Grand Lodge . A committee of seven to report on the best means , with plans and estimate of cost , of a Freemasons' Hall in Melbourne , communicating , and if possible acting in concert , with bodies of Brethren attempting to attain the same object . The Prov . G . M ' .. then closed the Provincial Grand Lodge in due form , and he and the Brethren proceeded to the Criterion Hotel , where a sumptuous banquet , flavoured with the choicest wines , was served up by Bro . Wedel , in his wellknown style of excellence . About seventy or eighty Brethren were present , and
were enlivened by the strains of an instrumental band . The Prov . G . Organist accompanied the vocalists on the piano . The company enjoyed a delightful evening , and separated early .
CANADA . The Toronto papers , in alluding to the late melancholy railway accident , state that , amongst those who lost their lives , was Mr . Zimmerman , who was in Canada the counterpart of what Mr . Dargan is in Ireland : he was the principal promoter of every enterprise for the development of the resources of the province , and is stated to have realized a fortune of between £ 300 , 000 and £ 400 , 000 . He was killed instantaneously . He was an ardent and zealous member of the Masonic body , who honoured bis memory with a funeral rarely equalled in the history of the Craft , of which ( he following is an abbreviated account from the Toronto
uiouc : — Mil . ZTMIMKIIMAW ' S VUNEKATj . The funeral obsequies of TVlr . Zimmerman were performed at Clifton , in a manner wholly unexampled in this Province , as far as relates to the number of those who participated in the melancholy duties and the grandeur of the display . The whole country in the vicinity of Clifton appeared to have turned out en masse , and numbers having come from other parts of the province , a great concourse wa »