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Article ANCIENT AND AeeEPTED BITE. ← Page 3 of 3 Article ROYAL ARCH Page 1 of 1 Article AMERICA Page 1 of 2 →
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Bro . Jones could ciily hope he deserved all that had been said of him , and trusted that at the close of his term of office his conduct Avould be found satisfactory . Bro . Cole then proposed the " Health of the Brethren who had that day been installed . " The toast was acknowledged byBrd . Read in ^ a short address , in AAliich he referred to his experience of the benefits of Masonry in distant parts of the Avorld , and alluded to his association with that excellent Mason , Sir James Brooke . The members separated at an early hour . l
Royal Arch
ROYAL AECH
PROVINCIAL CHAPTERS . Sooth Shields . — - ^ . Ilifctys Ch ^ desire on the part of the prosperous Craft Lodge of St . Hilda , has led to the formation of a Chapter in connexion therewith > which has just been auspiciously opened . A convocation of Royal Arch Masons , consisting of the companions of the province of Durham and Northumberland , was held on Wedne ^ Bro . Carman ' s , Golden Lion JIoteL at two ^ o ^ ing the Saint Hilda Chapter ( No . 29 % w ^
Eawcett , of Durham , as Z . ^ a ^ as H ., and Cpmp . E . D . Davis ( S . G . W . for Nortrnimberland ) as J ., opened and consecrated the Chapter in solemn form , and installed Comps . R . B . Ridley , Z . ; H ; Fenwick , as proxy for W . E . Franklin , H . ; and A . Davis , J . The following were appointed officers :- —Comps . Ridley , Treas . pro iem . ; HeAvispn , E . ; Oliver , N . ; and Buckland , P . S ., and duly invested . After the business had
concluded , and several propositions been made , which promise fair for the Chapter becoming not only prosperous , but vigorously conducted , about thirty of the Comps . adjourned to banquet , served by Bro . Carman , the chair being occupied by Comp . Ridley , Z ., supported by Comps . J . Fawcett , Prov . G . Supt ., H . Fenwick , J . Crossley / E . D . Davis , A . Davis , W . H . Crookes , W . Berkley , ( Z . No . 624 ) , J . Glaholm ( No . Ill ) , J . G . Tulloch , ( E . No . 624 ) , W . Twizell ( No . 624 ) , A . Clapham , ( PS . No . 614 ) , & c ., & a
America
AMERICA
GRAND LODGE OF CALIFORNIA . We are in the receipt of a printed copy of the " Report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence to the Grand Lodge of California , " at its annual communication in May last , The report is from the pen of the Grand Secretary , Bro . A . G . Abell , chairman of the committee , to Avhom we are under obligations for the early copy before us . Brother Abell reviews the proceedings of thirty-three Grand Lodges , and presents in his report all of the most important transactions of these
grand bodies . The report contains fifty-seven pages of closely printed matter , and although he remarks , that "it has been written at various intervals during a period of grievous sadness and anxiety , while watching by the sick bed of one most near ancl dear / ' it is indeed a " faithful summary of the proceedings of those grand bodies Avhich it professes to review . " The task of Brother Abell has been most ably performed . We will present our readers from time to time with extracts from this able report . In reviewing the proceedings of Arkansas , for 1856 , he comments upon the following decisions made by that Grand Lodge :
" 1 st—That a failure on the £ > art of a Lodge to meet for twelve months , involves the forfeiture of its charter . This , we think , should not be enunciated as a general law of Masonry , as it is a , matter properly depending upon the particular
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Ancient And Aeeepted Bite.
Bro . Jones could ciily hope he deserved all that had been said of him , and trusted that at the close of his term of office his conduct Avould be found satisfactory . Bro . Cole then proposed the " Health of the Brethren who had that day been installed . " The toast was acknowledged byBrd . Read in ^ a short address , in AAliich he referred to his experience of the benefits of Masonry in distant parts of the Avorld , and alluded to his association with that excellent Mason , Sir James Brooke . The members separated at an early hour . l
Royal Arch
ROYAL AECH
PROVINCIAL CHAPTERS . Sooth Shields . — - ^ . Ilifctys Ch ^ desire on the part of the prosperous Craft Lodge of St . Hilda , has led to the formation of a Chapter in connexion therewith > which has just been auspiciously opened . A convocation of Royal Arch Masons , consisting of the companions of the province of Durham and Northumberland , was held on Wedne ^ Bro . Carman ' s , Golden Lion JIoteL at two ^ o ^ ing the Saint Hilda Chapter ( No . 29 % w ^
Eawcett , of Durham , as Z . ^ a ^ as H ., and Cpmp . E . D . Davis ( S . G . W . for Nortrnimberland ) as J ., opened and consecrated the Chapter in solemn form , and installed Comps . R . B . Ridley , Z . ; H ; Fenwick , as proxy for W . E . Franklin , H . ; and A . Davis , J . The following were appointed officers :- —Comps . Ridley , Treas . pro iem . ; HeAvispn , E . ; Oliver , N . ; and Buckland , P . S ., and duly invested . After the business had
concluded , and several propositions been made , which promise fair for the Chapter becoming not only prosperous , but vigorously conducted , about thirty of the Comps . adjourned to banquet , served by Bro . Carman , the chair being occupied by Comp . Ridley , Z ., supported by Comps . J . Fawcett , Prov . G . Supt ., H . Fenwick , J . Crossley / E . D . Davis , A . Davis , W . H . Crookes , W . Berkley , ( Z . No . 624 ) , J . Glaholm ( No . Ill ) , J . G . Tulloch , ( E . No . 624 ) , W . Twizell ( No . 624 ) , A . Clapham , ( PS . No . 614 ) , & c ., & a
America
AMERICA
GRAND LODGE OF CALIFORNIA . We are in the receipt of a printed copy of the " Report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence to the Grand Lodge of California , " at its annual communication in May last , The report is from the pen of the Grand Secretary , Bro . A . G . Abell , chairman of the committee , to Avhom we are under obligations for the early copy before us . Brother Abell reviews the proceedings of thirty-three Grand Lodges , and presents in his report all of the most important transactions of these
grand bodies . The report contains fifty-seven pages of closely printed matter , and although he remarks , that "it has been written at various intervals during a period of grievous sadness and anxiety , while watching by the sick bed of one most near ancl dear / ' it is indeed a " faithful summary of the proceedings of those grand bodies Avhich it professes to review . " The task of Brother Abell has been most ably performed . We will present our readers from time to time with extracts from this able report . In reviewing the proceedings of Arkansas , for 1856 , he comments upon the following decisions made by that Grand Lodge :
" 1 st—That a failure on the £ > art of a Lodge to meet for twelve months , involves the forfeiture of its charter . This , we think , should not be enunciated as a general law of Masonry , as it is a , matter properly depending upon the particular