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Ireland.
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St . JOHN ; the B ^ P ( tisT . - ^ This "Festival was observed with the accustomed solemnities , ^^ 24 th July , bythe rnem constituted iun ^ Club Hoiise at se ^
CARLOW
Commerce Grand ^ Brp . Cottle > presided , and ^ ^ R * W . Grand Secretai ^ proceeded to install B ^ mpngton ^ J ^ . ; I l yh ^ fifi ^ of the Bret ^ pai ^ ook of a ^ suto evening . " ^
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. ;¦ ; A very large ahd important meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada West ; under the jurisdiction of the GrandLodge of ^ on the 30 th June . The meeting had been ^ with a view of giving the authorities at heme ample opportunity to send a favourable reply to the memorial of last January . None such > however , arrived
and the painful facts of pur case became so apparent t 6 every member of the Prpyincial Grand Lodge that a unanimous resolution f or independence was carried , after a thorbugh revie ^ of meeting to b * e called a-month hence , after completion of articles pf union with the so-called " Grand Lodge pf Canada , " to be agreed upon "b y a joint committee appointed by / both bodies ; and on the adoption of which , both Grand Lodges are to cease , and a new one to be formed . The manner in which our memorial to the
Grand Lodge was treated by that body—being passed over wnreqd / - ^ was strongly commented upon . The so-called <( concessions " of the M . W . G . M .--after his ^ e years study of our wants , and after ojxv final memorial was in his hands a sufficient time for him to understand " that the time for such moderate concessions had been allowed to pass ! "The referring of our memorial to the Colonial Board , for them , not Grand Lodge to read ; and their sending us a second copy of the M . W . G . M / s remarks as the answer of the Grand Lodge . The treatment of our case , as represented by Bro . Beech , who had been deputed to inquire into our
grievances—the M . W . G . M ., having ' < no time " to listen to his report , referring himtotheG . Reg ., for that Officer to grant us redress I All these , and many more , formed the counts of the indictment ; and could there be other than unanimity in our verdict , after a weary five years'trial ? The meeting was large , —between sixty and seventy representatives of the Lodges holding allegiance to the Grand Lodge of England being present , —and though perhaps smaller than former meetings of our Provincial Grand Lodge , still shoy / ed a goodly number that had clung to the last to the hope that English Masons in Canada would not be denied the rights and courtesies enjoyed by English Masons at home . The sentiment was uttered by many , " England , with
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ireland.
1 ^
St . JOHN ; the B ^ P ( tisT . - ^ This "Festival was observed with the accustomed solemnities , ^^ 24 th July , bythe rnem constituted iun ^ Club Hoiise at se ^
CARLOW
Commerce Grand ^ Brp . Cottle > presided , and ^ ^ R * W . Grand Secretai ^ proceeded to install B ^ mpngton ^ J ^ . ; I l yh ^ fifi ^ of the Bret ^ pai ^ ook of a ^ suto evening . " ^
Colonial.
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. ;¦ ; A very large ahd important meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada West ; under the jurisdiction of the GrandLodge of ^ on the 30 th June . The meeting had been ^ with a view of giving the authorities at heme ample opportunity to send a favourable reply to the memorial of last January . None such > however , arrived
and the painful facts of pur case became so apparent t 6 every member of the Prpyincial Grand Lodge that a unanimous resolution f or independence was carried , after a thorbugh revie ^ of meeting to b * e called a-month hence , after completion of articles pf union with the so-called " Grand Lodge pf Canada , " to be agreed upon "b y a joint committee appointed by / both bodies ; and on the adoption of which , both Grand Lodges are to cease , and a new one to be formed . The manner in which our memorial to the
Grand Lodge was treated by that body—being passed over wnreqd / - ^ was strongly commented upon . The so-called <( concessions " of the M . W . G . M .--after his ^ e years study of our wants , and after ojxv final memorial was in his hands a sufficient time for him to understand " that the time for such moderate concessions had been allowed to pass ! "The referring of our memorial to the Colonial Board , for them , not Grand Lodge to read ; and their sending us a second copy of the M . W . G . M / s remarks as the answer of the Grand Lodge . The treatment of our case , as represented by Bro . Beech , who had been deputed to inquire into our
grievances—the M . W . G . M ., having ' < no time " to listen to his report , referring himtotheG . Reg ., for that Officer to grant us redress I All these , and many more , formed the counts of the indictment ; and could there be other than unanimity in our verdict , after a weary five years'trial ? The meeting was large , —between sixty and seventy representatives of the Lodges holding allegiance to the Grand Lodge of England being present , —and though perhaps smaller than former meetings of our Provincial Grand Lodge , still shoy / ed a goodly number that had clung to the last to the hope that English Masons in Canada would not be denied the rights and courtesies enjoyed by English Masons at home . The sentiment was uttered by many , " England , with