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communications and petitions ; I am therefore confident , that in order to relieve their anxiety , you will not delay a moment in laying our case before the proper officers . —I have the honour of subscribing myself , Right Worshipful Sir ,
Edward Hamper , Esq ., Yours fraternally , Colonial Secretary of the United ( Signed ) John Dean , Grand Lodge of England . Secretary of Convention . . P . S . —We have written Bro . Laughton , requesting him to render you any assistance in his . power in the above business . You will consider him , the
authorized agent of the Convention , as whatever he may do in our behalf , as to expense or other business relative to obtaining the warrant , will be acknowledged by the Convention . ( Signed ) John Dean " , Secretary of Convention .
TO . THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Deab Sir afd Brother , —I have just had an opportunity of perusing your Magazine for April , 1856 , and must say that I felt highly gratified at the amount of Masonic information contained therein . I assure you I lost no time in sending through , a stationer here to subscribe to so valuable a book , and have ordered the back numbers , from January , 1856 . I belong to the British Lodge ,
No . 419 , of South Africa , and have sent you herewith a short account—" from one of our local papers "—of the inauguration of a new temple for the Lodge , which has cost upwards of £ 1 , 500 , a very large sum for so small a Lodge to expend upon a Masonic temple , numbering at the time of the purchase about thirtyfive members ; but am very happy to inform you that at the present time we number upwards of fifty subscribing members .
There are two Dutch Lodges at Cape Town , and two English . The other Lodge is the Hope , No . 473 , but they have had no meetings for some time ; but a new Master has been nominated , and I hope ere long the " Hope " will flourish , as well as the "British , " in Cape Town . We feel greatly the want of a Prov . Grand Master at the Cape , and have sent to the Grand Lodge about it ; and have no doubt shall receive a favourable reply to our request , which is , that we may have a Prov . Grand Master , without the
expense of a Prov . Grand Lodge , as the Dutch Prov . Grand Master is a Lodge in himself , to grant dispensations , & c . The account of the inauguration I enclose , thinking it might he interesting to your readers . There is likewise a question which a friend has requested me to try and have solved , through the medium of your colnnms , which I likewise enclose .
The members of this Lodge are about to present a testimonial to an old and faithful Past Master , and Past Secretary of the British Chapter , Bro . John King ; and in my next to you I will send you an account of the presentation . The celebration of the Festival of St . John the Baptist took place on the 24 th June last , and the W . M . elect was regularly installed , and was pleased to appoint and invest Bros . J . S . Rowe , S . W ., British Lodge ; M . T . King , J . W ., W .
Whitta , Treas . ; J . T . Roller , Sec . ; T . H . Harriden , S . D ., E . A . Bower , J . I ) ., James Lycett , I . G ., Christian Ganget , Tyler . Trusting you will excuse the liberty I have taken in sending you this in fori nation , believe me to remain , Yours fraternally , Cape Town , Cape of Good Hope , Thoh . F . Russell , July , 1856 . Master British Lodge , No . 419 .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? THE ^ ttEEMASONH' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Respected Sik and Brother , —Permit a Master Mason of the province oi Worcestershire to ask my . Prov . Grand Master three plain questions , and to
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Cohkesponbence.
communications and petitions ; I am therefore confident , that in order to relieve their anxiety , you will not delay a moment in laying our case before the proper officers . —I have the honour of subscribing myself , Right Worshipful Sir ,
Edward Hamper , Esq ., Yours fraternally , Colonial Secretary of the United ( Signed ) John Dean , Grand Lodge of England . Secretary of Convention . . P . S . —We have written Bro . Laughton , requesting him to render you any assistance in his . power in the above business . You will consider him , the
authorized agent of the Convention , as whatever he may do in our behalf , as to expense or other business relative to obtaining the warrant , will be acknowledged by the Convention . ( Signed ) John Dean " , Secretary of Convention .
TO . THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Deab Sir afd Brother , —I have just had an opportunity of perusing your Magazine for April , 1856 , and must say that I felt highly gratified at the amount of Masonic information contained therein . I assure you I lost no time in sending through , a stationer here to subscribe to so valuable a book , and have ordered the back numbers , from January , 1856 . I belong to the British Lodge ,
No . 419 , of South Africa , and have sent you herewith a short account—" from one of our local papers "—of the inauguration of a new temple for the Lodge , which has cost upwards of £ 1 , 500 , a very large sum for so small a Lodge to expend upon a Masonic temple , numbering at the time of the purchase about thirtyfive members ; but am very happy to inform you that at the present time we number upwards of fifty subscribing members .
There are two Dutch Lodges at Cape Town , and two English . The other Lodge is the Hope , No . 473 , but they have had no meetings for some time ; but a new Master has been nominated , and I hope ere long the " Hope " will flourish , as well as the "British , " in Cape Town . We feel greatly the want of a Prov . Grand Master at the Cape , and have sent to the Grand Lodge about it ; and have no doubt shall receive a favourable reply to our request , which is , that we may have a Prov . Grand Master , without the
expense of a Prov . Grand Lodge , as the Dutch Prov . Grand Master is a Lodge in himself , to grant dispensations , & c . The account of the inauguration I enclose , thinking it might he interesting to your readers . There is likewise a question which a friend has requested me to try and have solved , through the medium of your colnnms , which I likewise enclose .
The members of this Lodge are about to present a testimonial to an old and faithful Past Master , and Past Secretary of the British Chapter , Bro . John King ; and in my next to you I will send you an account of the presentation . The celebration of the Festival of St . John the Baptist took place on the 24 th June last , and the W . M . elect was regularly installed , and was pleased to appoint and invest Bros . J . S . Rowe , S . W ., British Lodge ; M . T . King , J . W ., W .
Whitta , Treas . ; J . T . Roller , Sec . ; T . H . Harriden , S . D ., E . A . Bower , J . I ) ., James Lycett , I . G ., Christian Ganget , Tyler . Trusting you will excuse the liberty I have taken in sending you this in fori nation , believe me to remain , Yours fraternally , Cape Town , Cape of Good Hope , Thoh . F . Russell , July , 1856 . Master British Lodge , No . 419 .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? THE ^ ttEEMASONH' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Respected Sik and Brother , —Permit a Master Mason of the province oi Worcestershire to ask my . Prov . Grand Master three plain questions , and to