Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Colonial.
with the following inscription engraved , viz . : — "To P . M .,- Bro . Charles Wright , as a mark of esteem and respect , from the Lodge St . John and St . Paul , No . 437 , Malta , 1856 . "—This jewel is now completed , and by the kind permission of Bro . Spencer , we have been favoured with a sight of the artistic arrangement
of the stones round the square and problem , as well as the chaste workmanship of the silver ornaments on the blue enamel , which is admirably in keeping with the whole , and reflects the highest credit on the manufacturer ; it is fitted in a handsome morocco case lined with velvet , and the name of the recipient lettered on the outside . Bro . Wright has our hearty congratulations , and we sincerely hope he will be long spared to wear this handsome memento of Lodge No . 437 .
India.
IIDIA ,
BOMBAY . The following Memorandum has been issued by Lodge of Perseverance , holding under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , to the Craft : — The Prov . Grand Master of Western India having been pleased , through his Secretary , and hy means of printed and written circulars and notices , to denounce Lodge Perseverance , No . 351 , to members of the Craft and to others as a Lodge under suspension , and as considerable injury has thereby been already done to the said Lodge , it feels called upon , at this crisis , to vindicate itself before the Masonic
world by circulating among the Craft copies of its appeal to the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Scotland , against certain arhitrary , unjust , and illegal resolutions passed at a meeting of Freemasons held in an unconsecrated room in the house of tbe Prov . Grand Master , on the 30 th June , 1856 , and by him improperly designated a meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Western India ; and to render the matter plainer , a brief explanation of the origin of the present difficulty between this Lodge and the Bight Worshipful the Prov . Grand Master of Western India , is here given .
By a Convention among the various Masonic bodies in Bombay , working under the Grand Lodge and under the Supreme Grand Chapter of Scotland , it was agreed , on the 30 th March , 1853 , to rent suitable apartments for their mutual accommodation . Early in the past year , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master of Western India ( then Worshipful . Master of Lodge Perseverance , and now Prov . Grand Master of this
Province ) , in collusion with the Master of Lodge " Bising Star , " and with the Principals of the Boyal Arch Chapter of Perseverance , but without reference to their respective constituents , was pleased to admit to all the benefits and privileges of this Convention , an English Lodge called " St . George , " which tbe present Prov . Grand Master of Western India , when holding the Office of Deputy Prov . Grand Master , assisted in reviving , and which he has ever since supported with both his purse and influence .
The full effect and design of this arrangement became apparent and evident to the members of Lodge Perseverance in the month of January of tbe present year ; and feeling that as Bombay was a section of the Brovince of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , it was not just to that Most Worshipful body to foster a Lodge independent of its jurisdiction , Lodge Perseverance , to which solely the whole of the
property in the rooms taken by the Convention belonged , believing the introduction of Lodge " St . George " to be unauthorized and improper , declared Much introduction to be a breach of the Convention , and , as the principal Masonic body interested in the matter , demanded , in effect , that the rooms should be given up to it .
This demand , which was by no means either unconstitutional or inequitable , aroused the ire of the Prov . Grand Master of Western India , because , unhappily for the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , which ho represented in Western ' India , and that of tho Prov . Grand Lodge over which he presides , he happened to be one of the moat prominent rcsuscitators and supporters of tlu
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Colonial.
with the following inscription engraved , viz . : — "To P . M .,- Bro . Charles Wright , as a mark of esteem and respect , from the Lodge St . John and St . Paul , No . 437 , Malta , 1856 . "—This jewel is now completed , and by the kind permission of Bro . Spencer , we have been favoured with a sight of the artistic arrangement
of the stones round the square and problem , as well as the chaste workmanship of the silver ornaments on the blue enamel , which is admirably in keeping with the whole , and reflects the highest credit on the manufacturer ; it is fitted in a handsome morocco case lined with velvet , and the name of the recipient lettered on the outside . Bro . Wright has our hearty congratulations , and we sincerely hope he will be long spared to wear this handsome memento of Lodge No . 437 .
India.
IIDIA ,
BOMBAY . The following Memorandum has been issued by Lodge of Perseverance , holding under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , to the Craft : — The Prov . Grand Master of Western India having been pleased , through his Secretary , and hy means of printed and written circulars and notices , to denounce Lodge Perseverance , No . 351 , to members of the Craft and to others as a Lodge under suspension , and as considerable injury has thereby been already done to the said Lodge , it feels called upon , at this crisis , to vindicate itself before the Masonic
world by circulating among the Craft copies of its appeal to the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Scotland , against certain arhitrary , unjust , and illegal resolutions passed at a meeting of Freemasons held in an unconsecrated room in the house of tbe Prov . Grand Master , on the 30 th June , 1856 , and by him improperly designated a meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Western India ; and to render the matter plainer , a brief explanation of the origin of the present difficulty between this Lodge and the Bight Worshipful the Prov . Grand Master of Western India , is here given .
By a Convention among the various Masonic bodies in Bombay , working under the Grand Lodge and under the Supreme Grand Chapter of Scotland , it was agreed , on the 30 th March , 1853 , to rent suitable apartments for their mutual accommodation . Early in the past year , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master of Western India ( then Worshipful . Master of Lodge Perseverance , and now Prov . Grand Master of this
Province ) , in collusion with the Master of Lodge " Bising Star , " and with the Principals of the Boyal Arch Chapter of Perseverance , but without reference to their respective constituents , was pleased to admit to all the benefits and privileges of this Convention , an English Lodge called " St . George , " which tbe present Prov . Grand Master of Western India , when holding the Office of Deputy Prov . Grand Master , assisted in reviving , and which he has ever since supported with both his purse and influence .
The full effect and design of this arrangement became apparent and evident to the members of Lodge Perseverance in the month of January of tbe present year ; and feeling that as Bombay was a section of the Brovince of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , it was not just to that Most Worshipful body to foster a Lodge independent of its jurisdiction , Lodge Perseverance , to which solely the whole of the
property in the rooms taken by the Convention belonged , believing the introduction of Lodge " St . George " to be unauthorized and improper , declared Much introduction to be a breach of the Convention , and , as the principal Masonic body interested in the matter , demanded , in effect , that the rooms should be given up to it .
This demand , which was by no means either unconstitutional or inequitable , aroused the ire of the Prov . Grand Master of Western India , because , unhappily for the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , which ho represented in Western ' India , and that of tho Prov . Grand Lodge over which he presides , he happened to be one of the moat prominent rcsuscitators and supporters of tlu