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could nqt be present ) knew anything about it , the Warrant was on its way to England , where probably more of this piece of sharp practice will be heard of officially . One thing more . Who is the new Grand Master ? Sir Allan Napier Macnab I of whom all the complaints for incompetencyr and inattention were made to your Grand Lodge by the very men who have just elected him . Yours fraternally , Canada West , Sept 15 , 1857 . A Canadian Mason .
YOBKSHIEE . —PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGK TO THE EDITOR OF THE EREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND KASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —I cannot tacitly allow the remarks of our worthy and Y . W . Prov . G ; Bee , Bro . Stark , respecting the arrangements at the Prov . Grand banquet , held at Mull , on the 30 th Septembery to pass , without the expression of my dissent thereto , in which I am satisfied I am joined by a large number of the Brethren who were present on that occasion .
Bro > Stark , in a circular , dated Mull , October 10 th , after stating , that at " six o ' clock upwards of 150 Brethren partook of an excellent banquet , and & most agreeable evening was spent , " proceeds to say , " that the entire arrangements were most satisfactory , and that the W . M . and Brethren of the Minerva Lodge could not but be gratified at the admirable results which attended their arduous exertions . ^
To the foregoing remarks of Bro . Stark I must demur , for the following reasons : 1 st . The want of punctuality , for the Brethren did not sit down until 6 * 45 p . m . ; the consequence of which was , that many who might otherwise have reached their homes that evening were either compelled to stay in Hull all night or leave before the proceedings were half over . 2 nd ; The great paucity of waiters , and the utter
inefficiency of the few who were there , prevented many of the Brethren , myself included , from obtaining even an apology for a dinner . 3 rd , and last . The quality of the wines , which would not have been tolerated in a fourth-rate tavern , added to which a singular anomaly in the value of the wine-tickets combined to produce an effect the very reverse of satisfactory .
Should a similar line of conduct be pursued at future Prov . Grand meetings a large number of the Brethren who attend the Lodge will be driven to abstain from joining the banquet . I have penned these remarks in no unfraternal feeling , but with a pure desire that such irregularities may by being brought into notice be avoided in the future . —Yours fraternally , Veritas .
Masonic Incident.
MASONIC INCIDENT .
Henry D . Garrett , who was made a Mason in the Monmouth Lodge , Jtfo . 37 , emigrated , a few years since , to Oregon , where he was an officer in the Lafayette Lodge , under the California jurisdiction . His health failing , he emigrated to the Sandwich Islands , where he died . Before leaving Illinois , he borrowed live hundred dollars of Jacob Garrett , his father , of Fulton county ; and , on his death-bed , he deposited five hundred dollars with the Brethren of the Hawaiian Lodge , at Honolulu , with the request that the sum might be sent to his father . The
Brethren there paid the expenses of his sickness and burial , put the money to use , and upon the first opportunity , forwarded a bill of exchange on the New Bedford Bank to the G . Sec . of the Grand Lodge of California . The bill was negotiated by the Hon . James Knox , without charge , and the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars was paid to Mr . Garrett . Thus , we see that , no matter where a Brother may be—whether in the east , or west , or in the far-off dsles of the ocean—he is cared for in his last moments , consoled and comforted on his last lonely journey , and his-dying requests scrupulously executed by his Brethren of the " mystic tie *"
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Goeiebpokbenge.
could nqt be present ) knew anything about it , the Warrant was on its way to England , where probably more of this piece of sharp practice will be heard of officially . One thing more . Who is the new Grand Master ? Sir Allan Napier Macnab I of whom all the complaints for incompetencyr and inattention were made to your Grand Lodge by the very men who have just elected him . Yours fraternally , Canada West , Sept 15 , 1857 . A Canadian Mason .
YOBKSHIEE . —PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGK TO THE EDITOR OF THE EREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND KASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —I cannot tacitly allow the remarks of our worthy and Y . W . Prov . G ; Bee , Bro . Stark , respecting the arrangements at the Prov . Grand banquet , held at Mull , on the 30 th Septembery to pass , without the expression of my dissent thereto , in which I am satisfied I am joined by a large number of the Brethren who were present on that occasion .
Bro > Stark , in a circular , dated Mull , October 10 th , after stating , that at " six o ' clock upwards of 150 Brethren partook of an excellent banquet , and & most agreeable evening was spent , " proceeds to say , " that the entire arrangements were most satisfactory , and that the W . M . and Brethren of the Minerva Lodge could not but be gratified at the admirable results which attended their arduous exertions . ^
To the foregoing remarks of Bro . Stark I must demur , for the following reasons : 1 st . The want of punctuality , for the Brethren did not sit down until 6 * 45 p . m . ; the consequence of which was , that many who might otherwise have reached their homes that evening were either compelled to stay in Hull all night or leave before the proceedings were half over . 2 nd ; The great paucity of waiters , and the utter
inefficiency of the few who were there , prevented many of the Brethren , myself included , from obtaining even an apology for a dinner . 3 rd , and last . The quality of the wines , which would not have been tolerated in a fourth-rate tavern , added to which a singular anomaly in the value of the wine-tickets combined to produce an effect the very reverse of satisfactory .
Should a similar line of conduct be pursued at future Prov . Grand meetings a large number of the Brethren who attend the Lodge will be driven to abstain from joining the banquet . I have penned these remarks in no unfraternal feeling , but with a pure desire that such irregularities may by being brought into notice be avoided in the future . —Yours fraternally , Veritas .
Masonic Incident.
MASONIC INCIDENT .
Henry D . Garrett , who was made a Mason in the Monmouth Lodge , Jtfo . 37 , emigrated , a few years since , to Oregon , where he was an officer in the Lafayette Lodge , under the California jurisdiction . His health failing , he emigrated to the Sandwich Islands , where he died . Before leaving Illinois , he borrowed live hundred dollars of Jacob Garrett , his father , of Fulton county ; and , on his death-bed , he deposited five hundred dollars with the Brethren of the Hawaiian Lodge , at Honolulu , with the request that the sum might be sent to his father . The
Brethren there paid the expenses of his sickness and burial , put the money to use , and upon the first opportunity , forwarded a bill of exchange on the New Bedford Bank to the G . Sec . of the Grand Lodge of California . The bill was negotiated by the Hon . James Knox , without charge , and the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars was paid to Mr . Garrett . Thus , we see that , no matter where a Brother may be—whether in the east , or west , or in the far-off dsles of the ocean—he is cared for in his last moments , consoled and comforted on his last lonely journey , and his-dying requests scrupulously executed by his Brethren of the " mystic tie *"