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respect and esteem with reciprocal feelings , and beg to assure you , that the important duties which you have confided to me as Master of the Lodge shall have my most zealous attention , for its advancement and interest ; and should the Great Architect of the Universe permit me to return to my native country , this Jewel shall proclaim to the Brethren in that far-distant land , that the Brethren of the Bermuda or Somers Island Lodge maintain the same spirit of liberality and generosity for which Masons throughout every age and clime have been so justly celebrated . Brethren , I thank you for the unexpected honour thus conferred on me >"
The W . M . then presented the Lodge with a folio Bible , and remarked on the many different interpretations which men give of the Holy Scriptures , causing so many sects and parties in religion , each and all advancing very strong arguments in favour of the doctrines which they promulgate , yet , notwithstanding these differences , when they assemble round the altar of Masonry , all agree in the Masonic interpretation of the Scriptures , and the valuable doctrines which they teach .
The business of the Lodge being ended , the Brethren retired to their refreshment-rooms , where an excellent supper was provided by the W . M ., and the remainder of the evening was spent in mirth and harmony .
ST . KITTS . Mount Olive Lodge . —We hear from Bro . Wilson , the Proxy M . from this Lodge to the Grand Lodge of Scotland , that the ill state of health of Bro . Abbott , th e W . M . of this Lodge , having compelled him to seek its restoration in the salubrious air of America , he resigned his office ; and on the 20 th July , the Brethren unanimously elected Bro . Jos . K . Wattley to the office ; Bro . Edward Geo . Bawlins was appointed Sec . Since the election of Bro . Wattley he has initiated two candidates into the Order , and passed and raised a Brother to the 2 nd and 3 rd Degrees . Bro . Wattley has adopted the ceremony of England in his workings .
TBINIDAD . Port op Spain . —Lodge of United Prothers ( No . 251 ) . —We are happy to record one of the most distinct and distinguishing honours ever paid a Brother Mason , and which reflects the highest credit on those Brethren who , at a time when affliction visited an esteemed Brother , presented to him so graceful a token of their
high esteem , and their confidence in his honour and truth . The testimonial and expression of brotherly affection sprang out of the following cause : —A person ( who has fled ) employed in the Colonial Bank , at Trinidad , of which our Bro . J . A . Tench was manager , took advantage of the confidence
reposed in him , and embezzled moneys to a large amount . The directors of the bank , unable to get hold of the culprit , and determined in their vexation to punish some one , fixed upon Bro . Tench , and dismissed him from a situation he had held for upwards of twenty years ; thus ignoring not only the benefits he had conferred upon them by his exertions , but casting such a reflection upon his character as would have ruined , mentally , bodily , and pecuniarily , some men .
^ As soon as the dismissal became known , a meeting of the chief inhabitants of the island took place , and testified to the high confidence they had in Bro . Tench . Their names , two in a line , fill a column of that excellent paper the Trinidad Sentinel . ^ Then followed a meeting of the Lodge of which Bro . J . A . Tench is a most distinguished member : when they not only presented him with the following
address , but also with a purse containg £ 50 sterling . Before concluding this introduction to the address , we would express our surprise that another bank is not established in Trinidad . Why permit a monopoly—and why not , now that the whole community have expressed such confidence in Bro . Tench , start one ? To repeat the opinions expressed in the
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West Indies
respect and esteem with reciprocal feelings , and beg to assure you , that the important duties which you have confided to me as Master of the Lodge shall have my most zealous attention , for its advancement and interest ; and should the Great Architect of the Universe permit me to return to my native country , this Jewel shall proclaim to the Brethren in that far-distant land , that the Brethren of the Bermuda or Somers Island Lodge maintain the same spirit of liberality and generosity for which Masons throughout every age and clime have been so justly celebrated . Brethren , I thank you for the unexpected honour thus conferred on me >"
The W . M . then presented the Lodge with a folio Bible , and remarked on the many different interpretations which men give of the Holy Scriptures , causing so many sects and parties in religion , each and all advancing very strong arguments in favour of the doctrines which they promulgate , yet , notwithstanding these differences , when they assemble round the altar of Masonry , all agree in the Masonic interpretation of the Scriptures , and the valuable doctrines which they teach .
The business of the Lodge being ended , the Brethren retired to their refreshment-rooms , where an excellent supper was provided by the W . M ., and the remainder of the evening was spent in mirth and harmony .
ST . KITTS . Mount Olive Lodge . —We hear from Bro . Wilson , the Proxy M . from this Lodge to the Grand Lodge of Scotland , that the ill state of health of Bro . Abbott , th e W . M . of this Lodge , having compelled him to seek its restoration in the salubrious air of America , he resigned his office ; and on the 20 th July , the Brethren unanimously elected Bro . Jos . K . Wattley to the office ; Bro . Edward Geo . Bawlins was appointed Sec . Since the election of Bro . Wattley he has initiated two candidates into the Order , and passed and raised a Brother to the 2 nd and 3 rd Degrees . Bro . Wattley has adopted the ceremony of England in his workings .
TBINIDAD . Port op Spain . —Lodge of United Prothers ( No . 251 ) . —We are happy to record one of the most distinct and distinguishing honours ever paid a Brother Mason , and which reflects the highest credit on those Brethren who , at a time when affliction visited an esteemed Brother , presented to him so graceful a token of their
high esteem , and their confidence in his honour and truth . The testimonial and expression of brotherly affection sprang out of the following cause : —A person ( who has fled ) employed in the Colonial Bank , at Trinidad , of which our Bro . J . A . Tench was manager , took advantage of the confidence
reposed in him , and embezzled moneys to a large amount . The directors of the bank , unable to get hold of the culprit , and determined in their vexation to punish some one , fixed upon Bro . Tench , and dismissed him from a situation he had held for upwards of twenty years ; thus ignoring not only the benefits he had conferred upon them by his exertions , but casting such a reflection upon his character as would have ruined , mentally , bodily , and pecuniarily , some men .
^ As soon as the dismissal became known , a meeting of the chief inhabitants of the island took place , and testified to the high confidence they had in Bro . Tench . Their names , two in a line , fill a column of that excellent paper the Trinidad Sentinel . ^ Then followed a meeting of the Lodge of which Bro . J . A . Tench is a most distinguished member : when they not only presented him with the following
address , but also with a purse containg £ 50 sterling . Before concluding this introduction to the address , we would express our surprise that another bank is not established in Trinidad . Why permit a monopoly—and why not , now that the whole community have expressed such confidence in Bro . Tench , start one ? To repeat the opinions expressed in the