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The Old Dundee Lodge ( No . 18 ) , assembled in great force on Tuesday , the 6 th of February , when the W . M . elect , Bro . C . Carter was installed in due form , in a most able and excellent manner by the outgoing W . M . Bro . Steel . The officers were then appointed , and from the very competent manner , in which the Wardens ( they only having an opportunity of displaying their powers ) , performed their work , a most satisfactory reign maybe anticipated for the W . M . About forty Brethren were fully prepared to do justice to one of Bro . Bathe ' s excellent

repasts , the W . M . being supported on his right by Bros . Hervey , S . G . D . ; H * Muggeridge , P . M ., No . 227 ; C . Tyler , W . M . of Nos . 19 and 79 ; Rouse , Treas . No . 318 , and several G other visitors ; and on his left by Bros . P . M . s Steel , Browse ( Treas . ) , Yentom ^ . Cox , Gole , Cooper , Marlts , & e . The usual loyal and complimentary toasts were given and responded to , and many excellent songs by Bros . Jones , Long , Tyler , and though last not least by Bro . Roushaw , who is so deservedly a general favourite , enhanced the enjoyment and sociability of the evening . The absence of Bro . Dr . Rowe , P . G . S . D ., was a source of much regret .

Royal Athelstan Lodge ( No . 19 ) . —This Lodge held its usual monthly meeting , at the George and Blue Boar , on Wednesday evening , February 14 th , Bro . Tyler , W . M ., presiding . Owing to the inclemency of the weather , many Brethren were prevented attending . A proposition was duly made and carried during the evening , that a separate fund should be formed , exclusively for charities . The Brethren afterwards spent a very agreeable hour at the banquet table . — - We were unable , in our last number , to notice this Lodge at its January meeting-,

being the installation night . We will , however , first mention that few Lodges in the Craft have more fully sustained their high character for true Masonic working * , than the Royal Athelstan Lodge , it having numbered amongst its members some of the very best Masons . Death has removed from its list some of its old members , and unforeseen events have also taken away others , thus reducing its number ; but it is a matter of congratulation , for the Lodge to be able to boast that in its younger Brethren they have some able and efficient Craftsmen to occupy

the seats thus rendered vacant . The Lodge having been opened in due form ( after some preliminary business had been disposed of ) , Bro . Tyler was installed by the immediate P . M ., Bro . Palmer . We are sure the visitors and the Brethren present must have felt highly gratified at the very able and efficient manner , in which Bro . Palmer performed the ceremony , and we are only rendering justice to that worthy Brother in stating that there are few Brethren in the Craft who can equal him in true Masonic working ; these observations equally applv to the

present W . M ., Bro . Tyler , under whose presidency we feel that the Lodge , during his twelve months of office , must prosper . The W . M . appointed the following Brethren his Officers , viz . : — -Bros . Cox , S . W . ; Howell , J . W . ; Fox , S . D . ; Stone , J . D . ; Stray , I . G . ; Gale , Treasurer ; Honey , Secretary ; and Savage , D . of C . The Brethren adjourned to banquet , where the usual toasts were given and responded to in a truly Masonic manner , and a very happy hour was thus passed away .

Globe Lodge ( No . 23 ) . —At the monthly meeting of the members of this Lodge , Mr . W . Welch Miller was initiated into Masonry hy Bro . M . T . Humphrey , W . M ., whose impressive manner of performing the ceremony afforded great satisfaction to the Brethren , giving an earnest that the character of No . 23 , as a correctly working Lodge , will be well sustained , under his rule . Bro . Haig was then passed to the Second Degree , and the Lodge proceeded to nominate a Grand Steward , when Bro . J . W . Adams was chosen unanimously to represent No . 23 , being the

senior Brother who had not served the office . Bro . Watson alluded in feeling terms to" the death of Bro . Charker , and trusted their hope was well founded that a Brother , who had so well acted up to the principles of the Order here below , had been called by the G > A . O . T . U . to take his place in that Lodge above , which is not made with hands , but eternal in the heavens . The routine business having been gone through , the Brethren retired to refreshment , and passed an extremely pleasant evening .