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Knights Templar.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
METROPOLITAN . THE OBSERVANCE ENCAMPMENT held its first meeting this season at the Thatched House Tavern , St . James ' s Street , on Thursday , the 20 th Jan ., when Sir Knight James Merryweather , M . D ., was duly installed Eminent Commander , according to ancient form , for the year 1859 , in the presence of a numerous body of Prov . Grand Commanders , Past Eminent Commanders , ancl Knights , when he appointed the following officers , viz : —Sir Kts . AVm . Ranger , C . E ., 1 st Capt . ; J . S . Tulloch , M . D .,
2 nd Capt . ; Matthew Dawes . ( Prov . Grand Com . ) Prelate ; H . J . Hinxman , M . D ., Expert ; Philip Graves , Hospitaller ; Thomas Stevens , Captain of the Lines ; John Masson ( P . E . C ) , Registrar ; H . AV . Spratt , 1 st Herald ; S . H . Clarke , 2 nd Herald ; Daws and Smith , Equerries . At the meeting of the 17 th Feb ., after the report of the audit committee was read , Sir Kt . John Masson , P . E . Com . ancl Grand Chancellor , was unanimously re-elected Treas . for the twenty-third time . The visitors were , Sir Kt . Col . Alexander Gordon , Royal Engineers , Prov . Grand Com . for Berkshire , and Sir Kt . Deacon , D . Prov . Grand Com . for Hampshire .
Colonial.
COLONIAL .
MAURITIUS . PORT LODIS . —Masonry appears to have increased during the last twelve months in tliis town . A Loclge was established in the 4 th King's Own Regiment iu 1857 , ancl during the time that Lodge was here twenty-eight gentlemen were initiated and affiliated . On the departure of that regiment , seventeen members ofthe Lodge remained behind in Mauritius , aud have formed themselves into a new Lodge , which is to be installed by the British Lodge on Monday next , the 27 th instant ,
being St . John ' s Day . The British Lodge was itself installed by the 4 th King ' s Own Lodge on the 22 nd of October last . AVe also hear that it is the intention of the members of the British aud Military Lodge to attend divine service on Monday next , in the cathedral church of St . James , at 5 p . m . when a sermon appropriate to the occasion will be delivered by the Rev . M . C . O'Dell , who no doubt will be able to count amongst his hearers the greater part of the Masons iu Mauritius . — Commercial Gazette , Dec . ZitU , 1858 ,
India.
INDIA .
BENGAL . MEETING OF TUB PROVINCIAL QlUND LODGE , At a special meeting of the District Grancl Lodge of Bengal , held at Howrah , on Friday , the 10 th December , 1858 , present , R . AV . Bro . J . J . L . Hoff , D . Prov . G . M ., as Prov . G . M . ; the several Officers and Past Officers of the District Grand Loclge ; aud the Masters , Past Masters , and AVardens of Lodges in Calcutta ; and as visitors , the Master , Past Master , and AA ardens of the Scotch Lodge , St David in the East , No . 371 ; the District Grand Lodge was opened in form . The Deputy Provincial Grand Master adverted to tho object for whicli this special meeting of the District
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Knights Templar.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
METROPOLITAN . THE OBSERVANCE ENCAMPMENT held its first meeting this season at the Thatched House Tavern , St . James ' s Street , on Thursday , the 20 th Jan ., when Sir Knight James Merryweather , M . D ., was duly installed Eminent Commander , according to ancient form , for the year 1859 , in the presence of a numerous body of Prov . Grand Commanders , Past Eminent Commanders , ancl Knights , when he appointed the following officers , viz : —Sir Kts . AVm . Ranger , C . E ., 1 st Capt . ; J . S . Tulloch , M . D .,
2 nd Capt . ; Matthew Dawes . ( Prov . Grand Com . ) Prelate ; H . J . Hinxman , M . D ., Expert ; Philip Graves , Hospitaller ; Thomas Stevens , Captain of the Lines ; John Masson ( P . E . C ) , Registrar ; H . AV . Spratt , 1 st Herald ; S . H . Clarke , 2 nd Herald ; Daws and Smith , Equerries . At the meeting of the 17 th Feb ., after the report of the audit committee was read , Sir Kt . John Masson , P . E . Com . ancl Grand Chancellor , was unanimously re-elected Treas . for the twenty-third time . The visitors were , Sir Kt . Col . Alexander Gordon , Royal Engineers , Prov . Grand Com . for Berkshire , and Sir Kt . Deacon , D . Prov . Grand Com . for Hampshire .
Colonial.
COLONIAL .
MAURITIUS . PORT LODIS . —Masonry appears to have increased during the last twelve months in tliis town . A Loclge was established in the 4 th King's Own Regiment iu 1857 , ancl during the time that Lodge was here twenty-eight gentlemen were initiated and affiliated . On the departure of that regiment , seventeen members ofthe Lodge remained behind in Mauritius , aud have formed themselves into a new Lodge , which is to be installed by the British Lodge on Monday next , the 27 th instant ,
being St . John ' s Day . The British Lodge was itself installed by the 4 th King ' s Own Lodge on the 22 nd of October last . AVe also hear that it is the intention of the members of the British aud Military Lodge to attend divine service on Monday next , in the cathedral church of St . James , at 5 p . m . when a sermon appropriate to the occasion will be delivered by the Rev . M . C . O'Dell , who no doubt will be able to count amongst his hearers the greater part of the Masons iu Mauritius . — Commercial Gazette , Dec . ZitU , 1858 ,
India.
INDIA .
BENGAL . MEETING OF TUB PROVINCIAL QlUND LODGE , At a special meeting of the District Grancl Lodge of Bengal , held at Howrah , on Friday , the 10 th December , 1858 , present , R . AV . Bro . J . J . L . Hoff , D . Prov . G . M ., as Prov . G . M . ; the several Officers and Past Officers of the District Grand Loclge ; aud the Masters , Past Masters , and AVardens of Lodges in Calcutta ; and as visitors , the Master , Past Master , and AA ardens of the Scotch Lodge , St David in the East , No . 371 ; the District Grand Lodge was opened in form . The Deputy Provincial Grand Master adverted to tho object for whicli this special meeting of the District