Reports Of Meetings.

REPORTS OF MEETINGS .

PEOYINCIAL . ROYAL SUSSEX LODGE , No . 53 . THE annual installation took place on Monday , at the Masonic Hall , Old Orchard Street , Bath .

The Lodge was visited by Bro . R . C . Else D . P . G . M . Somerset , together with Past Masters and Brethren from the various Lodges in Bath . The W . M .-elect Brother C . Stafford Ellery , was installed by Bro . Allon Tucker W . M ., and the Officers were appointed .

General regret was expressed that Bro . Col . J . Randle Ford , who had held the office of Director of Ceremonies for a long number of years , found it necessary to decline its acceptance on the present occasion . After the business of the Lodgo was concluded , the Brethren adjourned to the dining hall , where the Annual banquet took place . o o o

AT tho regular meeting on Tuesday , at Plymouth , Bro . G . R . Stanlake was unanimously elected W . M ., Bro . R Pongelly P . M . P . P . G . A . D . C . Treasurer and Representative on the Committee of Petitions , and Bro . W . Hocking Charity Steward . Tho Annual meeting will be held on St . John's Day , 27 th inst ., and tho dinner immediately after . o o o

ST . JOHN LODGE , No . 70 .

BRITISH UNION LODGE , No . 114 .

THE Annual meeting was held at the Freemasons' Hall , Ipswich , on Thursday , 6 th inst ., when Bro . Thomas B . Read was installed Worshipful Master for the ensuing year . The Installation ceremony was impressively performed by Bro . Sir J . B . Monckton P . G . W ., after which the Worshipful Master appointed and invested his Officers .

The Installation banquet followed , the Worshipful Master presiding , supported by Bro . Sir John B . Monckton , Peter de L . Long , & c . Apologies for inability to attend were received from the Provincial Grand Master ( Lord Henniker ) , Bro . Letchworth Grand Secretary , Sir Reginald Hanson , and others .

Brother C . E . Tempest proposed the health of the Worshipful Master . He had , he said , very great pleasure in asking them to drink that toast most heartily , and to accord to their Worshipful Master the most fraternal greeting possible , because he was quite sure no one could have deserved the honour conferred that night in Freemasonry more than Bro . Read . He could speak from personal

knowledge of the excellent work Brother Read had done in Freemasonry , and the success which had attended his own year of office was largely due to the energy and zeal displayed by his Senior Warden . He knew that every member and visitor to that Lodge joined with him in wishing Brother Read a very pleasant year of office .

The Worshipful Master , in response , said he scarcely knew how to express his feelings upon that occasion . He felt that Brother Tempest had spoken of him in teims of commendation far beyond what he really deserved . It had been his pleasure , and as he considered it , his duty , since he had been a member of the British Union Lodge to do all he could to further its interest , and if he had accomplished anything which called for their approval he bad been

amply repaid . He found that it was just seven years since he was initiated into the Lodge by a Brother who was a very near and dear friend to him—their late Bro . Clark . Since that time he had gone into office step by step . He had filled , he was proud to say , every chair in the Ledge . He assured them that it was one of the proudest moments in his life to find himself in the high position he occupied that evening .

The Master next proposed the toast of the Installing Master Sir J . B . Monckton , expressing the sense of pride which he felt in having been installed in the chair of King Solomon by one of the most eminent Freemasons of the day . He understood from Sir John that this was the 122 nd installation he had performeo , and which , he thought , they would agree with him was a record very few Freemasons could show , and which spoke volumes for the sterling worth of the installing Master .

Bro . Sir J . B . Monckton , in acknowledging the toast , sajs the " East Anglian Daily Times , " remarked that it was between twenty and thirty years since he first occupied for a few minutes the chair of King Solomon in the British Union Lodge . Since that time he had had several opportunities of perfoiming the

ceremony of Installation in that Lodge , and ho was delighted to have done so , because the subjects of those ceremonies had been good Masons , who had reflected credit upon the Craft , and lustre upon the British Union Lodge ever since . He spoke with particular pleasure at being enabled to fulfil his engagement to instal Bro . Read .

o o o MARQUIS OF GRANBY LODGE , No . 124 . A MEETING was held at the Freemasons' Hall , Old Elvet , Durham , on Tuesday , when Bro . Henry Brown , H . M . Inspector of Schools , was elected W . M . for the ensuing year . Bro , Matthew Fowler , M . P ., was re-elected Treasurer , and Bro . W . Grabham Tyler .

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After the election the festival of St . John the Evangelist was held , when about forty Brethren sat down to an excellent repast provided by Mrs . Thompson , of the Dun Cow Inn , amongst those present being Colonel Rowlandson and Bro . J . G . Wilson ( Under Sheriff of the county ) .

The usual Loyal and Masonic toasts were drank , and a most enjoyable evening was spent . The installation of Officers takes place the first Wednesday in January . 0 0 o

HARMONY LODGE , No . 156 .

AT the regular meeting of the Lodge , held on Monday , 3 rd inst ., at Plymouth , Bro . Charles S . Stebbins S . W . was elected Master for the ensuing year . Bro . H . F . Hearle P . P . G . A . D . C . P . M . was elected Treasurer and Bro . W . H . Phillips Tyler . o o o

LODGE OF INTEGRITY , No . 163 . THE regular meeting was held at the Masonio Hall , Manchester , on Wednesday , 28 th ult ., the following being present : —Bros . J . M . H . Blarney W . M ., R . Alf . Hepworth S . W ., Samuel Gaskill

J . W ., J . M . Sinclair P . M . P . P . J . G D . Treas ., Joseph Clemmey Sec , Fred . Walmsley J . D ., John Allon I . G ., J . Wildgoose P . M ., John E . Williams P . M ., John Studd P . M ., D . D . Macpherson P . M ., T . H . Scholfiekl P . M ., R . L . McMillan P . M ., Richard Simister P . M ., E . Buzzard , A . Dunn , Robert Race , J . Darley , Arthur Nield , J . Grime , Wm . Moorhouse , T . B . Boltdn , Chas . Sleo , James Mitchell , J . H .

Studd , Ben Eastwood , John Bolton , J . E . Mead , Edward Roberts P . M . ( FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE ) . Visitors : — Bros . Wm . Madeley P . M . 163 , Jas . Wright P . M . 210 and 1459 , John Moffatt P . M . 1140 , Jno . G . Bromley P . M . 1375 , Wm . Bee P . M . 1459 , A . Williamson P . M . 1774 , Isaac Hurlow I . G . 1459 , and others . The principal business of the evening was the balloting for and

initiation of Mr . Henry Edward Massie , of the M . S . & L . Railway Company , Manchester , the ceremony being performed by the W . M . in that painstaking and efficient manner which always distinguishes the work of Bro . Blarney . To Bro . Gaskill was assigned the duty of rendering the Charge in the N . E ., and , as usual , he acquitted himself to the satisfaction of the Brethren .

At the festive board which followed , the usual Loyal and Masonic toasts were honoured , that of tho Initiate being proposed by the W . M ., who spoke very highly in praise of the former . In reply , Bro . Massie said , " I beg to thank you for accepting me as a Brother amongst you . Your magnificent ceremony has so

impressed me that I feel totally unable to add much in reply except again to very heartily express my thanks to one and all for the honour received at your hands , and to say that I will endeavour to bo a good Mason , true to my Brethren , and loyal to the Lodge of Integrity . "

Other toasts followed , the same being interspersed by songs , Ac , given by various Brethren . o o o

LOYAL LODGE , No . 251

THE election meeting was held on Monday , at the Masonio Hall , Barnstaple , when Bro . Harper S . W . was elected to the chair , Bro . John Brewer chosen as Treasurer , and Brother H . J . Hancock Tyler . o o 6

SYMPATHY LODGE OF INSTRUCTION , No . 483

ON the 3 rd inst ., at the Star Hotel , Gravesend , there were present : Bros . H . Forss P . M . Preceptor , H . Watts W . M ., J . P Moore P . M . S . W ., J . G . Dale P . M . J . W ., W . Bowen J . D ., J . P . White P . M . Sec , Martin Tyler . Visitors : W . H . Quick 282 , Bedford , Joseph Soloman P . M . 77 , Gravesend . The ceremony of Initiation was rehearsed , Bro . Quick being the candidate . o o o

LODGE OF INSTRUCTION , No , 581

A MEETING of this Lodge was held at the Old Boar's Head , Manchester , on Tuesday , the 27 th ult ., Bro . J . W . Abbott P . M . P . P . G . D . C . Preceptor . There was an attendance of over thirty Bretl r "" r < vrvrt "t amongst whom were Bros . G . T . Lenard Treas ., Aifd . , , ' . P . G D . D . C . Sec , Chas . Sleigh , G . W , Davies , J . T . ; rotur , Thos . Hamnett , R . Lingard , J . J . Dean and

Ed . Loebell . Visitors : —Watson 852 , Goodfellow W . M . 1030 and Bishop 1219 . The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed , the ceremonies of Initiation and Passing were rehearsed , Brother L . Hirsch undertaking the first , and Brother H . J . Harrison

performing the second , both being exceedingly capable performances . The names of the following Brethren were submitted as members , and they will accordingly be balloted for at the noxt meeting to be held on Thursday , 13 th inst ., viz ., Brothers H . L . Falk 633 , Caradoc Owens 992 , F . T . Hair 1011 , A . E . Bishop 1219 . On that occasion the ceremony of Raising will bo rehearsed . O O O

PENTALPHA LODGE , No . 974

THE annual gathering was held at the Masonic Hall , Darley Street , Bradford , on Tuesday , when tnere was a large gathering of members of the Craft . Bro . Claude Taylor was installed as W . M . for the ensuing year , and invested the Officers . After tho proceedings in tho Lodge Room , the Brethren celebrated the Festival of St . John .