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Masonic Reception To Lord Carrington.
feelings towards tliat Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodge of England as accorded to the Grand Lodge of Sonth Australia the most cordial recognition of its rights and privileges as an independent Grand Lodge . We are , therefore glad of the opportunity of expressing through your Lordship onr fraternal sentiments towards the Grand
Lodge of which yonr Lordship is so distinguished an ornament . Tbe present also is the happy occasion of our welcoming in your Lordship ' s person the most eminent English Mason who has hononred onr
Grand Lodge with a fraternal visit . Offering your Lordship onr warmest wishes for the health and happiness of yourself , Lady Carrington , and your children , we subscribe ourselves , on behalf of tbe Grand Lodge of South Australia ,
Yonr Lordship ' s most obedient servants and brethren , S . J . WAT , Grand Master , J . H . CUNNINGHAM , Grand Secretary . " The Grand Master said—I am sure yon will all agree with me that tbe incident of this evening is one of the most interesting that has
happened in the history of Sonth Australian Masonry . We all appreciate it as a high honour that we are able to welcome to this Grand Lodge a nobleman and statesman of high rank , the great and able Governor of the neighbouring colony of New South Wales , and a distinguished member of the Grand Lodge of England . I think I may
add that onr interest in the proceedings of this evening is heightened by the fact that this is the first time we have had the opportunity of expressing to a member of the Grand Lodge of England in person the fraternal sentiments which we entertain towards that Grand Lodge . We no longer owe allegiance to , and we are no longer nnder the
authority of the Grand Lodge of England , but we are bound to it by the much more inseparable and indissoluble ties of fraternity and of affection . I have no doubt that all the brethren present will recall the fact that the cordiality of our recognition by the Grand Lodge of England was accentuated by the recent incident in your
Lordship s colony of New Sonth Wales—the greatest event in the history of Australasia—when the world learned from the patriotic action of the colonists of New South Wales that the loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen in Australia claimed to have a share in the defence of the Empire . On the occasion on which recognition was
granted to ns , the Acting Grand Master was the Right Hon . the Earl of Limerick . That noble Lord was good eno gh to express the opinion that this Grand Lodge waa " a promising addition to the Grand Lodges of the world , " and he further went on to say that the Masons of Sonth Australia , nnder the South Australian Constitution , " might
be trusted to maintain and uphold the great traditions of English Freemasonry . " It is not for me , representing the Grand Lodge of South Australia , to say that that promise has been fulfilled , but I may venture to assure your Lordship , and to ask your Lordship to assure your brethren in the Grand Lodge of England , that the Grand Lodge of
Sonth Australia is earnestly striving to maintain the great traditions of English Masonry . Is loyalty to the Crown one of those traditions ? Then I venture to say that Her Majesty in her wide dominions has no more loyal subjects than the Masonic adherents of the South Australian Constitution , and certainly her Jubilee was not more
gratefully celebrated in any part of the British Empire than by South Australian Masons . Is purity of ritual another of the great traditions of British Masonry ? Then I am able to inform your Lordship that if you had had the opportunities which I have had of visiting Lodges within the wide territory of the Grand Lodge of South Australia—500
or 600 miles apart—not merely Metropolitan Lodges , but Lodges so far distant as Port Augusta and some of the towns in the Northern Areas and Mount Gambier in the South East , you would find the Masonic ritual carried out with the same faithfulness , with the same accuracy , as are witnessed in the best of the English Lodges . And
looking at tho substance which underlies all ritual , it will be a source of satisfaction to your Lordship and to your brethren of the Grand Lodge of England to be assured that we take care in the South Australian Lodges to secure that none but true and worthy men are admitted into our Brotherhood . Is brotherly love one of the great
traditions of English Masonry ? Then , my Lord , in South Australian Masonry I present to you a united brotherhood . The serenity of our Lodges has not been disturbed by the slightest difference or schism . If I may be pardoned for giving you a single instance of that brotherly affection to which I refer you will find it in the kind forbearance and
the affectionate loyalty with which I have been supported in the high office to which I have been undeservedly called by the suffrages of my brethren , and which so many of the Brotherhood are so much better fitted than 1 am to fill . Is charity another of the great traditions of English Masonry ? Then I beg to assure your Lordship that charity
is dispensed to distressed Masons from the private Lodges and from the Benevolent Fund which forms one of the institutions of our Graud Lodge , and in the distribution of that charity we look only to the fact that the recipient is a Mason . No matter whether he bo nnder the English , Irish , or Scotch Constitution , he has the same
consideration as Masons belonging to the South Australian Constitution . We all read with pride of the magnificent demonstration in the Albert Hall in London last month , when an address was signed by H . R . H . the Princo of Wales to the Queen , congratulating her upon the completion of her Jubilee . The result of that Grand Masonic gathering
was the addition of £ 6 , 000 to the funds of those great Masonic Charities which are the glory of English Masonry . In this colony we cannot claim that our charities are on anything like so extensive a scale , but we also are determined to mark the occasion of Her Majesty ' s Jubilee by the establishment of a permanent Benevolent Fundand
, b y the erection of homes for indigent Masons and their families , which will be a permanent memorial to us of the glad event of this Jubilee year . I think I may also assert that Masonic union is one of the Rreat traditions of English Masonry . Perhaps it is not so much
talked about in England as in Australia , as Masonic union was consummated in the mother country more than seventy years ago , ^ Dd it is only three years since that union was consummated in South Australia . To-day I am glad to present you , my Lord , to the « raud Lodgo of South Australia , in the character of an able advocate
Masonic Reception To Lord Carrington.
of Masonic union . We have read with pride , and with greater pleasure than I can express , the noble , the courageous , and the patriotic worda which you gave utterance to at a great Masonio gathering in New South Wales a few weeks ago , when you expressed a hope thafc Masonry in New South Wales might become what it is in England ,
iu Scotland , and in South Australia , " a great harmonious whole . " Your career in Australia has already become incorporated with Australian history . Since your arrival we havo marked in thafc career the tact , the sympathy , the courage , the firmness , the loyalty , the patriotism , and the adherence to constitutional principles which are
all required to make a good and wise Governor . During the few days of your visit to South Australia we have had an opportunity of becom . ing acquainted with those personal and social qualities which have so endeared you to the people of New South Wales . We have seen noble birth , exalted rank , refined courtesy , and natural goodness of
heart all receiving an added grace from adherence to Masonic precepts and from the practice of Masonio virtues . You have been with us only a few days , but I assure you that the colonists of South Australia are already your attached personal friends . But this evening we who are here present bear towards you a closer
relationship , for are we nofc united in the same Brotherhood ? I assure your Lordship thafc all here present are your loving brethren . I have now the pleasure of handing to you the Address , which imperfectly expresses the feelings of the Masons of South Australia towards vour Lordship . I assure you thafc every one present greets
you with much stronger feelings than those which this Address ex . presses , or which I have been able to express in the few imperfect words which I have addressed to you on behalf of the brethren of fche Grand Lodge of South Australia . The Deputy Grand Master , Bro . II . E . Downer , M . P ., added some complimentary remarks to his
Lordship and to the Grand Master . The Grand Master suitably responded , and added—I may be permitted to mention one thing which gives me personally very great pleasure in connection with the visit ; to thia Grand Lodge of Lord Carrington . It is the circumstance that I have been honoured by fche Grand Lodge of England by being
appointed their Representative near this Grand Lodge . I think you will sympathise with me when I say that next to the kind confidence of my brethren in electing me by their suffrages fco fche high office of Grand Master , I valued this mark of confidence on fche part of the Grand Lodge of England . I never enter this Grand Lodge without
wearing the jewel wbich , on the suggestion of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , was sent out to this colony to be worn by the Representative of the Grand Lodge of England here . Thafc jewel bears , quartered with the arms of the Grand Lodge of England , the arms of that distingnished Prince and Mason , Lord Carrington ' s own personal friend ,
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , Grand Master of England . Lord Carrington said in response—Most Worshipful Grand Ma » ter , Right Worshipful Brethren , and Brethren : I beg fco return you my most respectful thanks for the cordial and fraternal welcome you have been pleased to accord to me on my first visit to the colony of South Australia . I
receive , with satisfaction , and I am very grateful for the terms in which this Address has been tendered to me , not only in my capacity as a brother Mason , but as a representative of Her Most Gracious Majesty in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales . I recognise with pleasure the affectionate feelings and the cordial relations that
you entertain towards the Grand Lodge of England , and it is my earnest hope and fervent prayer that the Great Architect of the Universe will ever continue to watch over and preserve the interests of our Craft . I beg further with great respect to thank you warmly for the kind way in which you have introduced the names of Lady
Carrington and our children . I think it would be unbecoming in me if , after the cordial , kind , and flattering remarks which my Most Worshipful Brother has uttered to you about myself , I do nofc attempt in the few feeble words that I can at this moment command offer to you grateful thanks for the very gracious compliment which
the brethren have been pleased to pay me this evening . I had no idea when 1 arrived to-night that I should be so highly honoured . I feel it deeply . This is an evening which , to the end of my life , I shall never forget . I feel most strongly the kind words which fche Most Worshipful Grand Master has spoken about me , and the judicious
and fraternal way in which he has referred to the unhappy divisions which ab present exist among Freemasons in the colony of New South Wales . It would not be right for me to say one word on that subject , except ; to express the hope that these divisions may soon cease , and that we may presently find ourselves in the happy and fraternal
condition in which you now are in South Australia . That happy conclusion can only be brought about by the blessing of the Great Architect of the Universe and by our own individual endeavours , and it is my earnest hope and fervent prayer that I may see the brethren of New South Wales nnited and enjoying as true happiness
as my brethren in the South Australian Constitution who are this evening assembled here . The Graud Director of Ceremonies ( Bro . G . 0 . Knight ) who had charge of the ceremonial during the evening , then directed tho brethren to accord the Grand Master ancl Lord Carrington special Masonic honours . Tho two distinguished Mason *
then left to attend the Governor's ball , aud the Masonic business proceeded . Ou the motion of the V . W . Grand Chaplain ( Bro . the Rev . J . W . Owen , B . A . ) , seconded by V . W . J . G . W . Bro . Dr . Cockburn , M . P ., it was decided to forward a letter of condolence and
sympathy to the widow and orphans of the late Grand Chaplain ( Bro . Rev . 0 . G . Tapliu ) , aud a recognition of his past services to the Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodgo was closed in ample form by tho D . G . M . ( Bro . H . E . Downer , M . P . )—South Australian Register .
HOLLOW . IY ' Pir . r / s . —Counsel and Comfort . —A disoi-derert stomach throws the whole system out of gear , and readers ns unfitted both lor work and amusement . A few doses of thoso strengthening and purifying Pills , taken according to the accompanying directions , will , however , speedily restore onler , and re-enable the stomach to digest its food with > ut difficulty . Theso oxcellont Pills
are suitable alike for tho peer as tho peasant , the soldior as the sailor , ancl particularly for home and foreign colonies . Ho'loway ' s Pills are very useful in checking feverish attacks , bilious complaints , aud inflammations . They havo also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy and diseases of the kidneys , heart , and lungs , when the sufferers seemed past the aid of medicine .
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Masonic Reception To Lord Carrington.
feelings towards tliat Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodge of England as accorded to the Grand Lodge of Sonth Australia the most cordial recognition of its rights and privileges as an independent Grand Lodge . We are , therefore glad of the opportunity of expressing through your Lordship onr fraternal sentiments towards the Grand
Lodge of which yonr Lordship is so distinguished an ornament . Tbe present also is the happy occasion of our welcoming in your Lordship ' s person the most eminent English Mason who has hononred onr
Grand Lodge with a fraternal visit . Offering your Lordship onr warmest wishes for the health and happiness of yourself , Lady Carrington , and your children , we subscribe ourselves , on behalf of tbe Grand Lodge of South Australia ,
Yonr Lordship ' s most obedient servants and brethren , S . J . WAT , Grand Master , J . H . CUNNINGHAM , Grand Secretary . " The Grand Master said—I am sure yon will all agree with me that tbe incident of this evening is one of the most interesting that has
happened in the history of Sonth Australian Masonry . We all appreciate it as a high honour that we are able to welcome to this Grand Lodge a nobleman and statesman of high rank , the great and able Governor of the neighbouring colony of New South Wales , and a distinguished member of the Grand Lodge of England . I think I may
add that onr interest in the proceedings of this evening is heightened by the fact that this is the first time we have had the opportunity of expressing to a member of the Grand Lodge of England in person the fraternal sentiments which we entertain towards that Grand Lodge . We no longer owe allegiance to , and we are no longer nnder the
authority of the Grand Lodge of England , but we are bound to it by the much more inseparable and indissoluble ties of fraternity and of affection . I have no doubt that all the brethren present will recall the fact that the cordiality of our recognition by the Grand Lodge of England was accentuated by the recent incident in your
Lordship s colony of New Sonth Wales—the greatest event in the history of Australasia—when the world learned from the patriotic action of the colonists of New South Wales that the loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen in Australia claimed to have a share in the defence of the Empire . On the occasion on which recognition was
granted to ns , the Acting Grand Master was the Right Hon . the Earl of Limerick . That noble Lord was good eno gh to express the opinion that this Grand Lodge waa " a promising addition to the Grand Lodges of the world , " and he further went on to say that the Masons of Sonth Australia , nnder the South Australian Constitution , " might
be trusted to maintain and uphold the great traditions of English Freemasonry . " It is not for me , representing the Grand Lodge of South Australia , to say that that promise has been fulfilled , but I may venture to assure your Lordship , and to ask your Lordship to assure your brethren in the Grand Lodge of England , that the Grand Lodge of
Sonth Australia is earnestly striving to maintain the great traditions of English Masonry . Is loyalty to the Crown one of those traditions ? Then I venture to say that Her Majesty in her wide dominions has no more loyal subjects than the Masonic adherents of the South Australian Constitution , and certainly her Jubilee was not more
gratefully celebrated in any part of the British Empire than by South Australian Masons . Is purity of ritual another of the great traditions of British Masonry ? Then I am able to inform your Lordship that if you had had the opportunities which I have had of visiting Lodges within the wide territory of the Grand Lodge of South Australia—500
or 600 miles apart—not merely Metropolitan Lodges , but Lodges so far distant as Port Augusta and some of the towns in the Northern Areas and Mount Gambier in the South East , you would find the Masonic ritual carried out with the same faithfulness , with the same accuracy , as are witnessed in the best of the English Lodges . And
looking at tho substance which underlies all ritual , it will be a source of satisfaction to your Lordship and to your brethren of the Grand Lodge of England to be assured that we take care in the South Australian Lodges to secure that none but true and worthy men are admitted into our Brotherhood . Is brotherly love one of the great
traditions of English Masonry ? Then , my Lord , in South Australian Masonry I present to you a united brotherhood . The serenity of our Lodges has not been disturbed by the slightest difference or schism . If I may be pardoned for giving you a single instance of that brotherly affection to which I refer you will find it in the kind forbearance and
the affectionate loyalty with which I have been supported in the high office to which I have been undeservedly called by the suffrages of my brethren , and which so many of the Brotherhood are so much better fitted than 1 am to fill . Is charity another of the great traditions of English Masonry ? Then I beg to assure your Lordship that charity
is dispensed to distressed Masons from the private Lodges and from the Benevolent Fund which forms one of the institutions of our Graud Lodge , and in the distribution of that charity we look only to the fact that the recipient is a Mason . No matter whether he bo nnder the English , Irish , or Scotch Constitution , he has the same
consideration as Masons belonging to the South Australian Constitution . We all read with pride of the magnificent demonstration in the Albert Hall in London last month , when an address was signed by H . R . H . the Princo of Wales to the Queen , congratulating her upon the completion of her Jubilee . The result of that Grand Masonic gathering
was the addition of £ 6 , 000 to the funds of those great Masonic Charities which are the glory of English Masonry . In this colony we cannot claim that our charities are on anything like so extensive a scale , but we also are determined to mark the occasion of Her Majesty ' s Jubilee by the establishment of a permanent Benevolent Fundand
, b y the erection of homes for indigent Masons and their families , which will be a permanent memorial to us of the glad event of this Jubilee year . I think I may also assert that Masonic union is one of the Rreat traditions of English Masonry . Perhaps it is not so much
talked about in England as in Australia , as Masonic union was consummated in the mother country more than seventy years ago , ^ Dd it is only three years since that union was consummated in South Australia . To-day I am glad to present you , my Lord , to the « raud Lodgo of South Australia , in the character of an able advocate
Masonic Reception To Lord Carrington.
of Masonic union . We have read with pride , and with greater pleasure than I can express , the noble , the courageous , and the patriotic worda which you gave utterance to at a great Masonio gathering in New South Wales a few weeks ago , when you expressed a hope thafc Masonry in New South Wales might become what it is in England ,
iu Scotland , and in South Australia , " a great harmonious whole . " Your career in Australia has already become incorporated with Australian history . Since your arrival we havo marked in thafc career the tact , the sympathy , the courage , the firmness , the loyalty , the patriotism , and the adherence to constitutional principles which are
all required to make a good and wise Governor . During the few days of your visit to South Australia we have had an opportunity of becom . ing acquainted with those personal and social qualities which have so endeared you to the people of New South Wales . We have seen noble birth , exalted rank , refined courtesy , and natural goodness of
heart all receiving an added grace from adherence to Masonic precepts and from the practice of Masonio virtues . You have been with us only a few days , but I assure you that the colonists of South Australia are already your attached personal friends . But this evening we who are here present bear towards you a closer
relationship , for are we nofc united in the same Brotherhood ? I assure your Lordship thafc all here present are your loving brethren . I have now the pleasure of handing to you the Address , which imperfectly expresses the feelings of the Masons of South Australia towards vour Lordship . I assure you thafc every one present greets
you with much stronger feelings than those which this Address ex . presses , or which I have been able to express in the few imperfect words which I have addressed to you on behalf of the brethren of fche Grand Lodge of South Australia . The Deputy Grand Master , Bro . II . E . Downer , M . P ., added some complimentary remarks to his
Lordship and to the Grand Master . The Grand Master suitably responded , and added—I may be permitted to mention one thing which gives me personally very great pleasure in connection with the visit ; to thia Grand Lodge of Lord Carrington . It is the circumstance that I have been honoured by fche Grand Lodge of England by being
appointed their Representative near this Grand Lodge . I think you will sympathise with me when I say that next to the kind confidence of my brethren in electing me by their suffrages fco fche high office of Grand Master , I valued this mark of confidence on fche part of the Grand Lodge of England . I never enter this Grand Lodge without
wearing the jewel wbich , on the suggestion of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , was sent out to this colony to be worn by the Representative of the Grand Lodge of England here . Thafc jewel bears , quartered with the arms of the Grand Lodge of England , the arms of that distingnished Prince and Mason , Lord Carrington ' s own personal friend ,
H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , Grand Master of England . Lord Carrington said in response—Most Worshipful Grand Ma » ter , Right Worshipful Brethren , and Brethren : I beg fco return you my most respectful thanks for the cordial and fraternal welcome you have been pleased to accord to me on my first visit to the colony of South Australia . I
receive , with satisfaction , and I am very grateful for the terms in which this Address has been tendered to me , not only in my capacity as a brother Mason , but as a representative of Her Most Gracious Majesty in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales . I recognise with pleasure the affectionate feelings and the cordial relations that
you entertain towards the Grand Lodge of England , and it is my earnest hope and fervent prayer that the Great Architect of the Universe will ever continue to watch over and preserve the interests of our Craft . I beg further with great respect to thank you warmly for the kind way in which you have introduced the names of Lady
Carrington and our children . I think it would be unbecoming in me if , after the cordial , kind , and flattering remarks which my Most Worshipful Brother has uttered to you about myself , I do nofc attempt in the few feeble words that I can at this moment command offer to you grateful thanks for the very gracious compliment which
the brethren have been pleased to pay me this evening . I had no idea when 1 arrived to-night that I should be so highly honoured . I feel it deeply . This is an evening which , to the end of my life , I shall never forget . I feel most strongly the kind words which fche Most Worshipful Grand Master has spoken about me , and the judicious
and fraternal way in which he has referred to the unhappy divisions which ab present exist among Freemasons in the colony of New South Wales . It would not be right for me to say one word on that subject , except ; to express the hope that these divisions may soon cease , and that we may presently find ourselves in the happy and fraternal
condition in which you now are in South Australia . That happy conclusion can only be brought about by the blessing of the Great Architect of the Universe and by our own individual endeavours , and it is my earnest hope and fervent prayer that I may see the brethren of New South Wales nnited and enjoying as true happiness
as my brethren in the South Australian Constitution who are this evening assembled here . The Graud Director of Ceremonies ( Bro . G . 0 . Knight ) who had charge of the ceremonial during the evening , then directed tho brethren to accord the Grand Master ancl Lord Carrington special Masonic honours . Tho two distinguished Mason *
then left to attend the Governor's ball , aud the Masonic business proceeded . Ou the motion of the V . W . Grand Chaplain ( Bro . the Rev . J . W . Owen , B . A . ) , seconded by V . W . J . G . W . Bro . Dr . Cockburn , M . P ., it was decided to forward a letter of condolence and
sympathy to the widow and orphans of the late Grand Chaplain ( Bro . Rev . 0 . G . Tapliu ) , aud a recognition of his past services to the Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodgo was closed in ample form by tho D . G . M . ( Bro . H . E . Downer , M . P . )—South Australian Register .
HOLLOW . IY ' Pir . r / s . —Counsel and Comfort . —A disoi-derert stomach throws the whole system out of gear , and readers ns unfitted both lor work and amusement . A few doses of thoso strengthening and purifying Pills , taken according to the accompanying directions , will , however , speedily restore onler , and re-enable the stomach to digest its food with > ut difficulty . Theso oxcellont Pills
are suitable alike for tho peer as tho peasant , the soldior as the sailor , ancl particularly for home and foreign colonies . Ho'loway ' s Pills are very useful in checking feverish attacks , bilious complaints , aud inflammations . They havo also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy and diseases of the kidneys , heart , and lungs , when the sufferers seemed past the aid of medicine .