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Foreign.
occasion , and was received on his entrance in a manner suitable to his high rank in the order . CALEDONIA LODGE , 324 . —It affords us much pleasure to record the increasing prosperity of this respectable Lodge . On Thursday evening last , the stated meeting , at which the M . W . P . G . M was present , several applications for admission into the Order were presented
—these , with some on the file , for initiation , will add considerably to the already numerous body , and will make up for any decrease that may have occurred—a necessary consequence attending upon all human institutions .
It has escaped us hitherto to mention the circumstance of the M . W . P . G . M ., the first Master of the " Caledonia , " having some time ago presented an elegant large quarto Bible , with a suitable inscription thereon , for the use of the Lodge , Mount Herodim Chapter and Grenada Priory , as well as the Pr . Gr . L ., Pr . Gr . R . A . C ., and Pr . Gr . Conclave . BARBADOES . —AVe learn that a Lodge is shortly to be opened here , under the sanction of a warrant from the Grand Lodge of Ireland , to be called the Shamrock , No . 282 , and that a Provincial Grand Lodge , under the auspices of the same Grand Lodge , is also about being established in this island .
Jamaica.
JAMAICA .
KINGSTON . —The Craft will , no doubt , be pleased to learn that Freemasonry in this island is much esteemed . In the county ( Surrey ) there are three working Lodges , all held in this city . In Middlesex it is to be regretted that the Lodges have lapsed into abeyance , and in Cornwall there is but one working Lodge , with one R . A . Chapter ; but our great lament is in the want of a Parent or Provincial Grand Lodge ,
to which we could apply in case of emergency ; for that aid , which the Constitutions provide , can be extended at present by the Grand Lodge alone . It is a matter of astonishment to us , that , we receive no information from the Grand Lodge on many important matters submitted to it for many years past , and that to letters regularly repeated , we receive no
reply . Could we obtain answers , there can be no question but that the wellbeing of our Order would profit . It is impossible to say what individual is in fault by suppressing our correspondence , but we look to the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review" for making our grievance known ; that those whose laxity of discipline has thus seriously inconvenienced
us , may be aroused to a proper sense of duty . In September last year , the F . Q . li . announced the opinion of its correspondents in Montego Bay to be unanimously in favour of the appointment of a Provincial Grand Master for the counties of Surrey and Middlesex , and another for VOL- IX . Y Y
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Foreign.
occasion , and was received on his entrance in a manner suitable to his high rank in the order . CALEDONIA LODGE , 324 . —It affords us much pleasure to record the increasing prosperity of this respectable Lodge . On Thursday evening last , the stated meeting , at which the M . W . P . G . M was present , several applications for admission into the Order were presented
—these , with some on the file , for initiation , will add considerably to the already numerous body , and will make up for any decrease that may have occurred—a necessary consequence attending upon all human institutions .
It has escaped us hitherto to mention the circumstance of the M . W . P . G . M ., the first Master of the " Caledonia , " having some time ago presented an elegant large quarto Bible , with a suitable inscription thereon , for the use of the Lodge , Mount Herodim Chapter and Grenada Priory , as well as the Pr . Gr . L ., Pr . Gr . R . A . C ., and Pr . Gr . Conclave . BARBADOES . —AVe learn that a Lodge is shortly to be opened here , under the sanction of a warrant from the Grand Lodge of Ireland , to be called the Shamrock , No . 282 , and that a Provincial Grand Lodge , under the auspices of the same Grand Lodge , is also about being established in this island .
Jamaica.
JAMAICA .
KINGSTON . —The Craft will , no doubt , be pleased to learn that Freemasonry in this island is much esteemed . In the county ( Surrey ) there are three working Lodges , all held in this city . In Middlesex it is to be regretted that the Lodges have lapsed into abeyance , and in Cornwall there is but one working Lodge , with one R . A . Chapter ; but our great lament is in the want of a Parent or Provincial Grand Lodge ,
to which we could apply in case of emergency ; for that aid , which the Constitutions provide , can be extended at present by the Grand Lodge alone . It is a matter of astonishment to us , that , we receive no information from the Grand Lodge on many important matters submitted to it for many years past , and that to letters regularly repeated , we receive no
reply . Could we obtain answers , there can be no question but that the wellbeing of our Order would profit . It is impossible to say what individual is in fault by suppressing our correspondence , but we look to the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review" for making our grievance known ; that those whose laxity of discipline has thus seriously inconvenienced
us , may be aroused to a proper sense of duty . In September last year , the F . Q . li . announced the opinion of its correspondents in Montego Bay to be unanimously in favour of the appointment of a Provincial Grand Master for the counties of Surrey and Middlesex , and another for VOL- IX . Y Y