Provincial Grand Lodge Of Devon.

I he Acting Provincial Grand Master then presented Bro . Andrew's , as representative of the Sir Walter Raleigh Lodge , constituted in April last , with a silver and ivory set of working tools and a handsomely-bound volume of the Sacred Law , the gifts of Bro . Sholto Hare , P . P . G . D . Cornwall . Bro . Andrews fittingly acknowledged the presentation .

Bro . J . B . Gover , secretary to the Committee of Petitions , reported that in their peculiar work of collecting the rates of the lodges , chapters , and subscribers to the province they had been eminently successful , having received many hundreds more than in any previous year , with the fortunate

result that live candidates from the Province of Devon ( three aged Masons and two widows ) had been elected on the funds of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . The thanks of the province were clue to Bro . F . B . Westlake , the London Representative , for his indefatigable energy and

skilful arrangements . Bro . Westlake also wished to tender his thanks for the valuable assistance rendered in London by Bros . J . Stocker , W . L . Cocks , J . Griffin , and S . Broad . The Committee very earnestly appealed to the Worshipful Masters of lodges to bring before the brethren the urgent needs of the charities from which the Province of Devon

received so much and to which they contributed comparatively so little . The report was adopted . On the motion of Bro . S . Jones , Bro . J . Gould was unanimously elected Provincial Grand Treasurer . Bro . F . B . Westlake , Charity Representative , submitted the annual report , in which he stated that the list of Devon

candidates for the three central Institutions had all been cleared , no less than five aged Freemasons and widows having been elected at the last meeting of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . Bro . Westlake concluded his report by asking the lodges and brethren in the province whether ,

on reflection , they considered they were doing what they ought to support those great Masonic Charities . He regretted to say they were not ; and he therefore hoped to see a greater interest taken by the members of the Craft in the province in the good work being clone by the three great

London Charities , from which the } - received so much . Bros . J . Stocker , P . M . 39 , P . A . G . D . C . England , P . G . S . Devon ; J . R . Wilson , P . M . 954 , P . P . G . W . ; himself , and , he trusted , several others were serving as Stewards again this year . The Provincial Grand Officers were then appointed , and Provincial Grand Lodge was closed .

The Robert Freke Gould Lodge, No. 2874.

The Robert Freke Gould Lodge , No . 2874 .

THE rapid strides made in Masonry by the above lodge since its consecration two years ago is known to all those who watch the development and who have the interests of Colonial Masonry at heart . Tin ' s young lodge , starting with twenty-one founders , received propositions for two initiations and nine joining members on the consecration night . From then up to the present time the lodge has been steadily forging ahead , and bids fair to draw level to , if not

imo . R . . 1 . ( anus . pass , the mother lodge from which it was formed ( the Inhabitants , No . 153 ) , and there are over ninety members on the books . Perfect concord and unity exist in a very

marked degree between the mother and daughter lodges , the mother lodge being always willing to assist and help its young and lusty off-shoot . Among those who have come forward from the mother lodge and helped to place the Robert Freke Gould Lodge

on the high pinnacle in Masonry it now holds for its excellency of work , none have worked harder than Bro . R . J . Gibbs , P . M ., the painstaking and energetic I . P . M . It was through him that the lodge continued in its flourishing career and set the standard of Emulation working in Gibraltar after its first Master had been ordered away from the station ,

a loss felt very acutely by the young lodge . As some slight recompense for the arduous work Bro . Gibbs has done for tlie lodge , at the last regular meeting a handsome gold Past Master ' s jewel was presented to him on behalf of the officers and members of the lodge . The

Deputy District Grand Master , Bro . Major T . F . Cooper , P . G . D . England , to emphasise and mark the esteem in which Bro . Gibbs is held by English Masons in Gibraltar , attended the Freke Gould Lodge with his District Grand Lodge Officers , an honour which reflected from Bro . Gibbs

to the officers and members of the lodge . After the presentation was made , Bro . Gibbs , who , by the way , is a Past Master of the mother lodge , on rising to thank the brethren for such a magnificent mark of their approval of his poor efforts , said his services were always

at the disposal of Masonry in the future as in the past , and thanked the Deputy District Grand Master for the honour he had done him that night by his attendance with the District Grand Officers . He might say he had been doubly honoured by the attendance and the presentation , and in conclusion wished the Robert Freke Gould Lodge the same prosperity it had enjoyed up to the present time .

The jewel , which was one of tlie handsomest ever presented in Gibraltar , was after the design of the founder's jewel , having the armorial bearings of the " Rock , " surmounted by the coat of arms of Robert Freke Gould , P . G . D ., P . M . of Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 . Bro . Gibbsin addition to being a founder and I . P . M . of

, No . 2874 , is a Past District Senior Grand Warden both of the Craft and Mark Degrees , Past District Grand H ., and the present District Grand Scribe E . ; a Past Principal of the Prince of Wales' Chapter , Xo . 153 ; Past C . N . of Cockburu Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners ; and still the hard-working

Secretary of Inhabitants Lodge , No . 153 . Bro . Robert Freke Gould , after whom Xo . 2874 is named , worked hard in the interest of Freemasonry in Gibraltar . He resuscitated the Inhabitants Lodge , No . 153 , in 18-58 , after a long period of silence . With his later efforts all Masons in England are familiar .