Laying The Foundation-Stone Of Freemasons ' Hall.

Laying the Foundation-stone of Freemasons ' Hall .

( Reproduced from the "III ml rated Luiuhin Nen-s" of Mai / Till , MM ) .

Provincial Grand Lodge Of Devon.

Provincial Grand Lodge of Devon .

r pHE Provincial Grand Lodge of Devon met at Bideford I on Wednesday , the 15 th July , under the banner of Lodge Benevolence . The Deputy and Acting Provincial Grand Master , Bro . G . C . Davie , P . G . D . England , presided , in the absence of the Provincial Grand Master ,

Lord Northcote , Governor of Bombay . Upwards of 250 brethren attended . The Provincial Grand Secretary , Bro . J . Stocker , reported that the number of subscribing members in the province on December 31 st last was 4379 an increase of forty over the

, previous year , and the amount received in dues and fees ^ 532 , an excess of ^ 19 over the previous year . The names of 440 brethren had been removed from the register . There had been 3 6 9 initiations and in joinings . He had received seven applications from lodges for the supplemental grant

of ten guineas to enable them to acquire life-governorships in the great London Charities . Of these one was for the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , one for the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , and live for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and their

Widows . One new lodge had been constituted during the year , bringing the number on the roll of the province to sixty-one , and a new Freemasons' Hall was being built at

Plympton . The report closed with a warm tribute to the private and Masonic virtues of the late Bro . John Russell Lord , and to the loss the province had sustained by his death . The brethren were strongly urged to supply the funds for the memorial to perpetuate his Masonic work . The report was

unanimously adopted . The Acting Provincial Grand Master endorsed all that was contained in the Secretary ' s report with reference to Bro . Lord . He did not propose to move any resolution because it would be a poor kindness to reopen a sore probably

partially healed . On hearing of his death he ( the speaker ) took upon himself to convey to the relatives the sense of the Provincial Grand Lodge at the severe loss they sustained by his death . He also recommended on his own authority that _ £ 20 be granted by the Provincial Grand Lodge towards the

fund which had been started for a memorial to perpetuate Bro . Lord ' s good work . No one could wish for a better Director of Ceremonies than Bro . Lord had been , and no one could desire to meet a more thorough , noble-hearted gentleman , or a more sincere friend .

The Provincial Grand Treasurer , Bro . S . J . Page , P . M ., reported a balance in favour of the Provincial Grand Lodge of £ 334-