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I. Our Architectural Chapter.
the large dining-room of the hotel is used as a banqueting room . This Masonic Hall is considered a great improvemeiit in that infant city , and it is spoken of with great pn slight scale , and requiring only six weeks for its completion ^ It is ,
however , of some size ^ being sixty feet long ^ by thirty feet wide . The internal fittings are not of gorgeous character , as the hall is papered with aii oak pattern , h ^ t on occasion ^ are ornamented with large pier glasses , and decorated with the rich flowers of South Africa . At night the hall is lighted
The hall was inaugurated on the 1 st of October , not with a Masonic ceremonial , but with a grand ball given to the officers of the 45 th regiment ^ the inhabitants of D urban . More than eighty ladies and gentlemen were present , which was esteemed a wonderful assemblage , aiid the display of beauty and of feshion . affected the local editors with reminiscences of the celebrations of their mother country ,
and led them to chronicle the occasion ihhig hl ^^ The floor was ornamented wit ^ band of the 45 th regiment was placed on a side platform . In the upper rooms , the resources of the thriving colony were freely made available . At D'XJrban is a newly founded Lodge , the pioneer of Masonry in what will hereafter be the important country of Natal ,
We are not sure whether in our list we have recorded that the city of Calcutta also possesses a Freemasons Hall . We perceive , by a paper laid before the Liverpool Architectural Society , that in that large and flourishing city , most of the public buildings have been constructed without proper foundation stones , inscriptions , and ceremonial j indeed the existence of a
foundation stone in the old buildings is exceptional , the buildings bemg left to be carried on by the bricklayers according to their fancy . This is a state of affairs very discreditable to the Masons and architects of Liverpool , and we call attention to it in the hope that more zeal will be displayed . It seems indeed to be no one ' s business to attend to a matter of this kind , and in too many towns the practipe has fallen into disuse . We have made some remarks on the subject before , and
this practical proof of the results comes very opportunely to support us in the course we have adopted . ? It may be interesting to know the present condition of the Temple in Paris . For the purpose of providing the funds , and holding the property in legal form , a company or society was formed , called the " Civil Society for the Preservation of the French Temple of Freemasonry /' As Freemasonry is not under the sanction of the law in
France , as it is in England , but only under the sanction occasionally pf the administration , it is necessary to provide for the preservation of the property in times . of disfavour or persecution , which is effected in the manner stated . By the last balance-sheet of this company , the capital was £ 34 , 720 , and the expenditure £ 22 , 088 . The property of the Grand Orient has considerably increased of late years . A portion of the buildings , being those in the Rue Cadet in front , are
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I. Our Architectural Chapter.
the large dining-room of the hotel is used as a banqueting room . This Masonic Hall is considered a great improvemeiit in that infant city , and it is spoken of with great pn slight scale , and requiring only six weeks for its completion ^ It is ,
however , of some size ^ being sixty feet long ^ by thirty feet wide . The internal fittings are not of gorgeous character , as the hall is papered with aii oak pattern , h ^ t on occasion ^ are ornamented with large pier glasses , and decorated with the rich flowers of South Africa . At night the hall is lighted
The hall was inaugurated on the 1 st of October , not with a Masonic ceremonial , but with a grand ball given to the officers of the 45 th regiment ^ the inhabitants of D urban . More than eighty ladies and gentlemen were present , which was esteemed a wonderful assemblage , aiid the display of beauty and of feshion . affected the local editors with reminiscences of the celebrations of their mother country ,
and led them to chronicle the occasion ihhig hl ^^ The floor was ornamented wit ^ band of the 45 th regiment was placed on a side platform . In the upper rooms , the resources of the thriving colony were freely made available . At D'XJrban is a newly founded Lodge , the pioneer of Masonry in what will hereafter be the important country of Natal ,
We are not sure whether in our list we have recorded that the city of Calcutta also possesses a Freemasons Hall . We perceive , by a paper laid before the Liverpool Architectural Society , that in that large and flourishing city , most of the public buildings have been constructed without proper foundation stones , inscriptions , and ceremonial j indeed the existence of a
foundation stone in the old buildings is exceptional , the buildings bemg left to be carried on by the bricklayers according to their fancy . This is a state of affairs very discreditable to the Masons and architects of Liverpool , and we call attention to it in the hope that more zeal will be displayed . It seems indeed to be no one ' s business to attend to a matter of this kind , and in too many towns the practipe has fallen into disuse . We have made some remarks on the subject before , and
this practical proof of the results comes very opportunely to support us in the course we have adopted . ? It may be interesting to know the present condition of the Temple in Paris . For the purpose of providing the funds , and holding the property in legal form , a company or society was formed , called the " Civil Society for the Preservation of the French Temple of Freemasonry /' As Freemasonry is not under the sanction of the law in
France , as it is in England , but only under the sanction occasionally pf the administration , it is necessary to provide for the preservation of the property in times . of disfavour or persecution , which is effected in the manner stated . By the last balance-sheet of this company , the capital was £ 34 , 720 , and the expenditure £ 22 , 088 . The property of the Grand Orient has considerably increased of late years . A portion of the buildings , being those in the Rue Cadet in front , are