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Press, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5364, 4 December 1882, Page 3

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|TISIT OF THE QEAND SECEETAKY

1: A banquet in honor of the visit to . Canterbury of the Grand Secretary, Bro. If J. Brennan, was held at the Terminus ifEotelon Saturday evening. . - The chair was occupied by Bro. Tomson. 4> {President No. 13), having on his right " we guest of the evening, and on the -left by Bro. D. P. Bishop (Wellington). 3*6 vice chair? -were filled by Bros, r W&m (District P. No. 20) end PJLj>. i torn. tare was a large attendance of ten. The usual loyal toasts having given, » Vice-Chairman then gave "The Navy, and Volunteers," for the - «tter of which Bro. Hill responded. -'- P. Diat President Bro. Bwinnerton pro.ftosed the toast of the evening—" Bro. the Gmnd Secretary." The Gmnd Lodge had done them, great honor ~-io sending a brother so high in the Order - to visit thenj, Bro. Brennan was an offi<?fol 4 woo was courteous to all, and they had /-great pleasure in welcoming Mm. The ; advice and information afforded to them by -\ Bro. Bsennan was valuable in the extreme. * rße trusted that the time was not far dia- - teat when they would again be honored by I another visit norn Bro. Brennan. :r> The toast was drunk with great enthu- ~ nasta and musical honors; I>- Bro. Brennan, who on xiaag was loudly i said he desired, Selate fiiieldng j. tbe Order generally tor the kindness di£ : ; qriayed towards himself since his arrival in 1 '«ew Zealand, to give them a brief history * of the rise and progress of Druidism in It started in 1567 in Melyioame, and for the first half year, ending 2fay, the accounts showed the receipts to r MBS, and the expenditure' £48. Only " and they Jeand that the receipts for Victoria and ....Sew Zealand alone amounted for 1881 to >: 417,319, with an expenditure of .£14,123, ! ■kjjNg: a balance to credit for the year of *»SJ- During ISSI the sum of ,£2994 had as sick money, £1105 as funeral ?*•&»«, and JMQ9& for doctors' attendIT** *«? -medicine. At the end of the jger ISBI the value of the funds - ; * ?d » *&« Jo* ll * property of < TheywonldftEWore, *.«JS+^? ,rere eatitkd to claim some r to^rt^ ~^,™ B- He wished further S£d?i M W!* to iae fact that the ■■".gSSe-saKR. *oald have a^Jffl. **« **V > wfaea this was thar ° wa ' Aymth during hia *"$ taonld always be a green T-/^* . X- Memory., ia his ■ J T^ lß loHowittg outer toasts went * 1 *■' TmOOr Swm ? er ks». Bose, Ac, ifre* j , * pregjdmg at the piano. w **•