The new Governor is an ardent Free-masao, and was, it seems, District Grand Master of Jamaica, An emergency meeting of the District Grand. Lodge of Hongkong and South China was convened on Wednesday night to welcome Sir Henry Blake, There was a very large attendance and the Governor having been received with masonic honours, the District Grand Master, the Hon. C.P. Chater, read an address of welcome from the Hongkong fraternity, to which His Excellency made a brief but suitable reply. The leading officers of the various Lodges having been presented to Sir Henry, the, was closed, and the brethren adjourned to the lower hall, where refreshments had been laid.
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