ODD FELLOWS' ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN DOWAGER AND GRACIOUS REPLY.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 58, 12 September 1844, Page 3

ODD FELLOWS' ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN DOWAGER AND GRACIOUS REPLY.

(From the Ten Towns Messenger.) On Friday last the following address, from the Odd Fellows of the Worcester district, was presented to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by Brother the hon. and Rev.'W. W. Talbot : To Her Most Gracious Majesty Adelaide, the Queen Dowager. " May it please your Majesty,—We, the grand master, officers, and brethren of the lodges of the Worcester district of the ancient, loyal, and independent order of Odd Fellows, humbly beg leave to approach your Majesty with an assurance of our ardent loyalty and devoted attachment, and to express our profound veneration for your Majesty's person and character. We wish further to offer to your Majesty our warmest congratulations on your Majesty's happy restoration to, and continuance in, health, to which we trust the salubrious air of this beaatiul country has not a iittle contributed; and to express our heartfelt wishes that your Majesty may long be continued in the full enjoyment of that first of earthly blessings, and of every other good thing this world can bestow ; that your Majesty may long be spared to honour us by residing amongst us, and to gladden all hearts with the liberal exercise of every noble and princely virtue, to which your Most Gracious Majesty has ever been accustomed. ** Signed on behalf of the brethren, «' Henux W«bh,.P.P.G.M, U Wiliiam Ballant\n*.,p.g,M. * Worcester, March 20 th, 18-14." The hon. and rev. gentleman has sinee received the following gratifying communication from Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain to her Majesty, in acknowledgment of the good principles and great value of the institution : " Witley Court, March 22, 1844. "My de;ir Talbot, —The address from the Worcester Lodges of Odd Fellows, which you have this day presented to Queen Adelaide, has been received with sincere feelings of gratitude. The Queen is sufficiently aware of the great principles of duty to God and good will towards men, which animate and form the great bond of union in your excellent institution ; and it is with great satisfaction that her Majesty receives from a body possess* ing such principles, the assurance of their kind wishes towards her Majesty as a neighbour. The Queen Adelaide reciprocates these sentiments, and "adds her well wishes for the permanence and continued utility of so excellent a society. *• Believes me, very truly and sincerely, " Howe, Lord Chamberlain. " The Hon. and Rev. William Talbot,"