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The Savage Club Lodge and Its Late Secretary MARK MASONRY IN THE PROVINCE OF stained and mutilated , to the Municipal authorities of Boulogne. MIDDLESEX AND SURREY. From these they were purchased by Bro. H ENRY S. WELLCOME to aid him in discovering the murderer. But the investigations It seldom happens that a Provincial Grand Master feels him- into the mystery proved fruitless, and Bro. WELLCOME, con- self called upon to summon a special meeting of his Provincial sidering these sad relics of his departed friend and brother too Grand Officers, . but the lamented death last year of Bro. sacred for his own use, and not knowing how otherwise to apply FREDERIC DAVISON , D.P.G.M.M. of Middlesex and Surrey, them, bethought him of presenting them as a gift from the late furnished Bro. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Bart., P.G.M.M., with Bro. M CNEILL to the Benevolent Fund of the lodge he had helped an occasion for calling together the Mark brethren of his Pro- to found , and in whose welfare and prosperity he had taken so deep an interest. They were accordingly forwarded in an explanatory vince in order that the distinguished and much respected brother letter to Bro. JOHN PAIGE , the present Secretary of the lodge, whom he had invited to succeed his late Deputy might be duly by whom the circumstances were related as we have stated them. obligated and invested in their presence. Hence the recent A better way of appropriating the recovered property of the special meeting at the Ship and Turtle, Leadenhall-street , of the late first Secretary of the Savage Club Lodge could not have been Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Middlesex and Surrey, of which devised, and we congratulat e both Bro. W ELLCOME on an act we published- a full report last week. On this occasion, respect which is at once a benefit to the lodge and a mark of respect to having been shown to the memory of the late Bro. F. DAVISON our late brother. —and also to that of the late Bro. the Rev. G. W. WELDON , P.G. Chap., who had likewise died during his tenure of office— THE APPROACHING JUBILEE OF VICTORIAN by the usual votes of condolence—which , indeed , had in these FREEMASONRY. instances been considerately antici pated by the Provincial Grand In the course of next month the fraternity in Victoria will Secretary on behalf of the Provincial Grand Mark Master—it be celebrating its jubilee, the Lodge of Australia Felix , latel was announced that the Provincial Grand Master's choice of a y No. on the roll of the United Grand Lodge of England, but brother to fill the responsible post of Deputy Prov. Grand Master 474 now No. i on that of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria, having had fallen upon Bro. C. H AMMERT ON, who for several years had entered on its career in what was then known as Port Philip, but acted as Provincial Grand Treasurer , and who is as well known is now the flourishing city of Melbourne, in March, 18 , and at throughout the Craft by his ability and energy in the work of 40 a meeting of the Gordon Lodge, No. in November last, it Freemasonry as he is by his generous support of our Masonic 99, was proposed , as a desirable and appropriate mode of celebrating Institutions. The announcement was received with general this auspicious event , that the Craft be invited to take the satisfaction , and Bro. FlAMMERTON was thereupon obligated and invested and took his place as Deputy Provincial Grand Master. necessary steps for establishing a fund for providing annuities It then became necessary that the brethren should exercise their for the widows of Freemasons, and educating, clothing, and rightof electingasuccessor to Bro. HAMMERTON , who had resigned maintaining their orphan children. The Gordon Lodge appears his post of Provincial Grand Treasurer , and two brethren having to have been moved to adopt this resolution by an address de- been nominated, the choice fell by a small majority on Bro. livered by Bro. W. F. LAMONBY, who hailed formerly from our L. G. GORDON ROBBINS , who was at once invested and congratu- Province of Cumberland and Westmorland, but who is now a lated on his success. Thus while it is impossible for us not to Past Senior Grand Warden of Victoria. The subject of this express our sympathy with the Mark brethren of Middlesex and Surrey on the loss they have sustained by the death of a brother address was " Our Charities ; what they are, and what they ought so well known and so universally respected as their late Deputy to be," and in the course of his very eloquent remarks, Bro. Provincial Grand Master, we have every confidence that the LAMONBY gave a full and accurate sketch of the character and duties of that important office will be ably and conscientiously extent of the Masonic Institutions which are established in discharged by Bro. HAMMERTON. It is also beyond doubt that England for the relief of distressed brethren , their widows, and the addition of Bro. L. G. G. ROBBINS to the roll of executive their children, and the means adopted for their support. He officers will be of great advantage to the Province, of which explained that these Institutions, except for a small grant annually Bro. Sir F. BURDETT has been so long the chief. made to each of them, are independent of Grand Lodge, and that the necessary funds for their efficient maintenance are sub- scribed by the brethren generally, the bulk of the subscri ptions THE SAVAGE CLUB LODGE AND ITS being obtained at the Anniversary Festivals held in their support. He further pointed out that there are many of our English LATE SECRETARY. provinces—such as East and West Lancashire—which have their The incident which occurred at the installation meeting of the own especial Benevolent and Educational Associations for the Savage Club Lodge, and was so full y described last week in our relief of the fatherless and the widow. All this, he explained, report of the proceedings, is probably unique in the annals of was done irrespective of the relief afforded by our Grand Lodge Masonic lodge history, and well deserves a word or two of com- Fund of Benevolence, and he impressed on his audience the ment. It will be in the recollection of our readers that the late necessity of their following the examp le of their English brethren and founding in Victoria one or more such Institutions as alread Bro. ARCHIBALD M CN EILL, one of the founders and first Secretary y exist in this country. He suggested that the approaching cele- of this distinguished lod having ge, had occasion to visit France bration of the jubilee of Victorian Freemasonry in March next, •n the discharge of his duties as a journalist , was foully murdered would furnish an excellent opportunity for the inauguration of on the very eve of his return by steamer from Boulogne. His such a scheme, and he recommended that the Grand Master of body was found on the beach , but it has never been discovered Victoria , Bro. Sir WILLIAM J. CLARKE , Bart., should be ap- by whom the deed was committed. It was known, however, that proached on the subject with the view of enlisting his powerful the deceased had money and valuables about him, and the num- influence and support in its behalf. The immediate result of Bro. LAMONBY 'S advice was that the Gordon Lodge adopted the bers of certain Bank of England notes, which were in his resolution we mentioned at the outset of our remarks, and we possession, having been published , their negotiation became trust its future and lasting effect will be the establishment, on a impossible , and they were sent in an anonymous letter, all firm basis, of such a fund or association as he proposes. of the Masonic Institutions, a lady whom they recognised as the mother of DRURY LANE LODGE, No. 2127. Masons, and the mother of the best Masons, and one whose name they invariably coupled with that of the best Institution in the world'—the Craft. The toast having been drunk , was followed by the National Anthem. INSTALLATION OF THE LORD MAYOR, BRO. SIR H. A. ISAACS. The LORD M AYOR then said he was about to ask the brethren to drink to an illustrious brother, who was, perhaps (he said it with all humility), after the Lord a dispensation having been granted for holding the in- . On Tuesday evening, Mayor, the most hard worked man in the country—his Royal Highness the Prince lodge at the Mansion House instead of at Drury Lane stallation meeting of this of Wales M.W.G.M. There was a very trite adage "A tree may be known by its 320 assembled at the Mansion House , , Theatre, the brethren to the number of fruits " and the fruit of the presidency of the Masonic Institutions by the M.W. in the installation of Bro. Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs, , for the purpose of assisting G.M. was to be found in the general success of Freemasonry and the exalted place as W.M. of this lodge. Bro. Admiral Sir E. A. Inglefield , Lord Mayor of London , it occup ied. Long mi ht the M.W.G.M. be spared to them. He gave "The ' and opened the lodge. The lodge was held in g K.C.B., D.C.L., W.M., presided, Health of the Prince of Wales " with all sincerity. the ball room , and was crowded. The following is a list of the brethren present : The L ORD M AYOR then said the next toast on the list was " The Pro Grand , P.G.M.
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