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CONTENTS. nearly 31, 143 dollars , with disbursements to the extent of 17, 296 dollars , the balance of cash in hand being slightly in excess of 13,934 dollars. On L EADERS 505 R EPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS— the Charity Fund account there is a balance to the good of 1520 dollars , United Grand Lodgi of Kngland 506 Craft Masonry 512 Consecration of the Bramston IJeaeh Instruction 512 while the Grand Librarian 's account is pretty nearly level as be tween the Lodge, No. 2ior , at Godalming 506 Royal Arch 512 appropriations and disbursements for books and periodicals , Src. ; but , as Provincial Grand Lodire of llamnshire and Rosicrncian Society 512 the Isle of Wight 506 booth Africa 513 regards the building expense, there is a balance due 10 Grand Secretary and Provincial Grand Lodjje of Srailbrdshire... 507 A New Masonic Hall for Bolton 513 Grand Master s Provincial Grand Lodge of Somersetshire 508 Masonic Centenary Celebration at Ports- against the account of nearly 444 dollars. As regards the Installation of the District Grand Master mouth 3 13 address, it contained ample references to the events of the past year, one of Jamaica 50S Grand livening Concert at Shanklin, Isle of Bro. Lane Masonic Records <oo Wight 514 subject to which Bro. G RANGER referred at great length being of interest to Freemasonry in Hants and the Isle of CORRESPONDENCE — full Wight 514 the brethren in jurisdictions outside Iowa. In fine, the proceedings y The Bro. Binckes' Testimonial 511 Who Cares ? 514 Addresses to Her Majesty the Queen deserve the highest commendations of the Craft generall y, and we heartil y 511 The Masonic Exhibition at Shanklin 514 The Shanklin Masonic Exhibition 511 Bro. Henry Irving as the Host in America 514 congratulate our Iowa brethren on the position in which , by their energy Notes and Queries 511 The Cra ft Abroad S'S We may Masonic Picnic of the Prince Arthur Masonic and Genera l Tidings 516 and zeal, the Fraternity of M t<ons is placed within tiieir bjrders. Lodge, No. J570 JM Lodge Meetings for Next Week iii. mention as an incident of the communication that 1J < O. W ILLIAM P. A LLEJN is the Grand Master for the current year, and that the distinguished veteran No long time hence and we shall be again busily engaged in the active Bro. T. S. PARVI .V remains Grand Secretary. duties of Freemasonry. The holidays will have come to an end , and we # * trust the brethren will find themselves both refreshed after the labours of W E have mentioned in the preceding paragraph that there was one subject the past season and thoroughly invi gorated for those of the one we are to which the Grand Master, liio. C- T. G RANGER , referred at considerable about entering upon. In fact, September may be looked upon as, in one length in his annual address, and which will receive, or, at all events , sense, the beg inning of the Masonic year. The meetings of our lodges which deserves, attention from the brethren of other jurisdic tions. It arose correspond more regularly with the regular sequence of the months than out of the case of a resident of Dcs Moines , who, during a visit to his old they would do if we reckoned our year fro m January. But what chiefly home in Ireland , was made a Mason , and on his return to Des Moines favours this view is the fact that our series of annual Festivals does not sought admission to Capital Lodge, in that city, but , in accordance with the terminate till towards the end of June or beginning of Jul}', and that , the instruction of the G RAND M ASTER , given in strict obedience to the law of summer holidays having intervened , the Secretaries of our Institutions re- Iowa on the subject, was refused , until he had been healed. But Bro. commence in due form those earnest appeals to the Craft for hel p, without G RANGER , thoug h he found himself constrained to carry out the prescrip- which the necessary moneys would not be forthcoming, and the maintenance tions of the law in this particular instance, boldly expresses it as his opinion of those Charities would be impossible—a t least on the present extended that the law itself is at lault , and that the resident of Des Moines, who had scale. We are, therefore, virtuall y on the eve of anew campaign , if not of a been made a.Mason in Ireland , was entitled 10 all the rights and privileges new year, and may reasonably devote the few remaining moments of our of a member of the Fraternity, and was eli gible to be received into an Iowa leisuretotakingstock of the circumstances in whichweenterupon it. Generally, lodge. " The Order," says Bro. G RANGER , " is universal , Grand Lodge we think the position is satisfactory, both in London and the provinces. jurisdictions are independent , and lodges are the gateways of admission. We judge so, at least, from the reports submitted at the meetings of those , that a Mason , legally to, in Is it not true^ as a Masonic canon Provincial Grand Lodges which have been held during the past few months, one of these independent jurisdictions , is such the wide wuild over ? as well as from the known condition of things in the Metropolitan area, and Can we sav no in harmony with our teaching that ' Masonry when labour is resumed we believe this judgment will be confirmed. We unites men of every country', sect, and opinion.'" Bro. G RANGLR thtu suppose it would be difficult to satisfy the energetic Secretaries of our Chari- points out that in Eng land , Scotland , and Ireland sojourners may be made ties that, all things considered , their prospects for the year 188 7 are about Masons, and he seriously questions the justice, but quite apart from any as gratif ying as they could be. They may, or they may not , be able to differences there may be between the laws ot these countries and the laws tit point to as numerous an array of Stewards as usual at this early date ; but Iowa on the subject , of requiring that any one who, in total i gnorance of one of the three has alread y enlisted the services of a Chairman , who is a all Masonic law, has been accepted as a member in one juri sdieliuii , should Provincial Grand Master, and we may perhaps hear of a second having be healed—that is, re-obli gated—in the jurisdiction in which lie happens to be achieved a like measure of success at an earJy date. At all events, it seems a resident. Without going more deeply into the question , it appears to us as if the prospects in this particular field of Masonic labour were on a level that Grand Master G RANGER 'S recommendation that it should be a law of with what they have been usually. If we cannot congratulate ourselves on the Grand Lodge of Iowa , " that Masons made under the laws of any their being any better , we may console ourselves with the belief that they jurisdictions are Masons in Iowa ," is in accordance with the requirements ot are not appreciably worse. As for the usual lodge work, we imagine that will reason and common sense. We are glad also to find that Bro. G RANGER follow the usual course. We may find a little falling off here and there ; had the courage to grapple boldly with the subject. It certainl y is not but this is, ordinarily, far more than counterbalanced by the greater interest every Grand Master in the United States who would have ful.owed his displayed in other quarters. The vitality of Masonry is an assured fact, which example. circumstances have little or no influence upon , and we doubt not the new # * season we are now looking forward to will demonstrate this satisfactoril y. I T will be seen from the Agenda Paper which appears in another part of # * # our columns that the business to be transacted at the Quarterl y Communi- WE gather much interesting andjnstructive information from the proceed- cation of United Grand Lodge is chiefl y of a formal character , and will occupy ings of the Grand Lodge of Iowa at its annual communication for the current the brethren but a short time to dispose of. It may, however , be deemed year. The communication was the 43rd since the establishment of this worthy of notice that of the fifteen warrants for new lod ges which have Grand Body, and was held at the Grand Opera House in the city of Des been granted by his Royal Highness the G RAND M ASTER since the June Moines on the 1st June last, and two following days, under the presidency Communication , ten are lor lod ges to be held in the Colonies, and that of of Bro. CHARLES T. G RANGER , M.W.G.M. There was a numerous attend- these ten as many as six are for lodges to meet in the colony of new South ance of Grand Officers, both Present and Past , of the representatives of Wales. This circumstance should have some wei ght with those Grand other Grand Lodges in alliance with that of Iowa, and of the representa- Lod ges in the United States and elsewhere which are m such a desperate tives of the daughter lodges. The bulk of the proceedings are, of course, hurry to recognise every newl y-established Grand Lod ge, no matter how of local interest ; but it is satisfactory to know that the Craft in this juris- questionable may be its claims to recognition.

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