CONTENTS. PAGE. eight years, and who, last year, was appointed G. Std. Br. of LEADERS— The Province of Middlesex ...... ¦•• ¦•¦ 453 England , was presented with a gold watch to mark the valuable •¦ Perpetual Jurisdiction ...# ...... •¦• • 45C services he had rendered to the Province during his tenure of Provincial Grand Lodge of Devonshire ...... ••• 454 Provincial Grand Ledge of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ... ••• 455 the Secretaryship. The watch was purchased with the balance The Family of Grand Lodges ...... ••• 455 Masonic Ceremony at Dunedin (N.Z.) ...... 457 of the fund raised for the purpose of presenting him with his The Kaiser and the Freemasons ...... ••• 457 Grand Lodge clothing, and in handing it to him , the Prov. Grand MASONIC N OTES— Article 219, Book of Constitutions ...... ••• ... 459 Master spoke in terms of the highest encomium of the able Admission of New Members ...... 459 Powers of Grand Lodges _ ... _ ...... 459 manner in which Bro. ROOM had carried out the Minutes of Provincial and District Grand Lodges ...... 459 duties of his office. Additional evidence Masonic Visitation, &c...... 459 was also Masonic Notes and Queries ...... 460 forthcoming as to the success of the past year, the Centenary of the Loyal Volunteers Preceptory, No. 7 ...... 460 Laying the Foundation Stone of New Masonic Rooms at Ilkley ...... 460 report of the Auditors showing that a very considerable balance 60 Devon Masonic Widows' Annuity~ Fund ...... 4 remained in hand after meeting all liabilities Empress Lodge, No. 25S1 ...... 460 , while the Pro- General Committee of Grand Lodge and Board of Benevolence ...... 460 vincial Charity Committee were able to announce that the candi- A Masonic Processional Cross ...... 461 Secret Monitor ...... 461 dates from the Province for the benefits of the Masonic Institu- Maik Masonry ...... 1 .,, ...... 461 tions had one and all been fortunate enoug Lodges of Instruction ...... 461 h to secure their Obituary ...... 46 ' election. Thus the congratulations exchanged between the Masonic and General Tidings ...... 462 Province and its chief at this meeting were amp ly justified by the circumstances. A week later the TEE PRO VINCE OF ALIDDLESEX. annual convocation of Prov. G. Chapter took place at Hampton Court and the reports There are fevy Provinces, more especially among those of that were then submitted and adopted, all testified to the pros- recent constitution , that have fared as prosperously as that of perity of the Koyal Arch during the past year, the only draw- Middlesex. In 1869, the few outlying lodges, to the number of back to the pleasure of the gathering being the unavoidable nine or 10, in the extra-Metropolitan portions of the county absence of the Grand Superintendent , Comp. Lord G EORGE were grouped together and placed in charge of the late Bro. Sir H AMILTON , the success of whose administration during his two FRANCIS BURDETT as Prov. Grand Master, and during the 23 years of office was the subject of eu/ogistic comment by Comp. years' presidency of that most genial and popular chief those few T HRUPP , who, as Prov. G.H., presided in his lordshi p's absence. lod ges so increased and multiplied that when his death occurred As regards Mark Masonry in Middlesex , the annual meeting of in the spring of 1892, the Province of only nine or 10 lod ges had the Proviucial Grand Lodge was held in the Holloway-road on become one of 40. Since then further progress has been the 23rd Jul y, when advantage was taken of the opportunity made, not, it may be, so much in the way of additional lodges, as afforded by so numerous a gathering to consecrate an additional in strengthening and confirming those already established. In lod ge—the St. Pancras, No. 494—with Bro. W. A. S CURRAH , Royal Arch Masonry similar progress has been made, the three an old and experienced Mark Mason , as first Worship ful chapters in existence in 18 7r , when Sir FRANCIS BURDETT was Master. The number of lodges previousl y on the roll appointed Grand Superintendent , having grown to 13; while in was 10, and as in the course of one of his speeches , Bro. the Mark Degree, the progress is not perhaps quite so Colonel A. B. COOK , Provincial Grand Master, was able to apparent in consequence of Middlesex having been incorporated announce that application had been made to him for permission with Surrey as one Province under Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, to found another new lodge, it follows that before another year while since his death, not only have the two counties been has passed the muster-roll of the Province will comprise a dozen formed into separate Provinces, but the Metropolitan district lodges, all well furnished with members and in a prosperous has been changed from one of uncertain strength to one state as regards their funds. Thus in the Mark , as well as in the covering a given area , with a fixed radius from Mark Masons' Craft and Royal Arch, thc past year has been one of progress, ''all. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that and we trust that evidence may always be forthcoming at future during the past year, when , not for the first time in its annual meetings that the degree of prosperity to which Middlesex history , it bore a leading part in our Festival celebration , its has attained has becn upheld, if not surpassed. We proceedings should have been more than usuall y brilliant. The congratulate the brethre n on the unprecedented success of the annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge was held at year 1895-6. J Jarrow, on the 27th June, under the auspices of Bro. Lord G EORGE H AMILTON , M.P., Prov. G. Master, and the reports PERPETUAL JURISDICTION. t'tat were then submitted , as well as the proceedings generally, testified to the fact that in no previous year of its existence Jiad In more than one previous article we have taken occasion e * rovince of Middlesex fared so prosperously as in that of to express a strong obj ection to the monstrous dogma which t fc 95-6. In the first place, it had tuported its distinguished chief as finds favour with some of the Grand Lodges in the United '-"airman at the Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Insli- States, and is known as that of " Perpetual Jurisdiction. " But "tion in February by raising for that Charity a total of con tri- the subject has been again brought lo our notice on reading a llions amounting to no less than £3726, and in commemoration review in the Voice of Alasonryfor the current month of the of that event, Bro. AMES TERRY , P.G.S.B., the Secretary of the proceedings at the 75th annual communication of the Grand je J nevolerit Institution , attended the meeting in question , and Lodge of Indiana, which was held in the City of Indianapolis on Presented an illuminated address of thanks to his lordshi p in the 26th and 27th May last. From this we gather that there is cognition of his services. But this, though the most note- a complete concurrence of opinion on the part of the Grand ' ")' event of the past year, and one that marks it as the most Master of the said Grand Lod ge, the Grand Lodge itself , and - lorable epoch in the annals of the Province , was not the the compiler of its Report on Foreign Correspondence—Bro. ' presentation tnat was tlien made. Bro. HOWARD H. W ILLIAM COMMONS—as to the absurdity of this dogma. We Ro' M i who has been Prov. G, Secretary for the past seven or are not acquainted with the precise circumstances of the par- ticular case which lias educed from these authorities so PRO VING]AL GRAND LODGE OF DEVONSHIRE. strong a declaration .against thc claim of any Grand Lod ge to exercise this so-called " Perpetual Jurisdiction." Wc learn, INSTALLATION OF BRO. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, however, that it is none other than the Grand Lodge of Penn- M.P., AS PROV. GRAND MASTER. sylvania , or rather, its Grand Master, which has thus excited The annual tnceii ig of the above Provincial Gran d Lodge, held at Exeter, the anger of thc Indiana authorities. The first in priority of on Wednesday, the 12th instant , was marked by the installation of Bro. Sir Stafford Northcote , M.P., as Prcv. Grand Master. The retiring lime to raise his voice against the doctrine was Bro. E DWARD Prov. Grand Master, Bro. Viscount Ebrington , was accompanied on the dais O'RoURKE , M.W.G. Master , who, in his address at the before- by the following members of Grand Lodge: Bros. E. Letchworth , G. Sec. ; mentioned annual meeting, is reported by our contemporary Rev. H. G. Morse, P.G.C. ; VV. J. Hughan, P.G.D. ; F. Richardson , to have " severely censured the Grand Master of Masons P.G D.; W. G. Rogers, P.G.D. ; E. D. Anderton, P.G. Sec. Cornwall, J.G.D. Else in Pennsylvania for rigidly adhering to thc dogma of : R- , P.G.D., D.P.G.M. Somersst ; J. M. McLeod , P.G.S.B., Sec. R.M.I.B. ; Rev. YV. Whittley, P.G.D. ; G. C. Davie, P.A.G.D.C, perpetual jurisdiction , and inflexibl y enforcing it," point- D.P.G.M. Devon ; John Lane, P.A.G.D.C ; and J. Elliott, P.G.D.M. ing out that if any Indiana brother should chance Barbadoes. to be within thc jurisdiction of thc Grand Lodge of The Prov. Grand Officers were Bro s YV. J. Hughan, P.G.D., as Prov. Pennsylvania , and while there should express a desire to visit S.G.W. ; Commander Quinn , P.J.G.W.; Rev. Preb. Smith and Rev. E. one of its lodges, it would avail him nothing (hat he was " a C. Atherton, P.G. Chaps. ; W. F. Quicke, P.G. Treas. ; W. A. Roberts, P.G. Reg. ; J. Brewer, P.G. Sc cT; G. Hawken, P.S.G.D.; E. W. Mason in good standing " in the jurisdiction of his own Grand Locke, P.S.G.D. ; J. Orchard , P.J G.D. ; H. R. Grover, P.J.G.D.; G. himself such b the testimony that Lodge, and could " prove y Hooper, P.G.S. of YV. ; J. R. Lord , P.G.D.C; J. Cole, P.D.G.D.C ; as in the faithful breast of every bright Mason ," if at any period T. W. Atherton , P.A.G.D.C. ; G. Pollard, P.A.G.D.C. ; H. J. Barter, of his life he had had the misfortune to have had " his life P.A.G.D.C. ; R. Carter, P.G S.B. ; F. Orchard and YV. Edwards, P.G. poisoned by the virus of rejection of a Pennsy lvania lodge." Std. Brs. ; J. T. Gardner, P.G. Org. ; R. Harper, P.A.G. Sec. ; H. W, Pengelly, P.G.P. ; Ellis, P.A.G.P.: A. YV. Spinney, H. Roberts, T. We are then told that the Grand Master was sustained by his Kerslake, E. Chappie, W. Laver?, and J. Taylor, P.G. Stewards ; and H. Grand Lodge "in censuring the Grand Master of Masons in Penn- Shooter, P.G. Tyler. sylvania for issuing an edict against a Craftsman who was law- The first business was the installation cf Bro. Sir Stafford Northcote, C.B., full y made a Mason in Indiana, but who had petitioned a lodge M.P., as Prov. Grand Master. in Pennsylvania , and becn rejected. This censure was ex- The P.G.D.C , B.-o. J. R. L^ RD , presented the patent of appointment of Sir Stafford by lhe M.W.G.M., pressed in the following terms : " That any Grand Lodge can H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and the Installing Master, having examined the patent, directed a deputation con- acquire extva-jurisdictional authority is a principle that cannot sisting of the YVor.-hiplul Masters ol the seven senior lodges of the province be sustained by any system of equity or by any code of Masonic to rttire with the P.G.D.C, and introduce the Piov. Grand Master designate. law. Tlie doctrine of perpetual jurisdiction over rejected can- The patent of the appointment was then read by the PROV. GRAND didates is held only by a minority of the Grand Lodges of the R EGISTRAR , and the ceremony of installation was proceeded with in United States and by no Grand Lodge outside of the United ancient form. The Prov. Grand Master having been proclaimed , an address, signed by States. It is un-Masonic, uncharitable, unconstitutional, wrong the Worshipful Masters of the lodges in the province to the new Prov. in theory, and pernicious in action." The edict was further Grand Master was then presented by the D.P.G.M., Bro. G. C Davie. as the act of the Grand Master of Masons in Penn- Bro. DAVIE said lhey all offered Sir Stafford Northcote a hearty welcome denounced " among them. (Applause.) His name was a household word in Devon- sylvania , and his act alone, and resolutions having been adopted shire. In the ruling of that province he (Bro. Davie) felt sure the new in accordance with its censure, the Grand Lodge left it to the P.G M. would follow in the tradilionsof his predecessors, and that the position that province had always taken in Masonry would be retained. (Applause.) Grand Master to take such steps as his jud gment might dictate. For the last I70r 18 yearstheprovincehadbeen ruled by one who, he was sure, And , by way of strengthening the language of the Grand Lodge had obtained the respect and love of all Masons in that province. (Applause.) o( Indiana—wliich was in itself sufficientl strong—our worth Although in Masonry, as in other spheres, they were apt to worship the rising y y sun , he ventured to say they would never forget their outgoing Prov. Grand contemporary proceeds to ask the following pertinent questions: Master, and wire most happy to see him o .cupy ing once more the place " How can a lod ge that rejects material—casts it out and away which he had worthily filled for so miny years. (A pplause.) In conclusion , Bro. Davie read the address. —ju stly claim to perpetually own and control it ? Can a The newly-installed PROVINCIAL G RAND MASTER , in reply, said it was woman reject a lover and for ever after own and control him ? with feelings cf the deepest heartiness that he rose to thank them fjr and for ever possess it? Can that striking proof of the kindly feelings they were good enough to entertain Can a man forfeit a friendshi p yet towards him. He assured them the address just read would be valued by a Mason dimit from his lodge and still possess all thc ri ghts himself throughout the rest of his life, and would be a cherished memento and privileges therein?" and it adds : " The truth is there is of a day of which he had such good reason to be proud. He felt that in taking up that position his only hope of being able to discharge its duties neither reason nor logic in claiming perpetual jurisdiction over to the satisfaction < f the brethren lay in the expectation that the brethren rejected material , and the Grand Lodge of New York is ri ght in throug hout the province would extend towards him a feeling of indulgence and co-operation. It gave him great pleasure to hear the words in which " As ILLIAM limiting lhe jurisdiction to 12 months. for Bro. W Bro . Davie referred to their old friend, the out- going Provincial Grand COMMONS , in his report on Correspondence, after recognising Master. (Applause ) He felt particularly diffident in attempting to fill " the injustice of the doctrine of perpetual jurisdiction " and the place of one who had so long and so ably discharged the duties of the office. His predecessor had many advantages he (Sir Stafford) did not pronouncing it to be " un-Masonic and pernicious," he cites the possess. One was that Lord Ebrington was habitually resident in that following case, which might very well happen in anv jurisdiction : province. That, unfortunately, he (Sir Stafford ) was not. However, he 'A lived in close proximity to the head-quarters of Masonry in England , and he '• lod ge is denied the right to work material which it deems thought that possibly for that reason he might bethe betterable in some respects worthy—a man who, as boy and man , had lived within its juris- to promote the welfare of the Craft, and he should at all times be at the diction continuousl y for 40 years—because he had been rejected disposal of the interests of Freemasonry in Devonshire. (Applause.) b a lod ge in another State live years before the lodge which The PROV . G RAND M ASTER next proceeded to instal and invest his y Deputy, observing that he was very pleased that B.-o. G. C Davie had now desires to work him was chartered." Bro. COMMONS adds : consented again to fill lhat office. " The rule is unjust and in direct opposition to the sp irit of An address from the lodges of Exeter was then presented to the Deputy Masonic equity, which should allow every lodge to be thc con- Prov. Grand Master, thanking him for his oration at the recent opening of servator of Masonry within its own jurisdiction. Thc rule of new premises at Exeter and for his services to Freemasonry. The address was presented and read by the W.M. of St. John the Baptist Lodge, perpetual jurisdiction is too often one of perpetual disqualifica- No. 39. tion." _ The reporls were then presented. We full y concur wilh thc Grand Master, Grand Lodge, and The PROV . G. SECRETARY reported the total number of members in Grand Reporter on Foreign Correspondence of Indiana in their the province as 3318. Bro . UICKE , Prov. G. Treas., presented a balance-sheet, which showed unanimous censure of so ridiculous a dogma. Indeed we have Q , that the balance in hand at the beginning of the year was £261 and at the more than once denounced it in unmeasured terms in these end of the > ear ,£2 82. columns , and are pleased to find that our denunciations are 'I he report ot the Fortescue Annuity Fund was to the effect that the equalled , if not surpassed , by the condemnation of (he Indiana number of annuitants had increased fiom nine to n. authorities. Wh y any body of sensible men should go out of Bro. G OVER presented the report of the Commit'ee of Petitions. The DEI'UTV PROV . G RAND M ASTER then made a presentation to Bro. their way to lay down so monstrous a proposition as that a lodge the Rev. W. Whittley, u'n recognition of his services as representative of which has once rejected a candidate for the mysteries and privi- the Committee of Pel! ions in London . Bro. Davie said it was not toa leges of Freemasonry has jurisdiction over him ever afterwards much to say that the hi gh position which the province had held now for , and wc sincerel hope that Bro. some years in connection with the Charities was entirel y due to the care puzzles us amazing l y, y COMMONS them that " it is onl and energy, and judgment ol Bro. Whittley. His labour had placed is right when he declares y a question of time in the position they then held , and the brethren belong ing to the Committee when the dogma of perpetual jurisdiction will be wholl y dis- of Petitions thought that his giving over the hard work of that office to Bro carded." We do not mind how soon that time comes. Westlake was a suitable opportunity for making a presentation to Bro Whittley for his services, and they had asked him to hand to Bro. Whittley respective Masonic schools since the preceding meeting, th.it one aged a silver salver as a small souvenir of ih >. respect lhey felt for him and their brother, four widows of Freemasons, and two families of orphan children of appreciation of his services. (A pplause.) deceased brothers had been relieved with a to'.al sum of £171 5^. The WHITTLEY said he need hard ly say that token of their esteem Bro. returns for the year ended December 31st, 1S95, showed the total number was very gratifying to himself , and he believed it would be still more of subscribing members in lhe province lo be an increase c f 111 tn gratif ying, if that were possible, to his two sons who were p-esent. 3614, t) (Applause.) He could assure them that the interests of the province would the previous year. The assets of the province amount .£1538 15s. 1 id., ever continue to be very near his heart. (A ppl iuse.) while the liab iities are // //. Bro. R. BIRD proposed the election of Bro. Roseveare, J.P., C.C, as The Audit Commit'ee was appointed , and afier other business had been Treasurer for the ensuing year. Bro. Roseveare, he said, was a member transacted the Prov. Grand Master appointed and invented thu Prov. Grand of Lodge Huyshe, Stoke, Devonport, and had passed throug h the chair of Officers for the ensuing; year, in the following order : his lodge 24 years ago. Bro. Sir Augustus Webster, Bart., ... Prov. S.G W. 1373" Bros. STANBURY and FULFORD seconded and supported the motion , „ T. YV. Haydon , 309 ...... Prov. J G.W. further commending Bro. R< s°veare, as, by his Masonic, commercial, and ,, Rev. E. T. Ashman , 130 ...... ) ,, r. , x) ,. I .ov. Ci . Chaps.n social standing, admirably fitted to fill the office. ,, Rev.13 K. YV.\\r YVilberforce\wn 1 , 342 ...... ). ' No other name was proposed , and Bro. Roseveare was unanimously ,, J. YV. Gieve, 309 (elected) ...... Prov. G. Treas. elected. Bros. Lord and Cornish were appointed Auditors. „ W. Gillman , 257 ...... Piov. G. Reg. The Prov. Grand Master appointed his officers as follows : ,, Ed gar Goble, 309 ...... Prov. G. S: c. Bro. G. C. Davie, 251 ...... D,-p. P.G.M. „ F. A. Johns, 1 ...... 32 l Pmrov.„ S.G.D,.c rn. „ M. Fortescue, 494 ...... Prov. S.G.YV. -„ R. C YV. Dixon , 1112 ...... jf

, F. B. Westlake, 70 ...... -) 11 C. Hodges, 215S ...... ) Prov.p J.GTr nD,.. „ Rev. F. C Lewis, i486...... ( Prov. G: Chaps. „ G. Backler, 1903 ...... j „ Rev. Sullivan, R.N., 1099 ...... j „ L. Colenutt, 18S4 ...... Prov. G.S. of YV. „ E. Roseveare, 1099 ...... Prov. G. Treas. „ J. H. Wavell ...... Prov. G.D.C. „ J. Taylor, 1402 ...... J-rov. G. Reg. ,, T. Tay lor, 1705 ...... P.of. Dep. G.D.C " - .. I. Stocker. -56 ...... Prov. G. Sec. „ E. Brown , 359 ...... ) ,, Dr. R. H. Grumbly, 1 158 ...... "> D c- /^ n „ ]. Howarth, C ...... S Prov. A.G.D.Cs. " Prov. S CDs. 177 W. Luxmore Jones? 112 j „ IV . ,1. U1HIUICW9, /KJ ...... J ,, T. F. Elburton, 1125 ...... )D D. YVilkins ' Prov. J.G.Ds.T n r> „ , 1331 ...... Prov. G.S.B. I, C. G. Withell, 2025 j „ YV. Stewart, 142S ...... ] „ , , „ Prov.D G. Std.c Brs. „ H. Jerman, 39 ...... Prov. S.G. of W. „ G. Fellows/35 j „ J. R. Lord, 1247 ...... P/ov. G.D.C. „ YV. F. King, 1883 ...... P,cv. G. O-ir. „ C H. Fulford , 1254 ...... Prov. D.G.D.C. „ G. F. Lancaster, 903 ...... P.ov. A.G. Sec. e A. Perry, 216 ... " £" ^°S Prov. A.G.D.Cs. „ 9 ...... Prov. G. Purst. „ E. ChappierLS, 797 ...... )1 „ T, G. Gammon, 92S ...... Prov. A.G. Purst. „ Captain Lindsay Lloyd, 225S ...... Prov. G.S.B. „ C. Reader, ^og G. std. BrS ,, T. Cox , 2016 ...... I :: KS ::: - ::: :>ov. ,, G. E. Stares, 1069 ... .., ... | .-, _ , , " u G. Stwds. „ F. Luget, 39 ...... Prov. G. Org. C Sweetman, .75 j-Prov. „ J. F. Allingham, 954 ...... Prov. A.G. Sec. „ YV. E. Duck, 1S34 ...... I „ W. Brutton , 372 ...... Prov. G. Purst. „ J. Maling, 903 ...... J „ W. T. Walters, 1099 ...... Prov. A.G. Purst. „ Exell, Prov. G. T " J. 487 ...... y'er. ,, W. J. Hadnaford, 223 ...... ") This being the 21st year of oflice of H.R.H. the Prince of YVales as „ F. S. Sprague, 1332 ...... | Grand Master of ths Order, Prov, Grand Masters have bcen g iven the 1 -^.G. S power of appointing Past Officers. The followincr were consequently added ;; wi H^'iol ::: ::: :: ^: to the list given above .- Bros. L. Steele, 359, P.P.S.G.YV. ; S. R. Ellis, „ G. W. Polity. 1855 ...... I 342 . P.P.J.G.W. ; J. J. Bascombe, 804 , A. Ho,vell, 1S34, and James- „ A. H. Whiddon , 1212 ...... I Jenkins, 4S7. P.P.G.Ds. „ H. Shooter, H2 ...... Prov. G. Tyler. Bro. J. E. L E FEUVRE , D.P.G.M., was re-appointed the representative The brethren upon whom Past Prov. Grai.d rank has hern conferred to of Hampshire and the Isle of YVight on the Committee of Management of commemorate the zi->t anniversary of the instal'ation of H.R.H. the Prince the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, which will celebrate its centenary of YVales as Grand Master of England were— Bros. Frederick Day, '421, two years hence. P.P.J.G.W. ; J. H. Warren, 1254 , P.P.S.G.D. ; G. Whittley, 156, P.P. p p The PROV. G RAND M ASTER adverted to the loss which tha province had S.G.D. ; R. Harper, 251, P.P.J.G.D.; and R. P. Culley, 1247, sustained throug h the death , from having been thrown from his horse, of the G.D.C. - - outgoing Prov. J.G.W., Bro. Arthur Lamb. He was a mo t enthusiastic The PROV. GRAND MASTER moved a resolution to the effect that the Freemason, ana took a great interest in his lodge, of which he was a P.M. lodge expressed its deep regret at the retirement of Lord Ebrington , its and Secretary. He moved a vote of condolence with his bereaved relatives, warm appreciation of his services, and its desire to record that regret and which was seconded by the DEI 'UTY- PROV. GRAND MASTER , and agreed to appreciation in the minutes of the lodge. in silence. The motion having becn agreed to, Bro. Lord EBRINGTON said he A letter was read from the Province of North and East Y.nkshire, thanked them v ery much for the heai ty and unanimous way in which they objecting to the proposed removal of the Royal Masonic Institution for had adopted the resolution. He expressed his acknowledgments to the Boys from YVoo d Green , and to the contemp lated expenditure , P.G.M. and D.P.G.M. for the kind manner in which they had spoken of Bro. R. EVE , Past G. Treas. England , and Chairman of the Board of his services. He also thanked all those over whom he had ruled for the Management, explained the action which had been taken , and a vote of last 17 years for their hearty and loya l support , especially those officers who confidence in the Board was carried and voce. had assisted him so unselfish ly and ungrudgingly. He was greatly gratified After thn Prov. Grand Lodge had been closed , an adjournment took at the choice the Grand Master had made of his successor. Devonshire place to the R'.'d Lion Hotel , where a banquet was served. was a province of whtth any man might be proud , and the province might The P.G.M. presided , and the loyal and Masonic toas' s were dul y well be proud of its Grand Master. (Applause.) honoured, ''The Health of Bro. B 'ach " being received wilh great The lodge was then closed, and the banquet was served at the Royal enthusiasm. Public Rooms. THE FAMILY OF GRAND LODGES. PRO VINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Bv B RO . R. F. G OUI .D . While the settlement of the " New Z-alard Question " .is progressing, The annual festival of the above Prov. Grand Lodge was held at the let us hope to a satisfactory and equitable conclusion , the otcision miy nor. 1'areham Town Hall on Tuesday afternoon , the 11 th instant, under the be inopportune to sutwy the conditions under which newly-constiiutf d presidency of Bro. YV. W. B. Beach, M.P., Prov. Grand Master, who was Grand Lodges are accord, d recognition as sovereign Masonic powers, by ilu supported by Bros. J. E. Le Feuvre, J.P., P.G.D. Eng., D P.G.M. ; R. Eve, other governing bodies of the Craft, in the British Isles, in Germany, and in I' .G. Treas. Eng. ; E. Goble, P.G.S.B. Eng., Prov. G. Sec ; Francis Norih America respectivehy. Newman , G. Std. Br. Eng. ; J. M. McLeod , P.G S.B. Eng., Sec. R.M.I, Under the Grand Lod ge of England , and the same will prob ibly hold for Boys ; and many Present and Past Pi ov. G. Officers. good with respect to the sister jurisd ictions of Ireland and Scotland , there The roll of lodges was called, and the Prov. Grand Lodge opened with are no hard and fast rules for the recognition of new Masonic powers, but the usual ceremonies. the strea m of precedent tends to show, that sooner or later, the " regularly " After the preliminaries had been gone throug h and the minutes of the of every newly-erected governing body of Symbolical Masonry which •ast arnual Prov. Grand Lodge, he-Id at YVinchester on August 9th , 1S95, controls a majority of ihe tributary lodges within the jurisdiction , is destined had bcen read and confirmed , the accounts cf the Piov. G. Treasurer, Bio. to be acknowledged by the three earliest of Grand Lodges. John W. Gieve, J.P., which had bee n examined and compared with the Not, however, that this step would carry wilh it the stamp of " irrt gii- vouchers and found correct by the Auditors, Bros. J. Maling, YV.M. 903, !arity " as relating to the continued existence of any minority of lod ges, a"d G. E. Stares, W.M.- - 1009,yi were- submitted. The- receipt*- 1 - ,1 -including o a large or small , which might decline to a ffiliate with thu new organisation. "aiance brought forwar d from last year of £228 5s., amounted to The status of these would remain unimpaired by the act of tic msj jrity. -w37 5s. iod. The payments to the Masonic Charities amounted to .£105 and no pressure would be applied by eiiher of the afo esaid Gaul Lo J ges an< grants 5s. and the at the * lo ^171 ; balances National Provincial Bank (I speak with certainty in the case of England , and from reasonable convic- England 183. id. , Portsea, were—cut rent account, ^122 ; deposit, ^200. tion with re-gard to the other two) to induce a subordinate to detach itseH the accounts were passed, and the re-election of Bro. Gieve to the from the minority. v. G. Treasurership was moved and seconded in highly eulogistic terms The usage in America is as follows : Every State cr distinct territory is and carried by acclamation. regarded as Missionary (or unoccup ied) ground where, in tho absence lhe of a summarised report of the proceedings of the Prov. Grand Lodge Grand Lodge, any Grand Lodge may establish led ges. But direal ¦nrnittee y showed lhat one boy and one girl had been elected into the a local Grand Lodge is regularly inaugurated (thoug h the question of law- ful constitution remains a very open one) all the lodges which stand out and where ; and if a lodge so far forgets itself as to give them to a woman , s'ie decline to join in ihe movement become " irregular. " If , for example, out cannot be recognised as a Mason by a Lodge of Perfection." {Off Bull , of 99 lodges, 50 were to erect a Grand Lodge, the other 49 would have to X. no). fall into line, or a forfeiture cf their charters, if derived from America n To slightly antici pate, the lady above referred to, Dr. M atilda Montoya , sources , would be the inevitable result. the only female physician who ever graduated from a Mexican College, we I believe, also , that if out of the same number of lodges (99) , three at shal l next meet with, under the symbolic name of Clio, as W.M. of Lod^e least, unite in lhe formation of a Grand Lodge, and 47 others ultimatel y No. 27, on the roll of the Gran Dieta Simbolica. joi n it, making a total of 51, the who s'and aloof incur precisely the same On D ecember 24th , 18S at the Valley of Mexico, the Supreme 49 0 9, " lo:s of statu; as in th^ previous example. Council 33 relinquished all claim of jurisdiction over the first three Degrees Some authorities , indeed , g.t so far as to maintain that if three out of 99 and the Supreme Grand Orient of the Scottish Rite, together with several Ind gesassembleand erect a Grand Lodge, theremaininggGbecome "irregular. " of the State Grand Lodges, voluntaril y went out of existence in order that This, of course, is a monstrous doctrine , but mu?t be mentioned because the lhey might re-organise under one supreme governing body. This took p inci ple or idea that a smaH minority of the lodges may form a Grand place in February, 1890 and resulted in the foundation of the Gran Dieta Lodge, and force the other lodges into it against their will, or drive them Simbolica, with General Diaz , President ot the Republic, as Grand M aster, cit of existence, was upheld by several Grand Lodges of the United States, and Dr. Ermilio Canton , as Grand Secretary General. in the case of the Grand Lodge of Victoria (Australia) in 18S3, on which The Gran Dieta has since claimed to b3 the sup-erne governing power occasion 16 lodges, with an estimated membership of about 840 , calmly (of Symbolical Masonry) for the whole Republic. Tnere are State Gran d transformed themselves into the governing body of a territory containing Lodees, but all charters for subordinate lodges are issued by the Grand Dieta. 95 lodges, and a membersh i p oi five thousand! The next event of impcrtance was the Treaty of Montery, a provisional The dogma of Exclusive Jurisdiction fails, however, to recommend itself agreement for mutual recognition between the Gran Dieta of Mexico and in any way to the German mind. Each of the eight Grand Lodges of Ger- the Grand Lodge of Texas, executed October 26th , and confirmed by the many can grant (in effect) a warrant of constitution to brethren residing in latter body (on the recommendation of its Grand Master, Bro. G. YV. Tyler) any corner of it. Nor, indeed , would any protest be made on their part, as December Sth, 1891. This proceeding engaged the attention of the Grand we may infer from Bro. Greiner's excellent article on " The Masonic Cus- Lodge of Missouri which, at its annual meeting held October nth, 1892 , toms of the Fatherland." which appears in the Transactions of No. 2076 appointed a Committee of three to report in the following October as to the (ix. part II), were any fore ign Grand Lodge, in good standing, to erect propriety of withdrawing the charter of Toltec Lodge, No. 520. lodges in the German Empire. The seats of the three largest Grand Lodges The next link in the chain of events was a powerful appeal by Toltec are at Berlin. All foreign relations are controlled by the Grand Lodge Lodge, No. 520 , against its threatened doom. It took the form of a circular League of Germany, which consists of representatives of the eight Grand letter, dated March 31st, 1893 , was signed by the W.M., Bro. Richard E. Lodges. This body decided some years ago that it would recognise any of Schism , and bore the title of An Inside View of Mexican Masonry, The the coloured or negro Grand Lodges in America, which had been lawfully writer, inter alia , alleged lhat the lodges under the Gran Dieta admitted founded and conducted according to Masonic princi ples ; also that the women , excluded the Bible, and meddled in politics. He objected also to members of such lodge? might visit the German lodges. the legitimacy of the act by which the Gran Dieta was ushered into existence, The British , American , and German Grand Lodges differ, indeed , in a denying that there had been any convention of Masons, and affirming that 0 much larger number of points than I can find space to particularise in this the new body was a mere creation of the Supreme Council 33 . article, not only with respect to the regularity with which a governing body The " Treaty of Monterey " was referred to by Bro. Chism in language of s> mbolical Masonry may have been established, but also in regard to the that will bear repeating, as the opinion he expressed of that ill-advised legitimacy of the Masonry which is practised under its banner. compact , in 1893,—must be entertained by most sensible persons who are at From the point of view of the moulders of Masonic opinion in the all acquainted with the circumstances of the case, in 189 6. Heobserves : "It U.S.A., or, in other words, of the Reporters on Correspondence in that is impossible to believe that the Grand Master of Texas, or any York Rite country, the Conflict of Laws in regard to the " regularity " of Grand Mason, would condone the absence of the Bible, the admission of women Lodges, and the legitimacy of the work performed by their subordinates , is to Masonry, the obligations without penalties, and the many other differences at the present moment being very exhaustively debated. The event which has of secret work that would have been evident upon the slightest inquiry into given rise to the discussion , is the claim advanced by the Gran Dieta Sim- that branch of the subject. The only conclusion from this is, that no ex- bolica of Mexico to be received into the Family of Grand Lodges. The amination whatever was held of the secret work ofthe Gran Dieta ; that that literature on the subject is of a very extensive character , but the interest body was supposed to be legitimate only from the fact of calling itself so, evoked by the extraordinary proceedings of the Gran Dieta shows no sign and that ordinary caution was entirely lost sight of in the whole transaction. of abating, and has, indeed , been greatly heightened in consequence of a This being the case, it seems to us that the Grand Lodge of Texas has recent visit by B --0. T. S. Parvin , ttie much-respected Grand Secretary of received this whole Mexican Rite into its fellowship with less precautions Iowa , to the Republic of Mexico. than are usually taken in allowing a single strange Mason to visit a A special article by this worthy and distinguished brother, headed lodge." " Mexican Masonry," forms a portion of the Transactions of the Gran d The events so far related for med the subject of an article which I wrote Lodge of Iowa for 1S96 , and will presently be referred to more particularly, for the Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge in 1893 (vi., 133), but a few preliminary words are essential , in order that the subject , in its after which I received a variety of communications , both written and printed, latest phase, may be rendered familiar to thoss readers of the Freemason from Bros. C. H. M. y. Agramonte, Richard E. Chism, and Ermilio G. who may approach its study for the first time. Canton, all of whom are (or were) residing in the city of Mexico. The story of the introduction of Masonry into Mexico has become very Bro. Agramonte, who has largely posed as champion of the orthodoxy of ancient history. It was originally planted there, earl y in the present cen- the Gran Dieta, denied , in the most positive manner, the presence of women tury, by the so-called " Scottish Rite " (A. and A.S.R.), and afterwards in lodges, except in those, similar to the Eastern Star, which exist in lodges were established bv Grand Lodges of the U.S.A. The adherents of Mexico. one system were stvled Escoceses , and of the other Yorkinos. Both titles Bro. Ermilio Canton , G. Sec. Gen. of the Gran Dieta, sent me many passed into common use, denoting in the former case the aristrocacy, and in numbers of the Boletin Masonica , the organ of lhat body, and in the issue the latter the reformers. Indeed , except by writers of the Craft, the Masonic for August, 1893, I found a notice of my own article, from the pen of Bro . origin of these terms seems to have passed intooblivion. Lieutenant Hardy, Guillermo Butze, which was a carefully-written answer (and semi-official) R.N., in his " Travels in the Interio r of Mexico in 1S25, 1826 , 1827, and to the strange practices imputed to the lodges under the Gran Dieta. 1828," observes—" During my sojourn in Mexico there existed two parties— The absence of the Bible and the omission of any Oath are not denied. one calling itself ' Yorkino,' the other ' Escoses.' It may be said that the It is admitted that there is a Lodge of Adoption , to which about 20 ladies influence of boih parties has been most baneful , although not in an equal belong, also that there is an Eastern Star Order, which came from the degree. The Yorkino party, after having destroyed that of the Escoses, United States in 1848. But that women are ever present in real (or regular) and being composed of material s which could not hold together, recently lodges is emphatically contradicted—a statement which it will be well to split into two ; one baing named Yorkinos moderados; the other, Yorkinos bear in mind , as illustrating the amount of credit we can afford to give to exaltados." (p. 519). utterances, either by, or on the part of , the officials of the Gran Dieta, when A debased form , or rather a travesty of Masonry next sprang up, called we reach that stage of the narrative where proof is afforded that women the Mexican National Rite—and , passing over a long series of years, the were permitted to be made Masons in the ordinary lodges, with the express 0 thread of the story may be resumed in i860, after a Supreme Council , 33 , sanction of the governing Masonic body. FYom Bro. Chism I received a was established at Mexico City by authority of the Supreme Council , U.S.A., copy of the Boletin Masonica for January, i893,'and on the second, third, and Southern jurisdiction. fourth pages of the outside,cover, appears a list of the Grand and subordinate Soon afterwards there was a schism, and a Supreme Grand Orient of Lodges under the obedience of the Gran Dieta. The Grand Lodges, ol the (so-called) Scottish Rite was organised by the seceders. Both factions which there are 17, head the roll , and the first one of all is described as went on erecting Craft lod ges in the Republic , and the voluntary union of " Gr.- . Log.'. Valle de Mexico, No. 1, Mexico, Distrito Federal." these lod ges—Established indiscriminate ly by each of the two powers—gave Next follow, in numerical orde r , under the headirg of " Logias Sim- birth to Grand Lodges in a number of the States. The Grand Lodges bolicas," the names of 205 lodges, from which I extract the following : thus constituted assumed tha title of " Free and Accepted Masons," asserted their independence of the two parent bodies (the Supreme Council and the " Log/. Maria A larcon de Mateos num. 27, Mexico Distrito Federal. Grand Orient), and claimed to be the Sovereign Masonic Powers within „ Marta Washington num. 156, San Luis Potosi : Sra. Josephine J. Rivera de Parvin. their respective State or Territorial limits, on the plan of the several Grand Sra. Lodges of the U.S.A. ,, Josc-fa C. de Canton ntim 158 , Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas : Meanwhile, in 1883 , the Grand Lodge of Missouri granted a charter for Hilaria Quintana de Gonzalez." the establishment , in the City of Mexico, of Toltec Lodge, No. 520. At page 117 of the same publication a list is given of the newly-elected At the close of 1889 the prelinrnaries took place which resul ted in the officers of the Grand Lodge of the Valley of Mexico, No. 1. The G.M- > s formation of the Gran Dieta Simbolica , but an extract fro m a letter written Ermilio G. Canton (G. Sec. Gen. of the Gran Dieta), and among the other by the late Albert P.ke, G. Commander Supreme Council , 33°, U.S.A., office-bearers are : Clio, C H. M. y. Agramonte, Euterpe, Caliope, and Southern Jurisdiction , to Dr. I gnacio Pombo, Sov. G. Commander Supreme Armenia." Council of Mexico, on August Gth in the same year, will prepare the reader According to Bro. Chism and the evidence supplied by other number^ to some extent, for a surprising innovation upon the established M asoni; of the Boletin Masonica , " Clio, Caliope, Armenia," and " Euterpe ' are forms, which became for a time—if , indeed , the practice is yet extinct—a ladies, and the first three, in private life, are known as Dr. Mstilda Montoya, leading characteristic of what has been lately passing under the name of Mrs. De Kleinham k (the mother in-law of the G. Sec. General), and Mrs. Freemasonry in tbe Mexican Republic. Canton (the wife of that functionary) respectively. , Albert Pike, to Ignacio Pombo, August 6th , 1889 :— In the Boletin for March and April , 1893, there appear, at p. 335- , '¦ Your secrnd question is,—' Puede una Log ia de Perfection , admitir en words—" la querida H.\ Clio, Ven/. Maest/. de la Log/. Maria Atarw» su seno, y conferirle Ios Grados del 4° al 14 ', a Ia primera D octora en de Mateos No. 27 " (the very dear Sister Clio , W.M. of Lodge No. 27J - , Mcdicina , y q ie recib'6 Ios Grados Azalea , en una Logia Simbolica ? '—If The list of office-bearers " in this woman 's lod ge, which 1 take from . ol >n on 1 this means ' can a Lod^e Perfect! confer its Degrees a woman, who Boletin of January, 1^93 , is as folbws : " Clio (W.M.), Euterpe, Prate" " has r b ained the Blue Degrees in a Symbolic Lodge V '—I think the answer dad , Caliope, Calipso, Melpom:ne, Dido , Leona Vicario , Aurora , Noem 1 ought to Le that a woman cannot lawfull y receive the Blue Degrees any- Fid.l.dad , Estrella , Armenia, luano de Arco." and " Diana." Particular attention should be directed to the circumstance that the were applied by the severa l brethren as follows : The vessel of corn was presented womsn's lod ge occupies its rrgulir place, according to the number, among by Bro.C. D.L. Graham , P.D.L.B.G.P. (E.G.). to Bro.T.S. G RAHAM , D.G.M.(E.G.), the rest of the lodges. Among tie o'her Mexican lodge; whose names have who used the following words : " I scatter this corn as an emblem of p lenty. been given above will be found the Marlht Washington , No. 156 , and the May the blessings of bounteous heaven be showered upon us and upon all I r.sefa Canton , No. 158. The address in either case is to a lady, the Sec- li! e patriotic and benevolent undertaking?, and inspire the ' hearts of the people retary, who in the former instance was the daughter-in-law of Past Grand with virtue, wisdom , and gratitude." Master Parvin, of Iowa, as will duly appear in the stquel. The cup of wine was presented by Bro. David Cherrie , D.J.G.W. (S.C), to the D.G.M., Bro. J AS. G ORE (S.C), who used the following words : " I pour this (To be continued), wine as an emblem of joy and gladness, and may the Great Architect of the Universe bless this undertaking. May His divine mercy protect the workmen engaged in this structure, and , as it is begun in peace, may it end in harmony." MASONIC CEREMONY AT DUNEDIN (N.Z.) . The vessel of oil was presented by Bro. D. C. Sharp, P.M., D.G. Supt. of Works, (S.C), to Bro. D. A. M'N ICOLL, D.P.G.M. (I.C), who used the following words : " I pour this oil as an emblem of peace. May its blessing abide with us The foundation-stone o5 the Otago Agricultural Hall was laid with Masonic continually. May the Grand M aster of Heaven and Earth sh elter the widow and ceremonial on Wednesday, the ioth June. The weather was fortunately of that orphan , shield and protect them from trials and vicissitudes of the world , and so bestow His mercy upon the bereaved, the afflicted, and the sorrowing, that they delightfu l character which has made the present winter, so far as it has gone, so may know sorrow and trouble no more." memorable on account of its mildness, and the conditions were in every regard The vessel of salt was presented by Bro. E. R. Green , P.M. (E.G.), to Bro. favourable and auspicious. The fact that the function was held on the weekly W. N EES, D.D.G.M. (S.C), who used tbe following words : " 1 sprinkle this salt half-holiday conduced to a large gathering of spectators, not only of those who as an emblem of hospitality and friendshi p, and may the Great Architect of the were more directly interested in the scheme, but also of numbers of people who Universe incline our hearts to carry out the grand precept." An ode was then sung by the choir, after which the W.G.M., Bro. T. S. were attracted to the scene by a desire to witness a ceremony in the performance G RAHAM , delivered the following invocation : " And may the Lord , the Giver of of which the mystric rites of Freemasonry were emp loyed. Long before the time every good and perfect gift , bless the brethren here assembled in all their lawful fixed for the ceremony crowds of people gathered in the vicinity of the site, and undertakings, and grant to each one of them in needuil suppl y the corn of those who had not received invitations to places within the hoarding wall that nourishment , the wine of refreshment, the oil of joy, and the salt of peace. So surrounds the foundations of the building took up their positions along the stone mote it be." Bro. T. S. G RAHAM said : We are here wall in Vogel-street , overlooking the section and in the neighbourhood of the to-day under the banner of England , Ireland , and Scotland, as members of an ancient, free, and accepted fraternity, to overbridge, while a few venturesome youths climbed to the roofs of buildings in lay the foundation-stone of the Otago Agricultural Hall , and I need scarcel y as-sure Oawford-street , and thence secured an excellent view of the proceedings. you, Mr. Chairman , that we have come here, and at your request, with exceeding Above and around the stone itself were seated or stood a large number ot great pleasure to assist you, however humbly be the effort , in your proceedings. ladies and gentlemen, among the latter being the Hon. T. Fergus, Messrs. T. Many here may naturally inquire what connection a Masonic body has with the done, ij. Smith, jun., W. Patrick, Robert Campbell , James Hazlett, G. H. laying of this foundation-stone. The answer is a very simple one. We are here Bry as the representatives of those brethren and architects and worth H. Morrison (directors of the Otago A y builders who Gilroy, and J. gricultural Hall Company), ages ago, on the continent of Europe and elsewhere, raised those magnificent the Hon. VV. D. Stewart, M.L.C., the Hon. YV. H. Reynolds, M.L.C., Professor structures—cathedrals and other public buildings—by their secret arts, and retained Gibbons, Professor Gilray, Dr. A. J. Fergusson , J. Allen, W. Fraser, T. Mackenzie, the possession of certain secrets and signals among their guilds and brethren. T . Green , R. Glendining, K. Ramsay, J. T. Mackerras, J. Shiel, J. R. Thornton , ]. These guilds used the compass, the square, the mallet, the chisel , and many other Hislop (architect of the building), T. Moodie, D. E. Theomin , W. Angus, j. instruments ; but we as theoretical Masons simp l y use these as symbols from Stephenson, C. R. Chapman , G. L. Denniston , G. Fenwick, J. Sinclair Thomson, which we deduce certai n moral lessons, andjwe trust that when these are thoroughly R. A. Chaffey, W. Henderson, R. W. Glendining, W. P. Watson , L. A. Mac- understood and followed by the brethren of our society, they may be rendered pherson, P. R. Sargood, J. W. Brindley, E. Herbert, B. Sievwright, C. B. Grier- better men when they pass away from the society than when they enter it. Permit son , R. Wilson, D. Baxter, W. Snow, ]. M'Rae Gallaway, J. B. Thomson, A. Lees, me, Mr. Chairman , to express the pleasure we have in coming here to-day, and A. Matheson , W. Gow, A. JI'Kerrow, D. Borne, J. Carroll, J. White , J. Leth- allow me to express the earnest hope that when comp leted this building may in bridge, A. Todd , F. Townsend, J. Arkle, I. Selby, B. Hart, F. R. Chapman, A. S. every respect prove a credit to yourself , your brother directors, and those gentle- Paterson, H. Clark, W. Crombie, M. Sinclair, W. Dawson, W. Carlto n, P. Barr, men who, by their foresight and energy, have entered upon a scheme which I J. Mitchell , H. Harraway, C. E. Bird, A. Solomon , J. R. Scott, W. Blackie, W. trust you will be able to bring to comp letion, (A pplause,) I also trust the build- R. Perston , H. E. Hart, A. M'Farlane, A. Moritzson, T. Callender, A. Burt. J. ing when finished will be a credit to the architect who prepared the plans, and Stone, C. YV. Adams, and G. Esther. last, though not least, a credit and ornament to the city of Dunedin. (A ppl iuse.) Apologies for non-attendan -e were received from the Hons. J. M'Kenzie Bro. Hon. T HOMAS FERGUS said : Right Worshi pful Sir and Brother, (Minister for Agriculture), W. M. Bolt, M.L.C., and W. ]. M. Larnach j Messrs. Brethren , Ladies, and Gentlemen,—I assure you thit the directors of the Otago j. Roberts, C.M.G., D. Pinkerton , W. Earnshaw, N. Y. A. Wales (Mayor), Jos. Agricultural Hall Company feel very grateful indeed to my brethren of the Allan , and T. Brown. Masonic tie for having conferred an honour upon them this afternoon in consent- The District Grand Lodge (E.C.) was opened at the Masonic Hall at 1.30 ing to lay the stone of their new hall. I take it that the magnificent day which p.m., and after the D.D.G.Ms. and officers of the S.C. and I.C. had been received, we have at present is but the emblem of the days of prosperity we will have the brethren formed in procession , headed by the Dunedin Garrison Band. The inside this hall when the walls are fu l ly erected and the roof is on it. (Aop huss.) members of the respective Masonic Constitutions of England , Ireland, and Scot- It is with exceeding pleasure, too, that I see around me some very old Masons- land walked in twos. Then came the officers, followed by the Masters and Past men who have been connected with agricultural matters for many years. Bro. Masters of the lodges. These were succeeded by the Grand Standard Bearers, James, on my immediate right, was the first Secretary of the first agricultural with two Grand Tylers, followed by the respective Grand Officers, marching in society in Otago, and I am pleased to see him so hale and hearty as he is now. twos, with the Right Worshipful District Grand Master, Bro. T. S. Graham, (Applause.) I have, Right Worshipful Sir, to congratulate my brethren , your preceded by his Standard Bearer, bringing up the rear. colleagues or companions, upon the magnificent manner in which they have con- The platform erected for the occasion was situated at the north-east corner ducted this ceremony. It might not be out of place for me just to say a word or of the section on which the hall is to be erected , and there was a plentiful display two with respect to the building of which this is the foundation stone. Some of bunting. On arriving at a proper distance from the stand, the procession time ago the Agricultural Society of Otago took it into their heads that it would halted and opened out ri g ht and left so as to allow the District Grand Master to be wise and well to hold an annual winter competition, especially for dairy produce pass up the centre, the District Grand Officers following in the rear in order. and root crops. They entered upon this project, intending to make it a success j Upon being disposed on the platform , the Masonic ceremony began. but they found that the success far exceeded their highest anticipations. Last The D.G.D.C. (Bro. J. H. Moir) presented to the R.W. the D.G.M. (Bro. year when the show came off they found that if it was to continue to flourish they Thomas Sherlock Graham) the directors cf the Agricultural Hall Company, the would require a much larger building than any in Dunedin at the present day in Hon. T. Fergus (Chairman), Messrs. T. Brydone, James Smith , jun., W. Patrick, which to contain not only the exhibits, but also the people who came from far Robert Campbell , J. Hazlett, G. H. Gilroy , and J. H. Morrison. and near to see them. (Applause.) In order to obtain a larger building a few The Hon. T. FEKQUS then called upon the R.W. the D.G.M. to perform gentlemen met together, and they decided that they would ask the people of the ceremony. Otago to subscribe a sufficient amount of money for the erection of a building. The Masonic choir, under the direction of the D.G. Organist, having sung The money was to be on debentuies terminable at the option of the society, and an ode, when the society were in possession of funds to enable them to pay off those The D.G. Chap., Bro. the Rev. F. C. P LATTS, offered up a prayer, and the debentures, the hall was to revert to the Otago Agricultural Society for the benefit D.G. Supt. of Works, Bro. D. C. Sharp, presented a plan of the buildings. of the farmers of the whole provincial district. I need not say that the directors The D.G. Secretary, Bro. S. JAMES, read the scroll, of which the following have met with unequalled success. We had very few rebuffs ; one and all on is a copy : whom we called were only too eager to aid us to the best of their ability ; and I The foundation-stone of this building, to be used as an agricultural hall, am proud to sav that we have at the present time enough money and promises to was laid with Masonic honours, at the especial request of the directors of the enable us to complete the erection of the building. (A pplause.) Hiving erected Otago Agricultural Hall Company (Limited) by Thomas Sherlock Graham , the building, we look confidently to the farmers and stockowners of Otago to aid Right Worshi pful District Grand Master of Freemasons of Otago and Southland us, and we have no doubt we will be able to give them good value for their money, under the English Constitution , assisted by James Gore, Right YVorshipful and advance the cause of agriculture with leaps and bounus to the credit of this ¦Uiitrict Grand Master New Zealand South , Scottish Constitution , and David A. part of New Zealand. (Applause.) We have especially to thank tha Otago M'Nicoll , Right Worshi pful Deputy Provincial Grand Master for New Zealand, Harbour Board , who have given us a lease, on what is merely a peppercorn rent , hish Constitution , with the officers of their respective District Grand Lodges, of this magnificent site ; but I think their generosity will not be wasted, because fji d in the presence of the brethren under their respective constitutions; the they will have an additional value added to the surrounding sections by the erection Hen. Thomas Fergus, chairman , and directors of the Otago Agricultural Hall of this building. (Applause.) t-empany 5 and the general public, on Wednesday, the ioth day of June, A .D. Bro. FERGUS, on behalf of the architect, Mr. J. Hislop, then presented Bro. '°BIRMINGHAM (for one ard f HANNEL ISLANDS , SATURDAY to MO NDAY P RICES 3d. ro A G UINEA . or four days), from St. Pancra-- -, at S.35, Kentish Town , TRIPS. Manager , Mr . 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A' FO , for 5 nr tt davs , from St. Pancra s, at 9.15 p.m., EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT at 10.10 p.m.—For EXETE R to Stilling -, Perth , Dundee, Arbroath. Frrfa r , Bre chin , Dawlish , Teignmoutri , PLYMOUTH , Devnnoort , Bodm in Montro se A NDii R ION 'S HOTEL & TAVERN , Stonehaven , ABERDEEN , INVERNESS , Fort Wadebridge;NEWQUAY, Truro , FALMOUTH , St. Ives) William , &c. . PENZANCE , Scill y hlands , for 3, 8, 10, 15, rr 17 days. C\ FLEET STREET , LONDON. RETURN TICKETS at a THIRD-CLASS SINGLE 12.27 midnieht—For Chepsto w . Newport, CARDIF F ORDINARY FAKE for the DOUBLE JOURNEY will SWANSEA . Llanclly, CARMAR THEN , Pembroke Dock) F. II. CLEMOW , Prop rietor. al-n be issu- d by the abive tr-ii-i * for S OTLAND , to Tenb y, Cardi gan , New and Old Milford , &c , for 7 or 14 KETIIRN ANY DAY WITHIN iG DAYS from the days. Peacoc k Hotel , and Royal Hotel , date cf issu?. In connection with the EVERY SATURDAY , 7.55 a.m. —For MINEHEA D Boston , Lincolnshire. On FRIDAY , A UGUST 28th , for 11 or 16 days , from LYNION , LYNMOUTH , Barnsta ple, ILFRACOMB E St. Pancras at S.30 p.m., to Northallerton , Richmond , PLY.VIOU TH , Tavistock , Launceston , Davonport , NEW- The central position of Anderton 's is unequalled for Darlington , Durham , Newcastl e, and Berwick. QUAY , Truro , FALMOUTH , St. Ives, PENZANCE , &c , Masonic Banquets , Public Dinners , Wedding Breakfasts , for 3, S, 10, 15, or 17 days. , Arbitrations , &c. GENERAL EXCURSION , SATURDAY , AUGUST 29th. Meetings of Creditors 85 a.m.—For Wellineton. SHREWSBURY , Churc h The RESTAURANT on Eastern Side of Hotel Entrance To LEICESTER , Notting ham , Dirb y, Burton , Matl.ck , St rett on , Leominster , HEREFORD , O.westr v, Welsh pool , is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for Breakfasts , RuxKn , Stock port , Southport , Liverpool , Manchester , ABERYSTWYTH , Llangollen , driven , BALA, Blaenau Accrirgt m Luncheons , Teas , and Dinners. , B'actbu rn , Burnley, Bolton , Kochdale ,Oldham , Feft iniotr, DOLGELLY , BARMOUTH, Harlech , Criccieth , Bu-y, m., in Coffee Lancaster , Morerambe , the Lake District , Barrow , CHE STER , Birkenhesd , LIVERPOOL , Rhvl , LLAN- The 2s. Hot Luncheon , from 1 p.m. to 3 p. Whitehaven , Wolverhamp- , Carlisle , Birming ham , Walsall DUDNO, BETTWS-Y-COEO , Bangor , CARNARVON , Room , unequalled. ton , Stoke , Hanley , Burslem , Macclesfield , Shefli:ld , Llanberis (for Snowdon), &c , for 3 8, 10, 15, or 17 days. Registered Address for Telegrams :— Barnsl- y, Waktfield , Huddersfield , Halifax , L-reJs , Brad- ^ 8.41 a.m.-For WESTON-SUPER-MARE , EXETER , CLEMOW , LONDON. ford , Scarboroug h , Whitby, Darlington , Durham , South Shields , High Shields , Sunderland , Newcastle , &c. Tickets Dawlish , Tei gnmouth , TORQUAY , Kingswear. DART- ~ MOUTH , &c , for 3, S, 10, 15, or 17 days. H^ S T E V E N S ' S will be tviilable for return on Monday, August 31st, or np Thursday, September 3rd . 9 30 a.m. —For DOUGLAS (Isle of Man), for 3, 8, 10' 75, or 17 days. A FORTNIGHT IN IRELAND. GAME, POULTRY, AND PROVISION 11 15 a.m.—For FROME , Shr p ' on M.lUt , Wells, On FRIDAY. S EPTEMBER 4-h , to BELFAST and YEOVIL. Bridport , Dorchester , WF.YMOU TH ( for the STORES, NO.-JTH OF EPTEMBER IRELAND; and on S 5th , to CHANNEL ISLANDS), Portland , &c , for 3, 10, or 17 LONDONDERRY. 65, HAYMARKET, LONDON, S.W. dajs. NEW WEEKLY SUMMER EXCURSIONS. 12 5 mon—Fi r Newbury, Savernake , Marlborou gh , Dev'zes, Tiowbiid ge, Warminster , &c , for 3, 10, or 17 SURREY FO W LS, YORK HAMS , AND CHOICE EVERY SATURDAY until further notice , Special , days. OLD CHEDDAR CHEESE. Weekl y Excur.-ions to LIVERPOOL , SOU IMPORT , BLACKPOOL , ISLE OF MAN , MATL OCK , BUXTON , 12 40 p.m.- For CLEVEDON , Bridgwater , TAUNTON , MORECAMBE , LANCAS 1 ER , and ENGLISH LAKE MINEHEAD (for LYN I ON and LYNMOUTH), Barn- sta ple, ILFRACOMBK , Wellington (Som.), TIVERTON , CIuls , Restaurants and Hotels supp lied en the mo.-t DISTRICT , 't ickets available for 3, S, 10, 15, or 17 days. &c, for 3, 10, or 17 days. advantageous terms. For limes, &c , Sve small bills. At 4.5 p.m. —For SWINDON , Cirencester , Stroud , TICKETS and BILLS may be had at the MIDLAND CHELl ENHAM , HEREFORD , &c , for 3, 10, or 17 days. STATIONS and CITY BOOKING OFFICES , and from Pro mpt a ttention given to Country orders. —For Chi ppenham BATH and BRISTOL , THOS. COOK & SON , Lud gate-circus , and Branch 6.15 p.m. , Telephone No. 35,299. Offices. for 3, 10, or 17 days. GEO. H. TURNER , General Manager. 10.10 p.m. -For SWINDON , WESTON-SUPER- TURTLE. MARE , EXETH R , Dawlish , Tti gnmou th , TOR QUAY, THE SHIP AND Kingswear , PLYMOUTH , Truro , FALMOUTH , PEN- Pioprietor , Bro. C. J. PAINTER. p REAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. ZANCE , &c, for 3, 8, 10, 15, or 17 days. Best and oldest house in London for recherche " THAMES RIVERSIDE SEASON. Masonic Banquets , Private Parties , and Dinners. CHEAP SUMMER HOLIDAY IMPROVED SERVICE EXCURSION TIC KETS arc ASSEMBLY R OOMS KOR COMPANIES , & C . issued DAILY by certain tr ains from PADD1NG10X , EXCURSIONS. Addison Road , Hamm -r s-nith , &c , to Stairc * 25.; OUR TURTLE "THTTELIXIR OF LIFE," WINDSOR , 2s. Gd. j TAPLO W, MAIDENHEAD , and BURNHAM BEECHES , js. ; Cookhtm , Bourne End , Vide faculty. A - URDAY ' Each S from King s Cross (G.N.), to BRlD- GREAT MALVERN , Shiplake , and HENLEY , 3s. Gi.; L1NGION , FILfcY , WHITBY , SCARtlOKO' , KOBIN Tilerurst PANGBOU ^NE and Goring, Gs. ; Cholsev, Purveyors to H.R.H. Prince of Wales , H.I.M. Emperor SEA'ION , , HOOD S BAY , REDCAR , CAREW , SALT- 6s. Gd. ; and on WEEK-DAYS ONLY to WALLIN G- of Russia , Dukes of Saxe Gotha , Connaug ht , Cambridge , BURN , TYNEMOUTH WHITLEY , CULLERCOATS , , FORD , 75. and most ol Crowned Heads of Europe. LIVERPOOL , SOUTHPORT , and DOUGLAS (Isle of A FORTNIGHT IN IRELAND. Manager , Bro. E. ASHBY . Man), for 3, S, 10, 15, and 17 days. THURSDAYS. A UGUST 27, S EPTEMB ER I O, and 24, Each S ATURDAY A FTERNOON , to ST. ALBANS ' 3.35 p.m., for CORK. MONTAGUE MANSION WHKATHAMPSTEAD , and HARPENDEN , from Moor- UGUST SEPTEMBER II and G. 10 (Opposite the British Museum Entrance), gate at 1.50, Aldersgate , 1.5S, Farringdon , 2.0, King 's FRIDAYS , A 28, 25, Lismore Clcnm e), Cross (G.N.), 2.30, Finsbury Park , 2.35. p.m. to WATERFORD , Dun fcaivan , , GREAT RUSSELL STREET , W. C. Ti pperary, Kilkenny, &c. M ONDAY, August 24'h , t) SHERINGHAM, CROMER FRIDAYS , AUGUST 21 , S EPTEMBER 4 and 18, 445 (Beach), and YARMOUTH (Beach), from King s Cross Larne , Most conveniently situated for Business or Pleasure. Cab p.m.—To BELFAST , Armagh , Enniskillen , (G.N.) at 6.15 a.m., Finsbury Paik , 6.20, returning from GIANT'S CAUSEWAY , &c. Fare from " Montague Mansion " is One Shilling to nearly Yarmouth (Beach), at C p.m., Cromer (Beach), 6.55, and SEPTEMBER — all Railways , Theatres , and the Royal Courts of J ustice. Sheringham , 7.5. Third class return fare , 5s. THURSDAY , 24, 6.10 p.m. To KILLARN EY. Omnibuses to all parts for a few pence. August from Moor- To SANDY (Flower Show), 27th , Bills, pamphlets , and Lists of Farmhouse and Count ry Farringd j n Bedroom , Bath , Break fa.-.t. and Attendance , 5s. and 5s. fid. gate , at 10. 10 a.m., Aldersgate 10.12 , , 10.14, Lodgings can be obtained at the Company 's Stations , and King ' s Cross (G.N.), 10.40, Holloway, 10.30, Finsbury ht Porter. Telephone zqofi . Terms Moderate. at the usual Receiving Offices. Nig Park , 10.45, returning at 8.35 P-m. J. L. WILKINSON , G ENERAL M ANAGER . CASTLE HOTEL , To SKEGNESS , A UGUST 24'h , :9th , 31st , S EPTEMBER MAYO'S 5th , &c , from Mcorgate at O.51 a.m., Aldersgate , 6 53, EAST MOLESEY , H AMPTON COURT STATION . Farringdon , G.55, King 's Cross (.G.N.), 7.15, Holloway, CANNON STREET HO TEL 7.5, Finsbury Park , 7.20. Third class return fare 4s. Gd. CANNON STREET , E.C. Saturday to Monday or Tu esday, fare 6s. BRO. JOHN MAYO , M ASONIC T EMPLE . Accommodation in thc new wing for Banq uets for any RITTER & PUZEY , PROPRIET O RS. Woolwich ( \rsenal and number up to 120. Every convenience for Ladies ' Gather- EXCURSIONS from Dockyard) ings. Spacious landing to river , whence Steam Launches Victoiia (I. .C. and D.), Ludgate Hill , Moorgate , King 's SPACIOUS AND COMMODIOUS ROOMS can start. Five Lodges meet here , and reference may Cto:-s (G.N.), &c. FOR LARGE OR SMALL be made to the resp ective Masters as to thf catering, &c. FRIDAY NIGHT , A UGUST 2S1I1 , for 11 days , to North- allerton , Darling ton , Richmond , Durham , Newcastle , MASONIC LODGES , ESTABLISHED OVER A CENiURY. Berwick , Edinburgh , G'^ asgow , and Hel-.-nsbui g h j and for FURNITURE & IRON 5 or 11 days to Stirli ng, Perth , Dundee , Oban, Montrose , AND OFFICE Abjideen , Inverness , &c , &c. 'Iickets at a Single Fare SAFES (N EW ANO S I- CO .VUHAVU), BANQUETS , for the Double J ourney w.ll also be isiu^d, available for iG largest Stock in London to select from. KBITK A - days. M EETINGS , A UC T I O NS, BALLS , CONCSRTS , A BricV.lajers , Plurr.bers , Painters , Papeihangeis , Writers SATURDAY , A UGUST 29'h , for 3 or G daj s, to Sleaford , TIONS , CLNDERELLAS , ETC . and r.ng rtvws, Sh' pfittirs . Carpe ls, Linoltutns , Safe s, .Lincoln , Gainsboro ' , Leicester , NotVnjham , Di-rby, M ANACUK . Gsslitttrs , Str.ith.v, Mind Makcis , Up liolsleieis, Licensed Uuiton , Tutbury, Stoke , Burslem , Manchester , Liverpool , W. G. FENELEY , Valuers , .Sanitary Eng ineers , Insurance and General Southport , Warrineton , Hudtic sfulJ , Harrogate , Hull , Agents. ¦ York , ScaibW , Whiib y, BrMlingto n , Dulington , Dur- ADVANCED E LECTRIC L IGHTING AND B ULLS . ham , Newcastle , Stockton , Sundeiland , Sr.Ulds , Hartle- MONEY PRO MPTLY pool , &.£., &C. ' ON BILLS OF SALE , »J Estimates in all Departments. Iron Safes removed For further particulars see bills to be obtained at the And other Securities , at moderate Interest, repay able Ur the Trade. Slalions and Town Offices. instalments or otherwise. ~ HENRY OAKLEY , Genera ! Manager. A. ARDLEY & SON, Office Established 1S56. Offices— 17, G REAT Sr. H ELEN ' S ; Workshops— M. Imtl-ti urt; WANTED—VOL. II. of GOULD'S 3, SHIPWAY Fu rnit u re War,houses— 10 ard 27, Wormwoid-Urcit; IIISIOKY , in Morocco. App ly Ollice of the G. J . , L ONDON , E.C Freemason. 3, TAVISTOCK STREET , STRAND. ARM FIELD'S SOUTH PLACE As to the question whether the time has or has not copies of which had been sent to every member, be HOTEL , yet arrived for the recognition of " the new body called taken as read , the Master of one of the lodges inquired FINSBURY , LONDON, E.G., the Grand Lodge of New Zealand ," we take leave to whose duty it was to compile the minutes , by whom point out to Bro. Lamonby that his Royal Hi ghness, they had been compiled and whether they had been This new and handsomel y-furnished Hotel is now FULLY , ICE^CED. Its position is central, and charges are the M.W.G. Master, expressly stated in his message to approve d by the District Boird of General Purposes. I . nionVrate the sanilatii n is perfect. Passenger lift to Grand Lodge, on which the Pro Grand Master 's I his inquiry was objected to as being out of order , and motion was based , lhat he (the M.W.G.M) had " in- was so ruled by the District Grand Master. The same 3SPECIAL CONVENIENCE FOR MASONIC LODGES, DINNERS AND ClNDERELLAS. formed hims'. If of the genera l state of Masonic feeling Master then moved that they be read , and the motion in the Colony." From this we infer , not unnaturall y, being seconded , they were read in full by the District pAIETY RESTAURANT , that the general feeling throughout Masonry—En glish , Assistant Grand Secretary. STRAND. Irish , and Scotch , as will as New Zeala d—in the * * * Colony, is in favour of recognition of the new lod ge. This step in advance having been made, the further If so, why need we prolong the present discord ? « progress of business was stopped by objections raised * * by the aforesaid Master to the genera l inaccuracy of Whenever a new lodge is consecrated in London or the minutes, and the District Grand Master having LUNCHEONS (H OT AND C OLD) the Provinces, the Consecrating Officer, be he the called upon him to specify the inaccuracies he com- Grand Secretary or the Grand Master of the Province At Popular Prices, in BUFFET and RESTAURANT plained of , this was done, and the District Grand in whicli the new lodge is located , almost invariabl y (on First Floor), Secretary having offered the necessary explanations, makes it a rule to enjoin on the founders the necessity certain remarks of that officer were on motion made also , , for exercising the strictest caution as to whom they seconded , and carried " excised from the minutes." Chops, Steaks, Joints, Entrees, &c, in the GRILL ROOM . accept as candidates for initiation and membershi p, and it is gratif y ing to know that, whenever an oppor- But still the end was not yet. A Past District G. tunity presents itself , the leading members of the Fraternity in the United States make it their business Warden then rose and moved that a certain portion to impress on others the same necessity for caution. of the minutes be non-confirmed, and the motion hav- ing been seconded objection was taken to it on the AFTERNOON TEA , Bro. J. B. Anthony in his portion of the New York , ground of irregularity. However Report on Correspondence, in objecting to the exercise , the District Grand , , Consisting of Tea or Coffee, Cut Bread and Butter Jam of the prerogative which some Grand Masters claim of Master ruled that the motion was in order, and after Cake, Pastry, ad lib., at ls. per head, making a Mason at sight , lays it down that '' the a long discussion , it was carried , with the result that necessity of ' due inquiry ' is of the same importance the poition of the minutes objected to was non-con- served from 4 till 6 in R ESTAURANT (First Floor). now as in the old days, ai.d the perpetuity of our firmed. It is, possible, however, that we have not Institution depends largely on the care exercised in heard the last of this matter. In spite of the District ' this particular." Grand Master s ruling, to which he still adhered, the * * * proceedings wore still declared to be out of order, and a brother respectfully gave notice that he would appeal DINNERS IN RESTAURANT , He argues ri ghtly enough that " while we should exercise greater caution in the case of one who has to Grand Lodge. Then, and not till then, the minutes From 5.30 till 9, at fixed prices (3s. 6d. and 58.) and been rejected , ytt any carelessness upon this important as amended were confirmed. # a la Carte. pre-requisite will tend to the detriment of our Fra- * * ternity." As he justly says, also, "' Due inquiry ' is It is difficult to say what strange things may or may Smoking after 7.45, indispensable, and its exercise is the prerogative of the not happen in Freemasonry in the jurisdictions of lodge in whose jurisdiction the candidate resides." some of the Grand Lodges in the United Stites, but AMERICAN BAR. For this reason he holds that " in assuming to ' make a there is one strange practice which prevails in Iowa Mason at sight,' a Grand Master not onl y violates the and of which it is impossible to speak in terms of essential of ' due inquiry ' and ballot , but also the commendation. According to Bro. George B. Van jurisdiction of a lodge." Saun, Visiting Custodian, as he is quoted in this » » * month's Voice of Masonry, a non-affiliate from a sister THE GRILL ROOM Grand Lod All Masons will be delighted to know that " the ge jurisdiction moving into that of the Grand Lod of Iowa is open till 12.30. Home " which was established a few years since by ge , "has no right of visitation, no the Grand Lodge of New York " has proved ' no right of Masonic relief from the lodge, and in case of death no ri Utopian dream,'" but, on the contrary, that " the ght of Masonic burial. He has committed blessing of the Almighty and the liberality of our the great crime (Masonic) of taking a dimit possibly noble Fraternity have made it a great, a practical, to join a lodge in another State, and is according ly PRI VATE DININ G ROOMS for large and and a permanent Charity." The statistics submitted denied the courtesy of visiting with his brethren in the tyled to the Grand Lodge at its annual communication in precincts of the lodge." The sooner this - small Parties. practice is done away with June show that the recei pts for the Masonic Hall and , the better will it be for Asylum Fund during the past year amounted , in round the credit of Freemasonry in Iowa. SPIERS &. POND, Ltd., PROPRIETORS . # figures, to 84,811 dollars, the total of the same, in- * * NORTHERN ASSURANCE cluding, we presume, the balance brought forward We are glad to find that the Grand Lodge of Indiana COMPANY. from the previous account, being 120,503 dollars, at its annual Communication , in May last, is reported Established 1836. while the expenditure reached 78,793 dollars. The in the Voice of Masonry to have " totally but frater- Reserve Fund is set down at 190,000 dollars, and " the nally dissented from the Wisconsin reimbursement of LONDON : 1, MOORGATE STREET, E.C. cost of the Home and Appurtenances " at 267,938 Masonic relief proposition , and declined to take any ABERDEEN -. 1, U NION TERRACE. dollars. The cost per beneficiary of the Heme is steps towards an inter-jurisdictional enactment of such given at 212.25 dollars per annum or 4 oS dollars per a law." The Grand Lodge, indeed , maintains " that INCOME AND FUNDS (1894). week. it has at all times contended and held that a Mason in Fire Premiums £701,000 * * * distress is entitled to aid and assistance from the Fra- Life Premiums ...... 232,000 ternity, wherever he may be at the time of his need, Interest 171,000 The remarks of Bro. A. S. Wait on the powers of a and that, as a matter of law, his lod ge is not bound to Accumulated Funds - .£4,444,000 Grand Lodge, as quoted by the Voice of Masonry, irom his Report on Correspondence submitted to the Grand make any restitution , though it may always do so at its I^/i^^feKJCKgf^Sia^^S^gAft^il Lodge of New Hampshire, are very much to the point. own option." We have before now spoken in terms ';'WsW'iT He does not consider " Grand Lodges as sovereign in of the strongest condemnation of this Wisconsin pro- R a£S ^ ^s any such sense as that they have a right to assume or posal, and we are pleased to find that our views are exercise despotic powers." He rightly describes them supported by so influential a Grand Lodge as that of <%. ial emasonjln 1 iiinniw uiiii 1 ..frf representative bodies their members being bound Indiana. Ifwre as " , ? ( * * fe^'^^aja^^rogeRj ^gg^3ja£XxaxSB by the instructions of the lodges which they repre- sent." He further says, in illustration of his opinion , Our view on this proposal is that which is so clearl y SATURDAY , AUGUST 22, 1896. " At the formation of tie first Grand Lodge of Eng- set forth by Bro. William Commons in his report on • ? land, the thoug ht entered the mind of no one that it Indiana Correspondence. Says that able brother " the fE>a0onfc Wiotcs. was anything more than a union of the lodges for the true rule of Masonic relief is, when you find a worthy better government of the Craft in matters pertaining brother in distress you must contribute for his relief as liberally as you can do without inconvenience "—that With to the general welfare. There is no reason why they reference to Bro. Lamonby's remark in the is, of course, without detriment to yourself and your conclud ing should be anything more to-day. We have much paragrp ph of the letter of his which belongings—" and this, too, without expectation or appeared higher respect for the Grind Lodge whi:h consults its in our columns last week, that some seven hope of remuneration. " Where comes in the Jiasonic or eight constitutional lodges before acting in great matters of years ago he made a suggestion in the Charity if a brother doles out help to a distressed Fr eemason general interest than for such as assume to act upon similar to that which will be found in the Mason with the deliberate expectation that the lodge fader which the idea that their so-called subordinates have no appeared a fortni ght since on " Article to which the latter belongs, or belonged , will reimburse -'9, Book rig hts which they are bound to respect." of Constitutions ," we had no recollection him his outlay r his » » » having done so, and i ffered our suggestion, for * * < « it was worth , in comp lete ignorance of his having It does not often happen that the minutes of a Grand , According to advices received from South Africa , d e a similar one some years since. We are pleased , Prov. Grand , or Distiict Grand Lodge are the subject Bro. C. T. W. Mouat has resigned the office of District owevcr , to find that his views on the subject are in of so much discussion as those of the District Grjnd Deputy Grand Master of the Western Division of ^rmony .^ , ^ g Q{ opinion tha|. Lod ge of Queensland encountered at its Quarterl y South Africa , and is succeeded by Bro. John B. Wheel- r ,cle ^^ ^ ^ ^ 219 should be amended somewhat in Ctmmunication on the 3rd June last. On the usual wri ght , District Grand Secretary, the office of the latter ma the "ner indicated by us. motion made and seconded that the minute *, printed being taken over by Bro. G. E. O. Bennett, I.P.M. 3^4, greatest necessary of life. In temporal matters it is symbolical of plenty ot flnmsontc Botes anb (SUterfes. abundance, and in spiritual matters, by its growth and development, of the resurrection and a future life. I pour wine over the stone, being typical of re. 1084] BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS. freshment, joy, and cheerfulness , and because wine maketh glad the heart of man . I pour oil over this stone as a symbol of peace and unanimity. It is an The new edition of the " Book of Constitutions " is now ready for sale and emblem of unity, forgetfulness, forgiveness, and goodwill towards men . [ can be had in the 32mo. size for one shilling (postage lid.) instead of i8d. as sprinkle salt over this stone as the symbol of hospitality, fidelity, friendshi p formerly. The laws thus printed are comp lete to the year 1S96, and moreover, representative of perpetuity, durability, and incorruptibility. there is a very full and accurate index, entirely re-arranged, added to, or care- Then , following the ancient rule of the Order, gold coins were placed upon Cri tchley and A. fully tested, so that the handy little volume is most useful for reference in every the stone for the workmen , and the architects (Bros. E. Adkin) were commanded to complete the building without loss of time. way and as perfect as possible. This is a new edition , and for the first time our Bros. J OHNSTONE and GAUNT afterwards delivered addresses, at the con. beloved brother, the present Grand Secretary, has duly certified the publication elusion of which the anthem , " Hail ! Masonry Sublime " was sung. by authority of the Board of Genera l Purposes. The doctrine of evolution is The procession was re-formed, and the members returned to the lodge-room. certainly abundantl y illustrated by comparing the premier " Book of Constitu- Later on they banquetted together at the Middleton Hitel , where the usual tions " of 1723 with the numerous issues since, down to the new edition of 1896, Masonic toasts were honoured and congratulatory addresses made. and now, it seems to me, that even the most critical and captious cannot fail to be pleased with our code of laws. Why, however, is there no jewel for the Presi- dent of the Board of Benevolence, though a Grand Officer ? W. J. HUGHAN. DEVON MASONIC WIDOWS' ANNUITY FUND.

CENTENARY OF THE LOYAL VOLUNTEERS For many years our Devonshire brethren have supported local funds for PRECEPTORY, No. 7. aiding distressed brethren and the orphan children of Masons, but no such provision has been made for the widows. Some brethren thought this ought to A most interesting meeting was held in connection with the above preceptory be remedied , and consequently a resolution was brought before the Western on Wednesday, the 12th instant, at the Queen's Arms Hotel,,Ashton-under-Lyne, Masonic Association, affirming that it was desirable to establish an Aged Widows' it being the centenary. To celebrate the event there was a large assembly of Sir Annuity Fund. This was unanimously agreed to, and a small committee was knights present. Sir Knight John Wagstaffe, P.G.S.B. Cheshire, presided. appointed to take the preliminary steps for its inauguration. The Committee After the minutes had been read and carried unanimously, the sir knights worked so energetically that they were able to call together those who had received the members of Great and Prov. Priory, and they were drily saluted. promised financial support , and a meeting was held on Wednesday, the 22nd ult. The ballot was taken for two companions, and they were both admitted, and, one at Gandy-street Masonic Hall, Exeter. Bro. Major G. Strode Lowe, Chairman being present, he was installed , the first portion of the ceremony being performed of the Western Masonic Association, presided over a large attendance. by Sir Knight George Wagstaffe, P.E.P., and the latter by the E.P., Sir Knight The Secretary of the Provisional Committee, Bro. GIFFORD , read the Com John Wagstaffe, who all through the evening conducted the business in a most mittee's report. dignified manner, which did great credit to the unique occasion. The adoption of the same, and a resolution that the Aged Widows' Fund be established, was moved from the chair, and agreed to unanimously and heartily. At the close of the ceremony, Sir Knight J OHN W AGSTAFFE thanked the officers of Great and Prov. Priories for their company that day, and welcomed The meeting then proceeded to the election of the officers for the ensuing them, in the name of all the sir knights to celebrate their centenary, and expressed year as follow : Bros. Major G. S. Strode Lowe, J P., P.M. 1855, P.P.J.G.W. a hope that they would often have their company on other occasions. P.D.G.M.M., Chairman j S. J. Page, C.C, P.M. 1099, Vice-Chairman j F. B Sir Knight C. N. BESWICKE-ROYDS, Prov . G.P., responded . Westlake, P.M. 70, P.J.G.W., Treasurer; James Gifford , P.M., Sec. 2025, P.P S.G.D., Secretary ; and Frank Mabin , 105, Asst. Secretary. The banquet which subsequently was held was laid in the dining hall, and , as A General Committee was formed, comprising one representative from each the loyal and other toasts proceeded , they were interspersed with some capital contributing lodge, and donors of five guineas or more. songs, recitations, &c, and a very pleasant evenng was spent. An Executive Committee was elected , embracing the officers , members of the The following were present : Sir Kni ghts Clement N. Beswicke-Royds, P.G. Provisional Committee, and Bros. John Lane, P.A.G.D.C. Eng. ; S. Jones, P.P. Prior Lanes.; Henry Thomas, P.G. Sub-Prior Lanes, j Wm. Tyrer, P.G. Sub- J.G.W. ; E. H. Shorto, P.M. 39; and T. W. Atherton , P.M. 248. This Committee Prior Lanes. ; John Wagstaffe , E.P. ; Geo. Wagstaffe, P.E.P. ; Walter Newton, was also empowered to complete the by-laws and submit them to the General P.G.C. of G., Chap. ; T. D. Foreman , Con. ; Allen Shaw, Marshal ; A. W. Committee. Siddall , P.E.P., P.G. Marshal , Reg. ; Joseph Leech , P.E.P., P.G.S.B., Treas. ; Bro. W. J. H UGHAN , P.S.G.D. Eng., spoke of his strong sympathy with the G. W. Davies, Sub-Marshal ; James Bromley, C. of G.; T. Potter, 2nd Aide- movement, and gave some particulars of the methods adopted in other pro- de-Camp ; Wm. Higson , 1st Pur. ; T. Neale, P.E.C, Guard ; Harrison Veevers, vinces. P.E.P., P.G.S.B. ; H. Tomlinson , Ernest Moss, Jno. Clayton , P.E.P., P.G.C. The success of the fund is assured by the hearty way in which the brethren in Cheshire ; C. A. Griffiths , A. B. Wilkinson , H. L. Holland , T. Bowers, P.E.C , the province have supported it. Although some who have stated their intention C. of Lines; Henry Lees, J. Turner, J. Whicke, E. Bromley, and John Smith. to give have not yet named the amount, the Secretary was able to announce that Visitors : Sir Knights E. Pike, P.E.P., P.P.G. Reg. ; G. S. Smith, P.E.P., P.G.S.B. the promises given up to the day of inauguration had reached nearly ^850. Lanes. ; F. K. Stevenson , P. Chan. Cheshire ; Richard Newhouse, P.G. Reg. ; J. Andrew, and J. W. Buckley. EMPRESS LODGE, No. 2581. LAYING OF THE FO UNDATION-STONE OF NEW At the above lodge, on Wednesday evening, the 12th instant, Bro. Will E, MASONIC ROOMS AT ILKLEY. Chapman, A.G.D.C, in the absence of the W.H., Bro. Alderman Sir Joseph C Dimsdale, initiated Prince Ademuyiwa of Jebu Remo, West Africa. al There was a numerous attendance of brethren at Ilkley on Saturday, the Sth The P RINCE , who seemed greatly impressed with the ceremony, replied, and inst., to take part in the somewhat rare ceremony of the layingof the foundation-stone the banquet, to the toast of " The Initiate " in the following words : W.H. I did of new Masonic rooms. The rooms are being erected for the members of the Brethren ,—I am void of words, but it would be unbrotherly on my part if bj Olicana Lodge, No. 1522. The ceremony was conducted with all the rites and not say a word or two after my health has been so enthusiastically drunk on ths customs peculiar to the Craft. Assembling in the present lodge room, in the yard you all. I am very glad to be here, not only because I am a brother in of the Crescent Hotel , the brethren, wearing their regalia, were marshalled in pro- square, but even more because I am a member of a lodge solely established Empress ol cessional order by Bro. J. Monckman, who officiated throughout as Director of houour of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, , the Ceremonies, and walked thence down Church-street to the site of the new building India, and, if I may be allowed to add to her Majesty's titles of State dream of in Cunliffe-road. There was a large concourse of spectators. At the head of the Protectress of Africa. There was a time when Englishmen would not recognising an African as a brother but as time goes on , things have change" procession was the Tyler, with drawn sword, the visiting brethren , two abreast, , differ , but immediately following, with the, representatives of the younger lodges leading. and we both can now say, in the language of the poet, " Skins may " Freemasonry to outsiders is most Next came the brethren of Olicana, preceded by the banner, and after them the affection dwells in white, and black the same. that God is officers of Provincial Grand Lodge, Present and Past. Next were the bearers of dreadfu l , but it is the reverse when one gets in. It is little known this is the most corn, wine, oil , and salt, and of the various imp lements required in the ceremony, the pillar and foundation of the Institution. Dear brethren , of the Holy in the rear being Bros. Gaunt and solemn night of my life, and I would appeal to you in the language J. Johnstone, W.M., who were the most pro- effectual minent partici pants in the subsequent ceremony. Writ, " Brethren, pray for me." It is only the grace ,of God and your progress that will help me to keep true to the solemn obligation I have to-nig"' Amongst the visiting brethren were—Bros. J. Monckman, P.P.G.D.C ; J. taken and prove an honour to the Empress Lodge. I am very proud to-nig ht Matthewman , P.Asst.G.Sec; A.T.Akeroyd P.P.A.G.D.C; F.Reed , , P.P.G.D.j W. be a brother of noble men who are members of a race that to-day holds the swai Watson , P.P.G.S. of W.; C. M. Wilson , P.P.G.R. ; W. H. Bradfield , P.P.G.D. ; over almost half the world and is its leading ruler. I am indebted to E nS[' S ]' A. Scarth, P.P.G.D.; D. Salmond , P.P.G.S. of W.; lames Ambler, P.P.G.D.; men for all the pleasure and gratification I receive from the education I have nf > whir J. Pollard , 1522; R. C. H. Bonsor, 1018 ; J. W. Dry, 384 ; W. G. Stansfield , 600; and it is my daily prayer that I shall never prove ungratefu l to the race to in wnK F. Cobley , no8 j G. H. demons, 1311; J. Whittaker , 1302 ; A. Suttle, 1108 ; I am so much indebted. I thank you , brethren, for the kind manner you have drunk my health. W. Tomlinson , 81 j J. M. Mann , 265 ; Irion Smith , 753 ; W. Hoffman Wood , 1522 ; A. Riley, 2330 ; C. Cooper, 1108; H. Woodhead , 304 ; B. B. Burrows, 380 ; Thomas Bagley, 306 ; and J. E. Fox, 917. GENERAL COMMITTEE OF GRAND LODGE A^ The Olirana Ledge, which was constituted on the ioth February, 1875, had as its first Wcrship ful Master Bro. J. Gaunt , and it was he who laid the founda- BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE. tion-stor.e of the new premises. The ceremony commenced by the singing of the Hundredth Psalm , followed by a prayer by Uro. the Rev. I RION S MITH , vicar of and St. Margaret's, Ilkley. The quarterly meeting of the General Committee of Grand Lodge cve Bro. OHN I LLINGWORTH , P.M., on behalf of the Past Masters of the Olicana monthly meeting of the Board of Benevolence were held on Wednesday "'"^ J of Lodge, presented Bro. Gaunt with a silver trowel , and called upon him to lay the at Freemasons' Hall. At both meetings Bro. Robert Grey, President r stone, in the cavity in which was first p laced a phial containing coins and other Board of Benevolence, presided , and Bros. D. D, Mercer and C. A. Cotte late bearing an inscri 0 articles. A brass p ption was also placed in position , and took the chairs of Senior and Junior Vice-President. Bros, Edward Letch* ' Brc. Gaunt piocteded to perform his portion of the ceremony. G. Sec. ; W. Lake, A.G. Sec. ; W. Dodd and Henry Sadler G. Tyler, represen Bro. jciiNbTONli , the regnant W.M., afterwards proved the first position of , , Charles w the ttcr.e with the plumb , rule, level , and square , and prcceeded Grand Secretary's department ; and there were also present Bros. ¦ , according to , ancient custem , to strew corn , pcur wine and oil , and sprinkle salt over the stone. William Vincent , James Boulton , J. H. Matthews, George B. Chapman G»rt As l.e did to, he said 1 This corn I ttiew or scatter over this stone. Corn is the Fisher, T. W Whitmarsh, George Graveley, Charles J. R. Tijou , Henry \t M Bywater, W. Ki pps, George R. Langley, Robert A. Gowan, Alex. Stuart lobQcs oi 3nstruction. wn S. H. Goldschmidt , Walter Martin , James Kew, Walter Lean , John Oldis, reorge Bishop, W. G. Hildreth , Rev. S. J. Roco, W.M. 188 ; Thomas H. Hobbs, PROSPERITY LODGE, No. . -\ja5sey, Harold Imray, M. T. Tuck, H. Wilkinson , J. J. Lauriston , Daniel 65. The usu-il weekl . ' ,-.„ Sam Riyson, P. H. Garner, Thomas Robinson, William Shackleton , R. y meeting of this lolge wis held on Wednesday, the io th inst., at K 0". ' __J C M r P„mhall the Weavers' Arms, London Wall, E.C, when there were present Bros. Drake, W.M. ; William Baker, S.W , P.M., Preceptor; , the agenda for the .; j. Greig, J.W.; D. Harlow At the Board of Masters Quarterl y Communication of Thomas, P.M., Treas.; Meadows. Sec. ; Sppncer, S.D. ; J. G. Robeson , J.D. ; A. he 2nd proximo was read to the brethren. At the Board of Benevolence the J. Ri pp in , I.G. ; Jam-s Smith , P.M. ; Pepii, Fisi.lei gh, Sni pnin, tSitt, Djuglas Smith , n first confirmed recommendations made at the Jul y meeting to the Grand Callingham , and several other breth ren. h ethre There was ister to the amount of ^310. only 13 new cases on the list , and The ljdge was opentd in du» f inn , and the minutes of th? prevnus meeting were M read and cc nrhmed. these rame before the Board qualified through lodges in the London district and The W.M. then rehearsed the cerennny <,f initiation , Bro . Pepe being the candidate, af.er which Bro. Shi pmin answered the q iestiin; leading tJ the • t Burslem , East Stonehouse, Cape Town , Falmouth, South Shields, Cheadle, Montego B ly, Guernsey, Gibraltar, and Beunos Ayres. One petition Second Degree, and was passed, Bro. Drake ren lering- bath ceremmies in a masterly Alfreton , manner Bro. Shipman answering the questions lealingto the Third 0 :gree, the W.M. dismissed , and two of the cases were deferred for further information. To was was no resumed the lodge in the First Degre •, and rising fo- the li st, secon-1, an 1 thirl tim :s , 10 remaining cases a total sum of ^150 voted. There recom- Bro. William Baker the was unanimousl y elected ofW.M. for the first Weinesd iy in S*p- mendation to Grand Lodge, and only one {£30) to the Grand Master. Four tember, nrxt Wednesd iy being officers ' ni ^ht the mother lodge, when Bro. Greig, etitioners were relieved with .£20 each, one with ^15, three with £10 each, and Assistant Preceptor, will occupy the W.M.'s chair. The lodge was then closed. one with £$¦ The meeting was said to be the shortest on record and the amount voted the least, and probably this is true, at all events, for more than 20 years. KENSINGTON LODGE, No. 1767. A meeting of this lodge was held on Tuesday, the iSth inst., at the To .vn Hill Tavern, High-street, Kensington, when there were preso.it Bros. A. J. Turner , W.M. ; A MASONIC PROCESSIONAL CROSS. Maurice Moss, S.W.; VV. H. Marler. J.W.; R. H. Williams, P.M., &c, Deputy Preceptor; F. Craggs, P.M., Sec. ; W. Herring. S.D. ; A. J. Clayton, J.D. ; F. F. Thompson , I.G. ; William Hide, Stwd. ; W. Hillier, P.M. ; A. Williams, P.M; ; C. G. Hatt, P.M.; H. Neville, P.M., Lightfoot , IT. Robinson , By the invitation of the Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, D.D., Dean of J. W.M. 1707; W. C. W. K. CUpp, W. Lewis, and J. T. Divies. Rochester, the Rev. Warren C. Hubbard , of Rochester, in the State of New The lodge was opened in the usual form, and the minutes of the previous meeting York occupied the pul pit at Rochester Cathedral on Sunday evening. He is the were read and confirmed. The ceremony of initiation was rehearsed, Bro. Hillier acting as candidate. The lodge wis called off and on. Bro. Turner v icated the chair bearer of an offering—a handsome processional cross—lo the English cathedral of W.M. in favour of Bro. J. H. Neville. The lodge was opened in the Second Degree, church from the Freemasons of his city, and he is himself a Past Master of the and the ceremony of installation was rehearsed , Br 1. Turner acting as W.M. elect, lodge there, and Grand Chaplain for the State of New York. The service was and Bro. Hillier as D.C. The lodge was opened and resumed in the necessary De- by the members of the six lodges in the town , all wearing their regalia, grees, and the inside work being omittel, the addresses incident to the ceremony were attended delivered by Bro. Neville in an excellent manner. Bro . Moss was elected W.M. for the s sermon a collection was made in aid of the Cathedra l and after Mr. Hubbard' next meeting. Bro. J. T. Davies was elected a j lining member, and the lodge was Restoration Fund. After the service the brethren adjourned to the Corn closed. Exchange, where they were jo ined by the Mayor of Rochester, the Dean , and the Rev. W. C. Hubbard . The Mayor gave Mr. Hubbard a cordial welcome on behalf of the citizens of Rochester. ©bituat fc The Dean of ROCHESTER , who wore Masonic regalia, on behalf of the Wardens, and Fellows of Gundul ph Lodge, No. 1050 , and the other local Masters, BRO. FREDERICK ADLARD, P.M., P.Z. lodges, then begged the visitor's acceptance of an address of welcome. He spoke of A venerable and highly esteemed Craftsman in the person of Bro. Frederick kindness he himself met with during his lecturing tour in the United States, the great Adlard P.M., P.Z. P.P.A.G.D.C. Essex excelled all other places in the , 7, , died at his residence in Park-road , and said that Rochester, in the State of New York, H arlesden on the 12th inst. and having layed in his reception. In attending a meeting of the , , been born on the 3rd September, 1809, enthusiasm the people disp was within a very few weeks of completing his year. During the President every expression which 87th the last seven lodge there he received from Bro. Hubbard , , or ei ht years owing to the loss of his eyesi ht ht hope for from another. They would thus have some idea of the joy g , g , Bro. Adlard had ceased to take one man mig an active part in Masonry, but there are few 'brethren to whom it is given to piss which filled his heart when this same brother came across the Atlantic to England so many years in the full exercise of membershi ht an offering from the Freemasons of Rochester , in p. He was initiated as far back to tell him that he had broug as the 16th February, 1832 , in the Lodge of Honour and Generosity, to the cathedral church of Rochester, in England. The visit of Bro. No. 165 , and America, having served as Deacon and Warden successively was elected to the chair of Hubbard was specially well timed after a little transitory soreness between the Master in In the course of the same year he became a a sign of the feeling which abides in the hearts of 1834. joining member of two great countries. It was the Royal York Lodge of Perseverance, No. and here again he si those Americans whose love and esteem and sympathy Englishmen most desired 7, ingratiated himself with his brother members that for quite a long term of years he filled to have. The Anglo-Saxons of England and America were not given to gush and one or other office and for a time more than one office concurrentl y. He served effusiveness but the attachment between the two nations was deep and true. , as W.M. in 1853, was Director of Ceremonies for close on 20 years, and for a In acknowled ging the compliment, the Rev. W. C. H UBBARD said many long time also was its Treasurer. He remained a subscribing Englishmen did not understand America or the peculiarities of its people. All member till the day of his death—that is to say for 62 years—and so highly valued were who lived in the United States were not Americans. The Anarchical bombast , the services he rendered to the lodge that on two occasions he was the and all those threats of the dissolution of the ties which bound Englishmen and reci pient of a testimonial , the first being in 1855, when he was presented Americans together, emanated, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred , from with an illuminated address on vellum and either spoke Eng , which bore the signature of persons who had simply drifted to the States, lish with a every member of the lodge, and was handed to him speak it all. They had taken up their abode there , as the address stated , very broken accent, or did not " as a mark of our appreciation of and gratitude for to live in their own countries. The States were so , , the able and zealous because they were unworthy manner in which he has at all times promoted the interest and sustained bi that these people had come there and the Americans the g, so broad, so roomy, , character of the lodge, for the period of 20 years, during which he has been a were not responsible for them. Those who were bond f ide Americans could never, member and in token of our esteem and regard for him as a man while strike their own mother. They must not believe , and brother , there was a living God, accompanied by our sincere wishes for the prosperity and happ all they In the United States there were Americans iness of himself read in some newspapers. and family." The second testimonial was given him in 1868 and Americans so-called. The Americans themselves were loyal to the English , when the late Bro. John Hervey, who afterwards filled the office of Grand Secretary, people and they must never forget as the Americans never would, that without was Worshipful , , Master, and took the form of a handsome drawing-room clock and gold Treasurer' the English the States could not have been. s jewel. In presenting this to Bro. Adlard , Bro. Hervey spoke in the hi hest term j This speech was loudl applauded. The interesting proceedings shortl g y y of the numerous services he had rendered to the lodge during the years of his afterwards terminated.—Church Reviein. 34 membership, referring especially to those he had rendered as W.M , D. of C, and Treasurer, and expressing the hope that he might be spared for many years to continue those services which the lodge so highly appreciated , and by which it had so greatly benefited. But this and his mother lodge were by no means the only lodges with which the name of our deceased brother was associated, In 185 5 Secret Abonttor. he joined the Romford Lodge, No. 214, and , after serving as Treasurer for many yea rs, was, on his retirement from the office , presented with a silver teapot. Premier Conclave, No. 1. Moreover , he was appointed Prov. A.G.D.C. of Essex, in 1857, in recognition of his woith. He was also a joining member of the Lodge of Good Fellowship, A meeting of this conclave was held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street> Chelmsford and of the St. ' Pn Tuesday, No. 276, , John s Lodge, Hampstead , No. 167, which June 17th. The conclave was honoured with the presence of the M.W.G. latter he served as D.C. during the whole 20 •»•" ¦> the Ri ght Hon. the Earl of Warwick . There were also present M.W. Bros. J. years ot his membership. Nor must "charie, P.G.S.R. : W. G. Lemon, P.G.S.R. ; R.W. Bros. J. Tickle, G.T., S.R. we omit to mention that both in 1S64, when the foundation-stone of the new ?!«t ; Baron d- Ferriers, P.G.T. ; T. C. Walls, P.G.S.B., P.S.R. ; W. H. buildings in connection with Freemasons' Hall w.is laid by the Earl ot Zetland , Kempster , M.D , P.G.V. ; J. J. Pakes, P.G.V. ; and several others. Visitors .- Bros. M.W.G. M., and , again in iSf 9, when the same buildings were inaugurated by the Marshall, Uucklev-Carr, Charlton , Boyes, Plumpton , Armstrong, and Hirgraves. same Grand Matter, Bro. Adlard served the oflice of Special Steward . He was , ' he firs t business was to induct the following candidates : Bros. C.J. Nelson, R. exalted in Fidelity Chapter, No. 3, in 1834, and having subsequently joined the Mal pas, J. Brid ge, and T. Sheppard , of 1702 ; F. VV. Kendall , 7S1; J. J. Green , Romford Chapter No. was installed its M.E ; , 214, .Z. in 1856, and 20 years lAi F. A. Jewson , 1S27; J. R. Reep, 1260 ; and T, C. Edmonds, 1507. Bro. J. later was appointed its Director ot Ceremonies 'ickle, , while in tha Prov. Grand Chapter G.T., was then installed S.R. for the ensuing year, and received the hearty of Essex he ranked as a Past Piovincial Grand Reg conf!ratulations of the G.S.R. and the large circle of members and visitors. The S.R. istrar. In addition to appointed his officers in rotation. the services we have enumerated in connection with d IT.rent lodges and chapters „ 'he conclave was closed, and the brethre n dined with the members attending the and the province of E-sex, it must be mentioned that for eig ht years he was a ^¦ar.U Council at the festival banquet. member of the Board cf General Purposes, and had also servel on the Colonial Board and Board of Benevolence, w.iile he was a most generous supporter of our Charitable Institutions , but more especially of the Boys' School, of which he was a Vice-Patron , and for which he hid seived eight Stewardships. He was also a Life Governor of , and had served as Ste.vard for the Girls ' School and the Royal flBarh flbasonr g. Masonic Benevolent Institution , and what it was in the power of very few brethren of our time to say, he served the office of S:eward to the Asy lum for Aged Breth- Lewis Lodge, No. 391. ren in 1839, in the days when the la' e Bro . Dr. Crucefix, P.G.D., in spite of the opposition of the Duke of Sussex, was working so laboriousl y to establish that nnua meeting of the above lodge was held at Freemasons' Hill, Lewes, oi Tue I 1 le ' Charity, which, some 10 years later became and still is a part ot the Royal Masonic Bro H* L " 4t'1 'nstant. Bro. George Wilson was installed as W.M., in succession tt «,. ' Klchard Weston, to whom a Past Mister's gold jewel wis present :d. The lodge Benevolent Institution. Bro. Adlaid was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery on -"ib renorlprl in k. : 1 /:_., :„i 1:.:^- -PI... c,.a n...\~~ ...».-.. nnn .-i- Saturday, the 15th inst., and it onl Ior Ik *• auunu nii Treas. ; J. A. Day, R. of M.; W. Gates, Sec ; G. J. Lenny, S.D. i sacredly cherished. ?i S y, S.L ' w- L -' ,D -J W. Lintott, D.C. ; j. C. Berry, l.G.; A. Lenny, Stwd. ; and S i'yIer in lH!' ' • . - Slitica "f, e,vemnf? 'he brethren dined at the Bear Hotel. Among the guests was Bro. LORD R USSELL OK K ILLOWEN delivere d a lecture un " International Law " before Ssby Roberts, G. Stwd. the Associated Bar in America at Saraloga Springs, on Thursday. T HE B ARONESS DE H IRSCH has forwarded a donation of £500 towar ds H, flfcasonfc anb General tEtbfn gs. general funds of the Middlesex Hosp ital. "c T HE BAND of the 2nd Life Guards will pliy in the Green Park on Sunday ne from 5 30 to 7.30 p.m., and that of the Grenadier Guards in Hyde Park from 7.i0 ? W E ARE PLEASED to hear that Bro . the Duke of Abereo rn has quite recovered 9.30 p.m. ' t0 from his recent indisposition , and has left Hamp den House for Baron 's Court , Newton Stewart , County Tyrone. T HE WHOLE OF the proceeds of the Lyceum stall, at the recent bazia r at St Martin 's Town Hall , have been p resented by the Parisian Diamond Compan y to th T HE WEEKLY MEETINGS of the Rose Lodge of Instruc tion , No. 1622, will be Royal Eye Hosp ital , Southwark. e resumed at the Stirling Castle , Church-street , Camberwell , on Thursday, the 3rd prox., at 8 p.m. ; Preceptor , Bro. David Rose, P.M. and 1622. M ISS V. ST . L AWHENCE has made arrangements with Mr. G. B. Philli ps whirf, 73 will enable her to produce Mr. Victor Stevens ' pantomime— " Little Red Riding T HE TRIAL TRIP of the new torpedo-boat destroyer Thra sher , which has just been Hood " —at the Novelty Theatre at Christmas. The production will be under the dire ction ol built by Messrs. Laird Bros., Birkenhead , took place in Liver pool Bay, on Tuesday, Mr. Newman Maurice. when the Craft developed a speed of 36 statute miles per hou r. I T IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED that Bro. the Hon. Sir Edward Monson, win Queen , con- , thre e EARL CADOGAN , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , has , oa behal f of the years ago succeeded Sir Augustus Paget as Her Majesty 's Ambassador at Vienna , ferred the honr-ur of Kni ghthood on Mr. Arthur Vicars , F.S. A., Ulster King of Arms , will be appointed Ambassador at Paris in succession to the Marquis of Dufferin and Avi Registrar and Kni ght Attendant of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick . who resigned his office a short time sin ce. ' T HE B LACKHEATH L ODGE OF I NSTRUCT ION , N O . 1320, will resume its meet- T HE DUKE OF YORK , who has been , and till the end of the week will remiin , ths ings on Monday, the 7th proximo , at the Stirling Castle , Church-street , Camberwell , at giiest of Bro. the Duke of Devonshire at Bolton Abbey, has been enjoying excellent under the able Preceptorship of Bro. Wm. Dawson , P.M. 7SS. Brethren are S p.m , sport over his grace 's extensive moors , the weather having been very favoura ble ani most cordially invited. • the birds plentiful and in excellent condition. T A LUNCHEON iven at the New Palace , Potsdim , on Tuesday, in A which was g BRO . V ISCOUNT W OLSELEY , Commander-in-Chief , reviewed the tr oops at honour of the birthday of the Emperor Francis J oseph , the Emperor William proposed Colcheste r on Wednesday and afterwards inspected the new military hosp ital , recently Ihe toast of his health in these terms : " I drink to the welfare of his Maj esty the erected at a cost of ,£20,000, and the new camp buildings. His lordshi p subsequen t Emperor Francis J oseph , my most intimate friend and ally." lunched with the officers of the York and Lancaster regiment. T HE DUTIES of the Star Chapter of Instruction , No. 1275, will be resumed on LORD R OSMEAD , Governor of Cape Colony and her Majesty ' s High at 8 p.m., Commi ssioner Friday, the 4th proximo , at the Stirling Castle , Church-street, Camberwell , for South Africa , who is returning to Cape Town on board the Union Steam shin under the able Pre ceptorship of Comp. Thomas Grummant , P.Z. and S.E. 1275, who Company 's vessel, the Norman , reached Madeira on Wednesday mornin g, and is hopes to rehearse the installation ceremonies. Companions will be heartily welcomed. reported to be greatly improved in health since he left Southampton. A MONG THE GUESTS that h ave been staying with the Marquis and Marchioness T HE INQUIRY into the death of Mr. Crozier , the unfortunate actor at the of Londonderry, at Wynyard Park , Stockton , during the present week, were Bro. the Novelty Theatre , who was accidentall y stabbed by a. brother actor tumid Franks , in the final Eail of Durham , the Earl of Crewe , the Countess of Derby, the Lady Isobel Stanley, scene of a melodrama , entitled— " The Sins of the Night ," on the ioth instant , ter mi. Bro. Viscount and Viscountess Helmsley, Sir Charles and Lady Hartopp, and Viscount nated on Saturday last , the jury returning a verdict of death by misadventure. Castlereag h. M ISS BELLA PATEMAN , M ISS Beatrice Ferrar , Mr. H. De Lange B RO . COL . THB H ON . H. BVNG represented her Majesty at the funeral of the , and Mr. Sidney Broug h have been engaged by Bro. Edward Terry for his play, " Love in Idleness " Dowager Lady Dacre , who was one of her Majesty 's Women of the Bedchamber at the ' time of her Coronation and for some years afterwa rds. Lady Dacre 's remains were in- when it is produced at Terry s Theatre in October next. Bro. Meyer Lut z, who was terred at Kimpton , near |WeIwyn , Herts , and among the wreaths which covered the for so many years associated with the eminent comedian at the Gaiety Theatre , nil| coffin was one sent by her Majesty. look after the orchestral arrangements upon Bro. Terry ' s return. T HE A DMIRALTY have comp leted their arrangements for commissioning six T HE INQUEST on the body of Baron Von Zedtwilz , owner of the 20-ton yacht torpedo-boat destroyers for forei gn service. Of these , the Dragon , Boxer , Bruiser , and Isolde , who was killed in the collision between that yacht and the Germ an Emper or 's Banshee will be attached to the M editerranean Squadron , while the Handy and the Meteor on Tuesday, was held at Ryde the following day, and resulted in a ver dict of Hart are intended for service on the China Station. Four torpedo boats will also be " accidental death ," no blame being attached to anyone. A message of sympa thy despatched to the Mediterranean. from the Queen was forwarded to the Royal Albert Yacht Club and also one from the Royal Yacht Squadron , Co >ves. T HE M ARQUIS OF B UTE has announced his intention of contributing ,Cio,ooo to the University of South Wales, t > be applied to the purposes of technical education ; T HE BRETHREN comprising the Horwich Lodge held their annual picnic on Wedn es- the Drapeis ' Company have promise d £10,000 as a contribution to the fund for pro - day, the 12th inst., the point selected for the outing being the delightful country roun d viding new buildings , and the Govemtnent have promised £20,000, but on condition Skipton and Bolton Abbey. There was a good response to the invitations sent out , the that an equal amount is raised by public subscription. party leaving Horwich ab jut eight o' clock in the morning in a well-appo iited saloon on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. After the pleasantest of journeys the pirty EARL CADOGAN , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , and Countess Cadogan have been arrived at their destination , fully ready to do the sights of the place. Dinner and tei entertaining a succession of guests at th: Viceregal Lodge, Dublin. On the 14th inst. were partaken of at intervals , the day being spent in a most enjoyabl e fashion. a ball was given ; a second will be given this (Friday ) evening. To-morrow (Saturday) and a gain on Monday their Excellencies go in semi-State to Lcopardstown , while on O WING TO THE RAIN that fell on Tuesday, several of thelmportan t matches played Tuesday, the 25th instant , and two following days they will attend in State thc Horse during the earl y part of the week were left drawn. In that of Sur rey v. Australians , Show in Dublin. the home team made 295 and their second innings was declar ed closed with 90 runs for the loss of four wickets—the not outs being Abel (50) and W. W. Read (7). Trie T HE D UKB OF CONNAUGHT has offered a handsome shield for a competition on a C jlonials made 224 in their first innings but the li large scale of a somewhat novel kind , namel y, for an " Obstacle Race for Battalion ght was so bid tha t they were unable to go in a second time. Kent beat Gloucestershire by 25 runs; Essex beat Derb yshire , Teams ," which will take place on the roug h ground east of the Aldershot Gymasium , but Yorkshire v. Middlesex and Sussex v. Lancashire were both drawn. to-day (Fi iday). Each team will consist of two officers , eight sergeants , and four sec- t 'ons (24 rank and file), making a total of 106, and , 15 teams having been in training for A N ALARMING ACCIDENT happened on the evening of Fr iday, the 14th inst., to some time past , will take part in the competition. M'ss Massey-Mainwaring (daughter of Bro. the Hon. W. Massey-Mainwarmg, M.H.), T HE BRETHREN OF C HESHIRE will learn with interest that Bro. Lord Egerton , who, with a lady friend , was being driven home from Hammersmith to Grosveaor-place. P.G.M., will hold his annual Provinc ial Grand Lod ge at Macclesfield on the 30th prox., Close by Addison-road station the horses b ilted and the carnaje c iming in contact with when amongst the appointments will be that of Bro. J . T. Hindle as Prov. G. Organist. a railway van , the ladies and the coachman were pitched into the raid. The former It is announced that the Egerton Lodge , No. 2132, is about to remove from its present escaped with a severe shaking, but the latter had to be removed to the West Londin Hospital , where it was found that he was suffering from oncussion place of meeting at Seacombe to th e Albert Masonic Hall , New Bri ghton , the change of the brain. being made for the greater convenience of the majority of the members. THE ANNOUNCEMENT as to the approaching tour of the Czar in Europe are to the T HE Q UEEN , who was accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Connaug ht and effect that bis Maj esty will leave St. Petersburg on Tuesda y next , the 25th instant , and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-H jlstein , and attended by Bro. Col. the Hon. H. Byng will reach Vienna on the 27th. His stay at lhe Austrian Capital will extend over t™ and Major the Hon. H. C. Ledge , as E querries-in-Waiiing, inspected the 2nd Battalion or three daj s, and then , atter a brief visit to Kief to attend a local fete, his Maj esty will Sc ittish Rifles on the lawn at Osborne on Monday morning. When the inspection was go to Berlin. Thence he will continue his tour to Copenhagen , and thence visil over, the men were marched into an adjoining field and partook of refreshments , fur- Balmoral and Paris. He is expected to arrive in the latter city towards the end of 1 i-hed bv Royal command. According to present arrangements , the Queen and her September , and will return to St. Petersburg towards the end of October , after paving Court will leive Osborne for Balmoral on Wednesday, the 2nd September. a prolonged visit to Darmstadt. W E REGRET to hear that a somewhat serious accident occurred on Monday even- T HE CHARMING V IFNBSSE ARTISTE , Miss Annie Dir kens, is now back at the ing to Bro. Lord Suffield , who was knocked down by a runaway horse and cart on the Shaftesbury Theatre play ing her ori ginal part of Paolo in " The Little Genius. " The Overstrand-road , Cromer, while standing in conversation with a friend near the residence management wish it particularl y known that there was no foundation whatever in Ih e of Mr. H. Broadhurst , M.P. His lordshi p was knocked violently to the ground , and , reports that this lady had seceded from the cast , the facts of the case being simp ly thit immediate aid beirg summoned by Mr. Broadhurst , who witnessed the catastrophe , it Miss Dirkens ' engagement with the late Bro. Sir Augustus Harris was until Aug ust was found lhat his lordship, besides being badly bruised , had sustained a slight con- only, but owing to the manner in which ''The Little Genius " has caught on the manag e- cussion of the brain. Lord Sufheld , who was not in the best of hta 'th , is, we are glad ment wish to prolong her engagement for an indefin ite period , and in order to dj thi s to say, progressing favourabl y towards recovery. Miss Dirkens had to make arrangements to get out of several continen tal contr icts, to T HE C HINESE A MBASSADOR broke his journey on his way north on Saturd ay last enable her to do which the management gave her five days holiday. at Chester , in order that he might have an interview with Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden. No ASSURANCE COMPANY of to-day has shown more ingenuity in devising orig ins On Monday bis_ Excellency visited Glasgow , arriving in the evening and meeting with a methods of advertising itself than the British Woikman 's and General ; and the best oi most enthusiastic reception. Among the places he inspected en route were the Steel it is that the methods emp loy ed are generall y of a kind to call forth feelings of good- Works at Barrow and the Shipbuilding Yard of the Naval Construction and Armaments will and happ iness. The. latest departure is a kind ol garden party, accompan ied by» Company, in which he saw building the first-class cruiser Niobe, 435 feet and 1000 dinner , which was given to some five or six hundre d guests at the Imperial Institut e on fo s, four toipedo-boat destroyers , and two second-c ' ass cruisers. The party dined Saturday. At the first glance one does not , perhaps , quite see the connection betiwe" toge ther at the Furness Abbey Hotel under the presidency of the Duke of Devonshire. the British Workman 's and the Institute ; but ther e is no doubt lhat such a func tion ai T HE FIRST LIST of subscriptions to the "Sir Augustus Harris Memorial Fund " this will have a certain effect in popularising both ; and , if so, the end soug ht will pro ": was published on Tuesday. Among the contributors are H.R.H. the Prince of Wales , abl y have been accomp lished. The gathering on Saturday was a distinct success, and the Messrs. Rothschild , Bro. Sir E. Lawson , the Loriners ' Company, Bros. Sir Joseph seemed to be much enioyed by all who participa ted in it. Dimsdale , J ames Willing, jun., the Earl of Londesborough , E. Letchworth , F.S.A., J. White , A SAD BEREAVEMENT has befallen the Home Secretary (Bro. Sir M. H. Matthews , the Earl of Lathom , W. Ganz F. Mead , Lennox Browne , Sir Albert Ridley, Bart., M.P.) and the Hon. Lad hte '5/ Altman , Alderman Vaughan Morgan , the Rev. C. J . Mart yn , Alderman Green , Harry y Ridley, who, with their three da ug arrived at Blagdon , Northumberland , on Saturday last lollo*1 Nicholls, J . Lewis Thomas , Col. T. Davies Sewell, Meyer Lutz , Edward Terry, and from London. The * morning the iamily attended Divine service at Stannington , when Miss Cecilia >'• J oh n L. T oole, the Earl de Grey, the Countess of Gosford , General Sir H. de Bathe , Ridley, the eldest daug serio usly and others . hter , who is only ig years of age, was suddenly taken ill. She was at once removed to Blagdon , but , in spite eif every effort , she became T HE M ARQUIS OF SALISBURY was insta lled Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports on worse , and , to the inexpressible grief of her parents deat h « , died at 4 p.m. Her at Saturday last , at Dover. His lordship was accompanied by the Marchioness of Salis- ascribed to the rupture of a blood vessel on the brain. The funeral took p lace buiy, Viscount Cranborne , Lord Hugh Cecil , and the Ladies Gwendolen and Florence Stannington Church yard on Wednesday, the princi pal relatives present being •><"' Cecil, and among those who were present as spectators of, or participators in, the func- Sir M. W. and the Hon. Lad y Ridley, Mr. M. W. Ridley, Master Jaspe r i<"" e>' tion were the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava , the late Lord Warden , the Mayors , and the Misses Stella , and Grace Ridley. Messages of condolence have been receive Recorders , Town Clerks , &c , of the several poi ts, the Registrar and Chaplai n of the from tbe Royal Famil y and the members of the Cabinet , as well as from priva te fne"" Ports , the Judge of Ihe Poits Admiialty Court , the Surrogate , and the barons , with the throughout the country. and other o fficials Sergeant of Admiralty, , while at the banquet which followed Bro. T HE FUNERAL of Sir Academy 1 Aldeiman Sir Joseph and Lady Savory, representing the Lord Mayor and Lady J . Everett Millais , Bart , President of the Roya l and Bro . Sheiiff Cooper took place in St. Paul' s Ca-hedral on Thursday, with all the pomp and circu ital*" Mayores s of London , , with the City Trumpeters in attendance , which attend the obsequies of so eminent Chap a 111 .1 were among the most honoured guests. After his installation , Lord Salisbury unveiled a a man. The Archbishop of York , 1 the Royal Academy, was prevented officiating, perfo rme d by " full-lergth portrait of the Marqu is of Dufferin and Ava, his predecessor in the office , in and the servi ce was w< Canons and minor Canons of the Cathedral. The pall-bearers were eight in nurn his uniferm as Lord Warden , wliich had been subscribed for and presented to the Cor- and included Bros, the Marnuis nf C.ranhv. I .nnl Wni«t.« ,.j K . U i.uinir. and >» poration in recognition of his services. The proci o-dings throug hout were most interest- President of the Royal U c0 b[ ing, and Dover , in honour of the occasion , was en fete the whole day. Scottish Academy. The Oueen was represented by ; t E. Commerell , G.CB., V.C., Admiral ot the Fle« ; H.R.H. the Prince of Wa l" . "j V. B ENOIST , 3G, Piccadilly, W.—Bar.quets , Dinners , Suppers , and Receptions his private secretaiy, tro. Sir Fian cis Knoll ys; while other members of th e TO serve d in the most uni que sty le. Menus and estimates on app lication. Also French Family also sent r< presentatives. 'The Diplumitic Corps was in g reat force, and in* Comestibles of every description. Sole Caterer to the celebrated G rafton Cilleries. was, in addition , a very large attendan ce of notabilities as well as represen ta tive ot The best locale in the West End for holding Private Parties , Balls, &c. Telep hone , various art academies , institutes , and societies. The route followed by the pr ocessH" No. 3,019. Telegrams , Gourmet , London. — [A DVT .] thronged with spectators. ^^ rhe BrSXT^FTT-A-Ij MF E ^ 4ssets exceed JI T& 1S51L7&ZJ ^N €3^1 Oo. At\ Millions Sterling. OF ME1?V "STOIfc gS INSURES AN INCOME \nur iji(f_ Lifeti7n e of Insured. After Death of Insured. ~ r"" Life Policies at 3|"/0 Continuous Instalment ... -\ | Life Option Endowments... at 4% Debenture >at 5% j Consols .... at 6% 20 Year Bond ) 'Anvil for f cfrticulw8 t° any °f the Branch Offices, or to the Head Office for the United Kingdom : I D. C. HALDEMAN, General Manager , 17 & 18 , Cornhill, London, E.G. htlS C'Cj Assembly Rooms and Restaurant, PCoL-l- 0 HOLLOWAY ROAD, A MOST SUITABLE HOME FOR MASONIC MEETINGS. " ^^^^^ ¦¦^^ f^BHMMHMHM ^^ MHHaB ^H ^MHHH ^^ BB^^ HHHP ^BaBMMiEffl ^MMKaa ^HHBiHHHIHOBHl ^B I ACED^r^s Customers own Name here, blocked in Gold. ®~ ' Price pep 100 mad e up into Yearly Pads of 52 tear-off sheets each. MINIS TERS^ L .m 3S/6 , (For 10 oaly 42/_) $N\ ^yUL-^ ° ' 1 l\j f /l A%\Wt\\ C3rESOE ^C3rE3 , SS-IESW ^TIHTGr , 18 and 16a GBEAT QUEEN' STREET , LONDON , W.C. ! ft JT /I I I i l^iP/ ' SH - /fAJfiMr l fl./ I MT^ T MEMOS., ENGAGEMENTS, &c. f ~i^^f- ^^^^^^

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FOR ECONO MIC AL A^n Burdett-Coutts, Swan Tavern , New Bethnal Green-road , at 8 RESPECTABLE FUNERALS at stated ch For the week ending Saturday, August 29, 1896. Burgoyne, Coach and Horses, 348, Clapham-road, S.W., at 7.30. arge Crescent, King's Head Hotel, Twickenham, at 8.30. To cover all expenses, exclusive of cemetery fces Dukeof Edinburgh , Eastern Hotel, Iia-.t India Dock Rd., E., 7.30. Elliot, Railway Hotel , Feltham. HATT , The Editor will be glad to receive notice from Secretaries foi High Cross, Coach and Horses, High-road, Tottenham, at 8. BRO. C. G. Craft Lodges, Royal Arch Chapters, Mark Lodges, Rose Croix Highgate, Falkland Arms, Falkland-road, N.W., at 8. UNDERTAKER , Chapters, Preceptories, Conclaves, &c, of any change in place, Honor Oak, Crystal Palace Tavern, at 8. (?ay, or month of meeting. Hornsey, White Hart Masonic Rooms, Lewisham, S.E., at 8. *2 , HIGH STREET, KENSINGTON , ty Ivy, Railway Tavern , Battersea Rise, S.W., at 8. Justice, Brown Bear, High-street, Deptford , at 8. CR EMAT ION AND EMBALM ING. MONDAY AUGUST 24. Kent, King and Queen, Norton Folgate, at 8. Distance no object. (No Meetings.) Langton , White Hart, Abchurch-lane, E.C, at 5.30. promptly Leopold , Moorgate Tavern, Moorgate-street, E.C, at 7. Orders by post or telegrams attended to. LODGES AND CHAPTERS or INSTRUCTION. Montefiore , St. James's Restaurant, Piccadill y, at 8. Price Lists free on application. Perfect Ashlar, Brid ge House Hotel, Southwark, at 7. Blackheath, Stirling Castle, Church-street, Camberwell, st 8. Priory, Berrymead Priory, Acton, at 8.15. AGE LADIES & GEN i LEMEN Cripplegate, Goldsmiths' Arms, Gutter-lane, at 6.30. Royal Mbert, White Hart Hotel, Abchurch-lane, at 7.30. ST Eleanor, Rose and Crown, High Cross, Tottenham, at 8. Royal Savoy, Criterion , Piccadilly, at 8.30. desirous of entering the Theatrical Professi in ;„ Friars, The White Horse, 94, White H orse-lane, Mile End-rd., E., St. Ambrose, St. James's Restaurant, Piccadilly, at 8. Drama, Comedy, Comic Opera, or Music Hall, apply f0r at 8. St. John 's, Court House, Harlesden , N.W., at 7.30. terms to H yde Park, Prince of Wales Hotel , Eastboume-terr., Bishop's-rd., St. John 's, Queen Victoria Tavern, Exmouth-st„ Stepney at 8. M R . CARLTON ST. AUBYN, Paddington , at 8. St. Luke's, Victoria Tavern , Gertrude-street, Chelsea, at 8. Kingsland, Cock Tavern, Highbury, N., at 8.30. Sir Hugh Myddelton , Star and Garter, Upper-st, Islington, at 8. Late Manager Olympic Theatre, Royal Aquarium Theatre Marquess of Ripon , Mildmay Tavern , Ball's Pond-road , N., 7.30 Southern Star, Sir Sydney Smith, Chester-st., Kennington , at 8. Theatre Royal, Scarboro', &c. (Letter for interview), ' Metropolitan , Moorgate Tavern, ij, Finsbury-pavement, at Stockwell, Salutation Tavern , Newgate-street, at 6.30. 7.30. AUBYN Neptune, Gauden Hotel, Clapham, S.W., at 7.30. Tranquillity, Manchester Hotel , Aldersgate-street, E.G., at 7.30 Mr. CARLTON ST. , North London Chapter , Cock Hotel , Highbury, at 8. Tredegar, The Cheshire Cheese, Cru tched Friars, E.G., at 7.30. School of Dramatic Art. 87, New Oxford-street. Perseverance, Ridter 's Hotel , Holborn , E.C, at 7. Union Waterloo, Earl of Chatham , Thomas-street, Woolwich. Regent's Park, Frascati Restaurant, 32, Oxford-street, at 8. Victoria Park, George Hotel, Stratford, E., at 7.30. FISH , POULTRY, GAME, OYSTER S. Royal Arthur, Prince of Wales Hotel (opposite Wimbledon Rail Industry Chapter , Prince Regent, Dulwich-road, Herne Hill, at 8 way Station), at 7.30. Royal Commemoration^ , Railway Hotel, Putney, at 8. LIMITE D St. lames's Union , St. James's Restaurant (Piccadill y entrance] FRIDAY, AUGUST 28. J OHN GOW , St. Mark's, Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell New-road. (No Meetings.) ** 17, NEW BROAD STREET, E.C , St. Michael's, Norland Arms, Addison-rd. North , Uxbrid ge-rd., 8 HONEY LANE MARKET, CHEAPSIDE, B.C., Sincerity, Blackwall Railway Hotel, Fenchurch-street, at 7. LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF INSTRUCTION . «i, Stockwell , White Hart, Abchurch-lane, E.C, at 6. Alt Saints Town Hall, Poplar at 23, LONDON STREET, MARK LANE, E.G., United Military, , , 7.30. Earl of Chatham, Thomas-st., Woolwich , at 7.30 Citadel, Farleigh Hotel, Amhurst-road , Stoke Newington, N., 8- THEOBALD'S RD., HOLBORN, W.C, Upton , Great Eastern Hotel , Bishopsgate-street, at 8. 93, Clapton , Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool-street, E.C., at 7. AND Walthamstow, The Chequers, High-street, Walthamstow, at 8. Coborn , The George Inn , High-road, South Woodford, at 8. Wellington, New Cross House, New Cross, at 8. Crusaders, Northampton Arms, Goswell-road, at 8.30. 86. HIGH STREET, PECKHAM, S.E. Woodrow, Star and Garter Hotel , Pall Mail , W., at 3. Earl of Carnarvon El Ladbroke-gro-re, Notting-hill Zetland , gin Hotel, , 8 , "The Falkland," Falkland-roa d, N.W., at 8. Earl of Zetland, Royal Edward Hotel, Triangle, Hackney, at 7. always have on sale the Largest Doric Chapter, Duke's Head, 79, Whitechapel-road , at 6. JOHN GOW , Limited, Euphrates, Green Man, Mansell-street, Whitechapel, E., at 8. Stock in London of the Very Best Quality at I.owest Price., Lewis Chapter , Fishmongers' Arms Hotel, Wood Green, N., at 8 Emulation , Freemasons' Hall, at 6. North London Chapler , Cock Tavern , Highbury, at 8 Gavel Club, Freemasons' Tavern, at 8. Free. Harrow, Waterloo Arms, High-street, Marylebone, at 8. Illustrated Tariff Post TUESDAY AUGUST 25. Henley, Three Crowns, North Woolwich, at 8. Kennington , Horns Tavern, Kennington Park, S.E., at 8. (No Meetings.) Lewis, Fishmongers* Arms, H igh-street, Wood Green , at 7.30. FUNERALS OF EVE RY Loyalty, Private Rooms, 206, Mare-street, Hackney, at 8. DESCRIPTION. Locals AND CHAPTERS or I NSTRDCTION Metropolitan (Victoria), Mail Coach, 60, Farringdon-street, at 7. Brixton , Prince Regent, Dulwich-road, Herne Hill , S.E., at 8. Ranelagh, Six Bells, Queen-street, Hammersmith, W., at 8. LONDON NECROPOLIS Co., Capper, City Arms, St. Mary Axe, at 6. Royal Standard, Castle Tavern, 81, Holloway-road, at 8. ROAD Clarence and Avondale, Green Man Hotel , Leytonstone, E., at 8 Royal Alfred, Star and Garter, Kew Bridge, at 8. t88, W ESTMINSTER BRIDGE , St. James's, Gregorian Arms, Jamaica-road, S.E., at 8. Constitutional , "Apple Tree and Mitre," 30, Cursitor-street, 2, LANCAST ER PLACE, S TRAND , Chancery-lane, W.C, at 7. Savage Club, Savage Club, Adelphi-terrace, at 6. Chaucer, Grapes Tavern (Slee & Pike's), 121, Borough High- Selwyn, Montpelier Tavern, Choumert-road, Peckham, at 8. street, at 8. Stability, Masons' Hall Tavern , Masons'-avenue, at 6. BREE'S ROYAL HO TEL , J ERSEY Corinthian , George Hotel, Cubitt Town, Poplar, at 8. Stanhope, Fox and Hounds Hotel, Upper Richmond-road, Helier. Dalhousie, Lord Truro Putney, at 8.30. Healthiest situation in St. , Dalston-lane, at 8. than the sea front. Domatic, Suirey Masonic Hall, Camberwell New-road, at 7.30. Temperance, Railway Tavern , New Cross-road, at 8. zo degrees Cuoler Duke of Cornwall, Queen's Arms, Queen-street, Cheapside, at The Abbey, The Town Hall, Westminster, 7.30 till g.30. E 7 United Pilgrims, Surrey M.H., Camberwell New-road, at 7.30. gyptian, Salutation , Newgate-street, at 7. BED AND BREAKFAST 5/6 AND 6/-. Emblematic, St. James's Restaurant, Piccadill y, at 8. Woodgrange, Princess Alice Hotel , Forest Gate, E., at 8. Enfield , Rose and Crown , Church-stieet, Edmonton , at 8. Eastern Star Chapter , Hercules Tavern, Leadenhall-street, ind FULL BOARD, ROOMS & SERVICE, 8/6 & g/- per day. Excelsior, Commercial Dock Tavern, Plough-road, Rotherhithe, and 4th Friday, at 7. Finsbury, The Bell Hotel , Old Bailey, -it 7. . Dagmar Chapter , "Slee & Pikes," in, Boro' High-street, at 8. Florence Nightingale, M.H., William-street, Woolwich, and ano Hornsey Chapter; Prince of Wales Hotel, Eastbourne-terrace, Telegraphic Address—" BREES, JERSEY." 4th Tues., at 7.30. Bishop's-road, Paddington , W., at 8. ~ Hendon, Railway Hotel , West Hampstead , N.W., at 8. Lily of Richmond Chapter , Station Hotel , Richmond, at 8.30. THOMAS MO RI N Kensington , Town Hall Tavern, High-street, Kensington , at 8. Pythagorean Chapter, Dover Castle, Broadway, Deptford , at 8 G^ Kirby, Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station, at 7.30. Star Chapler , Stirling Castle Hotel, Church-st., Camberwell, at 8. Joppa, "The Moorgate," 1 j, Finsbury Pavement, E.C, at 7.30. Established 1701. Mount Edgcumbe, Havelock Arms, Naylor-road, Asylum-road. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. Peckham, at 8. SEAL ENGRAVE R , HERALDIC PAINTER , fa' Nelson , Star and Garter, Powis-street, Woolwich, at 8. (No Meetings.) New Cross, Chester Arms, Albany-street, N.W., at 8. LODGES AND CHAPTERS or INSTRDCTION. 2 HIGH HOLBORN , LONDON, W.C. New Finsbuiy Park , Hornsey Wood Tav., Finsbury Park, at 8. 5 Pythagorean, Portland Hotel , Greenwich, at 8. Alexandra Palace, Station Hotel , Camberwell New-road , at 7.30. Richmond , Station Hotel , Richmond , at 8.30. Chiswick, Windsor Castle Hot., King-st., Hammersmith , at 7.30. Robert Burn s, Frasnti Restaurant, Oxford-street W. Duke of Connaught , , The Lord Nap ier, West Side, London Fields, I LLUMINATED ADDRESSES IN THE BEST STYLE . Sou th Middlesex , Be.iufort House, Walham Green , SAV., at 7.3c at 8. St. Kew, Masonic Hull , Weston-super-Mare, at 8. Ebury, Grapes Tavern, 123, High-street, Borough, S.E., at 8. MASONIC AND HERALDIC BANNERS. St. Leonard's, Bedford Hotel , Victoria Park-road, South Eccleston , Victoria Tavern , 46 Buckingham Palace-road , at 7. Hackney, at 8. Finsbury Park, Cock Tavern , at 8. Southwark , White Hart Hotel , New Cross Gate, at 8. King Harold , Four Swans, Waltham Cross, at 7. Wandsworth , St. Mark's School-room , Battersea Rise, S.W., at 8 Manchester, Waterloo Arms, High-street, Marylebone, at 8. Westbourne, Oliver Arms, Wcstbourne-terrace North , Harrow- Percy, Jolly Farmers, Southgate-road, N., at b. Send for Specimens of High Class Stationery, Visiths road, at 8. Star, New Cross House, Deptford , S.E., at 7. Yarborough , Green Dragon, Stepney, at 8. Vitruvian , Duke of Albany Hotel , Kitto-road, St. Katherine's Cards , and Dies gratis. Camden Chapter , The Moorgate, Moorgate-street, at 8. park, Hatcham, S.E., at 7.30. Kintore Mark Lodge, Stirling Castle Hotel, Camberwell Green Mount Sinai Chapter, Red Lion Hotel , M.King-st., Regent-st. Also gratis on application:—Book of Examples of Mom- S.E., at 8. W. at 8. mental Brasses, and Specimen Book of Brass Door Plaits WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. Telephone No. CRAFT LODGE . 6879. Established 1808. slamf 1017, Montefiore , Cafe Royal. MATTHEWS , DREW , & CO., Catalogue of Seal Engraving, etc. (illustrated), 13 j WHOLESALE AND RETAIL LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF INSTRUCTION. /-*OALS. COALS. COALS. STATIONERS Beaconsfield , Chequers Hotel , High-street, Walthamstow, at 8 , PRINTERS , LITHOGRAPHERS , ~ Belgrave, Salutation Tavern, Newgate-street, at (.$1. Bromley St. Leonard , Bromley Vestry Hall , Bow-road , at 8. ACCOUNT BOOK MAKERS. COCKERELL (L IMITED ), City of Westminster, Cafe Royal , "H" Room, at 8. CORNHILL LONDO N, E.C Confidence , Bunch of Grapes, 14, Lime-street, E.C, at 7. 13, , Creaton , Bush Hotel , Shepherd's Bush. W.. at 8. ESTIMATES SUBMITTED. Derby Allcroft, Midland Grand Hotel , at 8. For Prices, see Daily Pape rs, Doric, Moorgate Tavern ,Moorgate-street, at 8. Duke of Albany, The Clock House, Battersea-park-road , at 8. Duke of Connaught, Royal Edward Hotel, Triang le, Hackney, 8 "THE PROFESSIONAL NOTE ," Trucks direct from the Colliery to every Railwav Staling Earl of Lathom, Station Tavern , Camberwell New-ioad, S.E., 8 A High-class Vellum Paper, with Rough or Satin Surface, Fidelity, Alfred Tavern , Roman-road , Barnsbury, N., at 8. Price 7s. 6d. Gallery, Press Club, Wine Office-court , Fleet-street, at 7. SAMP LES ON APPLICATION . Guel ph, Plough and Harrow, Leytonstone-road, E., at 8. Langthorne, Angel Hotel, Ilford , at 8. HANDY BOOK to the Stud y 0 La Tolerance , Fra«cati Restaurant, 32, Oxford-strcer, at 8. Send for Illustrated Price List Free. Lewis-ham , Black Bull , A the ENGRAVED, PRINTED, and MANUSCRIj "J LcwiMiam, S.E., at 8. Accept" Londesboiough , Berkeley Arms, John-street, May fair, at S. MATTHEWS , DREW &COMPANY , LISTS OF LODGES of Ancient Free and London Scottish Rifles, Albert Hotel , Victoria-street , S.W., 8.30 . Masons of England- (" Moderns " and " Ancients ) >< % Merchant Navy, Town Hall, Limehouse, at 7.3c 37 & 38, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. 1723 1814, with an Appendix and Valuable *'»%„. Mitcham , Vestry Hall , Mitcham, at 8. to (Opposite Chancery Lane). Tables. By Bro. JOHN LANE, F.C.A., P.M. ifh.** Mount Lebanon , "Slee & Pikes," 121, Boro' High-street, at 8. Kegis"? Panmure, Balham Hotel , Senior Grand Warden of Iowa, Past Prov. Grand Balham, at 7.30. Law Writing Department—10, GRAY'S NN LACE Kew Plucknett, Railway Hotel , Finchley, I P , W.C. of Devonshire, &c, &c, &c, Author of " Masonic J at 7,43. deoi» Prosperity, Weaver's Arrr s, London Wall , at 7. 1717-1886," "Masters' Lodges," &c, &c, and . Rose of Denmark Brunswick House Engl*18 , , Wandsworth-road , at 8. to Bro. W ILLIAM J AMES H UGHAN , P.S.G.D . Royal Jubilee, the Crown, Lambeth-road , S.E., at 8. TTE PBURN AND COCKS , Royal Oak, Lord Clyde, Wotton-road , Deptford , at 8. London : GROROB K RNNING. I 6& ifia.Gt. Queen-st^jJ St. Leonard. Prince of Wales Hotel , Bishop's-rd., Victoria Pk., 8 Southgate, Railway Hotel , New Southgate, at 8. 49A , LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS , HAND- Strong Man, Blue Anchor, 164, Fenchurch-street, E.C, at 6.30. MASTER MASON 'S Temperance-in-the-East, Greenwich LONDON , W.C. THE Pensioner, Bow-lane, Poplar BOOK, by Bro. FRED . J. W. CROWE, w" at 7.30. Workshops-50, WYCH STREET. . ^ Introduction by Bro. W. J. H UGHAN, P.G.D., «<- United Mariners, Duke of Albany, Kitto-road, Nunhead , at 7 30 United Strength, Hope Tavern, Stanhope-st., Master Mason's Handbook is acompendium of all «" Euston-road , at 8. DEED AND CASH BOX MAIMERS. n ^ Wanderers, Victoria Mansions Restaurant, Victoria-street S W tion necessary to a knowledge of English Mas2. r3i«l '* hn at 7.30. prising—An Historical Sketch of F reemasonry—l f,.^ £S, Whittington , Red Lion Popp Offices and Strong Rooms fitted with Wrought Iron iJ" in 's-court, Fleet-street, at 8. Lodge : Its Origin and Constitution-Private * Andrew Chapler , Bush Hotel , Shepherd's Bush Frames and Boxes to Open in Front. , \V., at 8. Metropolitan and Provincial—Visiting Private Domatic Chapter, St. James's Restaurant, Piccadill y, W. at 8 "J, ^it SPECIAL BOXES MADE ON THE SHORTEST their uses and abbreviations—The Great Camden Mart Laiie, Earl Russell, Pancras-road, King's Cross) Titles, Degree*, ^ NOTICE. Institutions—The " Higher " or additional THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. how to obtain them. Price is. General Committee Girls' School SI-. "' ' at Freemasons' Hall , at <. Established 1790. Estimates Given. QEOBGB KENNING, 16 & 16 A, <5T. QTJISBN