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CONTENTS. has been furnished at Wakefield for the purpose. To decide is to do with R.W. Bro. T. W. TEW , and vvith the scheme he has also identified his able ¦ ¦ [ EAD ERS 11 Royal Arch go ENRY MITH SO be said to be assured. The Savage Club Lodee, No. 2190 77 China 90 Deputy, Bro. H S , that success may of the Blind 80 Blind Leaders Provincial Grand Lodge of Devonshire 90 Doubtless it will be urged that much depends upon the character and com- Colonel Gierke's MS. (" Old Charges ") 8t Annual Festival of thc Brixton Lodge (f CORRE SPONDE NCE— petency of the active officer or officers. Certainly ! The premises selected Instruction , No. 1949 91 Onr Masonic Charities—A Suggestion S3 's Office and the Honorary Librarian " Hearty Good Wishes " S4 Roval Masonic Benevolent Institution 91 adjoins the Prov. Grand Secretary , A Question of Custom S4 Royal Masonic Institution for B<,vs 91 and Curator appointed ad interim, is Bro. WILLIAM WATSON of Leeds, " The Old Masonians " 84 A Masonic Ball at Hastings gr REPORTS UF M ASONIC M EETINGS— ! Obituary 91 of whom it may truly be said , that were the whole province searched, it Craft Masonry S4 . Masonic and General Tidings 92 Instruction So Lodge Meetings for Next Week iv. would be impossible to find a brother more conversant with the duties of such an honourable position , or more anxious to make the scheme the great success it deserves to attain. A CASE of indisci pline has recently occurred at our Boys' School, T e B ' le ouse *** <? h °F and t ^ ^ Committee, by virtue of the authority entrusted to it, has punished the delinquent. But a difference ol opinion THE Regular Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge ^ appears to have arisen between the friends of the boy incul pated and the of ScotUncf of Scotland was held at Freemasons' Hall , Edinburgh , on Committee as to the punishment inflicted, the former going so far as to Thursday, the 2nd instant. The business transacted was not insist that their youthful relative shall be restored to his old footing in the very important or protracted , the election of 13 brethren to serve on the School. VVe must take the liberty of pointing out, however, that no institu- Grand Committee, from a list of 20 nominated, being the most important tion can be efficiently conducted in which the law, as laid down by the of the proceedings. However, our columns are so crowded this week that Governing Powers, is not respected, and that the determination of what vve find ourselves, greatly to our regret, compelled to hold over our report constitutes an infraction of the law so prescribed , as well as the nature and till next week. w extent of the punishment which every such infraction demands, rests, not ** with the friends of the delinquent il , but vvith the said Governing pup ACCORDING to the Voice of Masonry, the Grand Lodge of Powers. Perhaps, when this comes to be recognised by the friends and Masonry and T nd'an Territory, U.S.A., has joined the Masonic temperance Teetotalism. , . , . , , , , , , r 1 relations of the boy in question , there will be an end put to the annoyance movement, vvhich is zealously promoted by the Grand^ Lodge to which the House Committee has been subjected but if it should ; prove of Missouri and other bodies. We trust this does not mean that the Grand otherwise, we venture to say, from our knowled that ge of what has passed , Lodges referred to have undertaken the role of teetotal advocates, and are the Committee will receive not only the sympath but likewise the support y, , going about denouncing brethren vvho sell or drink wine, beer, or spirits. of the general body of Governors and Subscribers in their resolution to We are as u rgent in our support of temperance, vvhich is one of the chiefest maintain their authority. of the Masonic virtues, as any Grand Lodge can desire, but it is our duty & 4* * to point out that it does not come within the prescribed purpose of Free- masonry to go about advocating teetotalism or any other popular movement The R .M. "• REFERENCE to our report of the meeting of the Committee Benevolent has nothing to do vvith the tastes or inclinations , if 0f ManagementD of the Benevolent Institution will show that. of the day. Masonry Insitution. ' so tarr as the candidates and vacancies are concerned , the temperatel y exercised , of individual members, any more than it has vvith position of affairs is substantially unchanged since our article of the 21st their relig ious or political opinions, and the Grand Lodge of Indian Terri- January was written . The lists of the former have been formally settled , tory will be exceeding its powers if it adopts the teetotal movement as part the number of applicants for male annuities being 67, and of those for of its regular duty. female annuities being 64, making a total of 131, while the vacancies on the Male Fund are 16, and seven on the Female Fund , inclusive in each case of THE SAVAGE CLUB LODGE , No. 2190. the three deferred , which the Committee are empowered to fill up as they occur , without further ballot. This gives a total of 17 immediate vacan- INSTALLATION OF BRO. SIR SOMERS VINE AS W.M. cies, as against the 13 available in January, two male annuitants having An unusual interest vvas attached lo the installation ceremony of the died in the interim , but the Committee has not felt itself justified , in Savage Club Lodge at Freemasons' Hall on Tuesday by the presence of a view of the financial prospects for the year, in recommending any number of the most distinguished members of the Craft. Bro. Sir Somers augmentation of numbers in the case of either fund. As regards the Vine, the W.M. for the ensuing year, may well congratulate himself on approaching Festival, there has been during the week a slight—a very the brilliant assemblage vvhich surrounded him both during the ceremony slight—improvement; the number of Stewards having been increased and at the banquet vvhich followed. Few lodges have attained such a degree to 235> or 240. so that, if the same rate of progress is maintained till of popularity in the first year of their existence as the Savage Club Lodge, the end of the month , we may reasonably calculate on a Board of 250 vvhich has just reached its anniversary, and already numbers upwards of members, or about 140 less than it was for the Festival of last year. It sixty members, all of whom belong to the well-known Club from which it must be admitted that this is not very encourag ing. Close upon takes its name. Alter the routine business was over, an imposing procession £15,000, irrespective of the permanent income, must be raised somehow, of members of Grand Lodge entered, including the Earl of Lathom, Dep, and however energetically the brethren vvho have given their services may G.M. of Eng. ; the Earl of Londesborough, P.G.W.: Thomas Fenn work, it is hoping against hope to expect of them that they will succeed in , Pres. of the Board of Gen. Purps. ; and Bros. Stewart, Bowyer C. F. iising so large a sum. Possibly, how ever, there are still some London , lod Matier, Dr. T. Pigott, Frank Richardson , F. H . Gottlieb, H. Matthews ges, and some of the provinces, which usually send up Stewards, but as J. , and others. yet are unrepresented , which even at the eleventh hour may appreciate the deep earnestness of Bro. Terry's appeal for more Stewards, and bring them- A very hearty Masonic reception , fully in keeping with their exalted selves to recognise the wholesome truth that a little hel p is better than none, Degrees, vvas given to the brethren of Grand Lodge as they slowly made that their way up the floor of the lod , preceded b . by giving this hel p which is so sorely needed , they will preserve ge y Bro. Edward Terry, as ¦eir character for regularity, as well as for the generosity of their contri- D.C, vvho vvas absolutely ablaze vvith jewels. utions , If so, we trust they will furnish some representative instantly; Bro. Colonel Shadwell Clerke, Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Eng- a good deal may be achieved ina fortni ght vvhen a Steward throws his heart land , then proceeded with the ceremony of installing the new W.AI., and it uie won?. tSut if no more Stewards shall be forthcoming in response is perhaps unnecessary to add that he performed this function in a manner ° . s suggestion , let us hope that the Board , as constituted , will make up that made a deep impression on the younger brethren present, many of f r its comparative paucity of numbers by additional exertions, so that, to whom have only been initiated during the past twelve months. When the iamiliar phrase, it may be found , when the day arrives and vvith it W.M. had been duly installed , he at once appointed the officers of the lodge e , announcement of the lists, that, considering the relative strength of for the current year. The following brethren were invested in the usual '•"•rent Boards, the record has been beaten. order : Bros. Thomas Catling, S.W. ; W. E. Chapman, J.W. ; Edward Terry, Treas. ; P. T. Duffy, Sec ; Thomas Burnside, S.D. ; Walter « J. Ebbetts, J.D.; W. J. Fisher, I.G. ; J. D. Beveridge, D.C. ; Harr y 0 THE Zeal US and Nicholls, Org.

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