CONTENTS. have a splendid time of it during their visit to York goes without saying. With so indefati gable, so genial, and so capable a cicerone as Sir Knight T. B. LEADIBS 193 East Lancashire Provincial Charity Com- WHYTEHEAD , we may be sure the pilgrims from the far West will be taken Onsecration of the Military Jubilee Lodge, mittee 20c No. 3I9J> Dover 194 Leeds Masonic Educational Institution 200 to see, if they have not already seen , the numerous memorials of early Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire 194 Provincial Grand Lodge of Hampshire and Eng provincial Grand Chapter of East Lanca- I3le 0f wight 200 lish Masonry which the York lodges are so fortunate as to possess, the shire.............. iqi Bro> enry Cross's Concert at Willesden 201 famous York Minster and its historic crypts, and whatever else there may C H ^bT£ yV Schoo, ] g1 ^^J^^^^^Z ,0. be that is worth inspecting. They will be heartily welcomed also by the ' '' "" " - ' ' * ''' Note^andQueries"!!'.!'......;];;;'.;'.;'.;..;'..;'..... Ill Knights Templar Pilgrimage to York 201 brethren of our lod ges and the companions of our chapters , and probably RJPOBTS OF MASONIC M KETINOS— Provincial Calendars 201 the only difficulty they will experience will be to compress an impossible Craft Masonry i g8 The Craft 201 I nstruction 100 The Queen's Jubilee 201 number of visits, banquets, and the like into a necessarily limited space of Provincial Priory of Northumberland, Royal Arch '' '' " '' """""" 200 Instruction ...... ...."!!! 200 Durham, and Berwick-on-Tweed 201 time. But whatever may be the particular character of the receptions they Ancient and Accepted Rite 200 The Craft Abroad 202 will meet with in York primarily, and then in London , Paris, and other Queensland 200 Theatres 203 China 200 A Busy Dramatist 203 cities and towns they may have arranged to visit, one thing is certain , Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 200 Obituary 204 Rast Lancashire Systematic Masonic Edu- Masonic and General Tidings 204 namely, that in 1887, as in 1878, the pilgrims from the United States will cational and Benevolent Institution 200 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iii. find themselves almost as much at home as in their own country. They will experience climatic, scenic, and other differences, but there will be no differ- _ „ . IT is satisfactory to find that after an interval of 10 years the Prov. G. oupt. • •* ence in the good-fellowship by which they will find themselves surrounded , South Wales Eastern Division of South Wales is again numbered among and we can only hope that the weather will give them as genial a welcome ' ' the provinces which are endowed with a Royal Arch provin- to the old country as their brethren in Masonry. organisation. The late R.W. Bro. T. M. TALBOT, who died in 1876, cial * * was both Provincial Grand Master and Provincial Grand Superintendent of * THAT we are not exaggerating when we say that the great Royal Arch Masonry for this division of South Wales. He was succeeded ' K.T. Reception difficulty which will be experienced by the American p il grims in the year of his death by Bro. Sir G EO . ELLIOT, Bart., in the former Programme. tQ wjj| e compress ar, almost impossible number of enter- capaci ty, and now a successor to him in the latter has been found in the ^ tainments into a necessarily limited space of time may be seen from the person of Bro. MARMADUKE TENNANT, who, as Bro. Sir GEO. ELLIOT'S circular letter we publish elsewhere from Sir Knight T. B. W HYTEHEAD Deputy, already has a thorough knowledge of the requirements of the pro- , istrar, Ancient Ebor Preceptory. Herein it is shown how our vince, is well acquainted with the feeling by which the breth ren are ani- Reg American friends will be occupied between the time of their arrival mated, and is immensely popular. There is reason to hope that under the " at the Station Hotel, in York, on the evening of the 19th y," and their departure auspices of M.E. Comp. TENNANT, Provincial Grand Superintendent, Jul " for Royal Arch Masonry in this portion of the principality will show renewed London at 10 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, July 21st; " and it will suffice if we activity and vigour, and we trust the career which has been begun so mention that it includes dinner and attending an emergency meeting of the with an exemp favourably this week will be both a brilliant one and prolonged. Eboracum Lodge, No. 1611, lication of English Craft working, on the evening of their arrival ; and the day following a course of iionising • • • in the morning ; lunch at 12.30 p.m. with Lodge, No. i6u ; ,„ „ , ,. At the Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution visit to the Ancient Ebor Preceptory, with exemplification West Yorkshire . of Victoria jubilee last February, Bro. J AMES TERRY mentioned incidentally English Templar working, at 2.30 p.m.; divine service at the cathedral a Presentations. tnat tne province 0f West Yorkshire proposed doing some- 4.30 p.m. ; reception at the Mansion House by the Lord M AYOR and Lady thing of a special character for that Institution in commemoration of the M AYORESS at 7 p.m. ; and Templar banquet at the Guildhall at 7.30 p.m. QUEEN 'S Jubilee. At the time our worthy brother was not in a position to This of course represents only the official programme, but there will doubt- state what that " something " would be, though he led his audience to less be in addition a number of semi-official, quasi-official , and unofficial understand that it would be worthy both of the Sovereign it was intended interludes in which the pilgrims will be pressed to take part, and in which to commemorate and the Province. The secret has now been divulged. At we dare say they will acquit themselves manfull y after the manner of Knight the annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge, at Huddersfield, on Templar Pilgrims of the olden time. If the whole of the tour is modelled Wednesday, the 30th ult., it was resolved that the sum of 2000 guineas be after the York fashion , our visitors and the ladies accompanying them will raised by the province for the purpose of purchasing two permanent pre- have a high time of it. sentations to the Widows' Fund of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institu- *** tion , to be named " The West Yorkshire V ICTORIA Jubilee Presentations," From the report in the Canadia n Craftsman of the proceedings and P.G. Lodge itself set the example by voting 200 guineas fro m its funds Lodge of at the Annual Communication in January last of the Grand Quebec. towards the proposed purchase. This is good news indeed , good news for Lodge of Quebec, the meeting appears to have passed off the Widows' Fund aforesaid , and a grand testimony to the loyalty of West quietly enough. It was inevitable there should be some reference made in Yorkshire to our gracious Sovereign. It is likewise encouraging to those the Grand Master's address to the edict of non-intercourse issued in July, who hope the Jubilee year may prove exceptionally beneficial to our several 1886, against the United Grand Lodge of England and its belongings. Masonic Institutions, and even we may take some comfort to ourselves at But the tone of the reference is subdued as if the Grand Master had not finding that part at least of the Jubilee celebration programme we shadowed quite made up his mind whether to rejoice at the discharge of his blunder- forth some months since is in the way of being realised. We trust before buss, as Mr. W INKLE did, when , after a variety of intricate evolutions, he long to hear that other Provinces have determined on following the splendid managed to let off his gun ; or to yield himself up to a grief that spurns all Sample set them by West Yorkshire. consolation at finding that the letting off of his weapon has not affected our equanimity on either side of the Atlantic. We are glad of this. The *** N J a num^er of American brethren under the leadership of quieter Quebec becomes, the greater prospect is there that reason will The Amef * ^ Pilgrimage to Bro. CHARLES E. M EYER, of Philadel phia, visited this country, resume its sway in the councils of her Masonic dignitaries, and then, no and during their soiourn in London were entertained at a doubt, there will be a chance of her and England establishing friendly banquet in the great hall of Freemasons' Tavern by the proprietor of this and fraternal relations with each other. Till that happy time arrives, we journal. Bro. GEORGE KENNING presided at the banquet-table, with have nothing left us to do but to wait patiently and hopefully, in the belief the A. F. A. j^os. Rev. W OODFORD, P.G.C., and W. J. H UGHAN, that everything will be properly arranged by-and-bye. •G.D., in the chairs of S.W. and J.W., respectively, and many Grand *# * tncers, present and to support him in his fraternal welcome to the „ ,. ,. W E congratulate our respected and R.W. Bro. Lord LEIGH , past, Testimonial to ft . r . > Pilgrims—Bros, the late Col. C REATON . P.G.D. : T OHN B.—now Sir T OHN R.W. Bro. Lord Prov. G.M. of Warwickshire, on the recent handsome recog- ¦ Lelg " — MoNCKTON , then Pres. B. of Gen . Purp.; P. DE LANDE LONG, P.G.D. ; ' nition by the Magistrates of Warwickshire of his long and *¦ A.