Dorset.

including the presentation of very satisfactory reports , the Officers were invested as follow : Bro . L . W . Pike ----- Senior Warden W . W . Stickland ... - Junior Warden Rev . G . P . Balleine ... Chaplain R . D . Thornton ( re-elected ) - - Treasurer

C . H . Curtis .... Registrar R . Case ----- Secretary T . H . Enaor .... Senior Deacon A . Rayner ----- Junior Deacon E . W . Baker ... - Superintendent of Works R . G . Cave ----- Director of Ceremonies

A . Knight -- --- Assist . Dir . of Cers . F . Burt ----- Sword Bearer J . McNichol ... . Organist W . Hair ----- Pursuivant A . Oi Chapin - - - - \ T . H . Harris - - - -

£ & arr : : : : M *™* . R . H . Groves - - - - A . 0 . Kemble - - - - / S . C . Vye ( re-appointed ) - - - Tyler .

In commemoration of the twenty-first anniversary of the installation of the Grand Master , Bro . R . Case , who has held Provincial office for twenty-one years , and during the greater part of that time as P . G . Sec , was appointed P . P . Senior Grand Warden . The annual banquet took place at the Masonic Hall , and was largely attended .

THE sixteenth annual report of the Dorset Masonic Charity states that the Committee have great pleasure in reporting that the working of the past year shows a steady improvement both in the number of subscribers and the amount of the subscriptions on that of 1894 , the donors numbering 10 and the subscribers 351 , as against 14 and 344 in that year .

The totalreceipts for 1895 were : —Donations £ 62 Is 3 d , Interest and Dividends £ 90 4 s 7 d , Subscriptions £ 10212 s , a total of £ 254 17 s lOd against a total of £ 189 13 s in 1894 , when the Donations amounted to £ 13 12 s 4 d , Interest and Dividends £ 74 10 s 8 d , and Subscriptions £ 101 10 s , a result which speaks well for the continued activity of the various local correspondents , whose services demand the warmest thanks of the Province .

One Petitioner only has been relieved during the year , at a cost of £ 20 , viz ., Lodge 472—Bro . C , £ 20 . Two grants of £ 40 , made at the Mid-Winter Meeting , will appear in the 1896 accounts . The Committee trust that the Tabular Statement at the commencement of the Report will be carefully compared with the

Statement in last year ' s report , and if only the Brethren in each Lodge who are subscribers will exert themselves to master the figures and bring them home to the members of their own Lodge who do not yet subscribe , there will next year be a continuance of the increase of the number of subscribers which is necessary to the continued welfare of the Charity .

There should be no difficulty in getting all new members to subscribe during their first year , nor , when they have once subscribed , in getting them to continue ; and the Committee venture to hope that each local correspondent will endeavour to secure , at all events , all new members . The work , being a local one , should have the warmest sympathy and active assistance of every Brother in the Province .

With regard to the current year , about the same number of interim lists have come to the Hon . Secretary ' s hands on the 30 th June as those received on the same date last year , and these show that the subscriptions amounted to £ 22 0 s 6 d , and Dividends and Interest to £ 48 6 s 9 d , against which grants

amounting to £ 60 have already been made . It is hoped , therefore , that when the lists are presented at Provincial Grand Lodge it will be found that the efforts of the various local correspondents have been crowned with success , and that the charity has made good progress .

At the annual meeting at Weymouth , in July last , the Committee discussed the question of the Scholarship Fund now being raised in connection with the R . M . I . B ., and resolved to recommend a grant of £ 21 from the Funds of Provincial Grand Lodge being made in aid of the Fund , and the Hon . Sec . was

requested to bring forward , on behalf of the Committee , the following motion— " That a sum of £ 21 be given from the Funds of P . G . L . to the R . M . I . B . Scholarship Fund . " The Committee hope this will be carried , and that the grant may be supplemented by private subscriptions to a sum worthy of the Province .

North Wales.

NORTH WALES .

THE following is a full list of the Officers appointed by Lord Harlech , at the recent meeting of this Provincial Grand Lodge , held at Wrexham , and reported in our issue of 22 nd ult .

North Wales.

Bro . R . L . Chamberlain ... Senior Warden Howell Davies - Junior Warden Rev . Edmund O . Jones - - - ] ( -, ! , „„ , „•„ Rev . John Fairchild - - - } Chaplains James G . Tuxford - Treasurer S . Freme Clement - Registrar Edward Roberts - - - Secretary

R . Moreton Pnchard ... Senior Deacon William Jones - Junior Deacon James Grant - Superintendent of Works William Thornton Jones - - . - Director of Ceremonies A . Bromwich - Assist . Dir . of Cers . Wm . Parramore Hall - - - Sword Bearer WinCharles Whiskin - - - ) ^ .

. „ , ^ John Jones / Standard Bearers Frank Barlow - Organist Caradoc Rowland - - - - Assist . Secretary D . D . Pierce - Pursuivant Samuel Beresford - - - - Assist . Pursuivant

R . A . Gregory - - - - John Darroch .... W . Angus Fraser - - - - I D . . , Dr . Thomas Jones - - - - f Stewards R . Jones Griffith - W . H . Lloyd - - - - / William Williams - Tyler .

Past Provincial rank was conferred on Bro . Edward Roberts Prov . Grand Secretary and Bro . James G . Tuxford Prov . Grand Treasurer , the one receiving the honour of a Past Senior Grand Wardenship , the other that of a Past Junior Warden .

Bournemouth Pic-Nic.

BOURNEMOUTH PIC-NIC .

JT 1 HE members of Hengist , Boscombe , and Horsa Lodges ( Bournemouth ) , JL on Monday , 31 st ult ., enjoyed a very successful outing to Larmer Tree . Formerly it was the custom to hold an outing annually , but for some reason or other it was allowed to lapse . The success which attended Blonday's function should encourage the committee to establish it once more as an annual fixture . Admirable arrangements were made and the weather was perfect . The party , including many ladies , left the Square at Bournemouth

shortly after nine o clock in one of Mr . Elliott ' s chars-a-banc . Halts were made at Wimborne , Horton , and the interesting museum at Tollard Royal , and the pretty grounds of Larmer Tree were reached at luncheon time . There were no formalities after luncheon , sight seeing and amusements were the order of the day , and the afternoon was spent very pleasantly indeed . The return journey was begun in the twilight , and Bournemouth successfully reached between 10 and 11 p . m .

The meeting of the Anti-Masonic Congress at Trent will cause no alarm whatever to British Masons , even although the Pope has sent his benediction to the gathering . Between English Masonry , indeed , and the Continental Societies there is but little in common . The latter , especially in France , have

become political , have set their faces against religious beliefs , and may be called semi-political , semi-atheistical . Years ago the English Order broke off its connection with the perverts from true Masonry , and renounced all fraternity with them . It may be assumed that , the Anti-Masonic Congress has no intention of

passing any special resolutions against the British Order , but technically this would doubtless be included in the fulminations that will be launched . These will not hurt them . With the Prince of Wales as Grand Master , and other members of the Royal Family enrolled in its ranks , the Order cannot be suspected

of disloyalty or atheism , and its magnificent charities speak for themselves as to good work effected . It is certainly remarkable that a Congress blessed by the Pope , and likely to be attended by a very large number of Prelates and laymen oi importance , should receive so small an amount of pecuniary

support that there has not been sufficient subscribed to pay even the necessary expenses . The eminent Prelates and laymen who are about to meet at Trent are as full of ardour as the Irish Nationalists , but this enthusiasm is not accompanied by any zeal to contribute money towards the object for which they are to meet . — " Evening Standard . "

"A Sprig Of Acacia."

"A SPRIG OF ACACIA . "

DEATH has this week claimed one of the most zealous Masons of the day , and a most liberal supporter of the Masonic Institutions , in the person of Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall , Grand Treasurer of England in 1884 , who died on Wednesday morning , at Streatham , at the age of 67 . We have from time to time referred to Bro . Marshall's Masonic career .

and also to his business qualifications , and feel it only necessary to here say how much his death will be felt in the Craft , and in the many other spheres where he was known and was universally respected . He was a member of the Corporation of the City of

London , a J . P ., and for twenty years had served as a Poor Law Guardian , while he stood out as an example of activity in business rarely equalled . We take the opportunity of expressing our regret at the death of one whom we had long regarded as a personal friend .