Freemasonry And Business.

formed , and cannot expect much sympathy when they put the blame of all their misfortunes upon their fellow-Masons . We believe that one of the things a Mason has to swear on his initiation is , that he joins the Craft with a single mind and not for the purpose of his own profit . There can be no doubt that many do join in the hope that it will lead to their advancement in their business or profession , or at all events that is one of their objects . But to try to establish a grievance against Freemasonry because your Brother is out of employment is by no means fair .

South African Charity.

SOUTH AFRICAN CHARITY .

THE Editor of " Masonic Notes and News " in the " Cape Times" acknowledges receipt of an early copy of the seventh annual reporb of the Masonic Educational Fund of South Africa , and makes the following very interesting remarks thereon :

THE report under consideration shows a very satisfactory state of things , although even yet the fund does not receive all the support it should . In the last year ' s report it was stated that thirty-nine children ( twenty-one boys and eighteen girls ) were being educated at the expense of the fund at the close of the year ending 30 th June 1895 . During the past year eighteen fresh applications have been made , all of which were entertained . During the same period , however , fifteen children

were withdrawn , leaving at the present time forty-two children that the fund is paying for , viz ., twenty-five boys and seventeen girls . The reasons leading to the withdrawal of the above mentioned fifteen are in every respect satisfactory . For example , one boy gained a Murray Scholarship at the South African College ; another boy passed his matriculation examination from the Diocesan College , Rondebosch ; one of the girls is now being educated by the Lodge de Goede Hoop ; five of the children have left the Colony , and so on .

The reports from the heads of the several schools in progress made by the children are very satisfactory . The committee also places on record its appreciation of the liberal manner in which the principals of the different schools have acted in nearly every instance with regard to the education of the children placed in their care . The receipts from the 1 st July 1895 to 30 th June 1896 , amounted to

£ 346 18 s 4 d . Then follows a tabulated statement showing the actual receipts from various sources since the commencement of the fund in 1890 . During that period £ 1 , 626 5 s was received in annual subscriptions , £ 669 9 s 7 d in donations , £ 106 10 s 2 d from interest on capitalised account ; £ 96 6 s 8 d was received as dividend from the Cape of Good Hope Bank , and £ 3 2 s 6 d from other sources , making an actual total of receipts up to £ 2 , 50113 s lid .

The expenditure during 1895-96 amounted to £ 24113 s 5 d . The balance of receipts over expenditure has been disposed of as follows , viz : £ 88 3 s lid placed to credit of capital account , and £ 17 Is carried forward to the year 1896-97 to meet accounts for school fees unpaid on 30 th June last . Out of a total expenditure of £ 1 , 211 18 s 8 d no less than £ 905 6 s 7 d was disbursed in

school fees during the seven years the fund has been in existence , and of this sum £ 98 4 s lOd is put down to the amount of account in the Cape of Good Hope Bank . To these facts the committee draws special attention , as it clearly shows the fund is actively and economically carrying out the object for which it was established , viz ., to provide education for the children of deceased or indigent Freemasons in South Africa .

The capital account now amounts to £ 1 , 272 14 s 3 d , is deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank , and is earning interest at the rate of £ 3 6 s 8 d per cent . During the year the sum of £ 39 14 s 6 d was received from various Lodges and Chapters , setting aside the collections made at the annual installation ceremony . The Worcester Lodge , however , has increased its subscription from £ 5 to £ 7 10 s , instead of handing over its installation collection .

The following table shows the amounts contributed by the various Constitutions : Subscriptions—Netherlands Constitution £ 69 8 s , English Constitution £ 129 19 s , Scotch Constitution £ 67 6 s , Unattached subscribers £ 6 15 s , total subscriptions £ 273 8 s , total donations £ 40 5 s , total £ 313 13 s . Subscriptions received since the 1 st July 1896 , Lodge Peace and Harmony , Kimberley , £ 15 .

It is satisfactory to find that three Lodges have availed themselves of the article providing for the representation of individual subscribers , and a considerable annual addition has been made to the fund in consequence of that article . The three Lodges thus represented are the British , Southern Cross , and the Lodge de Goede Hoop . Graceful allusion is made in the report to the important services rendered by Bro . J . A . Fairbairn , who resigned the chairmanship of the fund in March last , after having held the position continuously since 1890 . It also

announces the unanimous election of Bro . C . E . Lewis Prov . G . M . of the Netherlands in South Africa and W . M . of the Lodge De Goede Hoop as his successor until tho annual election of officers in September next . The report likewise speaks of services rendered by Bro . Lewis during Bro . Tiffany ' s absence through ill-health . The regret of the committee is recorded in the same report for the loss by the fund , as well as by the Craft , by the death of Bro . C . J . Stephens . The report was to be submitted to the subscribers and donors of the fund at the annual meeting to be held in the banqueting-room of tho British Lodge , Cape Town , on Friday , 28 th Augustat eight p . m .

, Too high praise cannot be accorded to the hon . secretary Bro . W . H . Tiffany , through whose hard work and tact tho present position of the fund is in great measure due . He has made it a labour of love , and no one knows except one who has been in a similar position the amount of work an anxiety the secretaryship of such a fund entails .

Entertainment Notes.

ENTERTAINMENT NOTES .

Shaftesbury . —The fiftieth performance of " The Little Genius " took plac here on Thursday eveaing , when Miss Florence St . John assumed the title role . Lyric—Miss Maud Jeffries will return to this Theatre to resume her original creation of " Mercia " in " The Sign of the Cross " to-day ( Saturday ) , autl will appear iB both tlie Matinee and evening performance . Miss Jeffries has been on a visit to her home in Tennessee , U . S . A ., and is much benefitted by the rest she has had .

Next Week.

NEXT WEEK .

Further particulars as to place of meeting of the undermentioned Lodges are given in the Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Boot ( published by Grand . Lodge , for the benefit of the Charity Fund ) . Monday .

144 St . Luke , Anderton's 1321 Emblematic , Criterion 113 Unanimity , Preston . 119 Sun , Sq . & Compass , Whiteh ' v ' n 135 Perpetual Friendship , B'water 156 Harmony , Plymouth

251 Loyal , Barnstaple 328 St . John , Torquay 331 Phcenix Ho . & Prudence , Truro 353 Royal Sussex , Winshill 428 Sincerity , Northwich 431 St . George , N . Shields 482 St . James , Handsworth

529 Semper Fidelis , Worcester 622 St . Cuthberga , Wimborne 839 Rl . Gloucestershire , Gloucester 850 St . Oswald , Ashbourne 959 Prince of Wales , Ipswich 977 Fowey , Fowey 1045 Stamford , Altrincham

1051 Rowley , Lancaster 1071 Zetland , Saltash 1211 Goderich , Leeds 1239 Wentworth , Sheffield 1254 Semper Fidelis , Exeter 1264- Neptune , Liverpool 1399 Marlborough , Woodstock 1573 Carodoc , Swansea

1954 Molesworth , Wadebridge 2039 Londonderry , Sunderland 2163 Jersey , Southall 2166 Cotehele , Calstock 2497 Carville , Wallsend-on-Tyne 2520 P . of Wales , Newcastle-on-Tyne 2533 Fitzwilliam , Peterborough 2586 St . Nicholas , Scarborough

Tuesday . 167 St . John , Hampstead Heath 781 Merchant Navy , Limehouse 1269 Stanhope , Camberwell 1769 Clarendon , Guildhall Tavern 80 St . John , Sunderland 93 Social , Norwich 131 Fortitude , Truro

184 United Chatham , New Bro'ptoa 241 Merchant , Liverpool 272 Harmony , Boston 284 Shakespeare , Warwick 319 New Forest , Lymington 371 Perseverance , Maryport 473 Faithful , Birmingham

494 Virtue and Honour , Axminster 495 Wakefield , Wakefield 496 Peace & Harmony , St . Austell 567 Unity , Warwick 573 Perseverance , Hales-Owen 593 St . Ann , Alderney 603 Zetland , Cleckheaton

650 Star in the East , Harwich 696 St . Bartholomew , Wednesbury 723 Panmure , Aldershot 764 H ' rbour of Refuge , W . H'tlep'l . 829 Sydney , Sidcup 877 Royal Alfred , Jersey 897 S . Helen of Loyalty , St . Helen ' s

903 Gosport , Gosport 967 Three Grand Principles , Penryn 1021 Hartington , Barrow-in-Furnes . 1 1073 Greta , Keswick 1120 St . Milburga , Ironbridge 1138 Devon , Newton Abbot 1220 Solway , Aspatria

1250 Gilbert Greenall , Warrington 1267 Kenlis , Egremont 1314 Acacia , Bromley 1402 Jordan , Torquay 1476 Blackpool , Blackpool 1528 Fort , Newquay 1545 BaildonBaildon

, 1713 Wdlbraham , Walton-on-the-Hill 1782 Machen , Coleshill 1837 Lullingstone , Willmington 1847 Ebrington , Stonehouse 2099 Ethelbert , Heme Bay

. 2104 Whitwell , Stockton-on-Tees 2134 Wilberforce , Hull 2222 Frederick West , East Molesey 2324 Horwich , Horwich 2492 Concordia , Wendover

Wednesday . Committee Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , F . M . H ., at 4 87 Vitruvian , Southwark 1986 Honor Oak , Upper Norwood 2581 Empress , Earl ' s * Court

Next Week.

54 Hope , Rochdale 84 Doyle of Friendship , Guernsey 146 Antiquity , Bolton 187 Rl . Sussex Hospitality , Bristol 204 Caledonian , Manchester 225 St . Luke , Ipswich 244 Yarborough , Jersey 274 Tranquility , Newchurch

V 5 » l itorutude , Lancaster 288 Harmony , Todmorden 323 Concord , Stockport 463 East Surrey Concord , Croydon 654 Peveril of the Peak , New Mills 661 Fawcett , Seaham Harbour 666 Benevolence , Dartmoor

679 St . David , Aberdare 730 Ellesmere , Charley 731 Arboretum , Derby 755 St . Tudno , Llandudno 851 Worthing Friendship , Worthing 852 Zetland , Salford 854 Albert , Shaw

906 Royal Albert Edward , Bath 1005 Zetland , Gloucester 1018 Shakespeare , Bradford 1031 Fletcher , Birmingham 1064 Borough , Burnley 1088 Royal Edward , Stalybridge 1091 Erme , Ivybridge

1094 Temple , Liverpool '" 1107 Cornwallis , Chiselhurst 1112 Shirley , Southampton 1125 St . Peter , Tiverton 1140 Ashton , Heaton Moor 1181 De la Pole , Seatom 1209 Lewises , Ramsgate 1242 Tynewold , Douglas , Isle of Man

1248 Denison , Scarborough 1331 Aldershot Camp , Aldershot 1342 Walker , Newcastle-on-Tyne 1356 Toxteth , Liverpool 1398 Baldwin , Dalton-in-Furness 1400 Curwen , Workington 1547 Liverpool , Liverpool 1588 Prince Leopold , Stretford 1643 Perseverance , Hebbum-on-Tyne

1798 Zion , Manchester 1848 Ferrum , Middlesborough 1855 St . Maurice , Plympton 1879 Lord Warkworth , Amble 1932 Whitworth , Spennymoor 1947 Stanford ^ Hove 1958 St . George , Portsea 2156 Arthur Sullivan , Manchester 2294 WavertreeWavertree

, 2330 St . Lawrence , Pudsey 2389 Avondale , Middlewich 2423 St . Mark , Connah Quay 2450 Loxfield , Uckfield 2483 Hadrian , Westham 2504 Earl of Warwick , Buckh ' rst Hill

Thursday . 1227 Upton , Great Eastern Hotel 1558 Duke of Connaught , C'mb ' rwell 1642 Earl of Carnarvon , Ladbroke-h . 2168 Derby Allcroft , St . Pancras 2417 Bolingbroke , Lavender Hill 2509 Barnet , New Barnet

35 Medina , Cowes 97 Palatine , Sunderland 130 Royal Gloucester , South ' mpton 139 Britannia , Sheffield 191 St . John , Bury 216 Harmonic , Liverpool

333 Royal Preston , Preston 344 Faith , Radcliffe 369 Limestone Rock , ditheroe 381 Harmony & Industry , Darwea 437 Science , Wincanton 442 St . Peter , Peterboro ' 487 Portsmouth , Portsmouth

546 Etruscan , Longton 561 Zetland , Gnisborough 586 Elias De Derham , Salisbury 588 St . Botolph , Sleaford 732 Royal Brunswick , Brighton 739 Temperance , Birmingham 816 Royd , Littleboro '

973 Royal Somerset , Frome 991 Tyne , Wallsend 1035 Prince of Wales , Liverpool 1055 Derby , Manchester 1061 Triumph , Lancaster Stoke

1099 Huyshe , , Devonport 1144 Milton , Ashton-under-Lyne 1145 Equality , Accrington 1147 St . David , Manchester 1182 Duke of Edinburgh , Liverpool 1213 Bridgewater , Eccles

1247 St . John , Plymouth 1273 St . Michael , Sittingbourne 1587 Chorlton , Chorlton-cum-Hardy 1416 Falcon , Thirsk 1429 Alb'tEdw'dPr . of Wales , N'p'fc . 1583 Corbet , Towyn 1697 Hospitality , Waverfoot