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LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSIONS . ON SATURDAY , 19 th MAY , CHEAP EXCURSIONS will be run from LONDON ( Euston , Broad Street , Kensington , Mansion House , TJinesuon , and other stations ) to BIRMINGHAM , Ooveutay . Lewmw-notv , Kenilworth , Warwick , Dudley , Dudley Port , Walsall , Wedneslmry , Wolverhampton , Leicester , Burton , Derby , Liverpool , Manchester , Blackburn , Blackpool , Southuort , Bolton , North and South Wales , Chester , Aberystwyth , Barmouth , Preston , Wigan , Morecambe , Carlisle , the English Lake District , and other places . ON "WHIT-MONDAY , 21 st May , a CHEAP EXCURSION will bo run from LONDON ( Euston , Chalk Farm , and Willesclen only ) , to BIRMINGHAM , Coventry , Leamington , Kenilworth , Warwick , . Dudley , Dudley Port , Walsall , "Wednesbury , and "Wolverhampton . THURSDAY MIDNIGHT . 2 Hh Mav—A CHEAP TWO-DAYS' EXCURSION will be run from LONDON to MANCHESTER ( for Manchester Races ) . For fares and full particulars see bills , which can be obtaiued at the Company ' s Stations and Town Parcels Receiving Offices , and at Messrs . Gaze and Son ' s Office , 142 Strand , W . C . G . FINDLAY , General Manager . Euston Station , MAY 1889 .

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GREATWESTERNRAILWAY. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS . CHEAP Third Class Excursion Tickets are issued daily by certain trains from PADDINGTON , Westbourne Park , Kensington ( Addison Koad ) , Uxbridge Road , Hammersmith , & c . ; and also from certain stations on the Metropolitan and District Railways , to the undermentioned stations , at the fares shown : "WINDSOR 2 s 6 d Bourne End ~\ Taplow ) o , Great Marlow f o fil 1 Maidenhead j 3 s 0 cl Shiplake f ds bcU Cookham 3 s 6 d Henley ) Available to return on dav of issue only . Cheap Saturday to Monday tickets are also issued from PADDINGTON ancl other stations to Windsor , Taplow , Maidenhead , Cookham , Bourne End , Great Marlow , Shiplake , and Henley . HY . LAMBERT , General Manager .

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GRAND CHAPTER OE WEST YORKSHIRE . A CON VOCATION" of this Provincial Grand Chapter was held in St . George ' s Hall , Bother-ham ,

on Wednesday , 2 nd instant , by the invitation of Chapter Phoenix , No . 904 . There were present the following Provincial Grand Officers : — Comps . Thomas William Tew , J . P ., Superintendent , John Wordsworth H ., Frederick Laxton J ., Ensor Drnry Pasfc H ., Rev .

T . C . Smyth , D . D . Pasfc J ., Henry Smith S . E ., W . Ridgard Massie S . N ., James Bedford S . N ., Thomas Harrison Pasfc Treasurer , James Henry Gration Pasfc Treasurer , John Shaw Prin . Soj ., Thomas Richard Vaux 1 st . Assist . Soj ., Henry Joseph Garnett 2 nd Assist . Soj ., Robert Craig Pasfc Soj , Robert Thompson and John William

Turner Pasfc Sword Bearers , John Gibbs Standard Bearer , Joseph W . Monckman D . of Cers ., J . E . Wordsworth Assist ; . D . of Cers ., George Carbert Organist , Herbert G . E . Green Assist . S . E ., Samuel Barrand Janitor , T . Bateman Fox , James Jenkins , and VV . C . Ellisdou Stewards , with Principals , Past First Principals , and Companions of the following Chapters , viz .: 61 , 139 , 151 , 208 , 242 , 264 , 275 , 289

, 290 , 296 , 302 , 304 , 306 , 308 , 380 , 448 , 458 , 495 , 521 , 600 , 652 , 827 , 904 , 1019 , 1042 , 1214 , 1513 .

The apologies for inability to attend numbered 175 . Comp . Thomas William Tew , J . P ., Grand Superintendent . and Officers opened Provincial Grand Chapter at 3 * 30 ^ when the . Grand Superintendent was saluted . The

Minntes of the Meeting held at Sheffield on Wednesday , 2 nd November 1887 , were presented for confirmation , and Comp . John Shaw moved , seconded by Comp . J . R . Fawcett , and resolved , that the minutes be taken as read , and

confirmed . The roll of Eoyal A . rch Chapters was called . The roll of present and past Prov . G . Officers was called . The Grand Superintendent then delivered the following address : — Companions , —When I addressed this Convocation afc Sheffield last November , I had occasion lo mention fcho work going on , by '

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the " Revision Committee , " of the Bye-laws of this Provincial Grand Chapter . I mentioned , that before the Meeting of this Grand Chap . ter in 18 S 8 , these Regulations would bo distributed to the thirtyeight Chapters of fchid Province . You will remember , fche draft of them vvas adopted at Wakefield on the 24 th November 1886 ,

and confirmed at Leeds 30 th Apvrt 18 S 7 , and ordered © ii the 2 nd November last , at Sheffield , to be printed and distributed . This work has been clone . May you to-day feel satisfied with the labours of thia Committee , in that every Chapter is in possession of these valuable Bye-laws , confirmed let July 1887 , by the M . E . First

Graud Principal H . R . H . Albert Edward Prince of Wales , K . G ., & o They are now in perfect harmony with the Revised Regulations of Royal Arch Masons of England , as approved by Supreme Grand Chapter , 3 rd February 1 S 86 . I hope , however , that all Chapters will keep their copies of tlie previous Bye-laws , whioh were approved

by Companion George Fearnley , M . D ., Grand Superintendent , and signed by the Earl of Zetland , Mosfc Excellent First Grand Principal in 1858 . In these present Bye-laws , Convocation is informed that , previous to 1817 , Chapters were nofc attached to any particular Lodge , but worked quite independently , and had

different numbers ; bnt at a General Convocation held on fche 8 th . March 1817 , ifc was enacted " that every Chapter shall be attached to some Warranted Lodge , and the rank and precedence of the several Chapters shall be determined according to the priority of the Lodges to which they may be respectively attached . " For the

first time in the Chapter Bye-Laws of this Province is given a list of Grand Superintendents , from the date of Charles Lee ' s appointment , 31 st July 1854 , to the present occupant of this officemyself—2 nd May 1885 . Next , a List of Chapters in West Yorkshire , on fche Roll of fche Supreme Grand and Royal Chapter , prior to

1814 , from Companion Hughan ' s "Origin , " from which it appears there were then twenty-three Chapters , of whioh seven have become extinct , and one erased in 1809 , therefore we still have fifteen old Chapters iu Wesfc Yorkshire in operation from 1790 to 1888 j and there is also given fche Roll of the fchirty-eighfc ex .

i-fcing Chapters , wifch some historical information about each Chapter valuable to every ono of them . Theso Bye-laws and Regulations of Supreme Grand Chapter are now bound up in one handsome volume , thanks to Prov . Grand Scribe E . j and he , and the Grard ° ¦ ••' •¦ •" '^ nfc 0 f West Yorkshire , now present

this volume fco tbe iiio . ua Onupter for its guidance , for long years to come . The third Bye-Law enacts " that a Provincial Grand Chapter for Wesfc Yorkshire shall be holden on the first Wednesday iu tbe month of May , " and the fifth enjoins that " the Provincial Grand Officers shall be appointed and the Treasnrer elected , at the

Convocation on the first Wednesday in the month of May , " therefore thia is the first Annual Meeting of Royal Arch Masons of this Province under the new Bye-Laws . " We well remember the cordial reception the Craft received here on the 15 th July 1886 , when the corner-stone of the new Ward of the Hospital and Dispensary was

laid , nuder the auspices of the "Phconix Lodge , and the admirable Sermon preached by the Rev . Thos . Cartwright Smyth , D . D ., in the Parish Chnrch , lent to the Craffc on that occasion by the Vicar of Rotherham , the Rev . J . N . Quirk , M . A . A Petition for a Royal Arch Chapter in connection with the " Druidical" Lodge , and

dated 25 th February 1780 , and signed by Josiah Beckwith , John Hassell , and James Sims ,, was sent to the Grand Chapter at York , when a Warrant was issued nnder the seal of the " Grand Lodge of all England , " dated the 6 th Jnly 1780 , to members of the " Druidical" Lodge , at Rotherham , to hold a Royal Arch

Chapter here . The first meeting , recorded in the Minutes of this Chapter , was held on the 21 sfc July 1780 , when Brother Thomas Chambers was admitted T y ler ; and Brother Peter Burnaide gratis to the Cfcupter . The Rev . Brother Matthew Dixon , and Brother William Eastfield Laughton , were advanced to the Degree of

Royal Arch Masons . This Chapter seems to have ended its existence about 1792 , when the Grand Lodge of York itself ceased to exist about this time . Tho next Lodge held in Rotherham was one which had been Warranted 21 st March 1792 , by the parent Grand Lodge of England , in London , and met afc the " White Hart Inn , " East

Retford , under the name of the 'North Nottinghamshire Lodge , No . 587 . Ifc took the name of "Phcenix" in 1804 . This Lodge was removed to Rotherham , and held its first meeting here on Friday , 22 ad July 1808 , afc fche house of Brother Camelly , afc fche " Crown Ion . " Attached to this Lodge was a Royal Arch Chapter , the

Warrant being dated 7 th November 1822 , granted to James Bingham and others , to meet at the "College Inn , " and "to be opened on Sunday , tho 6 th clay of July , by the title of the "Phoenix Chapter . " Thia Chapter had but a brief existence * , and nothing more is known of it . An interregnum again occurs in Masonry , when ,

iu 1861 , a Petition waa presentee ! by Brethren in Rotherham to the " Britannia" Lodge , Sheffield , to found another Craffc Lodge in Rotherham , — " Phconix" Lodge , theuNo . 1206 , vvas consecrated by Brother tho Rev . Dr . Senior , 6 th January 1864 . To thin Lodge was attached Chapter No . 904 , consecrated by Excellent Companion

Ensor Drury P . Z ., 9 th February 1887 , and an able and eloquent address on Royal Arch Masonry was then delivered by him . Our zgulons and excellent Companion J . E . Wordsworth was installed » 3 the first Z ., Companion F . Cleave .-i H ., aud Companion James Jenkin J . Ifc has now twenty-one members . Let me urge upon

our friends and Companions in Rotherham , aa they want the Librarian of this Province to write a hititory of the Craffc in this town , at the confluence of tho rivers Rofchor and the Dunn , tho desirability of their making a gror \ , b effort to recover from oblivion these interesting ancl valuable documentary records

of Freemasonry iu tho past . We thank Companions J . E . Wordsworth , Jcukin , Roome , aud Gibbs , the Committeo of No . 901 , fot .- carrying out the necessary arrangements for tha reception

O ' L Prov . Grand Chapter to-day . 1 wish fco meutioo the progress of thj Masonic Library , afc Wakefield . This idea is being nobly responded to , and valuable Works on Masonic Jnriapradenoo are coming in daily , and are being catalogued b y Companion