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f ^^^^^^ a SATUEDAY , 22 ND JULY 1899 .

A New Chapter.

A NEW CHAPTER .

AN event of considerable importance and interest took place last month at Colwyn Bay , when Comp . the Hon . Alan de Tatton Egerton , M . P ., Grand Superintendent of the Province consecrated the Conovium Chapter , No . 2569 , in connection with the flourishing Lodge of St . Trillo . The ceremony was attended by a large number of members of the Degree .

After the election of a committee to frame bye-laws and the receipt of propositions for joining and exaltation , the company attended a banquet at the Imperial Hotel , the usual toasts being duly honoured .

Out of a list of eighty candidates Bro . W . J . Kipps , F . R . C . O ., P . M . Chislehurst Lodge , No . 1531 , has been appointed organist and choirmaster of St .

Martins-in-the-Fields . Bro . Sir George Martin acted as umpire . Bro . Kipps has for some years been organist and director of the choir of St . Mark's , Lewisham , a church well-known in the south-east district for its beautiful musical services . ¦ ¦ ¦<

Bro . Thomas Tindal , of Longton , was the recipient of a gratifying presentation on the occasion of his marriage , which recently took place . Bro . Tindal , who is S . D . of the Etruscan Lodge , and has also filled the office of Secretary , has on several occasions been of signal service to the Lodge ,

and his fellow members , to mark their appreciation , took the occasion to present him with a case of cutlery and silver table-plate , enclosed in a handsome walnut case , with suitable inscription . The presentation was made at an

informal meeting of the Lodge on Monday evening , iothinst , by the Worshipful Master Bro . T . I . Cope , -in the presence of a large assembly of members , which included sixteen Past Masters .

A New Chapter.

' """' . With picturesque ceremonial the freedom of the City was conferred on Bro . J . Henniker Heaton , M . P ., at the Guildhall , on Thursday , in the presence of the Lord Mayor . The Aldermen and the Sheriffs attended in their crimson robes , and the Common Councilmen in their mazarine gowns .

The ceremony was performed by the venerable Chamberlain ( Sir Richmond Cotton ) , who reminded the recipient of the dignity that a similar honour was bestowed just twenty years ago upon Sir Rowland HiU , in acknowledgment of the social and commercial benefits the country had derived from the

adoption , in 1840 , of the penny postage in the United Kingdom . The Chamberlain , having spoken in eloquent terms of Bro . Henniker Heaton's labours in the cause of Imperial penny postage , offered him the right hand of fellowship , and at the same time presented him with a

handsome casket , which contained the scroll of the Freedom . In acknowledging the honour , Bro . Henniker Heaton said if all who had laboured with him were to be rewarded , it

would , to use Lord Macaulay ' s phrase , rain gold boxes , as all the editors in the Kingdom , the Colonies , and India , numbering many thousands of gentlemen , would have to be summoned to Guildhall to sign the roll .

Quick, Masons.

QUICK , MASONS .

IN reference to a request for a dispensation to confer the three degrees in one evening upon a candidate about to leave for China , the Grand Master of Quebec remarked : " It sometimes occurs to me that those who have contrived to live all their past

lives among us -without indulging any extraordinary desire for a knowledge of our science , or any special wish to be serviceable to those who have surrounded them here , can well afford , when about to leave us for pastures new , to wait just a little longer for a knowledge of our mysteries . "

Commenting on the above , Bro . Bim F . Price , in the " Memphis Appeal , " says : " These are our sentiments exactly , and remind us very much of a life-long sinner who has given the best energies of his life to the devil , but , when broken in health and run down by age , and knows that he mnst soon pass away , concludes that he will give the ' huskings of his life , ' as it were ,

to his God . His life has burned to the socket , and , like a tallow dip that is spluttering and spitting in its last throes of existence , he concludes to offer the flickering embers as a ransom for his soul . So also- with him who never sees any beauty in Masonry until he is about to depart for foreign countries , or take on some hazardous enterprise ; then , suddenly , he is reminded that

Masonry might help him over rough places , and forthwith petitions , ' provided he can get the degrees instanter . ' We have as little faith in this kind of Masonry as we have in tail-end religion , and we do not think that any Grand Master should ever use the prerogative of a dispensation to make this kind of Mason . — « ' Masonic Sun . "

If you have been admitted to membership in a Masouic Lodge abandon selfishness ; cast it off with the dust you stamp from your feet at the door ; leave it outside , do uot carry it into ' the Lodge room . Believe as Moses believed , when told by the angles to " put off thy shoes from off thy feet , for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground " —holy because it was a

spot where the highest attributes were present—believe that the Lodge room is a place the divine attributes of charity of brotherhood have hallowed and carry not into it any of the baser passions . Within the Lodge room should be love , peace , joy , benevolence , brotherhood—all the beauties of fraternal affection . Where these prevail in a Lodge there is prosperity . — " Canadian Craftsman . "

Masonic Pic-Nic.

MASONIC PIC-NIC .

ON' Thursday , 6 th inst ., the members of the Brownlow Lodge , No . 2131 , entertained their wives and immediate relatives to a pic-nic at Chester . The Oswestry contingent journeyed in a saloon by the 11 . 40 a . m . train to Ellesmere , where they were joined by their lillesmere friends . On arriving at Chester luncheon was partaken of at Messrs . Holland ' s , after which a private steam-launch was engaged and a pleasant trip taken , up the river to Eaton

Hall . After a leisurely stroll through the park , the state rooms and the gardens were subsequently visited . On returning to the ferry the party found tea provided , and when this was concluded the launch was again invaded , and a delightful evening's journey back to Chester was enjoyed . The pleasures were greatly enhanced by tho strains of sweet music proceeding from a string band which accompanied the boat both ways . The party left Chester station shortly before nine , and returned to Ellesmere and Oswestry after experiencing a very enjoyable day ' s excursion .

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