Sussex.

the town of Worthing , which , having gone throngh a period of great distress , is now showing si ^ ns of a return to prosperity , which will I trust be rapid and satisfactory . The returns do not exhibit a large increase in the number of members , but steady progress has been made . I do

not want the Lodges to be anxious to receive any but those who express a desire to join , and are likely to prove worthy . The number of initiates has been quite satisfactory . I am glad to find that the alterations in the Bye-laws providing for four meetings during the year

of the Board of Finance and of General Purposes , has had good results . I quite agree that the books signed by the Members should not be available for use of the Press . I sympathise with those who object to the . publication of names so freely , and fully endorse the

precept ; at the same time I think it is a question which must be left to the good taste of the various Masters , and do not feel that I should exercise my authority by actually prohibiting any particulars of the proceedings from being published . The Eeport of the Provincial

Grand Lodge Charities Committee is most satisfactory , and must be a source of considerable congratulation to . the Secretary Bro . J . M . Eeed whose enthusiastic efforts in the cause of the Masonic Institutions are so highly appreciated . The amount subscribed is very large in

comparison with the number of the members , and more especially so when I am told that the amount is arrived at much more by the renewal of old subscribers than by

the receipts from new ones . I know that many young Masons are brought into the list every year , but I should like to see a still further addition to the number of those who take a monetary interest in those remarkable and valuable Institutions . I am informed that a Masonic

Club for the Province of Sussex has now been started in Brighton . I sincerely trust it will prove a means of uniting the Brethren of the various Lodges in daily intercourse and strengthen those bonds which should bind the Craft .

Bro . J . M . Eeed was unanimously re-elected Prov . Grand Treasurer , and then the Provincial Grand Master

appointed and invested his Officers for the ensuing year , as follow : — Bro . W . E . Morrison - Senior Warden J . Ewart - Junior Warden Rev . P . Crick - - - ) r . u „ . - „

Rev . R . Wood Loosomore - J * J . M . Reed - - - Treasurer W . Carless - - - Registrar V . P . Freeman - - - Secretary C . E . Saunders - - - ) Senior Deacons R . L . Thornton

-R . Piper - - - - \ Junior Deacons H . Pearce - - - - G . C . Vernon Inkpen - - Superintendent of Wks , E . Histed - - - - Director of Ceremonies J . H . Longman - - - Deputy Dir . of Cers . A . * R \ T , n . Tnfit , t-. f > . - - Assistant Dir . of Cers .

R . Weston - - - Sword Bearer F . C . Edwards - - - 1 standard Bearers J . Creighton - - - ) W . C . Newsam - - - Organist B . Burfield - - - Assistant Secretary C . J . King - - - Pursuivant W . Hosken - - - Assistant Pursuivant

Smith Stone - - - \ J . N . Masters w * £ ^ hatford " ' * I Stewards W . E . Raper - - - f J . Wood - R . P . Clowes - - - I

.-I . The Lodge was then closed in due form . •¦ " A word of praise , says our contemporary , is due to the Stewards . Bros . G . C . Vernon Inkpen , E . Histed , E .

Piper , H . Pearce , and W . Carless , for their admirable arrangements . Necessarily the burden of the work fell upon Brother E . Piper , ex-Mayor of Worthing , who , in conjunction with the Mayor and the Brethren of the Worthing ; Lodge of Friendship , had laboured with energy

and zeal to make the visit of H . B . H . a success , and it is gratifying to record that their united efforts proved triumphant . .

Alderney And Guernsey.

ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY .

rriHE first ineeting of this newly formed Provincial vl' ^ ' , % ^ g ^^ % i' ^^^ % ^\ ^ - ' . in the Masonic Temple atyGuernsey . v AlHne / Officers ^ with " a' larue ^ andre pr ^ sehtati ^ o nuhiber of the-M ^ ste ' rS , ' .. ) ;;¦ ' (¦ . ' ai -. Ml i > a -tk' .-,- ^ --.- . , ' )¦( . ) - ' - ¦ : ' :- - -V . ' . •¦ \! . ¦' . i '' i ' . } . \ " , ' ¦' •¦>* : ' ¦ >! . { fife

Alderney And Guernsey.

Past Masters and Wardens of Lodges 168 , 84 , 243 , and 1809 . Alderney had only one P . M . present . The occasion was devoted to the discussion of the Bye-laws which are to govern the Province , and as there

has been great and influential opposition to the formation of a Provincial Grand Lodge in the Island the meeting was regarded as a test of the strength of the contending parties . This , no doubt , brought together the large number assembled .

The sequel proved that the Petitioners against a Provincial Grand Lodge were in the majority , as they carried all their proposals for amending the proposed

Bye-laws ( prepared and proposed by the Committee ) ,

and vetoed the taxing of the Lodges to form a local fund . The discussion was at times very animated , but carried on in a thoroughly good temper and tone .

If this , the first meeting of the Province , is to be

taken as a specimen of others to follow , the Provincial Grand Master will scarcely consider his position an enviable one ; he certainly does not seem to lie on a " bed of roses . "

The office of Deputy Grand Master of the Isle of Man ,

vacant by the resignation of Bro . T . H . Nesbitt , town clerk of Douglas , has been offered by the Provincial Grand Master ( Major Goldie Taubman , Speaker of the

House of Keys ) to and has been accepted by Bro . J . A .

Brown of Woodlands , who held the position for some time previous to 1890 . Alderman Botting , J . P ., the new Mayor of Brighton , has made his mark in Sussex Freemasonry , having been

W . M . of Eoyal Brunswick Lodge in 1887 , M . E . Z . of the Eoyal Sussex Chapter in 1892 , and Provincial Grand Superintendent of Works ( Sussex ) in 1890 . Beyond this he has also made a name for himself in many other quarters .

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