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pOLD AND HUNGRY . FIELD LANE REFUGES AND MISSIONS . This cold weather brings great suffering to the very ooor and homeless . The petitions for Coal and Bread Tickets are more than we can supply . OUR REFUGES ARE FULL . WILL YOU HELP US BY A DONATION ( HOWEVER SMALL )? Treasurer— W ' . A . BEVAN , Esq ., 54 , Lombard-st ., E . C . Secretary—PEREGRINE PLATT , Vine-street , Clerkenwell-road , E . C .
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NOW READY . 5 s . 3 d ., POST FREE . TIVT I L I T A R Y ~~ TO D G E S . THE APRON AND THE SWORD , OR FREEMASONRY UNDER ARMS ; BEING AN ACCOUNT OF LODGES IN REGIMENTS AND SHIPS OF WAR , BY ROBERT FREKE GOULD ( Late 31 st Foot , Barrister-at-Law ) , PAST S ENIOR GRAND DEACON OF ENGLAND , Author of " The History of Freemasonry , " and other Works , PUBLISHED BY GALE & POLDEN , LTD ., 2 , AMEN-CORNER , PATERNOSTER ROW , LONDON , E . C , And Supplied by GEORGE KENNING , 16 , GREAT QUEEN-STREET , LONDON , W . C .
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AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE MACNAB MASONIC M . OF A . D . 1722 , EDITED BY BRO . WILLIAM WATSON ( of Leeds ) ;• WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY \; BRO . WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN . I ALSO i Reduced Facsimile of portions of the MS . j' London : GiOROB KINNING , 16 & I ( 5 A . Gt . Queen-sl .
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NEW MASONIC SONG ? ( Patronized by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales ) , i "THE INNER GUARD'S SONG . " Words and Music by Bro . ALBERT GOOLD , l . G . 539 . Sung with Great Success by Bro . D . POWER , 539 . Published by ALBERT GOOLD , Walsall . Specimen Copy , 1 / - net . Profits given to Masonic Charities . GEORGE KENNING , ifi and iCa , GREAT QUEEN STREET , LONDON , W . C .
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GOLDSMID, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT , 7 ( 5 , FINSBURY PAVEMENT , LONDON , E . C . PRICE LIST FREE ON APPLICATION . fe" SPECIAL OFFER . —Every tenth order from readers of the Freemason , a Box of Havana Cigars will be sent FREE .
Ar00908
!tjC^Ss^lS ! ¦ SATURDAY , MARCH 2 , 1901 .
Masonic Notes.
Masonic Notes .
"rand Lodge will hold its regular Quarterly Complication at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday , the instant , but in consequence of the very large e nuance that is expected in respect of the contested Cct 'on for the office of Grand Treasurer for the
Masonic Notes.
ensuing year , the hour of meeting has been fixed for two p . m ., when the minutes of the December meeting , so far as they relate to this matter , will be read and put for confirmation ; after which the candidates will be formally proposed and the voting proceeded with , while the ordinary business will be taken at the usual hour of six p . m . The candidates are Bros . Captain
John Barlow , P . M ., ' and Horace Brooks Marshall , P . M ., as to vvhose . qualifications for the office there never has been and never can be the slightest question . Whichever of the two is elected we know the Grand Treasurershtp for 1901-2 will be worthily filled . Our regret is that some way could not have been found of avoiding a contest .
In the evening the business will include the election of a M . W . Grand Master , who will , in the order of things , be H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , K . G ., M . W . Past Grand Master , who was nominated at the Especial Grand Lodge held on Friday , the 15 th ult ., and will thus succeed his Majesty the King , now Protector of the English Craft .
* * * There will also be considered the Report of the Board of General Purposes , the most important items of which give full information relating to the steps taken by the Central Committee of the South African Masonic" Relief Fund formed in Capetown under Earl Roberts , K . G ., as Honorary President with local Sub-Committees for the distribution of Relief at certain
important centres . The particulars given have been furnished by Bro . George Richards , Dist . G . Master of the Transvaal , in a Report , and afford a clear insight into the steps that have been taken to give effect to the purpose of Grand Lodge in raising the Fund , There are also suggested certain amendments in the law relating to the election of members of the Board .
* * * The number of lodges for which Warrants of Con - stitution have been granted by the M . W . Grand Master since the December Communication is seven . Four of these are located in London , namely , the White Rose of York , No . 2840 ; the Aldersbrook
Lodge , No . 2841 ; the Asylums Board Lodge , No . 2842 ; and the Middlesex Hospital Lodge , No . 2843 , Only one new Provincial Lodge has been sanctioned , which will bear the name and number of the Needles Lodge , No . 2838 , and will meet at Freshwater in the
Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , and there are Warrants for two new lodges in India , of which the Defence Lodge , No . 2839 , will meet at Calcutta in the District of Bengal ; and the Grey Lodge , No . 2844 , which will meet at Dharmsala , in the District of the Punjab .
* » * The regular Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons will be held at Mark Masons' Hall , on Tuesday , the 5 th instant , when early in the course of the Proceedings , Grand Lodge will be invited to express its humble and grateful thanks to his Majesty the King , lately M . W . Grand
Mark Master , for his gracious intimation that he will be pleased to assume the position and title of Patron of the Mark Degree . Subsequently , H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , K . G ., who graciously sanctioned his being put in nomination for the office at the especial meeting on Tuesday , the 19 th ult , will be elected M . W . G . M . M . in succession to his Majesty .
•* From the Report of the General Board which will be submitted , it appears that warrants for three new Mark Lodges have been granted since the December Grand Lodge , all three of which will be located in the North of England , namely , the Dartmouth Lodge , No . 545 ,
at Slaithwaite , in the Province of West Yorkshire ; and the Hartford Lodge , No . 546 , and the Blagdon Lodge , No . 547 , at Bedlington and Blyth-on-Tyne respectively , in the Province of Northumberland and Durham . The number of Mark certificates issued during
the quarter to the 31 st December , 1 9 , was 446 , raising the total of Registered M . M . Masons to 42 , 446 , while the Royal Ark Mariner certificates issued during the same period were 9 8 , making the total registered 6435 .
* * * Under the head of the Fund of Benevolence , it is announced that Bro . Alderman and Lieut .-Col . Clifford Probyn , Past Grand Treasurer , has very
kindly promised to preside as Chairman at the 33 rd Anniversary Festival in behalf of the Mark Ben evolent Fund , which will be held at the Freemasons' Tavern on Wednesday , the ioth July . We trust the meeting under Bro . Probyn ' s auspices will prove a success .
Masonic Notes.
We warmly congratulate the governing bodies and Secretaries , and more especially the Educational Staffs of our two Scholastic Institutions , on the very creditable success achieved by the children under their charge at the different public examinations for which
they were entered last year . These successes , though they have been from time to time greater or less accord ing to circumstances , have been uninterrupted for many years past , so that the record has now become a series of formidable lists in which tbe honours and
distinctions that have been additionally awarded make quite a brave show . As both these Institutions are looking forward to their anniversary Festival , those brethren who have already undertaken or intend enrolling themselves as Stewards will find this latest evidence of the value of the educational train ing the
strongest and most impressive argument they can employ when engaged in the business of canvassing for subscriptions . People are always more generous in giving when they have the assurance that their donations or subscriptions are turned to good account .
••* As regards the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , 51 of the elder children were entered for the Cambridge Middle-Class Examinations in December last , and 50 of the youngerfor the College of Preceptors . Of the former
four went in for the Senior Division , and all passedtwo with Honours . For the Junior Division 25 were entered , and 24 passed , three of them with Honours and " Distinction , " while 22 entered for the Preliminary Examination , and 21 passed , Honours and "
Distinction " being awarded to four of them . For the College of Preceptors' Examinations , 47 out of the 50 passed , as many as 29 " Distinctions " being awarded . Thus of 101 entered for the two Examinations , 96 passed . This is a result which reflects the greatest credit upon Miss Hutchinson and her staff .
* * In the case of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys as many as 75 were entered for the Cambridge Middle-Class Examinations in December last , namely , five for the Senior Division ; 40 for the Junior
Division ; and 35 for the Preliminary Examination . Al ] the five Seniors passed , three being awarded Third Class Honours , with three Distinctions . Of the 40 Juniors , one boy took First Class Honours in the First Division , and two First Class Honours , Second
Division ; four , Second Class Honours with two distinctions ; eight , Third Class Honours with one distinction , and the remaining 25 satisfied the examiners . For the Preliminary , 31 passed out of the 35 entered , two being placed in the Second Class with one distinction , three in the Third Class with one distinction
and 26 receiving certificates . It should be added that only four out of the whole 75 failed , and these were for the Preliminary , while the boy so highly distinguished by taking First Honours in the Juniors was under 15 years of age . We congratulate the Head Master , the Board of Management , and the Secretar on the result .
« * * We have much pleasure in announcing that the Festival which was to have been held last year in behalf of the East Lancashire Systematic Masonic Educational and Benevolent Institution will take
place on some date , as yet to be fixed , in the coming spring or summer . We shall have occasion to revert to the matter in connection with the Annual Report of the Institution , which has reached us during the last few days .
••* At the recent half-yearly Communication of the District G . Mark Lodge of Bengal , which was held at Benares on the 22 nd September last , Bro . the Hon . Mr .: Justice Burkitt , who presided , referred , in the
course of his address , to the great loss which the-Mark Degree in the District had sustained by the death of Bro . Adam Paxton , who had done signal service as Dep . Dist . Grand Master from 18 95 to 18 99 . Bro , Paxton's connection with the Mark dated from 18 77
when he was advanced on the day the Lebanon Mark Lodge , No . 207 , Allahabad , was consecrated , and was at once appointed Junior Overseer . Subsequently he was appointed District G . Registrar in 1878 , District G . M . O . in 1880 , District S . G . W . in 1882 , and as Dep .
Dist . G . M ., as already mentioned , from 1895 to 1899 . The tribute paid by the Dist . G . M . M . to our deceased brother was listened to with marked appreciation b y the brethren present , and we feel sure the memory of the services of the late Bro . Paxton will be worthily cherished throughout the District .
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Ad00903
pOLD AND HUNGRY . FIELD LANE REFUGES AND MISSIONS . This cold weather brings great suffering to the very ooor and homeless . The petitions for Coal and Bread Tickets are more than we can supply . OUR REFUGES ARE FULL . WILL YOU HELP US BY A DONATION ( HOWEVER SMALL )? Treasurer— W ' . A . BEVAN , Esq ., 54 , Lombard-st ., E . C . Secretary—PEREGRINE PLATT , Vine-street , Clerkenwell-road , E . C .
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NOW READY . 5 s . 3 d ., POST FREE . TIVT I L I T A R Y ~~ TO D G E S . THE APRON AND THE SWORD , OR FREEMASONRY UNDER ARMS ; BEING AN ACCOUNT OF LODGES IN REGIMENTS AND SHIPS OF WAR , BY ROBERT FREKE GOULD ( Late 31 st Foot , Barrister-at-Law ) , PAST S ENIOR GRAND DEACON OF ENGLAND , Author of " The History of Freemasonry , " and other Works , PUBLISHED BY GALE & POLDEN , LTD ., 2 , AMEN-CORNER , PATERNOSTER ROW , LONDON , E . C , And Supplied by GEORGE KENNING , 16 , GREAT QUEEN-STREET , LONDON , W . C .
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AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE MACNAB MASONIC M . OF A . D . 1722 , EDITED BY BRO . WILLIAM WATSON ( of Leeds ) ;• WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY \; BRO . WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN . I ALSO i Reduced Facsimile of portions of the MS . j' London : GiOROB KINNING , 16 & I ( 5 A . Gt . Queen-sl .
Ad00906
NEW MASONIC SONG ? ( Patronized by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales ) , i "THE INNER GUARD'S SONG . " Words and Music by Bro . ALBERT GOOLD , l . G . 539 . Sung with Great Success by Bro . D . POWER , 539 . Published by ALBERT GOOLD , Walsall . Specimen Copy , 1 / - net . Profits given to Masonic Charities . GEORGE KENNING , ifi and iCa , GREAT QUEEN STREET , LONDON , W . C .
Ad00907
GOLDSMID, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT , 7 ( 5 , FINSBURY PAVEMENT , LONDON , E . C . PRICE LIST FREE ON APPLICATION . fe" SPECIAL OFFER . —Every tenth order from readers of the Freemason , a Box of Havana Cigars will be sent FREE .
Ar00908
!tjC^Ss^lS ! ¦ SATURDAY , MARCH 2 , 1901 .
Masonic Notes.
Masonic Notes .
"rand Lodge will hold its regular Quarterly Complication at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday , the instant , but in consequence of the very large e nuance that is expected in respect of the contested Cct 'on for the office of Grand Treasurer for the
Masonic Notes.
ensuing year , the hour of meeting has been fixed for two p . m ., when the minutes of the December meeting , so far as they relate to this matter , will be read and put for confirmation ; after which the candidates will be formally proposed and the voting proceeded with , while the ordinary business will be taken at the usual hour of six p . m . The candidates are Bros . Captain
John Barlow , P . M ., ' and Horace Brooks Marshall , P . M ., as to vvhose . qualifications for the office there never has been and never can be the slightest question . Whichever of the two is elected we know the Grand Treasurershtp for 1901-2 will be worthily filled . Our regret is that some way could not have been found of avoiding a contest .
In the evening the business will include the election of a M . W . Grand Master , who will , in the order of things , be H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , K . G ., M . W . Past Grand Master , who was nominated at the Especial Grand Lodge held on Friday , the 15 th ult ., and will thus succeed his Majesty the King , now Protector of the English Craft .
* * * There will also be considered the Report of the Board of General Purposes , the most important items of which give full information relating to the steps taken by the Central Committee of the South African Masonic" Relief Fund formed in Capetown under Earl Roberts , K . G ., as Honorary President with local Sub-Committees for the distribution of Relief at certain
important centres . The particulars given have been furnished by Bro . George Richards , Dist . G . Master of the Transvaal , in a Report , and afford a clear insight into the steps that have been taken to give effect to the purpose of Grand Lodge in raising the Fund , There are also suggested certain amendments in the law relating to the election of members of the Board .
* * * The number of lodges for which Warrants of Con - stitution have been granted by the M . W . Grand Master since the December Communication is seven . Four of these are located in London , namely , the White Rose of York , No . 2840 ; the Aldersbrook
Lodge , No . 2841 ; the Asylums Board Lodge , No . 2842 ; and the Middlesex Hospital Lodge , No . 2843 , Only one new Provincial Lodge has been sanctioned , which will bear the name and number of the Needles Lodge , No . 2838 , and will meet at Freshwater in the
Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , and there are Warrants for two new lodges in India , of which the Defence Lodge , No . 2839 , will meet at Calcutta in the District of Bengal ; and the Grey Lodge , No . 2844 , which will meet at Dharmsala , in the District of the Punjab .
* » * The regular Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons will be held at Mark Masons' Hall , on Tuesday , the 5 th instant , when early in the course of the Proceedings , Grand Lodge will be invited to express its humble and grateful thanks to his Majesty the King , lately M . W . Grand
Mark Master , for his gracious intimation that he will be pleased to assume the position and title of Patron of the Mark Degree . Subsequently , H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , K . G ., who graciously sanctioned his being put in nomination for the office at the especial meeting on Tuesday , the 19 th ult , will be elected M . W . G . M . M . in succession to his Majesty .
•* From the Report of the General Board which will be submitted , it appears that warrants for three new Mark Lodges have been granted since the December Grand Lodge , all three of which will be located in the North of England , namely , the Dartmouth Lodge , No . 545 ,
at Slaithwaite , in the Province of West Yorkshire ; and the Hartford Lodge , No . 546 , and the Blagdon Lodge , No . 547 , at Bedlington and Blyth-on-Tyne respectively , in the Province of Northumberland and Durham . The number of Mark certificates issued during
the quarter to the 31 st December , 1 9 , was 446 , raising the total of Registered M . M . Masons to 42 , 446 , while the Royal Ark Mariner certificates issued during the same period were 9 8 , making the total registered 6435 .
* * * Under the head of the Fund of Benevolence , it is announced that Bro . Alderman and Lieut .-Col . Clifford Probyn , Past Grand Treasurer , has very
kindly promised to preside as Chairman at the 33 rd Anniversary Festival in behalf of the Mark Ben evolent Fund , which will be held at the Freemasons' Tavern on Wednesday , the ioth July . We trust the meeting under Bro . Probyn ' s auspices will prove a success .
Masonic Notes.
We warmly congratulate the governing bodies and Secretaries , and more especially the Educational Staffs of our two Scholastic Institutions , on the very creditable success achieved by the children under their charge at the different public examinations for which
they were entered last year . These successes , though they have been from time to time greater or less accord ing to circumstances , have been uninterrupted for many years past , so that the record has now become a series of formidable lists in which tbe honours and
distinctions that have been additionally awarded make quite a brave show . As both these Institutions are looking forward to their anniversary Festival , those brethren who have already undertaken or intend enrolling themselves as Stewards will find this latest evidence of the value of the educational train ing the
strongest and most impressive argument they can employ when engaged in the business of canvassing for subscriptions . People are always more generous in giving when they have the assurance that their donations or subscriptions are turned to good account .
••* As regards the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , 51 of the elder children were entered for the Cambridge Middle-Class Examinations in December last , and 50 of the youngerfor the College of Preceptors . Of the former
four went in for the Senior Division , and all passedtwo with Honours . For the Junior Division 25 were entered , and 24 passed , three of them with Honours and " Distinction , " while 22 entered for the Preliminary Examination , and 21 passed , Honours and "
Distinction " being awarded to four of them . For the College of Preceptors' Examinations , 47 out of the 50 passed , as many as 29 " Distinctions " being awarded . Thus of 101 entered for the two Examinations , 96 passed . This is a result which reflects the greatest credit upon Miss Hutchinson and her staff .
* * In the case of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys as many as 75 were entered for the Cambridge Middle-Class Examinations in December last , namely , five for the Senior Division ; 40 for the Junior
Division ; and 35 for the Preliminary Examination . Al ] the five Seniors passed , three being awarded Third Class Honours , with three Distinctions . Of the 40 Juniors , one boy took First Class Honours in the First Division , and two First Class Honours , Second
Division ; four , Second Class Honours with two distinctions ; eight , Third Class Honours with one distinction , and the remaining 25 satisfied the examiners . For the Preliminary , 31 passed out of the 35 entered , two being placed in the Second Class with one distinction , three in the Third Class with one distinction
and 26 receiving certificates . It should be added that only four out of the whole 75 failed , and these were for the Preliminary , while the boy so highly distinguished by taking First Honours in the Juniors was under 15 years of age . We congratulate the Head Master , the Board of Management , and the Secretar on the result .
« * * We have much pleasure in announcing that the Festival which was to have been held last year in behalf of the East Lancashire Systematic Masonic Educational and Benevolent Institution will take
place on some date , as yet to be fixed , in the coming spring or summer . We shall have occasion to revert to the matter in connection with the Annual Report of the Institution , which has reached us during the last few days .
••* At the recent half-yearly Communication of the District G . Mark Lodge of Bengal , which was held at Benares on the 22 nd September last , Bro . the Hon . Mr .: Justice Burkitt , who presided , referred , in the
course of his address , to the great loss which the-Mark Degree in the District had sustained by the death of Bro . Adam Paxton , who had done signal service as Dep . Dist . Grand Master from 18 95 to 18 99 . Bro , Paxton's connection with the Mark dated from 18 77
when he was advanced on the day the Lebanon Mark Lodge , No . 207 , Allahabad , was consecrated , and was at once appointed Junior Overseer . Subsequently he was appointed District G . Registrar in 1878 , District G . M . O . in 1880 , District S . G . W . in 1882 , and as Dep .
Dist . G . M ., as already mentioned , from 1895 to 1899 . The tribute paid by the Dist . G . M . M . to our deceased brother was listened to with marked appreciation b y the brethren present , and we feel sure the memory of the services of the late Bro . Paxton will be worthily cherished throughout the District .