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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 2 , 18 95 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter will be held at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday next , the 6 th inst ., but there is no business of any special importance to be dealt with . We notice that

Masonic Notes.

warrants for three new chapters have been issued since the August convocation , of which two are to be located in the Provinces of Hertfordshire and Surrey and one in the District of the Eastern Division of South Africa . The Royal Albert Edward Chapter , No . 13 62 , Redhill , will raise the number of chapters in

Surrey to 18 , while the Broxbourne Chapter , No . 2353 , New Barnet , will be the eighth on the roll of the Provincial Grand Chapter of Hertfordshire . The Grahamstown Chapter , to be attached to the Albany Lodge , No . 389 , Grahamstown , will raise the chapters in the East Division of South Africa to 11 .

* * * Some few years ago the question of establishing a Grand Lodge of South Africa was mooted , and occasionally we heard or read of steps being taken in favour of the movement , while at the same time we learned that a very strong and active opposition was

being promoted with a view to preventing what many , we believe , are inclined to consider would be a dire calamity to the Craft in Cape Colony and the adjoining territories . Last week we had the opportunity of publishing a letter from Bro . Dr . Wirgman , the present District Junior Grand Warden of the Eastern

Division of South Africa , and a brother of great influence in the Colony , and from that letter our readers have already learned that whatever may have been at any time the chances of such a project being realised , the question of establishing a Grand lodge for the

whole of South Africa has been fully and fairly considered and debated , and that "a vast majority of South African Freemasons , acting through their duly accredited representatives , " has deliberately rejected the proposal .

» » So far those brethren who are of opinion that the brethren of the different Constitutions , who have worked side by side together for a long term of years , may without serious difficulty—maintain amongst themselves the same cordial relations for a further and

still longer term of years , have triumphed , while the schemes of those who can see no good in anything outside a centralised supreme authority have fallen through . The Dutch lodges , the oldest of which dates from 1772 , work with the English and Scottish lodges which have been introduced into South Africa since the Cape became a British possession , in the manner we

have described . . > They visit each other continually , they take part in the same ceremonies , when Masonry emerges from its privacy , and consents to do some act in public or of public utility—and the more they meet and work together , the stronger becomes their mutual esteem and respect . In short , their relations are of such a character that it would be a sin amounting almost to a crime to disturb them .

Happily , this is not a case in which only English , Irish , and Scotch lodges are concerned . These work under the Grand Lodges of the United Kingdom , and the rabid Masonic innovator who believes that not only will a local Grand Lodge prove an effectual remedy for every Masonic ill , but that when once it has been set

up , no ill can ever arise , looks upon them as his legitimate prey , to disturb and set by the ears in furtherance of his own paltry personal ambitions . Here in South Africa there are Dutch , as well as English and Scotch , lodges , and the former , as Bro . Wirgman points out , have " certain peculiarities of working under the

Netherlands Constitution which our BB . of that Constitution would never surrender . " There is , as he says , no bilengual difficulty , as the Dutch lodges work in the English language , but there is a difficulty in conceiving that such sturdy upholders of the " ancient

ways , " as notoriously are the Dutch , would ever surrender their own special peculiarities of system . However , there is little likelihood of their being called upon to do anything of the kind while the present state of things in South African Masonry continues .

» We call the attention of our readers to the letter which appears in our correspondence columns from Bro . John Lane on the matter in dispute relating to the Lodge of Friendship , No . 44 , Manchester . Bro . Lane , to use a familiar phrase , produces chapter and verse for the conclusions at which he has arrived as to

its not being the direct descendant of the " Ancient " Lodge , No . 39 of 17 SS constitution . Those who read the letter carefully will see that he has not adopted his opinions hastily , but has worked them out stage by stage from the beginning . This , at all events , is more than can be said of some of those who are falling foul of him for having had the hardihood to question the records .