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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 2 , 1901 .

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The Quarterly convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter will be held at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday , the 6 th instant . The piper of Agenda is , as usual , not a very formidable one , the principal item being the Report of the General Committee . The

number of new chapters for which warrants are recommended is two , of which one will be attached to the Slanica Lodge , No . 2678 , and meet at Umtali , in

Rhodesia ( South Africa ) , and the other to the Staines Lodge , No . 2536 , and meet at the Town Hall , Staines , in the Province of Middlesex . We wish every success to both these new chapters .

? # * We have ken reqursted to state that Thursday , the 28 th instant , is the latest day by which Petition ^ for the April Election , 1902 , must reach the office of the Royal

Masonic Institution for Girls—5 , Freemasons' Hall , W . C . It ii hardly necessary for us to add , however , that it is very desirable they should be received as early as possible before that date .

We are indebted to the courtesy of Bro . William Watson , P . Prov . G . Warden , Honorary Librarian , West Yorkshire , for a copy of one of his Library Reprints , which has been just issued to the lodges and

brethren that subsrribe to the West Yorkshire Reprint Fund . It is a neat pamphlet of some 20 and odd Pages , and we trust will have the effect which the late Bro . Tew , Prov . G . M ., had so much at heart when he established the West Yorkshire Prov . Grand Lodge

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Library—which Bro . Watson himself has done so much to promote—namely , the dissemination among the brethren of useful Masonic knowledge . V * V The Reprints in this pamphlet are four in number , and comprise ( 1 ) the Account of Freemasonry , given

by Dr . Plot in his " Natural History of Staffordshire , " published at Oxford in 1686 ; ( 2 ) the Oldest known Lodge Minute , A . D . 1599 , being a reproduction in photo-facsimile and a reprint in modern lype of first minute dated " Vltimo Julij , 1599 " of the Lodge

of Edinburgh ( Mary's Chapel ) , No . r ; ( 3 ) a Portrait of Anthony Sayer , first Grand Mister , A . D . 1717 , with such details as are obtainable of his career as a Mason ; to which is added a complete list of the Grand Masters of England—including those of the "Ancient "

or"Atholl" Masons , and of the Grand Lodge of All England at York , between 1717 and 1901 ; and ( 4 ) , a reduced photo-facsimile of the Enter'd Apprentices Song , by Matthew Birkhead , as published in the First Book of Constitutions , compiled by Anderson and issued under the authority of the Grand Lodge in

1723 . There is no need to enlarge upon the value of such Reprints as these among Masonic students who are familiar with the contents , while for the benefit of those who are not , Bro . Watson has laid us under further obligation by adding such particulars as are necessary . # # #

But the Reprints and particulars relating to them as furnished by Bro . Watson by no means exhaust the contents of the pamphlet ; as Bro . H . G . E . Green , P . G . S . B ., Prov . G . Sec , has furnished a series of

valuable contributions which give , in brief , all the leading particulars of our Central Scholastic and Benevolent Institutions , the Charity jewel , and the West Yorkshire Benevolent and Educational Fund founded in 1 S 97 , and administered by the Charity

Committee of the Province . Thus Bro . Watson ' s pamphlet is doubly useful—for what it contains relating to the past ; and for the information it furnishes respecting our Central and the West Yorkshire Charitable Institutions .

* * * A special meeting of the Prov . G . Lodge of Shropshire was held at Oswestry on Thursday , the 17 th ult ., under the presidency of Bro . Sir Offley Wakeman , Bart ., P . G . M ., and when the preliminary arrangements

had been carried out , the brethren formed in procession and marched to the site of the new Masonic Hall which is about to be erected , and the Prov . G . Master , in due and ancient form , laid the foundation stone jf the proposed building , of which Bro . W . H .

Spaull , P . A . G . D . C , Prov . G . Secretary , has prepared the plans , and which is estimated to cost about ^ , ' 2000 . The ceremony was carried out most successfully , and was followed by a luncheon at the Wynnstay Hotel . A full report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere . ••*

We are glad to find from the . letter we have been favoured with by Bro . F . Craggs , P . M . 834 , that Bro . Percy Fitzgerald ' s proposal for the establishment of district voting Associations in London has been anticipated in the Western section , where for some time

past there has been a " West London Masonic Election Association , " which meets on stated days at the Town Hall Tavern , High-street , Kensington , and since its establishment has lent valuable aid in securing the election of some 20 candidates for our Institutions .

Bro . Craggs informs us that there is a similar organisation in the South of London , so that it only remains for the voting strength of the Northern a nd Eastern sections to be organised on the same lines , and for a central club to regulate and direct the efforts of the districts ,

and Bro . Fitzgerald's scheme is complete . Something certainly ought to be done , if only to prevent a repetition of the failure which att ended the efforts of the London voters to secure the success of even one of their candidates at the Boys' School election on the nth ult .

# » # We have pleasure in acknowledging receipt of copy of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge at its regular communication held at the Masonic Hall , Ootacamund , on the 31 st August . His

Excellency Lord Ampthill , G . C . I . E ., District Grand Master , presided , and there appears to have been a fair attendance of District Grand Officers and members of the lodges . Some of the lodges seem to have failed in sending in their returns , but as far as it was possible to

judge there had been an increasu in numbers as compared with the previous half year . Reference was made to the defalcations of the late District Grand Treasurer who had been in ollice for several years and had commenced his misappropriations almost from the

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outset of his official career . The District Grand Master before the meeting separated delivered an admirable address , in the course of which he referred to the misconduct ol their late Treasurer as imposing

upon lodges and brethren the necessity for exercising the greatest care in the acceptance of candidates pointing out that it was not numbers but character , to which lodges should attach importance in recruiting their ranks .

* * * The annual meeting of the Prov . G . Chapter ol Hertfordshire was held at St . Alb ins on Wednesday , the 23 rd ult , under the presidency of Comp . F . S . Knyvett , Past G . S . B ., Prov . G . H ., as Grand Super

intendent . We regret to state that Comp . the Right Hon . T . F . Halsey , M . P ., the G . Superintendent , was unable , owing to indisposition , to be present , and so likewise was Comp . the Rev . Dr . O . C . Cockrem , the Prov . G . Scribe E . There was , however , a fair

attendance , and the meeting passed off well . Comp . W . Metcalfe , No . 2372 , who is already Craft Prov . G . Treasurer , was elected to the same office in Prov . G . Chapter , and the other officers were appointed and invested . A majority of those present afterwards dined together .

* * * We regret that we find ourselves compelled to hold over till next week several interesting and important reports , among them being those of the meetings of the Prov . Grand Chapters of

Warwickshire and Staffordshire on Monday , the 28 th , and Tuesday , the 22 nd ult ., respectively ; of the Prov . Grand Mark Lodge of Somersetshire , on Thursday , the 24 th ult . ; the laying the corner-. tone of a Misonic Hall at Colchester , with full Masonic ceremonial , by

Bro . C . E . Egerton-Graen , P . Prov . G . W . Essex , Mayor of the town , on Thurdiy , the 24 th ult ., and other valuable items . We trust that our several corespondents who have so kindly sent us these accounts will excuse a delay which is unavoidable .

The Keystone of Philadelphia for the 28 th September contains an instalment of the account " of Bro . Col . Daniel Coxe , Father of Freemasonry in America , ' ' from which we learn many interesting particulars relating to the private affairs and public doings of the distinguished brother to whom in 1730 was issued the

first Deputation as a Provincial Grand Master , in whit were then ihe British Colonies in North America . It is needless to say that one of the objects—if not the one object—in publishing this account appears to be to bring once again prominently before the Masonic public in the States the claims of Philadelphia to be the mother city of Masanry in the U . S . A .

We learn from the American Tyler of the Ist October that a Committee of the Grand Lodge of Missouri has recently issued "a compilation of the biographies , with engravings , of the Grand Masters , Grand Secretaries , and Grand Treasurers of that body

from 1821 to 1930 . " It appears that "during that time there have been 52 Grand Masters , 8 Grand Secretaries , and 14 Grand Treasurers . " Among these Masonic worthies our contemporary mentions Bro . Hamilton R . Gamble , who was G . M . in 1832 , and

Governor of the State in 1861 ; Bros . Judge John F . Ryland , and his son , X . Ryland , who were both G . Masters ; Bro . Wilson Brown , who died in 1855 , while G . M ., and Lieut .-Governor of the State ; and Bro .

Alexander M . Dockery , the present Governor of the State , who was Grand Master in 1881 . Bro . the Rev . Dr . John D . Vincil , a prominent minister of the Southern Methodist Church , has been Grand Mister , and G . Secretary from 18 77 till now . .

* * We have also received the printed Proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Canterbury , held at the St . Augustine Masonic Hall , Christchurch , on the 22 nd July , under the presidency of Bro . R . Dunn

Thomas , Dist . G . Master . The Dist . G . Treasurer ' s accounts were satisfactory , showing balances on the General Fund of over . £ 100 , together with . £ 225 on fixed deposit , and in the Fund of Benevolence of up . wards of , £ 27 and . 6350 on fixed deposit . In reply to

a question of thi Dist . G . D . C , the Dist . G . M . gave it as his opinion that '' the whole of the ceremonies of the various Degrees , including the presentation of the working tools and the explanation of the tracing board in tbe Third Degree , should be conducted by

the presiding Master or by a P . M . present on the dais at the request of the presiding Master ; but that the explanation of the remaining Tracing Boards , the Lectures , Sections , & . £ ., might be entrusted to any ollicer or M . M . who possessed the requisite knowledge . "