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ful figure is no more within these peaceful walls . I shall , therefore , only ask our Immediate Past Master , R . W . Bro . Lord Londesborough , who had a more intimate knowledge of Lord Lathom who has left us ' than I had , to second the motion , because it will come with more weight than anything I , a very humble beginner in Masonry , might say .

Bro . the Earl of LOXDKSBOROUGH , P . S . G . W . : Worshipful Master and Brethren , —It is with very great regret that I feel myself called upon to second this resolution . Our late JM . W . brother was a very great friend of mine . I knew him from the time when he was a very young man , and in all the relations of life which he filled nothing could be done better than he did . He was a Mason of very high rank , and he also held high office under the Crown , and as a great

Mason , and also having a great stake in the country , it is impossible to overestimate the part he took in the affairs of life . Not only among us Masons here present , but also Masons in all parts of the country , there is but one feeling of regret at his loss . The motion was put to the lodge by the SENIOR WARDEN , and carried unanimously .

After the ceremony of passing Bro . Barrett had been performed by the W . M ., the brethren closed the lodge and adjourned to Freemasons' Tavern to luncheon , at which Bro . Gerald Maxwell presided , having Bro . Lord Kitchener on his immediate right , and Bro . the Earl of Londesborough on his left . A few toasts were proposed after the luncheon , the first being " The Queen and the Craft , " and "The Prince of Wales , Most Worshipful Grand Master !"

Bro . MAXWELL , W . M ., in proposing the next toast , said the toast of the Grand Officers reminded him that their R . W . Bro . Lord Kitchener had an engagement . His Lordship had many engagements , and had the faculty of keeping them all . He ( the W . M . ) would not care to be ? the man who had a

warlike engagement with their most distinguished brother . The brethren all appreciated the great honour Bro . Lord Kitchener had paid to English Freemasonry that day by coming amongst them . . He had found time to come from other gatherings to take part in a gathering of English Freemasons , and he had chosen to do that in his own lodge . Although he had given his time and most

HRO , LORD KITCHENER or KHARTOUM . distinguished services to Freemasonry , he preferred to remain an ordinary member of that lodge instead of having preferment conferred upon him in a lodge . That was a paradox for the members of any lodges , for notwithstanding Lord Kitchener was an ordinary member of this lodge , he would always be a most distinguished member of any gatherings of men . It would be out of place there to utter eulogies upon the past achievements of Bro . Lord Kitchener in war .

That had been done authoritatively by the war Lords in England . All tie brethren knew that Bro . Lord Kitchener was a born leader of men , a magnificent strategist and one of the greatest organisers this world had ever seen . ( Applaus-. ) Whenever Lord Kitchener said he would do a thing , the thing was done . Lord Kitchener had told them that it was his intention to carry the influence of Masonry into the very heart and centre of thc realm which he had reconquered to civilisation , and when he said the influence of Masonry , he meant light . Lord Kitchener would take light from England and communicate it abroad , for they

flattered themselves that there was in England a spirit of civilisation , which sprung up ages ago , and was now revived in those heroes who were like their brother , Lord Kitchener . His lordship had come to that meeting direct from another , where he had succeeded in collecting over , £ 50 , 000 for establishing a Gordon Memorial College in Egypt —( great applause ) —and he ( the W . M . ) called upon the members of the Drury Lane Lodge and other brethren present to spread that throughout Masonry that day . He then presented to , and asked Bro . Lord Kitchener to accept , the jewel of a founder of the Drury Lane Lodge , of w horn he was one . ( Applause . )

Bro . Lord kiTcincxEK ov KHARTOUM , who was received with several rounds of cheering , in response , said : Worshipful Master and Brethren , —It gives me the very greatest pleasure to meet the brethren of the lodge which 1 first joined in England , and I thank you all very much lor the hearty greeting you have given me . I cannot follow the Worshipful Master in his very eloquent address and the too flattering terms in which he has alluded to myself . ( " No , no . " ) I must apologise for not being able to attend the lodge meeting . I was , as the Worshipful Master has said , engaged with other work , but practically also that was the work Of Masons —( hear , hear , and cheers)—and I was not unprofitably engaged , as he

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has already told you . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Brethren , I shall always remember the very kind greeting you have given me on this occasion , which has been , I am sorry to say , the first time I have been able to meet the members of the Drury Lane Lodge . ( Cheers . ) Bro . GERALD MAXWELL then said the next toast he had to announce was one which always recommended itself to the members of the Drury Lane Lodge—it

was that of " The Visitors . " The Drury Lane Lodge was always pleased to see visitors , they always appreciated the honour they did the lodge by coming among the members , and the lodge always endeavoured as far as possible to offer them a mosf hearty welcome . The Grand Officers and visitors they had that day honoured the Drury Lane Lodge , and he coupled with the toast the names of Bro . Strachan , Q . C , G . Reg ., and Bro . VV . J . Fisher , Secretary of the Savage Club Lod- ? e .

Bro . J STRACHAN * , Q . C , G . Reg ., in reply , said that on behalf of the Grand Officers of England , he could not forget that they were all Grand Officers , and other members of the Craft , they were under a deep cloud of sorrow which the death of the highest Grand Officer under his Royal Highness the Grand Master had caused to them . The one thing that was in the breast of every Mason was this feeling that Lord Lathom , the Pro Grand Master , exemplified in his life the Masonic saying that a good Mason must be a good man . Lord

Lathom was a good Mason ; he was a good man . The Drury Lane Lodge might be proud of of having such Past Grand Officer as it had in Lord Londesborough , and a name that was received last year on the occasion of the Masonic Diamond Jubilee Festival at the Albert Hall which such enthusiastic cheers when it was announced that the Past Grand Rank of Grand Junior Warden was conferred upon Sir Herbert H . H . Kitchener . His work had not then been accomplished , but every brother in the Albert Hall know that

whatever the circumstaces were Bro . Kitchener was the manjto make circumstances bend to his will —( cheers)—and he did it too . ( Renewed applause . ) Now , speaking first of all on behalf of the Grand Officers , Present and Past , he would say those brethren thanked most heartily the W . M . and brethren of the Drury Lane Lodge for affording them this opportunity of being present at such a represetative gathering of Englishmen . They had been entertained with that cordiality which they all knew belonged to the Drury Lane Lodge pre-eminently .

Coming , as he did , from a professional lodge—his mother lodge , the Lodge of St . Asaph—it was a pleasure to meet the brethren of the Drury Lane Lodge , another professional lodge , and it had given him great satisfaction to see the way in which the W . M . had performed his duties in lodge . It was a treat to find the brethren of their profession consecrate their elocutionary powers to Freemasonry ; it was a double pleasure when he found the brother to be passed was one whom he had not seen since that fellow Craft was a baby—the son of Bro . Oscar Barrett , and he was glad to see that the father was also present . ( Cheers . )

Bro . VV . J . FISHER { Daily Chronicle ) , Sec . 2190 , said it would be more than ungrateful on his part if he did not respond with much cheerfulness after so copious a luncheon ; but really he felt in the position of an Under-Secretary of State who was asked a question in the House when he had not been primed by the permanent officials . He thought he should have had previous notice . There were many things he should like to say , without unduly taxing the patience of his audience , but which would naturally

occur to him as he was going home . No speech , he supposed , that had ever been made in the presence of the distinguished guest of the afternoon , however relevant it might have been to his own personality , had passed without some reference to him , so struck by the Kitchener ideal , that he should like to say many things which had been extended . So late as last night a paper he was not remotely connected with had sent to it a record of Lord Kitchener ' s doings since he landed in England on his return from the Soudan . ( Laughter . ) The knowledge that he

was to see Lord Kitchener in the flesh , of whom from Bro . Charles Williams he had heard so much , completely paralyzed him , and , therefore , the reception of Lord Kitchener at dinners , freedoms , luncheons , honorary degrees , and what not , were not to him so much as to see him not only ruddy and well , but to see that he was alive , and to be restored . ( Laughter . ) From what he had heard of Lord Kitchener ' s character , he was not sure that he was not wishing to be back in the peace and quietness of the Soudan . ( Cheers . ) Like Mr . Dick ' s reference to

King Charles ' s head , this perhaps was out ; it was entirely irrelevant to the toast ; but , to turn to that , he thanked the Worshipful Master and brethren for the toast of " The Visitors . " It was not a little difficult to himself because he regarded himself not much like a visitor in this lodge ; he was there so often as there was an association between that lodge and the Savage Club Lodge , a cognate lodge , with which the Drury Line Lodge had a reciprocal—a sort of international—exchange of courtesies that put

them on the same plane . Whether they belonged to that lodge or to the Savage Club Lodge , every visitor would go away feeling tint he had lived through an event—a real and undoubted event—an event which would make a distinct mark on his passage in life , and with that feeling in their hearts he felt he should be echoing the feelings of every visitor present when he tendered to the W . M . and brethren of Drury Lane Lodge their most grateful thanks for their satisfied , responsive , and more than sympathetic hearts . The proceedings then closed .

Craft Masonry.

Craft Masonry .

Tyrian Lodge , No . 1110 . This , the old . st Eastbourne lodge , assembled oa Monday , the 2 Sth ult ., the principal business being the installation of Bro . Frederic R . Terson to the office of W . M . for the ensuing- year , The proceedings took place in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall , a dispensation for this purpose hivingbeen granted by the Grand Lodge . A large gathering of members and also of visiting brethren testified to the soecial interest in the installation ceremony , which was performed by the retiring VV . M ., Bro . A . A . Oakden . Among the brethren of the Tyrian Lodge present were Bros . A . A . Oakden , W . M . ; J . Welch , I . P . M . ; Fred . R . Terson , S . W . ; H . C . Pocock , I VV . ; Rev .

W . N . Willis , Chap . ; J . Creighton , Sec . ; J . Andrews , S . D . ; G . Fowler , D . C . ; F . Dive , I . G . ; J . Easter , Ore . ; F . Pike , Stwds . ; F . Bolton , P . M . ; Sutton , P . M ., P . P . A . G . D . C ; C . Tomes , P . M . ; C . Warwick Tomes , P . M . ; C . Haine , P . M ., Prov . J . G . W . ; II . Sutton , P . M . : A . H . Maryan . P . M . ; T . VV . Dean , P . M . ; A . J . Howard , P . M . ; and J . II . Wright , P . M . ; F . Schreiner , A . C . Dynham , R . H . Trickcy , VV . Davies , R . H . Sutton , E . Boys , J . Tolhurst , H . Thwaites , A . J . Beeny , D . Dendy , C . Virgin , F . A . Bourne , J . Cramer , G . Gasson , A . E . Smith , P . J . Marchant . and many visitors .

Bro . I erson having been duly installed , he proceeded to appoint and invest his officers as follows : Bros . A . A . Oakden , I . P . M . ; II . C . Pocock , S . VV . ; J . Andrews , J . W . ; Rev . VV . N . Willis , Chap . ; H . Sutton , P . P . J . G . D ., Treas . ; Jas . Creighton , P . P . G . S . B ., Sec ; Frederick Dive , S . D . ; Frederick Pike , I . D . ; George Fowler , P . P . G . P ., D . C . ; John Easter , P . P . G . O ., Org . ; A . Smith , I . G . ; R . H . Trickey and H . Thwaites , Stwds . ; C . II . Haine , P . J . G . W ., Charity Stwd . ; and VV . Pennington , ' 1 yler . The lodge having been closed , the brethren repaired to the GiMredge Hotel , where the usual installation banquet took place under the presidency of the new Worshipful Master .

An elegant repast was followed by a well-arranged programme of toasts and music , thc latter department being uncle . ' the management cf Bros . J . Easter and F . B . Sutton .