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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

SATURDAY , DECEMBER 3 , 1898 .

The regular Quarterly Communication of United Grand Lodge will be held on Wednesday , the 7 th inst ., but under circumstances of an especially mournful nature . One of the highest and most influential of the dignitariesof the Craft , than whom indeed , no one ever attained lo so great a measure of deserved popularity , has died just at the very moment when the

brethren were eagerly looking fortvard to his reappearance in their midst . Thus , the familiar figure , which was always greeted with so kindly and cordial a welcome , will not be there , and , instead , there will be the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grief to which no words of ours can give adequate expression . But he will not be forgotten , nor the great services he has rendered to English Freemasonry

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since tbe days , when as an undergraduate of Christ Church , Oxford , he obtained his earliest insight into the mysteries and privileges of our Order . The Board of General Purposes in their accustomed report refer to the " irreparable loss the Craft has sustained by

the death of our beloved Pro Grand Master , andjve may be sure that Grand Lodge will not fall short of the duty which now devolves upon it of giving appropriate expression to the grief by which it is actuated . * # #

As for the programme of business which will be presented , we note in the first place a recommendation of the Board of General Purposes in favour of a grant of ^ 500 in aid of those who have suffered by the recent hurricane in the West Indies . The Board likewise

report further progress with the proposed purchase of additional premises adjoining Freemasons' Hall , and express the hope that in March next they will be in a position to submit plans for the additions it is in contemplation to make to the existing premises .

* * * The number of new lodges for the constitution of which his Royal Hig hness his been pleased to grant warrants , since the quarterly communication in September , is nine . Of these three are located in London

—namely , the Muswell Hill and Streatham Lodges , Nos . 272 S and 2729 respectively , and the Cutlers Lodge , No . 2730 . Four are placed in the provincesthe St . Audrey Lodge , No . 2727 , Ely , iii Cambridgeshire ; the Grove Park , No . 273 2 , Bushey , in Hertford .

shire ; the Loyal Travellers' Lodge , No . 2733 , Birmingham ; and the Harlow Lodge , No . 2734 ., in Essex . The remaining two—the Corona Lodge , No . 273 1 , Johannesburg , and the United Service Lodge , No . 2735 , Bangalore—will be located in the districts of t ' ne Transvaal and Madras respectively .

* * * As will be gathered from the notices we publish in another column , orders have been issued by the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons , the Grand Lodge of Mark Masons , the Great Priory of the

Temple , and the Supreme Council , 33 , of the Ancient and Accepted Rite , for the lodges , preceptories , and chapters , under their respective jurisdictions , and the individual members thereof , to don the ensigns of mourning for specified periods in memory of the late

Earl of Lathom , who had been Grand Master of the Mark Degree from 18 7 8 to 18 S 1 , and Grand Prior of the Order of the Temple for a long term of years , and was at the time of his lamented death , Sovereign G Commander of the Supreme Council .

# * * The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons will meet in regular quarterly communication at Mark Masons' Hall on Tuesday , the 6 th inst ., and from the report of the General Board , which will then be

submitted , we learn that during . the quarter ending the 30 th September last there were issued 262 Mark and 73 Royal Ark Mariner certificates , raising the total of registered members to 3 8 , 931 in the former Degree , and 5743 in the latter . There have also been granted

warrants for two new Mark lodges—namely , No . 519 for the Windsor Castle Lodge , and No . 520 for the Toowoong Lodge , Queensland . The repori also announces that his Royal Highness , the M . W . G .

Mark Master has been pleased to re-appoint sundry Provincial and District . Grand Masters for a further term of three years , among them being the late Bro . the Rig ht Hon . the Earl of Lathom , G . C . B ., Past M . W . G . Master , as Prov . G . Master of Lancashire .

» * * We beg to announce that a meeting of the Great Priory of the Order of the Temple will be held at Mark Masons' Hall , Great Queen-street , W . C , at 4 . 45 for s p . m ., on Friday , the gth instant . Subsequently there will be held a Great Priory of the Order of

Malta , under the banner of the Preceptory of St . George , when such Knights Templar as may have signified their desire to be admitted will be duly installed as Knights . The business of the day will conclude with the customary banquet , which will be served at Freemasons' Tavern at 7 p . m . Tickets one guinea each .

* * » The Report of the Council which will be submitted for the consideration and approval of Great Priory contains particulars of the Third Annual Conference of the Three Governing Bodies of the Order in the

United Kingdom , which was held in Edinburgh on the the 2 ist April , under the presidency of the Marquis of Breadalbane , Grand Master of the Chapter General of Scotland . At this conference the Grand Encampment of the United States was represented by Sir Knight

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General J . Corson Smith , Past G . Commander Towards the close of the proceedings it was agreed to recommend that the next annual conference should be held in Dublin in April of next year .

* * * W . Bro . Henry Sadler , Grand Tyler and Sub-Librarian of the Grand Lodge of England , will deliver an Historical Address on " Tylers and Tyling " on Sunday , the nth instant , at the Israel Lodge of Instruction , meeting punctually at 7 p . m ., at the Rising Sun . Globe-road . E .

* * * The half-yearly general meetingof the Sind Masonic Benevolent Association , of which Bro . Lord Sandhurst , Governor of Bombay , Pro District G . Master , E . G ., and Grand Master of all Scottish Freemasonry in India , is Patron , was held at the Freemasons' Hall , Karachi , on the 20 th August last , when the annual report was

submitted and adopted and the Committee of Management elected for the ensuing year . Apropos of this meeting , the Indian Freemason , in the belief that the Association is not as well-known as it deserves to be , furnishes some very interesting particulars as to its foundation and progress and the purposes it is intended to serve .

* * * From these particulars we gather that the C harity was instituted by the brethren of Sind at a formal meeting held in Karachi on the 13 th September , 1 S 73 , and has thus been in existence for a full quarter of a century . It was intended in the first instance to

afford relief to the distressed widows and orphans of Freemasonry , and so successfully was it managed that in June of the following year the accounts showed a balance in hand of upwards of 4600 rupees , of which 4000 rupees were at once , and very wisely , invested in Government Promissory Notes . In April , 1883 , it

was unanimously resolved to extend the benefits of the Association so as to include provision for ths education of the children of those Freemasons whose means were too restricted to permit of this provision being made . * * *

The Association is supported by the voluntary contributions of the brethren and their friends , as well as by those of the lodges , chapters , and other Masonic bodies in the District , a donation of 300 rupees , in sums of not less than 50 rupees , constituting the donor a Life Governor , with six votes at every election , and

one of 50 rupees a Life Member , with one vote . The Association is governed by a Committee , consisting of a President and Vice-President , two Trustees , a Treasurer , Secretary , and six members , who are elected annually . It has an invested capital of 16 , 500 rupees , in Government Securities , and has expended in

relieving 20 widows and 56 children 15 , 992 rupees , and on the education of 11 children over 4000 rupees , its total outlay in benefits during its career being only a little short of 20 , 000 rupees . It will thus be seen that the Association has done excellent service to poor

brethren and the necessitous widows and orphans of deceased brethren , and we trust that it may always be in a position to meet the demands which , of necessity , are constantly being made upon its resources . It is a credit to our Sind brethren that they should have established an institution that has done so much good .

* * » Everyone must be gratified to know that Freemasonry in Cambridgeshire is in such a prosperous condition and has latterly been making such great progress . Last week we reported the consecration by Bro . Col . Caldwell , Prov . G . Master , of a seventh lodge —less than a quarter of a century since there

were only four—which bears the name of St . Audrey , and meets in the City of Ely , This week we have the pleasure of recording the annual meeting of the Prov . G . Lodge , which was held on Monday , at Cambridge , under the auspices of theThieeGrand Princi ples Lodge , N 0 . 441 . There was a full attendance and everything appears to have passed oil most satisfactorily . # * »

By the way , the St . Audrey Lodge , No . 2727 , is not the first Masonic lodge that has been established at Ely . We learn from the records of the " Ancient " Grand Lodge—as quoted by Bro . John Lane in his Masonic Records—that a lodge of that Society , numbered 137 , was warranted in the Isle of Ely on the 5 th September , 17 C 5 ; but though it is mentioned in

" Ahiman Rezon " of 1804 , 1807 , and 1813 , nothing further is known about it , and for all the service it rendered to Freemasonry it might as well have never existed . However , the St . Audrey Lodge will doubtless make amends for the shortcomings of its predecessor , and when it has settled itself to its wor ' :, w ' . II we hope , prove a pillar of strength to the Craft in the Province of Cambridgeshire .