Contents.

CONTENTS .

L EADERS— PAGF * The Recent Meeting of Experts at Freemasons'Hall ... ... . iO English Freemasonry in the Colonies ... ... ... •••59

Supreme Grand Chapter of England ( Quarterly Convocation ) ... ... Go Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Northumberland and Durham ... „ . ... Gi Consecration of the Union Royal Ark Mariners' Lodge , No . 124 ... ... 61 Ladies'Festival of the Molesey Lodge , No . 2473 ... ... ... 61 Annual Festival of the Emblematic Lodge of Instruction , No . 1331 ... ... 62 Memorial Service for the Late Bro . Major-General Yeatman-Biggs , Dist . G . M .

Bengal ... ' ... ... ... ... ... •¦•r * Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... •¦•"i M ASONIC NOTESQuarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter of England .., ... 65 Perpetual and Life Presentations ... ... ... •••6 5 Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ... ( K 5 Masonic Notes and Queries ... ... ... ... ... f > 6 Reviews ... ... ... •¦• ••••¦• •••^

Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... * " ' (•Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (< o Obituary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... fiy Third Annual Ladies' Night of the Lion and Lamb Lodge , No . 192 ... ... 70 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution ... ... ... ... 70 Old Masonians'Cricket Club ... ... * ... ... ... 70 Lodges and Chapterof Instruction ... ... ... ... ... 70 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 71

The Recent Meeting Of Experts At Freemasons' Hall.

THE RECENT MEETING OF EXPERTS AT FREEMASONS' HALL .

Last weak we published a full report of the recent meeting held in the Board Room at Freemasons' Hall , at the invitation of the Board of General Purposes , ancl our readers will , no doubt , have remarked from the list wc gave of the brethren present in addition to thc members , that a gathering more

representative of the Craft and more capable of pronouncing judgment on the abstruse subject so ably and , at the same time , so clearly expounded by Bro . Kl . EIN could hardly bave been brought together . The brethren present were all of them of the

rank of Installed Master , only those who preside or have presided over our lodges being qualified to receive the enlightenment vouchsafed them by thc lecturer , while the fact tbat among the names oi' those invited to attend—and the great majority

ol whom were present—will be found those of Bros . Sir CHARLES WARREN , founder and first Master of Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , Past Dist . G . M . Eastern Archipelago ; K . F . GOULD , P . M . No . 2076 . P . G . D . ; W . H . RYLANDS . P . M .

No . 2076 , P . A . G . D . C . ; Sir WALTER BESANT , Treasurer No . - ' •7 >; Dr . w . WYNN WESTCOTT , KUI ' EERSCHMIDT , LP . M . Xo . 20 7 6 , Asst . G . Sec . German Correspondence ; C . PuRDO . N -LARKE , P . M ., S . W . No . 2076 ; G . W . SPETH , P . A . G . D . C ,

A *** . No . 2076 ; HENRY SADLER , G . Tyler and Sub-Librarian << •Lodge ; C . E . KEYSER , P . G . D . ; and ' w . M . B \ WATER , P . M . No . 2076 , Past G . S . B , is a guarantee that the resolution which

the meeting unanimously adopted , when the brief remarks that followed the demonstration were closed must have been arrived at ° "ly after the most careful consideration and wilh a becomintr

S ( nse of the responsibility it entailed . The resolution , which Wl'l be found in our report of last week , contained ( 1 ) an ; u -knowIed gment of the great interest and importance of lhc object ; '' ( 2 ) an expression cf the opinion " that it is one that

"ill amply justify further inquiry ; " ancl ( 3 ) a recommendation \ the Board of General Purposes that it should institute such '" "ther inquiry as in its wisdom and discretion it may consider ¦ •••rcssary or expedient . It is impossible to avoid forming a

s ' ' . hi gh opinion of the merits of Bro . Kl . EIN ' s demonstration , U ton a representative meeting of our most enlightened and •Muriel- iced Masonic experts accepts a resolution expressed in such decided terms . Io furnish any account cf the demonstration itsell is , of ° urse , out of the question . There can , however , be no objec-

The Recent Meeting Of Experts At Freemasons' Hall.

tion to our stating that Bro . Kl . EIN claims to have discovered thc genuine secrets of a M . M ., and so far as the opinion goes of the competent judges present at this memorable meeting of the * 25 th ultimo , hc would seem to have succeeded

in establishing the justice of this claim . There is , too , one very important consideration which must not bc losl sight of in estimating the value of this particular demonstration , namely , that Bro . KLEIN ' credentials ,

more especially in that particular branch of study to which he has given his mind , and thc results of which he is now laving before our great literary and scientilic lodge—the'Quatuor Coronati—are of the very highest order . His paper on '' The

Great Symbol , his inaugural address as Worshipful Master of that lodge , thc series of illustrations of "the Hidden Mysteries of Science and Art " —of which the first was given to the lodge last month—all these must have had the . effect of favourably

disposing the experts towards the demonstration , while the demonstration itself , seeing that , so far as it went , it elicited their unanimous approval , cannot have been very wide of the mark to have satisfied such capable and exigent critics . Wc

warmly congratulate Bro . KLEIN on the success of the meeting , and trust tbat when there has been still further and fuller consideration of the subject , the Board of General Purposes may see its way to taking such steps as it deem proper in behalf of the recommendation of this important gathering .

English Freemasonry In The Colonies.

ENGLISH FREEMASONRY IN THE COLONIES .

We are always glad of thc opportunity of making known , through thc medium of our columns , the opinions of individual brethren on questions of general Masonic interest , and especially is this the case when , as with the letter we published last week

from Bro . EDWARD H . GIBBON , District S . G . D . of Queensland , the opinions are those of a brother who may , we suppose , be looked upon as a typical English Colonial Mason , loyal to the backbone to the Constitution of which he is a member , and , at

thc same time , desirous above all things to do all in his power to promote the general welfare of the Craft . It has long been known that our Queensland brethren set their faces strongly against the establishment of a local Grand Lodge . There are ,

of course , individual members who are favourable to such a move , ancl it is quite on thc cards that the number of such has been augmented since the formation ol local Grand Lodges in most of the other great Australasian Colonies . But the bulk of them are

strongly imbued with the belief that they arc better off , and occupy a stronger position in Masonry , as a District under the English Constitution , than they would be if they were amalgamated with their Irish and Scottish brethren , ancl presided over

by a Grand Lodge of tbeir own . They enjoy ali the advantages —not improbably more than all the advantages—which could pertain to them as a self-governing Masonic body , while , at the same time , they havc a share in thc prestige which necessarily

attaches to being constituent membersof the premier Grand Lodge of the world . As Bro . GIBBON very forcibly puts it , " we as English Masons take particular pride in our Constitution , and

feel that to be an English Mason carries with it the same proud relative effect as the ' Romanus sum ' of old had amongst the neighbouring States . " This is a feeling of which we at home have every reason to be proud , and whatever is done tu