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SaoSA ^ fti- 4 u * r ^~ ""'' foti * * * ^_ ft ^ t ^ B IweeiiasoJiJl SATURDAY , AUGUST 5 , 1899 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter was held at Freemasons' flail on Wednesday , the and inst ., the chairs of the Grand Principals being occupied by Comps . Col . Caldwell and W . Woodall , and Baron de Ferricres , as Grand Z ., H ., and J ., respectively .

As usual at this time of the year , there WJS no great attendance of the companions , while the business was of the usual routine character . The proccidings , therefore , were very speedily at an end . It is just possible that if there were more to do at these quarterly meet .

lngs of Grand Chapter , greater energy might be shown b y the private chapters , and greater interest generall y taken in the work of Royal Arch Masonry . But how can we expect greater activity and zeal in the inferior bodies , when there is none exhibited by the superior ' i

Masonic Notes.

There are few members of our Order , to whom the spontanteous testimony of a sincere personal regard could more appropriately have been offered by his numerous friends and associates in Masonry , than R . W . Bro . Sir Albert W . Woods ( Garter ) , P . G . W .,

G . D . C . Others have been privileged to celebrate the jubilee of their initiation , and it may be there are others , like the late Bro . W . H . White , Grand Secretary , who have held office in Grand Lodge for upwards of 40 years . But none have acquired for themselves

the respect and affection of the Craft more quickly , and retained that respect and altection more fully , than the distinguished Mason , who , after serving for a couple of years as Asst . G . D . C , has held the post of Grand Director of Ceremonies since the year i 860 . Since

then he has had under his charge the arrangements connected with all the important ceremonies that have taken place in Craft and Royal Arch Masonry . He was in Grand Lodge when the rank of Past Grand Master was conferred on the Prince of Wales in 1869 . For his services at the installation of his Royal

Highness in 1875 , the brevet rank of Past Grand Warden was conferred upon him . There is , indeed , no great Masonic function during the last 40 years in which the direction of the arrangements has not been left in his hands , until the last two or three years , when age and failing health have compelled him to leave the active duties of Director of Ceremonies to other

brethren . During all this time he has , though a strict disciplinarian , enjoyed the respect and esteem of our leading members , from his Royal Highness downwards , and we rejoice that , while he still retains his office , this gift , in token of that respect and affection , shoul d have been presented to him and Lady Woods . * »

Among the Stewards at the recent Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys were 20 members of the Board of Management and the Secretary , whose combined lists amounted to ; £ iSg 5 4 s . 6 d ., while 21 members of the " Committee Dinner Club '' together raised ^ 979 Ss . 6 d .

* * * The North and East Yorkshire Educational Fund , which was established 10 years ago , has made considerable progress , and is already in a position to confer substantial benefits upon the children of

deceased or indigent members of the Craft in that Province . It was started in 18 S 9 with a Festival , which produced donations and subscriptions amounting to close upon . £ 1000 . Festivals were also held in 1890 and 1891 , which together yielded nearly , £ 800 . Since then , however , the Festivals have taken place trien

nially , the one in 1894 producing £ 37 6 , and that in 1 S 97 , ^ So . The contributions from these gatherings , with the amounts received as donations in other years , and one or two other sums , represent a total of , £ 33 86 , of which all but a balance in bank of . £ 171 has been advantageously invested , the interest received during the year to 30 th June having realised about ^ 104 .

* » Turning to the account for the year mentioned , we remark thc amount received in subscriptions from the lodges in the Province reached nearly . £ 19 8 , whih , £ 87 represented the total received in donations . Of

these sums the former is placed to revenue account , while the latter goes to swell the capita ) . With the exception of thc Installed Masters' Lodge , No . 2464 , which , of necessity , is composed of members belonging to the other lodges , the whole of those located in the Province took part in raising this sum , thc most

prominent being the Humber , No . 57 ; the Minerva , No 250 ; the Cleveland , No . 543 ; the North York , No 602 j thc St . Cuthbert ' s , No . 630 ; the Kingston , No 1010 ; the Marwood , No . 1244 ; the De la Pole , No 1605 ; the Eboracum , No . 1611 ; the Handyside , No 1618 ; and the Wilberforce , No . 2134 j the contribu tions from them ranging from £ 10 upwards .

The amount disbursed during the year reached , £ 261 143 ., and was composed of grants to the extent of , £ 106 , made in November of last year , to 10 children , and grants in May of the present year to the extent of , £ 147 , the number of children thus benefited

during the year to 30 th June being 25 . The sum of £ 8 14 s ., comprising the rest of the year ' s expenditure , was spent in Printing , Postages , and Stewards' Jewels , so that this excellent Educationil Fund is maintained at a nominal outlay . We congratulate the Committee

of Management on the manner in which they carry out their duties , and the Provincial Grand Master ( thc . Marquess of Zetland ) , and our North and East Yorkshire brethren generally , on the prosperous condition to which they have succeeded in bringing their Educational Fund in so brief a space of time .

Masonic Notes.

We are pleased to find in the list of brethren who have recently been appointed to office in the Provincial Grand Lodge of North and East Yorkshire the name of Bro . Viscount Raincliffe , P . M . of the Denison Lodge , No . 1248 , Scarborough , upon whom the collar of Prov . S . G . W . was conferred . His lordship is the

eldest son of Bro . the Earl of Londesborough , was S . G . W . of England in i 860 , and grandson of Bro . Lord Londesborough was S . G . W . in 1 S 53 . Thc Denison family—after whom the lodge No . 1248 is named—has for many years taken an active part in Masonry , and we are glad there is every prospect of that active interest being maintained .

# » * The warrant for a new Masonic lodge , to be entitled the Richard Eve Lodge , has just been granted by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , Most Worshipful Grand Master . The officers named in the warrant are Bros . Richard Eve , P . G . Treas ., W . M . designate ; Harry Manfield , Northampton , S . W .

designate j and J . Morrison McLeod , Sec . R . M . I . B ., J . W . designate . The majority of the founders are members of the Governing Bodies ot the Boys' School , with the management of which the ofii : ers named are intimately connected . Bro . J . Percy Fitzgerald is the Acting Secretary . The lodge is to bz consecrated in October at the Freemasons' Hall .

* * * We learn from the columns of the Indian . Freemason for the month of June , that the inaugural meeting of the St . George Chapter , No . 549 , was held in the new Freemasons' Hall , Bombay , on the 6 th April . When the chapter had been opened and

the summons convening the meeting read , Comp . the Hon . Justice H . J . Parsons , M . E . Pro Grand Superintendent of the Bombay District , with the assistance of Comps . 1 . M . Shields and R . S . Brown , performed the ceremony of consecration . Comps . H . E . Lord Sandhurst , the Hon . Justice Parsons , and I . M . Shields

were then installed as Z ., H ., and J ., respectively , and Comp . R . A . A . Jenkins was invested as Scribe E . ; Comp . R . S . Brown , as Scribe N . ; Comp . James Mumford , as Treasurer ; and Comp . J . H . Barrett , as Janitor . The remaining oltices being left for future appointment .

* * * On the 2 nd May , a meeting of emergency was held , when four candidates were balloted for and elected and three of them being present were forthwith exalted into Royal Arch Masonry . Subsequently , Comp . Shields , who was acting as M . E . Z ., presented

the chapter with a complete set of collars and jewels , and was warmly thanked by the companions for his handsome gift . In June , yet another meeting was held , when four more brethren , all members of the St . George Lodge , No . S 49 , were balloted for , elected , and exalted . These additions to the original roll of members enabled the Chapter to fill up the offices which had been left

vacant , and Comp . F . C . Allen was elected Principal Sojourner , and Comps . G . K . Heinrichs and E . C . A . Acworth , Assistant Sojourners . Thus the new chapter is well officered and starts on its career with every likelihood of a long and prosperous future . We need hardly be at the trouble of adding that St . George Chapter has our heartiest good wishes .

» * It is not often that we meet with a Royal Arch Chapter of great numerical strength , but the same number of the Indian Freemason , to which we are indebted for the information contained in thc two preceding Notes , contains the report of a regular

meeting of the New Union Chapter , No . 234 , Calcutta , in May last , when Comps . C . T . M . Andcrsann , F . G . Clark , and R . H . M . Rustomjee were installed in the three Principals' chairs , and the officers for the ensuing 12 months were invested . From this it appears that thc Permanent Committee were in a

position to announce a total membership of 117 companions on the 31 st December , 1898 , and of these as many as 19 were exalted during the year to that date . Moreover , the Treasurer ' s accounts showed that the Chapter was , at the same time , financially prosperous ; and that , after subscribing 10 guinea-, to the Hoys '

Cei . tenary , and 200 Rupees to the Bengal Masonic Association , it still had a substantial balance in hand , Under these circumstances it voted a further 2 CO Rupees to the same Bengal Association , and Ihe members then sat down , with all the greater pleasure , to enjoy their installation banquet . We should like

to see more of our chapters modelled on the lines of this New Union , No . 234 . Were a few whiffs of the spirit of zeal by which its members must be actuated inspired into sundry of our chapters at home , it would soon prove contagious , and wc should be tho better for it .