Masonic And General Tidings.

Masonic and General Tidings .

The Committee of Management oflthe Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will hold their regular monthly meeting , at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday , the ioth instant , at four p . m . THE DUKE OF YORK concluded his visit to the Dukeof Richmond and Gordon at Gordo n Castle , Fochabers , Banffshire , on Thursday last , and returned to town to-day ( Friday ) .

THE winter session of the Logic Club , Cavendish Rooms , Mortimer-street , W ., will begin on Sunday , 7 th instant , at 11 . 15 a . m . The initiation ceremony will be reh "arsed , Preceptqr Bro . Robert Manuel . THE 26 TH ANNIVERSARY of the Arkwright Lodge . No . 1495 , is to be held at the New Bath Hotel , Matlock Bath , this month , when Bro . VV . Jaffrey retires . The W . M . elect is Bro . W . H . Tomlinson , of Nottingham .

WE ARE PLEASED to hear that Bro . W . J . Batho was successful m getting first prize last week at the Paris Exhibition for grapes , and first prize on Thursday , the 27 th ult ., at the Crystal Palace for Canon Hall muscat grapes . THE DUKE AND D UCHESS OF YORK are to pay a visit to Bro . Lord and Lady Llangattock at The Hendre , near Monmouth , during the concluding week of the present month , and accordingly the Monmouth Town Council are arranging to give their Royal Highnesses a civic welcome .

THE PRINTING of companies' prospectuses , plans , illustrations of industrial works , Masonic work of all description , & c , produced with rapidity . Fast machinery and every modern appliance for the production of large quantities at short notice . Freemason Printing Works , 16 and iGa , Great Queen-street , London , W . C . PRINCESS HENRY OF B ATTENBERG has acceded to the request of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh to visit the Scottish capital about the end of the present month , and open the new pavilion of the infirmary , which is set apart for the treatment of women patients . It is probable that the ceremony will take place on Friday , the 26 th instant .

ON THE OCCASION of the re-opening of the Royal Courts of Justice for the Michaelmas sittings on Wednesday , the 24 th instant , a special service will be held at Westminster Abbey at 11 . 15 , at which the Lord Chancelier ( Bro . the Earl of Halsbury ) , her Majesty's Judges , and members of the Bar will attend prior to the re-opening of the Courts .

STRINGENT precautions are being taken to guard Bro . President Mckinley in consequence of the reported discovery of a plot to kill him . Three men are suspected , two of them being Italians and the third an ex-army officer . The plan was to waylay the head of the State on one of the lonely drives which he takes daily . Bro . McKinley treats the matter lightly . !

• OUR SOLDIERS will be coming home very soon , and the Commander-in-Chief , Bro . Lord Wolseley—who , like Bro . Lord Roberts , has always sympathised with and assisted temperance work in the Army—asks those wishing to do them honour * ' to refrain , while extending to them a hearty welcome , from offering them intoxicating liquor . " Their worst enemies are those who encourage excessive drinking .

H . R . H . THE PRINCE OK WALES and the Grand Duke Michael of Russia , who are'at present the guests of Bro . Lord Glenesk at Glenmuick , shot over Brackley Moors on Wednesday . The weather was excellent , and a very good bag was made , in spite of the fact that the birds were scared by the presence of eagles hovering around . The party included Sir Allan Mackenzie , Mr . J . Mackenzie , Mr . Hughes , Major Gilstrap , and Lieutenant Murray .

BRO . THK MARyuis OK TWEEDOALE has let the Carfrae shootings , in Berwickshire , to Mr . G . DalzTel . Sanquhar ( north ) , in Dumfriesshire , the property ofthe Duke of Buccleugh , has been taken by Mr . E . J . Brook . Jura deer forest , in Argyllshire , has been let to Mr . Henry Evans . The mountains , which rise to a height of about 3000 ft ., afford first-rate stalking . The number of stags killed each year is 60 , and the quality is excellent . The grouse shooting is also good , and every other variety of Highland game can be bagged .

OVER 700 PERSONS attended the farewell banquet to Bro . the Earl of Hopetoun at the Hotel Cecil on Wednesday evening , the Earl of Selborne occupying the chair . Mr . Goschen , replying to the toast of " The Imperial Forces , " said the latest ambition of Ihe Australian Colonies was to help us at sea . They had sent a naval brigade to China . Lord Hopetoun would be able to tell the Colonies of the advance in strength the British Navy had made . Their captains were able to enter into every port of the world without a pilot and at a speed which astonished almost every foreigner .

Ex-KlNG PREMPEH , of Ashantee , wh *) is now on his way to the Seychelles Islands , is to be finally located in Mahe , the leading item of this interesting group of islets in the Indian Ocean , and where also the chiefs from the Malay Peninsula were exiled in the early seventies . Mahe , which is 17 miles in length , and from four to seven across , enjoys the distinction , only in a lesser degree than the Aldabra Islands in the vicinity , of being the home of the gigantic land tortoise , of which so many examples may be seen iust now at Regent ' s Park , brought from the islands mentioned at the instance of the Hon . Walter Rothschild , M . P .

ON WEDNESDAY Archbishop Temple dedicated a window at Blundell ' s School , Tiverton , where he was once a pupil , to the memory of Old Blundellians who have fallen in the war . The lives of their late companions had not , he said , been given in vain , for , in a real sense , their heroism honoured and inlluehced the school and all its scholars . His grace jafterwards inspected the newly-formed cadet corps , and said he hoped they would be as dutiful as they appeared snnrt , and uphold the glories of the old days . Advantage was taUen of the visit to confer the freedom of Tiverton upon

the Archbishop , whom Major Dunning described as the most eminent man ever turned out by a public school like Blundell ' s . RECENTLY the bojs of St . Paul's School , Maidstone , sent to General Sir George White two snapshots of their recent di ill inspection , and the following acknowledgment has been received ; " Government House , Gibraltar , August 2 S , 19 o . Sir , —It is a great pleasure to me to have the two photographs you were good enough to send me . 1 congratulate your school generally on having turned out so many men ready to serve does

their country when their services were required . Sergeant Boseley your school great credit . I am sorry to hear he is feeling the elf cts of his wounds in his general health . He must have been a man of iron constitution to have gone through what he did . The surgeon who attended him said he had never known a man who bore such wounds , and the subsequent treatment of them , so ivell . —Yours truly , GEORGE S . WHITE . " It will be remembered that it was Sergeant Boseley who , on having an arm and a leg blown off by a Boer shell at Ladysmith , said to his comrades : " Roll me out of the way , men ; and go on working the gun . "

Masonic And General Tidings.

THE QUEEN has been pleased to approve the appointment of Field-Marshal Bro I ord Roberts , V . C tn be Commander-in-Chief , in succession to Field-Marshal Bro Viscount Wolseley , K . P . BRO . VISCOUNT WOI . SEI . KY , on his recent visit to LichfieM , inspected the Soldiers ' Club which is being established there , and subscribed £ 50 to the funds , besides presenting his portrait and autograph .

LIEUTENANT HUGH HOLE , son ofthe Dean of Rochester ( Bro . the Very Rev Thos . Hole , D . D ., Past G . Chap . ) , has resigned his commission in the Cyclist Detach- ! ment of the City Imperial Volunteer ' , and has been made a magistrate for the Orange River Colony by General Pretyman , the Governor . THE ASYT . VM FOR IDIOTS ( Earlswood , Redhill , Surrev ) . —The autumn election of this Charity will occur on Thursday , the 25 th inst ., at the Cannon-street Hotel , E . G ., for the purpose of choosing 31 applicants , viz ., 12 part payment and 10 , ordinary , for a neriod of five years . The poll will commence at one , and close at two o ' clock precisely . Bro . Alderman Sir Joseph C . Dimsdale , Treasurer , in the chair .

The stated meeting of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 207 G , will be held this ( Friday ) afternoon at the hour ~ of five p . m ., and the brethren will afterwards dine together at tbe Holborn Restaurant . The business includes the election of W . M . Treasurer , and Tyler for the ensuing vear , after which a paper will be read b y Bro ' Dr . W . J . Chetwode Crawley on "The Sackville Medal and Irish Freemasonry . "

THE LORD MAYOR ELECT ( Bro . Alderman Frank Green * ) has appointed the Rev . Henry Danvers Macnamara . M . A ., Rector of St . James , Garlickhythe vvith St . Michael , ' Queenhythe , and Priest-in-Ordinarv to her Majesty the Queen , to be his chaplain ; and Bro . William Jameson Soulsby , C . B ., ofthe Middle ' Temple , barrister-at-law , his private secretary , during his term of office . Bro . Soulsby has filled the same position in the preceding 25 mayoralties .

IT IS NOW authoritatively announced that the ruins of Tintern Abbey have been purchased by the Crown from the Duke of Beaufort . They are unrivalled among eccle '' siastical relics in England , and stand in the middle of nearly six thousand acres of woodland and pasturage , which have a frontage of eight miles to the Wye . The Crown has also purchased the Duke of Beaufort's farms surrounding Raglan Castle , comprising 3000 acres in extent .

THR DUKE AND DUCHESS OK FIFE eutertained the tenantry and retainers at Mar Lodge to a . cinematograph cnteitainmen ' : and supper on Saturday evening last . To the number of So the clansmen , in full Highland costume , and each bearing a lighted torch , formed a guard of honour between the mansion and the ball-room , where the pictorial display was held . Among the guests were H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , Sir Allan and Lady Mackenzie , Miss Forbes , and Captain Fortescue .

THR HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND . —It is stated that the receipts of the fund from the workshops and business houses of London from January gth to September Sth amounted to £ sSSo us . 2 d ., as compared with £ 9027 during the corresponding period of 1899 . The expenditure in the same period was £ 1356 ios . id . The special collection in industrial establishments will be held on the 13 th prox . The committee hope thit the ultimate total will not fall short of that realised last year , viz ., £ 20 , 000 .

As PATRON of the Royal South Bucks Agricultural Association , whose ploughing match and exhibition were recently held at Colnbrook , near Slough , her Majesty , in addition to giving a prize of five guineas for the best ploughman on the field , offered a silver cuo for competition among the farmers fnr the finest growth of root crops generally , and it was won by Mr . John Kinross , of Datchet-on-Thames . The second prize , given bv the Master of the Queen ' s Staghounds ( Lord Coventry ) , was seenred by Mr . T . W . Purser , of Colnbrook .

ON FRIDAY , the 28 th ult ., Bro . Alderman W . Vaughan Morgan , Past G . Treas ., and Mr . Lawrence were inducted into office as Sheriffs of London for the ensuing year , the ceremony of investiture being very gracefully performed by the senior outgoing Sheriff , Bro . Alderman Sir W . Treloar , his colleague , Bro . Sir A . H . Bevan , Past G . Treas ., being too unwell to attend and take part in the function . The customary breakfast was held in the great hall of Christ's Hospital , of which Institution the senior Sheriff is the Treasurer .

BETWEEN CHAUCER and the City the association is so close that it has long bien a matter of surprise that the latter contains no monument to the put wH-i rescind ths English language from an inchoate condition . The Librarv Committee of the Corporation has sent in a strong recommendation to the Court of Commin Council in favour of a bust of the father of our national poetry being placed in the Guildhall . The post was at one time in the service nf the Corporation , and for many years in his early life occupied rooms over the old Aldzate . He was also a citizen by birth .

LORD KINTORE has been making great alterations and additions to Keith Hall , his place in Aberdeenshire . It is not a pretty house , but tbe improvements have made it much more comfortable . Lord Kintore represents the ancient family of Keith , once of the very greatest in Scotland . The first Lord Kintore saved the Regalia of Scotland from the hands of Cromwell by having them secretly conveyed from the Castle of Dunottar , which was then besieged , and hidden under the lloor of the Church of Kinneff , close by . Lord Kintore then sailed for France , so that Cromwell's soldiers ceased to seek for them , thinking that he had taken them with him .

ON SATURDAY last a common hall of the City of London was held in thc Guildhall for the purpose of electing a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year , when the choice of tha Commonalty fell upon Bros . Alderman Frank Green and Sir J . C . Dimsdale , the form ? r being returned for the office by the Court of Aldermen . Bro . Frank Green was appointed J . G . Deacon of United Grand Lodge and G S . B . of Supreme Grand Lodge

in iSS 3 , and is thus a Mason of long standing and highly respected . We shall have more to say next week about the Lord Mayor-elect and the newly-installed Sheriffs . But we must not omit to mention that a most cordial vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Bro . Alderman Sir A . Newton , P . G . D ., for his great service as Chief Magistrate of the City during his year of office .

fo-MORROw ( SATURDAY ) Mr . W . Mollison will produce " For Auld Lang Syne " at the Lyceum . It required a very big effort to get the production ready , but everything is now in order , and the first performance will take place to-night as announced . " For Auld Lang Syne " will be found to be a play with a deeply interesting , a strange yet possible , story ; with splendid scenes where nothing is sacrificed to sensation , a magnificent environment for the commencement of the action , and a natural well worked up to climax for the end . " For Auld Lang Syne " is not a play in which one part is

made great at the expense of all the others ; on the contrary there are many well thought out characters in it . Mr . J . H . Barnes has a part that in the scenes with Miss Irene Rooke is made very pathetic and human ; and Mr . Bassett Roe , as well as Mr . Wm . Devereux , represent men of wholly different natures that make opportunity serve themselves , or their country , in the Colonies . Of the parts to be undertaken by Miss Lily Hanbury , Miss Fanny Brough , Mr . Leonard Boyne , Mr . Wm . Abingdon , and Mr . Wm . Mollnson mention has already been made .

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