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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday was fairly well attended , as is usually the case when the new Grand Officers for the ensuing year are appointed and invested . But beyond this function , which always

causes a certain amount of pleasurable excitement , especially among those who are fortunate enough to be appointed to office , there was little business to be done . It will be noticed that in the list of new Grand Officers are included thc names of several who were not honoured with the purple of Grand Lodge . This

happens by no means infrequently , as there are generally some brethren appointed to oflice in Grand Lodge who arc not qualified to receive it in Grand Chapter , and to fill the appointments , which would otherwise be left vacant , companions of eminence in the Royal Arch tre selected . Among those who have

been thus fortunate are thc Provincial Grand Scribes E . of Bristol , Devonshire , and Nottinghamshire , a companion ( Comp . Bullock ) On whom brevet rank in Grand Lodge was conferred last year , and Comps . Kiallmark , Ebbetts , Major Bridges , and Stanley Attenborough , whose names are familiar enough to our readers .

Masonic Notes.

We take this last opportunity of calling attention to the important event which will be celebrated at Freemasons' Tavern on Wednesday next , under the presidency of Bro . Lord Llangattock , Prov . G . Master of South Wales , Eastern Division . We have already expressed our regret that the Board of Stewards who

will support his lordship is considerably less numerous than was last year ' s Board , and we must repeat the hope we have already expressed on several occasions that a strong effort will be made by the Stewards to obtain big lists and thus make amends for the falling off in their numbers .

* * » We realise that the task of obtaining subscriptions is very difficult at a time when every institution in the country is appealing for a full measure of public support . Even the wealthiest people will be unable to countenance all the worthy schemes which may be

brought to their notice . We must , confess , however , to being selfish enough to wish that whatever Charitable Institutions may obtain only a moderate amount of contributions , those maintained by the English brethren will not be amongst them . We trust thc Returns will reach such a total as will enable

the authorities to defray the year ' s expenditure and still leave over enough to make a further addition to the slender stock of invested capital . This is not asking too much in the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee . * * *

One important function connected with the Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls will take place at the School , Battersea Rise , on Monday afternoon , namely , the distribution of prizes and the customary musical and calisthenic exercises by the pupils . Tho distribution will be made by Lady

Llangattock , wife of the year ' s Festival Chairman , while the calisthenics and marchings , which are always so splendidly carried out and form one of the chief attractions of the day , will take place at the commencement , instead of at the end , of the proceedings . Given fine weather , and we doubt not there will be a

large gathering of visitors , while those who may wish to inspect the premises will have the opportunity of doing so under the guidance of sundry of the prefects , and are requested to assemble in thc Alexandra Hall at 6 p . m . A well-chosen programme of vocal and instrumental music will be carried out during the afternoon .

* * * Thc spring half-yearly meeting of the Great Priory of the Order of the Temple , will bo at Mark Masons ' Hall , Great Qucen-strcct , W . C , on Friday , the 14 th instant , at 5 . 45 for 6 p . m . precisely , when the regular business , including thc appointment and investiture of

Grand Officers for the ensuing year , will be transacted . The banquet will bc held at Freemasons' Tavern , at 7 p . m . Tickets , price one guinea , to be had of the Great Vice-Chancellor , V . E . Knight C . Fitzgerald Matier , Mark Masons' Hall , W . C , on or before Monday , thc ioth instant .

Among the matters contained in thc Report of the Council is a recommendation " that a loyal and respectful address should be presented to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen , thc Royal Patron of thc Order of the Temple and Hospital in England , to

congratulate her on arriving at the sixtieth year of her glorious and benignant reign . " There is also an announcement to the effect that "V . E . Kni ght the Rev . C . E . L . Wright , G . Prelate , has offered to complete the official regalia of the office of Great Prelate b y presenting a violet cassock , " and that the "Council

have gratefully accepted " the gift . It may also be mentioned that thc audited statement of the Great Treasurer's account to the 28 th February of the current year shows balances on the General and Benevolent Funds amounting together to not far short of . £ 700 :

that the funds of Great Priory are now , in accordance with the recommendation of the Finance Committee , invested in Trustees' Securities ; and that the current account has been transferred to the London and Westminster Bank , Limited , Bloomsbury Branch . *•* - * *

Wc have very great pleasure in announcing that thc Empire Lodge , No . 210 S , which was founded in 188 , 5 as a kind of Masonic Home where brethren from the Colonies would be most heartily welcomed in London , proposes , under thc auspices of several distinguished

officers of Grand Lodge , to entertain those among our Colonial and Indian guests who are members of the Craft , on the occasion of their visit to this country for the Diamond Jubilee festivities , and that the entertainment will take the form of a banquet , which will be

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held at the Hotel Cecil , on Monday , the 14 th June , after thc great Masonic meeting in the Royal Albert Hall , South Kensington . * # # We are also pleased to be in a position to state that the authorities at the Colonial and India Offices , as well as the various Agents-G eneral of the Colonies in

England , are affording every assistance in their power , and to add that communications from Colonial and Indian visitors are invited by the Treasurer of the Empire Lodge , Bro . Lennox Browne , Past Dep . G . Director of Ceremonies , 15 , Mansfield-street , Portlandplace , W . * * *

It seems that we were misinformed as to the circumstances attending the death of our late lamented Bro . T . R . Arter , Prov . S . G . W . Worcestershire . He did not succumb to an operation performed under the influence of chloroform . On the contrary , the operation was successful , and no amesthetic was

administered . But the shock to a system already weakened by the disease from which he had long suffered was too great , and he was never able to recover his strength . It is at the particular request of one of the family of our deceased brother that we make this correction .

# # # The Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland was held at Freemasons' Hall , Edinburgh , on Thursday , the 6 th instant , when , in accordance with a recommendation of the Grand Committee at its meeting on the 25 th March , it was

unanimously resolved to present an address of congratulation to her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee . Among the other recommendations of the Grand Committee were the following : For the appointment of Bro . the Earl of Rosslyn

as Prov . G . M . of Fife and Kinross , vice Bro . J . H . Balfour Melville resigned ; and of his Excellency Bro Lord Sandhurst , Governor of Bombay , as Grand Master of all Scottish Freemasonry in India , vice Bro James W . Smith resigned .

* * * We have received a copy of a small but—so far as we have been able to judge from a hasty perusal of its contents , a very valuable—pamphlet , entitled " Grand Lodge Decisions , " as " extracted from the authorised reports of the Grand Lodge of England during the

past 25 years . " It has been edited , arranged , and annotated by Bro . the Rev . J . T . Lawrence , M . A ., P . M . 273 , Dist . J . G . Warden of Madras , and is dedicated to the R . W . Bro . G . M . J . Moore , R . A ., CLE ., District G . Master . Us title indicates clearly enough that it is likely to prove useful as a work of reference ,

and if our Rev . Bro . Lawrence has done his work of compilation with the ability which characterises his editorship of the Indian Masonic Review , we feel sure it will prove a welcome addition to our slender stock of works of this class . But for thc demands upon Our

time and space , we should have reviewed it in the present issue . As it is , we must be content for the present with this brief introduction of " Grand Lodge Decisions " to the notice of our readers and hold over our review till the Girls' School Festival has been held and reported .

The annual festival of the Grand Master ' s Lodge of Instruction for Mark Master Masons will bc held at Mark Masons' Hall on Thursday , the 20 th instant . The ceremony of advancement will be rehearsed , with Bro . W . Vincent in the chair as W . M ., and Bro . H . R . Rose , P . G . Org ., at the organ . Bro . Viscount

Dungarvan , D . G . M ., will occupy the chair at the banquet at Freemasons' Tavern , which will follow the work in lodge , and tickets for which , price 6 s . each—not 21 s ., as stated in error last week—must be obtained on or before Tuesday , the iSth instant , either of Bro . John Smith , 4 , The Crescent , Bedford , or at Mark Masons ' Hall .

THE GOLU AND SILVER WVRE DRAWERS' COMPANY gave a ball on Thursday evening at the Holborn Restaurant , a large number of guests assembled and were received by the Master , Colonel P . Cowan . The band of the Royal Artillery provided the music for the evening .

BKO . THE EARL OF LATHO . M ( Lord Chamberlain ) and the Countess of Lathom entertained the Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and their daughter , Princess Victoria . at dinner at their residence , 41 , Portland-place , on Wednesday evening , a select party of guests being invited to meet their Royal Highnesses .

MR . BAYARO , the retiring Ambassador for the United States of America , performed what must prove his last public appearance on Thursday afternoon . Accompanied by Mrs . Bayard and some 300 guests , he travelled down to Chorley Wood to lay the foundation-stone of a new home for men in the colony for the employ in : nt of epileptics at Chalfont St . Peter ' s , of which Bro . Passmore Edwards is the donor .