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PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SURREY . THE RT . HON . THE EARL OF ONSLOW , G . C . M . G ., R . W . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . July , 1 S 97 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Provincial Grand Lodge will be held at THE ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST . ANNE ' S SOCIETY , REDHILL , on THURSDAY , the 22 nd day of J , 1897 , at 4 . 30 p . m . precisely . By command . CHARLES T . TYLER , P . M ., Prov . Grand Secretary . N . B . —Morning Dress . 2 , Bank Buildings , Woking . BUJINESS BEFORE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE . To read the Minutes of the last P . G . Lodge . To call over Roll of Lodges in the Province . To receive the Report of the Audit Committee . To receive the Report of the Charity Committee . To elect a Provincial Grand Treasurer . The appointment of Provincial Grand Officers . General Business . Banquet at 6 . 30 p . m . punctually at the MARKET HALL , REDHILL . N . B . —Banquet will be provided for those only who have taken tickets ( price 7 s . 6 d . exclusive of wine ) , for which application must be made to the Asst . P . G . Sec , Bro . W . A . LATHAM , at Albert Institute Chambers , Charlesstreet , Blackfriars-road , S . E .
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PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER OF SURREY . THE RT . HON . THE EARL OF ONSLOW , G . C . M . G ., M . E . GRAND SUPERINTENDENT . July , 1 S 97 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Provincial Grand Chapter will be held at THE ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST . ANNE ' S SOCIETY , REDHILL , in the County of SURREY , on THURSDAY , the 22 nd day of J , 1 S 97 , at 3 . 30 p . m . precisely . By command . CHARLES T . TYLER , P . P . G . J ., Prov . Grand Scribe E . Morning Dress . 2 , Bank Buildings , Woking . BUSINESS BEFORE PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER . To read the Minutes of the last P . G . Chapter . To call over thc Chapters in the Province . To receive the Report of the Audit Committee . To elect a Provincial Grand Treasurer . The appointment of Provincial Grand Officers . General Business . Banquet at 6 . 30 p . m . punctually . N . B . —Banquet will be provided for those only who have taken tickets . The Companions will banquet with the Provincial Grand Lodge .
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PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF MIDDLESEX . RT . HON . LORD GEORGE FRANCIS HAMILTON , M . P ., Her Majesty ' s Secretary of State for India , Past Grand Warden of England , R . W . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . The ANNUAL MEETING of the Provincial Grand Lodge will be held at the PUBLIC HALL , HAKROW-ON - THE-HILL , on SATURDAY , the 17 th day of J , under the Presidency of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master . The Provincial Grand Lodge will be opened punctually at 3 . 45 o'clock p . m . By command . HOWARD H . ROOM , 19 , John-street , Adelphi , Prov . Grand Secretary . London , W . C . Morning Dress and Masonic Clothing . 'The most convenient route from London is by the Metropolitan Railway , via Baker-street Station . There will be a special fast train from No . 3 platform at 2 . 49 p . m ., reaching Harrow at 3 . 14 , thus enabling the Brethren to arrive in good time for the meeting .
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THE SHIP AND TURTLE , Proprietor , Bro . C . J . PAINTER . Best and oldest house in London for recherchd Masonic Banquets , Private Parties , and Dinners . ASSEMBLY ROOMS FOR COMPANIES , & C . OUR TURTLE "THE ELIXIR OF LIFE " Vide faculty . Purveyors to H . R . H . Prince of Wales , H . I . M . Empuir of Russia , Dukes of Saxe Gotha , Connaught , Cambridge , and most ot Crowned Heads of Europe . Manager , Bro . E . ASIIBY .
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ARMFIELD'S SOUTH PLACE HOTEL , FINSBURY , LONDON , E . G ., This new and V •andsomely-furnished Hotel is now FULLY LfCENCED . fts position is central , and charges are moderate ; the sanitation is perfect . Passenger lift to each door . SPECIAL CONVENIENCE FOR MASONIC LODGES , DINNERS AND CINDERELLAS .
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pAIETY RESTAURANT , STRAND . LUNCHEONS ( H OT AND COLD ) , At Popular Prices , in BUFFET and R ESTAURANT ( on First Floor ) , also Chops , Steaks , Joints , Entries , & c , in the GRILL ROOM . AFTERNOON TEA , Consisting of Tea or Coffee , Cut Bread and Butter , Jam , Cake , Pastry , ad lib ., at Is . per head , served from 4 till 6 in RESTAURANT ( First Floor ) . DINNERS IN RESTAURANT From 5 . 30 till 9 , at fixed prices ( 3 s . 6 d . and 5 s . ) and a la Carte . In this room THE VIENNESE BAND performs from 6 till 8 . Smoking after 7 . 45 . AMERICAN BAR . THE GRILL ROOM is open till 12 . 30 . PRIVATE DINING ROOMS for large and small Parties . SPIERS & POND , Ltd ., PROPRIETORS .
Ar00908
MSreSasoOT SATURDAY , J ULY IO , 1897 .
Masonic Notes.
Masonic Notes .
The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of North and East Yorkshire , which will be held , on the invitation of the Lion Lodge , No . 312 , at the Saloon , Whitby , on Thursday next , the 15 th instant , will be attended with circumstances of unusual
interest . In the first place , the entertaining lodge , which was established at Whitby on the 30 th January , 1797—the warrant being dated about a fortnight earlier—will celebrate ( he centenary of its constitution , and Bro . the Rev . E . Fox-Thomas , P . M ., P . P . G . C , who has
compiled a " History of Freemasonry in Whitby from 176 4 to 18 97 , " will deliver a brief address appropriate to so auspicious an occasion . From the particulars set forth in Bro . John Lane ' s " Masonic Records " ( second edition ) the Lion appears to have the bump of locality
very strongly developed . It has met during the whole of its career in Whitby , and has moved its quarters only three times in the century—from the Golden Lion , where it was constituted , to the Freemasons '
Tavern , Baxtergate , in 1813 ; from the Freemasons ' Tavern to the Angel Inn in 1815 ; and from the Angel to the Masonic Hall , John-street , West Cliff , in 1859 . When the time arrives , we shall gladly find space for a report of so interesting a meeting .
There will also be reported to Prov . G . Lodge the result of the fifth Festival held in York on the ioth May in behalf of the Provincial Educalional Fund , From the statement appended to the summons it
Masonic Notes.
appears that the amount of donations and subscriptions at this Festival was £ iosg us ., nearly all the lodges in the Province having taken part in the celebration . Among those which contributed most largely were the York Lodge , No . 236 " , C 150 ; the Humber , No . 57 , £ 110 is . 6 d .: the Minerva , £ S $ ; the De Ia Pole , No .
1605 , £ ' 70 3 s . 6 d . ; the North York , No . 602 , . C 63 4 s . ; the Eboracum , No . 1611 , C 50 4 s . ; and the Alexandra , No . 5 , £ 49 10 s . If we remember rightly , the in augural Festival in behalf of this Provincial Charity realised over . C 1000 , so that our North and East Yorkshire brethren are evidently determined to maintain it in a state of as complete efliciency as possible .
* * * As we have said in reference to these Provincial organisations on many former occasions , we believe it is a great benefit to local Freemasonry that they should be established . There are several Provinces which have had for many years institutions of this kind both
for educational and benevolent purposes , and we have always striven to do justice to the excellent services they have rendered as supplementary to the great Central Institutions , which are open to candidates generally from all parts of the jurisdiction over which
the Grand Lodge of England presides . The competition for vacancies in these Central Institutions is very keen , and a Province" which cannot regularly secure the election of its candidates can always help them materially by means of these local organisations .
* » * Following on the recent successful banquet of the Empire Lodge to distinguished Indian and Colonial brethren visiting this country for the Diamond Jubilee commemoration , a special meeting of the lodge was held on Tuesday , the 29 th ult ., for the purpose of initiating into the Craft two illustrious Indian Princes in
the persons of H . H . the Raja Ajit Singh , Bahadur of Ketri , and H . H . Rajkuma Umaid Singh . The ceremony was performed by Bro . Lennox Browne , P . D . G . D . of C , the senior Past Master and Treasurer , in the presence of a full gathering of members and visitors , while the ancient charge was delivered by the W . M ., Bro . Davidson Kemp .
# * * At the banquet which followed , Bro . Kunwar Cheda Singh Varma , a member of the English Bar , acknowledged the toast on behalf of the initiates , and in the course of his remarks expressed his personal gratification that the Empire Lodge continued true to
its name and objects , by receiving into the Craft and into the lodge , gentlemen from such distant lands , He mentioned that the first of the distinguished Princes initiated that evening claims descent from Raja Ram Chandera , the hero of the Ramjana , and is acknowledged as a ruler of great intelligence and
beneficence . 1 he second Prince , the young Rajkuma , is his son-in-law , and is heir to a beautiful estate near Ajmere , the independence of which his ancestors won from Oodeypore , by the sword . His family claims the unique distinction of never having bowed to thc supremacy of the Mohammendan rule .
* * Few meetings have been held at which the harmony and kindly feeling existing among Masons have been more delightfully exemplified than that of the Constitutional Lodge , No . 294 , Beverley . The more immediate purpose for which the lodge assembled was to
celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of her Majesty the Queen , but there was also a supplementary purpose in holding it , namely , to present to Bro . the Earl ot Londesborough , P . M ., P . G . W . of England , a handsome moose deer head on the occasion of his birthday , the gift of the W . M ., officers , and members of the Liberty
Lodge , Beverley , Mass ., U . S . A ., as a slight memento ol the esteem and respect in which they held his lordship , and in recognition of the fraternal kindness which on previous occasions had been exhibited by his lordship and the other members of Lodge Constitutional to their brethren of Lodge Liberty at
Beverley in Massachusetts . As Lord Londesborough is known to be a keen sportsman , the choice of an American deer ' s head was an extremely happy one , and though no member of the lodge was present at thc meeting , Liberty Lodge had a most worthy representative in Bro . Thompson Foley , P . M ., Past Prov . G . S . of Wks ., who made the presentation on its
behalf . But what chiefly makes this meeting memorable is the evidence it furnishes of the true Masonic spirit by which the brethren of lodges on opposite sides ofthe Atlantic and living under different Governments are actuated towards each other . We trust this feeling may always continue and that more occasions for illustrating it may arise in the future .
* * * Wc regret that , owing to the pressure upon our space , we have found ourselves under the necessity of holding over till next week our article on Part 1 . " Ars Quatuor Coronatorum , " of the volume lor thc current year , as well aa other important items .
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Ad00902
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SURREY . THE RT . HON . THE EARL OF ONSLOW , G . C . M . G ., R . W . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . July , 1 S 97 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Provincial Grand Lodge will be held at THE ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST . ANNE ' S SOCIETY , REDHILL , on THURSDAY , the 22 nd day of J , 1897 , at 4 . 30 p . m . precisely . By command . CHARLES T . TYLER , P . M ., Prov . Grand Secretary . N . B . —Morning Dress . 2 , Bank Buildings , Woking . BUJINESS BEFORE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE . To read the Minutes of the last P . G . Lodge . To call over Roll of Lodges in the Province . To receive the Report of the Audit Committee . To receive the Report of the Charity Committee . To elect a Provincial Grand Treasurer . The appointment of Provincial Grand Officers . General Business . Banquet at 6 . 30 p . m . punctually at the MARKET HALL , REDHILL . N . B . —Banquet will be provided for those only who have taken tickets ( price 7 s . 6 d . exclusive of wine ) , for which application must be made to the Asst . P . G . Sec , Bro . W . A . LATHAM , at Albert Institute Chambers , Charlesstreet , Blackfriars-road , S . E .
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PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER OF SURREY . THE RT . HON . THE EARL OF ONSLOW , G . C . M . G ., M . E . GRAND SUPERINTENDENT . July , 1 S 97 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Provincial Grand Chapter will be held at THE ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST . ANNE ' S SOCIETY , REDHILL , in the County of SURREY , on THURSDAY , the 22 nd day of J , 1 S 97 , at 3 . 30 p . m . precisely . By command . CHARLES T . TYLER , P . P . G . J ., Prov . Grand Scribe E . Morning Dress . 2 , Bank Buildings , Woking . BUSINESS BEFORE PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER . To read the Minutes of the last P . G . Chapter . To call over thc Chapters in the Province . To receive the Report of the Audit Committee . To elect a Provincial Grand Treasurer . The appointment of Provincial Grand Officers . General Business . Banquet at 6 . 30 p . m . punctually . N . B . —Banquet will be provided for those only who have taken tickets . The Companions will banquet with the Provincial Grand Lodge .
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PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF MIDDLESEX . RT . HON . LORD GEORGE FRANCIS HAMILTON , M . P ., Her Majesty ' s Secretary of State for India , Past Grand Warden of England , R . W . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . The ANNUAL MEETING of the Provincial Grand Lodge will be held at the PUBLIC HALL , HAKROW-ON - THE-HILL , on SATURDAY , the 17 th day of J , under the Presidency of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master . The Provincial Grand Lodge will be opened punctually at 3 . 45 o'clock p . m . By command . HOWARD H . ROOM , 19 , John-street , Adelphi , Prov . Grand Secretary . London , W . C . Morning Dress and Masonic Clothing . 'The most convenient route from London is by the Metropolitan Railway , via Baker-street Station . There will be a special fast train from No . 3 platform at 2 . 49 p . m ., reaching Harrow at 3 . 14 , thus enabling the Brethren to arrive in good time for the meeting .
Ad00903
THE SHIP AND TURTLE , Proprietor , Bro . C . J . PAINTER . Best and oldest house in London for recherchd Masonic Banquets , Private Parties , and Dinners . ASSEMBLY ROOMS FOR COMPANIES , & C . OUR TURTLE "THE ELIXIR OF LIFE " Vide faculty . Purveyors to H . R . H . Prince of Wales , H . I . M . Empuir of Russia , Dukes of Saxe Gotha , Connaught , Cambridge , and most ot Crowned Heads of Europe . Manager , Bro . E . ASIIBY .
Ad00906
ARMFIELD'S SOUTH PLACE HOTEL , FINSBURY , LONDON , E . G ., This new and V •andsomely-furnished Hotel is now FULLY LfCENCED . fts position is central , and charges are moderate ; the sanitation is perfect . Passenger lift to each door . SPECIAL CONVENIENCE FOR MASONIC LODGES , DINNERS AND CINDERELLAS .
Ad00907
pAIETY RESTAURANT , STRAND . LUNCHEONS ( H OT AND COLD ) , At Popular Prices , in BUFFET and R ESTAURANT ( on First Floor ) , also Chops , Steaks , Joints , Entries , & c , in the GRILL ROOM . AFTERNOON TEA , Consisting of Tea or Coffee , Cut Bread and Butter , Jam , Cake , Pastry , ad lib ., at Is . per head , served from 4 till 6 in RESTAURANT ( First Floor ) . DINNERS IN RESTAURANT From 5 . 30 till 9 , at fixed prices ( 3 s . 6 d . and 5 s . ) and a la Carte . In this room THE VIENNESE BAND performs from 6 till 8 . Smoking after 7 . 45 . AMERICAN BAR . THE GRILL ROOM is open till 12 . 30 . PRIVATE DINING ROOMS for large and small Parties . SPIERS & POND , Ltd ., PROPRIETORS .
Ar00908
MSreSasoOT SATURDAY , J ULY IO , 1897 .
Masonic Notes.
Masonic Notes .
The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of North and East Yorkshire , which will be held , on the invitation of the Lion Lodge , No . 312 , at the Saloon , Whitby , on Thursday next , the 15 th instant , will be attended with circumstances of unusual
interest . In the first place , the entertaining lodge , which was established at Whitby on the 30 th January , 1797—the warrant being dated about a fortnight earlier—will celebrate ( he centenary of its constitution , and Bro . the Rev . E . Fox-Thomas , P . M ., P . P . G . C , who has
compiled a " History of Freemasonry in Whitby from 176 4 to 18 97 , " will deliver a brief address appropriate to so auspicious an occasion . From the particulars set forth in Bro . John Lane ' s " Masonic Records " ( second edition ) the Lion appears to have the bump of locality
very strongly developed . It has met during the whole of its career in Whitby , and has moved its quarters only three times in the century—from the Golden Lion , where it was constituted , to the Freemasons '
Tavern , Baxtergate , in 1813 ; from the Freemasons ' Tavern to the Angel Inn in 1815 ; and from the Angel to the Masonic Hall , John-street , West Cliff , in 1859 . When the time arrives , we shall gladly find space for a report of so interesting a meeting .
There will also be reported to Prov . G . Lodge the result of the fifth Festival held in York on the ioth May in behalf of the Provincial Educalional Fund , From the statement appended to the summons it
Masonic Notes.
appears that the amount of donations and subscriptions at this Festival was £ iosg us ., nearly all the lodges in the Province having taken part in the celebration . Among those which contributed most largely were the York Lodge , No . 236 " , C 150 ; the Humber , No . 57 , £ 110 is . 6 d .: the Minerva , £ S $ ; the De Ia Pole , No .
1605 , £ ' 70 3 s . 6 d . ; the North York , No . 602 , . C 63 4 s . ; the Eboracum , No . 1611 , C 50 4 s . ; and the Alexandra , No . 5 , £ 49 10 s . If we remember rightly , the in augural Festival in behalf of this Provincial Charity realised over . C 1000 , so that our North and East Yorkshire brethren are evidently determined to maintain it in a state of as complete efliciency as possible .
* * * As we have said in reference to these Provincial organisations on many former occasions , we believe it is a great benefit to local Freemasonry that they should be established . There are several Provinces which have had for many years institutions of this kind both
for educational and benevolent purposes , and we have always striven to do justice to the excellent services they have rendered as supplementary to the great Central Institutions , which are open to candidates generally from all parts of the jurisdiction over which
the Grand Lodge of England presides . The competition for vacancies in these Central Institutions is very keen , and a Province" which cannot regularly secure the election of its candidates can always help them materially by means of these local organisations .
* » * Following on the recent successful banquet of the Empire Lodge to distinguished Indian and Colonial brethren visiting this country for the Diamond Jubilee commemoration , a special meeting of the lodge was held on Tuesday , the 29 th ult ., for the purpose of initiating into the Craft two illustrious Indian Princes in
the persons of H . H . the Raja Ajit Singh , Bahadur of Ketri , and H . H . Rajkuma Umaid Singh . The ceremony was performed by Bro . Lennox Browne , P . D . G . D . of C , the senior Past Master and Treasurer , in the presence of a full gathering of members and visitors , while the ancient charge was delivered by the W . M ., Bro . Davidson Kemp .
# * * At the banquet which followed , Bro . Kunwar Cheda Singh Varma , a member of the English Bar , acknowledged the toast on behalf of the initiates , and in the course of his remarks expressed his personal gratification that the Empire Lodge continued true to
its name and objects , by receiving into the Craft and into the lodge , gentlemen from such distant lands , He mentioned that the first of the distinguished Princes initiated that evening claims descent from Raja Ram Chandera , the hero of the Ramjana , and is acknowledged as a ruler of great intelligence and
beneficence . 1 he second Prince , the young Rajkuma , is his son-in-law , and is heir to a beautiful estate near Ajmere , the independence of which his ancestors won from Oodeypore , by the sword . His family claims the unique distinction of never having bowed to thc supremacy of the Mohammendan rule .
* * Few meetings have been held at which the harmony and kindly feeling existing among Masons have been more delightfully exemplified than that of the Constitutional Lodge , No . 294 , Beverley . The more immediate purpose for which the lodge assembled was to
celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of her Majesty the Queen , but there was also a supplementary purpose in holding it , namely , to present to Bro . the Earl ot Londesborough , P . M ., P . G . W . of England , a handsome moose deer head on the occasion of his birthday , the gift of the W . M ., officers , and members of the Liberty
Lodge , Beverley , Mass ., U . S . A ., as a slight memento ol the esteem and respect in which they held his lordship , and in recognition of the fraternal kindness which on previous occasions had been exhibited by his lordship and the other members of Lodge Constitutional to their brethren of Lodge Liberty at
Beverley in Massachusetts . As Lord Londesborough is known to be a keen sportsman , the choice of an American deer ' s head was an extremely happy one , and though no member of the lodge was present at thc meeting , Liberty Lodge had a most worthy representative in Bro . Thompson Foley , P . M ., Past Prov . G . S . of Wks ., who made the presentation on its
behalf . But what chiefly makes this meeting memorable is the evidence it furnishes of the true Masonic spirit by which the brethren of lodges on opposite sides ofthe Atlantic and living under different Governments are actuated towards each other . We trust this feeling may always continue and that more occasions for illustrating it may arise in the future .
* * * Wc regret that , owing to the pressure upon our space , we have found ourselves under the necessity of holding over till next week our article on Part 1 . " Ars Quatuor Coronatorum , " of the volume lor thc current year , as well aa other important items .