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^ Ms- ^^^ SATURDAY , J ANUARY II , 18 9 6 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution held their regular monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday and as a result of their proceedings , we are in a position to announce that the lists of candidates for the election

in May next will consist of 62 men and 53 widows . We shall have occasion to speak of this and other matters connected with this Institution in put issue of next week . » * *

: We have much , pleasure in ahnptihcilng that the Baliol Chapter , attached to the Barnard Lodge , No . 12 3 , Barnard Castle , will be consecrated in the Masonic Hall ) 1 Barnard Cas . ih ? , y $ ( i ( " Friday iinejxrt , ; [ he 17 th lost ., at 4 p . m . The ceremony will be performed by Comp . Sir Hedworth Williamson . Bart ., Grand

Masonic Notes.

Superintendent , Durham , assisted by the officers of his Provincial Grand Chapter , and will be followed by the installation of the Principals designate , namely , Comps . Richard Luck , M . A ., P . Z ., P . P . G . J ., as M . E . Z . ; W . C . Barron as H . ; and B . S . Beckwith as J . The customary banquet will be held at the King's Head Hotel at 6 p . m .

The report of the syndicate appointed by the Uni versity of Cambridge to provide for the examination of schools which was recently presented to the Board of Management of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , and referred to at the meeting of the Council on the 27 th ult ., is eminently satisfactory . The range of

subjects in which the School was examined was a wide one , and in the opinion of the examiner , there is no doubt that " a thoroughly sound and practical education is being given " to " Our Boys . " As the report in question was published in full last week , there

is no need to go into particulars as regards the proficiency of the several classes in the subjects in which they were examined . Suffice it to say that only in a few instances were there any shortcomings noted , while in the majority the praise bestowed by the examiner was unstinted .

# * * But this is not all . The improvements and additions to the requirements of the School which have been made during the past year are spoken of with approbation . The organisation is declared to be " most satisfactory . " The result of the examination is said to have

convinced the examiner that " much steady work had been done " since his last visit , while as regards " the tone and demeanour of the boys , " he affirmed that they " left nothing to be desired . " It is thus evident that after instituting a series of careful and

discriminating tests , the examiner feels himself justified in pronouncing the training and education which the pupils of our Royal Masonic Institution for Boys are receiving as being highly creditable , and we trust this report will be borne in mind when the time approaches for the celebration of this year's Anniversary Festival .

* * » We are very sensible of the kindly tone adopted towards this journal by the New Zealand Craftsman in its October issue , and its manifest desire to help in putting an end to the difficulties by which Freemasonry in that Colony is just now beset . It is hardly worth while

discussing its statement that , in ascribing to the founders of the ] unrecognised Grand Lodge of New Zealand theresponsibility forthe present lamentable condition of New Zealand Freemasonry , we have been misled by the information we have received . It is enough that both we and our contemporary are sincerely anxious that

harmony should be restored with as little delay as possible among the brethren of the different sections of the Craft in the Colony . Perhaps the Craftsman will avail itself of the opportunity which oui \ recent and present articles , on the subject furnish of instilling

into the minds of its readers the absolute necessity that exists for a speedy termination of . the New Zealand imbroglio . There is no reason why the Craft in this Colony should be less happily circumstanced than in other parts of her Majesty ' s dominions .

* » * In its December issue the Canadian Craftsman is kind enough to quote in full and comment upon a former article of ours on " The Doctrine of Exclusive Jurisdiction . " Its remarks are couched , as usual , in a friendly spirit , but it loses sight of one or two facts

which are of some slight importance in any attempt to settle the point at issue between us . We do not object to the Doctrine of Exclusive Jurisdiction as interpreted by American Masons , provided the interpretation is limited to American Masonry . We

admitted the right of a new Grand Lodge fo exclusive jurisdiction within its own territorial limits in 1770 , when we recognised the Grand Lodge of the Netherlands , but we did so conditionally that lodges which elected to remain under our banner should be free to

doso . # * * This principle of freedom to remain in allegiance to our Grand Lodge in the case of lodges which are desirous of so remaining has been embodied in every act of recognition that has since been issued by our Grand Lodge ' authorities , , and considering that { it- : is the- local

lodges themselves which elect to remain , not we who force them to do so , we see no reason why that principle shpuld be modified , . If sundry lodges onythe spot evince a determination not to cast in their lot with' a newly-formed Grand Lodge , it is not for us to say them nay . ; ¦ : Moreover , as we have again and again pointed out , our Grand Lodge , even if it had the will , has not the power of compelling them to quit our ranks .