Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS < 77 Provincial Grand Lodge of Cambridgeshire 578 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Dorset 578 Some Ancient York Masons and their Early Haunts ( Continued ) JJ 8 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Worcestershire 579 Consecration of the Grand Stewards' Lodge

ot Mark Master Masons 579 CORRESPONDENCEThe Portraits for the New Temple 581 Temperance Lodges 581 Masonic Mendicancy 583 The Prestonian Lecture 5 82 Masonic Emblems among Savages 582 Confirmation of Minutes 582 Boys' and Girls' Industrial Homes 582

Notes and Queries 582 REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 583 Instruction 586 Royal Arch 587 Mark Masonry 587 Ancient and Accepted Rite 58 7 Red Cross of Constantine 585

Knights Templar 587 Ireland 588 British Hairdressers' Benevolent Institution 588 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 588 Royal Masonic Benevolent Iustitution 588 The Craft Abroad 588 Obituary 589 Masonic and General Tidings £ 90 Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .

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THE nomination of three brethren for the Grand Treasurership suggests many reflections . The services and claims of these brethren are before the Craft , and it is not for the Freemason to seek to anticipate the eventual decision of Grand Lodge . There are those of us who will for one reason or other support one of the candidates , in preference to the other two , and

we must leave it to time to demonstrate , who of these candidates will command a distinct majority of active and earnest supporters . One point , however , comes out clearly , which deserves notice and demands attention . It is the claim of the provinces to have a provincial brother elected as Grand Treasurer . We confess that we cannot see how such a claim can fairly be

denied or properly refused . The provinces are in the great majority as respects the metropolitan lodges ; they now send up even , if not over , returns as regards our great Charities ; they possess in their members many brethren of undoubted rank , prestige , and ability , Masonic work and Masonic fame ; and if the election on alternate years of a Grand Treasurer ,

for instance , should bring in a friendly provincial brother of suitable rank and antecedents , no one will have a right to complain , no one will be disposed to find fault , the least our good London brethren . We are ourselves not sorry to see a worthy provincial brother thus formally brought forward , as we think great good may come of thus asking Grand Lodge to

depart from the stereotyped custom of selecting always a London brother . And though , for various patent reasons , the Freemason is nentral as between the merits of the opposing candidates , which is its true position on such matters , as it cannot properly seek to do more than keep the facts of passing history before its readers , without pronouncing an opinion in favour of

any one in particular , or affecting to lift the veil from the future , yet we think it right , once for all , to say here , for fear of misconception , that we are entirely in favour of the principle of nominating , from time to time , provincial , qua provincial , candidates , for the approval and selection of Grand Lodge .

* * * J now the irresistible visitor Death seems to be very busy in our ranks . Hardly a week passes but that we have to record in our pages the departure for the " great and silent land " of some worthy comrade , some well-known brother . It seems a very sad thing at times to realize now this ending for

us all alike of earthly friendship and pleasant companionship ; but so it is , and , as well instructed Freemasons , we bow with submissive resignation to the will , dispensation , and Providence of T . G . A . O . T . U . Two brethren in particular passed away last week , whom we shall many of us have well known , and very sincerely regret . We mean Bros . LEVANDER and H . J . SOUTHWOOD . In Bro . LEVANDER the Province of Middlesex loses a most

effective officer , and the Craft universal a most worthy and accomplished member . His learning and his geniality [ always went hand in hand , and few brethren had more mastered , alike in the abstract and the concrete , the generous , the sympathetic , and the elevating principles of Freemasonry . Bro . J . H . SOUTHWOOD is well-known by his connection with the lohn

Hervey Lodge . He was a very valuable officer , and a very zealous Freemason , and his loss will be much felt by his brethren . They will both be missed much in their respective circles , and we are glad , as Craftsmen , to offer a sincere tribute of kindly regard and regret for their lamented and premature decease .

* * * WE are glad in being able to confirm the assurance of a "Past Grand Officer " in our last , that no private meeting of Grand Officers , Past and Present , took place , to consider the nomination of a Grand Treasurer . At least , if such a meeting assembled , " it is a " Caucus "unknown to the great majority

of the Grand Officers , and therefore we do not credit the assertion for one moment , and deem our correspondent entirely misinformed on the subject . It would be in the most possible form for Grand Officers , qua Grand Officers , to do . anything of thekind . There have been times , no doubt , within ourmemory , where meetings have led to meetings , but meetings composed of all

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ranks members of Grand Lodge . In all societies where office is to be given away which ensures emolument or commands prestige , such meetings will take place , and there is something in the theory that we are not to be hurried into nominations without previous thought or weighing of claims .

The result of the nomination on Wednesday week proves the incorrectness of our good correspondent , " Sky Blue ' s " ideas on the subject . We therefore are glad to repeat , that the statement of a private meeting of Grand Officers is a " Canard . "

* OUR distinguished Bro . Sir CHAS . WARREN claims all our good wishes in his arduous and distant mission . A very zealous Mason , he will

on his return from Bechuanaland be installed W . M . of a new lodge , and we feel that it is something to have enlisted into the hearty work of our Order so good an officer and so great an authority on subjects which are so cognate to all our Masonic sympathies , traditions , and mystic lore .

* # * THE arrangement which gives us a portrait of the PRO GRAND MASTER in the Great Hall is one which will meet with the entire approval of the Craft . No one has ever presided over Grand Lodge with more courtesy and tact , with a more evident desire to do justice to all , than has our very distin .

guished Bro . the Earl of CARNARVON , Pro Grand Master . His presence is always hailed with gratification and confidence , because we know we have for our Presiding Officer a " bright Mason , " one well versed in the Constitutions , as well as in the traditional history of our Order . It was both fitting and expedient that his portrait should have a place found for it in the Great Home of English Freemasonry ,

* # * WE think it right to mention that at the meeting of Antiquity , No . 2 ( emergency ) and St . James ' s Chapter , No . 2 , the regular meeting , the lamented death of Bro . Lieut .-Col . CREATON was mentioned in very feeling

and affecting terms . A warm expression of the sense of the great loss Craft and Royal Arch Masonry had sustained , was placed on the minute books of each body , and a vote of condolence ordered to be transmitted in each case to the widow of our deceased brother . It is most emphaticall y true that Bro . CREATON will be a very missed man .

* # » As we observed some time back , if the " Quebec Question , " as it is termed , came before Grand Lodge , the answer of our brethren would be short , clear , and decisive . We do not understand in English Freemasonry Masonic chicanery or Jesuitical quibbles . We know that Lord ZETLAND , a very wise

prudent , and conciliatory ruler , made a concordat with the Grand Lodge of Canada , which Concordat we have duly kept on our part . The Grand Lodge of Quebec , —a swarm from the Grand Lodge of Canada , —though it did not in its negotiations with the Grand Lodge of Canada formally deny the legality of Grand Master WILSON ' S original arrangement , after a time

found its dignity hurt , and its jurisdiction menaced by these three originally recognized English lodges . It therefore proceeded to impugn the arrange , ment of the Grand Lodge of Canada in reference to these lodges , and has proceeded to " boycott " them , as far as it could do it . It menaces a complete suspension of all Masonic privileges ; in fact , a Masonic Bull of

anathema and interdict . The English Grand Lodge declines to give up its own children . In honour , law , and equity it is bound to stand by them , and will do so , come what may . With one word of friendly warning we conclude . As we have always pointed out , Lord ZETLAND ' S frank recognition of the Canadian jurisdiction , and practical abstention irom official activity

was conditional , as the context of his words shows , on a peaceful acquiescence in the loyal rights of the English lodges . If that concurrence is withdrawn , and , in addition , openly hostile menaces are made as against the English lodges , by which the proper and due exercize of their Masonic

privileges is suspended or interfered with , the whole matter must , " ex necessitate rei , " be opened out again , and some most embarassing questions will arise , and other issues may be developed , little foreseen by some who have favoured and furthered this most untoward and unjustifiable agitation .

# # THE nomination of Bro . CAMA seems to be an outcome of a desire to proclaim the great truth of Masonic Cosmopolitanism . Bro . CAMA is a Parsee , and , for fear of misconception , it is well to observe , as we have had our attention called to the matter , that the Parsees as a body have always been

loyal supporters , and are now , of the English Government in India , and and in the time of the great Mutiny remained perfectly faithful to the English " Raj . " The munificent gifts of many Parsee millionaires for philanthropic objects are well known . Bro , CAMA ' S most liberal support of our great Charities is well known ,