Contents.

CONTENTS .

L EADERS 4 ° 9 Provincial Grand Lodge of Middlesex 410 Consecration of the Cator Lodge , No . 3266 411 Provincial Grand Chapter of Durham 412 Moveable Grand Mark Lodge 412 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of East Anglia . ' . 4 ' 3 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 4 t 3 C ORRESPONDENCEOld Lists of Lodges 415 Reviews 4 > R JPORTS o ? M ASONIC MMTINOSCraft Masonry 416 Instruction 420 Royal Arch 420 Knights Templar 420

REPORTSOF MASONIC MEETINGS ( Continued)—Red Cross of Rome and Constantino 421 Ancient and Accepted Rite 421 Australia ! 421 Masonic Lecture by Bro . W . j . Hughan , P . G . D ., atHull . ' 421 Monument to Henry Price 422 The Centenary of the Girls' School 423

A Picnic of the Prudence Lodge , No . 206 9 , Leeds 433 Bro . Augustus Harris and the Grand -Treasurership 423 Masonic Presentation at Ilfracombe 423 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 423 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 423 Masonic and General Tidings 424 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iv .

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1 HE Moveable Mark Grand Lodge at Cheltenham on Tues day Mark Grand was very fully attended , probably owing to the business to be Lodge . transacted being of a somewhat weightier character than usual . There was , in the first place , the installation of that highly esteemed and popular

brother , the Baron DE FERRIERES , as Prov . G . Master of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire , and the Cheltonians as well as the rest of our Mark brethren in those parts were naturally anxious to do him honour , to whom honour was

so deservedly due . Then , having welcomed the coming , it remained for the G . and Prov . G . Mark Lodges to speed the parting , guest in the person of Bro . J . WALKER , M . A ., the retiring Prov . G . Mark Master , to whom an illuminated address and collar and jewel were oresented , in recognition of

the services he had rendered to the Degree in Gloucestershire , first of all as Prov . D . G . M . M . M . for some years , and afterwards , during the last three years , as Prov . G . M . M . M . Lastly , Bro . the Marquess of HERTFORD , D . G . M ., who presided in Grand Lodge , availed himself of the opportunity

afforded by the Movable G . Lodge to propose a resolution of sympathy with the Dowager Empress Victoria of Germany on her late terrible bereavement—a resolution which , it is needless to say , met with the unanimous and respectful approval of all the brethren present . The full account we publish elsewhere in our columns shows how successful were all the

arrangements for the meeting and entertainment of the Grand Officers and members of the Mark Grand Lodge , and how thoroughly all who attended must have enjoyed themselves .

* # * The Prov G " ^ c ' rcurnstances under which the Prov . G . Lodge of Kent Lodge of ' recently held its annual meeting at Sittingboume under the banner of St . Michael ' s Lodge , No . 1273 , appear to have been of a more than usually gratifying character . There always is a large

attendance of the Grand Officers and brethren of the province on these occasions . The Prov . G . Master , Earl AMHERST , always experiences—as he so well deserves—a most enthusiastic reception , and the speeches that are delivered always have in them the true ring of loyalty and sincerity , with just such an evidence of self-laudation as men who have successfully endeavoured

to do their duty are justified in furnishing . But though this annual meeting is one of the most conspicuous events of the Masonic year , and though the record of what passes at it is always worth taking to heart , we doubt if so successful a gathering has ever yet been held even in this important Province of Kent ; or if there has been one as successful , there has certainlnever

y been one which has been more so . Our Kentish brethren on these occasions always dispatch the business they have to transact with singular promptitude . They have a kind of Provincial Committee or Board , which meets about a month in advance of Prov . G . Lodge and carefully considers the various matters which it will be necessary to submit for the approval of the

rov . G . Lod ge . This Committee or Board consists of the best men in e province , men who have been elected to serve on it as the representatives 0 its private lodges because they are thoroughly conversant with all its airs , and it invariably and very properly happens that whatever his bod y recommends for adoption is adopted . The result is

a ' the brethren have ample time to learn to know each er , and to strengthen or promote that feeling of good-fellowship •en is so important an element in our Masonic system . Thus , at ln gbourne , the unprecedented success of the past year furnished an P'e theme for the speakers to dilate and the audience they

adupon , jessed must have been only too delighted to hear of the splendid return of ^ PWards of ^ 3000 fro m Kent at the Girls' School Centenary Festival being and V '" •excess of any other Provincial Return ; of the steady progress re H r ' snin £ condition of the 57 lodges on the roll , which alone had -i .. so ' S a Return possible ; and of the cordial and fraternal

„ lod ' Which had always existed between the Prov . G . Master and the 1 ^ and brethren he presided over . Bro . EASTES , the D . P . G . M ., was from a PP udec * when he showed how the province had gone on increasing A I 7 , od ges ' with a' membership of 810 brethren in i 860 , when Lord Ship E f RST was ^ appointed Prov . G . M ., to 38 lodges with a memberl 77 o brethren in 18 74 , and thence to a roll of 57 lodges with 3100

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in 1888 . Kent has at all times been a leading Province , but its influence was never so great as it has been under the presidency of its present P . G . Master , and we must all most earnestly pray that his lordship may continue at his post for many years , to the enhancement of his own fame and the benefit of the Craft at large . We must also congratulate the Prov . Grand

Officers , and especially Bro . EASTES , D . P . G . M ., and the brethren generally on the handsome manner in which they have discharged their duties and the generous support they have so loyally given to his lordship during the 28 years he has ruled over them , and we have every confidence that the duties of Freemasonry will continue to be as diligently discharged by the brethren throughout the province as ever .

* * * We are not by any means disconcerted by the numerous errors Canadian which are alleged against us by the Canadian Craftsman in its Craftsman . j ssue j or j ^ jay last . We are sensible we have under-estimated

its obtuseness , and we think it very likely our meaning would have been more obvious if we had expressed it in the simpler language which a pedagogue uses when teaching a backward child . But our remarks—which the Craftsman so sharply condemns—were intended principally for the New Zealand Freemason , which , though it differs with us in some matters of

opinion and is wrong in some of its matters of fact , appears to be a generally well-informed paper , and we did not , therefore , consider it necessary to explain the words and phrases we used as we went along . However , in spite of bur Canadian contemporary ' s allegations of error against us , we abide by our opinions on the subject of concurrent jurisdiction in the

Colonies and Dependencies of the British Crown , or rather in those Colonies and Dependencies where independent Grand Lodges do not exist . We repeat the remark we made in the " precious paragraph , " which the Craftsman has stigmatised as containing so many errors , namely , that " concurrent jurisdiction does not-mean 'the system by which the Grand

Lodges of England , Ireland , and Scotland , and all other Grand Lodges have full right to establish lodges at will , ' the only Grand Lodges which have authority to do this being that of the Mother Country , ' ' and we illustrate our meaning by adding that a United States Grand Lodge " could not warrant a lodge in New Zealand or any other English Colony , nor

could the Grand Lodge of Canada grant warrants for lodges outside the limits of its own jurisdiction . " There is nothing contrary to this in the " Ancient Charges , " which were compiled long before questions of jurisdiction — concurrent or otherwise — were heard of , in the " Constitutions" with which we are acquainted , or

in "The Masonic writings of PRESTON , GOULD , HUGHAN , and others , " so far as we have studied them . It is perfectly true that , speaking strictly , we should have used the term , / 'British Colony , " instead of "English Colony , " but a journal which professes to be so well informed as the Craftsman , should have known that the words " English " and " British' '

are used interchangeably in the old country . But , substituting " British " for " English , " our remark as above is absolutely true in the case of all those Colonies and Dependencies of the British Crown , where independent Grand Lodges do not exist ; nor is there anything to be found in the " Ancient Charges and Constitutions , " or , in the works of " PRESTON ,

GOULD , HUGHAN , and others , " which would justify a United States Grand Lodge—or the Grand Lodge of Canada , in setting up lodges outside their respective jurisdictions , unless , of course , they could do so without infringing the jurisdictional rights of other Grand Lodges . We are not aware that the Grand Lodge of Canada violated the rights of any other Grand Lodge ,

when it warranted lodges " in the formerly unoccupied territory of Manitoba , " or that there is anything illegal—according to our ideas of legality —in its having " lodges of its obedience in several of the North-west territories of the Dominion . " Having once recognised the Masonic independence of Canada , we , in England , consider it—except as regards the

lodges which have always preferred to remain in their old allegiance to our Grand Lodge—as being as much outside the limits of our jurisdiction as the Grand Lodges of New York and Pennsylvania . The independent Grand Lodges in British North America must settle their own boundaries amongst themselves , and we shall respect them , however , they may be settled , just as

we look to their respecting the rights of the lodges still remaining to us from the days when the whole of their - territory was included in the Masonic jurisdiction of the old country . It is also desirable we should point out that we should be only making confusion still worse confounded than it is now by these questions of jurisdiction if we conceded to the

independent lodges already established in British Colonies , and recognised by the Grand Lodges of England , Ireland , and Scotland , the right to warrant lodges , indiscriminately , in other parts of the British Empire which may

be , Masonically speaking , " unoccupied territory . It is no concern of ours—indeed it strikes us as being only just and proper—when the Grand Lodge of Canada grants a warrant of constitution for a new lodge " in the North-Western Territories of the Dominion , " provided , of course , that in