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District Grand Lodge Of Bengal.
however , any single member of District Grand Lodge ob-. ted h ( J ( tne District Grand Master in the chair ) would be obliged to refuse what W . Bro . Jones asked for . > fo one objecting , W . Bro . T . Jones then moved" That as the solemn proceeding which has been authorized by the Officiating District Grand Master , in the signature by certain brethren present of the deed of
association of the Masonic Hall Building Association , was not announced to the Craft in the usual Masonic mode by means of the agenda paper , this District Grand Lodge will in no sense hold itself bound by , or be considered , in its representative character as the Grand Lodge of the District , lo countenance , the proceeding in question . " W . Bro . T . Jones in moving the foregoing resolution
addressed District Grand Lodge at considerable length and in very strong terms , depreciative of the proposed Building Association and condemnatory of the step taken by the District Grand Master in the chair in laying the memorandum of association before the members of District Grand Lodge , in communication assembled , for signature , without notice having been given , in the agenda paper ,
that such business would be brought forward . W . Bro . Jones considered that the action of the Acting District Grand Master was altogether ultra vires . Bro . C . F . Egerton Allen , J . W . 109 , and District Grand Steward , seconded W . Bro . T . Jones' motion . After some remarks on the subject from W . Bro . IT . IT . Locke , Past Deputy District Grand Master , and acting
District Grand Secretary , Bro . C . Compton , Past District Grand Organist , moved , and W . Bro . Girling , W . M . 232 , and Past District Grand Director of Ceremonies , seconded the following amendment to W . Bro . Jones' resolution : — "'Ihat this District Grand Lodge entirely approves of the step taken by the acting District Grand Master in placing the memorandum
of association of the Bengal Freemasons' Hall Building Association before the brethren for signature this evening , inasmuch as considerable trouble to the acting District Grand Secretary will thereby be saved . " Bro . Compton ' s amendment to W . Bro . T . Jones' motion was put to the vote , when there appeared thirty-two for and two against it . The amendment was accordingly declared to be carried .
The minutes of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Bengal at the Quarterly Communication of the 24 th June , 1875 , having been printed and circulated , it was proposed by W . Bro . W . Girling , W . M . 232 , and Past District Grand Director of Ceremonies , and seconded by W . Bro . J . T . Limpus , P . M . 1 r 6 o , and Past District Grand Pursuivant , that ' the said minutes be j taken as read .
Carried . W . Bro . W . H . Fitze , P . M . 218 , Past District Grand Deacon , and Acting District Grand Treasurer moved " That the minutes of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Bengal at the Quarterly Communication of the 24 th June , 1875 , be confirmed . " Seconded by W . Bro . W . Girling , and carried .
, W . Bro . Prosunno Coomar Dutt , W . M . 234 , anil District Grand Assistant Director of Ceremonies , moved , and W . Bro . Major T . N . Young , W . M . 1374 , P . M . 532 , 836 , 9 8 S , and 1065 , and Acting District Junior Grand Warden , seconded " That the minutes of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Bengal , at a special communication held on the 14 th August , 1875 , having been printed and
circulated , be now taken as read . " Carried . W . Bro . ( W . C . Bonnerjec , barristcr-at- ! avv , W . M . 6 7 , and District Grand Registrar , moved , and W . Bo . J . II . E . Beer , W . M . 218 , ami Past District Grand Organist , seconded , " That the aforesaid minutes of the 14 th August , 1875 , De confirmed . " Carried . The District Grand Master in the chair addressed the
District Grand Lodge as follows : — " Worshipful Brethren , —Your time has already been so much taken up this evening in ways that , were you disposed , you might well say it ought not to have been so trespassed upon , that I will make the remarks which you are accustomed to hear from this chair before proceeding to the consideration of the reports of the committees in as few words as possible . 1 am sorry to find in the report of the Committee of General
Purposes the mention of arrears of dues by' Lodge Courage with Humanity ' and another Masonic body ( Rose Croix ) for rent—that is to say , I am sorry that there were arrears—not that the committee brought them to notice , tint of course they were bound to do , as it would have been a failure of duty on their part had they omitted to do it . In the last named of the two cases the committee were satisfied with the explanation offered , and I trust that the
communication which the committee directed should be made to the Worshi pful Master of Lodge ' Courage with Humanity " will have the effect of preventing any further necessity for complaint . I regret to have to report to you three exclusions—all for non-payment of dues . Both the Acting District Grand Secretary and myself have had many enquiries put to us as to whether any reply has been received
to the memorial which was sent from this District Grand Lod ge to the Most Worshi pful the Grand Master on thesubject of the appointment cf a District Grand Master for Bengal , on the 29 th of June last . I am sorry to say that no answer of any kind has been , as yet , received . I wish to bring to your notice that a handsome presentation of some plate , in the shape of certain table requisites of a
very useful character , has been made to us by Bro . St . Aubyn King , on the part of the District Grand Stewards ot last year , out of a surplus which their fund exhibited at the close of their labours . 1 am sure that I carry you with me when I beg Bro . St . Aubyn King and his colleagues to accept our best thanks for their exceedingly useful and handsome
present . ( Applause . ) As the hour is already late , and we have yet a considerable amount of work before ft ? ' 1 '' 1 detaln vou no longer from the consideration of the business which stands next upon the agenda paper the report of the Committee of General Purposes . " Ihe report of ^ proceedings of the Committee of General
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Purposes at a meeting- held on the 4 th Scpcmber , 1875 , was read . W . Bro . Major T . N . Young , W . M . 1374 , P . M . 552 , 836 , 988 , and 1063 , and Acting D . I . G . W ., moved , and W . Bro . J . H . E . Beer , W . M . 218 , and Past D . G . Org . seconded , " That the accounts , as exhibited in the abstract , contained in the report of the Committee of General
Purposes , be accepted as correct and passed ; and that the recommendations of the committee in respect to the investment of the balances at credit of the General , Musical Instrument , and Freemasons' Hall Funds , in debentures of the Bengal Freemasons' Hall Building Association , be adopted . " W . Bro . T . Jones , P . M . 67 , and Past D . G . Reg ., moved
the following amendment : — I hat before any funds under the control of this District Grand Lodge be assigned over to the purposes contemplated in the resolution , the committee appointed to consider the proposal for establishing the Bengal Masonic Hall Association be requested to submit a further report on tl' . e subject for the information of this District Grand Lodge . "
In moving the foregoing absolution , W . Bro . Thomas Jones addressed District Grand Lodge at great length , and went very elaborately into figures , with a view to showing that the outlay which the building scheme would involve would amount to at least Rs . 11 , 000 per annum , and that this was more than District Grand Lodge could provide . Bro . T . Jones complained also that one feature
in the scheme as set forth in the committee ' s first prospectus , namely , the swimming bath , had subsequently been omitted , but nothing had been said as to how the ITmount which it had been calculated would be derived from this source was to be made up without it . It might be that it was intended to increase the rates charged to lodges for rent—in fact , he had elicited this admission from
tolerably good authority . Now Masonry was not what it used to be , cither in respect to the number , or the wealth and position , of those who formed our lodges , otherwise no doubt they would be very willing to accede to an increase in their rent payments ; but as it was , no such increase could be looked for . He was therefore of opinion that the scheme , which he regarded as crude and
impracticable , should be sent back to the committee , with the request for such details as would enable District Grand Lodge to understand clearly how it was proposed to raise the sum which would certainly be required , month by month , after the hall was built . He ( Bro . Jones ) had no wish whatever to oppose a sound scheme for the building of a Masonic Hall , there was nothing that he would more
heartily support , but he felt compelled to condemn the present one ( which he regarded as ridiculous ) in the strongest manner . It was in his opinion a wholly impracticable project , and such as must inevitably lead to disastrous results . Bro . C . F . Egerton Allen , J . W . 109 , and District Grand Steward , seconded W . Bro . T . Jones' amendment . Bro . Allen deprecated the idea that he was otherwise than most
favourably disposed trhvards such an unrlertaking as the building of a new hall . Nothing would give him greater regret than to see the project abandoned ; but he felt compelled to oppose the resolution now before District Grand Lodge as to the investment of their funds in this particular scheme , until it had been more fully explained and its details more clearly put before them .
W . Bro . H . II . Locke hoped that District Grand Lodge would , by its utter rejection of W . Bro . T . Jones' amendment , mark in an unmistakcable manner its sense of the exceedingly objectionable line of proccduic which Bros . T . Jones and Egerton Allen had adopted in respect to the violent opposition which they were offering to the building scheme . He would forbear to characterize the nature of
the conduct in question ( both as to what had taken place that evening ami what had been done outside by the two brethren he referred to during the last few weeks ' lest he . should be betrayed into stronger language than it was desirable should be used in that room ; but he would ask District Grand Lodge to consider one or two facts ( which it would be impossible for W . Bro . T . Jones to
deny ) and to form their own conclusions thereon . The committee to which District Grand Lodge had entrusted the work of preparing a scheme for the building of a Freemasons' Hall in Calcutta for the Province of Bengal consisted of 25 members , of whom 12 were the elected representatives of private lodges , 4 the cx-officio representatives of the officers of District Grand Lodge , and the remaining
9 were brethren of well-known ability and experience in the Craft ( all of them , save one , Past Masters ) , who had been specially added to the committee by the Acting District Grand Master , in accordance with the resolution passed by District Grand Lodge in June last , for this particular work , for which each and all of them had seemed in some way or other to possess such qualifications as would
be of material assistance in the preparation of a sound scheme for the attainment of the object in vierv . Surel y it would be no stretching of terms to say that a committee thus constituted consisted of 25 of the best men for the purpose which the Masonic fraternity could command in Calcutta . This alone would probably induce District Grand Lodge to
hesitate before rejecting what had been a laborious and long considered work en the part of the committee merely at the bidding of Bros . Jones and Allen . Not that he ( Bro . Locke ) was in any way a supporter of the tyranny of majorities . He would not even say that it was an utter impossibility , and would express no opinion as to the probability , that W . Bro . Jones should be right and the other
twenty-four members of the committee wrong ; but he would ask District Grand Lodge to consider the following points in the line of procedure adopted by W . Bro . Jones , and to say whether that procedure bore , evidence of a desire sireply to steer clear of difficulties and disastrous consequences , and to base the project under discussion upon a sure and safe foundation , or whether it was dictated by a factious and violent antagonism of which it was unnecessary
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to seek very far for the cause . W . Bro . Jones was a member of the committee to which the framing of the building scheme had been entrusted ; surely if he were so competent to point out miscalculations and to detect flaws and errors in the committee's scheme as he had endeavoured to make District Grand Lodge believe , it was his duty to have pointed them out to the committee and to have assisted to
remove them . This was a duty which , with every desire to use language as temperate as possible , he ( Bro . Locke ) was constrained to declare thus publicly to District Grand Lodge that W . Bro . Thomas Jones had most conspicuously neglected . ( Hear , hea : j . ) The committee had met four times for the framing of the building scheme , and W . Bro . Jones had attended once only . Bro . Jones might of
course say that on the three other occasions it had not been convenient to him to attend : but seeing that printed minutes of the proceedings of the committee at each meeting had been furnished weekly to every member it must have been quite easy for Bro . T . Jones to see what was being decided upon , and to make known to his colleagues any objections , or any suggestions for
improvement , that might have occurred to him . There was no possible excuse for his not having done this ; not only had printed minutes of each meeting of the committee been furnished to every member as soon after' such meeting as was possible , but after the last meeting ( held on the 24 th July ) a complete set had been issued for the deliberate consideration of every member ,
more than a fortnight previous to the special communication of District Grand Lodge , held on the 14 th of August , for the one sole purpose of considering the committee ' s scheme . Why had not Bro . T . Jones assisted his colleagues , as he ought to have done ? ' Why had he not pointed out whatever objections he i had to make at the proper lime and in the proper place ? Why had he not
even brought them forward at the meeting of District Grand Lodge , held for the especial purposeof considering the building scheme ? This was not the proper time for going into figures to show how the calculations of the committee had been made , otherwise he ( Bro . Locke ) would have been perfectly prepared to show the utter absurdity of the financial statements made by Bro . T . Tones . It was .
however , wholly unnecessary to notice them . The question before District Grand Lodge was not whether the committee ' s scheme was practicable or impracticable—that had been decided on the 14 Augu .-it , after lull publication of the committee ' s proposals . What they had now lo decide was this : would they in a practical manner demonstrate that confidence in the undertaking which was
declared by the resolutions of the 14 th August . last by investing their own funds therein ? Could they expect that others would put money into the undertaking if District Grand Lodge itself did not ? However sound the scheme might be , itwas absurd to suppose it possible for it to succeed unless the debentures were promptlytaken up , and howcould they expect this to be done if District Grand Lodge shewed
reluctance to invest its own balances in them . ' If , by any chance , the scheme did fail , he should always consider Bros . Jones and Allen to be responsible for having brought it about by the manner in which , during the lasts few weeks , they had , in various ways , done their best to damage it . He would mention one other fact which would enable them to judge as to the value they
might attach to the vehement opposition which Bro . T . Jones was exhibiting towards the building scheme . At the last meeting of the Committee of General Purposes , the report of which they were then considering , Bro . T . Jones had commenced a hot attack against what he said was an impracticable feature in the project , namely , the smimming bath ! and it had been necessary to inform him
that the committee had themselves decided against that feature ( which had only been thrown out as a suggestion by one member at the beginning ) , and that it was entirely omitted in the final scheme submitted to , and accepted by , District Grand Lodge . This would show the care with which Bro . Jones had acquainted himself with the papers which had been furnished to him , and with what the nature of the building scheme really was ' . ( 7 b le continued ) .
Multum In Parbo; Or Masonic Notes And Queries.
Multum in Parbo ; or Masonic Notes and Queries .
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Obituary.
Obituary .
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District Grand Lodge Of Bengal.
however , any single member of District Grand Lodge ob-. ted h ( J ( tne District Grand Master in the chair ) would be obliged to refuse what W . Bro . Jones asked for . > fo one objecting , W . Bro . T . Jones then moved" That as the solemn proceeding which has been authorized by the Officiating District Grand Master , in the signature by certain brethren present of the deed of
association of the Masonic Hall Building Association , was not announced to the Craft in the usual Masonic mode by means of the agenda paper , this District Grand Lodge will in no sense hold itself bound by , or be considered , in its representative character as the Grand Lodge of the District , lo countenance , the proceeding in question . " W . Bro . T . Jones in moving the foregoing resolution
addressed District Grand Lodge at considerable length and in very strong terms , depreciative of the proposed Building Association and condemnatory of the step taken by the District Grand Master in the chair in laying the memorandum of association before the members of District Grand Lodge , in communication assembled , for signature , without notice having been given , in the agenda paper ,
that such business would be brought forward . W . Bro . Jones considered that the action of the Acting District Grand Master was altogether ultra vires . Bro . C . F . Egerton Allen , J . W . 109 , and District Grand Steward , seconded W . Bro . T . Jones' motion . After some remarks on the subject from W . Bro . IT . IT . Locke , Past Deputy District Grand Master , and acting
District Grand Secretary , Bro . C . Compton , Past District Grand Organist , moved , and W . Bro . Girling , W . M . 232 , and Past District Grand Director of Ceremonies , seconded the following amendment to W . Bro . Jones' resolution : — "'Ihat this District Grand Lodge entirely approves of the step taken by the acting District Grand Master in placing the memorandum
of association of the Bengal Freemasons' Hall Building Association before the brethren for signature this evening , inasmuch as considerable trouble to the acting District Grand Secretary will thereby be saved . " Bro . Compton ' s amendment to W . Bro . T . Jones' motion was put to the vote , when there appeared thirty-two for and two against it . The amendment was accordingly declared to be carried .
The minutes of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Bengal at the Quarterly Communication of the 24 th June , 1875 , having been printed and circulated , it was proposed by W . Bro . W . Girling , W . M . 232 , and Past District Grand Director of Ceremonies , and seconded by W . Bro . J . T . Limpus , P . M . 1 r 6 o , and Past District Grand Pursuivant , that ' the said minutes be j taken as read .
Carried . W . Bro . W . H . Fitze , P . M . 218 , Past District Grand Deacon , and Acting District Grand Treasurer moved " That the minutes of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Bengal at the Quarterly Communication of the 24 th June , 1875 , be confirmed . " Seconded by W . Bro . W . Girling , and carried .
, W . Bro . Prosunno Coomar Dutt , W . M . 234 , anil District Grand Assistant Director of Ceremonies , moved , and W . Bro . Major T . N . Young , W . M . 1374 , P . M . 532 , 836 , 9 8 S , and 1065 , and Acting District Junior Grand Warden , seconded " That the minutes of the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Bengal , at a special communication held on the 14 th August , 1875 , having been printed and
circulated , be now taken as read . " Carried . W . Bro . ( W . C . Bonnerjec , barristcr-at- ! avv , W . M . 6 7 , and District Grand Registrar , moved , and W . Bo . J . II . E . Beer , W . M . 218 , ami Past District Grand Organist , seconded , " That the aforesaid minutes of the 14 th August , 1875 , De confirmed . " Carried . The District Grand Master in the chair addressed the
District Grand Lodge as follows : — " Worshipful Brethren , —Your time has already been so much taken up this evening in ways that , were you disposed , you might well say it ought not to have been so trespassed upon , that I will make the remarks which you are accustomed to hear from this chair before proceeding to the consideration of the reports of the committees in as few words as possible . 1 am sorry to find in the report of the Committee of General
Purposes the mention of arrears of dues by' Lodge Courage with Humanity ' and another Masonic body ( Rose Croix ) for rent—that is to say , I am sorry that there were arrears—not that the committee brought them to notice , tint of course they were bound to do , as it would have been a failure of duty on their part had they omitted to do it . In the last named of the two cases the committee were satisfied with the explanation offered , and I trust that the
communication which the committee directed should be made to the Worshi pful Master of Lodge ' Courage with Humanity " will have the effect of preventing any further necessity for complaint . I regret to have to report to you three exclusions—all for non-payment of dues . Both the Acting District Grand Secretary and myself have had many enquiries put to us as to whether any reply has been received
to the memorial which was sent from this District Grand Lod ge to the Most Worshi pful the Grand Master on thesubject of the appointment cf a District Grand Master for Bengal , on the 29 th of June last . I am sorry to say that no answer of any kind has been , as yet , received . I wish to bring to your notice that a handsome presentation of some plate , in the shape of certain table requisites of a
very useful character , has been made to us by Bro . St . Aubyn King , on the part of the District Grand Stewards ot last year , out of a surplus which their fund exhibited at the close of their labours . 1 am sure that I carry you with me when I beg Bro . St . Aubyn King and his colleagues to accept our best thanks for their exceedingly useful and handsome
present . ( Applause . ) As the hour is already late , and we have yet a considerable amount of work before ft ? ' 1 '' 1 detaln vou no longer from the consideration of the business which stands next upon the agenda paper the report of the Committee of General Purposes . " Ihe report of ^ proceedings of the Committee of General
District Grand Lodge Of Bengal.
Purposes at a meeting- held on the 4 th Scpcmber , 1875 , was read . W . Bro . Major T . N . Young , W . M . 1374 , P . M . 552 , 836 , 988 , and 1063 , and Acting D . I . G . W ., moved , and W . Bro . J . H . E . Beer , W . M . 218 , and Past D . G . Org . seconded , " That the accounts , as exhibited in the abstract , contained in the report of the Committee of General
Purposes , be accepted as correct and passed ; and that the recommendations of the committee in respect to the investment of the balances at credit of the General , Musical Instrument , and Freemasons' Hall Funds , in debentures of the Bengal Freemasons' Hall Building Association , be adopted . " W . Bro . T . Jones , P . M . 67 , and Past D . G . Reg ., moved
the following amendment : — I hat before any funds under the control of this District Grand Lodge be assigned over to the purposes contemplated in the resolution , the committee appointed to consider the proposal for establishing the Bengal Masonic Hall Association be requested to submit a further report on tl' . e subject for the information of this District Grand Lodge . "
In moving the foregoing absolution , W . Bro . Thomas Jones addressed District Grand Lodge at great length , and went very elaborately into figures , with a view to showing that the outlay which the building scheme would involve would amount to at least Rs . 11 , 000 per annum , and that this was more than District Grand Lodge could provide . Bro . T . Jones complained also that one feature
in the scheme as set forth in the committee ' s first prospectus , namely , the swimming bath , had subsequently been omitted , but nothing had been said as to how the ITmount which it had been calculated would be derived from this source was to be made up without it . It might be that it was intended to increase the rates charged to lodges for rent—in fact , he had elicited this admission from
tolerably good authority . Now Masonry was not what it used to be , cither in respect to the number , or the wealth and position , of those who formed our lodges , otherwise no doubt they would be very willing to accede to an increase in their rent payments ; but as it was , no such increase could be looked for . He was therefore of opinion that the scheme , which he regarded as crude and
impracticable , should be sent back to the committee , with the request for such details as would enable District Grand Lodge to understand clearly how it was proposed to raise the sum which would certainly be required , month by month , after the hall was built . He ( Bro . Jones ) had no wish whatever to oppose a sound scheme for the building of a Masonic Hall , there was nothing that he would more
heartily support , but he felt compelled to condemn the present one ( which he regarded as ridiculous ) in the strongest manner . It was in his opinion a wholly impracticable project , and such as must inevitably lead to disastrous results . Bro . C . F . Egerton Allen , J . W . 109 , and District Grand Steward , seconded W . Bro . T . Jones' amendment . Bro . Allen deprecated the idea that he was otherwise than most
favourably disposed trhvards such an unrlertaking as the building of a new hall . Nothing would give him greater regret than to see the project abandoned ; but he felt compelled to oppose the resolution now before District Grand Lodge as to the investment of their funds in this particular scheme , until it had been more fully explained and its details more clearly put before them .
W . Bro . H . II . Locke hoped that District Grand Lodge would , by its utter rejection of W . Bro . T . Jones' amendment , mark in an unmistakcable manner its sense of the exceedingly objectionable line of proccduic which Bros . T . Jones and Egerton Allen had adopted in respect to the violent opposition which they were offering to the building scheme . He would forbear to characterize the nature of
the conduct in question ( both as to what had taken place that evening ami what had been done outside by the two brethren he referred to during the last few weeks ' lest he . should be betrayed into stronger language than it was desirable should be used in that room ; but he would ask District Grand Lodge to consider one or two facts ( which it would be impossible for W . Bro . T . Jones to
deny ) and to form their own conclusions thereon . The committee to which District Grand Lodge had entrusted the work of preparing a scheme for the building of a Freemasons' Hall in Calcutta for the Province of Bengal consisted of 25 members , of whom 12 were the elected representatives of private lodges , 4 the cx-officio representatives of the officers of District Grand Lodge , and the remaining
9 were brethren of well-known ability and experience in the Craft ( all of them , save one , Past Masters ) , who had been specially added to the committee by the Acting District Grand Master , in accordance with the resolution passed by District Grand Lodge in June last , for this particular work , for which each and all of them had seemed in some way or other to possess such qualifications as would
be of material assistance in the preparation of a sound scheme for the attainment of the object in vierv . Surel y it would be no stretching of terms to say that a committee thus constituted consisted of 25 of the best men for the purpose which the Masonic fraternity could command in Calcutta . This alone would probably induce District Grand Lodge to
hesitate before rejecting what had been a laborious and long considered work en the part of the committee merely at the bidding of Bros . Jones and Allen . Not that he ( Bro . Locke ) was in any way a supporter of the tyranny of majorities . He would not even say that it was an utter impossibility , and would express no opinion as to the probability , that W . Bro . Jones should be right and the other
twenty-four members of the committee wrong ; but he would ask District Grand Lodge to consider the following points in the line of procedure adopted by W . Bro . Jones , and to say whether that procedure bore , evidence of a desire sireply to steer clear of difficulties and disastrous consequences , and to base the project under discussion upon a sure and safe foundation , or whether it was dictated by a factious and violent antagonism of which it was unnecessary
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to seek very far for the cause . W . Bro . Jones was a member of the committee to which the framing of the building scheme had been entrusted ; surely if he were so competent to point out miscalculations and to detect flaws and errors in the committee's scheme as he had endeavoured to make District Grand Lodge believe , it was his duty to have pointed them out to the committee and to have assisted to
remove them . This was a duty which , with every desire to use language as temperate as possible , he ( Bro . Locke ) was constrained to declare thus publicly to District Grand Lodge that W . Bro . Thomas Jones had most conspicuously neglected . ( Hear , hea : j . ) The committee had met four times for the framing of the building scheme , and W . Bro . Jones had attended once only . Bro . Jones might of
course say that on the three other occasions it had not been convenient to him to attend : but seeing that printed minutes of the proceedings of the committee at each meeting had been furnished weekly to every member it must have been quite easy for Bro . T . Jones to see what was being decided upon , and to make known to his colleagues any objections , or any suggestions for
improvement , that might have occurred to him . There was no possible excuse for his not having done this ; not only had printed minutes of each meeting of the committee been furnished to every member as soon after' such meeting as was possible , but after the last meeting ( held on the 24 th July ) a complete set had been issued for the deliberate consideration of every member ,
more than a fortnight previous to the special communication of District Grand Lodge , held on the 14 th of August , for the one sole purpose of considering the committee ' s scheme . Why had not Bro . T . Jones assisted his colleagues , as he ought to have done ? ' Why had he not pointed out whatever objections he i had to make at the proper lime and in the proper place ? Why had he not
even brought them forward at the meeting of District Grand Lodge , held for the especial purposeof considering the building scheme ? This was not the proper time for going into figures to show how the calculations of the committee had been made , otherwise he ( Bro . Locke ) would have been perfectly prepared to show the utter absurdity of the financial statements made by Bro . T . Tones . It was .
however , wholly unnecessary to notice them . The question before District Grand Lodge was not whether the committee ' s scheme was practicable or impracticable—that had been decided on the 14 Augu .-it , after lull publication of the committee ' s proposals . What they had now lo decide was this : would they in a practical manner demonstrate that confidence in the undertaking which was
declared by the resolutions of the 14 th August . last by investing their own funds therein ? Could they expect that others would put money into the undertaking if District Grand Lodge itself did not ? However sound the scheme might be , itwas absurd to suppose it possible for it to succeed unless the debentures were promptlytaken up , and howcould they expect this to be done if District Grand Lodge shewed
reluctance to invest its own balances in them . ' If , by any chance , the scheme did fail , he should always consider Bros . Jones and Allen to be responsible for having brought it about by the manner in which , during the lasts few weeks , they had , in various ways , done their best to damage it . He would mention one other fact which would enable them to judge as to the value they
might attach to the vehement opposition which Bro . T . Jones was exhibiting towards the building scheme . At the last meeting of the Committee of General Purposes , the report of which they were then considering , Bro . T . Jones had commenced a hot attack against what he said was an impracticable feature in the project , namely , the smimming bath ! and it had been necessary to inform him
that the committee had themselves decided against that feature ( which had only been thrown out as a suggestion by one member at the beginning ) , and that it was entirely omitted in the final scheme submitted to , and accepted by , District Grand Lodge . This would show the care with which Bro . Jones had acquainted himself with the papers which had been furnished to him , and with what the nature of the building scheme really was ' . ( 7 b le continued ) .
Multum In Parbo; Or Masonic Notes And Queries.
Multum in Parbo ; or Masonic Notes and Queries .
THE WILSON MS I am now trying to trace this MS ., and have found a clue not to the MS . actually , but to the collection of MSS . of the house where the MS . is said to have been . If I succeed , I will report proceedings . A . F . A . WooDioui ) .
Obituary.
Obituary .
BRO . J . J . FARNHAM . We deeply regret to read in "The East Anglian Daily News , " of January 10 th , the death , by drowning , of Bro . J . J . Farnham , late Curate in charge at Westhorpe , Suffolk , Past Dist . S . G . W . of Bombay .
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gratefusense warmth and elasticity of mind and body . As a dcterer / int in Scrofulous and f . mlulcerations , and asahcaling and soothing application in burns , scalds , and excoratioi , s , ihe Ointment will be found most valuable , as it promotes the healing action , and clean :-es olf all 1011 I discharges , and ncurraliscsany noxious mailer mat may be present . Very plain directions accompany them . — ADVT .