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SATURDAY , AUGUST 15 , 1896 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

\ cry sincere , and , at the same time , very general , " •'grot will be felt throughout the English Craft at the unlooked-for death of Bro . the Earl of Limerick , who , in all the various branches of Freemasonry with which no was connected , had played a part which was most honourable to himself and had been signally beneficial io

Freemasonry . He will be best remembered for his services to Bristol , of which he was Prov . G . Master 'or 23 years , from his appointment in 1866 to his resi gnation in 1889 . He was also for many years a prominent member of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite , in which he had taken the 33 and held the office of Grand Chancellor , while in

Masonic Notes.

the Order of the Temple he was a Knight Grand Cross . He died on Saturday last at Tewin Water , his seat in Hertfordshire , leaving a widow and children to mourn his loss . To them accordingly and to his lordship's numerous friends , bo . h within and outside Masonry , we tender our most respectful sympathy .

* A curious incident occurred in the Dartlord County Court last week . Three gentlemen were summoned as jurors and the plaintiff in one of the cases to be decided objected to their serving on the ground they

were Freemasons , the defendant ( Bro . Charles Hind ) being also a member of our Society . The judge allowed the objection and the Mason jurors were excused from serving . We are unable to see why a man , who happens to be a Freemason , should fail in his duty as a juror . We have never heard of any such case ,

but we have heard of cases in which a defendant who knew the presiding Judge or Magistrate was a Mason made it known to the latter that he , too , was a member of the brotherhood , with the result that he received a double dose of punishment , the Judge considering that the fact of the defendant being a Mason was an aggravation of the offence with which he was charged .

* * The Erith Times , in its comments on the incident , remarks— " This is placing our future Kings in an invidious and peculiar position—H . R . H . the Prince of Wales and H . R . H . the Duke of York are both

Masons . As to the Queen s eldest son being not only a Mason , but the M . W . Grand Master of English Masons , the fact is sufficiently notorious , but we have never heard of the Duke of York having been initiated into Freemasonry . His brother , the late Duke of

Clarence , was a Past G . Warden of England , and at the time of his death held the important office of Prov . G . Master of Berkshire . Doubtless this will account for the error into which our worthy contemporary has fallen .

* * Bro . J . Ross Robertson , Past G . Master of Canada , has recently performed another of those public acts of Charity by which his career has been signalised . The new hospital at Stornoway , which has been erected by

public subscription , has been furnished and equipped throughout at his entire cost , this generous act being done by him as a tribute of respect to his mother , who was born at Goathill , near which the hospital stands , in 1800 , and lived there with her father till 1822 . A condition has been attached to the gift by Bro .

Robertson to the effect that two beds , one for a boy and another for a girl , shall be free to the children of members of Fortrose Lodge , No . 108 , Stornoway , under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , Bro . Robertson ' s grandfather having been a member of that lodge from 179 8 to 1822 .

* * * While referring to this benevolent act of our respected brother , we gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity of tendering him and also Bro . W . Gibson ,

Deputy Grand Master of Canada , our congratulations on their recent election to the Dominion House of Commons . Bro . Robertson has long been known by his numerous philanthropic acts , and will doubtless prove a worthy addition to that legislative body .

* * * The 115 th annual communication of the Grand Lodge of New York was held on the 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th June , as many as 730 out of the 737 lodges in the jurisdiction being represented . From the reports

presented by the principal executive officers , it appears that the number of subscribing members in the State is 90 , 874 , being an increase over the previous year's return of 3301 . The ordinary receipts amounted to close on 74 . 072 dollars , of which nearly 72 , 800 dollars

arose from fees and dues of lodges . Bro . G . Secretary Ehlcrs further reported that when he first entered upon the duties of his office the number of subscribing Masons was 69 , 629 , while G . Lodge was indebted to the extent of 600 , 000 dollars , with little or no prospect

of discharging it , at least in the near future . Yet within three years from the time when the plan for wiping out this huge debt was inaugurated , the thing was done , while concurrently , a sufficient sum for the erection of a Masonic Home was raised . Bro . Ehlers .

we are glad to know , remains at his Secretarial post , while the new Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master arc Bro . John Stewart and Bro . W . William A . Sutherland respectively ; Bro . Charles E . Ide being S . G . W . ; Bro . Charles W . Cushman , J . G . W . ; and Bro . William J . McDonald , Grand Treasurer .

Obituary.

Obituary .

THE EARL OF LIMERICK , P . PROV . G . M . BRISTOL . The Craft has sustained a great loss by the death , at the comparatively early age of 56 , of the Earl ot Limerick , who had been a very prominent Freemason for upward of 30 years . Indeed , his appointment to

the office by which he will be best remembered—that of Provincial Grand Master of Bristol—dates from the year 1866 ; while in 1 S 65 we read of him in the Freemasons' Magazine and Mirror as being Great Sub-Prior in the Order of the Temple , which position he subsequently vacated on his advancement to the more

important post of Grand Prior . He was also a Knight Grand Cross in the same Order , while in Royal Arch Masonry he was a Past G . Scribe N . He was also a very prominent Mark Mason , having served as S . G . W . in 1870 , as Deputy Grand Master under Bro . Earl Percy , and as Grand Mark Master from 1875 to

18 7 8 . In the Ancient and Accepted Rite he had attained equal eminence . He was a Past M . W . S . of the Grand Metropolitan Chapter of Rose Croix , hid had conferred upon him the 33 ° , and was Grand Chancellor of the Supreme Council . He resigned his position of Prov . G . Master of Bristol in 188 9 , and

consequently for the past few years his name had not been so frequently or so prominently before the Masonic public as during his presidency over that province . We must not omit to mention that his lordship was a Vice-President of the Boys' School and a Life Governor of and had twice served the

office of Steward for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . Lord Limerick , who was born on the 17 th January , 1840 , succeeded his father in the title and estates in 1866 . He was formerly in the Rifle Brigade and Major of the Gloucestershire Artillery Volunteers . He was a D . L . and J . P .

County Limerick and a J . P . for the Counties of Clare and Cork . From 1886 to 188 9 he was a Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen , and from 1889 to 1 S 92 and again from 1895 till the day of his death Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard , while in the political world he was the chief Whip of the present

Government in the House of Lords . He had been A . D . C . to the Queen since 188 7 and for several years was President of the National Artillery Association . He was twice married and is succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son by his first wife—Viscount Glentworth , who now becomes fourth Earl of Limerick . His lordship died at his Hertfordshire seat , Tewin Water , near

Welwyn , on Saturday Inst , and was buried in Digswell Churchyard on Wednesday , among those present at the funeral , in addition to Viscount Glentworth and other members of his family , being Colonel Browne , representing the Queen , who sent a wreath ; Lords Waldegrave and Churchill on behalf of the Government , and Colonel Hennell for the Yeomen of the Guard .

Anti-Masonic Congress.

ANTI-MASONIC CONGRESS .

An International Anti-Masonic Congress is to be held , under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of September , at Trent , in Austria According to the programme , the object of the Congress is made known to everybody " the immense moral and material evils done by Freemasonry to the Church

and Society , and to seek a remedy by help of a permanent International organisation against Freemasonry . " Only those persons will be allowed to take part in the Congress " who confess the most absolute obedience to the Church and the Pope . " The Organisation of the Congress is in the hands of a Central

Committee , with its seat in Rome , to which the different National Committees are to be subordinate . The work of the Congress is to embrace the question of the Historical Study of Freemasonry , and of the practical conclusions to be drawn from it , in order to combat Masonry . The work will be divided into four sections ,

the first and second dealing with Masonic doctrine and action , its ends and means ; while the third and fourth deal with means for combating Freemasonry . Among the latter are public and' private prayers for conversion of the Masons ; secondly , encyclicals and

other acts of the Pope and Church in reference to Masonry ; thirdly , the organisation of all Anti-Masonic elements and the founding of fresh Societies , and , finally , the publishing and spreading of Anti-Masonic books .

BKO . PASSMORE EDWARDS , Cornish Lodge , No . 2369 , has undertaken to provide Islington with three handsome buildings suitable for free libraries .