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SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 16 , 1901 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

We consider the reasons assigned by the President of the Committee of General Purposes of Supreme Grand Chapter for not granting the prayer of the petition of the Grand Chapter of Western Australia for recognition by our Grand Chapter , supported as they were by the explanations of the Grand Registrar ,

are ample justification for the refusal . Comp . Sir George Harris pointed out that there was a precedent for a single chapter constituting itself a Grand Chapter in one of the two Grand Chapters which in 1817 were united into our present Supreme Grand Chapter . But , as Grand Registrar remarked , a single chapter

could not be a representative body , and on these grounds recognition was refused . But at the same time he explained that had the Grand Chapter of Western Australia been composed of several chapters it ought to be recognised . In other words , the

petition , as we pointed out in one of our Notes of the 2 nd instant , was not granted because it was made prematurely , and not from any unwillingness to recognise Royal Arch Masonry in the Colony when it has been placed on a proper footing .

* Our worthy correspondent , Bro . T . May , appears to have shown less than his usual judgment in his letter of criticism which appeared in our columns last week . In our opinion , there is no unseemly haste in the course that has been adopted . It is clear , from the circular

convening an " Especial Grand Lodge , " which will be held at the Queen ' s Hall , Langham-place , to-day ( Friday ) , and issued by the Grand Secretary on the 1 st instant , that his Majesty must have been approached on the subject of "the Grand Mastership , " and must have

made known his intention of vacating the office . Otherwise Item No . 4 of the business to be transacted would not read— " That the nomination for the oflice of Most Worshipful Grand Master , made at the last Quarterly Communication , having become inoperative , " & c .

* * * Moreover , the Committee of Grand Lodge meets on Wednesday , the 20 th instant , for the purpose of arranging the paper of business to be transacted at the Quarterly Communication on Wednesday , the 6 th prox ., and Grand Lodge will then be in a position to

perform its duties in regular business-like fashion . The nomination made to-day will taks the place of the nomination made at the December meeting , and the election of Grand Master will take place at the usual time next month . Had this not been done , the

nomination of last December would have remained , and the election of his Majesty must have followed in due course . As it is , everything can be done in order , and with the least possible disturbance of the usual arrangements .

* * * We hasten to correct an error which crept into our brief record of the invaluable services rendered by our late distinguished Bro . Thomas Fenn , whom we described as having been appointed in 1897 " Pas ' Grand Scribe N . of Grand Chapter . " We should

have said " Grand Scribe N ., " as Comp . Fenn was appointed to the office and not to Past rank . We might also have mentioned that in 18 S 6 he had conferred upon him the rank of Past President of the Committee of General Purposes of Grand Chapter ; and further that he was the author of a History or Annals of the

Prince of Wales s Lodge , No . 259 , in the second edition of which the record was carried down to thc year 1890 , when the lodge—which was warranted in 1787— - celebrated its centenary under the personal presidency of the Prince of Wales , thc permanent Master of the lodge .

* * « One cannot help smiling at the Critic , who , in his haste to set everybody right , makes more—or , at all events , as many—mistakes as those he is at the trouble of criticising . Such an instance will be found in the

Daily Telegraph of the 7 th instant , in which we read under " London Day by Day " — " Respecting his Majesty the King and English Freemasonry , a Masonic Correspondent writes : To be strictly accurate , the then Prince of Wales , after his initia-

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tion by the King of Sweden , in 186 9 , was created Past Grand Master of England , not by the Grand Lodge , which had no such power , but by the then Grand Master , Lord Ripon . " The Prince of Wales was initiated by the then King of Sweden in 1 S 68 , and it was in 1869 that the rank of Past Grand Master

was conferred upon him , not by Lord Ripon , who , at the time , was only Deputy Grand Master , but by the Earl of Zetland , the then Grand Master . Moreover , as to the statement that Grand Lodge has not the power of creating a Past Grand Master , Article 7 of the Book of Constitutions prescribes that " Brethren

of eminence and ability who have rendered service to tha Craft may , by appointment of the Grand Master , or by a vote of the Grand Lodge duly confirmed , be constituted members of the Grand Lodge . " Further , it was in 18 74 , not 18 75 , that the Prince became Grand Master , on the resignation of the Marquis of Ripon . K X

It would not have surprised us had the mistakes been made by a non-Masonic correspondent of our contemporary , but a Masonic correspondent in his anxiety " to be strictly accurate " ha'd only to refer to our Grand Lodge Calendar and the B . of C . and he would have found the facts as we have stated them .

* * * The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution met on Wednesday , the 13 th instant , under the presidency of Bro . J . A . Farnfield , P . A . G . D . C , Treasurer . The Secretary having reported the deaths of one Male and two

Widow Annuitants , and of one accepted Male candidate , the Committee approved the lists of candidates for the election in May , and declared the vacancies—including the three deferred on each Fund—to be then competed for as follows : Male Fund , 50 candidates , 13 vacancies ; Widows' Fund , 54 candidates , 8 vacancies .

* fp w TP We seldom read a report of the Proceedings o f the District Grand Lodge of Queensland without being interested and edified by the contents , and , what is of still greater importance , without arriving at the conclusion that our Queensland brethren spare no pains to

promote the welfare of the Craft . At the regular Quarterly Communication , held at the Masonic Hall , Brisbane , on the Sth September last , under the presidency of Bro . the Hon . A . C . Gregory , C . M . G ., Dist . Grand Master , there was a considerable attendance of District Grand Officers and members , and more than one question of moment was discussed . Thus , on the

report of the District Board of Benevolence being presented , a discussion was raised on a point that cropped up incidentally as to whether it might not be desirable to organise a Special Fund out of which permanent help might be extended to indigent brethren and their widows whose circumstances were such as to justify something beyond the temporary relief which alone it was in the power of the Board to recommend .

* » * The idea was in the first instance put forward by the Vice-President of the Board when moving the adoption of the Report , and was warmly supported by Bro . A . Corrie , while the Deputy District Grand Master—Bro . B . L . Barnett , P . G . D . Eng . —spoke at

length in favour of the project . He ( Bro . Barnett ) considered that , as the system in force in the Colony for training up children was so admirable , the brethren need not undertake the serious responsibility of looking after the orphans , but having regard to the great success attending the Royal Masonic Benevolent

Institution and the Mark Benevolent Fund in England in providing annuities for aged poor brethren and their widows , he was in favour of the adoption of such a scheme in Queensland , and suggested that a beginning should be made at once , Bro . Corrie endorsing

the suggestion in a practical manner by promising to contribute . £ 12 per annum for the next five years . We need hardly say that , in the event of such a fund being started , it will have our best wishes for its success . » * *

As for the Report of the Board of General Purposes , after paying a marked tribute of respect to the late Bro . J . Fenwick , P . A . G . D . C , Dist . G . Secretary , the Board announced that they had leased certain premises for the use of the District Grand Lodge , and in which there would be offices for the District Grand

Secretary , a special office where brethren could wait on convenient occasions on the District Grand Master , a reading-room , well furnished with Masonic periodicals and works of interest and value , and rooms in which lodges of instruction might be held and the ceremonies of the Craft rehearsed .

/ We have also received reports of subsequent meetings of the District Grand Lodge , one of which was held at the Masonic Hall , Killarney , on the 9 th November , 1 9 , when the Hall was dedicated to the purposes of Freemasonry , the Dep . Dist . Grand Master , on the request of the Dist . Grand Master ,

performing the ceremony , in the course ot which he delivered an eloquent oration appropriate to the occasion . The other meeting was the regular Quarterly Communication , held at thc Masonic Hall , Brisbane , on the 5 th December , under the presidency of the

Dist . Grand Master . The chief matter discussed was the unauthorised publication of reports of lodge proceedings , more particularly in newspapers unconnected with thc Craft . The law on the subject was fully explained in thc course of the discussion .

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pOLD AND HUNGRY . FIELD LANE REFUGES AND MISSIONS . This cold weather brings great suffering to the very poor and homeless . The petitions for Coal and Bread Tickets are more thin we can supply . OUR REFUGES ARE FULL . WILL YOU HELP US BY A DONATION ( HOWEVER SMALL )? Treasurer- W . A . BEVAN , Esq ., 54 , Lombard-st ., E . C . Secretary— PEREGRINE PLATT , Vine-street , Clerkenwell-road , E . C .

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FU MAG AL LI'S RESTAURANT , 12 & 13 , WILTON ROAD , VICTORIA STATION . LUNCHEONS , DINNERS AND SUPPERS . LARGE DINING SALOONS FOR PARTIES , ON THE FIRST FLOOR . WiEDDING BREAKFASTS & BANQUETS PROVIDED . For particulars apply to Bro . G . RONCHI , Manager . Bro . C . FUMAGALLI , Proprietor .

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NDERTON'S HOTEL & TAVERN FLEET STREET , LONDON . F . H . CLEMOW , Proprietor . In connection with the Peacock Hotel , and Royal Hotel , Boston , Lincolnshire . The central position of Anderton's is unequalled for Masonic Banquets , Public Dinners , Wedding Breakfasts , Meetings of Creditors , Arbitrations , & c . The RESTAURANT on Eastern Side of Hotel Entrance is open to the public from 7 a . m . to 7 p . m . for Breakfasts , luncheons , Teas , and Dinners . The 2 s . Hot Luncheon , from 1 p . m . to 3 p . m ., in Coffee Room , unequalled . Registered Address for Telegrams :- * CLEMOW , LONDON .

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NOTICE . A SECOND EDITION will be published on SATTJEDAY MORNING , containing tfULL REPORT OP THE ESPECIAL GRAND LODGE MEETING at the Queen's Hall .

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SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 16 , 1901 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

We consider the reasons assigned by the President of the Committee of General Purposes of Supreme Grand Chapter for not granting the prayer of the petition of the Grand Chapter of Western Australia for recognition by our Grand Chapter , supported as they were by the explanations of the Grand Registrar ,

are ample justification for the refusal . Comp . Sir George Harris pointed out that there was a precedent for a single chapter constituting itself a Grand Chapter in one of the two Grand Chapters which in 1817 were united into our present Supreme Grand Chapter . But , as Grand Registrar remarked , a single chapter

could not be a representative body , and on these grounds recognition was refused . But at the same time he explained that had the Grand Chapter of Western Australia been composed of several chapters it ought to be recognised . In other words , the

petition , as we pointed out in one of our Notes of the 2 nd instant , was not granted because it was made prematurely , and not from any unwillingness to recognise Royal Arch Masonry in the Colony when it has been placed on a proper footing .

* Our worthy correspondent , Bro . T . May , appears to have shown less than his usual judgment in his letter of criticism which appeared in our columns last week . In our opinion , there is no unseemly haste in the course that has been adopted . It is clear , from the circular

convening an " Especial Grand Lodge , " which will be held at the Queen ' s Hall , Langham-place , to-day ( Friday ) , and issued by the Grand Secretary on the 1 st instant , that his Majesty must have been approached on the subject of "the Grand Mastership , " and must have

made known his intention of vacating the office . Otherwise Item No . 4 of the business to be transacted would not read— " That the nomination for the oflice of Most Worshipful Grand Master , made at the last Quarterly Communication , having become inoperative , " & c .

* * * Moreover , the Committee of Grand Lodge meets on Wednesday , the 20 th instant , for the purpose of arranging the paper of business to be transacted at the Quarterly Communication on Wednesday , the 6 th prox ., and Grand Lodge will then be in a position to

perform its duties in regular business-like fashion . The nomination made to-day will taks the place of the nomination made at the December meeting , and the election of Grand Master will take place at the usual time next month . Had this not been done , the

nomination of last December would have remained , and the election of his Majesty must have followed in due course . As it is , everything can be done in order , and with the least possible disturbance of the usual arrangements .

* * * We hasten to correct an error which crept into our brief record of the invaluable services rendered by our late distinguished Bro . Thomas Fenn , whom we described as having been appointed in 1897 " Pas ' Grand Scribe N . of Grand Chapter . " We should

have said " Grand Scribe N ., " as Comp . Fenn was appointed to the office and not to Past rank . We might also have mentioned that in 18 S 6 he had conferred upon him the rank of Past President of the Committee of General Purposes of Grand Chapter ; and further that he was the author of a History or Annals of the

Prince of Wales s Lodge , No . 259 , in the second edition of which the record was carried down to thc year 1890 , when the lodge—which was warranted in 1787— - celebrated its centenary under the personal presidency of the Prince of Wales , thc permanent Master of the lodge .

* * « One cannot help smiling at the Critic , who , in his haste to set everybody right , makes more—or , at all events , as many—mistakes as those he is at the trouble of criticising . Such an instance will be found in the

Daily Telegraph of the 7 th instant , in which we read under " London Day by Day " — " Respecting his Majesty the King and English Freemasonry , a Masonic Correspondent writes : To be strictly accurate , the then Prince of Wales , after his initia-

Masonic Notes.

tion by the King of Sweden , in 186 9 , was created Past Grand Master of England , not by the Grand Lodge , which had no such power , but by the then Grand Master , Lord Ripon . " The Prince of Wales was initiated by the then King of Sweden in 1 S 68 , and it was in 1869 that the rank of Past Grand Master

was conferred upon him , not by Lord Ripon , who , at the time , was only Deputy Grand Master , but by the Earl of Zetland , the then Grand Master . Moreover , as to the statement that Grand Lodge has not the power of creating a Past Grand Master , Article 7 of the Book of Constitutions prescribes that " Brethren

of eminence and ability who have rendered service to tha Craft may , by appointment of the Grand Master , or by a vote of the Grand Lodge duly confirmed , be constituted members of the Grand Lodge . " Further , it was in 18 74 , not 18 75 , that the Prince became Grand Master , on the resignation of the Marquis of Ripon . K X

It would not have surprised us had the mistakes been made by a non-Masonic correspondent of our contemporary , but a Masonic correspondent in his anxiety " to be strictly accurate " ha'd only to refer to our Grand Lodge Calendar and the B . of C . and he would have found the facts as we have stated them .

* * * The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution met on Wednesday , the 13 th instant , under the presidency of Bro . J . A . Farnfield , P . A . G . D . C , Treasurer . The Secretary having reported the deaths of one Male and two

Widow Annuitants , and of one accepted Male candidate , the Committee approved the lists of candidates for the election in May , and declared the vacancies—including the three deferred on each Fund—to be then competed for as follows : Male Fund , 50 candidates , 13 vacancies ; Widows' Fund , 54 candidates , 8 vacancies .

* fp w TP We seldom read a report of the Proceedings o f the District Grand Lodge of Queensland without being interested and edified by the contents , and , what is of still greater importance , without arriving at the conclusion that our Queensland brethren spare no pains to

promote the welfare of the Craft . At the regular Quarterly Communication , held at the Masonic Hall , Brisbane , on the Sth September last , under the presidency of Bro . the Hon . A . C . Gregory , C . M . G ., Dist . Grand Master , there was a considerable attendance of District Grand Officers and members , and more than one question of moment was discussed . Thus , on the

report of the District Board of Benevolence being presented , a discussion was raised on a point that cropped up incidentally as to whether it might not be desirable to organise a Special Fund out of which permanent help might be extended to indigent brethren and their widows whose circumstances were such as to justify something beyond the temporary relief which alone it was in the power of the Board to recommend .

* » * The idea was in the first instance put forward by the Vice-President of the Board when moving the adoption of the Report , and was warmly supported by Bro . A . Corrie , while the Deputy District Grand Master—Bro . B . L . Barnett , P . G . D . Eng . —spoke at

length in favour of the project . He ( Bro . Barnett ) considered that , as the system in force in the Colony for training up children was so admirable , the brethren need not undertake the serious responsibility of looking after the orphans , but having regard to the great success attending the Royal Masonic Benevolent

Institution and the Mark Benevolent Fund in England in providing annuities for aged poor brethren and their widows , he was in favour of the adoption of such a scheme in Queensland , and suggested that a beginning should be made at once , Bro . Corrie endorsing

the suggestion in a practical manner by promising to contribute . £ 12 per annum for the next five years . We need hardly say that , in the event of such a fund being started , it will have our best wishes for its success . » * *

As for the Report of the Board of General Purposes , after paying a marked tribute of respect to the late Bro . J . Fenwick , P . A . G . D . C , Dist . G . Secretary , the Board announced that they had leased certain premises for the use of the District Grand Lodge , and in which there would be offices for the District Grand

Secretary , a special office where brethren could wait on convenient occasions on the District Grand Master , a reading-room , well furnished with Masonic periodicals and works of interest and value , and rooms in which lodges of instruction might be held and the ceremonies of the Craft rehearsed .

/ We have also received reports of subsequent meetings of the District Grand Lodge , one of which was held at the Masonic Hall , Killarney , on the 9 th November , 1 9 , when the Hall was dedicated to the purposes of Freemasonry , the Dep . Dist . Grand Master , on the request of the Dist . Grand Master ,

performing the ceremony , in the course ot which he delivered an eloquent oration appropriate to the occasion . The other meeting was the regular Quarterly Communication , held at thc Masonic Hall , Brisbane , on the 5 th December , under the presidency of the

Dist . Grand Master . The chief matter discussed was the unauthorised publication of reports of lodge proceedings , more particularly in newspapers unconnected with thc Craft . The law on the subject was fully explained in thc course of the discussion .

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