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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

The following communications unavoidably stand over : CRAFTLion and Lamb Lodge , No . 192 . Consecration of the Euston Lodge , No . 2283 , at St , Neots . Annual Banquet of the Friars Lodge of Instruction , No . 1349-BOOKS . & c , RECEIVED . " Masonic Review , " " The Freemason " ( Toronto ) , " El Taller , " and " Voice of Masonry . "

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SATURDAY , MARCH 16 , 1889 . . * .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

GRAND TREASURERSHIP . _ To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Will you permit me through the medium of your columns to thank those brethren who came from the east , south , north , and west , to vote for me last Wednesday and assisted in giving me such a magnificent majority . To

the Committee , the members of my mother lodge , and those brethren who came voluntarily from such districts as Durham and Cornwall , my thanks are especially due , and I shall never forget their kindness . If it were possible I would thank each of them personally , as it is 1 shall be obliged by the insertion of this letter in your next issue-Fraternally yours , March nth . EDWARD TERRY .

Reviews.

REVIEWS .

6 . LEICESTER . THE FREEMASONS' CALENDAR FOR LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND . 1 SS 9 . This handsomely got up Calendar , one of the most artistic of the Annuals , is edited by Bro . B . A . Smith , P . M . 523 , & c , and is in its 17 thyear of publication , being under official sanction Irom the beginning . This edition has a capital portrait of Bro . George Toller , P . M . 523 ,

P . G . S . B . of England , who was Prov . G . Sec . tor Leicester , first in 1 S 70 , and for a few years later , and Dep . Prov . G . M . for four years , from 1 SS 0 . He well deserves this special compliment , as his services have been many and valuable in the province , officially , generally , and especially relative to the Charities . There is not a better managed province in England than Leicester and Rutland , there being now

a dozen lodges , with nearly 600 members . Of all these , the veteran Mason , the R . W . Bro . William Kelly , is either a contributing or honorary member , being possibly lbe only brother who has thus been so honoured , and certainly no one has ever been more worthy ot the hearty appreciation of the Craft as a trusted and zealous ruler . Though not now Prov . G . M ., Bro . Kelly is still Grand Superintendent of the R . A .

province , having five chapters , with 167 members , and also ten Mark lodges in a province , including four counties , to look after . Bro . Smith has done his part well as editor , and furnishes a mass of information respecting the Charities . During the last five years Leicester has subscribed the large sum of £ 2005 14 s . to the three Institutions , out of a

total of 3 ^ 294 , on 103 . Sd . contributed by all England , the Fund of Benevolence having disbursed , during the same period , the large amount of £ 52 , 056 . The votes held by the province at the present time number 135 8 in all , being an increase of 164 on the past year , a most honourable record . 7 . WILTS . MASONIC CALENDAR AND OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF WILTSHIRE , for 18 S 9 . The editor of this very useful manual , whose praises wo have so often sung ( or rather written ) is Bro . William Nott , the indefatigable Charity Secretary of the Province . It is compiled on the same lines as last year , with the

addition of two provincial reports , which will prove most acceptable to the brethren . There are 11 lodges , with 518 members , six chapters , and one Mark lodge . A capital table in this year's issue exhibits the total contributions to the Charities , collected by the Stewards , from 1870 to 1 S 8 S . This is an excellent compilation , and a most encouraging and honourable one for Wilts , where our

several Institutions have been so nobly supported . The "Girls" has had £ i 6 S 4 is . od . ; the "Boys , " £ 1008 16 s . Od . ; and the "Benevolent , " £ 1595 10 s ., making some £ 4300 in all , or an average of £ 227 per annum . ' We congratulate Bro . Nott most sincerely , as the Charity Secretary of the province , on so grand a

result . [ Our congratulations lo our esteemed brother have now a mournful significance . As will be seen by an announcement in another column , Bro . Nott has since these lines were penned passed from our midst , and is resting from his labours . It will be long before his place will be filled in the Province of Wiltshire . ]

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

S 311 _ CURIOUS CERTIFICATES . Bro . Quick , P . M ., & c , of Guernsey , has kindly sent me four certificates to look at . They are all written on quarto or folio sheets of paper , and duly sealed , with ribbons intact , save the senior of the quartette , which lacks the usual silken appendage . The certificates are carefully cut several times at the left side so that the ribbons may ba

inserted , lhe first is dated 24 th September , 1799 , and was issued in favour of Bto . Hemery Hall , who is described as a Past Master of the Lodge , No . 733 , on the Registry of Ireland , and had been " installd . and initiatd . into that most Noble & Sublime Degree of Royal Arch & Super Excellent Masonry . " This Body is termed the " Royal Arch Excellent Encampment of Lodge No . 733 , " and the

officers who signed the document were the H . P . ; G . M . ; D . G . M . ; and theSec . The water mark on the paper reads "Edmunds and Pine 179 G . " Ihe second of A . D . 1 S 13 was granted to Bro . Henry Hall on behalf of Lodge * No . 9 S 6 , 4 th Garrison Battalion ( Registry of Ireland ) , held at Guernsey , to prove he had passed the chair of the lodge and "further initiated and installed" into the "Sublime

Degree of Excellent and Super Excellent and Royal Arch Masonry . " Each of the paper bars , _ formed through the incisions to receive the tri-coloured ribbon ( scarlet , blue , and gold ) contains writing as follows : " 1 , Entered 3 2 , Passd . ; 3 , Raisd , ; 4 , Passd . the chair ; 5 , Excellent ; G , Super Excellent ; 7 , Holy Royal Arch ; 8 , High Priest j 9 , Ark , Link ; 10 , and Mark . " ( Numbers are added by

me . ) The phraseology indicates the Christian basis of the chapter , lhe third , promulgated "In the name of the most Glorious and undivided Trinity , & c , " under the sanction of the same Lodge ( 9 S 6 ) , was to certify that Sir Henry Hall had been dubbed a K . T . and K . M ., and bears date 17 th November , 1 S 14 ; some of the bars together reading "Excellent , Super Excellent , Holy R . Arch , High Priest , Knight Templars , Knight of Malta . " Ribbon is

black , and so the seal . The last of the scries is to the same Bro . Hall , under the same auspices , and is signed by the VV . M ., Wardens , and Sec , to certify that he had "passed the Chair of No . 9 S 6 , " and also "has been Worshipful Master , " the date of its issue being 7 th December , 1 S 14 . The seals do not call for particularization . Lodge gS 6 is recorded by Bro . Gould in his invaluable History , Vol . 3 , as having been formed in 1810 , but ceased in 1815 . W . T . HUGHAN .