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P . M . Philanthropic Lodge , No . SiS , asks if there is such an office in a private lodge as Superintendent of Works . Law 129 clearly defines the officers of a lorlge , both necessary and permissive . There'is no such officer as Superintendent of Works in a private lodge .

A brother writes to complain of his name being placed on thp list as a supporter of one of the candidates for the Grand Trfasurership , without his authority or knowledge , and further adds that if the other names are as fictitious as his it is a bogus list . We feel sure it is an inadvertence , and that the brother in question will readily withdraw it when his attention has been called to the error . Several communications unavoidably stand over .

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BfreellascBl ¦ ^^¦ v gga ^ . g ^ gBes ^^ gHgB gop ^ SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 17 , 18 94

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

Some excellent good work has been done b y Bro . erry during the past few weeks in strengthening the ward of Stewards for the Anniversary Festival of the ^ ° yal Masonic Benevolent Institution on the 28 th lns t- Last week the number of Stewards

enlisted—¦ liter allowing for withdrawals—was announced as being etween 240 and 250 , the precise figure being , we e 'eve , 249 . This week the figure stands at 275 , after making the same allowance . This augurs well for the access of the celebration .

Masonic Notes.

Having before now referred to the subject of withdrawals and the possible and indeed probable injury they indirectly cause to the Institution affected , we gladly take advantage of the present opportunity to emphasise our former remarks . No one would dream

of blaming a brother who removes his name from the Board of Stewards through illness or other sufficient cause . What we have a right to complain of is that brethren or companions who have undertaken to represent their lodges or chapters allow their names to

remain on the list till within a short time of the day appointed for the celebration and then withdraw , oftentimes on some sorry pretext—that they have had no time to canvass , or that those they have canvassed have been slow to respond .

Here the names arc taken oil' when it is almost impossible or useless to find a representative of the lodge or chapter thus unfortunately left out in the cold . Of the 16 withdrawals from this particular Board of Stewards , three-fourths have occurred

among those who were enrolled some time prior to the Christmas holidays , and as the majority of these three-fourths have caused their names to be taken ofl the list within the last two or three weeks , Bro . Terry , in the case of lodge or chapter representatives has had no chance of supplying their places now .

The labours which devolve on the Secretaries of our Institutions in connection with their respective annual Festivals are arduous enough , and they may reasonably ask to be spared the additional difficulties

thus created . Either the withdrawal should be announced in good time , so that the Secretary may have the chance of obtaining the services of a substitute , or the Steward should carry out his undertaking , even though the total of his list is certain to be small .

According to the Australasian Keystone for January , the office of Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria has become vacant by the retirement of Bro . T . H . Lempriere , and it is announced that

a successor will not be appointed till the Quarterly Communication in March . The salary attached to the oflice appears to be . £ 600 a year , and the appointment is in the hands of Bro . Sir W . J . Clarke , Bart , M . W G . Master .

We also learn , from the same source , that the annual meeting of the Freemasons' Charitable Institutions was held at Freemasons' Hall , Collins-street , Melbourne , on the 21 st December , 1893 , when the report showed receipts from lodges amounting to £ 161 , as

compared with . 6226 in 1892 . It is , however , considered that the decrease is not greater than might have been expected having regard to the very serious depression prevailing everywhere throughout the Colony .

The balance available for use is reported as i . 654 while as for the ^ 1707 which is still locked up in the Land Credit Bank , we learn that there is " little prospect of much of the said amount ever being available for the object it was intended . "

* * * We very heartily congratulate our excellent contemporary , the Masonic Advm-ate of Indianapolis , and its able editor , Bro . M . H . Rice , on the change in its appearance . Hitherto it has been published in

newspaper form , but with the issue of its number for January of the current year , it became a magazine . The one thing that remains unchanged is the character and quality of the contents , which are as well written and compiled as ever , or , if there is a change , it is one of which Bro . Rice has every reason to be proud .

Bro . Alexander Howell s massive " History of the Phienix Lodge , Portsmouth , " is rapidly approaching completion . We have received another batch of proof pages , 67 to 90 , covering a very interesting period ( especially to the members of the lod ge ) , and the

correspondence printed as to the difficulties under which the "Phienix" laboured subsequent to the "Union " of December , 1 S 13 , aptly describes the circumstances of the case . Several of the letters , or copies , which passed between the Grand Secretaries and the lodge

have been preserved in the archives of the Grand Lodge , and are now utilised b y Bro . Howell in thc weaving of his narrative of the period , 1814 to iS-io . The work

will certainly be exhaustive , and bids fair to eclipse all other volumes of the kind . The names of subscribers , which will be published with the work , may still be forwarded to the author .

Masonic Notes.

We congratulate the brethren of Iowa on their Grand Lodge having attained the jubilee of its constitution , nor is it otherwise than in accordance with the natural fitness of things that the auspicious event should have been celebrated at a quiet and unostentatious meeting , which was held in the Masonic Library

at Cedar Rapids , and attended by thc venerable Bro . T . S . Parvin , Grand Secretary of the jurisdiction and founder of the Library , and a number of distinguished members of the Order in Iowa , as well as by several ladies . This Masonic Library contains many of thc rarest treasures among the old Constitutions which

have been preserved to us . It is , more than any other thing Masonic in the State , the outward and visible sign of the devotion of our Iowa brethren to Freennsonry . Above all , it is the monumeii linn cere perenuuis which will preserve to future generations of Masons the memory of Bro . Parvin , to whom the Fraternity in Iowa is so deeply indebted for the prosperity of which

it enjoys so large a measure . For the past 50 years Bro . Parvin has been the heart and soul of Iowa Freemasonry , and it matters little whether the p lace ol meeting was deliberately selected or by chance , thc selection wasa graceful act , worth y alike of the brother who was thereby honoured and thebrethren who paid him the honour .

Reviews.

Reviews .

"DISTRICT GRAND LOUCE OF MARK MASONS OIBENGAL . "—This Report and the voluminous tables are by Bro . II . M . Rustomjee ( P . G . O . ) , the able Grand Sec . ( of lS , Chowringhee-road , Calcutta ) . The Maharajah of Cooch Behar , G . C . I . E ., is the genial District G . M ., and in his opening speech at the meeting held 15 th September , 1 S 93 , speaks most hopefully of the prospects of Mdik

Masonry in the Province of Bengal . There are 19 "' working lodges" on the roll , with some 350 members . I here are , however , some 30 lodges on * paper , some possibly being likely to show signs of vigour ai > ain ere long . The names of all the District Grand Olficeis from 1 SG 7 aro given , beginning with Bio . H . D . Sandeman , C . S ., as Dist .

G . M . There have been six predecessors to the Aliharajah , so his Highness is the seventh local Head of the Degree , The Report is also a Directory , for the chief oilicers ot all the lodges are given , also the Masters and Past Masters , and finally the names of all the members in three separate lists . Surely this must hive meant considerable labjur , and proves how zealous is the Dist . Grand Sec .

"TRANSACTIONS ut THE PROV . GRAND LUDCE oi-NORI- ' OLK , 1 S 1 J 3 . " — This able compilation is by the esteemed I ' tov . Grand Sec , Bro . G . W . G . liauuid , and btings the report down to 31 st December . The Returns are carefully arranged , and should be as carefully read by

the brethren ot that well-managed province having Lord Suffield , K . C . B ., as Pro / . G . M . There are 17 lodges , with 7 OC subscribing members , and 303 are members ol Prov . Grand Lodge . There aie 03 " members in arrears , " and over £ So were paid as fees to the I ' rov . G . Lodge during the last year .

"EAST LANCASHIRE SYSTEMATIC MASONIC EDUCATIONAL AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . "—The Annual Report is most encuuragmg , and is signed by Bro . James Andrew , Chairman Finance and Auhc Committee . The Treasurer and Secretary are Bros . vVilliim Jaffrey and

James Newton , respectively , and evidently there is no lack of work for buth these indefatigable brethren . Nearl y £ 2000 was received during the past year , besides over £ 400 interest on investments , showing a large increase on the previous year . The investments , c ' ^ c , total over

"THE BRILLIANT REFERENCE BIBLE" { Oxford University Pre . 'S , London , Henry Frowde , Amen Coiner ) . — This tiny ty pi graphical gem is literally " a thing of beauty , " and undoubtedly "a jjy forevtr" to enthusiastic tnoliocraphers . We could nardly credit the statement that this , the smallest reference liib . e in the ivorld , ' contains 1 jilj pages , " so tested the matter for ourselves . The pagination

is witnin the mark , for there are likewise maps—coloured and legibly drawn liy H . Counier , F . R . G . S . —an J yet the wee book only measures a trifle over three and a half inches by two and a-halt inches , and half an inch in thickness , weighing in limp morocco rather over three ounces . ' The paper is wonderfully opaque , £ . nd the type marvellously

clear . Such a copy of the Sacred Law would be invaluable in the conferring of the " Higher Degrees , " because so handy lor the pocket ,-and yet quite readable , and with chronological head lines , as with larger volumes . For the information of our numerous American . subscnbers , we may add that copies may he obtained from their booksellers , through the same firm at 33 , East 17 th Street , New York .

"THE FREEMASONS CALENDAR AND DIKKCTOKV EOU THE PROVINCE OK G LOUCESTER , 1 S 94 . "— This admirably printed annual is edited by Uro . K . P . Sumner , the Piov . Charity becretary , on the same lines as his predecessor—Bro . R . V . Vassar-bniith , the present D . P . G . M . The printer is Bro . John Bellows , of Gloucester , who has favoured a purple ink on toned paper for these happy

productions . Ihere are 15 lodges and three Royal Arch chapters , so that the province is weak as respects koyal Arch Masonry . In Mark Masonry Bro . R . V . Vassal-Smith is the Prov . G . M ., Herelordshire being included in the province . Iiro . George Norman has long been the energetic Prov . Grand Secretary . The Cralt Prov . Grand

Secretary is Iiro . James B . VVinterbotham , P . M . fij . In Knights Templars Gloucester is united with Bristol , having Bro . W . A . F . Powell lor Provincial Prior , the only preceptory in Gloucestershire being held at Cheltenham , the sole Rose Lioix chapter being located at Oloucester , which is certainly an excellent arrangement on mutual grounds .