Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.

ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .

The regular monthly meeting- of the Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution took place at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday . Bro . Edgar Bowyer , P . G . Std . Br . and Treasurer of the In-Albert

stitution , presided , and there were present Bros . Fish , W . B . Daniell , John Bulmer , James Brett , P . G . P . ; John Newton , A . H . Tattershall , Alex . Forsyth , Jabez Hogg , P . G . D . j C . F . Hogard , Charles Kempton , Joseph Freeman , A . Durrant , George Mickley , Hugh Cotter , John J . Berry , Thomas White , P . G . P . ; and James Terry , P . G . S . B ., Secretary .

The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and verified , the SECRETARY reported the death of four annuitants ( three male and one widiw ) . The Warden ' s report for the past month having been submitted , the SECRETARY read a letter enclosing a cheque from the Grand Secretary for / , 2 i ° 7 > being one-third part

of the admission money to the Royal Albert Hall on the occasion of the Masonic Jubilee meeting on the 13 th June Iast * . " . . An application from the widow of a late annuitant for half of her late husband's annuity having been granted , the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

CRICKET MATCH—OLD MASONIANS v . PRESENT SCHOLARS . We are pleased to notice that last Saturday witnessed the first cricket match between the past and present scholars of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , Wood Green . The Old Masonians mustered a very fair and representative team , with Mr . A . H . Stephenson as captain , to whose

care the arrangements for the match had been entrusted . The boys , who had the assistance of a Master ( Mr . Oliver ) and the Steward ( Mr . Dove ) , were captained by J . Piatt ; but they laboured under a great disadvantage , as several of their best players left at Midsummer , and this enabled , as the scores show , the Old Masonians to gain rather an

easy victory . For the visitors we notice the brilliant batting of Mr . E . L . Price , and this gentleman did good service with the ball , as did Mr . A . H . Stephenson , whilst the fielding of Mr . A . Hart was excellent . Messrs . Oliver and Dove , with J . Piatt , played well for the School . Scores ;—

OLD MASONIANS . Mr . Gedge , b Mr . Oliver 4 Mr . Packer , b Piatt I Mr . Francis , c and b Mr . Oliver 1 Mr . Hennis , b Mr . Oliver o Mr , Stephenson , c Herring , b Mr . Oliver 3

Mr . Price , b Mr . Oliver 26 Mr . Watkins , played on , b Mr . Oliver o Mr . Hart , c Clark , b Mr . Oliver 4 Mr . Johnstone , b Clark o Mr . MacKay , not out 1 Mr . Hutton , hit wkt o Extras 9

Total 49 ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . Mr . Oliver , b Mr . Price o b Mr . Gedge o Mr . Dove , b Mr . Price 9 1-b-vv , b Mr . Stephenson o Piatt , run out , st Mr . Price 4 b Mr . Stephenson o Jordison , b Mr . Gedge I b Mr . Stephenson o Clark , b Mr . Price 1 st Mr . Hart , b Mr . Stephenson o

Simpson , b Mr . Gedge 1 run out , st Mr . Gedge o Herring , b Mr . Price o b Mr . Stephenson 1 Liveridge , not out 2 b Mr . Gedge 1 Christensen , b Mr . Gedge ... o b Mr . Gedge o Wilson , b Mr . Gedge o c Mr . Watkins , b Mr . Stephenson 5 Richardson , b Mr . Gedge ... o not out 4 Extras 6 Extras . *;

Total 24 Total 20 The Old Masonians , who numbered 23 in all , were most kindl y received by the Head Master , Bro . Richard Morris , LL . D ., and after the match an ample tea was provided , at which Mrs . Dove presided , and was supported by the Head Master and the Steward . After tea an adjournment was made to the Lecture Hall to hear the choir , and at the

conclusion of the practice , the following Old Masonians , Messrs . Garston , Gedge , Stephenson , Uwins , Watkins , and Whiteley , at the request of Dr . Morris , entertained the boys with songs , & c , which brought a most pleasant and enjoyable day to a close . We hope that on a future occasion such as this the match will be witnessed by a large number of the Craft who lake an interest in " Our Boys . "

Grand Lodge Of South Australia.

GRAND LODGE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA .

The quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge of jjouth Australia was begun on Wednesday , July 20 , when « . , V hief Justice ( Hon . S . J . Way ) , the Grand Master , called off" till Tuesday evening , July 26 , to allow the p c > T an opportunity of meeting Lord Carrington as ^••s . G . W . of the Grand Lodge of England . ' Accordingly

, n t " latter occasion about 200 brethren , representing f ^ ery degree of rank above and including that of Master v 'ason , assembled in the Freemasons' Hall , Flinders"fiet , and formed together a brilliant spectacle . . lordshi p , upon entering the Grand Lodge , was ceived with due ceremony , and conducted bv the Grand

rI ? . * ° a place at the r * - ? ht of the Grand Master . VL y GRAND SECRETARY ( Bro . J . H . Cunningham ) read "e following address : — "To His Excellency the Right anrt ° r rab , e Lord Carrington , P . C , G . C . M . G ., Governor N » L ° nder-in-Chief of Her Majesty ' s Colony of

Un t A ° r h Wales > Past Senior Grand Warden of the En ' l Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the E and ' , * ' & c * Ma V ' P lease y ° lordship , —We , Free "I A ° f tlle Ancient and Honourable Society of Grandr j Pted Masons under the jurisdiction of the assemV . 1 J ge of South Austral'a » in Grand Lodge fratern 1 ' deSlre to offer vour lordship a cordial and nal welcome upon the occasion of your visit to

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this colony . As British subjects we are proud of your lordship ' s public career in England ; as colonists vve recognise the skill and ability with which your lordship has filled the high office of Governor of New South Wales ; but as Masons we are especially proud of your lordship ' s high rank in the Grand Lodge of England , of your services to the English Constitution , and of the zeal which you

have always manifested for the welfare of the Craft at large . Although as South Australian Masons we are not now under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of England , we entertain , both from old associations as well as present relationship , the most affectionate feelings towards that Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodge of England has accorded to the Grand Lodge of South Australia the most cordial

recognition of its rights and privileges as an independent Grand Lodge . We are , therefore , glad of the opportunity of expressing through your lordship our fraternal sentiments towards the Grand Lodge of which your lordship is so distinguished an ornament . The present also is the happy occasion of our welcoming in your lordship ' s person ihe

most eminent English Mason who has honoured our Grand Lodge with a fraternal visit . Offering your lordship our warmest wishes for the health and happiness of yourself , Lady Carrington , and your children , we subscribe ourselves , on behalf of the Grand Lodge of South Australia , your lordship ' s most obedient servants and brethren , S . J . WAY , Grand Master ; J . H . CUNNINGHAM , Grand Secretary . "

lhe GRAND MASTER said—I am sure you will all agree with me that the incident of this evening is one of the most interesting that has happened in the history of South Australian Masonry . We all appreciate it as a high honour that we are able to welcome to this Grand Lodge a nobleman and statesman of high rank , the great and able Governor of the neighbouring colony of New South Wales ,

and a distinguished member of the Grand Lodge of England . I think I may add that our interest in the proceedings of this evening is heightened by the fact that this is the first time we have had the opportunity of expressing to a member of the Grand Lodge of England in person the fraternal sentiments which vve entertain towards that Grand Lodge . We no longer owe allegiance to and vve

are no longer under the authority of the Grand Lodge of England , but we are bound to it by the much more inseparable and indissoluble ties of fraternity and of affection . I have no doubt that all the brethren present vvill recall the fact that the cordiality of our recognition by the Grand Lodge of England was accentuated by the recent incident in your lordship's colony of New South Wales—the greatest

event in Ihe history of Australasia—when the world learnt from the patriotic action of the colonists of New South Wales that the loyal subjects of her Majesty the Queen in Australia claimed to have a share in the defence of the Empire . On the occasion on which recognition was granted to us , the acting Grand Master was the Right Hon . the Earl of Limerick . That noble lord vvas good enough to

express the opinion that this Grand Lodge was " a promising addition to the Grand Lodges of the world , " and he further went on to say that the Masons of South Australia , under the South Australian Constitution , " might be trailed to maintain and uphold the great traditions of English Freemasonry . " It is not for me , representing the Grand Lodge of South Australia , to say that that promise has

been fulfilled , but I may venture to assure your lordship , and to ask your lordship to assure your brethren in the Grand Lodge of England , that the Grand Lodge of South Australia is earnestly striving to maintain the great traditions of English Masonry , ls loyalty to the Crown one of those traditions ? Then I venture to say that her Majesty in her wide dominions has no more loyal subjects than the

Masonic adherents of the South Australian Constitution , and certainly her Jubilee was not more gratefully celebrated in any part of the British Empire than by South Australian Masons , ls purity of ritual another of the great tiaditions of British Masonry ? Then I am able to intorm your lordship that if you had the oppoitunities which 1 have had of visiting lodges within the wide territory

of the Grand Lodge of South Australia—500 or 600 miles apart—not merely Metropolitan lodges , but lodges so far distant as Port Augusta and some of the towns in the Northern Areas and Mount Gambler in the South-East , you would find the Masonic- ritual carried out with the same faithfulness , with the same accuracy as are witnessed in the best of the English lodges . And lookinj ;

at the substance which underlies all ritual , it will be a source of satisfaction to your lordship and to your brethren of the Grand Lodge of England to be assured that we take care in the South Australian lodges to secure that none but true and worthy men are admitted into our brotherhood . Is brotherly love one of the great traditions of English Masonry ? Then , my lord , in South Australian

Masonry , I present to you a united brotherhood . The serenity of our lodges has not been disturbed by the slightest difference or schism . If I may be pardoned for giving you a single instance of that brotherly affection to which 1 refer , you will find it in the kind forbearance and the affectionate loyalty with which I have been supported in the high office to which I have been undeservedly called

by the suffrages of my brethren , and for which so many of the brotherhood are so much better fitted than I am to fill . Is Charity another of the great traditions of English Masonry ? Then 1 beg to assure your lordship that Charity is dispensed to distressed Masons from the private lodges and from the Benevolent Fund vvhich forms one of the Institutions of our Grand Lodge , and in the distribution of

that Charity vve look only to the fact that the lecipient is a Mason . No matter whether he be under the English , Irish , or Scotch Constitution , he has the same consideration as Masons belonging to the South Australian Constitution . We all read with pride of the magnificent demonstration in the Albert Hall in London last month , when an address was signed by H . R . H . the Prince ot Wales to the

Queen , congratulating her upon the completion ot her Jubilee . The result of that grand Masonic gathering was the addition of , ( , ' 6000 to the funds of those great Masonic Charities which are the glory of English Masonry . In this colony we cannot claim that our Charities are on anything like so extensive a scale , but we also are determined to mark the occasion of her Majesty ' s jubilee by the

establishment of a permanent Benevolent Fund , and by the erection of homes for indigent Masons and their families , which will be a permanent memorial to us of the glad event of this Jubilee year , I think I may also assert that Masonic union is one of the great traditions of English Masonry . Perhaps it is not so much talked about in England as in Australia , as Masonic union was consummated in the mother country more than

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70 years ago , and it is only three years ago since that union was consummated in South Australia . Today I am glad to present you , my lord , to the Grand Lodge of South Australia in the character of an able advocate of Masonic union . We have read with pride , and with greater pleasure than I can express , the noble , the courageous , and the patriotic words vvhich you gave utterance to at a great

Masonic gathering in New South Wales a few weeks ago , when you expressed a hope that Masonry in New South Wales might become what it is in England , in Scotland , and in South Australia— "a . great harmonious whole . " Your career in Australia has already become incorporated with Australian history . Since your arrival we have marked in that career the tact , the sympathy , the courage , the

firmness , the loyalty , the patriotism , and the adherence to constitutional principles which are all required to make a good and wise Governor . During the few days of viur visit to South Australia vve have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with those personal and social qualities which have so endeared you to the people of New South Wales . We have seen noble birth , exalted rank , refined

courtesy , and natural goodness of heart all receiving an added grace from the adherence to Masonic precepts and from the practice of Masonic virtues . You have been with us only a few days , but I assure you that the Colonists of South Australia are already your attached personal friends . But this evening we who are here present bear towards you a closer relationship ; for are we not united in the same

brotherhood ? 1 assure your lordship that all here present are your loving brethren . I have now the pleasure of handing to you the address which imperfectly expresses the feelings of the Masons of South Australia towards your lordship , I assure you that every one present greets you with much stronger feelings than those which this address expresses , or which I have been able to express in the few

imperfect words which I have addressed to you on behalf of the brethren of the Grand Lodge of South Australia . Bro . H . E . DOWNER , M . P ., M . W . D . G . M ., added some complimentary remarks to his lordship and to the G . M . The GRAND MASTER suitably responded , and added —I may be permitted to mention one thing which gives me personally very great pleasure in connection with the

visit to this Grand Lodge of Lord Carrington . It is the circumstance that I have been honoured by the Grand Lodge of England by being appointed their representative near this Grand Lodge . I think ynu will sympathise with me when I say that next to the kind confidence of my brethren in electing me by their suffrages to the high office of Grand Master , I value this mark of confidence on

the part of the Grand Lodge of England . I never enter this Grand Lodgeiwithout wearing the jewel which , on the suggestion of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , was sent out to this colony to be worn by the representative of the Grand Lodge of England here . lhat jewel bears , quartered with the arms of the Grand Lodge of England , the arms of that distinguished Prince and Mason , Lord

Carrington ' s own personal friend , H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , Grand Master of England . Lord CARRINGTON said in response—Most Worshipful Grand Master , Right Worshipful brethren , and brethren i I beg to return you my most respectful thanks for the cordial and fraternal welcome you have been pleased to accord to me on my first visit to the colony of South

Australia . I received with satisfaction and I am very grateful for the terms in which this address has been tendered to me , not only in my capacity as a brother Mason , but as a representative of her Most Gracious Majesty in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales . I recognise with pleasure the affectionate feelings and the cordial relations that you entertain towards the Grand

Lodge of England , and it is my earnest hope and fervent prayer that the Great Architect of the Universe will ever continue to watch over and preserve the interests of our Craft . I beg further with great respect to thank you warmly for the kind way in vvhich you have introduced the names of Lady Carrington and our children . I think it would be unbecoming in me if , after

the cordial , kind , and flattering remarks which my most worshipful brother has uttered to you about myself , I do not attempt in the few feeble words that I can at this moment command to offer to you grateful thanks for the very gracious compliment vvhich the brethren have been pleased to pay to me this evening . I had no idea when I arrived to-night that I should be so highly honoured . I feel it

deeply . This is an evening which to the end of my life I shall never forget . I feel most strongly the kind words which the Most Worshipful Grand Master has spoken about me , and the judicious and fraternal way in which he has referred to the unhappy divisions which at present exist among Freemasons in the colony of New South Wales . It would not be right for me to say one word on that

subject , except to express the hope that these divisions may soon cease , and that we may presently find ourselves in the happy and fraternal condition in which you now are in South Australia . That happy conclusion can only be brought about by the blessing of the Great Architect of the Universe and by our own individual endeavours , and it is my earnest hope and fervent prayer that

I may see the brethren ot New South Wales united , and enjoying as true happiness as my brethren in the South Australian Constitution who are this evening assembled here . The G . D . of C , Bro . G . C . Knight , who had charge of the ceremonial during the evening , then directed the brethren to accord the Grand Master and Lord Carrington

special Masonic honours . The two distinguished Masons then left to attend the Governor ' s ball , and the Masonic business proceeded . On the motion of the V . W . Grand Chaplain , Bro . the Rev J . W . OWEN , B . A ., seconded by V . W . J . G . W . Bro .

Dr . COCKBURN , M . P ., it was decided to forward a letter of condolence and sympathy to the widow and orphans of the late Grand Chaplain . Bro . Rev . C . G . laplin , and a recognition of his past services to the Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodge was closed in ample form by the D . G . M ., Bro . H . E . Downer , M . P .

Owing to the absence of Bro . Christopher Sykes , M . P ., at Aix-le-Bains , there will not be the usual party at Brangtinhamthorpe this year during the Doncaster Race week . Bros . Lord George Hamilton and Lord Stanley of Preston attended the Cabinet Council , held at the Foreign Office , on Friday , the gth instant . Bro . Lord Ashbourne and Sir M , E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., were among the absentees .