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NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY . Established 1836 . LONDON : 1 , MOORGATE STREET , E . C . ABERDEEN : 1 , UNION TERRACE . INCOME AND FUNDS ( 1894 ) . Rre Premiums £ 701 , 000 Lfe Premiums 232 , 000 interest 171 , 000 Accumulated Funds ... £ 4 , 444 ,

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I ^ K ^^^ M SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 19 , 18 9 6 . 4

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

l lie annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Chap-* ° f Leicestershire and Rutland will be held at the asonic Hall , Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch , under the auspices ne St . Augustine ' s Chapter , No . 779 , on Monday A t ! it > the 21 st inst . Afler the Principals of St . Ri'atine ' s Chapter have been installed , the business t | rov - G . Chapter will be dispatched , and at the at i ° " ' ay ' s proceedings a banquet will take place lhe Quteu ' s Head HoW , tickets 5 s . 6 d . each , e * * iveof wine .

Masonic Notes.

Our brethren in Port Elizabeth ( Eastern Divison of South Africa ) are to be congratulated on the excellence of the work they have been doing for some time past . They are not a numerous body . There are two lodges under the English Constitution , and to one of them is attached a R . A . chapter . There are also a

Mark lodge , a Rose Croix chapter , and it may be other bodies . Yet for years they have had a Masonic Education Scheme of their own , which , from the report dated 7 th August , appears to be in an exceedingly prosperous condition . # * *

From this we learn that 19 children have been educated during the past year , and at the annual meeting , held on the day mentioned—when this Report was presented—that the donations and subscriptions from individual brethren and the various Masonic bodies amounted to . £ 107 Ss . 6 d ., which , with the

balance brought forward from previous account and £ 21 us . id . interest on bond and Cash in P . O . Savings Bank , gave a total of Receipts amounting to . £ 169 6 s . 6 d . The sum spent in School Fees was £ S $ 3 s ., and as the only other item of expenditure was £ 3 is . 6 d . for printing , there remained a balance

of Cash in hand and at Bank of ^ Si s . General Fund , which includes this Balance , a Deposit of ^ 100 in P . O . Savings Bank with a year ' s interest thereon , is returned as £ 184 9 s ., while the endowment Fund , consisting of a First Mortgage at six per cent ., is £ 35 ° - * * #

Considering , as we have said , that the English Fraternity is by no means a strong body numerically , the figures we have quoted above show that the brethren must exhibit a considerable amount of zeal and energy , and generous consideration for the children of their deceased and poorer members . We heartily

congratulate them on the state of their "Port Elizabeth Masonic Educational Scheme , " and trust that , as years roll on , the means at their disposal may be greatly increased , and , as a consequence , that the service they will be able to render in this sphere of Masonic work will be on a greatly enlarged scale . # * *

We learn from the Canadian Craftsman that Bro . William Gibson , M . P ., who , at the recent annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Canada , was elected M . W . G . Master in succession to Bro . White , Q . C ., was initiated in the Barton Lodge , No . 6 , Hamilton , on the 12 th July , 1871 , and five years later was

installed its W . M . During the years 18 S 3-85 , he was Dist . Deputy Grand Master for the Niagara District , and in 1 SS 6 was appointed Representative of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria at the Grand Lodge of Canada , a position which he still continues to hold . In July , 18 94 , he was elected Deputy Grand Master ,

and two months ago was chosen to fill his present office . He is also a Royal Arch Master , a Past Dep Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters , a Past Prov . Prior of the Hamilton District in the Order of the Temple , and has taken

the 32 in the Ancient and Accepted Rite . He has been a very successful contractor , and has been a member of the Dominion Legislature since 1 S 91 . He was born at Peterhead , in Scotland , in August , 1847 , and is exceedingly popular , both within and outside the Craft ;

Bro . E . T . Malone , who has been elected to succeed Bro . Gibson as Deputy G . Master , is a native of King's County , Ireland , and 43 years of age . He was initiated in the Zetland Lodge , No . 326 , Toronto , in 18 7 6 , and three years later was installed W . M . In 1 SS 2 he was chosen G . Registrar , and in 1888 District Deputy G .

Master for the Toronto District , while for the last eight years he has been Chairman of the Committee on the condition of Masonry . He is a Royal Arch Mason , being a Past Grand Scribe N . of the Grand Chapter and in the Order of the Temple , Past G . Master of the Great Priory , while in the Ancient and Accepted Rite he has taken the 33 " .

We learn from the same Craftsman , from an extract from the Report on Foreign Correspondence of the Grand Lodge of Canada , that the following lodges have the largest membership in the Masonic jurisdictions in the United States , viz .: Minnesota Lodge , No . 19 , Grand Lodge of Minnesota , 746 ; Hiram

Lodge , No . 1 , Grand Lodge of Connecticut , 710 ; Genesee Falls Lodge , No . 507 , Grand Lodge of New York , 651 j Covenant Lodge , No . 526 , Grand Lodge of Illinois , 648 ) Denver Lodge , No . 5 , Grand Lodge ot Colorado , 600 , Gvarid RWei Lodge , Mo . 34 , Gtand Lodge of Michigan , 59 8 ; La Fayette Lodge , No . 19

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Grand Lodge District of Columbia , 56 7 ; Washington Lodge , No . 59 , Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania , 525 ; California Lodge , No . 1 , Grand Lodge of California , 477 ; and Magnolia Lodge , No . 20 , Grand Lodge ol

Ohio , 476 . It appears to us that these lodges deserve the ( itle of Masonic battalions rather than that of lodges . + * *

It is not often we come across so apt an illustration of the truth of the old adage about people in glass houses not throwing stones , as is to be found in last week ' s issue , of a Masonic periodical published not a 100 miles from Fleet-street . On one of its pages it

takes the Boaid of Management of the Boys'School to task for being so ungr . immatical as to speak of " clothes " as " it . " On another it announces that the M . W . G . Master " will attend the performance of the

Norwich Musical Festival on 7 th October , " and that during his stay in that city his Royal Highness will " unviel the bust of Lord Suffield . " We have heard of performances at a musical festival , but never of a musical festival being performed .

" Of course , " these two little slips of the pen which we have taken the liberty of printing in italics arc " very trifling matters—unworthy of notice many will say—and we only refer to them in support of our

contention , that the periodical which goes out of its way to notice such a trumpery little mistake as that o ! the Board of Management aforesaid should at least be careful to avoid the commission of similar mistakes .

It is strange , too , that this same periodical , which claims to be a guide and influence in directing Masonic opinion , should commit the unpardonable error of stating— " It seems to be recognised that the removal of the School will entail a loss of £ 70 , 000 out of the

£ 100 , 000 spent on the land and buildings at Wood Green . " There are many brethren— "D . P . G . M . and Past G . O . " appears to be one of them—who have heard a similar statement , and , having neither materials of their own , nor ready access to official records , by which

to test its accuracy , have too lustily assumed that it was truet . But a Masonic paper is supposed to possess , ai all events . someslightknowledgeof what it writes about , and we can only , therefore , characterise the statement we have quoted as a disingenuous one , and misleading withal . The sum of £ 100 , 000 has been spent" on the

land and buildings , but this expenditure , which , as we state in one of our articles , includes cost of alterations , repairs , extensions , & c , has been spread over 40 years , during which period the Institution has had the full benefit of its freehold tenancy . This is , in part , a sot off against the £ 100 , 000 which has been expended , and is not therefore a loss .

* * * There are numbers of people who accept this and similarly erroneous statements without question , and excuse themselves for so doing on the ground that they

have " seen it in print , " or have been told it '' on good authority . " But the error these commit is venial by comparison with that of the journal which assumes the truth ol a statement without apparently making the slightest attempt to test its accuracy .

* A veiy courteous letter from the W . M . of the lodge —St . James , No . 44 S , Halifax—which has passed a resolution condemning the grant of a pension to Miss Davis , will be found in our Correspondence Columns . We fully understand that this lodge is not attacking

Miss Davis personally , but what its members consider as an " abuse , " we look upon as an act of justice , and well within the legitimate expenditure of our Institution for Girls . We are afraid there is not much chance of an agreement between us and these worthy Yorkshire brethren , and , therefore , the position must remain as it is . We must agree to differ .

THERE WAS a very large attendance of breeders from all parts of the country at the sale of the late Bro . Lord Fitzhardinge ' s shoithorns at Berkeley Castle on 'Tuesday . The herd was formed in 1 S 6 S , and some good prices were realised , among the purchassrs being the Oueen and H . R . H . the Prince of Wales .

TRAFALGAR DAY will not be celebrated by a naval review in Hyde Pa'k . The Navy League , which recently approached the First Lord of the Admiralty with a view to obtaining a suitable demonstration in the metropolis , or Et least a naval guaidot henour round the Nelson Coluirn in Trafalgar-square on the occasion of the anniversary on

October 21 st , has received a repl y from the authorities intimating that they do not sec their way to adopt either suggestion . The decoration of the Nelson Monument will , ho . vtver , be cariied out by the Navy League in a more extensive fashion than last year . The column will be entwined the whole of its length with laurel , and at the loot of the pedestal will be placed four immense wreaths .