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T ONDON & NORTH-WESTERN \ ^_ RAILWAY . LAST TRIPS OF THE SEASON . Cheap Excursions will be run from London ( Euston ) , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Willesden Junction , & c , as follows : ON THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 26 th , To STRATFORD-ON-AVON ( for SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY ) FOR THE HALF-DAY . Third Class Return Fa ' 6 , 3 s . 6 d . To Dublin , Cork , Fermoy , Killarney , Thurles , Limerick , Bruy , Athenry , Ballina , Galvvay , Sligo , & c , for iG days . ON FRIDAY ( MIDNIGHT ) SEPTEMBER 27 th , To MANCHESTER , for one and three days ; and to LANCASTER , Morecambe , Carnfortb , Carlisle , and the ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT , for 3 and G days . ON SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 28 th , To BLACKPOOL , Birkenhead , Chester , Northwich , Blackburn , Bolton , Southport , Wigan , Preston , Crewe , Kniirhton , Hereford , Leominster , Ludlow , Stafford , Macclesfield , the North Stafford Line , Ashton , Huddersfield , Bradford , Halifax , Leeds , LIVERPOOL , MANCHESTER , Roctdile , Oldham , Runcorn , Stalybridge , Stockport , Warrington , Widnes , Burton , Derby , Leicester , Nuneaton , Rugby , Coventry , Kenilworth , Leamington , BIRMINGHAM , Walsall , Wolverhampton , & c , for 3 and 6 days . ON MONDAY , SEPTEMBER 30 th , To BIRMINGHAM , Coventry , Leamington , Warwick , Kenilworth , Dudley , Dudley Port , Walsall , Wednesbury , and Wolverhampton , for 1 and 4 days . EVERY SATURDAY TO OCTOBER 5 th , To Rhyl , Colwyn Bay , Llandudno , Conway , Bettws-ycoed , Bangor , Llanberis . Carnarvon , Holyhead . Shrewsbury , Oswestry , Aberystwyth , Barmouth , Dolgelly , Harlech , & c , Ior 3 , S , 10 , 15 , and 17 days . NOTE . —Tickets issued on Saturday , October 5 th , will will be available for 3 , S , and 10 days only . For times , fares , and full particulars , see small bills , which can be obtained at any of the Company ' s Stations and Town Offices . FRED . HARRISON , General Manager . London , September , 1 S 95 .

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p REAT NORTHERN RAILWAY . LAST TRIPS OF THE SEASON . To SKEGNESS , September 2 SH 1 , from Moorgate at 6 . 51 a . m . ; Aldersgate , 6 . 53 ; Farringdon , 6 . 55 ; King's Cross , ( G . N . ) , 7 . 15 ; Holloway . 7 . 5 ; Finsbury Park , 7 . 20 . 'Third class return fare , 4 s . Cd . Saturday to Monday or Tuesday , fare 6 s . ( From Woolwich Arsenal , Woolwich Dockyard , Victoria ( L . G . & D . ) , Ludgate Hill , Moorgate , Aldersgate , Farringdun , King ' s Cross ( G . N . ) ) . SATURDAY , September 28 th , for 3 or G days to Cambridge , Sleaford , Lincoln , Gainsboro ' , Lynn , Cromer , Norwich , Yarmouth , Leicester , * Nottingham , Derby , Burton , Tutbury , Stoke , Burslem , Sheffield , Manchester , Liverpool , Southport , Warrington , Barnsley , Huddersfield , Wakefield , Leeds , Bradford , Keighley , Halifax , Hull , Vork , Scarboro " , Whitby , Bridlington , Darlington , Durham , Newcastle , & c . * Nottingham Goose Fair . —Passengers to Nottingham by this excursion may , on payment at Nottingham of an additional charge of is . 6 d ., return by any ordinary train on Friday , 4 th , or Saturday , 5 th October . TOOTBALL MATCH AT MANCHESTER . WOOLWICH ARSENAL V . MANCHESTER CITY . FRIDAY ( midnight ) , September 27 th , for 1 or 3 days [ 0 Manchester , from Woolwich Arsenal at 12 . 20 , Woolwich Dockyard 12 . 22 , King ' s Cross ( G . N . ) 1 . 0 . For further particulars see bills , to be obtained at Company ' s Stations and Town Offices . HENRY OAKLEY , General Manager .

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THE METROPOLITAN ( Victoria ) LODGE OF INSTRUCTION , 1056 . NOTICE OF REMOVAL . The above Lodge , formerly held for many years at the Portugal Hotel , Fleet-street , E . C , held its first Lodge on Friday , the 20 th inst ., at the Mail Coach ( Bro . T . S . Neuelt ' s ) , do , Farringdon-street ( between Ludgate Circus » nd Holborn Viaduct ) , where it will be held in future , on riiday evenings at 7 o ' clock prompt .

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WANTED . —FURNITURE for a . .. New Lodge . — Address , W . C . TYLER , 50 , Waterloo-road , S . E .

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THE TPOLIAN VOCAL QUARTETTE . * i-4 Miss MAUDE BALLARD , Soprano . Miss LILLIAN CLOSE , Contralto . Mr . HERBERT STOCKWELL , Tenor . Bro . CARL BRANDT , Bass . 'lie above Quartette may be engaged for Installation Banquets , & c , & c . For terms , please address : fern . CARL BRANDT , 12 , St . Mark ' s Villas , Dalston , N . E . P Price is . fid . nett . REEMASON'S HYMN . —THE „ . MYSTIC TIE . Words and Music composed by •J . STEIN . London : GKOROH KENNING , 16 & I ( 5 A , Gt . Queen-st .

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/ - "••- 'RAND MASONIC BAZAAR

MOTHER LODGE , KILWINNING , No . o TRADES' HALL , Glassford Street , GLASGOW . 5 'ni , 6 TH , AND 7 TH DECEMBER .

LAURENCE MATHESON , Sec , Kilwinning BAZAAR OFFICE—69 , BUCHANAN STREET , GLASGOW .

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PAIETY RESTAURANT STRAND .

LUNCHEONS ( HOT AND COLD

At Popular Prices , in BUFFET and RESTAURANT ( on First Floor ) , also Chops , Steaks , Joints , Entrees , & c , in the GRILL ROOM

AFTERNOON TEA

Consisting of Tea or Coffee , Cut Bread and Butter , Jam Cake , Pastry , ad lib ., at ls . per head , served from 4 till 6 in RESTAURANT ( First Floor ) .

DINNERS IN RESTAURANT

From 5 . 30 till 9 , at fixed prices ( 3 s . 6 d . and 5 s . ) and a la Carte . ln this Room the VIENNESE BAND performs from C till S Smoking after 7 . 45 .

AMERICAN BAR

THE GRILL ROOM

is open till Midnight

PRIVATE DINING ROOMS for large ana small Parties .

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NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY . Established 183 C . LONDON : 1 , MOORGATE STREET , E . C . ABERDEEN : 1 , UNION TERRACE . INCOME AND FUNDS ( 1894 ) . Fire Premiums L 7 O ! i O 00 Life Premiums 232 , 000 Interest 171 , 000 Accumulated Funds ... £ 4 , 44 ,

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Rre.eSiasSiB WTVI . ImVVVW-mXmr'QW'IVWfVWV - 'l-m-mW SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 21 , 18 95 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

It is our privilege this week to report the installation of no less than three Provincial or District Grand Masters . The most important is that of Bro . A . F . Godson , M . P ., who was installed by the Pro Grand Master as Prov . Grand Master of Worcestershire on the t 2 th inst . A brief notice of this event appeared

in our last week ' s issue . The second is that of his Excellency Bro . Lord Sandhurst , Governor of the Bombay Presidency , who was installed in the Town Hall , Bombay , as Pro District Grand Master , H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught being District Grand Muster .

The remaining installation was that of Bro . Lord Henry Bentinck , M . P ., as Prov . Grand Mark Master of Cumberland and Westmorland , in succession to the late Bro . the Earl of Bective . In this case the ceremony took place ! at Keswick and was performed by Bro . the Ear ) of Euston , Pro Grand Mark Master .

We call attention to a very interesting letter on the ceremony of installation from Bro . the Rev . C . Henton Wood . P . P . S . G . W . and P . Prov . G . Secretaryof Leicestershire and Rutland . In tlii ; , Bro . Wood reports lhat on a certain occasional Manchester in 188 9 , the late

Grand Secretary liro . Col . Shadwell Clerke Bro , Philbrick , Grand Registrar , ,-incl Bro . Thomas Fenn . Past President of the Board of General Purposes , spoke in strong terms of condemnation of the particular form of installation to which reference has

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recently been made in these columns ; that that form was known to and had been practised by him in his Province , but that it has since been discontinued ; that he personally had not been convinced b y Bro . Sadler's " Notes ; " that the late Bro . Kelly had told him ( Bro . Wood ) that in his early days as an Installing Master hc knew nothing of the said irregular form , but that Bro .

Kelly ' s predecessor—Sir F . G . Foirke—did . But the main point in his letter is that he recognises the justice of the claim which has been advanced on behalf of Grand Lodge as to its absolute and indefeasible right to determine what is and what is not irregular in the conduct of a certain ceremony and to rule accordingly .

The Grand Lodge of Wisconsin has gone in for the Physical Qualification business , as will be seen from a resolution adopted at its 51 st annual Communication , held at Milwaukie , on the nth , 12 th , and 13 th June last , when it was determined that— " The landmark as to physical qualification shall be strictly construed .

The candidate must be hale , sound , of entire limb , unmutilated , not deformed , dismembered , lame , maimed , stiffened , or defective in body , limb , or member of the body , that will in any wise prevent or impair a perfect conformity to , and performance of ,

all the requirements of the ritual and obligations . If the applicant has any defects , in which the physical qualification may arise , it shall be referred by the Worshipful Master to the Grand Master for his decision . This landmark applies only to the making of Masons , not advancement . "

Is it permissible to deduce from the last clause of this resolution that a candidate without a wooden head having been accepted and initiated into the mysteries of the First Degree , is at liberty to claim advancement to the higher Degrees , though , in the meantime , he may have furnished himself with a wooden

headpiece ? This may or may not be open to question , but there is no doubt as to the fact that in resolving that all questions relating to physical qualification shall be referred by the W . M . to tie Grand Master Ior his decision , the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin has adopted precisely the opposite course to that recommended by the Grand Master of Canada ( Province of Ontario )

at its recent annual communication . Bro . White , the Grand Master in question , said when such questions arose he had made a point of referring them to the W . M . of the lodge or the District Deputy Grand Master , on the ground that they being on the spot would be better able to judge than he who was at a distance .

» We learn further from the Wisconsin Report on Correspondence as reviewed in the Voice of Masonry , that Bro . McGregor , who compiled the said report , coi . siders his Grand Lodge has done rightly in passing its resolution as to the reimbursement of Masonic

Relief , on the ground " the more the matter is investigated , and the more thoroughly it is discussed , the more will the proposition commend itself as a laudable effort to systematise and put upon a business basis the dispensing of Charity to the sojourner . It is something for a lodge to know , with certainty , the extent of its responsibility , and to a brother in need to know to

whom he may , without hesitancy , look for relief . The discussion ol the question will definitely give responsibility . " As the Voice very properly points out this responsibility has been already fixed by Masonry itself , which enjoins on its members the duty of relieving brethren in distress according to their means , and without detriment lo themselves or their families .

As regards this vexed question of relief it appears to us that many of the American Grand Lodges entirely lose sight of the proper meaning of Charity . A lodge or a member of a lodge which helps a sojourning brother in distress with the full knowledge that its or his outlay will be reimbursed , or that according to the

laws of its or his Grand Lodge it or hc is entitled to recover his outlay is not strictly performing an act of Charily . He is not giving the brother in distress any help , he is merely acting as the Almoner of the said distressed brother ' s former lodge . To talk of " systematising " the dispensation of Charity and putting it upon

a " business basis" is not only an absurdity , seeing that Charity is voluntary , but it is an absolute perversion of the original intent and purpose of Freemasonry in adopting Charity as one of its chief fundamental principles . Charity Associations and institutions of a similar character are well enough in their way . It is their

business to distinguish the true from the counterfeit among those who solicit their aid , but even these associations do not give relief on condition that it is reimbursed them by the family , friends , or associates of those they help . This kind of thing may be business , but it has nothing in common with Charity .