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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

SATURDAY , APRIL 22 , 18 99 .

United . Grand Lodge will celebrate its annual Grand Festival with the customary pomp and ceremony on Wednesday , the 20 th instant . The Grand Ollicers for the ensuing j ear will be appointed and invested and when Grand Lodge has been closed , the banquet ,

lollowed by the usual concert , will take place at freemasons' Tavern . * * * U is satisfactory lo know that still further progress has been , and is beinir , made in obtaining the services

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of brethren as Stewards for the approaching Festival on behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , which will be held at Freemasons' Tavern on Wednesday , the loth May , under the presidency of Bro . Viscount Dungarvan , Prov . G . Master of So '

mersetshire . The number of those who have volunteered to help on this occasion already exceeds 400 , and there is small reason to doubt that ultimately the Board of Stewards will comprise quite 450 ladies and brethren . There is , of course , no particular virtue in this

particular number that we have mentioned , and we trust , therefore , that no brother , with any inclination to do duty as Steward for the first or even the 50 th time , will be so modest as to hesitate to return his name to the Secretary on the ground that a Board of nearly

450 members may be expected . Let him forward his name inslanter , together with full particulars as to his credentials , and the more actively and successfully he engages in his duties , the more highly will his activity and success be appreciated .

For be it known to our readers and all whom it may more immediately concern , that , though the prospects are , as we have said , most encouraging , a stronger Board of Stewards than is usual in ordinary years does not on this occasion necessarily imply a heavy total of

subscriptions . We do not imagine that the Girls School authorities will raise the slightest objection even should the product of this year's Festival turn out to be a record one . But , as we have remarked in former Notes or Articles , our experience of the Benevolent Festival in February inclines us to tbe opinion that this year ,

at all events , a strong Board of Stewards suggests no more than a good averaga result . However , if the leeway resulting from last year's deficiency is made up and there is sufficient to meet thc expenditure of 18 99 , with , perhaps , . £ 1000 or , £ 2000 towards augmenting the very modest capital of the Institution , we dare say most people will be content .

# * ? There is , however , one poyit to which we are desirous of calling attention . We have said there is every likelihood of the Board of Stewards being , numerically , a strong one . But we regret to add that

while London will be fairly well represented , the Provinces are decidedly weak . There is a good muster from the Chairman's Province of Somersetshire , and there are a few others which appear to advantage . But several of the larger Provinces have

only a very few of their lodges represented , with here and there sundry Unattached brethren from whom , as a rule , only their personal donations are expected . We feel sure that Bro . Hedges will be glad to see this shortcoming remedied as far as possible in tbe brief time that is still available .

» » We moA heartily congratulate the Province of Durham and its respected Grand Master , Bro . Sir Hedworth Williamson , Bart ,, on the great success of the inaugural Festival which was held in behalf of its

Educational and Benevolent Funds on Wednesday , the I 2 thinst . It was suggested , if we remember rightly , at the last annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge that such a Festival should be held for the purpose of strengthening the capital at the disposal of

these two excellent Provincial Chanties , and the suggestion , as will be seen from the full report which appears in another column , has resulted in the realisation of donations and subscriptions amounting in the aggregate to close on , £ 2560 . Every one of the 37

lodges in Durham contributed towards this splendid total , the number of Stewards who gave their services btir . g set down at abiut 550 , whose gui neas of themselves made up the goodly sum Of . £ 580 . Provincial Grand Lodge and Provincial Grand Chapter with two

of its private chapters also lent a helping hand , the total being further swelled by sundry donations from members and visitors and the offertory which was taken at the service held on the occasion in the Cathedral . In short , the whole M isonry of Durham may be said to have taken part in the proceedings .

Under these circumstances there is little need ii , consider in detail thc sums raised by the lodges . Still , there are a few items of sufficient magnitude to justify our specifying then :. Thus , IVov . G . Lodge volcd a donation of , £ 216 , and Prov . G . Chapter one of £ -6 S - Phe Crook Lodge , No . 2019 , gave , by

fie medium of 72 Stewards , . £ 132 ios . ; the Hadrian Lodge , No . 1970 , South Shields , with seven Stewards , is entered for , { , ' 135 ; and the Lamb ' on Lod ^ e , Nu . 375 , Chrsterle-Street , ; ind the Hirbour of Refuge Lodge , No . 764 , West Hartlepool , each r . iised over ^ 112 . The St . Helen ' s LoJge , No . 531 , Hartlepool ,

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and the Borough Lodge , No . 424 , Gateshead , are returned for ^ 92 and £ 66 respectively . The Clarence Lodge , No . 2462 , and the Stranton Lodge , No . 1 S 62 , both of West Hartlepool , figure , the former for £ 6 \ and the latter for 50 guineas ; the Wear Valley Lodge ,-No . 1121 , Bishop Auckland , for £ 55 and the

Restoration Lodgc » , No . m , Darlington , for £ 52 . In fact , each body that assisted in the celebration appears to have given according to its ability , while the Stewards , not only busied themselves in raising the main body of subscriptions , but also , as we have said , compiled a sum of £ s & 3 from their own purses .

But we need not , especi ally as there is so ample a report of the proceedings elsewhere , multiply these details . It is enough that Durham , on the very first occasion it has attempted to raise money for its two Charitable Institutions by means of a Festival , has succeeded to the extent of upwards of ^ 3500 , and

by so doing has so augmented their invested funds as to enlarge their means of usefulness permanently . We shall probably again refer to the Festival on some future occasion , but in the meantime we have nothing but praise to bestow upon our Durham brethren for the result of their efforts .

» * The reports of the Committee and Chairman of the North Wales Charitable Association are , on the whole , satisfactory . The total raised by the Province for the Boys' Centenary was unprecedently large , amounting , according to the statement furnished by the

Committee , to £ io-jg 15 s ., the number of brethren who gave their services as Stewards , including Lord Harlech , the Prov . G . Master , b ; ing 23 , of whom four represented the Province , five were Unattached , and the other 14 representatives of 11 private lodges . The Committee , however , complain , and not without reason , that the whole of this money did not pass through

the books of the Treasurer , and consequently the lodges and brethren get no credit which do not so pass . They also point out that there were some of the Charity representatives who did not attend a single meeeing of the Committee during the year , and consequently that the lodges they were appointed to represent were at a great disadvantage .

* * Bro . C . K . Benson , who , besides being Chairman , is the London representative of the Association , though he naturally refers with pride to the services rendered by the Province to the Boys' School at its Centenary Festival , deals more particularly with the special duties

devolving upon him in London . These duties have relation to the efforts to be made in securing the election of candidates from the Province , and as regards the one who stood for the Girls' School , Bro . Benson had the satisfaction of recording her success . In view ,

however , of there being two , and possibly as many as three , for the elections , our respected brother mikes an earnest appeal to all members of the Province to help him with their votes and influence to the utmost extent of their ability . » «

At the same time that these reports reached in , . we were favoured with a copy of an " Essay on the ' A , ' or London Fund of the North Wales Masonic Charitable Association , by Bro . Herbert R . Heap , P . M ., P . P . G . J . ., Hon . Sec . 18 95 and 1 S 9 6 , and Hon . Treas . 18 97 and 1898 . " The Essay fully explains the character of

the Fund , the purpose for which it has been established , and the manner in which it is worked . It is a most useful little compilation , and if our Nflrth Wiles brethren will but act in accordance with advice tendered them by our experienced brother , we feel sure

that in future years the Committee will hive less and less reisoa to express disappointment that all is not done for this "A" Fund which , in their opinion , is necessary or desirable . » *

This ( Friday ) afternoon a -Masonic service will be ht Id in the Church of St . Laurence Jewry , Ureshamstreet , Bto . the Rev . Stephen Barrass , the rector , who is Chaplain of the Gallery Lodge , will conduct it , and

the sermon will be preached by Bro . the Rev . W . M , Sinclair , D . D ., Archdeacon of London , Past G . Chap . As these services have latterly become very popular we may anticipate that the congregation will be a Urge one .

The annu-il convocation of the Provincial Grand Chapter of North and East Yorkshire will be held at the invitation of the Old Globe Chapter , No . 200 , and the Denison Chapter , No . 1248 , at the . Masonic Hall , Scarborough , on Wednesday , the 3 rd prox ., the principal business will be the appointment and

investiture of Provincial Grand Oflicers , and afterwards a banquet will be held at the Balmoral Hotel , The hour of meeting is fixed for 3 p . m . ar . i that of the banquet at 5 p . m ., and those companions wlu ] may con ' . 1 mplati . attending the hit'er ; ir .: rtqu : stj : i 10 notify their intention to Conp . J . E . Lupton , M . HonicClu ' i , Scarborough , not Kter than Fridiy , the J 8 : ii instant .