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Masonic Notes .

In view of the very large attendance of brethren Which may be expected at the Quarterly Commvmica"on on the 6 th March , when the contest for the office ° Grand Treasurer during the ensuing year will take

P lace , it has been arranged , as it was last year , that ^ rand Lod ge shall be opened at 2 p . m ., and that when "e minutes of the December Communication have sen put for confirmation , the voting for the said office inall begin . Voting cards will be issued , as before , to

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brethren before entering Grand Lodge , and these must be deposited in the ballot-boxes between the hours of 2 . 30 p . m . and 7 . 15 p . m ., after which latter hour no cards will be accepted . The regular business of Grand

Lodge will then be proceeded with . We may add that the candidates for the Grand Treasurership are Bros . Alderman Vaughan Morgan , W . M . Stiles , and C . H Hudson .

We beg to remind our readers that the annual Festival of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement will be held at Freemasons' Hall this ( Friday ) evening , under the presidency of Bro . Viscount Dungarvan ,

Prov . G . Master of Somersetshire . Lodge will be opened at 6 p . m ., when the First Lecture will be worked , alter which supper will be served in the adjoining tavern .

# # # It is hardly necessary , but it may be as well , to remind our readers , even at the eleventh hour , that the annual Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will be held at the Freemason's Tavern , on Wednesday next , the 27 th inst ., under the presidency of Bro .

Viscount Dungarvan , Prov . G . Master of Somersetshire . The Board of Stewards is a full one , and we trust that when the proper time arrives the result of their labours may prove successful beyond the expectations even of the most sanguine supporters and well-wishers of this splendid Charity .

The report of the Cornwall Masonic Annuity and Benevolent Fund for the year ended the 31 st December , 1894 , is a very satisfactory document . The Fund has been in existence for 30 years , and during that period our Cornish brethren have contributed towards

its maintenance £ g 6 i 8 6 s . ios . Of this sum close on ^ 4221 has been disbursed in Male and Widows ' Annuities , Grants for Relief , and Educational Grants , the amount expended in Management being a fraction short of £ 404 . The balance of £ 5397 > composed of

^ 5171 invested capital y ielding close on ^ 226 per annum and cash in bank over , £ 226 . During the year 18 94 the income , including the balance brought forward from previous account , was ^ 561 ios ., the donations , subscriptions , & c , amounting to over ^ 287 ,

and interest on capital to nearly £ 219 . Of this , £ 31 $ was distributed in Annuities and Educational Grants and ^ 20 5 s . 6 d . for Management . The benefits were distributed among seven Male and six Widow Annuitants , four of the former receiving £ 20 a year each ,

one £ 15 , and two ^ 10 , while of the latter five received ^ 20 and one ^ 10 ( for half of the year ) . Five children received £ 15 each towards their education and two £ 10 each . The existing Annuities are the same in

number as in 1894 , but the Educational Grants are to four children ^ 15 each and to five ^ 10 , so that the liability under these _ , heads will be ^ 335 as against £ 315 . Cornwall is to hi commended for trie good work it is doing through the medium of this Fund .

» Our respected contemporary , the Canadian Craftsman , was slightly sarcastic in its December issue at the expense of the Grand Lodge of England . It had seen a report in the Scottish Freemason to the effect that a

union is likely to take place between the " Early Grand " and " Supreme Grand" Chapters of Royal Arch Masonry in Scotland , and it considers itself justified in deducing from this the hope that the Grand Lodge of England will recognise the Grand Lodge of

Quebec , provided the latter has patience to wait long enough . The point of its joke is , that , as it has taken the rival Grand Chapters of Scotland upwards of 80 years to terminate their schism , the Grand Lodge of England is not likely to condescend to a

reconsideration of its rules or to make any concessions , for the sake of peace and harmony and the credit of the Craft , in the short period of 25 years ; but the change of feeling will , no doubt , come in time . The point is smartl y put , but the Craftsman has forgotten that the Grand

Lodge of England has been willing to recognise that of Quebec any time during the last 20 years on the same conditions as it laid down when recognising the Grand Lodge of Canada and other Grand Lodges in British North America , as well as more recently the

present independent Grand Lodges in Australasia ! It is silly in , Quebec to invite our Grand Lodge to do an impossibility , for , as we have many , many times pointed out , it is not in the power of the latter to compel any of its lodges to sever their connection with it .

But is it not absurd to throw the responsibility for the difference existing between the Grand Lodges of England and Quebec on the former body ? Why must it exhibit its love for Freemasonry by kicking some of its lodges out of its jurisdiction i Why must it abro-

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gate or alter its laws in order to do the bidding of a comparatively new and uninflcential Grand Lodge ? All the Grand Lodges we have recognised have gracefully and at once accepted these conditions , and the acceptance of what they considered reasonable and have faithfully respected , cannot be a very serious hardship for Quebec . Therefore , as a retort courteous , we

invite the Craftsman to state as nearly as possible how long , in its opinion , it will take the Grand Lodge of Quebec to become as reasonable as the Grand Lodges of Canada , Nova Scotia , South Australia , Victoria , & c , % c , have shown themselves to be , and when it will think more of Freemasonry and less of its self-conceit than it has done for the last 20 years ? * * #

The Supreme Council , 33 ' , of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States , which held its 82 nd annual session in Boston , Massachusetts , in { September , 18 94 , appears to be in a highly prosperous condition . It has 76 Lodges of Perfection , 58 Councils of Princes of Jerusalem , 54 Chapters of Rose Croix , and 32 Consistories , the

membership in each case comprising several thousands . The total of its permanent fund is 131 , 093 dollars , and of its general fund 51 , 912 dollars , the disbursements out of the latter during the last yeai having amounted to 31 , 504 dollars . The honorary grade of 33 ° was conferred on 29 brethren and 47 were elected , Bro . Henry L . Palmer is Grand Commander , and Bro . Clinton F . Paige , Grand Secretary-General .

The Grand Chapter of Maine has 53 chapters on its roll with an aggregate membership of 5528 . Comp . S . S . Stearns has succeeded Comp . Albert M . Penley as Grand High Priest , and Comp . Stephen Berry , who succeeded to the office on the death of his father , Comp . Ira Berry , remains at his post of Grand Secretary . Comp . Josiah H . Drummond is responsible for the last report on correspondence .

Correspondence.

Correspondence .

A CAUTION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Will you allow me to warn your readers against a man who has been haunting this neighbourhood for the last few days , and is visiting the Secretaries

of different lodges soliciting help . His description is—height , about 5 feet 10 inches , reddish hair , stoops , age " 52 . " He gives his name as "John Wharton , " and states that he was initiated in the Tyne Lodge , No . 991 , Wallsend , in 1872 or 18 73 , at which time Henry

Kinslake , a chemist of Newcastle was Secretary . He took R . A . and Mark . He has no Grand Lodge certificate , having lost it at Battersea through his house taking fire . Produces a letter written from 19 , Summer-street , Wallsend , November 14 th , 1894 . " Dear Bro . Wharton , —Yours of ist inst . to hand , we were sorry to hear of

ycur accident , and hope you may soon be right again . With regard to your certificate , at next meeting of Grand Lodge , we shall apply for duplicate , & c , ( signed ) Ed . Preston , Sec . 991 . " As a matter of fact , John Wharton is not , and never was a member of No . 991 , the names of Kinslake and

Preston are also fictitious . My authority for this statement is Grand Secretary ' s Register and a letter from Bro . Turnbull , the present and for 12 years past bond fide Secretary ol the Tyne Lodge . Wharton has been relieved by two lodges in this district , but I am pleased to say he was not successful with me .

If lodges , before relieving a brother , would only wire to the Secretary of the particular lodge of which he is said to be a member , we should soon hear no mori of these pests to the Craft . — Yours faithfully and fraternally , J . J . BLACK , P . M ., Sec . 1564 . Woking , 13 th Feb ., 1895 .

COLONIAL BOARD V . CAMBRIAN LODGE OF AUSTRALIA , No . 656 ( E . C ) . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In your report of the December Communication of Grand Lodge , Bro . the Earl of Jersey is made

to say , " He had communications with Bro . Robinson , and did all he could . . . but . . . would not give way at all . . . the warrant was cancelled . . . received from the Grand Lodge of England . ' I feel sure Lord Jersey would not wilfully misrepresent the facts , and that his numerous dulies have driven them from his memory : but I may ask him how many

communications he made to me , or to other members of the Cambrian Lodge of Australia ? I find I first wrote to the M . VV . G . M . of N . S . W . on 17 th February , 1 S 92 ; then on 12 th March , 1892 , complaining of not having received an acknowledgment of our letter ; again , on the 18 th March , asking " an interview that the matter might be settled and thus save further friction . " Lord