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SATURDAY , AUGUST 23 , 1890 .

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Masonic Notes .

The Provincial Grand Lodge of Oxfordshire will be held on Monday , the 20 th October , under the presidency of the Provincial Grand Master , the Right Hon . the Earl of Jersey . A full assembly of the brethren is

naturally looked for , this being the last opportunity afforded them of meeting his lordship previously to his leaving England on the 25 th inst ., to assume his new duties as Governor of New South Wales .

* * * The annual Provincial Grand Lodge of West Lancashire has been convened for Wednesday , October ist , at Preston . [ Not Southport , as reported in last week ' s issue . ] Bro . the Right Hon . the

Earl of Lathom , Provincial Grand Master , will preside , and it is expected that business of great importance will be transacted . No fewer than 104 lodges

will be represented , the province of West Lancashire being the chief Masonic province in the world , both in the number of lodges and the numerical strength of the members .

* * * The Right Hon . the Earl of Lathom , Provincial Grand Master , has fixed the meeting of the Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Lancashire for Friday , the 10 th October , at Southport .

# * * We learn that Bro . Capt . Nathaniel Philips , P . G . D ., 33 ° & c , is about to undertake a lengthened tour abroad . He will leave Liverpool by the Etruria on Saturday , the 30 th inst ., for New York , accompanied

by Mrs . Philips , en route for Canada , Vancouver , San Francisco , Japan , China , Straits Settlements , Ceylon , Bombay , Egypt , & c , and will probably be absent about seven months . We wish them bon voyage and a

safe return . Bro . Philips will be missed even for so short a time , especially from the deliberations of the Supreme Council , 33 ° but we trust he will return with renewed vigour to continue his valuable services to the Craft . : ;; * *

The new Masonic Hall at Northampton , of which the Earl of Euston is the Provincial Grand Master , is now rapidly approaching completion , and will be one of the most , if not the most , perfect building , for its size in the country . All the rooms are remarkable

for their admirable proportion and the beauty of their decorations , but the great feature of the place is the broad oak staircase leading round the entrance hall to the lodge room above . The social aspects of Masonry

have been kept well in view , and there are three large reception rooms , while the floor of the lodge room has been specially laid for dancing . Contiguous to the hall is a Masonic club house , already completed and a popular resort . * * *

One or two of the so-called society papers seem to have interested themselves intensely in the fund which is in course of collection for the " Augustus Harris Sheriff's Chain and Badge . " It would have been as well , however , if the writers of the various paragraphs

we refer to had first made themselves acquainted with fact before they dropped into fiction . So far from the fund having " hung fire , " we are sufficiently acquainted

with the doings of the Committee to be sure of the contrary . Money has been rolling in almost as quickly as the Secretaries could write receipts , and the next two days will see the closing of the list .

* * * Bro . H . Whymper , CLE ., author of "The Reli gion of Freemasonry , " continues in the " Madras Masonic Review" for July his able article on "Women and Freemasonry , " in which , if he proves nothing else , he

has established the fact that women have exhibited a strong interest in the Craft , that many lady writers have dealt with the subject , and that in France , at least , popular feminine so-called Masonry existed in the last century , as shown by numerous published songs descri ptive of the excellence of such Degrees . # * #

Bro . Whymper , is we learn , about to visit this country . We can only hope that although the majorit y of the lodges are in vacation , and many of our brethren of light and leading distributed over earth and water

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there may be some left to do honour to one who has not spared himself in any way when the welfare of the Craft was to be promoted . * * * Comp . Wm . Vanderhurst , Grand High Priest of the

Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of California , presided at the 36 th annual convocation held in San Francisco in April last , when 53 out of 6 4 chapters were represented , the number of subscribing members being 4650 . The receipts for the previous 12 months

reached § 5259 , and the expenditure £ 9285 , of which however , S 4374 were invested in Stock of the Masonic Hall Association , so that the actual expenditure only amounted to S 4911 . The General Fund is returned

at being close on 813 , 500 . Comp . T . H . Caswell remains , as before , Grand Secretary , but the Grand Hig h Priest elected for the current year is Comp . Franklin H . Day . * * *

We shall be much obliged to Bro . E . T . Galon , who , as Chairman of the Executive Committee for establishing a Grand Lodge of New Zealand , installed Bro . Henry Thompson as M . W . G . M . of the new body , will enlig hten us on one of the points he urged as a Mason

for starting the Grand Lodge . He is reported to have said in his address to Bro . Thompson that , " until a supreme governing body was established there was a danger of the intrusion of other foreign Constitutions . " Does he mean that because the Grand Lodges of

England , Ireland , and Scotland hold concurrent jurisdiction in sundry of the British colonies and possessions , and exercise their authority not directly , but indirectly through their District or Provincial Grand Lodges . Colonies and possessions are Masonically

unoccupied territory , and that any and every Masonic Power has the inherent right to grant warrants of constitution for the establishment of new lodges ? If he means this will he state the authority on which he rests his assertion ? If he does

not mean this , will he explain more clearly than he has done yet what he does mean ? We know that some time ago the Grand Chapter of Canada claimed the rig ht to set up chapters , and did set up chapters in the city of Melbourne . We know , also , that our Supreme

Grand Chapter protested most vigorously , yet with becoming dignity , against this claim . But the mere claim to exercise a rig ht and the right itself are not yet one and the same thing . Perhaps Bro . Gillon will oblige us with the legal justification for his assertion .

And while we are instituting this very natural enquiry , it may be as well if Bro . Thompson , G . Master of the irregular Grand Lodge of New Zealand , will kindly give his authority for the statement in his speech after he had been installed in office to the effect

that it "is now an undisputed fact that not less than three lodges can convene and legally form a Grand Lodge in a territory not occupied by a Grand Lodge . " We have often heard this statement made , but we have never been able to ascertain clearly from what recognised code of Masonic law it is obtained .

* * * Bro . Thompson will place us under an additional obligation if he will tell us whether or not New Zealand , up to the moment of his installation , was " territory not occupied by a Grand Lodge ? " If it was " not

occupied territory , how came he to be appointed District Grand Master of Canterbury by the M . W . Grand Master of England ? If it was occupied territory , how came he and his brother . seceders to set up this clandestine Grand Lodge in the territory

of our Grand Lodge ? and what becomes of his statement made at the Special Communication of the District Grand Lodge of Canterbury , held on the 6 th March last , " that no power in New Zealand could dissolve the District Grand Lodge of

Canterbury r" Even , according to his own showing , the Grand Lodge of New Zealand is , at the present time , incapable of exercising a supreme authority , and New Zealand with its four Masonic Constitutions exercising concurrent authority within its territorial limits must be

just as much open to the intrusion of other foreign Constitutions now as it was when there were only the Grand Lodges of England , Scotland , and Ireland exercising such concurrent authority by means of their District or Provincial Grand Lodges . * * ¦ ; ¦

The fact is , that we are getting a little confused over the matter , and we shall be only too delighted if Bros . Thompson and Gillon , whose legal dicta appear to be

so authoritatively laid down , and whose legal knowledge , we presume , must be on a level with their legal assurance , will enlighten us somewhat on the various questions we have propounded .