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SATURDAY , J 24 , 18 97 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Hertfordshire was held , as announced in our last week ' s issue , at the Red Lion Hotel , High Barnet , at the in . vitation of the Gladsmuir Lodge , No . 13 S 5 , on Tuesday , the 20 th inst . There was a larger attendance

than usual , and the proceedings passed off most satisfactorily . A sum of 50 guineas was voted to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and Bro . C E . Keyser , P . G . D ., P . Prov . G . W ., announced his intention of moving , when tho time came round , that a grant of 100 guineas be made towards the approaching Centenary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for

Boys . There was a smaller attendance at the banquet which followed , but there also everything went well , and the Gladsmuir Lodge—whose W . Master , Bro . F . G . Mason , was worthily honoured with the collar of Prov . J . G . Warden—has good reason to be satisfied with the success of its efforts at entertaining the Prov . G . Master and his officers .

# * 1 With its June number , the Canadian Cratfsman completed the 31 st year of its existence , and we gladly take the opportunity of congratulating our able and respected contemporary on the position it has acquired for itself among Masonic periodicals We have on several occasions borne willing testimony to the cour-

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tesy and ability with which it is conducted , and the admirable manner in which it endeavours , with almost invariable success , to maintain and promote the interests of the Craft . For many years it has been the leading exponent of Canadian Masonic views , and we confess to having gleaned from its pages much valuable information as to the proceedings of the several Grand

Lodges in the Dominion , wlrch might not otherwise have reached us , or at all events might not hive reached us so quickly , and with such fulness of explanation . Wc sincerely hope that our worthy contemporary may have before it many years of even greater usefulness than during its past career . # # *

We gather from its pages that the Grand Lodge of Manitoba held its 22 nd annual communication on the 9 th June , under the presidency of Bro . Judge Locke , M . W . G . M . There was a large attendance of Grand Officers and the representatives of private lodges , and the proceedings passed off amidst great enthusiasm .

In the course of his address the Grand Master referred to the celebration of the Queen ' s Diamond Jubilee and on announcing that an address would be forwarded to H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , M . W . G . Master of England , for presentation to her Majesty , the whole of the brethren rose and sang the National An'hem , and

gave three cheers for the Queen . The Grand blaster announced that a sum of 7 S 0 dollars ( £ 156 ) had been raised towards the Indian Famine Relief Fund . The Grand Master for the ensuing year , Bro . Thomas Robinson , was elected and installed in ofiice , and Bro . W . G . Scott was re-elected to his position of Grand Secretary .

M . W . Bro . Judge Locke , Grand Master of Manitoba , at the recent annual communication of his Grand Lodge , offered sundry suggestions in his address which are well worth the kindly consideration of our Manitoba brethren . One was that the present " per copila tax" should be increased , with a view to creating a

fund "for building and maintaining a Masonic Home . A better mode of celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee could not be desired . Her Majesty has never failed to make known her sympathy with the afflicted , whether young or aged , and a Home that would provide education for the children of deceased and

indigent Masons , and support during their declining years the aged brother and his widow , would be just the kind of institution to found in honour of the Colli year of her Gracious Majesty ' s reign . Nor , though the Grand Lodge of Manitoba cannot as yet boast of a very pro .

longed existence , do we imagine that once the proposal has been seriously taken in hand , there will be any difficulty in raising the necessary funds . The jurisdiction is not at present a large one , and the Home need not be at the outset on a very large scale .

* » ? We are afraid that another of Bro . Locke ' s proposals —that there should be "a federation" of the seven Provincial Grand Lodges under the title of the United Grand Lodge of Canada—will not meet with the same favourable reception . In the first place there is a very

natural antipathy on the part of corporate bodies to being snuffed out . In the next , British North America is so large a territorj that we question if it would be desirable to place it as a whole under the supreme authority of a single Grand Lodge . What Bro . Locke calls " Provincial Grand Lodges " are not the

Provincial Grand Lodges into which extra-metropolitan Freemasonry in England is sub-divided and with which we are familiar , but veritable Grand Lodges presiding each of them over one of the separate and district Provinces of the Dominion . The proposal would thus involve the degradation of the present Grand Lodge :,,

which are now sovereign and independent , into bodies very closely resembling our English Provincial Grand Lodges ; while we question very much if the creation of one United Grand Lodge over so enormous an area would work well . A somewhat similar proposition was made in the United States towards the close of last

century , but the United States American Masons would have nothing to do with it . We doubt if the present generation of British North American Masons are one whit more in favour of such a general Grand Lodge than were the United States brethren 100 years ago . * * *

As for the idea that the Grand Orient of France should be approached for the purpose of inviting them " to replace in their Constitution the acknowledgment of a Supreme . Being as a qualification of membership ; " if it be true that "the minds of the men of France are rapidly coming round to the old

standard "—our advice is to let the minds go on " coining round" until they have re-attained " the old standard . " In other words , let the change of opinion which , according to Bro . Locke , is in progress , work its way unaided , and we may live to see the day when

the Constitutions of the Grand Orient are what they used to be 20 years ago . Any attempt to interfere with the natural progress of this change miy have an effect which is diametrically opposed to what Bro . Locke is so anxious for .