Ancient And Accepted Rite.

Ancient and Accepted Rite .

Caer Daff Chapter , No . 118 . The summer meeting r . f the above chapter wis held at the Masonic Temple , r rd'ff ni » the iSth inst . The following were present : Comps . John Shaw , M . W . S . ; VV H ' Williams , 30 " , acting Prelate ; Henry FrazT , ist Gen . ; Isidor Leon , 2 nd fen •' John Mundey , 30 ° , Treas . ; J . H . Taylor . 31 , Recorder ; Dr . De Vere Hunt , « j , rlhal- Lewis Morgan , 30 , Raphael ; T . Payne Kerman , D . of C ; Joseph

Star ' fitld , Capt . of Guards ; Fred Martin , Org . ; Amos Jenkins , Outer Guard ; and The chapter was opened and the minutes of the last meeting read nd confirmed . Some important business was then considered . A letter from the Supreme Council was read announcing the death of the Grand Chancellor , Comp . V . III . Richard Loveland-Loveland , 33 ° , Q . C , advising that mourning should be worn for 60 " jhe chapter then closed , and the Princes adjourned to banquet room for light re freshments .

The Victorian Book Of Constitutions.

THE VICTORIAN BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS .

The United Grand Lodge of Victoria has recently revised its Book of Constitutions , after an experience of between nine and 10 years of the orig inal version . This was almost a reflex of our English Book of Constitutions , it having been agreed at the outset to adopt same , subject to local requirements . Several cf the additions and amendments are r ot * mly important , but interesting to the Craft at this end of the world , and it goes without saying that a few of the laws , as they now read , are distinctly in advance of these so long in vogue under the Grand Lodge of England .

As , for instance , with the exception of Organist and Herald , every Officer of the Grand Lodge must be an actual Master or Past Master of a lodge . Foimerly the Chaplains were excepted , but in future ihey , too , require to pass the chair of a private lodge . The same regulation applies to the Grand Stewards . Now , the difference between Victoria and England

in this respect is very wide , when we consider that in this country , from the Grand Master down to the Assistant Grand Pursu ' . vant , there is no Installed Master ' s qualification , save and except the Grand Registrar . The incongruity of this arrangement is almost as marked in Provinces and Districts , as merely the Deputy Grand Master and the two Wardens must be actual or Ptst Masters .

An important addition has been made to the rule bearing on the nomination , election , and installation of Grand Master . This addition , it may be explained , is the outcome of a heated controversy which arose last year , when Bro . Lord Brassey , who had been re-elected Grand Master , was absent from the colony on the day appointed for his installation . Up ( 0 then the Grand Masters , even if re-elected , were re-obligated and reinstalled , and the absence of Lord Brassey on the occasion in question gave

rise to a difficulty . On one side it was contended that the installation must lake place before the new Grand Officers could constitutionally be invested . The Deputy Grand Master , however ( Bro . George Baker ) , who presided , took the bull by the horns , and followed the time immemorial practice of Ihe Grand Lodge of England , by prcclaimirg the Gtar . d Master and then investing the officers . In order to avoid a recurrence of the dispute though , it is now provided that it be sufficient to proclaim the Grand Master in the event of his re-election .

Some discussion also ensued on the definition of Craft M . isonry , the original law affirming that it consists of the Entered Apprentice , Fellow Craft , Master Mason , M . uk Master Mison , and the Royal Arch . Now , there was a proposal to add the " Installed Master ' s Degree , " which , however , was defeated . Another vital question which , in the early days of Victorian Freemasonry

was a pregnant source of dispute , was the appointment or election of Giand Officers . Hitherto the appointment system has been in vogue . Asa matter of fact , in conformity with the Articles of Union , under which the Grand Lodge was established , it was resolved that one or the other should be decided upon within six months , and should from that day hold good

for all time . Appointment was then adopted , and the attempt to replace Ihe system by the pernicious elective procedure and its numerous objectionable features , was consequently out of order . The Grand Lodge tl Victoria , il is pleasant to mention , is the only one of the Australasian Grand Lodges that adheres to the appointment of officers by the Grand Master , excepting , of course , Grand Treasurer .

From the very first the Constitutions of Victoria have provided for Provincial Grand Lodges though none have as yet been organised . The revision committee proposed the elimination of this part of the laws ; but the country members defeated the project , and it may , therefore , be assumed that the colony will , at no distant date , be parcelled out into at least four provint es . Other proposals of the revision committee were also

rejected , one being that lodges ot instruction shall not be held on a Sunday , and another that 10 be the number petitioning for a new lodge warrant , an advance from the old number of seven . The clause as to the lodges of instruction was improved by the addendum that they shall not be held in hotels , there is some change in the order of precedence , in regard to Grand Officers . Thus , the President of the Board of Benevolence orecedes

r j c d Secretar y > and the Grand Director of Ceremonies goes above the Grand Superintendent of Works . A restriction has been put upon the the powers of . the Grand Master and of the Grand Lodge , in the direction of constituting "brethien of eminence and ability members of Grand Lodge ,

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with such rank and distinction as may be thought pr .-per . " The recipients of such distinctions must be subscribing members to a lodge under the Victorian Constitution . On the whole , the revision reads well and promisingly for the future of the Victorian Craft , and it may be added that the special communication of the Giand Lodge , at which the new Book of Constitutions was agreed upon , was a strictly business meeting , seeing that the work began at 10 . 30 a . m .,

and was not concluded until about the tame hour in the evening , under the able and tactful presidency of the M . W . Pro Grand Mister , Bm . the Hon . A . J . Peacock , who , by-the-bye , holds the responsible office of Chief Secretary in the Government of the colony . The debates on the various clauses , and the defeat of the revision Committee now and then , also practically show that the representatives of the 160 odd lodges in the jurisdiction were not prepared to accept every or any of the propositions as formal or cut and dried matters . W . F . LAMONBY .

The Late Bro. Sir B. W. Richardson.

THE LATE BRO . SIR B . W . RICHARDSON .

Members of the British Medical Temperance Association and friends of the London Temperance Hospital assembled on Friday evening at the hospital in Hampstead road to do honour to the memory of the late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson . The ceremony of unveiling a brass tablet , recording the fact that for 17 years he was the honoured and esteemed President ot the Association , and

for four years hon . medical officer of the hospital , was performed by Mrs . Sims Woodhead . Others taking part inthegatheringwereDr . CIark , M . P . ; Canon Barker , Dr . Morton Keys , Surgeon-Major Poole , and the hon . Secretary , Dr . J . J . Ridge , all of whom spoke in appreciative terms of the greet scientific attainments and kindliness of disposition which characterised the career of one who laboured so strenuously to the last for the welfare of his fellows .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . GEORGE BRINSLEY , No . 22 . The corporation has lost an old and esteemed member by the death of Bro . George Brinsley , who passed away on Monday at his residence , Belmont , the Avenue , Gipsy-hill , in his 71 st year . About a fortnight ago the deceased was confined to his house owing to a severe attack of bronchitis , and it ultimately led to a failure of the heart ' s action . The deceased , who was a liveryman- of the Plumbers' Company , entered the Court of Common Council in 1882 as a

representative of the ward of Farnngdon Within . As a member of that body he rendered good suit and service to the citizens . Bro . Brinsley will be better remembered , perhaps , in his professional career as an auctioneer , and a late president of the Auctioneers' Institute . After serving his articles with a firm of auctioneers at Sheffield he came to London more than 40 years ago to seek his fortune . His earliest operations was chiefly directed to the laying out of large areas of land for building purposes in the suburbs . In the year 1 S 63 the firm

with which he was associated ceased business , and Bro . Brinsley at once commenced operations on his own account as a surveyor and auctioneer , his previous employers showing their confidence in him by entrusting him with the management of their estates . As a receiver in the administration of rniny large Unded propeities the deceased had a wide and valuable experience . Always alert , active , and business-like , Bro . Brinsley soon acquired an enviable reputation among his brethren of the " rostrum , " and it was not , therefore , surprising that he took a keen interest in the formation of the Auctioneers' Institute in i 835 . As a

president of the institution he rendered yeomin service , and in recognition of his labours he was , by the unanimous request of the members , elected to fill the post a second time . In the formation of a benevolent fund he took a leading part , and only as recently as the 1 ith inst . he was , with others , at the annual meeting of the institute re-elected a member of the committee administering that fund . The deceased leaves a widow and several children , one of whom—M •. J . H . VV . Brinsley—is actively associated in his late father ' s business . The funeral took place on Thursday at Nunhead Cemetery , a memorial service being held previously at Emanuel Church , Dulwich .

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