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CONTENTS .

L EADERS ¦ 4 a Supreme Grand Chapter 46 Consecration of the Old Westminsters ' Lodge , No . 2233 46 Consecration nf the Onslow Lodge , No . 3334 , at Guildford 45 The " Grand Lodge MS . " ( A . . 1583 ) 4 8 Ancient and Accepted Rite 4 8 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys—Financial Table , 1 SS 1—1 SS 7 4 8 Xhe United Orders of the Temple and Hospital of St . John of Jerusalem 49 Centenary Festival of the Industry Lodge , No . 1 S 6 49 C ORRESPONDENCEFestival of the Girls' School < i

CORRESPONDENCE ( Continued)—A Question of Custom 3 1 The Domatic Lodge Ki Notes and Queries , 51 RSPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 51 Instruction $ 1 Royal Arch H Mark Masonry 57 Ancient and Accepted Rite ; 8 Knights Templar 58 Entertainment at the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution $ 8 Obituary 58 Masonic and General Tidings Jq Lodge Meetings for Next Week ( 10

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VVE congratulate the members of this lodge on its having- comof industry , pleted its first 100 years , as well as on the fact that the No . 1 S 6 . M . W . G . M . has been pleased to grant their prayer for a Centenary Warrant , and the permission which usually accompanies it for all

subscribing members to wear a Centenary jewel . The lodge has been somewhat unfortunate as regards the preservation of its archives , the minutes , for a period of 22 years , from 3 rd February , 1811 , to 22 nd June , 1833 , having been lost , but it has been able to show it has been in continuous working since its constitution in January , 1788 ,

and the Grand Master , therefore , has had no difficulty about acceding to their . prayer . The members , however , appear to bear their honours quietly . They met , as usual , at Freemasons' Hall , on the 24 th inst ., and , beyond the fact that a short conversation occurred during the earlier part of the proceedings on the subject of the Centenary , and that

Bro . VV . S . PAGE , W . M . —now I . P . M . —and Bro . Allison , P . M ., Secretary , were presented with Centenary jewels , to mark the event and the conspicuous share they had taken in obtaining the warrant , the business seems lo

have been conducted in the usual manner . But whether they intend to do anything further in the way of Centenary celebration or not , they have done good service in the past , and , from what we know of the members , there is every prospect of a continuance of this success .

* * * WE heartily welcome the Old Westminsters' Lodge to its minsters' Lodge , place on the roll of Grand Lodge , and in particular as a No . 2233 . valuable addition to the lodges in the Metropolitan area ,

London has been able to boast for some time past of the number and variety of its special lodges , that is , of lodges , the membership of which is limited to brethren of a particular class or profession . But the Old Westminsters' Lodge , to consist entirely of members educated at the particular

public school whose name it bears , is the first of Us kind in London , or indeed in any other part of England , the nearest approach , perhaps , being the Westminster and Keystone Lodge , which in its later years has been regarded , though not exclusively so , as the London home of brethren initiated while at Oxford . But even as there is a wide difference

between a public school and one of our universities , so must there also be a great difference between a lodge which will be limited to members hailing from one public school and one which is only in great part recruited by Masons hailing from any one of the between 20 and 30 colleges at Oxford . However , without troubling ourselves to argue this very immaterial point .

we welcome the new lodge , as we have said , most heartily . Many of its founders are old Masons as well as Old Westminsters , and having once started on its career , as it did on Friday , the 20 th instant , under the most

favourable auspices , and with a trained body of officers to conduct its proceedings , we have no doubt it will achieve at an early date a large measure of that brilliant success which appears to have attended all the lodge creations in London during the last few years .

* * * THE present week will be an eventful one in Australasian ' Au s tralasia '" annals > the looth anniversary of the proclamation of Australia as a British colony by Capt . PHILIP , R . N ., having been celebrated with honours befitting so important an event . It is not necessary to

refer at any length to the marvellous progress that has been made in the interval between Captain PHILIP ' proclamation and ils centenary commemoration , nor need vve trace how the one colony—a mere convict establishment "i the first instance—has gradually developed into seven independent colonies which , in the further course of time , will no doubt become a grand

confederat'on . All these are matters which will be fully described in the regular press . Our purpose is to show how in these remote countries which 100 years since were peopled by their aboriginal inhabitants , the Craft of Masonry has spread itself until now it is almost as strong , numerically , as it was in England under the " regular " or " modern " G . Lodge when the Australian

Colony was first planted . We learn from Bro . Gould ' s History that to Ireland belongs the honour of having introduced Freemasonry into the country , an Irish Military lodge attached to the 46 th Regiment being temporaril y located at Sydney in 1816 . Two stationary lodges with warrants [ rom the G , Lodge of Ireland followed , pne—the Australian Social , No .

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260—being established in 1820 , and the second—the Leinster , No . 266—in 1824 . The third—the Australia , now No . 390—emanated from the G . Lodge of England in 1828 , and then other lodges were established outside S ydney , one at Paramatta , in 1834 , and the Lodge Australia Felix , now No . 474 , in Melbourne , in 1841 . From these small beginnings the Craft

gradually extended itself over the Colony , or Colonies , as they were successively founded , with the result that at the present time there are as regards those of English Constitution alone , 7 6 lodges under the District Grand Lodgeof New South Wales , 9 8 lodges under that of Victoria , 28 lodges in the District of Queensland , 6 lodges in Western Australia , 8

lodges in the District of Tasmania , and 86 in New Zealand and Fiji , 81 of this last group of lodges being distributed among five Dist . Grand Lodges , 3 of the other 4 being in South Island without any District Grand Lodge organisation , and 1 in Fiji , the total number of English lodges being thus upwards of 300 . To these must be added the lodges severally established

by the Grand Lodges of Ireland and Scotland , the 37 lodges under the independent Grand Lodge of South Australia , and , though these are not recognised by the Grand Lodges of the Old Country , the pseudo-Grand Lodges of New South Wales and Victoria , so that the total number of Masonic lodges in the Australian Colonies cannot be far short of , if , indeed ,

it does not exceed , 600 . Then there are Royal Arch chapters and Mark lodges , a few Templar Preceptories , and Red Cross conclaves , so that Masonry in all its branches may without question be described as being

firmly set at the Antipodes . In a short time , however , we shall in all probability hear that Masonry has taken a prominent part , worthy in all respects of its influence , in the Centenary proceedings which have occurred during the presentweek .

THE Canadian Craftsman for December last contains a com" Muddie 5 ' munication by "J URISDICTION " on what the writer is pleased to describe as " That English Muddle . " From this we gather that the edict of non-intercourse issued some time back by the Grand Lodge

of Quebec against the Grand Lodge of England and all its belongings has recoiled on the devoted heads of its own people , instead of on those of English brethren , and especially those in Montreal , whom it has declared to be outside the pale of its own Masonic law . This is onl y another instance of the engineer being hoist with his own petard , and if it had occurred with

any other than that venerable and reverend body , the Grand Lodge of Quebec , we should have felt inclined to be amused , and have pronounced the usual verdict in all such cases of " served it right . " But the G . Lod ^ e of Quebec , with its 60 or 70 lodges and 2500 brethren , and its prolonged experience , as a separate organisation , of less than 20 years , is far too

serious a subject to be amused about , and instead of jeering and sneering at it in the midst of the misfortunes which , according to "J URISDICTION , " it has created to its own detriment , we prefer tendering it our sincere sympathy and wishing it a speedy release from its present difficulties . It is not in accordance with our ideas of the princi ples of Masonry to refuse to

lend a helping hand to one who has fallen into a ditch on the ground that we had cautioned him against going too near the edge or he mi ght fall in . The Grand Lodge of Quebec , in spite of all warnings to the contrary , has issued its edict against England and all English lodges , and the only practical result we have as yet heard of is that some brethren of the Ouebec

Constitution are overwhelmed with shame and consternation at finding that the representative of our Anglo-Montreal lod ges at the Montreal Masonic Board of Relief remains at his post , and that among " the transient Masons , their wives , sisters , and children , " who have received of the funds at the disposal of the Board , have been sundry of those very brethren , with " their

wives , sisters , and children , ' whom the Grand Lodge of Quebec " has declared outside the pale of Masonry . " Of course , this is a very terrible calamity , and we can well understand the chagrin of "J URISDICTION " because the " Montreal Masonic Board of Relief , " or rather its Ouebec members , instead of joining in the chorus of denunciation against all

English Masons , great and small , rich and poor , as ordered by the Grand Lodge of Quebec , appear to have been kindly and firml y discharging their duties and administering such relief as the funds allowed to poor brethren and their relations of all jurisdictions alike . This conduct , though it is not in accordance with the edict of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , is in complete

harmony with the principles of the Craft , and perhaps Quebec Masons will not take it amiss from us if we suggest that the sooner an end is put to this conflict between the Masonic practice of their Grand Lod ge and the Masonic principles of the entire Craft , the better it will be for them , and the more will it redound to their credit as an aspiring Grand Lodgeof yesterday ' s creation .

As for "J URISDICTION , " let him give up writing about the " misapplication of trust funds " and " soliciting moneys for one purpose and applying it to another . " So far as we understand the matter as presented by him , it strikes us the Quebec members of the Montreal Masonic Board of Relief have done the right thing , and are the most sensible people we have as yet heard of in the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Quebec .