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mfjigftgiAAyjasaaiM A A AAA ra ^ ra W^^WWJ S^^^^^^ t ^te^ffiss SATURDAY , MARCH 30 , 1901 .

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We are in a position to ' state that considerable progress has been made recently in respect of the Board of Stewards for the approaching Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls . Already upwards of 400 ladies and brethren have volunteered their services on the occasion , and there is every

reason to hope that between now and the second Wednesday in May a substintial addition to this number will be made . It is worthy of note that the first meeting of the Board will be held at Freemasons' Hall on Monday , the ist prox ., when the ollicers will be chosen , and the preliminary arrangements made as far as possible .

••* A meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire will be held in the Masonic Hall , Birmingham , on Tuesday , the 23 rd April , under the ¦ •" •spices of the Howe Lodge , No . 587 , when , after the minutes of the meeting at Solihull on the 26 th September last and those of the meetings at Coventry the

on 9 th October , and Ipsley on the 14 th November 0 last year , and at Birmingham on the 1 st instant , respectivel y , have been read and confirmed j and reputts having reference to the Warwickshire Masonic benevolent Festival and the Benevolent and Pupils ' oi ' tL " i " ° ' ° ' " dfrom the Charity Representative the Province relating to the Elections to the London nanties have been received , Bro . the Rev . Geo . J

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Emanuel , Prov . G . Chap ., will deliver an address , and a collection will be made on behalf of the Benevolent and Pupils' Aid Fund . Provincial Grand Lodge will be opened at 4 p . m ., and at 6 p . m . a banquet will be served , tickets for which , at 5 s . each exclusive of wine , must be applied for on or before Saturday , the 20 th

prox . * * * We have very great pleasure in announcing that Bro . N . Tracy , Past G . Std . Br . England , and P . P . G . Warden and Prov . G . Secretary , has been selected by Lord Henniker , Prov . G . M . Suffolk , to fill the office of

Deputy Prov . Grand Master , rendered vacant by the sudden and lamented death of Bro . the Rev . C . J . Martyn , Past G . Chaplain . For many years Bro-Tracy has been one of the mainstays of the Craft in Suffolk , and during his long tenure of office as Prov . Grand Secretary has acquitted himself well and

satisfactorily , both to his respected chief and the brethren throughout the Province . Hence his promotion to the more-responsible position of Deputy will be hailed with pleasure by the lodges , whose members will no doubt realise that a better choice could not have been made .

» •» The brother who has been appointed to succeed Bro . Tracy in the office of Prov . G . Secretary is Bro . S . R . Anness , who , like the new Dep . Prov . G . Master , is a member of Perfect Friendship Lodge , No . 376 , Ipswich . Bro . Anness was first appointed to office in

Prov . Grand Lodge in 1882 , and in 1894 was honoured with the collar of Prov . Senior Grand Warden . He is therefore a man of long and tried experience , and there can be little doubt that in the course of time , when he has settled down to his new duties , he will prove a worthy successor to Bro . Tracy .

* * * A meeting of the Provincial Priory of the Order of the Temple for Burma was held in the Masonic Hall , Moulmein , on Saturday , the 19 th January , when Sir Knight J . Copley Moyle was installed Provincial Prior , the ceremony being performed by Sir Knight Herbert

E . Wilkins , Past Prov . Constable , as Prov . Prior , assisted by Sir Knight Elliot Hill , Prov . Chancellor , and others . When the installation was over , and Sir Knight Moyle had been proclaimed and saluted , Sir Knight Wilkins congratulated the new Prov . Prior on his appointment , referred in complimentary terms to

the " untiling energy and unflagging zeal and perspicacity " which he had shown in his " other high Masonic offices , " and the good work he had already done as Prov . Sub-Prior in charge ; and expressed the earnest hope that under his ( Sir Knight Moyle ' s ) guidance Templar Masonry might increase in strength , and become more and more prosperous .

A Grand Bohemian Concert in aid of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was given in the great hal'of Freemasons'Tavern on Friday , the 22 nd inst ., by Bro . Leon F . Dury , W . M ., and the officers and members of the St . James ' s Union Lodge , No . 180 . The chair was occupied by the W . M ., while the Wardens acted M

as Stewarjs . Bro . W . Wright , P . M ., the lodge Organist , was Musical Director , * Bro . John Porter , Stage Manager ; and Mr . Harry Hawke , Acting Manager . An excellent programme , which included songs , pianoforte , violin , and banjo solos , recitations ,

interludes—humorous and ventnloquial—had been arranged , and afforded much pleasure to a numerous audience , many of the numbers being encored . The accompanyists were Miss Beatrice Cowley and Bro . Wright , who did their respective parts verv successfully . #

» * It is good news that a "History of the Provincial Grand Lodge and of Freemasonry in Cheshire" is in course of compilation and will be published at no very distant date . Bro . John Armstrong , P . P . G . W ., who has undertaken the responsible duly of writing the

book , is well qualified for such a task and we have no doubt will acquit himself satisfactorily in thc rule of historian . It is no light duty he has entered upon . Cheshire , even as it stands , is a strong Province with upwards of 50 lodges on its roll , among them being several that date from the 18 th century . It has been

presided over by a long succession of Provincial Grand Masters , commencing wilh Co ) . Columbine in 1725 , and ending with the Hon . Alan ce Tatton Egerton , M . P ., P . G . W ., who was only installed in ofiice last year in succession to his brother Earl liccrton ol Tatton .

It will bc no light matter to treat satisfactorily of the existing lodges , but Cheshire is important for ether than mere numerical reasons . Its organisation as a Province dates from a remoter period than any

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other in England and Wales , while Bro . W . H . Rylands has , if we remember rightly , shown that it could boast of quite a number of Speculative Masons many years before the Grand Lodge of England was established . Thus in the Lists of Lodges forming the Appendix to Bro . R . F . Gould's " Four Old Lodges "

we meet with several that have long since passed away . Such are the " Sunn , " the " Spread Eagle , " and the " Crabb and Faulkon , " in the City of Chester , all which are included in this 1725-1729 List . Two of these apparently rank as Nos . 32 and 33 in his 1730-1732 , with the addition of the Red Lyon , Congleton , at No . 36 , and the Angel , in Macclesfield , at No . 80 . These are also found in the 1736-1739 List , among the lodges of 1724 creation , together with " 1 S 0 Horse and Man , Foregate-st ., Chester , warranted February i , 1738 . Of these only Nos . 32 , 36 , 80 , and 180 are to be rnet with in 1740 , but re-numbered as 29 , 32 , 6 9 , and 167 respectively . At the next closing up of the lodges , in 1756 , Nos . 29 and 32 have fallen out , while No . 6 g becomes 43 and 167 is returned as 101 . #

* * But we need not follow up the lists . The oldest lodge now on the roll of the Province is Unanimity , No . 89 , Dukinfield , which dates from 1754 , and which , according to Lane ' s " Masonic Records , " was , in the first instance , Lancashire , and does not appear to have

moved into Cheshire until the early years of the 19 th century . Our point , however , is that many lodges existed in the province prior to the earliest now on the roll , and the tracing out these , and the wotk they may have donewill be a task of great difficulty . According

, to the Prospectus which has reached us " Freemasonry in Cheshire during the last Three Centuries " will be traced , so that there is every likelihood that Bro . Armstrong's book will contain matter that has never hitherto seen the light of day .

••* Leaving conjecture in this respect out of the question , the promised contents include "a complete tabulated list of Provincial Grand Ollicers from 1725 to 1900 inclusive ; " " Historic Sketches of the Five Time Immemorial Lodges , and of all the Lodges constituted in the Province during the last two centuries ;"

"A detailed History of the Provincial Grand Lodge " from 1725 to 1900 ; " the whole extracted from manuscripts in the possession of Grand and Provincial Grand Lodges , Public Libraries , ' Cestrian , ' and other Lodges in the Province . " We shall await with eagerness the appearance of the ' work , which will be issued to Subscribers at 7 s . 6 d ., and to Non-Subscribers at ios . per copy .

It is much to be regretted that the Chairman ( Bro . F . B . Westlake ) of the recent meeting of the Committee of the Devon Masonic Educational Fund should havc felt it to be his duty to call attention to thc fact that the subscriptions to the Fund had fallen off very considerably during the past year , and should have

gone so far as to suggest that " unless increased support was soon forthcoming the Committee might have to face the unpleasant necessity of reducing the number of children on the Fund , so as to bring the expenditure within the income . " There can be no doubt the Fund is doing a large amount of good . It provides for 22 children , on whom . £ 330 in the aggregate is expended

yearly . Hence his appeal to those lodges , of which there were , unfortunately , too many , that had never yet given any assistance tothe Fund , notwithstan Jing that Irequent appeals had , he understjod , been made to them . " This was confirmed by Bro . J . R . Lord , the Hon , Treasurer , and now that such prominence has been given to their shortcomings , we hope the lodges will see their way to subscribing .

» •* We are glad to loarn from the speech of Comp . the Hon . C . Maule Ramsay , the newly-installed First Grand Principal , in acknowledging the toast of his health that Royal Arch Masonry in Scotland is in a nourishing condition . During the last 10 yearb the

funds of the Supreme Grand Chapter had increased Irom , £ 5300 in 1 S 90 to upwards of £ Sooo 111 1900 , while the number of companions had also been increased . Moreover , from thc remarks tn ldu ol him and the work he had done during tne last few yeais as Griind of Forfar and Kincardine

Superintendent , it appears lhat Comp . Ramsay is likely to prove au excellent Fiist Grand Principaland that , as one of thc speakers put it , Grand Chapter will be as sorry to part with its present chief live years hence as the Province is over which he lately presided .

The 24 th Annual Convocation of the Grand Chapter of Quebec was held in th ; Masanic Hall , Montreal , on the 29 th January , under the presidency of Comp . H . Leroy Fuller , M . D ., H . K . G . Z ., who , in the course of his addresspaid a feeling tribute of

, respect to the late Queen Victoria , to whom he referred as " a great Sovereign , " and well-beloved . Thc newly . installed Grand Principals are Comps . Geo . O . Stanton , Grand '/ .. ; J . Bruce Payne , Grand H . ; and C . P . O'Connor , Grand J .