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0 { a lodge . On looking round the late Archbishop said : " Masons have been here . " He renlied that they were the outward and visible signs of Masonry . His grace said : "lam sorry to say I neglect them very much , but I hope I have the inward and spiritual grace . " He believed him to be a true brother , and one spark of his wit he would mention . Dr . Magee

was recommended by his medical man to go for a change and rest before undertaking his duties at York . ] -le went to Scarborough , and on coming away the landlord 0 f the hotel said how gratified he was with his visit , and asked him as a great favour to put his name in the visitors ' book , and say whether he was pleased with the attendance . j-Ie readily assented , and wrote , " W . C . Ebor . I spent a

very pleasant fortnight at this place and have been well attended to . I was recommended here for change and rest . The waiter has taken the change ; the landlord the rest . " •They had lost a great man and a good Mason . Bro . R . Turtle Pigott , P . A . G . D . C , also responded . Bro . R- E . H . Goffin , P . M ., said it was hisdutyand pleasure , in the absenceof the LP . M ., to propose " The Health

of the W . M . He had had very pleasing duties devolving upon him in that lodge , but none he appreciated more hiffhly than that of proposing that toast . As one of the founders and an officer from the foundation , Bro . Christmas Piper , W . M ., had worked ardently and efficiently in every office from Steward to Master . He was sure every member was proud to see the W . M . in the chair , for he had shown

himself anxious on all occasions for the welfare of the lodge and anxious to promote its honour , dignity , and prosperity . Freemasonry was one of those subjects that he had for a lar ^ e number of years been proud of in connection with its ceremonial and ritual , and they knew his sentiments with regard to the many points of excellence attaching to Freemasonry . There was no man who had more dearly at

heart the real principles of Masonry than the W . M . When it became possible for Bro . Piper to initiate his son , he was the first to say he claimed their privilege , and he had done so in a most efficient , genial , and heartfelt manner . The W . M . had done excellent work in the past for the lodge , and would continue to do so in the future . Bro . C . Christmas Piper , W . M ., in response , said no

one could feel more delighted than he did to be in his present position , and none could be more gratified than he to see so many genial faces and neighbours of the old City of Westminster rallying round him . That was the happiest moment he should spend in seeing his friends and neighbours round him . He was obliged to Bro . Goffin , P . M ., for the cordial and satisfactory way he proposed the

toast . He did not deserve one half that had been said , but would try to do so . He hoped all present would enjoy themselves , and he should be pleased to welcome them on the next occasion . "The Initiates" having been given and responded to , Bro . Goffin , P . M ., proposed "The Visitors , " welcoming them all , and especially Bro ; J . M . McLeod , Secretary

Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . Bro . J . M . McLeod , Secretary Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , said that as a Mason he rose to the call of duty , and had much pleasure in responding to the toast . He assured them it was a matter of very great regret that business in connection with the duties of his office prevented his being present at the banquet—which

lie was assured was an exceedingly good one—and at the lodge work previous . After all Freemasonry was not a matter depending entirely on one or the other , —certainly not the former ; and he was happy to be present at the Abbey Lodge for the first time since he had occupied his present position and to make their acquaintance . He was glad to find the tenets of Masonry

carried out most fully by the members , and so long as that went on the career of the lodge would be long and prosperous . It had been mentioned that Bro . Gibson , P . M , was going up as a Steward to represent the Abbey Lodge of Instruction at the Boys' School Festival . He was gratified to know that Bro . Gibson was prepared to take up an exceedingl y good list , and he thanked them for the kind

way they were helping him in that good work , which was we foundation of the Order . If they continued to carry out the tenets of Masonry as shown by that list , he was sure the lodge would exist and prosper . He was obliged to tiro . Goffin , P . M ., for the kind terms in which he had been introduced , and to the brethren for the kind manner in which he had been received , and he trusted for many years jo have the opportunity , as the Secretary of one of the institutions , of receiving the same hearty welcome he had received that night , lire . Roberts . W . M . 1642 . and others also resDOnded .

Other toasts were given before the Tyler ' s toast closed we proceedings . A selection of music was rendered by Miss Florence Render , and Bros . Arthur Weston , W . J . Dyer , J . Wontague , Herbert Basing , and J . Foster , and Bro . J . « . Lollmgs presided at the pianoforte . An excellent photograph of the members was obtained u « nng the afternoon by Bro . Arthur Weston .

Richmond Lodge ( No . 2032 ) . —A meeting was yeld at the Masonic Hall , Greyhound Hotel , Richmond , on '" e 5 th inst ., when there were present Bros . J . M . Marjas ° n , W . M , A . Crew , S . W . ; A . Aldin , J . W . ; W . F . l 7 ,, > 1 > eas . ; G . C . Rowland , Sec . ; T . Covell , S . D . ; J . Adredge , J . D . ; S . Abel ! , D . C . and I . G . ; H . F . Nash , •Jtvyd . ; p . o MIM ,. !! TvW •R 1 ? R 15 A „ P M •P

I P'gby , P . M . ; E . Dare , P . M . ; H . Sapsworth , LP . M . ; { : Hopkms , F . Hampton . J . Ambrose , F . W . H . Axter , F . A Vv ^ ' " B - Syrett > E . J . Goddard , W . B . Pentelow , . }•wan < er , H . Laker , T . Keyes , F . C . Mouflet , N . J . ir , ; u , - , - Hester , J- H . Ford , A . C . Amy , J . J . Pont-SlfL' W - Merr 'tt , C . Capel Smith , F . R . Robinson , T . Cto t > E . Downs , J . R . West , P . L . Whittett , W . < " ord and H . Young . Visitors : Bros . S . Roberts , VV . \ V iT " ' J . W . Brooking , A . Roberts , A . Skinner , R . Pel / p ^' P -P-G . D . C .. Middx . ; J . E . Brodrick , W . J . \ V M - W- Simpson , F . C . Austin , C . W . Bennett , W .

Colin ffan ' - Butler > N . Courlander , VV . Morley , P . C vv-n ? dj Louis Hon ' £ > W- G- L ° we > H- B Tucker , J . The i J ' •' •Ken y ° n . S . Hunt , and G . D . Leaver , " ¦ cctin ge ' laving been opened , the minutes of the last Ai 1 (]; f r ^ read and con firmcd , ancl the report of the Crouch mm 'ttee was received and adopted . Mr . James r aisp , lt , acandidate f ° r initiation , and Bro . Whittett was Crew J ? lle De £ ree of M-M- The W-M- elect > Br ° - a lWnt > l £ •en duly installed into the chair of K . S ., and U Ai u . officers as follows : Bros . J . M . Marjason , ' '•' A . Aldin , S . W . ; T . Covell , I . W . ; W . F .

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Reynolds , Treas . ; G . C . Rowland , Sec . ; J . Aldredge , S . D . ; S . Abell , J . D . ; II . F . Nash , I . G . fG . Trinder , D . C . ; F . Hampton , Org . ; G . H . Hester and T . Keyes , Stwds . ; and F . G . Mitchell , Tyler . A banquet afterwards took place , under the presidency of the W . M ., at which between 60 and 70 members and visitors were present .

Empire Lodge ( No . 2108 ) . —This successful lodge gave a further convincing proof of its vitality and of its desire to carry out to the fullest extent the purpose for which it was founded—that of cementing more closely together the Masonic ties between the colonies and the Mother Country-by entertaining many distinguished colonial guests , together with a very large number of Grand Officers and

brethren at the Criterion Restaurant , Piccadilly , on Tuesday , the 26 th inst . The W . M ., Bro . Geoffrey Herbert was supported by the following members : Bros . Andrew Miller , M . D ., LP . M . ; E . E . Harding , S . VV . ; E . Behnke , J . W . ; Lennox Browne , F . R . C . S ., P . M ., P . P . S . G . W . Essex , Treas . ; A . J . R . Trendell , CM . G ., P . M ., A . G . D . C ; Sir John B . Monckton , P . G . VV . ; Rev . J . S . Brownrigg ,

P . G . Chap ., D . P . G . M . Bucks ; F . A . Philbrick , Q . C , G . Reg . ; Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , G . Sec ; VV . ( Janz , P . G . Org . ; E . Warden Dennis , Sec . ; Howard H . Room , P . G . Sec Middx . ; C . Moses , P . M ., D . C ; Dr . 1 . Zacharie ; E . Berlandine , S . D . ; C . J . Harrison , J . D . ; W . Clifford , I . G . ; E . Turner , P . M ., and W . I . Shand , Stwds . ; Hermann Klein , Org . ; and many others . The visitors present

were Bros . Chief J ustice Way , Pro G . M . South Australia ; Dr . Egan , Dist . G . M . East Division Cape Colony ; Lord Brooke , Prov . G . M . Essex ; Major-Gen . Laurie , Past G . M . Nova Scotia ; Col . Malet de Carteret , Prov . G . M . Jersey ; Col . Noel Money , C . B ., Prov . G . M . Surrey ; Sir W . Marriott , Q . C , M . P ., D . P . G . M . Sussex ; R . Eve , P . G . Treas . ; Peter de Lande Long , P . G . D . ; Sir Arthur

Hodgson , K . C . M . G . ; W . H . Preece , F . R . S ., P . M . ; T . riarratt ; C . VV . Cayzer ; E . Letchworth , P . G . D . ; F . West , P . G . D ., D . P . G . M . Surrey ; Sir George Harris , K . C . M . G ., P . G . D . ; Sir Somers Vine , K . C . M . G ., P . G . D . ; C . Belton , P . D . G . D . C . ; Turtle Pigott , D . C . L ., P . A . G . D . of C . ; Hastings Miller , G . S . B . ; Col . Peters , P . G . S . B . ; Richard Clowes , G . Std . Br . ; C . F . Matier , P . G . Std . Br . ;

C . F . Hogard , P . G . Std . Br . ; Edward Cutler , O . C ., G . Org . ; Edwin M . Lott , P . G . Org . ; Under-Sheriff Beard , P . M . ; Col . Ward , P . M . ; Banning , M . D . ; C Bassano , P . M . ; Wight ; Uzielli ; Novara ; A . A . Pendlebury , A . G . Sec ; the Hon . MosesMunroe , P . M ., Newfoundland ; Gardiner , P . M . ; Capt . Wetherall ; Kennedy ; R . Dickson , P . M . 152 , Victoria ; Russell Lochner ; Major Cooper ; H .

Tanner , P . M . ; Lionel Monckton , P . M ., P . G . S . ; Christy , P . M . ; Massey , P . M . ; Astley Cooper ; Walter Wesche ; W . R . Brighten ; C Schlesinger ; C H . de Grey Robertson ; Wm . T . Boydell , jun ., P . M ., P . P . J . G . D . Herts ; T . Middlemore ; W . Lewis ; Barnett , P . M . ; Van Praagh ; Walter Hill ; W . Bennison ; Cooper Rose , M . D . ; W . Brown ; T . Spink ; J . Hume ; the Rev . W . Pilot ,

Newfoundland ; and W . VV . Lee . Lodge having been opened and the minutes confirmed , Bro . Wells was raised to the Third Degree , after which Bro . Edgar Robertson was passed to the Degree of F . C . Bro . Farmer was unanimously elected a joining member . The W . M . proposed , Bro . A . Miller , I . P . M ., seconded , and Bro . Lennox Browne , P . M ., supported , a resolution , which

was carried unanimously , congratulating Bro . C J . R . Trendell , C . M . G ., P . M ., on his recent appointment to Grand Office as A . G . D . C , a compliment for which Bro . Trendell , P . M ., returned thanks in suitable terms . Letters of regret for non-attendance were received from Bros . Lord Lathom , the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , Sir J . Fergusson , Admiral Sir E . Inglelield , Sir A . Clark , and

others , and a telegram was received at a later period from Bro . Sir Wm . Whiteway , K . C . M . G ., D . G . M . Newfoundland , expressing his _ inability to attend owing to important business . Propositions were read , and the lodge was then closed . Banquet was served in the Victoria Hall , and , at its conclusion , the usual toasts received due notice .

" The Queen and the Craft " and " H . R . H . the M . W . Grand Master" were first given by the W . M . In proposing " The Grand Officers , " Bro . Lennox Browne , P . M ., Treas ., regretted the absence of the Pro Grand Master , Lord Lathom , from whom he had received a kind letter stating he was obliged to take a holiday after considerable labours . They were all delighted to find the

Earl of Mount Edgcumbe appointed Deputy Grand Master by his Royal Highness , and with regard to the other Grand Officers , the W . M . had told them of the excellent recent appointments . Bro . Lord Carrington had written regretting his inability to assist in the reception of so highly esteemed a Mason as Bro . Chief Justice Way . Still they had present a sufficient number of Provincial Grand Masters and

Grand Officers to occasion a sense of congratulation among the members . They knew well that wherever there was anything Masonic going on of importance , the Grand Officers were to the front , and that evening they had come to assist the Empire Lodge in receiving the Colonial brethren with heartiness and cordiality , and with the distinction they deserved . They were obliged to the large

number of Grand Officers who had honoured them , honoured the distinguished visitors , and honoured the lodge . They would excuse him if he associated the name of Bro . Lord Brooke , under whom he had the honour to serve as one of his humble but most enthusiastic supporters in the Province of Essex . Bro . Lord Brooke , Prov . G . M . Essex , said he felt they

had called upon a most unworthy member of Grand Lodge to return thanks for this important toast , moreover he feared that in this portion of his Masonic work he was unprepared , not having received notice of the honour about to be conferred upon him . On an occasion of that kind he could only say , alluding principally to the reason for which they had met , that he was sure all the members of Grand Lodge

were only too happy to meet those Colonial brethren so hospitably entertained by the Empire Lodge . As members of a great and important benevolent body , there was to him a very great interest attaching to the fact that they had so many Colonial brethren sitting around , and if Masonry were only existing for the purpose of knitting closer together those

ties of love and regard existing between them and their brethren in the colonies , it would justify itself sufficiently . They had also between them that common wish for the good of all their fellow brethren , which existed to the fullest extent in England and in every part of Her Majesty ' s dominions . It was , of course , most pleasing to live in the old Mother Country , and to feel that Institutions which they

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respected so much were likewise respected and supported by those in the colonies . They could have wished to have seen several members whose names were upon the programme , but he could assure all those that in whatever part of the world they might be Freemasonry was always a bond of union between them , and he hoped they would convey to those absent brethren strong expressions of

regard for them . On behalf of Grand Lodge , as a young Prov . Grand Master—as a young man from the countryhe felt the honour conferred and offered sincere thanks . The Worshipful Master said the next toast demanded farmore eloquence than he could bring to bear upon it . It was" Our Distinguished Foreign and Colonial Guests . " It was not a usual Masonic toast , but was not unknown in that

lodge , as they had given it before , and hoped to do so many and many times again . It might appear strange to them that he used the term " Foreign and Colonial" when they were all under the same jurisdiction , but it was a technical Masonic term which was used in speaking of the colonies . The programme the lodge started with in life was to offer a Masonic home to those brethren who came from the

colonies and wished to come among their brother Masons in England . They said " Come to us and we will receive you and do what we can , " and he thought it would be admitted they had done their best to carry out that programme' as far as in them lay . He would turn to the names of the : special guests they were delighted to honour . Bro . Major-General Laurie they had had the pleasure of seeing before

, and also Bro . Sir Arthur Hodgson , who were with them on the memorable occasion in 1 S 86 , when they entertained fepresentatives from 39 colonies and dependencies of the British Crown . Bro . Chief Justice Way , Pro G . M . South Australia , was a most distinguished man and Mason . His honour was appointed in 1884 as Grand Master of South Australia , abdicating the office in favour of the Earl of

Kintore on his arrival there as Governor , and was appointed Pro Grand Master . Bro . Chief Justice Way installed Lord Carrington as Grand Master of New South Wales on iSth September , 1 SS 8 , and assisted him in installing Sir William Clark as the first Grand Master of Victoria on the 20 th March , 1889 , and also assisted in installing Bro . Harris as the first Grand Master of Tasmania in June , iSgo . ¦

His honour had rendered the greatest assistance in bringing all the lodges in the colonies under the jurisdiction of the-Grand Lodge , and they had appointed him the representative ¦ of the Grand Lodge in Australia . It would be difficult to find any man who had a greater and nobler record of . Masonic duties performed . In recognition of his many ¦ services other than Masonic , Bro . Way had also been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia . They

ought to have welcomed Bro . Sir W . Whiteway that evening , but he was unfortunately ' absent . They had a distinguished . guest in Bro . Dr . Egan , Dist G . M . East Division , Cape " Colony . He laid particular stress upon Bro . Egan's name ¦ because he ( the W . M . ) was a South African Mason and was initiated in Kimberley 13 or 14 years ago . He gave . them the toast and regretted he had not done more justice , to it .

Bro . Chief Justice Way , Pro G . M . South Australia , said he onl y wished he possessed the logical faculty of the . Grand Registrar ; he wished he possessed the eloquence to which he had the pleasure of listening the other evening ' from the Deputy Prov . G . M . of Sussex ; he wished he possessed the ready faculties of his noble friend on his right , that he might adequately acknowledge the honour paid

them . His duty on that occasion was a representative and ' personal one . In his representative capacity he desired to ¦ acknowledge the magnificent hospitality given them—the cordial terms in which the W . M . had proposed the toast and the fraternal and enthusiastic manner in which that toast had been honoured . Let him turn to the personal . He felt indebted to the W . M . and the brethren of that lodge •'

for the opportunity afforded him of renewing friendships new and old . He looked round and found he was only a foreigner in a " technical " sense , and he had renewed in ¦ the person of the LP . M ., Bro . Miller , an old friendship across the sea . He looked round and found English friends in several directions and confessed he blushed to meet them—Bro . Sir John Monckton and the Grand Secretary

, who had devoted so much time and energy to his entertainment—that it was impossible to return the kindness . The W . M . said that the object of the establishment of that lodge was to offer to their Colonial brethren a Masonic home . That sentiment so lucidly stated was expanded by Bro . Rev . ' J . S . Brownrigg , P . G . Chap ., in the oration which he pronounced at the occasion to which the W . M . had

referredan oration which will always be a part of Masonic literature , and which for grace and eloquence of language was not to be surpassed in the whole literature of England . When he looked round and saw so many distinguished brethren of the Grand Lodge of England and brethren from the most distant colonies meeting on such amicable terms of friendship and brotherhood , the great object and establishment

ot this lodge had been accomplished . Some would ask him about the relations of Colonial and English Masonry , and why they had set up business on their own account . He would ask them to look at the records of their own families , where young people would set up house-keeping . Did they love the old home less ? and did the brethren think the ' Colonial Masons were not as much attached to the English

brethren as ever ? Speaking from personal experience he would say if all the lodges in Australia had been under the English Constitution they would never have consented to the separation , but they were divided into three Constitutions , and it was necessary if they were to have strength and union to say—if we are to be united in the great work of Masonry , union in Australia should be

accomplished . Some questioned him about the loyalty of Freemasons and of colonists in Australia to the British Crown . He was sure his friend Major - General Laurie , of Nova Scotia , would be proud to answer as to Canada , his friend , Bro . Raynes Dickson , from Victoria , would speak for that part , and Bro . Dr . Egan would speak with no uncertain sound as to the British Possessions in South

Africa . Sir A . Hodgson , whose name was as well-known in England as in Australia , was only burning for the opportunity of speaking for the great Colony of Queensland . He had lived in Australia for 40 years , and had passed from one part to another , and could confirm this . The number of British colonists scattered over that continent was nearly as

numerous as the inhabitants of this great Metropolis , and he challenged contradiction when he said they were as loyal to the British Crown as any here . Why should they turn theirbacks on the great and noble history of which every Englishman was proud ? Why should they wish and desire to deprive themselves of the protection of the British Fleet ?