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Smoking after 7 . 45

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— SATURDAY , AUGUST 31 , 18 95 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

From the paper of Agenda which appears in another column , it will be seen there is no very important business to occupy the attmtion of Grand Lodge at ils Quarterly Communication on Wednesday , thc 4 U 1 prox . The Colonial Board reports that 12 of the lodges in

the District of Canterbury , New Zealand , which had seceded from the Grand Lodge of England and joined the so-called Grand Lodge of New Zealand , had been struck off the roll , the warrants having been duly re t urned to the District Grand Master ; and that the

Masonic Notes.

warrant of the Bulwer Lodge , No . 891 , Constantinople , has been returned to Grand Lodge , a letter having been received from the late W . M . to the effect that the lodge was finally closed in February , 18 94 , with the consent of the members , who were unable to carry on the lodge any longer .

There is also a notice of motion by Bro .-W . Woodward , P . M . No . 1920 , relative to the contribution by the Freemasons of this country towards the Decoration Fund of St . Paul ' s Cathedral of a sum sufficient for that of the cupola and transepts . We have already expressed a favourable opinion of the scheme

propounded by Bro . Woodward , and to that opinion we still adhere . If precedents are needed for such a contribution , they will be found in the assistance rendered by the Freemasons of Gloucestershire towards the restoration of Gloucester Cathedral ; of those of Northamptonshire towards that of Peterborough Cathedral ;

and of the Hertfordshire and other brethren towards that of St . Alban's Cathedral . What was done in these cases might be done in the case of our great Metropolitan Cathedral , more especially as , though there is no absolute proof , there is a moral certainty that Sir Christopher Wren , the architect of St . Paul's ,

was a member of our Society . # * * The list of new lodges for which warrants have been granted by his Royal Highness the M . W . Grand Master since the June Quarterly Communication is an unusually long one . Four of them—the National

Artillery , No . 2578 ; the Lewisham , No . 2579 ; the Crouch End , No . 2580 , and the Empress , No . 25 S 1—are located in the Metropolitan District , and five in the Provinces , namely , the Delavel , No , 2568 , ar . d the Holmes , No . 2571 , at Newcastle-on-Tyne , in the Province of Northumberland ; the St . Trillo , No . 256 9 , at

Colwyn Bay , Province of North Wales ; the Llewellyn , No . 2570 , Cardiff , Province of South Wales ( E . D . ) , and the Tyldesley , Lodge , No . 2592 , at Tyldesley , Province of West Lancashire . There are also seven located abroad , namely , the Buluwayo , No . 2566 , at the town of the same name , in Matabeleland and the

Wynberg , No . 2577 , meeting in the town bearing that name , in South Africa ; the Acacia , No . 2567 , Meiktela , and the Fairclough , No . 2575 , Mandalay , in the District of Burma ; the Coorg , No . 2576 , Coorg , in ' the District of Madras ; the Corinthian , No . 2573 ,

Childers , in the District of Queensland and the Southern Cross , No . 2574 , at Southern Cross , in the District of Western Australia . These make up a total of 16 , all told . ¦>

The Quarterly Communication of the urand Lodge of Mark Master Masons will be held at Mark Masons ' Hall , on Tuesday , thc 3 rd prox ., but the business to be transacted is not of a very formidable character . According to the Report of the General Board , which will be submitted , as usual , 28 3 Mark and 78 Royal

Ark Mariner certificates were issued during the quarter ended the 30 th June last , while warrants for one new Mark Lodge—the Star of Bethlehem , No . 4 S 6 , Bethlehem , Orange Free State , to be attached to the District of Natal—and one Royal Ark Mariner Lodge —the Abbey , to be attached to the Abbsy Mark Lodge ,

No . 225—have been granted , while Bro . the Earl 01 Onslow has been appointed Prov . G . Mark Master of Surrey in succession to thc late Bro . Col . Gerald N . Money , C . B . We notice also that Bro . Col . A . B . Cook , has been re-appointed Prov . Grand Mark Master

of Middlesex for a further term of three years . Two Mark warrants and one Royal Ark Mariner have been returned , namely , those of CEconomy , No . 52 , and Finnemore , No . 358 ( Mark ) , ar . d Finnemore , No . 358 ( Royal Ark Mariner ) .

We mentioned in one of our Notes last week that the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire had decided in the case of a brother who had remained an E . A . for several years and then desired to be advanced to thc higher Degrees that before acceding to his wish inquiries should be made as to whether or not he was in

the same position as at his initiation , and also if his character and moral standing were such as to render his further advancement desirable . The Voice of Masonry mentions a case in which a biother was initiated in a lodge at Oroville , in California , in 1 S 61 . Owing to his wife ' s opposition he forbore to seek further advancement . But his wife died , and

something having happened to remind him of his old connection with Masonry , he made the necessary application to his lodge , and on the 2 nd July last was raised to the Sublime Degree of M . M . Thus about 34 years elapsed between the date of his initiation and of his becoming a full fledged M . M . Cases of this kind are by no means of very frequent occurrence .