Some Notes On Freemasonry In Australasia .– –(Continued).

to the lodge room , the band playing alternately " Burns ' s T J ] Farewell , " and the " Entered Apprentice . " ! l As a sovereign body Tasmania may very appropriately be dubbed the " Little Benjamin " of the Australasian Grand

litiO . . IOIIX HAMILTON-, GRAND SKCliKTAHY OF TASMANIA Lodges . The process of constituting the lodges belonging to the three British Orders into a Grand Lodge with so

limited a clientelage , was an easy matter , compared with its predecessors in the other colonies , where there were so many private lodges to bring into line . Dissent , in fact , was very trifling , and what there was occurred in the oldest English lodge , the Tasmanian Union , No . 53 6 , at Hobart . In this case only five members—out of roughly speaking a

hundred—were against the movement , and these five wished to hold the warrant under Article 219 , but fortunately wiser counsels gained the day , and in the end the inauguration of the Grand Lodge was a really unanimous consummation , the acknowledgment of the new sovereign body being a

merely formal matter by the Grand Lodges of England , Ireland , and Scotland in 1890 , the year of foundation . It was , too , appropriate that the last chief of the English lodges should be the Iirst Grand Master . The following is the list : —

Rev . R . D . Poulett-Harris , M . A . ... 1890 Dr . E . O . Giblin 1892 Hon . Charles Ellis Davies , M . L . C . 18 9 6 At present the Grand Lodge of Tasmania is flourishing , though numbering some twenty-seven lodges only and about 1200 members in the early part of 1904 under its popular ruler ,

who is the representative of the Grand Lodge of England at his own Grand Lodge , besides being District Grand Master of Mark Masons under the English Constitution , which has one lodge , at Hobart , No . 174 . The Benevolent Fund of this , the smallest of the Australasian Grand Lodges , now

reaches more than ^ 2 , 000 , which of itself is very practical evidence of Tasmania ' s prosperity and usefulness as a Masonic locality . And , lastly , it is interesting to note that there are four chapters still working in the colony under the Supreme Grand Chapter of Scotland , the last one opened in

1904 . ( To be continued ) .

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