Some Notes On Freemasonry In Australia.

During the first and second decades of the last century it is pleasant to know that the military lodges holding under the Irish Constitution played their part in New South Wales , but pride of place must be accorded to the Lodge of Social and Military Virtues , Xo . 227 , attached to the Forty-sixth Regiment , now known under its territorial designation as

the Second Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry . This lodge was chartered in 1752 and accompanied the regiment—not without vicissitudes causing a hiatus in its working now and again—all over the globe until 18 47 , when the old warrant was returned to Ireland , and the lodge threw

in its lot with the Grand Lodge of Canada , whilst a dozen years later it became No . r on the register of the Grand Lodge of Q-. ebec , under the new title of the Lodge of

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Antiquity . The history and working of this famous old lodge have recently been graphically told by Bro . Beamish Saul , Past District Deputy Grand Master of Quebec , whilst our veteran Bro . Gould includes it in his Military Lodges . But we are just now mainly concerned in the doings of the Lodge of Social and Military Virtues in Australia , and the active

part it took in founding the very first warranted lodge . The Forty-sixth Regiment was stationed in Sydney in 1813 , and its lodge was in active working there for some years later , with the gratifying result that , in 1816 , a new lodge was opened under its auspices , to be four years later warranted

by the Grand Lodge of Ireland , under the name of the Australian Social Lodge , No . 260 , this warrant , in fact , having been granted to the Twenty-eighth , or Gloucester Regiment ,

in 1806 , and surrendered in 1 S 15 . This accordingly is the parent lodge of Masonic Australasia , and it is now No . 1 on the New South Wales register , with the appropriate name of the Australian Social Mother Lodge . It surely must be considered a unique coincidence that the two old

lodgesmother and daughter , so to speak—should at the present moment be No . 1 of the Quebec and New South Wales Constitutions respectively . The desire for autonomy in the shape of Grand Lodges quite earl ) - appeared upon the surface of Australian Masonry .

There can be no doubt that the influx of brethren from the United States encouraged a movement for self-government , and that the '' unoccupied territory" dogma—which , by-thebye , has now seen its best day—speedily attracted converts .

As far back as 18 47 we find an attempt being made to found nothing less than a Grand Lodge of Australia . ' A Utopian idea , surely , in the then sparsely-populated continent , and which , it is not surprising to observe , ended abortively . The immediate locale of this scheme was Sydney , and that some

of the prime movers were men of a sanguine temperament may be inferred from the fact that the Leinster Marine Lodge , the second chartered by the Grand Lodge of Ireland , voted ^ ' 100 towards the scheme in view . The project slumbered until 1865 , when a spasmodic effort was put forth in Victoria ,

but seven years later , in New South Wales , matter of a more tangible character was evolved in connection with the St . Andrew ' s Lodge , No . 35 8 , in Sydney , the first lodge chartered in the colony by Scotland . This occurrence was in the

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