Monthly Masonic Summary.

FBOM Tobago Ave hear that its Provincial Grand Lodge ivas held on the 24 th Sept , Under the P . G . M . the Hon . Joseph King Wafctley , Chief Justice of Tobago , and from NBAV Zealand Ave are informed that on

July 7 th , a UOAV lodge was consecrated at Eeefton , to be called " The Pacific Lodge of Eeefton . "

WE have to regret the decease of our Bro . Edward Wates , P . D . G . M . for Kent , and Mayor of Gravesend , of Bro . Arthur Hoare , P . G . W ., Vice-Patron of all the Charities , of Bro . Jabez S . Gower , a liberal

donor to all the Charities , of Bro . Richard Tanner , formerly a Avell-known Inspector of the Detective Police , and of Bro . Henry Coates , who was for about half-a-cenfcury member of Lodge 2 G 2 , and only missed attendance at the lodge twice during that lengthened period .

From Scotland Ave hear of a consecration of a new lodge at Cross Hill , near GlasgoAv , by Col . Campbell , M . P ., P . G . M . for Renfrewshire , assisted by 200 brethren . Bro . J . D . Potteus is the first W . M . of this

lodge and Bro . William Gillies , Depute Master . The proceedings appear to have been most successful .

WE also have received the account of a meeting of the P . G . Lodge of Fife , under our Bro . John Whyte Melville , P . G . M ., , when a UOAV lodge at Cross Gates Avas also consecrated ; 300 brethren being present , j

IN Ireland the subject of the Revised i Contributions is still before the Grand i Lodge . FROM America Ave have a most exhaustive

account of American Freemasonry from the able pen of Bro . Clifford McCalla , Editor of the Keystone , Philadelphia , to Avhich we call the special attention of our readers .

THE Foreign Masonic News is not veryimportant this month , though instructing in itself . The Dutch have elected Prince Henry as successor io Prince Frederick in the Grand Mastership . Prince Frederick

has been a Freemason 57 years , and still remains Protector of the Dutch Grand Lodge .

FROM Sweden Ave hear that on the Sth . November , H . M . King Oscar assumed his post as Grand Master of the Freemasons for Sweden and Norway at a Meeting of the Masonic Order .

IT seems that there are in the Argentine Republic fourteen lodges and fourteen chapters . These chapters are probably those of the High Grades . THERE are in Buenos Ayres twenty-one

lodges under different jurisdictions , of which four are now dormant . THE Grand- Lodge of Chili has elected Bro . Zavier Villanuova as G . M ., and Bro . Maldonado as G . Sec .

THE Emulation Lodge of Improvement has had a most successful anniversary , under the chairmanship of Bro . Col . F . Burdett , P . G . M . for Middlesex . The lodge maintains its high character in all that appertains to the Avork of our ancient ritual . THE EDITOB .

KINO OSCAH , the present sovereign of Sweden , who ascended the throne in September , 1872 , is also the Srand Master of Swedish Masons , having succeeded Ms brother , the late King , both as head of thp State and head of the Order . He is ahout fortyfour years of age , and distinguished for literary capacity , being the author of several prose and political

works , which indicate much intellectual culture . — Moore ' s Magazine . A GTKJL OF THOUGHT . — " AA e all complain of the shortness of time , and yet we have much more than we well know what to do with . Our lives are either sperrt in doing nothing , or in doing nothing to the purpose , or what is worse still , doing what we ought not to do . AVe are always complaining , that our days are few , and yet acting , as if there would be no end to them . "