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and an accompanying letter , putting however ( as he says , with the advice of his Board of General Purposes ) what we must be allowed to designate the following absurd questions : — " 1 st . Has any communication , memorial , or letter , bearing directly or indirectly on the subject matter in dispute between the R . W , the Prov . G . M ., and No 781 , or on the R . W . the Prov . G . M . personally , been sent to the Grand

Secretary , or to any member of Grand Loclge , hy No . 781 , either hy or through its W . M ., board of P . Ms ., Secretary , or any other officer or any member signing the petition ? " 2 mb In the Hobart ToionDaily Mercury , of 26 th August , an article from a Masonic journal * was reprinted at the request of a large number of the Craft . Has any member signing the petition , acted , or been interested , directly or indirectly , in seeking or causing the publication in the Mercury of the said article ?

3 rd . In the Hobart Town Daily Mercury , of 7 th September , Bro . Wilkinson caused to be printed a letter sent officiall y from the Secretary of Hope , No . 901 , to the Secretary of No . 781 , containing a part of tlie ceremonial of Loclge working ; and which letter , of course , was preserved among the records of Lodge No . 781 : will you inform me hy whose authority , and by what means that letter became available to Bro . Wilkinson , and whether any member signing the petition , was concerned either directly or indirectly j by act or knowledge , in the publication by Bro . Wilkinson , of the letter of Bro . A . Learmonth , Secretary of Hope , No . 901 . "

This communication was considered at a meeting of the Brethren of No . 781 , on the 3 rd of November , and the following resolutions come to ;—" That the members of No . 781 , present at this meeting , after hearing from Bro . Toby the communications received by him from the Prov . Grand Master relative to the release of the members of Loclge , No . 781 , from

suspension , ancl requesting to be furnished with information concerning communications to the Grand Master , and the publication of the various articles upon Masonry , which have appeared in the public journals , consider that the information so requested has nothing whatever to do with the question at issue , namely , the release ofthe Lodge . " " That a large majority ofthe members of No . 781 , having , in obedience to the decision of the Most Worshiful Grand Masterrecognised the

p , appointment and authority ofthe Rev . 11 . K . Ewing as Prov . Grancl Master of Tasmania , by signing the petition forwarded by him for release , and praying to be restored to their Masonic status , ancl pledging themselves to work within the laws ancl constitutions of the Craft—it is the opinion of this meeting that all that was required by the Prov . Grand Master , as set forth m his letter of the 5 th of August , accompanying tlie petition , has been complied with . It is therefore resolved that Bro . Tob y be desired to request the

Prov . Grand Master—in case he shall not have decided before the 9 th instant to reinstate the members of Lodge No . 781 who have signed the petition—to return such petition to him by that date , in order that it may be forwarded with the correspondence relating thereto to the Most Worshi pful Grand Master , by the next overland mail . " On the Sth of November , Bro . Ewing wrote that his Board of General Purposes had decided " My questions are met—the release , A'ft , will he posted to-morrow . " Being now in a fair way of settling