Durham.

DURHAM .

THE installation of Lord Barnard as Provincial Grand Master , to take place on the 26 th inst , at the Lecture Hall , Palace Green , Durham , will be an interesting event . The ceremony will be performed by the Earl Amherst Pro Grand Master of England , assisted by distinguished members of the

Grarud Lodge of England . After the ceremony the Brethren will march in procession to the Cathedral , where a special service will be . held . A collation will be subsequently provided in the Castle Hall , under the presidency of Lord iinrnard . By the kindness of the Dean and Chapter , seats

will be reserved for two hundred ladies in the north transept of the Cathedral . The applications for the tickets for the collation and for the ladies' seats are to be made to Bro . R . Hudson Prov . G . Secretary , on or before the 14- th insL The

accommodation , both in Lodge and at the collation , is necessarily limited . The address at the Cathedral will be sjiven by Bro . the Hon . and Rev . Gilbert H . F . Vane , M . A ., F . S . A ., Rector of Wem , Salop . The offertory on the occasion will be in aid of the Durham Masonic Charities .

West Lancashire.

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A GRAND LODGE for the transaction of the annual business of this Province is to be held in the Co-operative Flail , Bradshawgate , Leigh , on Wednesday next , 12 th inst ,

by direction of the Earl of Lathom Provincial Grand Master . Bro . R . Wylie P . G . D . D . P . G . M . is to move that the sum of ; £ ioo be voted to the funds of the Soldiers' and Sailors ' Families' Association , and that 150 guineas be divided equally between the West Lancashire Alpass Educational , and Hamer Institutions . lllII ^ UJ | Mltulllf lt JMlUJIUU n ^ vi nn ^ MAA ^ ffH n A nviv n

Devonshire.

DEVONSHIRE .

THE annual convocation of this Provincial Grand Chapter will be held at the Freemasons' Hall , Barnstaple , on Monday , 17 th inst , at 3 . 30 p . m ., when the Officers for the ensuing year will be appointed and invested , and the other business of the Province disposed of .

Compliment To The Grand Treasurer.

H * W » W * M H \ t | . \ t \ t \ J »> > II \ f ¦ > If n 1 * 71 AURA K A ADDA It It'll A A COMPLIMENT TO THE GRAND TREASURER .

A DINNER was given on Thursday , 23 rd ult ., at the Hotel Cecil , to celebrate the election of Bro .- Horace Brooks Marshall , C . C ..

J . P ., as Grand Treasurer of England . The chair was occupied by Alderman Sir Joseph C . Dimsdale , M . P ., himself a Past Grand Treasurer , and the Lord Mayor Past Grand Deacon also attended late in the evening . The guest of the evening sat on the Chairman ' s right .

The Chairman , in giving the first toast , the King and the Craft , said the company would feel he had not properly performed his duty if he did not refer to the accident on board Sir Thomas Lipton ' s yacht the day before . The accident mi ght have proved serious , if not fatal , but they all rejoiced that it had not been so , and hoped that His Majesty would live long to reign over his people .

In giving the toast of the guest of the evening Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall , the Chairman pointed out that it was merel y a family gathering of a few personal friends of Bro . Marshall , and the assembly would have consisted of ten times the number had it been made known at all . The Committee felt that Bro . Marshall would rather have a recognition of his worth b y those personal and

intimate friends who knew him not only Masonically , but in his private capacity . After referring to Bro . Marshall ' s Masonic career , which commenced with his initiation in a Lodge at Twickenham , the Chairman recounted the guest ' s progress as a Provincial Grand Officer of Middlesex , and eulogised his steady and munificent support of the Masonic Charitable Institutions . Of those Institutions he had been a Steward fortv times . His benevolence did not

stop at Masonry , for like his father before him he had a big heart , and supported numerous charitable societies . He had been elected lately the Grand Treasurer , a position that was regarded as the blue ribbon of the Order . On two previous occasions he had refused nomination because he would not interfere with the Brethren who were candidates . This year in Captain Barlow he had a very

strong opponent , and a very worthy Brother . The contest was carried on in a most friendly way , and he was happy to say that Captain Barlow was present with them that evening . That was an act worthy of a Mason . After some further congratulatory remarks , and paying a high tribute to Bro . Marshall ' s career as a man and a citizen , the Chairman gave the toast , which was most heartily honoured .

Bro . Marshall , in acknowledging the compliment , said that in Freemasonry he had made many friends and no enemies . In his candidature for the Grand Treasurership he had received the greatest assistance from Bro . Under-Sheriff Langton and many other Brethren around the table , and he felt very much indebted to Bro , Catling and Bro . Wakefield for the trouble they had gone through , in organising the reunion . He considered he had attained

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the blue ribbon of Freemasonry in being elected Grand Treasurer ; and the honour was especially gratifying to him as his father held the position seventeen years ago . To the best of his ability he would endeavour to maintain the dignity of the high Office , and follow out the cardinal principles of the Craft—Brotherly Love , Relief , and Truth .

Sir J . C . Dimsdale proposed a special toast for Capt . John Barlow , which he was sure would be a congenial toast to all present . Two gladiators had met ; when that was the case one must be successful ; but that was no reason why health and prosperity should not be wished to the defeated . One tenet of Freemasonry was that there should be a friendly and Fraternal feeling between opponents .

The Brethren appreciated in Capt . Barlow a foeman worthy of Bro . Marshall's steel ; he was an opponent who did not hit below the belt . They would seize this opportunity of drinking Capt . Barlow ' s health and wish that his Masonic life in the future might be what it had been in the past—worthy of the best traditions of the Craft . Capt . John Barlow replied . Bro . J . D . Langton asked him to

join the gathering , and nothing gave him greater pleasure . Although he had been defeated at the last election he was . going on again . If he did not get to the top of the tree the first time he would try again . It had given him the greatest pleasure to be present that evening . There had not been on his part in the election the slightest ill-will , but he had striven to work in it with the true Masonic spirit which was explained by the word Charity . The name of Horace Brooks

Marshall and his father had been known to him many many years ago . They and he belonged to a body which had striven to do good in the world . Bro . Marshall and his father , and Capt . Barlow and his father , had worked in the same way , and Bro . Marshall and Capt . Barlow had followed in their fathers' footsteps . On the evening of the election his ( Capt . Barlow's ) wife , when he got home said " John , I hear you have been knocked down . " He answered her , "Yes , but I am coming up again . "

The Lord Mayor proposed the Chairman , and Sir J . C . Dimsdale , in reply , in referring to Bro . Brooks Marshall , said whether he took upon himself the Grand Treasurership , or whether higher honours were in store for him , he might rely upon the esteem and support of those who were worthy of the name of friends—and

friendship was something worth having . A man might have heaps of asspciates , but where he met friends , and the friends who were desirous to give support and comfort just at the moment when they were necessary , those were the individuals who were worth gathering around him .

Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall proposed the Lord Mayor , who was W . M .-elect of one of his ( Bro . Marshall's ) Lodges , the St : Bride . The Lord Mayor replied , and the proceedings shortly afterwards closed .

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