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UNITED GRAND LODGE .

IN accordance with the custom which has prevailed for the last half dozen years all interest in the March Communication of the United Grand Lodge , which took place at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesfin . v last . tnav hfi sa . id to hn . vp bfifin f > Ant , rpfl in the * .

Election of Grand Treasurer . The E . W . Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master for Hants and the Isle of Wight , presided , and he was supported by E . W . Bro . Thomas W . Tew , Provincial Grand Master for West Yorkshire , who acted as Deputy Grand

Master , while Sir Edmund H . Lechmere , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master for Worcestershire , filled the chair of Past Grand Master ; Brigadier-General Alexander W . Adair acted as Grand Senior Warden ; and Lieutenant-General the Hon . Somerset J . G .

Calthorpe as Grand Junior Warden . Grand Lodge was opened in form , and then Colonel Shadwell H . Gierke , the Grand Secretary , read the minutes of 5 th December meeting , which were duly confirmed . Sir John Gorst , P . M . Drury Lane Lodge , then rose

for the purpose of proposing his Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales to be elected Most Worshipful Grand Master for the ensuing year . He said : M . W . the Grand Master in the chair , no words of

mine are necessary to secure the unanimous acceptance by the brethren of this proposition ; but I think I shall be expressing the feelings of every one present when I say that they mark with pleasure ancl

satisfaction how , year by year , under His Eoyal Highness , Freemasonry is strengthened , and the services he renders to the Craft are increased . I ' am sure we all hope he will live many years to cement and adorn our Order . Bro . Thomas Hastings

Miller briefly seconded the motion , and no other candidate being proposed , the Grand Master in the chair declared His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales elected Most Worshipful Grand Master for the ensuing year . Bro . Sir Albert W . Woods ( Garter ) ,

Grand Director of Ceremonies , then proclaimed His Eoyal Highness in the customary formal way . Brother Lord George Hamilton , M . P ., First Lord of the Admiralty , Worshipful Master Chiswick Lodge , No . 2012 , proposed for election as Grand Treasurer Bro . George Everett P . M ., a brother whose devotion

for thirty years to the cause of Freemasonry well entitled him to that high honour . Bro . Ferguson seconded the motion . He had had the honour and

pleasure of the acquaintance and friendship of Bro . George Everett many years , and could vouch for his value as a Mason , both with regard to the teaching

o ± the ritual and with regard to his charitable work . Bro . Everett had served an apprenticeship to the duties of Treasurer ; he had been the Treasurer of the Domatic Lodge for several years , and Treasurer

also of numerous other Lodges . In all capacities he had proved himself a most worthy Brother , and he ( Bro . Ferguson ) felt satisfied that Bro . Everett

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would fill the high office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the Craft . Bro . Catling W . M . 2190 proposed Bro . Edward O'Connor Terry , who hacl been a Mason for many years ; and has yet , we hope , a long and brilliant career to look

forward to m the future . He was initiated , on the 26 th May 1868 , in the Eoyal Union Lodge , Uxbridge , No . 382 . He joined the Asaph Lodge , No . 1319 , in

which he served all the offices , and was installed W . M . in 1877 . He is also a Past Master of the St . Alban ' s Lodge , No . 29 . He has been a member , of the Savage Club Lodge , No . 2190 , since its

foundation , and is now its Treasurer . After giving further particulars of Bro . Terry ' s Masonic career Bro . Catling urged that these cmalifications of

KJ K . J J . Bro . Terry entitled him to regard , ancl their possession warranted the brethren in seeking for his election . Bro . Lennox Browne seconded . Scrutineers nf tbfi bfl . llnf ; WAVA +, V ) An nhr > SA * n n . nrl rlnlv riVilirrniprl ... " "

., „„ „~^„^** „ , „ , " -. ^ j v , « D » . « . Later in the evening the result of the poll showed that Bro . Terry had secured 841 votes , and Brother Everett 617 . consecmentlv Bro . Terrv was declared

duly elected Grand Treasurer for the . year ensuing . The recommendation for grants , as set forth in the agenda paper published by us last week , were then

agreed to . With respect to the proposal from the Grand Mark Lodge for a lease of the premises , best known as Bacon ' s Hotel , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , Bro . Thomas Fenn , President of the Board of General Purposes , said the report of the Board of General

Purposes was presented to the Board of Masters before the meeting of Grand Lodge of Mark Masters could be held to consider this question of lease , and the subject of the communication which he would read could not be included in the report of the Board . The communication enclosed the resolutions come to

at the Special Grand Mark Lodge . The request contained in this communication does not form a part of the Eeport of the Board , for the reasons mentioned . I am , therefore , not authorised by the

Board of General Purposes to bring that matter under your consideration at present , but your attention will be called to it after we have jtassecl the recommendation for your approval of the lease to the Grand Lodge of Mark Masons . When the intimation of

Messrs . Spiers ancl Pond was communicated to the Board they were under considerable anxiety as to the future of these premises . We could make no use

of them for ourselves , with the Tavern intervening ; the offer , therefore , of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons , was received by the Board of General

. Purposes as a solution—a welcome solution—oi the difficulty . They undertake to put the place in repair . The sum which the Grand Mark Lodge

proposes to lay out is £ 3000 , and probably it will be more . The expenditure of money will , no doubt , render this property permanently of greater value ,

and , of course , they could not be expected to lay out this sum of money if they had these premises only on a 16 years' lease . If we exceeded that time it