Old Warrants.

sand seven hundred & 84 . And in the Year of Masonry 5784 . BEING THE second Year of the Grand Mastership of the Right Worshipful Randal Mao Donnel Earl of Antrim , And iu the Twenty fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain , France and Ireland , King Defender of the Faith & c . Robert Leslie , Grand Secretary .

Note , This P . G . W . is Registered ) Jn Vol . 3 Letter C . and bears [ Renewal 1784 date Deo . 27 , 1757 ) I should here add , that like No . 9 , this document is partly printed ; the seal is suspended from the top . Bro . J . F . Brennan , who saw

the original , told me that ifc was not a G . L . seal , but a crest , probably of Lord Antrim , and that it was encased in a tin or other metallic box . Yours , & o . JACOB NOBTON .

Masonic Duty To Our Country.

MASONIC DUTY TO OUR COUNTRY .

THE following , from Pomermfs Democrat , asks an important question , or perhaps we should say , a series of questions . We should like to see a few more such from those who are anxious as to the character of Freemasonry . We are persuaded that the more is known of our

Craftso far , at least , as regards what it is permissible to divulge —the sooner will many silly notions abroad respecting it be dissipated , and the more thoroughly we shall be appreciated . What Freemasonry is—subject , of course , to the limitation already specified—cannot be too widely disseminated . We shall then the sooner cease to be told that

Masons are a dangerous Society . SIK , —I should like to ask a few questions about Masonry , which I judge from articles in your paper to be a subject quite familiar to you . I am not a Mason , but have some opinions on the subject from the standpoint of " general principles , " which information upon the

following points may cause me to amend , desiring as I do to be placed right if I am in the wrong . First : What duty is a Mason obligated by the laws and precepts of Masonry to perform more or other than is obligatory upon all men by the principles of morality , fraternity and justice ?

Second : If the Masons are in possession of any truth not known to mankind at large , or any knowledge which is of practical benefit to the race , or even of historical value , is it not their duty , as members of the common brotherhood of man , to impart such knowledge or truth without imposition of conditions and rules unnecessary

for the preservation of order and decorum ? Third : Is not Masonry in its practical workings more a promoter of the interests of ill-disposed and selfish men than the protector of the worthy and deserving ?

Fourth : Is it not a fact that men as a rulo join the institution from motives of selfish gain ? An answer to these questions , if consistent with your duties and privileges as a Mason , would very mnch oblige ,

Yours sincerely , INQUIEEE . A Mason ia under the most solemn obligations to honour the laws of his country , first and foremost , as a citizen . To honour the laws of God , in whom he must believe , and so proclaim before he can be made a Mason . Then he obligates himself to honour honesty ,

prudence and humanity . He should see no person wnmged . Should contend at all times for justice . Should temper his soul with mercy . Should bo as willing to forgive others as to be forgiven . Should recognise all of God s work as God's work , and entitled to respect and preservation , bnt should do more to assist members of the

Masonic Fraternity than those who are not brethren of the Order , but will never do or deal unjustly by any one , nor interfere with any process of law , no matter against whom directed . He will , or should cultivate honour , charity , virtue and benevolence in his heart as a woman cultivates beautiful flowers about her door , to add to the

Worth and beauty of the place . Secondly . It is not the duty of men to cast pearls before swine , nor to plant seed till tbe ground has been agitated , mellowed and prepared for tho planting , lest the seed be lost . Masonry is a brotherhood , and , according to its original intentional is not for the full

benefit of outsiders , or it could not hold itself together as a fra ternity of helpers . Thirdly . Masonry give no advancement to any brother only a lie is honest and deserving . It hiilts more men on the road thai it advances , and forbids most positively the using of tbe Order foi

selfish purposes or for gain . As a Mason we would no more dare ask the members of our Lodge or Fraternity to vote for us or t < patronise us in business , than we would dare enter our church am insult the members there engaged in worship by asking them t < hurrah for some favourite political candidate in office .

The Tauranga Masonic Lodge was opened on May 16 th , by Bro . J Jenkins , G . D . C , H . C . Hoyte , W . M ., T . D . Wrigley S . W ., Captaii Turner J . W ., and Rev . Mulgan Chaplain . After which a grant banquet , provided by host Montgomery , took place afc the Masonit Hotel . Twenty-four members were present , aud spent a social happy evening . —New Zealand Journal ,

Down With Masonry.

DOWN WITH MASONRY .

A LARGE nnmber of Christians , or philanthropists , or Christians and philanthropists , have been in session in Chicago for several days . The object of their gathering is to put down Masonry—not brick and stone masoury , but that dreadful oath . bound association , whose members once killed Morgan . That is to say , killed him till after election .

Tho world watches the proceedings of this body with intense interest , fully believing that , in the suppression of Masonry , it has a mission , a great work to perform . The association numbers somewhere from 50 to 100 members . Masonry has anywhere from five millions to fifty millions of members . This will oblige every member of the anti-Masonio society to do some heavy work . Each of these

has to dispose of from five hundred thousand to one million Masons . It's big odds ; but there is no doubt they have the will , the desire , the inclination , to succeed . All they lack now is the ability . There is no doubt of the fact that Gen . Blanchard , in his crusaed against tho Masons , is doing God-service— or at least ho thinks he is . Masonry is a dubious article , anyhow . Able-bodied men who appear

on the streets aproned like pastrycooks or butchers , occupy an equivocal position . What right have they to wear white aprons ? What right have they to wear aprons at all ? Are not these aprons worn so that deeds of blood can be committed without mussing their clothes with gore ? What terrible signification is there in all these stalwart , mysterious men going about with this unfathomable

attachment ? In truth , any man who will make a spectacle by marching up one street and down another , in broad daylight , with a littl « white apron strung around him , ought to be suppressed either by Blanchard or the police . Again , what is meant by other Masons going about in uniform , and wearing pewter swords ? What dire project is entertained by

these men with plumed hats , gauntlets , and glittering sabres ? It may be plunder . It may be rape . It may be something worse than either of these . Whose watch or throat is safe when gloomy looking bands of men in funeral black , and armed to the teeth with a falchion of glittering pewter , are allowed with impunity to drill in secret places , and to march through the streets afc any hour of the

day or night ? Where is Hickey ? Where are the police ? Call out the 1 st regiment , and let us havo this menance removed afc the point of the bayonet ! Blanchard is right every time . Every few days a dripping body ia fished from the river . What proof is there that , in every case , the body is not the victim of Masonic hate and vengeance ? Who baa

been able to satisfactorily prove that Masonry did not set fire to Chicago ? And see here , Mr . Blanchard , can't you guess who abducted Charlie Ross ? Do you twig P Masonry , my boy , dark , secret , silent , implacable Masonry . And did it never occur to you , Mr . Blanchard , to think of Masonry , when you havo revolved that sphinx of problems , that hitherto unanswerable question which has been so

long calling vainly for ansvver , from one tho gloomy crypts of the past , Who struck Billy Patterson ? For all the mysterious crimes that have escaped detection ; for the explanation of bloated corpses far ont on the sea , rocking idly on the swell , and coming , no ono knows whence , and drifting , no one knows whither ; for gashed throats yawning horridly as gay morning first discovers them in the

outways of life ; for all these let Masonry answer—if it can . Will it ? If not , Mr . Blanchard , then abolish its members , and may Hiram Abiff have mercy on their souls ! This Masonic business has gone on long enough , for thousands of years Masonry has existed , and during all that time tempests have swept the earth j volcanoes have inundated us with igneous wrath ;

wars have prevailed ; grasshoppers , the murrain , the itch , measles , drunkenness , divorce , murder , suicide , shipwrecks , an 1 termagant women have abounded and have coursed the earth , like fierce bounds , rending , tearing , afflicting humanity . Who can fail to see the connection between Masonry and all these specified evils ? No ono .

It is as clear as it is that hunger causes nakedness , or that water creates thirst . Down with the acacia ! Let it be dug up all through , out the world , and be thrown over the fence . It is a weed which takes up place which might better be occupied by the shamrock , or some other vegetable of a thrifty growth . —Chicago Times .

How TO GET RID OF FKUIT . DESTEOYING INSECTS . —As our fruit is ripening , the wasps , slugs , and birds are a triple alliance with which we find some difficulty in dealing ; but the two first are the most insolent and destructive , for I do not hold with the destruction of small birds . They give us so much music in the spring , and afco so many insects , that in charity let them have a little fruit now . Afc

present , however , they are iu alliance with what we cannot but regard as a scourge , just as Adam was of old taught to recognise the thorus and the thistles . Wasps , however , are very greedy , and can be attracted by bottles hung up , in which put a little treacle , or sugar aud beer ; but ifc is better to lay siege to their strongholds an hour or so after sunset , by burning pitch at tlie entrance of their nests . Those that

uomehome will all fly straight into the flame notwithstanding . Slugs and snails are not so easily trapped . I have often put a lettuce or a cutup apple at the base of nectarine and peach trees , but thoy are cunning enough to pass these by , aud show their good taste by climbing . he walls after the fruit . Do not , however , put salt down ; you might xiil your tree . Last year , when much anuoyed by them , I found the

oest plan , after all , was to go out at ten or eleven o ' clock at night vith a lantern , and surprise them at their work . The collection that [ made of the enemy in a flower-pot mado an instant but horribly i elusions supper for my pigs . Persisting in this night or two , I soon erluced their number . Do not , either , allow tho little fingers in their

• uriosity and impatience to pinch the wall fruit in order to see if it is ripe . If you aro gifted with a fairly good power of scent , peaches , lectarines , melons , and plums will all g ive warning of their being fit for table by a delicious fragrance , first of all . The pinching bruises tnd spoils the fruit , and it will be quite the end of the month , and perhaps well on . into the nest , before the bulk of it is fit for use .