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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

It is with deep regret we announce the death , after a somewhat protracted illness , of the Queen of Denmark , mother of our Princess ol Wale ? , to whom , as to her illustrious consort H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , we tender the expression of our most respectful sympathy SATURDAY , OCTOBER I , 18 9 8 .

m their severe bereavement . Her , Majesty was taken seriousl y ill about the time the Prince of Wales was removed , after his accident , ( o Cowes and placed on board the Royal Yacht Osborne ; and the Princess , it will be remembered , was suddenly summoned to

Copenhagen . The venerable Queen , who was upwards of so lyears of age , rallied somewhat , but her strength graduall y failed her and she passed away peacefully ° n Thursday morning , among those who were nearest and dearest to her . May the G . A . O . T . U . sustain our Princess under this heavy affliction ' .

We have very great pleasure in announcing that Bro . Lord Llangattock , Prov . Grand Master of South Wales ( E . D . ) , has kindly consented to preside as Chair-

Masonic Notes.

man at the Festival next ensuing in behalf of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . The event will be celebrated on Wednesday , the 22 nd February , 1899 , and we trust that his lordship will receive that generous measure of support which his kindness so richly . merits and the pressing needs of the Institution so seriously demand .

» * The Supreme Council , 33 ° of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for England , Wales , and the Dependencies of the British Crown , will hold a solemn convocation at their Grand East , 33 , Golden-square ,

W ., on Tuesday , the nth instant , at 6 p . m ., when a Grand Chapter of the 30 will be opened and several candidates will have the Degree of G . E . K . H . conferred upon them . Dinner will be servei at the Cafe Royal at 7 . 30 p . m .

* * * The first meeting after the usual mid-summer holiday of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , will take place at Freemasons' Hall on Friday , the 7 th instant , at 5 p . m . The business will include the balloting for Bro . Edward Armitage , P . P . G . W .

Cumberland and Westmorland , and P . P . G . J . Cambridgeshire , as a joining member , and the election of several members of the Correspondence Circle ; as well as the election cf a W . M ., Treasurer , and Tyler for the ensuing year . Bro . W . H . Rylands , P . A . G . D . C , will

read a paper , and Bro . Sydney T . Klein , W . M ., will bring his series of demonstrations of the " Hidden Mysteries of Nature and Science " to a close with a discourse on " Beauty . " When the meeting is over , the brethren will adjourn to the Gordon Room in the Holborn Restaurant for dinner .

* » * We have received Volume XL , Part 2 , of "Ars Quatuor Coronatorum , " being the Transactions of Lodge , No . 2076 , for a part of the current year , to which we shall take the earliest available opportunity of referring at length in our columns . The meetings

to which the 1 ransactions belong were held on the oth May and 24 th June , and there is a brief account of the summer outing to York from 30 th June to 3 rd July together with the usual " Notes and Queries , " "Reviews , " "Chronicle , " " & c , & c . The contents include a brief sketch of " Freemasonry in Greece , "

by Bro . Nicholas Philon , G . Secretary General ; a paper by Bro . E . Armitage on " Robert Samber , " which was read at the May meeting . This is followed by a series of written comments by Bros . R . F . Gould , Dr . W . J . Chetwode Crawley , W . H . Rylands , and others , which greatly enhance the pleasure one must derive from a study of this important paper .

•* * The other paper was read by Bro . Edward Conder , jun ., at the June meeting , and is entitled " King Charles II . at the Royal Exchange , London , in 1667 . " This w ? 1 followed by a discussion , in which Bros . Dr . Chetwode Crawley , Dr . Wynn Westcott , and G . W .

Speth took part . In addition , there are the two " Hidden Mysteries " by Bro . Klein , W . M ., which have already appeared in this journal , together with a short contribution by Bro . Henry Lovegrove , P . G . S . B ., entitled " Batty Langley on Geometry . " These , or

most of these , papers will be the subject of further and fuller mention in some later issue ; but this need not deter us from pronouncing the Part as being in every way as interesting and instructive as the Parts which have gone before .

* * * The Grand Chapter of Vermont held its 81 st annual convocation at Burlington in the latter half of June . Comp . E . S . Weston , G . H . P ., presided , and 26 out of 27 chapters on the roll were represented . The presiding officer , in his address , passed in review the chief

events of the year , and was in a position to state that R . A . Masonry in the jurisdiction was in a highly prosperous condition . He enumerated the visits he had paid , the dispensations he had granted , and the decisions he had made . There are , it seems , 286 3

subscribing members of chapters , while the executive officers are Comp . O . W . Sherwin , who was elected to succeed Comp . Weston as G . H . P ., and Comp . Warren G . Reynolds , who retains his post asG . Secretary . The Report on Correspondence was the work of Comp . Marsh O . Perkins .

» » * From the "Masonic Gleanings" of our contemporary the Voice of Masonry , we learn that there are said to be 180 lodges in the Philippines and the effective force of members including what are described as " the sleeping brethren " is about 20 , 000 . But what kind of Masons are these ? We gravely doubt if they have anything of genuine Masonry about them beyond the name .

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In the course of his address at the recent annual communication of the Grand Lod ge of Canada ( Province of Ontario ) Bro . Gibson , M . W . G . M ., referred with satisfaction to the effect of the recommendation which he had made the year previous and Grand Lodge had so cordially endorsed , to the effect that the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Benevolence

should , with the approval of the Most Worshipful the Grand Master and the President of the Board of General Purposes , be authorised to make grants for the purposes of temporary relief ( such grants not to exceed 40 dollars to any one applicant . ) He said

that it had been found to work exceedingly well , and that in consequence , he had approved of 12 grants being made by way of temporary relief , amounting in all to 49 s dollars , the persons thus relieved being " six aged and sorely distressed brethren " and " six equally distressed and deserving widows . "

« » » The Grand Master further noted that the sums paid by Grand Lodge during the year on the recommendation of the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Benevolence amounted to 8200 dollars , the special grants being 575 dollars , while 2000 dollars were voted as a

donation to the Sick Children ' s Hospital , Toronto . Thus the total disbursed during the year under the head of Benevolence reached 10 , 775 dollars , while the total since the formation of the Board of Benevolence in 1 S 65 is 256 , 500 . dollars ( . £ 51 , 300 ) . Such statistics speak well for the Grand Lodge of Canada ( Province of Ontario ) .

* * At a regular Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of All Scottish Freemasonry in India , which was held some months ago at Freemasons' Hall , Bombay , Bro . J . W . Smith , Past G . Master , who pre * sided as M . W . G . M . in the unavoidable absence o

H . E . Lord Sandhurst , was in a position to give some very satisfactory information as to the condition of the Craft under the Scottish Constitution . During the last year as many as 21 lodges had been visited—in some cases by His Excellency the M . W . Grand Master —and everywhere the visiting Grand Officer had the same report to make of the cordial reception he had

experienced and the able and harmonious manner in which the work was being carried out . The funds , too , were generally in a flourishing state , though here and there the outstanding dues were . somewhat heavy . On the whole , however , the lodges , to which visitations had been paid , were able to show a fair amount of progress , while the up-country lodges had frankly and courteously notified their appreciation of the visits .

* * * In the matter of statistics , the Acting Grand Master was likewise able to give a good report . The number of subscribing members on the 31 st December , 18 97 , was 1311 , as compared with 1238 at the corresponding

date in 1890 , As for the funds , there was a balance in hand on the General Fund on the 30 th November last amounting , to 5080 rupees , and this had been augmented by the date of the Communication to about 5571 rupees , the balance in hand on the Fund of Bene * volence being 2254 rupees .

We gather from one of our exchanges that the President of the United States is a Mason of many years ' standing , having been made as far back as ist May , 1865 , that is , towards the close of the great Civil War , under circumstances which are well worth repeating .

A young major of'infantry in the Federal Army having petitioned for a Lodge at Winchester , Virginia , his petition was acceded to , and a lodge-room temporarily rigged up in a store , where , as the records disclose , a meeting was held on the aforesaid ist May , and four

candidates , of whom "William McKinley" was one , were balloted for , elected , and initiated into the mysteries of the ist Degree . The records further disclose that " Bro . McKinley " was passed and raised , and has ever since taken a keen interest in the proceedings of the Craft .

» * * Our exchange informs us that President McKinley , as he now is , " was influenced to seek admission to the the Masonic body by seeing how tenderly Federal and Confederate sick and wounded were cared for by the surgeons when they found they were Freemasons , and how there were friendly handshakes and the giving of money . "

» » * At the Convocation of the District Grand Chapter of Burma , which was held in Rangoon on the 33 rd June last , under the presidency of Comp . Dr . N . N . Paraka , as G . Superintendent , occasion was taken of its being the first meeting since the lamented death of the late G . Superintendent , Comp . D . G . McLcod

, to place on record in the minutes of District Grand Chapter their sense of the deep regret which the officers and members of District Grand Chapter felt at " the loss of such an able , zealous , and painstaking " Grand Superintendent as the late Comp . McLeod , who had endeared himself to everyone in Freemasonry , and was looked upon as , indeed , a friend in whom they knew they could place reliance .