Contents.

CONTENTS .

, g < . ProvinciaV ' Granci Lodge of Berks and Bucks • 3 < SS Consecration of the Folkestone Lodge of Mark Master Masons , Mo . 380 36 9

Consecration of the Cceur de Lion Chapter , Rose 1 roix , No . log 3 <> 9 Grand Lodge of New York 3 ° 9 Distribution of Prizes at the Boys' School , Wood Green 35 ° Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 371 Masonic Exhibition at Plymouth 37 ' Bombay Freemasons and " the Jubilee 371

The Craft Abroad 37 i Obituary 3 ?' CORRESPONDENCEThe Albert Hall Meeting 373 The Recent Boys'School Festival Returns 373

Notes and Queries ! 373 RRPORTS or MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 374 Instruction 378 Mark Masonry 37 s Australia 37 s Theatres 379 Lodpe Meetings for Next Week 380

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ADVANTAGE has been taken of the opportunity afforded by the ConnanghUn brief return home on leave for Jubilee purposes of the Duke Sussex . Q { c 0 NNAUGHTj prov > G . M . of Sussex , to invite his Royal Highness to preside at the consecration some time in the course of this

month of the Earl of Sussex Lodge , No . 2201 , Brighton , and we are glad to hear he has kindly acceded to the invitation . This is the first occasion , since his installation at the Royal Pavilion last summer , that the Duke has been able to take part in any important Masonic ceremony in his province and we have no doubt that there will , in consequence , be a very strong muster

on the occasion . Moreover the principal officers designate of the new lodge -Bros . G ERARD FORD , D . P . G . M . Sussex , W . T . MARRIOTT , Q . C ., one of the M . P . 's lor Brighton , and R . CLOWES are very popular men , and many will attend for the purpose of seeing new honours conferred on such worthy

Masons . The fact of the lodge being designated by one of ihe titles borne by the Duke will also lend interest to the occasion , so that we may expect that on the appointed day the Duke of CONNAUGHT will find himself supported by an unusually strong body of members and visitors who will welcome his return amongst them lor a brief season light loyally .

*«* Our readers will be pleased to hear that Bro . BINCKES has School Festival already succeeded in enlisting the services of a distinguished in 1888 . . . . . ... . . . .

_ _ brother as Chairman for the 90 th Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , to be held in the month of June of next year , and that Bro . Viscount EBRINGTON , M . P ., Prov . G . M . of Devonshire , has kindly consented to preside on that occasion . This is good news , and will in a measure compensate Bro . BINCKES for the many

disappointments which befel him in connection with the Chairmanship of the Festival just celebrated . Not only has he surmounted the difficulty of obtaining a President , but he has had the good fortune to secure one who is Prov . G . Master of one of our strongest and most influential provinces . Devonshire , with its roll of 50 lodges , will be only too glad of the opportunity of

showing its respect for Bro . Lord EBRINGTON , and its sympathy with the Boys' School . It is some time since it played the leading part at one of these celebrations , and we are convinced it will spare no effort in order to acquit itself * in a manner that will redound to its own fame and that of its chief , and at the same time prove substantially beneficial to the interests of the Institution .

T , . IT was . a piece of good fortune for the Province of Berks and 1 "' Province Berksa ° dri Bucks that the day appointed by the Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Sir DANIEL GOOCH , Bart ., for holding the annual meet" 1 g of the Provincial Grand Lodge should have fallen so close to the Jubilee estivities . True , its lodges had enjoyed in common with those of our other

Provinces the opportunity afforded by the meeting in the Royal Albert Hall , on the 13 th ult ., of testifying their loyalty to the Sovereign . But Berks and Ucks is honoured b y having in its midst the most venerable of the Royal e sidences . To a large number of its members , and especially to those resient in Windsor and its neighbourhood , the person of the QUEEN and of the

ers ° ^ her family must be familiar . They see her constantly moving ou t amongst them , and they know she takes a personal interest not only im e , ^ enera ' concerns of the empire , but likewise in those which more mediatel y affect themselves . It is but natural therefore that , having icipated in the motion for the address to her MAJESTYwhich was nasspH

, were ^ enera l body of Masons , they should be desirous of testifying , as it m onth P ersonal devotion to the illustrious lady who spends so many aff S . ° | ever y year in their midst . The opportunity for doing this was han „ G y tne meeting of Provincial Grand Lodge , which , as we have said

Lond fortunatel y to be almost coincident with the Jubilee rejoicings in ta ken f and VVindsor - T ' iat lt was turned to excellent account may be mi ght h ' granted - The address they passed by acclamation is just what enthusi ^ " P ected > and raust nave thrown an additional amount of asr n into the proceedings of the chief gathering of the year .

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THE gathering held a short time since , under the presidency of Our Old g _ FRANK RICHARDSON , P . G . D ., of a number of former Pupils , pupils of our Girls' School , the recent dinner of the " Old Masonians , " at which Bro . F . BINCKES , the Secretary of the Institution ,

occupied the chair ; the reception as guests at the Boys School Festival of some 25 past scholars ; and the references made by Bro . TEW , Provincial Grand Master West Yorkshire , in his principal speech as Chairman , to the presence of so many old boys , and the successes in life achieved by them and others , are all indications of a praiseworthy desire on the part of the

authorities of our two Schools , and of leading brethren who take a special interest in their welfare , to establish for each of them a kind of guild of good fellowship , by which old associations may be revived and continued , and the feeling ot love ' and respect for the old home perpetuated . Few things have exercised so beneficial an influence on the country at large , and on our

Scholastic Institutions m particular , as the various means adopted by our public school boys lor retaining and renewing the associations of their earl y school life ; and now that our two Schools have been established—the one for nearly a century and the other tor close on 00 years , it is a subject for congratulation among their friends , and , at the same time , an evidence of

vitality in the Institutions themselves , to find tnat the past pupils are revisiting the scenes of their youth , and both creating and exhibiting a keen interest among the present generation of scholars . A Society of Old Masonians , in which representatives of different generations of old boys will meet together , cannot fail to be of infinite service to the School itself ,

and , though such associations have been for the most part confined to boys ' schools , there is no reason why they should not be extended to schools for the other sex . At all events , be tnis feasible or not , there is every likelihood of the leeling of respect for the Institution being handed on from one set

of girls to the next , while the educational staff is regularly recruited from the scholars , and when we find ex-pupils married to members of the Craft , and it may be joining in some Festival celebration or witnessing some distribution of prizes .

* # * , „ WE congratulate Bro . HUGHAN , the Secretaries , and the The Masonic „ n ' . „ ,... Exhibition at Curators on k the success ot the Masonic Exhibition held at Plymouth . Plymouth this week , on behalf of the Devon Masonic

Educational Fund . Over a thousand exhibits have been collected , and were capitally arranged in the two halls of the Masonic Temple in Piincessp lace . Many of these are of great interest , rarity , and value . Only those brethren who are either members ot lodges in Devon and Cornwall , or connected with the two counties as residents , & c , wereasked to contrioute , and .

in fact , there was not space lor more articles in tne building , unless the smaller roooms down-stairs had been utilized . The musical programme for each day was well varied , and this evening ( Friday ) concludes tne proceedings . The catalogue , edited by Bro . HUGHAN , we need not say , is a treasure of its kind , and has been very carefully prepared , so as to avoid needless

repetition , the various references proving most useful . Bros . SHACKLES ( Hull ) , LE FEUVRE ( Southampton ) , GOULD ( London ) , LAMB-SAIITH ( Worcester ) , GREENHAM ( Shanklin ) , and other honorary members of lodges

in Devon and Cornwall sent many curious medals or books , & c ; and , of course , locally , the libraries of Bros . HUGHAN , LANE , NO . 450 , Hayle , & c , were placed under contribution to the lull extent required . The Exhibition is over , but the catalogue remains and will long be valued .

Bro . TEW has not been long in office as Prov . G . M . of West Bro . Tew as a . . e , Festival Yorkshire without finding an opportunity lor doing an import-Chairman . ant serv j ce t 0 lne craf (; as a body . Hitherto , during his tenure

of that position , he has had his attention confined to matters affecting ihe government and well-being only of his own province . When he assumed the responsibilities of Chairman at one of our Anniversary Festivals , his sp here of labour embraced the whole body of the Craft . He is at home amongst the members of his own province , who understand his ways as he

understands theirs . But to a large number of those who attended the Boys ' School Festival last month Bro . TEW can have been known only by repute . Yet in the performance of the more arduous duty he acquitted himself with exemplary tact and ability , and had he been given more time , there is little doubt that his earnest advocacy of the Boys' School claims to support from

the body of Freemasons and their friends would have been vastly more successlul . We may be sure that his own Province of West Yorkshire would have placed itself in a position to support his efforts more efficaciously , and it is almost equally certain that , had the other provinces and London known sooner they would have so capable a brother for President at this

Festival , they would have been able to put forth , we will not say greater exertions , but exertions which in all probability would have been more productive of benefit to the Boys' Institution . Bro . TEW , in the character of a Festival Chairman , was so successful that we trust his appearance in this capacity on the 14 th June last will be renewed in future years under more favourable conditions ,