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Freemasonry In 1896.
( the Grand Z . ) " very great pleasure to be the medium" for presenting it to him . Comp . Grey acknowledged the gift and the kindness which had prompted it , and the incident closed . Comp . Henry Garrod then rose and moved a resolution to the effect that it is desirable that the practice of excluding
from Ihe opening of Royal Arch chapters companions other than Installed Principals be discontinued . A similar motion was brought forward in 1880 by the late Comp . W . Smallpeice and negatived , and a similar fate befel Comp . Henry Garrod on this occasion , the opposition being led at both meetings by
Comp . Thomas Fenn , than whom there is no one more competent to express an op'inion upon a question of such importance . At the same meeting a grant of 100 guineas was made in aid of the funds of Guy ' s Hospital , while on the motion of Comp . Sir George D . Harris an addition was authorised to Rule 35 of the
Royal Arch Regulations , which wilt allow of a Prince of the Blood Royal who is Grand Superintendent of a District appointing a Pro Grand Superintendent of such District , who shall take rank immediately before the District Grand H . At the meeting in November the only circumstance that is worthy of being recorded
is that the Chapter of Fortitude , No . 279 , Leicester , having been able to prove to the satisfaction of the authorities that it has been in continuous working for a full 100 years , Supreme G . Chapter has granted it a centenary warrant and accorded to its subscribing companions permission to uxar a centenary jewel .
As regards the proceedings at the annual meetings of the different Prov . G . Chapters there is nothing of sufficient moment to be specially referred to , nor , we are glad to say , have there been any changes of moment among the distinguished companions who preside over Royal Arch Masonry in the Provinces ,
the only vacancy existing at the present moment being that of Grand Superintendent of the Province of South Wales ( West Division ) , which was held from 1892 till the time of his lamented sudden dearh some weeks since of Comp . Lord Kensington .
MARK MASONRY . There is' every reason to believe , from the evidence that has been forthcoming during the past year , that the Mark Degree retains to the fullest extent the popularity it has enjoyed during the last fifteen or twenty years . There may not have been consecrated quite so many new lodges as in some previous years
we have known , but the additions to the roll of membership have been quite as numerous , while the principal events connected with it have been attended with at least the same measure of success , and in one case with greater success than has been obtained in any previous year . Last year ten lodges were added
to the list , of which exactly one half were located at home and the other half abroad ; the number of certificates issued during the same period being 1312 . During the present year , reckoning ,
that is to say , since the Quarterly Communication held in December , 1895 , some 12 or 13 warrants for lodges have been issued , the number of certificates issued being 1340 , raising the total number of registered Mark Masons to 36 , 018 .
In April Bro . C . Letch Mason , Prov . G . Master , West Yorkshire , consecrated the Eland Mark Lodge , No . 493 , Elland , the brother who was installed as first W . M . being Bro . W . E . Smithies , P . Prov . G . Warden ; while later in the same month
a like ceremony was performed by Bro . A . Jones , I . P . M ., No . 455 , in respect of the St . George's Mark Lodge , No . 492 , Larnaca , Cyprus , the first W . M . being Bro . F . O . Harvey . In the course of the same month Bro . the Earl of Lathom Past G .
Mark Master and Prov . G , Mark Master of Lancashire consecrated the Murray Lodge , No . 490 , Wigan , with Bro . T . Read Wilkinson as first W . Master . In August a further addition was made to the roll of Mark Lodges in West Yorkshire , raising the total in that province to 14 ; Bro . C . L . Mason , Prov . G . Master ,
presiding at the consecration of the Caldene Mark Lodge , No . 501 , Hebden Bridge , while after the ceremony Bro . Cockcroft was installed as W . Master . On the 30 th of October the Star Mark Lodge , No . 499 , was inaugurated , the Consecrating Officer being Bro . C F . Matier , P . G . W ., G . Secretary , and Bro . Major Woolmer
Williams the first W . M ., while some time previously , at the annual meeting in Holloway on the 23 rd July , Bro . Col . A . B , Cook , Prov . G . M . M . Middlesex , presided at the inauguration of the St . Pancras Lodge , No . 494 , Bro . W . A . Scurrah being subsequently installed in the chair of A . Other new lodges include the
United Service , No . 4 8 9 , which was consecrated on the 14 th December , 18 95 , by Bro . C . F . Matier , P . G . W ., G . Secretary , with Bro . Captain W . C Woollett as W . M . ; the Lodge of Fidelity , No . 491 , Coalville , in the Province of Leicestershire and
Rutland ; the Keystone , Zuriel , and Sir John Edge Lodges , Nos , 495 , 49 6 , 497 respectively , which have been added lo the roll ol the Dist . G . Mark Lodge of" Bengal , and are located at Barrackpore , Naraingunge , andCawnpore .
Freemasonry In 1896.
Among Royal Ark Mariner Lodges for which warrants have been granted during the year we note the Joppa No . 11 , which was consecrated by Bro . C F . Matier , G . Secretary , on the 3 rd January , with Bro . John Armstrong as W . C . N . ; and the Old
York , attached to the Old York ( T . I . ) Mark Lod ge , Bradford . The number of certificates issued for this degree is 3 66 , as compared with 375 last year , and 272 in 18 94 , the total number registered being 5030 .
The proceedings in Grand Lodge have been of the usual character . In March , when the brethren assembled early in the day for the election of a Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year , they found their hall had been beautifull y decorated in the " Ttalian style by Bro . Campbell , under the direction of Bro . C H . Driver ,
G . Inspector of Wks . ; that the organ , purchased with thefundraised as a memorial to the late Bro . Canon Portal , Past G . M . M . M ., had been placed over the porch ; and that two new pictures had been hung on the walls of Grand Lodge , namely , those of the late Duke of Albany and of Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Past G . Mark
Master . The Prince of Wales having been re-elected M . W ., G . M ., the election of a Grand Treasurer was proceeded with , and as a letter was read from Bro . George Everett , announcing that , owing to the state of his health , he had withdrawn his candidature , the contest lay between Bros . Major Clifford Probyn and
Captain T . C Walls , the former of whom was declared elected by a majority over his opponent of 202 to 133 votes . On reassembling for the regular business shortl y after 6 p . m . a vote of condolence with the Queen and the . Princess Henry of Battenberg on the lamentable death of Prince Henry of Battenberg
from malarial fever contracted in Ashantee , was proposed by the Earl of Euston , Pro Grand Master , from the chair , seconded by Bro . Viscount Dungarvan , Deputy G . Master , and adopted unanimously . Subsequently , the recommendation of the General Board that the cost of decorating the hall , amounting
to £ 350 , should be defrayed , was agreed to , and then the pictures we have before referred to as being hung on the walls were formally presented to Grand Lodge , that of the late Duke of Albany being tendered by Bro . Gordon Mil . er , P . M ., Past G . Treasurer , as the gift of the Grand Master ' s Lodge , in commemoration of
the honour done it by his late Royal Highness in consecrating it ; while that of Bro . Beach , M . P ., was offered by Bro . Richard Eve , Past G . Overseer , on behalf of the Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . Both pictures , it is needless to say , were accepted with pleasure , and to the donors of both most cordial
votes of thanks were passed with acclamation , on the motion of the Pro Grand Master , seconded by the Deputy Grand Master . The Grand Festival was celebrated at the Quarterly Communication in June . When the new Grand Lodge Officers had been appointed and invested , the regular business of the meeting was disposed
of , among the announcements contained in the Report of the General Board being one to the effect that H . R . H . the Mark G . Master had been pleased to confer the rank of Past G . Warden on Bro . C . H . Driver , who had retired from the post of G . I . of Works , in recognition of his services in connection with the hall
and its decoration . In September , on the motion of the Pro G . Master , a vote of condolence with the Dowager Countess of Limerick and her family on the loss they had sustained by the death of Bro . the Earl of Limerick , a former G . Mark Master , was passed unanimously , while Bro . the Very Rev . E . R . Currie ,
D . D ., Dean of Battle , Dep . P . G . Mark Master , Sussex , tendered as a gift on behalf of that Province a portrait of H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , Past G . Master , their Prov . G . Master . The portrait was accepted , and a vote of thanks unanimousl y passed to the Sussex brethren for their kind presentation . In December ,
votes of thanks were passed to Bro . George H . Parke , for a similar picture of Bro . the Earl of Lathom , Past G . M . and Prov . G . M . Lancashire ; to the Pro G . M . and Deputy G . M . for their gift of a gilt table ; and to Bros . Capt . Hearn and R . Loveland-Loveland for their respective gifts of trophies of Chinese spears and Japanese adzes , & c .
Amongst the changes lhat have taken place among the Provincial and District rulers , it should be mentioned that Bro . Lord Sandhurst , Governor of Bombay , has been appointed Dist . G . Master , in succession to Bro . the Hon . Judge Parsons resigned ; and that the vacancies caused by the deaths of Bros .
Rev . Thomas Robinson , Prov . G . Mark Master of Kent , and Captain Horn fray , Prov . G . M . M . of Monmouthshire , have been filled by the appointment of Bro . Viscount Dungarvan , D . G . M ., as successor lo the former , and of Bro . J . Owen Marsh , the Dep . P . G . M ., 11 charge , vice the latter , and we may add that Bro . Marsh was
installed in office at the general meeting of the Prov . G . Lodge held at Abergavenny , on the 9 th September , the ceremony being performed by Bro . the Earl of Euston , Pro G . Master , assisted
by Bios . C F . Matier , G . Secretary , and Major A . W . Carrell , G . D . C It must be mentioned further that among those Provincial District G . Masters whose patents his Royal Highness the Grand Master has been pleased to renew for a further term
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Freemasonry In 1896.
( the Grand Z . ) " very great pleasure to be the medium" for presenting it to him . Comp . Grey acknowledged the gift and the kindness which had prompted it , and the incident closed . Comp . Henry Garrod then rose and moved a resolution to the effect that it is desirable that the practice of excluding
from Ihe opening of Royal Arch chapters companions other than Installed Principals be discontinued . A similar motion was brought forward in 1880 by the late Comp . W . Smallpeice and negatived , and a similar fate befel Comp . Henry Garrod on this occasion , the opposition being led at both meetings by
Comp . Thomas Fenn , than whom there is no one more competent to express an op'inion upon a question of such importance . At the same meeting a grant of 100 guineas was made in aid of the funds of Guy ' s Hospital , while on the motion of Comp . Sir George D . Harris an addition was authorised to Rule 35 of the
Royal Arch Regulations , which wilt allow of a Prince of the Blood Royal who is Grand Superintendent of a District appointing a Pro Grand Superintendent of such District , who shall take rank immediately before the District Grand H . At the meeting in November the only circumstance that is worthy of being recorded
is that the Chapter of Fortitude , No . 279 , Leicester , having been able to prove to the satisfaction of the authorities that it has been in continuous working for a full 100 years , Supreme G . Chapter has granted it a centenary warrant and accorded to its subscribing companions permission to uxar a centenary jewel .
As regards the proceedings at the annual meetings of the different Prov . G . Chapters there is nothing of sufficient moment to be specially referred to , nor , we are glad to say , have there been any changes of moment among the distinguished companions who preside over Royal Arch Masonry in the Provinces ,
the only vacancy existing at the present moment being that of Grand Superintendent of the Province of South Wales ( West Division ) , which was held from 1892 till the time of his lamented sudden dearh some weeks since of Comp . Lord Kensington .
MARK MASONRY . There is' every reason to believe , from the evidence that has been forthcoming during the past year , that the Mark Degree retains to the fullest extent the popularity it has enjoyed during the last fifteen or twenty years . There may not have been consecrated quite so many new lodges as in some previous years
we have known , but the additions to the roll of membership have been quite as numerous , while the principal events connected with it have been attended with at least the same measure of success , and in one case with greater success than has been obtained in any previous year . Last year ten lodges were added
to the list , of which exactly one half were located at home and the other half abroad ; the number of certificates issued during the same period being 1312 . During the present year , reckoning ,
that is to say , since the Quarterly Communication held in December , 1895 , some 12 or 13 warrants for lodges have been issued , the number of certificates issued being 1340 , raising the total number of registered Mark Masons to 36 , 018 .
In April Bro . C . Letch Mason , Prov . G . Master , West Yorkshire , consecrated the Eland Mark Lodge , No . 493 , Elland , the brother who was installed as first W . M . being Bro . W . E . Smithies , P . Prov . G . Warden ; while later in the same month
a like ceremony was performed by Bro . A . Jones , I . P . M ., No . 455 , in respect of the St . George's Mark Lodge , No . 492 , Larnaca , Cyprus , the first W . M . being Bro . F . O . Harvey . In the course of the same month Bro . the Earl of Lathom Past G .
Mark Master and Prov . G , Mark Master of Lancashire consecrated the Murray Lodge , No . 490 , Wigan , with Bro . T . Read Wilkinson as first W . Master . In August a further addition was made to the roll of Mark Lodges in West Yorkshire , raising the total in that province to 14 ; Bro . C . L . Mason , Prov . G . Master ,
presiding at the consecration of the Caldene Mark Lodge , No . 501 , Hebden Bridge , while after the ceremony Bro . Cockcroft was installed as W . Master . On the 30 th of October the Star Mark Lodge , No . 499 , was inaugurated , the Consecrating Officer being Bro . C F . Matier , P . G . W ., G . Secretary , and Bro . Major Woolmer
Williams the first W . M ., while some time previously , at the annual meeting in Holloway on the 23 rd July , Bro . Col . A . B , Cook , Prov . G . M . M . Middlesex , presided at the inauguration of the St . Pancras Lodge , No . 494 , Bro . W . A . Scurrah being subsequently installed in the chair of A . Other new lodges include the
United Service , No . 4 8 9 , which was consecrated on the 14 th December , 18 95 , by Bro . C . F . Matier , P . G . W ., G . Secretary , with Bro . Captain W . C Woollett as W . M . ; the Lodge of Fidelity , No . 491 , Coalville , in the Province of Leicestershire and
Rutland ; the Keystone , Zuriel , and Sir John Edge Lodges , Nos , 495 , 49 6 , 497 respectively , which have been added lo the roll ol the Dist . G . Mark Lodge of" Bengal , and are located at Barrackpore , Naraingunge , andCawnpore .
Freemasonry In 1896.
Among Royal Ark Mariner Lodges for which warrants have been granted during the year we note the Joppa No . 11 , which was consecrated by Bro . C F . Matier , G . Secretary , on the 3 rd January , with Bro . John Armstrong as W . C . N . ; and the Old
York , attached to the Old York ( T . I . ) Mark Lod ge , Bradford . The number of certificates issued for this degree is 3 66 , as compared with 375 last year , and 272 in 18 94 , the total number registered being 5030 .
The proceedings in Grand Lodge have been of the usual character . In March , when the brethren assembled early in the day for the election of a Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year , they found their hall had been beautifull y decorated in the " Ttalian style by Bro . Campbell , under the direction of Bro . C H . Driver ,
G . Inspector of Wks . ; that the organ , purchased with thefundraised as a memorial to the late Bro . Canon Portal , Past G . M . M . M ., had been placed over the porch ; and that two new pictures had been hung on the walls of Grand Lodge , namely , those of the late Duke of Albany and of Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Past G . Mark
Master . The Prince of Wales having been re-elected M . W ., G . M ., the election of a Grand Treasurer was proceeded with , and as a letter was read from Bro . George Everett , announcing that , owing to the state of his health , he had withdrawn his candidature , the contest lay between Bros . Major Clifford Probyn and
Captain T . C Walls , the former of whom was declared elected by a majority over his opponent of 202 to 133 votes . On reassembling for the regular business shortl y after 6 p . m . a vote of condolence with the Queen and the . Princess Henry of Battenberg on the lamentable death of Prince Henry of Battenberg
from malarial fever contracted in Ashantee , was proposed by the Earl of Euston , Pro Grand Master , from the chair , seconded by Bro . Viscount Dungarvan , Deputy G . Master , and adopted unanimously . Subsequently , the recommendation of the General Board that the cost of decorating the hall , amounting
to £ 350 , should be defrayed , was agreed to , and then the pictures we have before referred to as being hung on the walls were formally presented to Grand Lodge , that of the late Duke of Albany being tendered by Bro . Gordon Mil . er , P . M ., Past G . Treasurer , as the gift of the Grand Master ' s Lodge , in commemoration of
the honour done it by his late Royal Highness in consecrating it ; while that of Bro . Beach , M . P ., was offered by Bro . Richard Eve , Past G . Overseer , on behalf of the Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . Both pictures , it is needless to say , were accepted with pleasure , and to the donors of both most cordial
votes of thanks were passed with acclamation , on the motion of the Pro Grand Master , seconded by the Deputy Grand Master . The Grand Festival was celebrated at the Quarterly Communication in June . When the new Grand Lodge Officers had been appointed and invested , the regular business of the meeting was disposed
of , among the announcements contained in the Report of the General Board being one to the effect that H . R . H . the Mark G . Master had been pleased to confer the rank of Past G . Warden on Bro . C . H . Driver , who had retired from the post of G . I . of Works , in recognition of his services in connection with the hall
and its decoration . In September , on the motion of the Pro G . Master , a vote of condolence with the Dowager Countess of Limerick and her family on the loss they had sustained by the death of Bro . the Earl of Limerick , a former G . Mark Master , was passed unanimously , while Bro . the Very Rev . E . R . Currie ,
D . D ., Dean of Battle , Dep . P . G . Mark Master , Sussex , tendered as a gift on behalf of that Province a portrait of H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , Past G . Master , their Prov . G . Master . The portrait was accepted , and a vote of thanks unanimousl y passed to the Sussex brethren for their kind presentation . In December ,
votes of thanks were passed to Bro . George H . Parke , for a similar picture of Bro . the Earl of Lathom , Past G . M . and Prov . G . M . Lancashire ; to the Pro G . M . and Deputy G . M . for their gift of a gilt table ; and to Bros . Capt . Hearn and R . Loveland-Loveland for their respective gifts of trophies of Chinese spears and Japanese adzes , & c .
Amongst the changes lhat have taken place among the Provincial and District rulers , it should be mentioned that Bro . Lord Sandhurst , Governor of Bombay , has been appointed Dist . G . Master , in succession to Bro . the Hon . Judge Parsons resigned ; and that the vacancies caused by the deaths of Bros .
Rev . Thomas Robinson , Prov . G . Mark Master of Kent , and Captain Horn fray , Prov . G . M . M . of Monmouthshire , have been filled by the appointment of Bro . Viscount Dungarvan , D . G . M ., as successor lo the former , and of Bro . J . Owen Marsh , the Dep . P . G . M ., 11 charge , vice the latter , and we may add that Bro . Marsh was
installed in office at the general meeting of the Prov . G . Lodge held at Abergavenny , on the 9 th September , the ceremony being performed by Bro . the Earl of Euston , Pro G . Master , assisted
by Bios . C F . Matier , G . Secretary , and Major A . W . Carrell , G . D . C It must be mentioned further that among those Provincial District G . Masters whose patents his Royal Highness the Grand Master has been pleased to renew for a further term