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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme G . Chapter was held at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday under the presidency of M . E . ' Comp . Earl Amherst , Pro Grand Z . The chief business was the appointment and investiture of the Grand Officers for the ensuing SATURDAY , MAY 6 , 18 99 .

year , among them being several who were selected in place of those Craft Grand Officers who did not possess the necessary qualifications for office in Supreme G . Chapter . A full report of the meeting appears in another column .

» * * We are in receipt of a letter from Earl Amherst , M-W . Pro G . M ., in which he requests that we will amend the remarks attributed to him in the latter Part of his speech in reply to the toast of the Pro Grand Master . He is reported to have said , " Last year General Laurie described him as short , sharp , and decisive . He did not wish to be short with the

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brethren ; but he disliked windbags ; and he would not be sharp except when he saw the affairs of Grand Lodge could be best administered that way ; he would not be worth his salt if he was not . As to being decisive , he should be so if it was conducive to the comfort and convenience of all . "

* * » What his lordship writes us he did say reads as follows : " I never wished to be short with the brethren , except as regarded my speeches , nor sharp , except as reerarded my viits , that I might carry on the business

of Grand Lodge satisfactorily ; but that I must be decisive , if I was to be worth my salt in the chair of the Masonic Parliament . " We regret exceedingly that his lordship ' s remarks should have been misrepresented , and it has afforded us great pleasure to make the amende honorable , as requested .

* * * We have also received letters from Bro . the Rev . F . B . N . 5 Jorman-Lee , Grand Chaplain , and others , who , finding that in our records of the services rendered by the new G . Officers we specified those which it was within our knowledge they had performed in other Degrees

and Orders included in our modern system of Masonry than the Craft and Royal Arch , have kindly furnished us with additional information as to the offices they have held , and the honours they have received in those other Degrees and Orders . Just at present we are unable to find space for these further additions ; but it is our intention to publish in our Christmas Number

a collection of such portraits of the recently-appointed Grand and Past Grand Officers as we are able to obtain and , in the event of our deciding to reprint the records which have appeared already and which will be found elsewhere in this number , we shall introduce all the new matter into them , so that they may be as correct and up-to-date as it is possible to make them . * * *

Doubtless our readers will have noticed that in the report we published last week of an emergency meeting of the Earl of Mornington Lodge , No . 2000 , on Friday , the 2 lst ult ., Bro . W . A . Bowser , I . P . M ., and Secretary , presented the lodge with a complete register of the members from its foundation , which he had

carefully compiled and indexed in such a manner that the services rendered by each to the lodge could be seen at a glance . To give his own description of this register it was so designed and prepared as to give "in chronological order of initiation or joining and from official records , full details respecting every brother who had been a member of the lodge , showing , in

addition to the particulars required by Article 173 of the Book of Constitutions , the dates of appointment or installation to each office he had held both in the lodge and in Grand Lodge , with the date , if any , of his resignation , exclusion , or death . " It is needless to say that a most cordial vote of thanks was accorded to Bro . Bowser for his gift ard for the labour and care he had expended in compiling the gift .

* * Bro . Bowser is to be commended for the zeal which prompted him to undertake and carry out completely a task so arduous . It is not difficult to keep up such a register when once it has been begun , but such a task in the case of lodges that have been in existence for 50 , 70 , 80 , 100 years , and even longer , would be an

extremely formidable one , and he will , indeed , be a bold Secretary , and zealous almost beyond all experience , who shall voluntarily add the compilation of such a register to his other arduous duties . The suggestion is an admirable one ; but can it be , or rather is there any likelihood of its being carried out in lodges of much older creation than the Earl of Mornington Lodge , which dates from the year 1882 ?

* * We take this opportunity of reminding our Staffordshire brethren that the annual meeting of their Prov . Grand Lodge will be held at Handsworth on Tuesday next , the 9 th instant , and that the pioceedings will , as announced in our last week's Notes , be

of more than usual interest . The many and valuable services rendered to the Craft in the Province by Bro . Lt .-Col . Bindley , lately Deputy Prov . G . Master , will be worthily recognised by his brethren . We have no doubt the proceedings will pass off in such a manner

as to delight everyone , and that Bro . Lt .-Col . Bindley will be as gratified with the evidence which will then be furnished of the esteem and respect in which he is held , as the brethren themselves will be in the opportunity then afforded them of tendering such evidence .

* * A chapter of the [ Great Priory of the Order of the Temple will be held at Mark Masons' Hall on Friday , the 12 th instant , at 4 . 45 for 5 p . m ., when the M . E . and

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Supreme G . Master for the ensuing year will be elected and installed , and will afterwards appoint and invest his officers . The Report of the Council will also be submitted in the course of the proceedings , and , to judge from its tenour , there is little doubt that it will

give the utmost satisfaction . Indeed , as regards the finances of the Order , the progress made during the past few years is very great , the Finance Committee reporting that the invested capital of the General Fund is f . lSoo and of the Benevolent Fund £ 2500 .

* * * When the business of Great Priory is over , a Great Priory of the Order of Malta will be held under the banner of the Preceptory of St . George , London , for the admission of those Knights Templar who may have

signified their desire to become Knights of Malta . The banquet will take place at Freemasons' Tavern at 7 p . m ., but application for tickets—price one guinea each—must be made not later than Monday , the 8 th instant .

* * * The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution will hold their regular monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday ,

the 10 th instant , at four p . m ., when , amongst other business , the Report for the past year , which has been prepared by the usual Committee for presentation at the annual meeting of Gcvernors and Subscribers on Friday , the 19 th inst ., will be considered and approved .

* * We are informed that a Warrant for the constitution of a new lodge to be known as the Thomas & Beckett Lodge , No . 2754 , has been or is on the eve of being granted by his Royal Highness the M . W . Grand Master . The meetings will take place at the Thomas k Beckett Tavern , Old Kent-road . The principal

officers designate are Bros . H . Carman , W . M . ; A . E Remmirgton , S . W . ; ard Thomas W . Gibbs , J . W .

* » * The brethren over whom his Excellency Bro . Lord Sandhurst presides in his dual capacity of Pro Dist . Grand Master of Bombay under the English Constitution and Grand Master of All Scottish Freemxsoniy in India , are to be congratulated on having at length

realised their long-wished for desire to possess a Hall of their own in Bombay , in which the lodges of the two Constitutions located in that city might meet and carry out their appointed duties . The new Hall was formally consecrated by Lord Sandhurst on Saturday ,

the 25 th March , with becoming pomp and ceremony , and to the intense satisfaction of those who were privileged to be present and witnessed , the proceedings . We trust that in this new home our Scottish and English brethren will go on prospering even more abundantly than in the past .

* * It is with great pleasure we announce that , in cele . bration of the Tercentenary of the Lodge of Edinburgh ( Mary ' s Chapel ) , No . 1 , a grand banquet will be held in one of the largest halls in the city on the 5 th July ,

on the occasion of the visit about to be paid to Edinburgh by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , Patron of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , who was affiliated a member of the lodge in 1870 , and has graciously consented to be Patron of the Festival . The earliest records of this

Lodge—which , as the printed announcement of the Tercentenary justly says , " are admitted by all authorities to be the oldest in the world "—date from " ultimo July 1599 , " and it is not , therefore , surprising that the members should have resolved on celebrating

so unique an event in Masonic history . We must add that brethren desirous of attending the Festival should make early application for tickets—one guinea eachto the Secretary of the lodge—Bro . R . Wood Hawks , 47 , Frederick . street , Edinburgh .

* * * We have also to announce that a Tercentenary Edition of the " History of the Lodge of Edinburgh , " by Bro . D . Murray Lyon , Grand Secretary of Scotland , will be published during the summer at one guinea per copy , and will contain a full account of the contemplated Festival .

» * * Life-Boat Saturday is fixed for the 13 th prox ., when we hope that a liberal amount of support will be forthcoming . The Royal National Life-Boat Institution , which is entirely supported by voluntary contributions , is worthy of every help that can be given , and

hardly a week passes without the newspapers containing evidence of the gallant services rendered by our Life-Boat crews . The Fund thus obtained is devoted as far as possible to providing grants to the widows and children of those who perish in the performance

of their duty and to men who are injured ; to pensions and retiring allowances to coxswains and others who have served long and meritoriously , and for other purposes of a similar nature . Thus , whatever is contributed will be thankfully received and faithfully applied to the purposes for which the Fund was started .