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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

SATURDAY , APRIL 8 , 18 99 .

Fhe Hall at Freemasons' Tavern will be the scene ol the usual bustle and excitement on Thursday and Friday of next week , when the School elections are appointed to take pi ice . The Girls' School election is fixed for the earlier of those days , when ( he Quarterly General Court of Governors and Subscribers will be

held , and 16 out of an approved list of 36 candidates will be chosen by ballot for admission to the benefits rf the Institution . Of these 36 girls there are 14 who have already taken p 2 rt in one or more elections , and bring forward the votes that were polled for them

while the remaining 22 have had their cases inquired into and approved during the past six months . The only exceptional feature about the list is the large proportion of "last" cases , that is , of girls who , if they fail this time , will hive their names removed from further competitions .

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For the Boys School Election , which will take place at the Quarterly Court of Governors and Subscribers on Friday , the 14 th instant , there are 37 candidates , of whom 16 have been on the lists , at one and more previous elections , and bring forward the votes

already obtained , while 21 have been approved and had their names added tu the 16 standing over from October last , fn this case , however , there is a more promising outlook , as the number of vacancies to be filled i-. 23 . Fortunately , too , the number of those

who will have their names withdrawn from further competition if they fail to secure vacancies next week is only five . It remains for us to add that at both

Cturts thc chair will be taken at the hour of 12 noon precisely , and that the poll on both days will be opened at 1 p . m ., or as soon as the general business has been disposed of , and closed at 3 p . m .

* * » As a matter of course , we make our usual appeal on behalf of the " last " cases , of which there are , as we have safcl , eight on the list of the Girl candidates and five on that of the Boys . The former are placed at

Nos . 4 , 6 , 15 , 17 , 18 , 29 , 31 , and 35 , Nos . 4 and 6 being fortunate to have already to their credit 3327 and 2105 votes respectively , S 3 that their friends ought notto have much difficulty in obtaining such additional support as will ensure them places among thc successful . The

" last " cases on the Boys list are Nos . 4 , 6 , 7 , 18 , and 23 ; but only No . 7 , who brings forward 479 votes , will derive any material advantage from his previous poll . In behalf of these 13 children we trust that those Governors and Subscribers who a » e not already

committed to the support of any candidates , will give them their votes , and exert for them such influence as they may happen to possess , and we do this on the usual grounds—that if these children fail now , they fail altogether .

It appears to us to be quite possible to discuss the general question whether Grand Masters should pay fees of honour without writing offensively of those who have had the honour to be elected to that exalted position . It is equally possible , at least , in our

humble judgment , to consider whether it is better to elect as Grand Master a brother of high social standing or one who is known only , or principally , for his intimate acquaintance with the principles , laws , and

ritual of the Craft . The former is preferred in some jurisdictions and the latter in others , but in both he is the elect of the brethren , and as such has a claim upon their respect so long as he retains the office , and afterwards as one whom they have seen fit to honour .

••* The . Vera Zealand Craftsman is evidently of a different opinion . Its February number contains an article entitled " Fees of Honour , " in which our coiitemporary advocates the payment of such fees by

Grand Masters as well as by the rest of the Grand Officers . We do net object to this opinion because we happen to think differently , but we do most stoutly exclaim against the sneers in which it indulges at the expense of those who have been successively elected

to preside as Grand Master over the Grand Lodge of New Zealand . It may or may not be true that in New Zealand " the Grand Master is usually selected with more regard to social position than Masonic fitness , " so that "his generosity should not be bounded

by the payment of a small ' Fee of Honour , ' " but this does not justify the rem irk that "the Grand Misters of New Zealand , with one exception , have not acquired celebrity for lightening the private purse ir . the cause

of Freemasonry , and if a return of the private expenditure of the 'joint and several' was moved for the work of tabulation would be of the most simple character , and the result painfully meagre . "

Again , we are told that " the brother who is elected Grand Master is invariably careful not to allow his social position to afflict the Craft with any dazzling radiance , and his Masonic value is generally a little less than nil . " The article concludes as follows : " Later

New Zealand brethren may awake to the fact that it is possible to pay very much in excess of the value of the social whistle , but in the meantime there is no

reason why the Masonic automaton , or even a real live Grand Master , should not contribute his quota to the funds , as does ( sic ) his less fortunate , but now hardworked officers . "

» # » We rejoice to say that in our experience of Masonic journalism it has rarely , if ever , fallen to our lot to find such language as we have quoted in the preceding paragraphs employed in reference to the brethren on whom this or that Grand Lodge has seen fit to confer

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the highest honour it is in its power to bestow . The list of those who have been elected to preside over the Grand Lodge of New Zealand since its constitution in 1890 includes Bros . Henry Thompson , M . Niccol , F . H . D . Bell , W . Barron , and R . J . Seddon , and of these Bro . Thompson had been Dist . G . Master

of Canterbury for the 10 years preceding his election as the first G . Master , and Bro . the Right Hon . R . J Seddon , the present G . Master , is the Prime Minister of New Zealand , while some of the others , if we remember rightly , did good service to their Grand Lodge by their efforts to secure its recognition by the Grand

Lodge of England ; at all events , the services of all of them appear to have been of such a character as to secure them from being held up personally to the contempt of the Craft . Good men and true will fight shy of allowing themselves to be nominated for this office when they find that treatment such as our

contemporary has meted out to the past and present occupants of the chair is one of the penalties they must pay for election . » # The regular meeting of the Royal Cumberland Lodge , No . 41 , which was appointed to be held at

the Masonic Hall , Btth , on Thursday , the 6 th instant , will , doubtless , prove to have been more than usually interesting to the members who were present , ft had been arranged that when the regular business was concluded " the Old Minute Books , Jewels , and other antiquities of the Lodge " should be laid out for the

inspection of the brethren , and that Bro . T . P . Ashley , the respected senior P . M . and Treasurer of the Lodge , and P . Prov . G . W . of Somersetshire , should " afford some interesting information relating to these antiquities , and point out their salient features . " Royal Cumberland is one of the oldest lodges on the roll of Grand Lodge , having been warranted in the year 1733 ,

while of those which rank numerically above it , only 18 or 19 are of earlier constitution . Thus the relics of old time Masonry , which have been handed down through successive generations of members , and of which the lodge at the present time is thc fortunate possessor , are such as the brethren not only cannot have failed to inspect with reverent interest , but also such as it is in the power of very few of our lodges to exhibit .

* •» Our brethren of the Province of thc Isle of Mm are to be congratulated on the appointment of Bro . Lord Henniker to preside over them , in succession to the late lamented Bro . Sir f . S . Goldie-Taubman . His lordship was appointed Provincial Grand Master of

Suffolk in iS 86 , andthereisnodoubtthat , under his rule , it has prospered greatly , ft augurs well for the future of Masonry in the Isle of Man that so able and distinguished a brother should have beer , chosen to succeed Sir J . Goldie-Taubman , and we feel sure the government of the Province , which was so efficiently carried on by the latter , will be equally efficient under his

successor . * * * It is with sincere regret we publish in another column the news of the death , with accompanying Masonic memoir , of Bro . R . W . Shekleton , Q . C , who , about 18 months since , after a Jong tenure of office ,

resigned the position he had so greatly adorned of Deputy G . Master of the Grand Lodge of Ireland . Bro . Shekleton was beloved and respected by the whole frish Craft , who will long and sacredly cherish the memory of his splendid sen ices .

The Stewart Lodge , No . 196 J , Rawal Pindi , which , notwithstanding its career has been so short , has yet found an historian in the p rson of Bro . Major Leslie , is evidently in a prosperous condition as regards membership . At as recent a date as the nth ult . it could boast of mustering 73 , and from a Iglance

down the list of names the great majority of the brethren would appear to be military men , among them being Bro . Col . H . , 'J . Brownrigg , P . G . D . England , Past Dep . Dist . G . M ., and Bro . Lieut-Gen . Sir A . P . Palmer , K . C . B ., Dep . Dist . G . M . The honorary members are H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , Bro .

Lieut ,-General Sir George ii . Wolseley , I \ . C . B ., who has just resigned the ofiice of District Grand Master , and Bro . William Jas . Hughan . Such a lodge may look forward to a long and prosperous career , more especially as among its members arc some 15 or 20 who have had conferred upon them the purple of Di ; t . G . Lodge .

» * * We have pleasure in announcing that Bro . Homy Sadler , Grand Tyler and Sub-Librarian , will delivir an Historical Address on Early Freemasonry , Operative and Speculative , at the 'Fran juillity Lodge of fnstruction , No . 185 , on Thursday next , the Ijth inst . Lodge opens at 7 . 30 . Visitors are cordially invited .