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i ^^^^^^^^^^^^ l ^^^ K ^^ SATURDAY , OCTOBER a , 1892 .

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th \ " £ reatest satisfaction in announcing that \ V | * the Grand Master > H . R . H . the Prince of f 0 r . f | as graciously consented to become the W . M . hc ensuing year of the Grand Master ' s Lodge of

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Mark Master Masons . It is needless to add that at the meeting held on Wednesday last the election of H . R . H . was unanimous . * * * A convocation of the Supreme Council of the 33 will be held at 33 , Golden-square , on Tuesday next , the nth inst . * * *

We remind our readers that the autumn School Elections will be held next week , that for admission into the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls being fixed for Thursday , the 13 th instant , at the Quarterly General Court , to be holden at Freemasons' Tavern on that day , while the election for admission into the Royal

Masonic Institution for Boys will take place at the Quarterly Court , to be held at the same place , on Friday , the 14 th instant . In both cases the chair will be taken at 12 noon , and the poll opened at 1 p . m ., or at the close of the general business , and closed precisely at 3 p . m . * * *

For the Girls' School Election 26 approved candidates are entered , and there are 21 vacancies to be filled . Fortunately only two of the girls—No . 7 ( Essex ) and No . 17 ( Kent)—are in the unpleasant predicament that if they fail this time they will fail altogether . However , No . 7 has upwards of 1900 votes already to her credit , and it will only be very terrible

mismanagement on the part of those in charge of her interests if they fail to win for her a place , while as regards No . 17 , the conditions at this election are so favourable—that is , there is so near an approach to equality between vacancies and candidates—that those in charge ought not to experience great difficulty in obtaining the requisite amount of support . * * »

For the Boys' School Election the proportion of candidates to vacancies is not quite so favourable to the former as at Thursday ' s contest . The candidates are 38 in number , or by the withdrawal of the Cumberland and Westmorland lad , 37 , the number of vacancies being 24 . But even here , those who put an

extra amount of energy into their efforts should have little or no difficulty in winning places . The last cases are No . 7 ( London ) , who starts with between 1100 and 1200 votes to his credit , and No . 17 ( Sussex ) , who will be a candidate for the first as well as the last time , so that his friends must put their shoulders to the wheel if they mean winning .

« * * As at previous elections , we earnestly appeal to those Governors and Subscribers who are not already pledged to support particular cases to give their votes and exercise their influence in behalf of the last cases to whioh we have alluded . The two girls and the two

boys who are in this unfortunate position are , strangely enough , p laced at the same numbers in their respective lists—at Nos . 7 and 17 . Their claims to be received into the Institutions for which they are candidates have been admitted , and even if some of the other children

are compelled to suffer inconvenience by having their election delayed for a further six months , it is far better this should happen than that any one of these four cases should be rejected . Others can afford to wait , but with Nos . 7 and 17 girls , and Nos . 7 and 17 boys , it is now or never . * * »

Our American brethren are continually exercising their minds about questions of jurisdiction , but whether with any great advantage to the Craft may—in some cases at all events—be reasonably open to doubt . It seems that if a brother , who has been initiated and passed in a lodge under the jurisdiction of one Grand

Lodge , changes his residence and goes to live within the jurisdiction of another Grand Lodge , he cannot be raised to the Sublime Degree in his mother lodge without first obtaining the sanction of the new jurisdiction . Bro . A . S , Wait , in his report on correspondence of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire for 1892

is described in the Voice of Masonry for September as dissenting from this view , on the ground that " a lodge having once commenced the work by conferring a Degree ought to be held to have the right to complete that work by advancing the candidate to the subsequent Degrees , regardless of any residence he may afterwards acquire . "

We do not profess to understand the intricacies of American Masonic law or usage in respect of jurisdiction , but we think Bro . Wait is ri ght in his contention . We utterly fail to see what change of residence has to do with a man ' s membership of a lodge , when he has once been admitted a member . We realise that a man residing in New York State , who is desirous of being

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made a Mason , ought not to be initiated in a lodge in Pennsylvania . But once a man has been balloted for and initiated in a New York lodge , we consider he has the right to remain a member , even though he may go to reside in Pennsylvania or elsewhere .

We have not yet received copies of the '' Masonic Calendars , " 1892 , for the Provinces of Hants and the Isle of Wight , Suffolk , Warwick and Stafford , West Lancashire and West Yorkshire , and shall be glad to have them as soon as possible , or if not issued , to be so informed .

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I We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ' ]

CHESHIRE FREEMASONRY . To the Editor of the "Freemason . ' ' Dear Sir and Brother , Referring to your article on this subject in current issue , permit me to supplement your published list of old Cheshire lodges by the addition of another

one , which , unhappily , is now constitutionally extinct . I refer to the Athol Lodge , No . S 3 , which was founded January 1 st , 1759 , and held its meetings at the Unicorn —an old coaching house—in the Hillgate , Stockport . So far as can now be satisfactorily discovered , the lodge ceased to hold meetings in the year 1794 . Its property ,

including furniture of all kinds , and minute and account books , remained in the neighbourhood , and are now in possession of the Marple Lodge , of which I have the honour to be a member . This interesting inheritance of ours is , I need not say , looked upon by our members

as by no means the least valuable part of their lodge property . Carefully studied , the books reveal a wealth of curious and interesting Masonic lore ot the hi ghest value , some details of which are not a little astonishing to the modern Mason .

This ancient lodge would seem in some way or other to have connected itself with , or come under the juris , diction of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Cheshire in 17 89 , at which time they seem to have added to their orignal Athol warrant by accepting another one at Chester . The following extract refers to this transaction :

" December , 1789 . " Expenses of five brethren to raise a warrant at a meeting of the Grand Lodge at Chester , £ 17 18 s . 7 d . ; paid Grand Tyler , 10 s . 6 d . ; cost of warrant , £ 5 5 s . "

I need not add that the task of extracting useful information from the sources in our possession is a somewhat difficult and tedious one , so many of the records in the minute books are of the most fragmentary and incomplete character . Still their authenticity is undoubted , and their consequent value , giving , as they

do , an unbroken record of the lodge s doings for the 35 years of its life , is obvious . —Yours faithfully and fraternally , RALPH ANDREW , P . M . 33 ( 5 , P . P . S . G . D . Cheshire . October 4 th .

HENRY REEVES HARRIS , No . 7 . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Allow me to draw the attention of the brethren to the above LAST case .

You know the interest I take in all deserving last cases . The Mayor of Abingdon has taken considerable interest , and has already secured 1147 votes . The boy's father , who was an emery wheel manufacturer , was much respected . He died suddenly about a year ago , leaving six children dependent on their widowed mother , and although only a young Mason , was a subscriber to the Girls' School .

I shall be glad to receive votes for either of the Institutions , and for any assistance to the case—No . 7 on the list— " Harris . "—Yours fraternally , W . H . SAUNDERS , P . M . 1503 , & c , P . P . S . G . D . Middx . Princess Louise Home , 32 , Sackville-street , W .

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1006 ] RARE SERMONS . Referring to Bro . Capel J . Hogg's , under head of Notes and Queries , " Rare Sermons , " Bro . the Rev . Page Godfrey , P . G . O ., is mentioned in the minutes of proceedings of Prov . Grand Lodge for the . County of Chester , on the 12 th of July , 1792 , on the occasion of our Warrant being obtained in the City of Chester , as follows

: " Now Unanimity Lodge , 28 7 , registered in the books of the Grand Lodge or the Benificent Lodge , 1792 ( having met as a lodge of Freemasons from March , 1791 . " ) Our dispensation was returned , and the Warrant obtained for the " Lodge of Unanimity , " - and for the Lodge of Benevolence , No . 573 , Stockport , the ceremony of constitution being celebrated by Bro . the Rev . Page Godfrey , P . G . O ., thus showing that the