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CONTENTS .

L EADIBS 193 East Lancashire Provincial Charity Com-Onsecration of the Military Jubilee Lodge , mittee 20 c No . 9 J > Dover 194 Leeds Masonic Educational Institution 200 Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire 194 Provincial Grand Lodge of Hampshire and provincial Grand Chapter of East Lanca- I 3 le 0 f wight 200 shire .............. iqi Bro > Henry Cross ' s Concert at Willesden 201 C ^ bT £ yV Schoo , ] g 1 ^^ J ^^^^^ Z , 0 . Note ^ andQu ' eries" !!' . !' . ' . ' . """ . ;];;; ' . ;' . ;' . ' . ;' ' . ;' *''' . Ill Knights Templar Pilgrimage to York 201

.. ; ...... RJPOBTS OF MASONIC MKETINOS— Provincial Calendars 201 Craft Masonry ig 8 The Craft 201 Instruction 100 The Queen's Jubilee 201 Royal Arch 200 Provincial Priory of Northumberland , Instruction . ' . ' .. ' . ' . " .. ' . ' . " !!! """""" 200 Durham , and Berwick-on-Tweed 201

Ancient and Accepted Rite 200 The Craft Abroad 202 Queensland 200 Theatres 203 China 200 A Busy Dramatist 203 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 200 Obituary 204 Rast Lancashire Systematic Masonic Edu- Masonic and General Tidings 204 cational and Benevolent Institution 200 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iii .

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_ „ . IT is satisfactory to find that after an interval of 10 years the Prov . G . oupt . ••* South Wales Eastern Division of South Wales is again numbered among ' ' the provinces which are endowed with a Royal Arch provincial organisation . The late R . W . Bro . T . M . TALBOT , who died in 1876 ,

was both Provincial Grand Master and Provincial Grand Superintendent of Royal Arch Masonry for this division of South Wales . He was succeeded in the year of his death by Bro . Sir GEO . ELLIOT , Bart ., in the former capacity , and now a successor to him in the latter has been found in the person of Bro . MARMADUKE TENNANT , who , as Bro . Sir GEO . ELLIOT ' S

Deputy , already has a thorough knowledge of the requirements of the province , is well acquainted with the feeling by which the brethren are animated , and is immensely popular . There is reason to hope that under the

auspices of M . E . Comp . TENNANT , Provincial Grand Superintendent , Royal Arch Masonry in this portion of the principality will show renewed activity and vigour , and we trust the career which has been begun so favourably this week will be both a brilliant one and prolonged .

••• , „ „ , ,. At the Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution West Yorkshire . Victoria jubilee last February , Bro . J AMES TERRY mentioned incidentally Presentations . tnat tne province 0 f West Yorkshire proposed doing

something of a special character for that Institution in commemoration of the Q UEEN ' S Jubilee . At the time our worthy brother was not in a position to state what that " something " would be , though he led his audience to understand that it would be worthy both of the Sovereign it was intended to commemorate and the Province . The secret has now been divulged . At

the annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge , at Huddersfield , on Wednesday , the 30 th ult ., it was resolved that the sum of 2000 guineas be raised by the province for the purpose of purchasing two permanent presentations to the Widows' Fund of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , to be named " The West Yorkshire VICTORIA Jubilee Presentations , "

and P . G . Lodge itself set the example by voting 200 guineas from its funds towards the proposed purchase . This is good news indeed , good news for the Widows' Fund aforesaid , and a grand testimony to the loyalty of West Yorkshire to our gracious Sovereign . It is likewise encouraging to those who hope the Jubilee year may prove exceptionally beneficial to our several

Masonic Institutions , and even we may take some comfort to ourselves at finding that part at least of the Jubilee celebration programme we shadowed forth some months since is in the way of being realised . We trust before long to hear that other Provinces have determined on following the splendid Samp le set them by West Yorkshire .

* * * The Amef * ^ num ^ er of American brethren under the leadership of Pil grimage to Bro . CHARLES E . M EYER , of Philadelphia , visited this country , and during their soiourn in London were entertained at a

banquet in the great hall of Freemasons' Tavern by the proprietor of this journal . Bro . GEORGE KENNING presided at the banquet-table , with j ^ os . the Rev . A . F . A . WOODFORD , P . G . C ., and W . J . HUGHAN , •G . D ., in the chairs of S . W . and J . W ., respectively , and many Grand tncers , present and past , to support him in his fraternal welcome to the Pil grims—Bros , the late Col . CREATON . P . G . D .: TOHN B . —now Sir TOHN

" ¦ — MoNCKTON , thenPres . B . of Gen . Purp . ; P . DE LANDE LONG , P . G . D . ; *¦ •A . PHILBRICK , Q . C ., now G . Reg . ; the late J OSHUA NUNN , P . G . S . B . ; '" elate HYDE PULLEN , P . G . S . B . ; J ABEZ HOGG , P . G . D . ; and BRACKONE BAKER , P . G . D ., being among the most conspicuous . In July next , alread y notified in our columns , there will be another pilgrimage under

leadershi p of the same Bro . CHARLES E . MEYER , the main purpose ln g to visit the ancient City of York , and at the special invitation of the embers of the Ancient Ebor Preceptory of that city , to take part in a * Kni ght Templar union which has been arranged as part of the th T ° r , a' P ° gramme to be carried out in connection with the celebration of Jubilee of Queen VICTORIA ' S reign . That the American Sir Knights will

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have a splendid time of it during their visit to York goes without saying . With so indefatigable , so genial , and so capable a cicerone as Sir Knight T . B . WHYTEHEAD , we may be sure the pilgrims from the far West will be taken to see , if they have not already seen , the numerous memorials of early English Masonry which the York lodges are so fortunate as to possess , the

famous York Minster and its historic crypts , and whatever else there may be that is worth inspecting . They will be heartily welcomed also by the brethren of our lodges and the companions of our chapters , and probably the only difficulty they will experience will be to compress an impossible number of visits , banquets , and the like into a necessarily limited space of

time . But whatever may be the particular character of the receptions they will meet with in York primarily , and then in London , Paris , and other cities and towns they may have arranged to visit , one thing is certain , namely , that in 1887 , as in 1878 , the pilgrims from the United States will

find themselves almost as much at home as in their own country . They will experience climatic , scenic , and other differences , but there will be no difference in the good-fellowship by which they will find themselves surrounded , and we can only hope that the weather will give them as genial a welcome to the old country as their brethren in Masonry .

* * * ' THAT we are not exaggerating when we say that the great K . T . Reception difficulty which will be experienced by the American pilgrims Programme . w jj | ^ tQ com press ar , almost impossible number of entertainments into a necessarily limited space of time may be seen from the

circular letter we publish elsewhere from Sir Knight T . B . WHYTEHEAD , Registrar , Ancient Ebor Preceptory . Herein it is shown how our American friends will be occupied between the time of their arrival " at the Station Hotel , in York , on the evening of the 19 th July , " and their departure "for London at 10 o'clock a . m . on Thursday , July 21 st ; " and it will suffice if we

mention that it includes dinner and attending an emergency meeting of the Eboracum Lodge , No . 1611 , with an exemplicationof English Craft working , on the evening of their arrival ; and the day following a course of iionising in the morning ; lunch at 12 . 30 p . m . with Lodge , No . i 6 u ; visit to the Ancient Ebor Preceptory , with exemplification of

English Templar working , at 2 . 30 p . m . ; divine service at the cathedral a 4 . 30 p . m . ; reception at the Mansion House by the Lord MAYOR and Lady MAYORESS at 7 p . m . ; and Templar banquet at the Guildhall at 7 . 30 p . m . This of course represents only the official programme , but there will doubtless be in addition a number of semi-official , quasi-official , and unofficial

interludes in which the pilgrims will be pressed to take part , and in which we dare say they will acquit themselves manfully after the manner of Knight Templar Pilgrims of the olden time . If the whole of the tour is modelled after the York fashion , our visitors and the ladies accompanying them will have a high time of it .

* * * From the report in the Canadian Craftsman of the proceedings Lodge of at the Annual Communication in January last of the Grand Quebec . Lodge of Quebec , the meeting appears to have passed off

quietly enough . It was inevitable there should be some reference made in the Grand Master's address to the edict of non-intercourse issued in July , 1886 , against the United Grand Lodge of England and its belongings . But the tone of the reference is subdued as if the Grand Master had not

quite made up his mind whether to rejoice at the discharge of his blunderbuss , as Mr . WINKLE did , when , after a variety of intricate evolutions , he managed to let off his gun ; or to yield himself up to a grief that spurns all consolation at finding that the letting off of his weapon has not affected our equanimity on either side of the Atlantic . We are glad of this . The

quieter Quebec becomes , the greater prospect is there that reason will resume its sway in the councils of her Masonic dignitaries , and then , no doubt , there will be a chance of her and England establishing friendly and fraternal relations with each other . Till that happy time arrives , we have nothing left us to do but to wait patiently and hopefully , in the belief that everything will be properly arranged by-and-bye .

* # * „ ,. . ,. WE congratulate our respected and R . W . Bro . Lord LEIGH , Testimonial to ft . r . > R . W . Bro . Lord Prov . G . M . of Warwickshire , on the recent handsome recog-Lelg ' nition by the Magistrates of Warwickshire of his long and valued services as Lord Lieutenant of the County . The testimonials which

were presented in the County Hall , Warwick , on Saturday last , to his Lordship and Lady LEIGH , and the accompanying illuminated address , testify to the fact that , during his more than 30 years' tenure of the Lord Lieutenancy of Warwickshire , the noble lord has taken every opportunity in his power

of promoting the material , moral , and social welfare of the people in the great midland county . According to the address he has during that period given a generous support to its Charitable and Benevolent Institutions , and has evinced an ever active sympathy with its poor . These services had been previously recognised by the Birmingham Magi-