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UADERS 33 » Ouebeci ' . England 33 8 Onited Grand Lodge of England 33 8 frand l . odge of Mark Master Masons ... 341 fiirls' School Centenary Festival 344 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls—Dis . Ol rri
triblltlOn -sco 34 + provincial Grand Lodge of West Lancashire 34 $ CORRESPONDENCIBro . Birch ' s Motion as to Elections 347 Notes and Queries 347
RIPORTS OF MASONIC MIITINOSCraft Masonry 34 ) Instruction 348 Royal Arch—Instruction 349 Consecration of the Powell Lodge , No . 22 ; . J 349 Opening of a New Masonic Temple at
Plumstead 349 Royal Masonic Institution for B .. ys 350 Presentations to Bro . W . H . Wooldridge .., 350 Obituary 351 Masonic and General Tidings 352 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iv .
Ar00101
T 1 THE great event of the year has at length passed , and it is diris * School no exaggeration to say that such a Festival has never before Centenary . Festival . been held in behalf of any Institution , either Masonic or
non-Masonic . The chair was occupied by our illustrious Grand Master , and in addition to the English Masonic notabilities—the Pro and Deputy Grand Masters , the Provincial Grand Masters , and the Grand and Prov . Grand Officers—who were almost as numerously , represented as at the Prince's
installation in 1875 , or the Jubilee meeting of last year , the Anniversary vvas honoured by the presence of his Majesty OSCAR , King of Sweden , who is novv on a visit to this country , and on whom , at the instance of the Prince of WALES , our Grand Lodge had conferred the rank of Past Grand Master
only the preceding evening . The ladies also were in great numbers , and being in evening costume the varied hues of their dresses added to the beauty of the scene , and at the same time offered a brilliant contrast to the rich blue and gold of the Grand and Prov . Grand Officers , and the light
blue and silver of the rank and file . The arrangements were perfect , and Sir ALBERT WOODS , Grand Director of Ceremonies , but especially Bro . ROBERT GREY , President Board of Benevolence , who was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Stewards , must be something more
than human if they do not feel that the successful accomplishment of the onerous duties which devolved upon them has materially strengthened their reputation . The banquet was all that could have been desired , while as to the after proceedings , and particularly when the total of the
subscriptionswhich our readers will find in another column—was made known , the enthusiasm may be more easily imagined than described . However , we shall attempt a description in the Special Number of this journal , which will be published early next week , and which vvill contain a full report of the
Anniversary , of Monday ' s proceedings , and of the Institution itself . For the present , therefore , we are content with the above brief remarks , and the expression of our respectful congratulations to H . R . H . the Grand Master
on the success of the Festival , and the Board of Stewards and Bro . HEDGES , the Secretary , on the realisation—and something more—of the "opes they have been cherishing for the last few months .
# # . Monday ' s The preliminary meeting on Monday , in the Royal Albert R ° yai Albert ^ *'' connection with the Centenary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , was even more successful than been expected . A numerous and distinguished company of ladies and re en assembled for the purpose of witnessing the calisthenic exercises
u marching of the children , and the distribution of prizes by the Countess ^ CARNARVON . Bro . the Earl of CARNARVON , Pro Grand Master , and the r of LATHOM , Dep . Grand Master , were present and , above all , as we jounced last week , the Prince and Princess of WALES and their daughters in ti- Hal 1 a "d looked on with unmistakable pleasure while the girls * e upper school went through their appointed exercises , and then
refor ^ counter _ marched * wheeled and circled , and formed and "edfth Wltl 1 3 correctness and Precision which reflected the greatest The P ° themselves and on those who had trained them so carefully . Profic * nnCeSS Iikewise ' with her ° wn hands , presented the gold medal for Prizes a " . f " the silver medal for £ 00 d conduct , which are the chief
si ° n hadb Institution during the year , and which on this occaive ' y . and "" ° n by MABEL 0 SMOND a "d AGNES STEPHENSON respectrec eivintr * u °° ngratuIate these two young ladies on their good fortune in Pr * ncess h rewards of their ability and behaviour from the gracious the depart " ^ ° * 7 y 6 arS haS been the Patroness of ° " School . On HaI > . \ ver „ - I . the R ° y aI visitors ^ who both on entering and leaving the
* ° f the p most hear t '' y . the other prizes were distributed by the their music i ° L . ? rand Master > and the children having given evidence of ated with th M '*? ' ° Vocal and instrumental , the proceedings terminthe Hall e „ onal Anthem * Owing tothe brightness of the weather m . as the " fi " ' " d if the girls en i ° y ed themselves only one half as W " tl * e succ ) . "T3 ' Stewards wiU have had S reason to be gratified ess of the first part of the centenary programme .
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THE attendance at the Quarterly Communication of Grand United Grand Lodge , on Wednesday , owing , no doubt , to the presence of so many brethren in London in consequence of the meeting of Mark Grand Lodge on the day preceding and the Centenary Festival of the Girls' School on the day following , was unusually large , and the Pro Grand
Master , after his protracted absence from England , was most cordially greeted on taking the chair . The communications from the Grand Master and his lordship were listened to with profound respect , the proposal of his Royal Highness that the rank of Past Grand Master should be conferred on his Majesty OSCAR King of Sweden being acquiesced in by the brethren
instantly and with much enthusiasm . The announcement that the Prince had accepted the proffered office of Grand Patron of the Grand Lodgeof South Australia was likewise greeted with applause , while the statement by Lord CARNARVON as to the flourishing condition of the Craft in Australia generally afforded the utmost satisfaction , the appointment of Bro . Lord
CARRINGTON , Governor-General of New South Wales , likewise being received with much favour . Lastly the reference to the circumstances connected with the recent election of Grand Treasurer , though the subject
was not allowed to drop without full discussion , passed quietly , and we dare say our report will be read with interest , while the tone adopted by the speakers will no doubt exercise a beneficial influence on all future elections to the same office .
* * * IT is unnecessary , after the very full anticipatory notice we Ma Td Grand S ' week ot the proceedings appointed to take place at the Half-Yearly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons on Tuesday , to say more than that what was arranged to be
done was done , that the Grand Officers for the new year , as . they were appointed and invested , were loudly applauded , and that the list of Jubilee honours bestosved on distinguished Mark brethren in the Colonies was also listened to with pleasure . The report of the General Board was adopted , and after Grand Lodge had been closed the brethren held their Grand Festival in accordance with the time-honoured custom among English
Masons . * # * WE never permit ourselves to be over-sanguine , but ln ^" he ^ B ^ s * ordinary circumstances we should consider that the disturbers School House 0 f the peace at the Committee and Court Meetings of the
Royal Masonic Institution for Boys would regard their crushing defeat on Saturday last as evidence of their inability to shake the confidence of the Governors of the Charity in their House Committee . When on the 24 th March they moved at a Special Court for a Committee of
Inquiry into its conduct they mustered a following of some 118 j on Saturday last their supporters were 39 only , while the party of order increased their majority from about two to one to five to one or thereabouts . Thus the longer these shameful efforts to bring the House Committee into disrepute with the General Committee are continued , the more manifest and at
the same time the more intense becomes the disgust of the latter . Unfortunately , we have to deal with a class of men to whose unscrupulousness there is no limit ; if there were any doubt about this point before , the recent issue of the calumnious circular to which we referred last week must have removed it entirely . Therefore , though we shall be rejoiced if it turns out
that we have seen the last of these attacks on the Boys' School House Committee , we shall not be at all surprised at their renewal . # # „ , . ,. IT is not surprising that , with the counter attractions offered TheApproaching , , _ r ^ -.,. . r . i / -.. , i r- , . , School bthe Celebration of the GirlsSchool the
Boys' y Centenary ' on one Festival . \ i 3 kx \ e \ and the shameful attacks which have been made during the current year on its executive officials on the other , the Board of Stewards for the approaching 90 th Anniversary Festival of the Boys ' School should be numerically weaker than we have known it at any
celebration during the Grand Mastership of the Prince of WALES . Since we last wrote only 11 fresh names have been added to the list , which is still 50 short of what it was at the opening meeting of the Board for 1887 , and more than 100 short of what it ultimately reached . What renders the position still more difficult is that owing to the shortness of the interval
between now and the day appointed for the celebration , there is but little likelihood of any appreciable advance being made on the present numbers . A few more brethren may volunteer their services , and it is just possible the Stewards may muster ultimately some 200 strong , but a fortnight is not enough for any great amount of canvassing to be done , and we must hope
that the brethren who have undertaken the duty of supporting Lord EBRINGTON on the 27 th inst ., will make up for their lack of numbers by the extra length and wealth of their Subscription Lists . The sum of £ 10 , 000 or £ 12 , 000 , which is needed to defray the year ' s expenditure , must
be obtained from some source , the permanent income of the Institution being limited to a few hundreds of pounds sterling , and a smaller Board of Stewards will deserve all the greater credit if it can accomplish a consummation so devoutly to be wished .
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
UADERS 33 » Ouebeci ' . England 33 8 Onited Grand Lodge of England 33 8 frand l . odge of Mark Master Masons ... 341 fiirls' School Centenary Festival 344 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls—Dis . Ol rri
triblltlOn -sco 34 + provincial Grand Lodge of West Lancashire 34 $ CORRESPONDENCIBro . Birch ' s Motion as to Elections 347 Notes and Queries 347
RIPORTS OF MASONIC MIITINOSCraft Masonry 34 ) Instruction 348 Royal Arch—Instruction 349 Consecration of the Powell Lodge , No . 22 ; . J 349 Opening of a New Masonic Temple at
Plumstead 349 Royal Masonic Institution for B .. ys 350 Presentations to Bro . W . H . Wooldridge .., 350 Obituary 351 Masonic and General Tidings 352 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iv .
Ar00101
T 1 THE great event of the year has at length passed , and it is diris * School no exaggeration to say that such a Festival has never before Centenary . Festival . been held in behalf of any Institution , either Masonic or
non-Masonic . The chair was occupied by our illustrious Grand Master , and in addition to the English Masonic notabilities—the Pro and Deputy Grand Masters , the Provincial Grand Masters , and the Grand and Prov . Grand Officers—who were almost as numerously , represented as at the Prince's
installation in 1875 , or the Jubilee meeting of last year , the Anniversary vvas honoured by the presence of his Majesty OSCAR , King of Sweden , who is novv on a visit to this country , and on whom , at the instance of the Prince of WALES , our Grand Lodge had conferred the rank of Past Grand Master
only the preceding evening . The ladies also were in great numbers , and being in evening costume the varied hues of their dresses added to the beauty of the scene , and at the same time offered a brilliant contrast to the rich blue and gold of the Grand and Prov . Grand Officers , and the light
blue and silver of the rank and file . The arrangements were perfect , and Sir ALBERT WOODS , Grand Director of Ceremonies , but especially Bro . ROBERT GREY , President Board of Benevolence , who was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Stewards , must be something more
than human if they do not feel that the successful accomplishment of the onerous duties which devolved upon them has materially strengthened their reputation . The banquet was all that could have been desired , while as to the after proceedings , and particularly when the total of the
subscriptionswhich our readers will find in another column—was made known , the enthusiasm may be more easily imagined than described . However , we shall attempt a description in the Special Number of this journal , which will be published early next week , and which vvill contain a full report of the
Anniversary , of Monday ' s proceedings , and of the Institution itself . For the present , therefore , we are content with the above brief remarks , and the expression of our respectful congratulations to H . R . H . the Grand Master
on the success of the Festival , and the Board of Stewards and Bro . HEDGES , the Secretary , on the realisation—and something more—of the "opes they have been cherishing for the last few months .
# # . Monday ' s The preliminary meeting on Monday , in the Royal Albert R ° yai Albert ^ *'' connection with the Centenary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , was even more successful than been expected . A numerous and distinguished company of ladies and re en assembled for the purpose of witnessing the calisthenic exercises
u marching of the children , and the distribution of prizes by the Countess ^ CARNARVON . Bro . the Earl of CARNARVON , Pro Grand Master , and the r of LATHOM , Dep . Grand Master , were present and , above all , as we jounced last week , the Prince and Princess of WALES and their daughters in ti- Hal 1 a "d looked on with unmistakable pleasure while the girls * e upper school went through their appointed exercises , and then
refor ^ counter _ marched * wheeled and circled , and formed and "edfth Wltl 1 3 correctness and Precision which reflected the greatest The P ° themselves and on those who had trained them so carefully . Profic * nnCeSS Iikewise ' with her ° wn hands , presented the gold medal for Prizes a " . f " the silver medal for £ 00 d conduct , which are the chief
si ° n hadb Institution during the year , and which on this occaive ' y . and "" ° n by MABEL 0 SMOND a "d AGNES STEPHENSON respectrec eivintr * u °° ngratuIate these two young ladies on their good fortune in Pr * ncess h rewards of their ability and behaviour from the gracious the depart " ^ ° * 7 y 6 arS haS been the Patroness of ° " School . On HaI > . \ ver „ - I . the R ° y aI visitors ^ who both on entering and leaving the
* ° f the p most hear t '' y . the other prizes were distributed by the their music i ° L . ? rand Master > and the children having given evidence of ated with th M '*? ' ° Vocal and instrumental , the proceedings terminthe Hall e „ onal Anthem * Owing tothe brightness of the weather m . as the " fi " ' " d if the girls en i ° y ed themselves only one half as W " tl * e succ ) . "T3 ' Stewards wiU have had S reason to be gratified ess of the first part of the centenary programme .
Ar00102
THE attendance at the Quarterly Communication of Grand United Grand Lodge , on Wednesday , owing , no doubt , to the presence of so many brethren in London in consequence of the meeting of Mark Grand Lodge on the day preceding and the Centenary Festival of the Girls' School on the day following , was unusually large , and the Pro Grand
Master , after his protracted absence from England , was most cordially greeted on taking the chair . The communications from the Grand Master and his lordship were listened to with profound respect , the proposal of his Royal Highness that the rank of Past Grand Master should be conferred on his Majesty OSCAR King of Sweden being acquiesced in by the brethren
instantly and with much enthusiasm . The announcement that the Prince had accepted the proffered office of Grand Patron of the Grand Lodgeof South Australia was likewise greeted with applause , while the statement by Lord CARNARVON as to the flourishing condition of the Craft in Australia generally afforded the utmost satisfaction , the appointment of Bro . Lord
CARRINGTON , Governor-General of New South Wales , likewise being received with much favour . Lastly the reference to the circumstances connected with the recent election of Grand Treasurer , though the subject
was not allowed to drop without full discussion , passed quietly , and we dare say our report will be read with interest , while the tone adopted by the speakers will no doubt exercise a beneficial influence on all future elections to the same office .
* * * IT is unnecessary , after the very full anticipatory notice we Ma Td Grand S ' week ot the proceedings appointed to take place at the Half-Yearly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons on Tuesday , to say more than that what was arranged to be
done was done , that the Grand Officers for the new year , as . they were appointed and invested , were loudly applauded , and that the list of Jubilee honours bestosved on distinguished Mark brethren in the Colonies was also listened to with pleasure . The report of the General Board was adopted , and after Grand Lodge had been closed the brethren held their Grand Festival in accordance with the time-honoured custom among English
Masons . * # * WE never permit ourselves to be over-sanguine , but ln ^" he ^ B ^ s * ordinary circumstances we should consider that the disturbers School House 0 f the peace at the Committee and Court Meetings of the
Royal Masonic Institution for Boys would regard their crushing defeat on Saturday last as evidence of their inability to shake the confidence of the Governors of the Charity in their House Committee . When on the 24 th March they moved at a Special Court for a Committee of
Inquiry into its conduct they mustered a following of some 118 j on Saturday last their supporters were 39 only , while the party of order increased their majority from about two to one to five to one or thereabouts . Thus the longer these shameful efforts to bring the House Committee into disrepute with the General Committee are continued , the more manifest and at
the same time the more intense becomes the disgust of the latter . Unfortunately , we have to deal with a class of men to whose unscrupulousness there is no limit ; if there were any doubt about this point before , the recent issue of the calumnious circular to which we referred last week must have removed it entirely . Therefore , though we shall be rejoiced if it turns out
that we have seen the last of these attacks on the Boys' School House Committee , we shall not be at all surprised at their renewal . # # „ , . ,. IT is not surprising that , with the counter attractions offered TheApproaching , , _ r ^ -.,. . r . i / -.. , i r- , . , School bthe Celebration of the GirlsSchool the
Boys' y Centenary ' on one Festival . \ i 3 kx \ e \ and the shameful attacks which have been made during the current year on its executive officials on the other , the Board of Stewards for the approaching 90 th Anniversary Festival of the Boys ' School should be numerically weaker than we have known it at any
celebration during the Grand Mastership of the Prince of WALES . Since we last wrote only 11 fresh names have been added to the list , which is still 50 short of what it was at the opening meeting of the Board for 1887 , and more than 100 short of what it ultimately reached . What renders the position still more difficult is that owing to the shortness of the interval
between now and the day appointed for the celebration , there is but little likelihood of any appreciable advance being made on the present numbers . A few more brethren may volunteer their services , and it is just possible the Stewards may muster ultimately some 200 strong , but a fortnight is not enough for any great amount of canvassing to be done , and we must hope
that the brethren who have undertaken the duty of supporting Lord EBRINGTON on the 27 th inst ., will make up for their lack of numbers by the extra length and wealth of their Subscription Lists . The sum of £ 10 , 000 or £ 12 , 000 , which is needed to defray the year ' s expenditure , must
be obtained from some source , the permanent income of the Institution being limited to a few hundreds of pounds sterling , and a smaller Board of Stewards will deserve all the greater credit if it can accomplish a consummation so devoutly to be wished .