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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY OF WORSHIPFUL MASTERS . In future numbers of the Freemason we purpose giving a series of portraits of Worshipful Masters who have been recently installed . Recognising the fact that no greater honour can be bestowed on a brother than to be elected the Master of his lodge , vve

desire to do our part tosvards creating a permanent record of such event in his Masonic history by placing his portrait before our readers . We shall be pleased to furnish Secretaries of lodges and others who may take an interest in our project whatever information may be desired as to our proposed method of procedure .

We have again to ask the indulgence of our correspondents and readers in respect to the non-insertion of numerous reports and communications , which we are unable to find room for .

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^pmmag^^j SATURDAY . DECEMBER IO . 1892 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

There was an unusually large attendance at the Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge on Wednesday , and though there were a few verbal exchanges between those who took part in the discussion over the proposed new Grand Ofiicers at the September meeting , there vvere few real divergences of opinion , and the business of the evening was dispatched successfully .

* * Thus , subject only to confirmation in March next , the number of Grand officers to be annually appointed by the Grand Master has been very substantially increased , and his Royal Highness , at the Grand Festival in April , 18 93 , will find himself in a position to

appoint , firstly , a Dep . Grand Registrar—the two additional Grand Deacons making in all six of that rank —two additional Asst . Grand Director of Ceremonies , raising the number of Asst . Directors of Ceremonies to three ; and a Dep . Grand Swd . Br . This is good news for those who aspire to have conferred upon them some day the Purple of Grand Lodge .

* * * There is also , as in the case of the larger provinces and districts , a substantial addition to the roll of Provincial and District Grand Officers , and henceforth

Masonic Notes.

the two Lancashires and other provinces and districts which may in time muster 100 lodges svill have the same number of Provincial Grand and District Grand Officers as the Grand Lodge has Grand Officers ; while others of less account numerically will have additional Provincial Grand and District Grand Officers , but not to the same extent as the Lancashires .

We echo most sincerely the regret expressed by the Pro Grand Master in Grand Lodge vvhen announcing the mournful news that Bro . Dr . E . E . Wendt had died in the interval between the September Communication and that on Wednesday . Indeed , our late respected brother died only a fesv days ago , and , as he had held

the important post of Grand Secretary for German Correspondence for upwards of 20 years , and vvas known as a most kindly and genial Mason , his loss will be greatly and generally felt . We offer the expression of our sympathy svith the family and friends of our late brother .

* * * We congratulate Bro . S . Cochrane , P . M . 3 , on his nomination and virtual election as Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year . He has been doing some very good work of late , and the honour which will be formally bestosved upon him in April next is undoubtedly well deserved . * * *

In one of our notes last week vve announced that Bro . J . W . Martin , Provincial Grand Secretary of Berkshire , had recently been installed W . M . pf the Grey Friars Lodge , No . nor , Reading . The information which had been furnished to us svas not as clear as it might have been , and we appear to have jumped hastily to the

conclusion that the version as we gave it was right . Hence , vve retract so much of our note as made Bro . Martin W . M . of a Iodge of vvhich he is not even a member . But the remarks it contained as to Bro . Martin ' s ability as Provincial Grand Secretary and his

geniality and courtesy must remain , as they correctly represent the qualities which his Berkshire and other brethren ascribe to him , and which indeed are his naturally . •»* »

A painfully tragic event took place at the Regent ' s Park Lodge , held at the York and Albany Hotel , on Saturday last . The W . M ., Bro . W . J . Hall , on entering the room was noticed to turn pale and vvas advised to take some brandy , svhich vvas fetched from the hotel . After taking it , and while about to take his seat , he suddenly reeled and fell with his face to the floor . It

was at first thought that he had only fainted , but svhen Dr . Henderson vwho lives two or three doors off ) arrived a few minutes later , he pronounced life to be extinct , through sudden failure of the heart's action . Bro . Hall , who was 43 years of age , was senior partner in the firm of Hall and Passingham , of 50 , Graftonstreet , Tottenham-court-road . We tender to the family of the deceased our sincerest sympathy .

* * ? On Thursday , the 1 st instant , the members of thc ancient Dumfries Kilwinning Lodge , No . 53 , Dumfries , clecteed Bro . James Smith , the local Masonic historian , and Bro . W . J . Hughan , of Torquay , as honorary members of the lodge , in appreciation of their valuable

services on its behalf . This has put the finishing touch to the publication of the history of the lodge by Bro . Smith , Bro . Hughan having written an able introduction on the " Old Charges , " and sve congratulate the brethren thus honoured , and the lodge thus complimented by their acceptance . » * *

Bro . Hughan delivered a lecture on " Old , Curious , and Modern Bibles , " last week before the members of the "Mutual Improvement Society , " in connection with Ellacombe Church , Torquay . Our ever-active brother spoke for an hour and a half without notes of any kind , and seemed practically inexhaustible on the

subject . The Torquay Times in reporting this meeting of the Society—the largest in the neighbourhooddeclares Mr . W . J . Hughan to be " a Bibliographer of whom Torquay may well be proud . " His services on the occasion vvere secured by Bro . T . H . Wills , P . M . 1402 , svho is one of the Committee of the Society .

Board Of Benevolence.

BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE .

The following brethren were elected on the 7 th inst . as members of the Board of Benevolence-. Bros . James Bunker , P . M . 1158 ; Charles Dairy , P . M . 141 ; Simon H . Goldschmidt , P . M . 1329 ; George Graveley , P . M . 898 ; George R . Langley , P . M . 2381 ; Walter Martin , P . M . 8 79 ; Ebenezer Charles Mulvey , P . M . 2353 ; George A . Pickering , P . M . 890 ; George Read , P . M . 511 I CharlesJ . R . Tijou , P . M . 1804 ; William Vincent , P . M . 1194 ; and Alfred Cooper Woodward , P . M . 1538 .