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SATURDAY , J UNE 22 , 1901 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The Distribution of Prizes in connection with the 103 rd Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys is fixed for Monday , the 24 th instant , and will take place in the large Hall at Wood Green . The proceedings will commence at 3 p . m .

precisely , and the prizes will be distributed by Mrs . W . W . Bramoton Beach . At 4 p . m . a musical entertainment and recitations will be given by the Boys , and after tea , which ^ with light refreshments will be served in the Gymnasium at 5 p . m ., a series of gymnastic exercises will be gone through . Frequent trains will be run by

the Great Northern Railway Company between King ' s Cross ( suburban ) and Wood Green , and the Great Eastern Railway Company between Liverpool-street and Green Lanes Station , special return tickets being issued by both companies to intending visitors on the production of their invitation tickets . * < *

The final meeting of the Board of Stewards for the 113 th Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held at Freemasons' Hall on Monday , the ioth instant . Bro . Sir John B . Monckton , P . G . W ., occupied the chair , and the accounts having

been examined and ordered to be paid , gratuities were voted to the clerks in the Secretary ' s office for their arduous labours in connection with the Festival , and the usual amount for defraying the visit of the children to the Crystal Palace , with 10 guineas for lawn tennis

and other games . After making this provision , there still remained in hand a balance of no less than 325 guineas , which the Board unanimously agreed to present to the Institution , and thus brought its labours to a most satisfactory conclusion .

* » Saturday , the 29 th instant , will be ex-Pupils' Day , and , as usual , the House Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls will be pleased to see as

many ex > pupils as can make it convenient to attend between the hours of 3 and S p . m . The Committee , however , wish to impress upon ex-pupils that the day is set apart for them , and them only , and that visitors arc not invited or expected to attend .

» » » Among the important Jlasonic functions of the year there are few that pass off more successfully oc are more thoroughly enj ' oyable than the annual meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Kent . In saying this we are

very far from suggesting that the relations existingamong the lodges are more harmonious than in other Provinces or that the brethren are worthier or more capable of being entertained by one another . There are happily few Provinces in which the relations among the lodges

are not of thc friendliest character , and the brethren both ready and willing to give and receive entertainment from their fellows . Kent , again , is a strong and influential Province , and both on general and special occasions the annual meeting invariably furnishes an

opportunity for the interchange of congratulation , both between the ruler and those he rules over and among the general body of members . But there are other Provinces that are numerically stronger , and to that

extent more influential , and the rulers and members of which , both generally and particularly , have equil reason for the interchange of mutual congratulation . In short , we are satisfied to record the existence of this thusness without attempting to account for it .

* * But if in ordinary years this annual meeting is successful and enjoyable , « forlion must have been the meeting which was hold at Dover , on Wednesday , the 12 th instant . Seldom has such a gathering

taken place during the 40 years that Earl Amherst has been thc ruler of the Province , but Here has been some more or less particular cause for rejoicing among our Kentish brethren . But last week the cause was greater than ever . The Prov . Grand Master had occupied the chair ot the recent Festival in

behalf of the Girls' School and not only was the total of donations and subscriptions far in excess of the total at any previous ordinary Festival , but Kent had contributed towards the result a larger sum than had ever previously been subscribed by even the strongest of our English Provinces . This moreover had been done not

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merely in proof of its goodwill towards our Institutions , the existence of which has never been in doubt , but at the same time to give as wide publicity as possible to the fact that among the Masons of Kent none is more fully or more worthily possessed of their affection and respect than the noble brother under whom they have fared so prosperously for the last 40 years and upwards .

» * One thing happened in Prov . G . Lodge which may be more particularly referred to . In the course of the the proceedings Lord Amherst mentioned that H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , M . W . G . M ., had acceded to his request that the Kentish brethren who had given

their services as Stewards at this Festival should be permitted to wear their Stewards' badges for so long as they should continue members of a lodge or lodges in the Province . The only two occasions on which such a privilege has been granted are the School Centenary Festivals in 1888 and 189 S respectively , and then it was granted to the whole body of Stewards .

No doubt this will be taken as a precedent , and that in future a more than usually successful " Chairman ' s Province " at a more than usually productive Festival will desire to have a similar privilege accorded to the brethren who represented it on the Board of Stewards ; but be this as it may , the Stewards at the recent Girls ' Festival are to be congratulated on their good fortune .

* * * We notice also with pleasure that his lordship made it very clea r to those present that an application for a warrant for a new lodge in the Province would not be considered worthy of recommend ition by him to

the Grand Master unless he were able to satisf y himself that there was really a need for the formation of such lodge . No new lodges created in the Province in his time had interfered with the older lodges , and it was only on the likelihood of that condition being fulfilled that he should consider he was justified in recommending the grant of a warrant .

* * * The regular meeting of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , will be held at Freemasons' Hall , on Monday , the 24 th instant , at 5 p . m . Among the announcements on the paper of Agenda is one to the effect that papers entitled " Naymus Grecus , " by the late

Bro . G . W . Speth , and " Marcus Grecus eversus , " by Bro . Dr . Chetwode Crawley s will be read , but it is possible and by no means improbable that owing to the death of Bro . Sit Walter Besant , a founder and the first and only Treasurer of the lodge , the proceedings may be merely of a formal character ,

and that only such business as is absolutely necessary will be transacted . We notice that our late Bro . Sir W . Besant is included among the officers of the lodge and the arrangements , therefore , for Monday ' s meeting must have been made prior to the lamented death of that brother .

* * We notice also with pleasufe that steps are being taken to erect a suitable monument " to commemorate the great services Bro . Speth had rendered to Masonry in general , and to the members of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge in particular . " This is as it should be . There

can be no question as to the services— 'the invaluable services—rendered by our late brother in promoting the cause of Masonic literature through the Quatuor Coronati Lodge . He was the heart and soul of the movement which resulted in the establishment of the

lodge on a sure and certain foundation , and there can be no doubt as to thc propriety of the step which the lodge is taking with a view to perpetuating the memory of his signal services . We trust the movement , whatever form it may assume , will bo worthy of the lodgo and of our late lamented brother .

* * * The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Middlesex will be held under the presidency of Bro . the Right Hon . Lord George Hamilton , M . P ,, Prov . Grand Master , at the Public Hall , Harrow-onthe-Iiill , on Saturday , the 29 th instant , at 3 45 p . m .

The business on the Agenda is of the usuil chancier , and when Prov . Grand Lodge has been closed , the brethren will adjourn to the King ' s Head Hotel , where dinner will be served . Those desirous of taking part in the festive portion of the proceedings must apply

to the Prov . Grand Secretary—Bro . Henry F . Bing , 28 , Southampton-street , Strand , W . C . —for tickets , price 6 s . each ( exclusive of wine ) , as early as possible , i 1 order to ensure the comfort and convenience of the brethren .

It is hardly necessary to state with reference to the meeting of Grand Lodge in the Royal Alli .-rt Hall on Wednesday , the 17 th July , for the installation of H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught as M . W . Grand Master , that the applications of brethren to be present at so important a function are far in excess of the

number which the Hall , capacious as it is , will accommodate—in execs * , indeed , of the number which the largest hall in the world is capable of accommodating . However , the Committee in charge of the arrangements is doing all : n its power to meet the demand , and will allot the seats at its disposal with the strictest impartiality .