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l ^ siisssl SATURDAY , J 22 , 18 99

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Masonic Notes .

The annual meeting of thc Provincial Grand Lodge of Essex will take place at the Tilbuiy Hotel , Tilbury , on Wednesday , the 2 ( 5 th instant , at 3 p . m ., and will be followed by the customary banquet at 5 p . m . The Great Eastern Railway Company will run a special

train from Fenchurch-street Station at 1 . 15 p . m . charging first-class return fare of 2 s . on presentation of summons , tho return special leaving Tilbury at 7 . 30 p . m . There will also be a spacial train for the convenience ol brethren residing in the Southend District ,

which will leave Shoeburyness at 1 p . m ., calling at Southend at 1 . 10 , and Leigh at 1 . 15 , and arriving at Tilbury at 1 . 45 . The company also issue cheap return tickets to " Pleasure Parties " consisting of six first - class and 10 third-class passengers travelling together ,

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three days' notice , however , being given by those intending to avail themselves of this arrangement . Those who desi re to be present at the banquet will obtain tickets—10 s . 6 d . each , inclusive of wine—of Bro . Joseph Bruton , 22 7 , Romford-road , Forest Gate , E .

Other Provincial meetings have also been announced to take place about this time . Thc Prov . Grand Lodge and Prov . Grand Chapter of Surrey meet this ( Friday ) afternoon at the Public Hall , Woking , the hour fixed for the Chapter being 3-is p . m ., and forthe

Lodge at 4 . 30 p . m . ; while the banquet will be held under the same roof at 6 . 30 p . m . On Friday , the 28 th instant , the Prov . Grand Lodge of Hertfordshire will meet , under the auspices ot the Stortford Lodge , at the Parish Room , Windhill , Bishop's Stortford , at 3 . 45 p . m ., the banquet following at 5 . 30 p . m .

The annual meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Middlesex , at the Parish Hall , Teddington , to-morrow ( Saturday ) , at 3 . 45 p . m ., will be deprived of much of the Tnterest and pleasure we are apt to associate with this gathering , in consequence of the lamented

death of Bro . Raymond H . Thrupp , P . A . G . D . C . of England , who for many years had held the important ofiice of Deputy Prov . Grand Master in Craft Masonry and Prov . G . H . in the Royal Arch . The loss to the Province of so able and experienced an oflicer is a

very serious one , and , though we rejoice to say that in the ranks of our Middlesex brethren there are many who are well qualified to succeed him , it will , of necessity , be some time before the Province will become accustomed to the loss of one who had played

so leading a part in the conduct of its affairs during so many years , and played it in such a manner as to have won for himself the respect and esteem of all the Masons in the Province . Happily , the services of our deceased brother will be perpetuated in Middlesex by

Lodge No . 2024 , Hampton Court , which bears his name , and was warranted during the second year of his Deputy Provincial , Grand Mastership , while the Raymond Thrupp Prize , which is awarded annually to the boy who distinguishes himself above his fellows in

History , will keep green the memory of the services he was always prepared to render to our Masonic Institutions . We remark with satisfaction that out of respect to our late Bro . Thrupp , the customary banquet after Provincial Grand Lodge will not take place .

* » * We have received copy of the Report of the Proceedings of the District G . Lodge of Canterbury ( N . Z . ) at the Regular Quarterly Communication , which was held at the St . Augustine Masonic Hill ,

Christchurch , on the 20 th April last , under the presidency of Bio . R . Dunn Thomas , Dist . G . Master There appears to have been a somewhat larger attendance than usual , and we are glad to note that , in the course of the meeting it was unanimously resolved that a sum of £ 12 ios . should be set apart towards

" obtaining a suitable portrait of the late D . G . M ., R . W . liro . P . Cunningham , as a Lodge Room Memorial , " the D . G . M ., his Deputy , and the W . M . of each subscribing Lodge being a Committee to give effect to the Resolution * * *

We are also glad to remark that the brethren in this District are desirous of doing as much for the promotion of Charitable objects as pjssibl ; . The D . S . G . Warden , with the permission of the Dist . G . Master , invited an expression of opinion as to the

expediency of founding scholarships for the children of biethren , when it was pointed out that liberal provision in this respect was already made by the State . It was , however , suggested that " the endowment of beds in hospitals and convalescent homes would be a more useful and equally suitable employmeut for any

funds which the Dist . Grand Lodge or private lodges might wish to devote to Masonic Charity . " Accordingly , several brethren expressed their intention of bringing the matter again before Dist . Grand Lod ge and also before their private lodges . * ? *

We have likewise received copy of proceedings at the annual communication of the District Grand Lodge of Otago and Southland , which was held under the auspices of the Port Chalmers Marine Lodge , No . 942 , at Freemasons' Hall , Port Chalmers , on the 17 th

May . Bro . T . Sherlock Graham , District Grand Master , presided , and in the course of his address , expressed the pleasure he felt that the Grand Lod ge of New Zealand had at length been recognised by the Grand Lodges of the mother country .

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He also referred in terms of deep sympathy to the great loss sustained by English Freemasonry owing to the lamented death of the Earl of Lathom , Pro G . Master ; and also to that of Freemasonry in the

District by the death of Bro . Dr . John Cunninghame , Past Dist . S . G . W . ; and it was subsequently resolved , on the motion of the Dist . G . Master , that a letter of condolence be sent to the family of their deceased brother .

It was announced in the Report of the Dist . B lard of General Purposes that , in accordance with instructions , special meetings of Lodges Nos . 844 , 931 , 942 , and 1128 had been held for the purpose of taking into consideration the question of remaining under the Grand Lodge of England . Three of the lodges

resolved unanimously to remain , while in the case of the fourth , a motion to join the Grand Lodge of New-Zealand was lost , owing to the requisite majority not being in favour of the proposal . Subsequently the Dist . G . Officers for the ensuing year were appointed and those of them who were present invested . The

Dist . G . Secretary ( Bro . Sydney James , Past Dep . Dist . G . M . ) afterwards presented , in open Dist . Grand Lodge , the W . M . of Port Chalmer ' s Marine Lodge , No . 942 , with copy of the Correspondence concerning the formation of that lodge , to which he , as P . M . of a lodge in Victoria , and a member of the then Board of

General Purposes of that Province , had been a party , and announced his intention of presenting copies of similar correspondence relating to Lodges Nos . S 44 and 931 , in the formation of which he ( the Dist . G . Sec . ) had also taken part . * * «

Bro . Charles E . Keyser , P . G . D ., the Treasurer of the Institution , presided at the Quarterly General Court of Governors and Subscribers of the Boys ' School , which was held at Freemasons' Hall , on Friday , the 141 I 1 instant . The most important part of the business had reference to the election of children

into the School at the Quarterly Court next ensuing , the list of candidates being settled at 34 , and the number of vacancies to be filled at 15 . As for Bro . Eve ' s proposal to amend Law 46—which defines who shall attend and vote at Quarterly and Special Courts—By

Ihe insertion of the words "not being minors , " it was carried , and in future babies in arms , boys in knickerbockers , and girls in short dresses will be denied the privilege of voting at the election of members of the Board of Management . m * *

This very modest amendment of Law 46 was not , however , permitted to pass without question , thc redoubtable Bro . Thomson Lyon offering himself as the dissentient body in the belief that an attack on the right and privileges of a small body of brethren that only exists by dispensation was intended . In vain did

Bro . Eve affirm that nobody was desirous of disfranchising anybody but the minors who did not understand what voting meant ; in vain did he supplement this remark by pointing out that the dissentient body ' s counter-proposal would disfranchise ladies of

full age . Bro . Lyon stood to his guns manfully , as though he had been a whole army of dissentients , but no one sympathised with him , and Law 46 was , as we have said , amended in accordance with Bro . Eve ' s proposal .

Ihe Quarterly Court also paid a well-deserved compliment to Bro . Charles E . Keyser , J . P ., P . G . D ., thc Treasurer and a Patron of the Institution , for his great services generally , but more especially as the Chairman at the recent Festival , by unanimously resolving , on the motion of Bro . I . H . Whadcoat . seconded by Bro . Richard Eve , on presenting him

wilh a replica of the vote of thanks in album form which had been voted to the late Earl of Lathom and to Lord Leigh . We are glad of the opportunity of expressing our opinion that the Court could not have acquitted itself more gracefully in thus recognising the eminent services which Bro . Keyser has rendered to all our Institutions almost continuously during the whole of his Masonic career .

We are not , as a rule , particularly happy in th : selection of titles for our new lodges , but none will deny the appropriateness of the one chosen for the lodge which the Earl of Warwick , as Provincial Grand Master of Essex , had the pleasure of consecrating a few days since at Chigwell . It is to the immortal

author of " Barnaby Rudge " that the place is chiefly indebted for its fame . Chigwell , indeed , is instinct with the creations of Charles Dickens ' s brain , and the founders of No . 2737 are to be congratulated on their choice of a title that will live as long as there is an English language to perpetuate it .