Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS— PAGP . Port Elizabeth Educational Scheme ... ... ... ... 435 Union Lodge , Norwich , No . 52 ... •¦• • •¦ ¦¦• 435 Provincial Grand Lodge of Cornwall ... ... ... ... 43 G Provincial Grand Chapter of Durham ... ... ... ... 437 Jews as Freemasons ... ... ... ... ... ... 437 Laying Foundation-Stone of Municipal Buildings at Govan ... ... 437

Complimentary Dinner at Penge ... ... ... . «¦ ... 43 S Mark Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 S Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 S Obituary ... ... ... .. ... ... ... 43 S Canadian Notes ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 S Royal Ark Mariners ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 S Board of Benevolence ... ... ... ... ... ... 439 Craft Masonry ... ... ... .,. ... ... 4 * 30

MASONIC NOTESAccident ( o Bro . Rev . Canon Tristram , P . G . C . ... ... ... 441 Annual Meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodje of Cornwall ... ... 411 Annual Meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Worcestershire ... 441 Installation of Lord Wantage as Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire ... 441

Correspondence ... ... ... ... . . ... 442 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 442 Our Portrait Gallery ... ... ... ... ... ... 443 Instruction ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 443 Allied Masonic Degrees ... ... ... , „ ... 4 ( 3 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 444

Port Elizabeth Educational Scheme.

PORT ELIZABETH EDUCATIONAL SCHEME .

We have again the pleasure of calling attention to the annual report of the Port Elizabeth Masonic Education Scheme . The institution was founded in 1884 , anc h though therefore , it has not been in existence for any length of time , it has been the

means of rendering valuable service in educating the children of deceased or indigent brethren in the Eastern Division of South Africa . The report , which treats of the progress of the 14 th year , is in nearly every respect satisfactory . The Managing

Committee , not without reason , anticipated that as the District Grand Lodge was making a special appeal to the Craft in behalf of the Jubilee Benevolent Fund , there might be a falling off in the amount of subscriptions to this particular Fund . Happily ,

these anticipations were not realised , and instead of the year 1 S 97-S proving less productive than usual , the Committee found themselves in a ppsition at the close of the account to show "a record collection , " this agreeable fact being clue to an unexpected

donation . On the other hand , owing to the payment in advance of School fees and expenses , the disbursements under this head are somewhat larger than usual , but as a set off against this , there is a correspondingly diminished liability in this respect .

The balance-sheet to the 30 th June last shows a total of receipts , including a balance of upwards of £ 37 brought forward from previous account , amounting to ^ 3 6 7 , while the expenditure ,

including a loan of £ 200 to one of the lodges , was slightly in xcess of £ 312 ; the sum paid for School Fees being / , lo . S , while the only other item of expenditure was £ 5 for Printing Uieque Book , & c . The balance in hand at the close of the

• 'iccount was a fraction under £ 54 10 s ., the assets , including this ¦; um , being nearl y . £ 864 , of which £ 550 was on loan to a lodge ; » t 6 percent ., and sonic ^ 259 10 s . at credit in the Post Office Savings Bank ; there being , in audition , three Perpetual

Scholarshi ps at the Grey Institute . The number of children assisted ''} ' the Scheme during the year was 14 , of whom one ' !; is now left in consequence ol having successfully passed ' lie Civil Service Examination , while another , had been similarly

. successful in the Pupil Teachers' Examination . The one un-• itisfactory statement in the Report is the complaint of the onunittec to the effect "that no improvement is shown in the n "mbcr of individual subscribers , " and the hope is expressed t-i . tt the claims of the Scheme will in the future meet with a Skater amount of individual interest and sympathy . We cordially echo this wish .

Port Elizabeth Educational Scheme.

But , after all , our Port Elizabeth brethren are to be warmly congratulated as to the extent of the support which the Fund has received from them and the lodges and other Masonic bodies in the District . The Masons can hardly be a very numerous

body , seeing that there arc only two Craft lodges , Nos . 7 I 1 and S 63 , and one Royal Arch chapter , No . 7 r r ; one Rose Croixchapter , No . Si ; one Mark lodge , No . 253 ; and one Knight Templar Preccptory . Doubtless the membership of these several bodies

is for the most part restricted to the same persons , yet the amount received in the way of subscriptions and donations during 1 S 97-S from individuals and the alms box reached upwards of , £ 220 , and the contributions from five out of the six

Masonic bodies nearly £ 87 . These facts speak well for the benevolence of the Craft in this remote possession of the British Crown , and we trust that for many years to come we may enjoy the privilege of recounting the good deeds in this respect of the

brethren in Port Elizabeth .. The sums we have had occasion to mention arc on a modest scale , and the good effected of necessity restricted , but the record is . most honourable to all who have taken part in the work of this " Masonic Education Scheme " during the year ending 30 th June last .

Union Lodge, Norwich, No. 52.*

UNION LODGE , NORWICH , No . 52 . *

The compilers of this History have had very great difficulties to contend with in the prosecution of their task , difficulties such as nearly every one who has essayed to trace the career of any of our earlier lodges has experienced . But they have grappled

manfully with those difficulties and if they have not succeeded in overcoming them , it is because they were unable , in the absence of the lodge records and other memorials in contemporary Masonic history , to furnish a continuous narrative of the lodge ' s

progress from the date of its constitution in 173 6 till the present time . In familiar parlance they have not been able to make bricks without straw , but they have discovered many particulars hitherto unknown and are to be congratulated on the amount of interest they have found it possible to inspire into their story .

We have said that what is now known as Union Lodge , No . 52—the senior on the roll of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Norfolk—was founded in r 73 6 , when it was described as the King ' s Head Lodge , and ranked as No . 146 on the register of the Grand

Lodge of England , the first reference to it being made in the minutes of the 27 th December , 173 6 , wherein there appears the following entry : " King ' s Head , at Norwich , for Cans '" £ 2 2 0 . " At that time it held the third place among the

Norfolk lodges ; but in 17 86 it took the second , and in 1809 the premier place . It continued to meet at the King ' s Head until the year 1814 , when its membership had dwindled down to four brethren . A year or two later steps were taken to revive the

lodge , and application was made to Grand Lodge for copy of the warrant , which had become lost . In 1817 , as No . 68—which it was renumbered after the Union in 1813—it was amalgamated with No . 23 6 , which was founded in 1705 , and originally known

as the Blue Boar Lodge , but subsequently was named the Union Lodge , which title was assumed by the revived King ' s Head Lodge , and has been retained till the present day . All these facts are carefully noted in the earlier pages of the volume , while a facsimile of the warrant of confirmation granted in l 8 lo , as