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CONTENTS .

,. ADEBS 493 X " ' Red Book" 494 omvincial Grand Lodge ot North and Fast Yorkshire ....:...- 49 il rnnsecration of the Victoria Jubilee Chapter , No . USS ' 49 $ Installation o £ Comp . E . W . Parker as Grand Superintendent of the Punjab ... 49 S Behold this Ruin 49 6 The Union of Australian Grand Lodges ... 496 Powers of a Grand Master 49 J fhoice and Retention of Good Officers 497 The Late Bro . Rob Morris 4 > 7 Australian Notes ..,.,,,, 495 fonR-sspoNDENCE— A Correction 499

Reviews 499 Notes and Queries 499 The Craft Abroad 499 REPORTS op MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 500 Instruction ioo Royal Arch Joo Knights Templar Soo India 50 " Banquet and Presentation to W . Bro . Capt . William Freeman , Prov . G . M . M . of North Africa Sot Re-opening of the Masonic Hall , Weymouth Joi Masonic and General Tidings $ 03 Lodge Meetings for Next Week $ 04

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WE are very pleased to learn from the address delivered by T North e o £ Bro . the Earl of ZETLAND , Prov . Grand Master , at the recent Yorkshire . annuai meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of North and

East Yorkshire , that steps have been taken to form a Provincial Masonic Educational Fund to assist in educating those Masons' children who are unable , or until they are able , to obtain admission into the Royal Masonic Institutions for Boys and Girls ; that a considerable sum has already been

raised for the purposes of this Fund , and that , in accordance with its by-laws , the first annual Festival will be held in May , 1889 , by which time it is to be hoped that the position of the Fund will be established on a sufficiently sound

basis to allow of a commencement being made . We are always delighted to hear of associations of this character being set on foot . They do a world of good locally ; indeed , there are many who prefer to have their children or wards partially provided for in this manner to having them

removed from home to a distance 5 and there can be no doubt that in time , as the number of these local organisations increases , they will have the effect of lightening the serious demands which are constantly being made on the great central Institutions . But be this as it may , we congratulate

our North and East Yorkshire brethren on having taken this important step , and we trust that , for the sake of the province and the children in whom it is so directly interested , as well as for the sake of our | central Charities , their efforts to place this Fund on a sound basis will prove

successful . * * * Bro . Lord BROOKE had an easy and an agreeable task The Prov . G . . . . Lodgeof before him when , for the second time in his career as Prov . Essex » -

, „„ ,.., . ...... ... .. G . M . of Essex , he visited Colchester early in the course of the present month for the purpose of presiding at the annual meeting of his Prov . G . Lodge . There was , as might be expected , a full attendance of brethren , every one of the 28 lodges in the province being represented , and

the various reports which were submitted for consideration were all of them ° f the most encouraging character . The Prov . G . SECRETARY announced a substantial increase in the number of subscribing members from 1173 in •¦ 88 7 to 1264 , and the Auditors' statement showed that the balances in the

hands of the Prov . G . Treasurer on the General and Charity Funds together exceeded £ 100 , that on the General Fund being over ^ 90 , and that on the Uiarity Fund over £ 14 . There was one slight drawback from the favourable nature of the reports in the shape of a complaint by the Charity

Committee that some of the larger holders of votes had not given as much support as they might have done to the provincial candidates and this was attributed 0 the practice of printing the names of those who sent votes , on which it was at once determined that the practice should be discontinued . There was also

° ng discussion on the subject of borrowing votes , and it was even pro-Posed that the Committee should give up borrowing till those owing by the Province had been paid . In the end , however , it was very wisely deter"I'ned to do nothing that could fetter the action of the Charity Committee .

course , m his annual address , the PROV . G . MASTER spoke in very « atory terms of the progress which had been made by Freemasonry in ss * ex since his installation five years ago , and he was also pleased to pay very high , yet very just , compliment to his learned Deputy , Bro .

^ " " HILERICK , Q . C ., Grand Registrar , to whom especial honour ^ s recentl y been paid by the constitution of the Philbrick Lodge , and who , him ° u P announced » had kindly consented to remain in office and give

lord V nis valuable assistance for at least another year . His the P ^ . " cluded his remarks by throwing out a suggestion that next year East ° i ' ncial Grand Lodge should meet in the vicinity of his residence at -odge , where no effort would be wanting on his part in order to secure

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the success of the meeting and render it in every way agreeable . As regards the new Prov . Grand Officers , the selection appeared to be received with general favour , but there was a contest for the Prov . G . Treasurership , in which , however , Bro . A . DURRANT , who had already held the office for nine

years , was returned by a narrow majority , a resolution being subsequently passed to the effect that no brother should hold the office for more than two years . Both the Prov . G . Master and his Deputy were at the pains of pointing out that such a resolution would not be binding on future Provincial

Grand Lodges , as , by the Book of Constitutions , the appointment was an annual one , and so the subject was dropped . What advantage is likely to result to the province from passing an abstract resolution such as this is not very apparent . The brethren , if they are so disposed , can elect a fresh

Prov . G . Treasurer every year , but we would remind them that a Prov . G . Treasurer , unlike the Grand Treasurer , has certain duties to perform , and a certain responsibility to bear ; and it is customary , when a brother has fulfilled these duties and borne this responsibility for a term of years , to

leave him , if he wishes it , in undisturbed possession of his office . The members of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Essex will not be doing seriously wrong if they know how to retain the services of a good officer , when they have one who has served them with so much zeal and advantage as Bro . DURRANT has for the last nine years .

* * * WE congratulate the members of that ancient and honourable Lodge , No ! ijo Lodge—All Souls ' , No . 170 , Weymouth—on the success of Weymouth . ^ p roceedings at the re-opening of their Hall on Thursday ,

the 9 th instant . The interior of the building had been entirely re-arranged and very handsomely re-decorated , and it was in the order of things that the re-opening should have been made the occasion for a more than usually brilliant ceremony appropriate to the circumstances , and that invitations

to be present should have been issued to many among the more prominent members of the Craft . The result of the endeavours of Bro . MILLEDGE , W . M ., who had charge of all the arrangements , was most satisfactory , the local brethren being in great force , while among the brighter and more

particular luminaries of the Order present were Bros . W . E . BRYMER , D . P . G . M . ; J . M . P . MONTAGU , Past D . P . G . M ., and G . Superintendent ( R . A . ) of Dorsetshire ; Col . SHADWELL H . CLERKE , G . Sec ; Rev . W . M . HEATH , Past G . Chap . ; and Sir RICHARD N . HOWARD , J . G . D . The

proceedings , both in the lodge and at the banquet that followed , passed off admirably , not the least interesting portion in the former being the concise historical sketch of All Souls' , which had been compiled with great care by Bro . A . SHERREN , Secretary , and was read by him for the edification of

those who were present . We regret to say that , as with the majority of our old lodges , the materials for an unbroken history were not forthcoming , but Bro . SHERREN was able to demonstrate clearly enough that the career of the lodge had been a distinguished one in the past , and to us it seems almost

impossible to doubt that its future will be equally prosperous and distinguished . At all events , it has our hearty good wishes for its future wellbeing , and may rely with certainty upon our being always prepared to render it any service in our power .

* * » NOTHING is to be gained by prolonging a controversy , in which Remittances neither side is likely to be convinced , even when its statements

Home . are shown to be erroneous . We are sorry to hear the New Zealand Freemason is no longer in existence , though it has experienced a better fate than is the lot of many Masonic journals , which promise well , and then for lack of due appreciation pass out of existence . It lives again

in the New Zealand Masonic Journal , with which it has been incorporated , and which renews its opinions as calmly as if they had never been successfully controverted . In our article of the 31 st March last we asserted—and the justice of the assertion is allowed by the New Zealand Masonic Journal

—that the sums remitted by colonial lodges to our Grand Lodge consisted of fees " for warrants and registration , " and that Colonial lodgea paid no quarterages . Our contemporary now argues that it does not matter " what name may be applied to the fees so levied—whether

' warrant fees , ' ' registration fees , ' or otherwise , " these remittances are a serious drain upon their resources . We maintain that these fees are unobjectionable , on the ground that our Grand Lodge gives a fair equivalent in the shape of warrants , certificates , and registration of membership . If