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p ^ e ^^^^^ S ATURDAY , F EBRUARY 27 , 18 97

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The regular Quarterly Communication of United Grand Lodge will be held at Freemasons' HaU on Wednrsd . iy , the 3 rd prox ., at the usual hour of 6 tor 7 p . m ., when a somewhat lengthier programme of business than is usual will be submitted for the consideration cf thebrethren , the lirst item , after the confirmation

of the minutes of the December Grand Lodge , being a nitice of motion from his Royal Highness the M . W . G and Master to the effect that the sum of one thousand guineas be voted from the funds of Gr .. nd Lodge to the I dian Famine Relief Fund . This will be followed by the election of the M . W . Grand Master and Grand Ireisurer ( or Ihe ciuuing year , and , as we announced last week , one of the two brethren who were nominated

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for the latter office last December—Bro . Major Clifford Probyn—having withdrawn his candidature , the other — Bro . Alderman VV . Vaughan Morgan—will , as a matter of course , be elected . * * » The Report of the Board of General Purposes contains a recommendation to the effect that a clause be

inserted in the Book of Constitutions , after Law 1 S 9 , providing that a brother who joins an English lodge from one under another Constitution , shall declare in open lodge his adhesion to our Book of Constitutions , and promise due obedience to the M . W . Grand Master ,

and the Rules and Regulations of Grand Lodge , the fact of such declaration having been made being duly recorded in the lodge minutes . As our Book of Constitutions contains no such law , the insertion of the proposed clause is desirable , if not absolutely necessary .

There are also sundry important Noticesof Motion , by His Honour Judge Philbrick , Q . C , Grand Registrar , which , if Grand Lodge sees fit to adopt the resolutions , will have the effect of smoothing away many of the difficulties which arise when the question is mooted inone of

our Colonies or Possessions of establishing a Sovereign G . Lodge . Some of the proposed resolutions are intended to follow Law 218 , the first , which will be 218 A , providing that subject to a dispensation from the Dist . G . Master , a lodge may hold a special meeting or meetings to discuss and resolve on the question of

the formation of a Sovereign Grand Lodge . Such dispensation may be granted subject to any conditions the Dist . Grand Master may deem proper , and also may provide for two or more lodges uniting to hold such a meeting or meetings . In the event of the Dist . G . M . refusing to grant such a dispensation , an appeal may be made to the M . W . G . M .

# # ? The next resolution , which , if passed into law , will appear in the Book of Constitutions as 2 i 8 n , provides that whenever Grand Lodge with the assent of the M . W . Grand Master has resolved on recognising a

Grand Lodge newly-cstablished in one of our Colonies or Possessions , and the Grand Master has signified his intention of issuing no further warrants for constituting lodges , the Worshipful Master of every lodge in such Colony , & c , or failing him , the District Grand

Master , shall convene a special meeting of the lodge on 21 days' notice , for the purpose of enabling the members to decide whether they will remain under the existing warrant or not , and in the event of their deciding not to remain , in whom the property and effects of the lodge shall be vested ; the warrant to be

forthwith returned to the Grand Secretary to be delivered up to the Grand Master . A two-thirds majority " of those present" will suffice to carry any resolution , and no second special meeting is to be summoned to discuss the above questions without the leave of the M . W . Grand Master .

* » * A further resolution will be proposed to take the place of present Article 219 , and this , if it becomes law , will provide that whenever the subscribing members of any lodge , as shown by its latest return , shall

be fewer than five , thc lodge shall cease to meet and the warrant be delivered to the Grand Master , who may , however , grant a dispensation to the members to meet under such conditions as he may think proper to make until hc has finally decided whether or not the lodge shall continue to meet .

* * As far as we are able to judge at present , Bro . Philbrick ' s proposals appear to be of a character which will certainly remove many of those difficulties which

have occurred on the formation of a ncw Colonial G , Lodge , without infringing upon any of the rights and privileges of those who may be desirous of remaining in their allegiance to our Grand Lodge .

As regards the number of warrants which his Royal Highness the M . W . Grand Master has been pleased to grant for the constitution of new lodges since thc December Communication , it is larger than

wc have known it for a long time past . I here have * been issued 21 such warrants , three of which arc for lodges to meet in the London District ; seven for lodges in the Provinces , and 11 in Districts abroad . Of the seven Provincial , three—the Dart , No . 2641 ,

Dartmouth ; the Sir Francis Drake , No . 2649 , Plymouth ; and the Queen Victoria , No . 2655 , St . Budeaux—will meet in Devonshire ; the Charity Lodge , No . 2651 , Warrington , inW . Lancashire ; the Albany , No . 2 C 52 , Kingston-on-Thames , in Surrey ; the Chaloner , No . 2644 , Melksham , in Wiltshire j and the Arter

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Lodge , No . 2654 , Moseley , in Worcestershire . Of the lodges Abroad , Nos . 2 ( 535 26 3 6 , 2637 , 263 S , and 2639 , will meet in Western Australia ; Nos . 2640 , 2643 , and 2653 , in the Transvaal ; No . 2642 , in British Guiana ; No . 26 45 , in Burma ; and No . 2646 , in Cape Colony .

The Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons will be held at Mark Masons ' Hall on Tuesday , the 2 nd prox . There is 110 business of great importance lo be considered , the chief matter to be noticed being that Bro . Major T . C . Wails has withdrawn his candidature for the office of Grand

Treasurer for the ensuing year , and consequently Bro . George H . Parke , the other nominee , will be elected without a contest . We trust that thc honourable course pursued by Bro . Major'Walls on this occasion will be remembered to his credit should hc again

offer himself as a candidate for this coveted ollice . It should also be mentioned that the date on which the Anniversary Festival of the Mark Benevolent Fund will be held has been altered from the 14 th , as announced in our last week ' s issue , to the 7 th July .

We learn from the report of the General Board , which will be submitted to Grand Lodge for its acceptance , that warrants for one Mark Lodge—the Woodiwiss , No . 503 , Derby , so named after the Prov . G . Mark Master of Derbyshire—and three Royal Ark Mariner Lodges , have been granted si nee theQuarterly

Communication in December last . The latter are the Ark in Oudh Lodge to be attached to the Headstone of the Corner Lodge , No . 233 , Lucknow , under the Dist . G . Lodge of Bengal ; and the King Solomon , to be attached to the Mark Lodge bearing the sime name ,

No . 385 , and Royal Oak , to be attached to the Royal Oak Lodge , No . 416 , which are both in the London district . The further certificates issued are in the Mark Degree 317 , raising the total number registered to 36 , 335 , and in the Royal Ark Mariner 54 , making the total registered 5084 .

* » The report further notifies that his Royal Highness the M . W . G . M . has been pleased to appoint Bro . Major-General Fletcher Owen , R . A ., District Grand Master of Malta , in succession to Bro . Rear-Admiral Markham , who has resigned the office , and to re-appoint , for a

further term of three years , Bro . Richard V . Vassar-Smith as Prov . G . M . of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire . His Royal Highness has also been pleased to direct that the Shropshire Lodge , No . 444 , Shrewsbury , shall be temporarily attached to and form an

integral part of the Province of Staffordshire . Among the latest contributions lo the Mark Grand Lodge are a parcel of Si valuable Masonic books in English , French , and German , and five facsimile Masonic rolls , the generous gift of Bro . A . H . Jefferis , P . G . D . ? ? *

A regular meeting of Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , will be held at Freemasons' Hall on Friday , the 5 th prox ., and , as usual , the brethren will alterwards dine together at the Holborn Restaurant . In the course of the proceedings in lodge two papers will be read—one by Bro . J . J . Rainey on " The Furniture

of the Shakespeare Lodge , No . 426 , " and the other by Bro . Gustavo Jottrand on ' * The Antiquity of the Lodge at Mons in Belgium . " Sundry papers are promised in thc near future , from which elucidation on difficult questions may be looked for , among them being one by Bro . R . F . Gould , P . G . D ., on " The Degrees of Pure and Ancient Freemasonry . "

* Wc publish elsewhere a letter with which wc have been favoured by Bro . Jacobs , I . P . M . No . 227 , in which hc announces that very recentl y he received a visit from a certain well-known Masonic impostor , whose card has the initials "B . A . T . C . D . " appended to his

name . It will be seen that Bro . Jacobs was similarl y honoured (?) by the same fellow about 18 months ago , and having then been sceptical as to thc genuineness of his statements , very properly sent him empty away . At the more recent visit , our correspondent , having expressed a very candid opinion of the man ' s couduct

treated him in precisely the same fashion . Under the circumstances , we regret that Bro . Jacobs did not see his way to giving the man in charge to a policeman for a clear attempt to obtain money under false pretences , especially as it has been announced in our

columns that he has been twice sentenced to terms of imprisonment by different magistrates and cautioned by a third . What is the good of our publishing these cautions against men of this class if nothing is done when so favourable an opportunity for introducing one of them to the nearest magistrate presents itself :