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L EADERS 335 United Grand Lodge of England 236 The New Grand Officers 237 Provincial Grand Lodge of Cumberland and Westmorland 239 Supreme Grand Chapter 239 Provincial Grand Chapter of Cumberland and Westmorland 239 Provincial Grand Chapter of North and East Yorkshire 240 Annual Supper of the Covent Garden Lodge of Instruction , No . 1614 241 Annual Supper of the Hyde Park Lodge of Instruction , No . 1425 241 Board of Benevolence 241 CORRESPONDENCEHistory of the Unity Chapter , No . 72 ... 243 Financial Tables of the Institutions 243 Reviews 244

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Notes and Queries ,,., 244 REPORTS OK MASONIC MMTINOSCraft Masonry 244 Instruction , 347 Royal Arch 247 Instruction 248 Mark Masonry 24 S Knights Templar 248 Order of the Secret Monitor 248 Masonic Service at Openshaw , Manchester 348 Laying the Corner Stones of St . Paul ' s Church , Royton 349 Annual Banquet of the 'Henley Lodge of Instruction 249 Grand Lodge of New York 349 Obituary 249 Masonic and General Tidings 350 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iv .

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reme " ^ HE Quarter ' y Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter will ' Grand be held at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday next , the ist prox ., Chapter . when the installation of Principals and the appointment and investiture of the Grand Officers for the year will take place . There will also be taken into consideration a recommendation of the Committee ot

General Purposes for the erasure from the roll of Grand Chapter of chapters attached to the Craft lodges in the colony of New South Wales , which were formerly under United Grand Lodge , but which are now part and parcel of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales . This is , of course , a mere formality , and will occupy but little of the time of Grand Chapter .

We note also that a more than usually numerous list of petitions for warrants for new chapters will be submitted , among them being one for a new chapter to be known as the Clarke Chapter , No . 2080 , and to meet in Melbourne , Victoria . The carter of this as an English chapter will be a brief one . The rest of the agenda for Wednesday next is of the ordinary character .

The WE take the opportunity of reminding our readers that the School election to fill the vacancies in the Boys' School will take place ec ions . af . tj . g guarter | y General Court , to be held at Freemasons '

Tavern , this day ( Friday ) , at 12 , noon , while the Girls' School election is fixed for to-morrow ( Saturday ) , at the same hour , and in the same place . For the former there are 17 , and may be 20 , vacancies to be filled , the number of candidates being 72 ; while for the latter the number of actual

vacancies is also 17 , and it is proposed to increase this by adding 20 children to the establishment to 37 , the list of candidates comprising the names of 74 girls .

* * R . M . B . I ^ Candidates for the Male Fund Election of the Royal Election . —Male Masonic Benevolent Institution generally appear to have two decided advantages over those on the Widows' Fund ; In the first place , they are , as a rule , less numerous , and in the next , the

number of vacancies for which they compete are more numerous . This will be the case at the election which is appointed to take place on Friday , the 17 th prox ., when 17 men will be elected from a list of 62 candidates , while in the case of the Widows' Fund , there will be only 10 elected out of

a list of 81 ; the three Deferred Annuitants being in both cases included among the number to be elected . Taking the Male Fund candidates first , and submitting the list to the usual analysis , we find that out of the 62 old brethren , whose claims to admission have been approved by the Committee ° ' Management , 35 are cases in which the candidates have tried at least

once and been unsuccessful , while the remaining 27 have been added to the ' ¦ st since the election of last year . Of the former one has been on the list for e'ght years , one for seven years , one for six years , two for five years , four for ° ur years , four for three years , and 22 for two years ; and in all these cases such votes as the candidates may have been fortunate enough to have otained at their previous attempts will stand to their credit on this occasion , s regards the distribution of the candidates , it appears that London con'outes 23 , of whom 13 are old and 10 new applicants , while the other 39 r ? the provinces , 22 of them being old and 17 new . The provincial comprise five from Devonshire , five from N . and E . Yorkshire , and five from West orkshire . fourfrom East Lancashire ; twoeachfrom Berksand Bucks , Hants a "a the Isle of Wight , Kent , Northumberland , Suffolk , and Warwickshire . I ° from eacn of the following , namely : —Cheshire , Dorsetshire , Essex , ^ ancashire , Middlesex , Oxfordshire , South Wales ( East Division ) , and ^ urrey . Of the unsuccessful candidates from 1888 , who have a substantial r ay of votes to bring forward , Nos . 1 and 10 ( Hants and Isle of Wight aUh 5 - ? - 3 nd 541 res P ect'vely ; and Nos . 8 , 9 , 18 , 22 , 23 , 25 , 28 , and 31—4 SS vt fr ° m London ~ have 1323 . 614 , 5 83 , 1324 , 1340 , 1025 , 917 , and the res PectiveIy ; while the Surrey candidate , No . 17 , has 711 votes to dateT ° 8 ' MiddIesex ? l 6 votes •and No - 2 7 > one of the Suffolk candiaddTt ' V ° * We beIieve tnat one of the candidates has died , and that that 'T vacanc ' es have occurred since the voting papers were issued , so 1 atter all , the odds will not be so heavy as they seem at first sight ,

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FOR the Widows' Fund of the Institution there is , unfortu-Eie ' ' ion— nately , as there has been for the last few years , a heavy list of Widows' Fund . can ( ji , _; ates . while the vacancies , in accordance with the same experience , are few in number , though , as in the case of the Male Fund ,

they will no doubt be found to have been increased by the day appointed for the election . At present , however , there are only 10 vacancies to be competed for , of which seven are immediate and three deferred , while the list of candidates includes the names of 81 old ladies , the widows of brethren , who in their day did good service to the state of Masonry . Of these 81

candidates , 47 remain over from last year ' s election , and of this latter number two are applicants for the ninth time—and as the votes they bring forward are limited in the one case to 157 and in the other to 50 , these prospects it must be admitted are not particularly bright—and four for the seventh time , the highest on the list having 6 9 8 votes to her credit , while the next has 228

votes , the third 667 votes , and the last only 40 votes- Then follow four who will make their sixth attempt next month , but only one of this group has a fair credit of 511 votes to her account . The six next—Nos . 11 to 16 inclusive—are candidates for the fifth time and appear to have been able to attract a moderate amount of support in the past , which ought to be of

service to them on this occasion , No . 11 having 8 94 votes to the good ; No . 12 , 1271 votes ; No . 13 , 454 votes ; No . 14 , 717 votes ; No . 15 , 307 votes ; and No . 16 , 1169 votes . These are followed by five , who are applicants for the fifth time , but the highest number of votes already polled for any one of these is 108 , for No . 21 . Nos . 22 to 27 inclusive will try their

fortune for the third time , and of these three already stand fairly well , No . 24 having 878 votes in hand ; No . 26 , 1346 votes ; and No . 27 , 803 . The remaining 20 of the old candidates made their first attempt last year , and among them the following stand fairly well , namely : No . 28 , with 552 votes ; No . 29 , with 873 votes ; No . 3 i , with i 38 ovotes ; No . 33 , with 536 votes ; Nos . 34

and 35 , with 1247 and 1267 votes respectively ; No . 36 , with 1462 votes j No . 37 , with 625 votes ; and No . 40 , with 480 votes . As regards the districts whence the candidates derive their claims , we find that 27 hail from London and 54 from the country , the ratio of the former to the latter being as one to two . Of the provincial cases , Devonshire and Kent send nine

each ; Hants and the Isle of Wight , four cases ; Lincolnshire , Staffordshire and West Yorkshire , each three cases ; and Durham , Essex , Lancashire East , Lancashire West , and Suffolk are each responsible for two cases . The following 13 Provinces and Districts furnish the other 13 cases , namely , Bristol , Cheshire , Cornwall , Cumberland and Westmorland , Dorsetshire ,

Middlesex , North Wales , Somersetshire , South Wales ( West Division ) , Suffolk , Sussex , Warwickshire , and Turkey . We may add that from the particulars published in both the Male and Widows' Lists , it is manifest that the majority of the candidates and late husbands of the candidates

have or had been members of our Society for many years , while not a few amongst them won distinction in lodge or chapter , or contributed to our Institutions in their more prosperous days . The contest will undoubtedly be severe , and we can only hope that , when the result sheets are published , it will be found that the most deserving cases are returned as successful .

* * * WE have heard many strange legal definitions of what con-TeniMr stitutes " Masonically occupied territory , " but we confess to being surprised and not a little disconcerted by a statement

made by Bro . E . T . GILLON . P . M . ( S . C ) , in the address he delivered at the meeting of Past Masters referred to in our article of last week as having been held at Wellington , New Zealand , on the 1 st February last , on the subject of establishing a United Grand Lodge in that colony . Having pointed out that there were " three separate Constitutions working

side by side " in the colony , and that the three Grand Lodges to which those Constitutions were severally subject exercised " co-equal powers , " Bro . GILLON went on to say " There is , indeed , no reason why there should not be a dozen Constitutions at work in this colony instead of three , for Masonic law would , until a local Grand Lodge occupies the field , permit

any established Grand Lodge to grant a charter in the colony . We might at any time have a Swedish lodge established , or the Grand Lodge of Italy , the Grand Orient of France , or any of the numerous American or Canadian Grand Lodges might establish lodges here , and increase the confusion which , even now . arises from the existence of the

three Constitutions . " We are curious to know the authority on which Bro . GILLON rests this absolute statement as to the Masonic law on " occupied territory . " The most conspicuous , indeed , almost the only cases we can call to mind as having occurred during recent years , offer a direct and emphatic contradiction to his bold assertion . There was , in the first place .

that of the Lodge * ' El Moghreb Al Aksa , " warranted by the Grand Lodge of Manitoba , and originally located at Gibraltar , within the jurisdiction of the District Grand Lodge of Gibraltar , which is subject to our Grand Lodge . On our authorities remonstrating with the Grand Lodge of Manitoba for this invasion of their territory , the latter admitted its error , and the