Grand Mark Lodge.

INSTALLATION OF H . li . II . THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., Sec , & . < .-., AS GRAND JIAliK MASTER MASON , 1 SHII .

Templar , while in front tire the offices wherein tire accommodated the clerical staff ; beyond is the Library , and beyond again the suite of halls designed for the working of the Ancient unci Accepted Rite and other Degrees . Returning , on the right we find another

lodge room of excellent size and proportion , capable of -seating some 150 brethren . Near the door of this room , carefully preserved under glass , is a mournful relic , the apron and collar of our kite Pro Grand Master , the Earl of Lathom .

Mounting the staircase , which , with its broad mahogany handrail and . its bulbous balusters , bespeak the artistic days of Queen Anne , we have in front of us a historic collection of arms . Those lances trophied on the wall take us back to 1815 , and the name of Wellington whispers on the lip ;

they were used at Waterloo . Below , as the label tells us , presented by Bro . Gordon Miller , tire models of the batons wielded in the days of yore by the stalwart Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta—La Valette , 1557-68 ; Wignacourt , 1601-22 . Curious these , and rare . And then at a bound we

pass to the fighting of to-day : that bandolier and that rifle were picked up on the field of Talana . Back again into the dim and distant past , we have before us tt seventeenth century suit of Moorish mail , Hanked on either hand by discarded armour of two Japanese Samauri .

Here on the right a two-handed sword , which carries on its blade its birth certificate eaten in the murderous steel , 1502 ; while opposite hangs a two-bladed Persian battle-axe , damascened and inlaid with gold . Chinese pikes looted from the Summer Palace of Pekin , on your right—not to-day , be

it understood , but in i 860 , when lirst in pomp and grandeur the Briton set foot in the Sacreci City . A Dervish drum opposite to us , and beyond half-a-dozen lances , which were bathed in Dervish blood when the 21 st Lancers crashed their way through the Mahdi ' s host tit Omdurman . Here we have

a Knight Templar in full panoply of war , while the rebel days of Cromwell tire recalled to us by the vandal roundhead opposite . Two suits of armour , Edward 1 st . the date—Long live the name of Edward ! And now we turn the handle of this door , and with reverence and softened step enter the

world-centre of Mark Masonry . Truly a noble hall . May the dust lie lightly on you Charlie Driver , for of a truth no nobler monument could bear your memory . Your epitaph is written round its walls— "Whatever thy hand lindeth to do , do it with thy might , for there is no work , nor

device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom in the grave . Wisdom hath builded her house . She hath hewn out her seven

pillars . To him that overcometh will I give a white stone and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it . Centred over the throne hangs the picture of King Edward VII ., the Duke of Connaught on his right , and to

R . W . KIIO . CHARLES Itl-a / l ' ON , P . G . W