Freemasonry In Queensland.

The Belle Steamers announce that their new pier at Felixstowe was completed and opened for traffic on Saturday , ist July . The pier is over half a mile long , and passengers will now be able to land on the sea front in the very centre of the town , instead of two miles away as heretofore . This

is the fifth pier built on the East Coast by the Coast Development Corporation , viz ., Clacton , Walton , Felixstowe , Southwold , and Lowestoft , all of which are served by their fleet of steamers running from Fresh Wharf , London Bridge . It would be difficult to imagine a more pleasant way of spending ( he week-end than by taking a trip on one of the above well-known steamers .

At the West Ham Parish Church on Sunday , June i 8 th , a large assembly of local Freemasons assembled to hear an address by Bro . the Bishop of Barking , P . G . C . The service that clay , he said , was in aid of the Tower Restoration Fund . The line old tower of the Parish Church of West Ham had been a landmark for centuries . It had been built by our pious

forefathers , among whom no doubt were many Masons . It was the duty of the present generation to see that , so far as was possible , it should be handed down to posterity in no worse condition than it had been given to them . It was a most interesting fact that in the interior of the tower was a stone

bearing the familiar Masonic emblem of mortality , the skull and crossbones . This was a relic of the old Langthorne Abbey at West Ham , and it had been inserted in the tower alongside of tablets commemorating the generosity of two local gentlemen . He exhoited them , in conclusion , to live up to their Masonic undertakings and professions . The amount of the collection was A ' 40 1 is . 8 d .

© © © Lodges formed of provincial brethren resident in the metropolis have now become numerous , since the constituting , in 1890 . of the Cornish Lodge , No . 2369 , which was the pioneer in this movement . The latest addition to the roll

was the Valentia Lodge , named after the popular Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Oxfordshire , the founders of which are all Oxonians . The consecration took place recently at the Hotel Cecil . The proceedings were of a very interesting character , and the lodge starts on its c ueer under the most encouraging circumstances .

The Regent Hotel, Leamington.

The Regent hotel , Leamington .

OUIGIXAU . Y built in 1819 , was re-opened on Saturday , June 3 rd , after being almost entirely reconstructed and furnished by Maple & Co . It now contains every modern convenience and comfort

—lifts to all floors , electric light and telephones in every room . A motor garage has been installed with a resident engineer always in attendance . The hotel contains 80 bedrooms , and , with a view to the hunting season , the stables have accommodation for 90 horses . There are two billiard

rooms , with three tables . A party of pressmen left iown by special train recently and were entertained at luncheon . The Proprietor , Mr . Cridlan , subsequently showing his guests over the hotel .

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All were of opinion that no more comfortable hotel could be found outside London . The smoke room in green and oxidised fittings with oak wainscot , the drawing room furnished in the fashion of Louis XV . period , are particularly line . The drawing room a magnificent apartment 75 feet

long , with windows overlooking the gardens . This room has a special spring balance lloor with a view to its use as a ball room . No longer can the reproach be made that Leamington

is without a really lirst-class modern hotel . In its earlier clays the hotel entertained royalty and a goodly number of the aristocracy , and it is now again able to offer fitting accommodation for the most exacting guests .