Freemasonry In New South Wales.

pany assembled hy lending fiA'e elegant drawingroom suites , besides giving great assistance to the furnishing of the supper-room . The Avhole of the pit being hoarded OA'cr , formed , together with a portion of the stage , a space of about one hundred feet by forty feet , allotted for the Terpsichorean evolutions , Avhile a large compartment at the rear of the stage Avas appropriated to the supper room , and snug corners ivere found for those Avhose '' dancing- days Avere over" to enjoy a rubber . The spacious billiard room

, in front ofthe theatre , opening from the lower tier of boxes , ivas comfortably furnished as a retiring room for the ladies . The bauds , being a portion of H . M . ' s 12 th regiment , and an effective operatic band , under M . Eigenschenck , ivere conducted by Bro . Wintcrbottom , AVIIO adapted Blewitt ' s Masonic quadrilles for the occasion , the introduction of which formed a most pleasing addition to the programme . About half past eight the guests began to arrive , and by half past nine , Avhen the ball commencedthe house ivas well filled

, . His excellency , the governor-general , had been invited , but owing to sudden indisposition , sent an apology for his non-attendance . Among the company present , howeA-er , Avere the R . W . Prov . Grand Master of Victoria , Bro . Captain Clarke ; the V . W . the D . Prov . G . M ., Bro . Alderman Williams ; fche Pasfc Acting D . Prov . G . M ., Br . Malcom ; the Officers ofthe Prov . Grand Lodge ; the Honourable S . A . Donaldson , 3 I . L . A . ; Bro . Dalley , M . L . A . ; Bro . G . Thornton , M . L . A ., formerly mayor of Sydney , ivith other Brethren holding civic dignities , together with numerous officers and Brethren from the

Scotch and Irish constitutions . Of the more important and numerous portion of the assembly , the ladies , it ivould he iiiAi'dious to particularize , further than to remark that , though exotics , immediately or remote , they maintained , in a preeminent degree the palm of beauty incontcstabl y held hy the daughters of Albion . Dancing Avas kept up with unremitting spirit until midni ght , ivhen the supper Avas announced ; in the course of which , the V . W . D . Prov . G . M . Alderman Williams

, proposed in an eloquent and impressive maimer , the health of her Majesty the Queen , and elicited a most enthusiastic reception . After supper , the programme , consisting of twenty-six various quadrilles , polkas , Varsovianas , & c , ivas resinned , aiid ' notwitlistaiuling that considerably more than six hundred persons were present , the arrangements of Bro . Clark , P . M ., Avho acted as master of the ceremonies , ivere so judicious that not the sli

ghtest inconvenience iras felt . Indeed , so successfully were the stewards' duties carried out , that daylight forced an adiiiittance ' belbre the majority ofthe company thought of retiring , and before the concluding dance , Sir Roger de Coverley , AA'as finished . When the Brethren forming the ball committee had settled all claims , the handsome sum of . £ 109 was announced as having been handed over to the Prov . Grand Treasurer , Bro . B . W . Moore , on account of the Australasian Masonic

Orphan Fund ; at the same time a vote of thanks ivas conveyed to tiie members of the committee appointed from the Lodge of Harmony , No . 814 , ( Bros . Torning , Wintcrbottom , Bradford , and Haniiington ) , for their active assistance , OrEXES'G OF THE SOUTJIEEN CROSS LODGE AT CAMPBELLTOAVX . The opening of aneivLodge in Avhat might , but a feiv years since , Iwe been termed the interior of Australia , is a circumstance eminently gratifying to every true lover of the Craft , as evincing a proof that Freemasonry will he didy appreciated wherever good men are to be found . The exertions of a