Colonial And Foreign.

Secretary , Bro . T . H . Lempricre , read the report of ihc Board of Benevolence , from which it appeared that forty-nine petitioners had been relieved with sums amounting altogether to . £ 247 . 13 s . It was further stated that ^ 100 had been received from the M . W . G . M . as a donation to the Benevolent Fund , and . £ 300 from the late Dist . G . Lodge , E . C . It was also announced that the Board had determined on holding their meetings on the second and fourth Wednesday in each month . This report , on the motion of

Bro . P . Blashki , President of the Board , was adopted . The fees payable to the Board of General Purposes were arranged as follows : —Warrant for a new Lodge , , £ 10 . 10 . ; for a dispensation , 10 s . 6 i ; registration , including Grand Lodge certificate , . £ 1 ; duplicate Giand Lodge certificate , 6 s . 6 d . ; joining a Lodge , 5 s . ; and if a Grand Lodge certificate required , 7 s . 6 d . ; Lodge payment per member annually , is . ; certificate Past Grand

Officers or Past Masters , 10 s . 6 J . ; and for perusing and certifying by-laws , 10 s . 6 d . The salaries were fixed as follows : —Grand Secretary , per annum , , £ 500 ; Grand Secretary for Foreign Correspondence , per annum , . £ 100 ; Assistant Grand Secretary , per annum , , £ 200 ; Grand Tyler , £ 1 . 10 s . for each meeting of Grand Lodge . Forms of warrants , patents for G . Officers , and Master Masons' certificates were recommended for approval of G . Lodge ;

and it was also recommended that G . Lodge should not recognise the Past G . rank conferred by the M . W . G . Master of the late Victorian Constitution immediately prior to the opening of the G . Lodge on March 20 . The Grand Secretary reported that , as regards thc question of appointing or electing the Grand Officers , seventy-one Lodges had voted for appointment , forty-three for election , and six for the election of some and the appointment of others . Thc Grand Master ruled that the decision of the seventy-one Lodges , which was a clear majority , settled the question in favor of appointment , and Grand Lodge was subsequently closed in form .

* * The metropolitan Lodges under the Scottish Constitution held a joint insinuation ceremony on Monday , June 24 , at the Masonic Hall , Alice-street , Brisbane , when thc various Masters and officers for the ensuing twelve months were installed . The ceremony was conducted by Bro . J . G . W . Barnes , P . M . ( 455 ) , D . D . G . M ., Acting Dist . G . M ., assisted by Bro . C . W . Thurlby , P . M .

( 455 ) , D . J . G . W ., and R . Leftwich , P . M . ( 504 ) , D . C . There was a large number of visiting brethren present , among whom were Bros . E . M'Donnell , D . P . G . M . ( I . C . ) ; Baldwin , P . G . R . Worcestershire ; and several Past Masters of metropolitan and other Lodges .

* * * The consecration and constitution of a new Lodge at Red Hill , to be named the Theodore Unmack Lodge , working under the Irish Constitution , took place on May 31 . Thc ceremony of constitution was performed in the Foresters' Hall , Paddington , Brisbane , which will be used as a temporary place of meeting pending the erection of a new Lodge-room at Red Hill . The work

of the evening began shortly after S o ' clock , the ceremony of dedication and constitution being performed by the Prov . Grand Master of the Irish Constitution , Bro . Theodore Unmack , assisted by a large number of the Prov . Grand Lodge Officers , namely , Bros . E . MacDonncll , Dep . P . G . M . ; J . P . Furey , P . S . G . W . ; Jas . Young , P . J . G . W . ; G . S . Hutton , P . G . Sec . ; A . E . Ham ' s , P . G . Dir . of Cers . ; W . H . Mullens , P . S . G . D . ; A . Mayfield , P . J . G . D . ; and R . B . Howard , P . G . Purst .

Among The Bohemians.

Among the Bohemians .

Mr . Charles Capper , the clever young whistler who delighted thc Essex Masons so much at the Provincial Grand Lodge at Dunmow last month , is a brother of Bro . Alfred Capper , well known as a "light" entertainer of repute . He holds an appointment in one of the City insurance offices , and refuses to relinquish it in favor of his whistle , for fear the latter should get out of fashion . A curious gift with him is his ability to whistle without the aid of his lips or teeth , and to produce an echo effect positively charming . Mr . Capper

is engaged at Her Majesty ' s during the present season , and lives with his people at Bedford Park . # * * From the Pall Mall Gazette : — " Happy are the lines of the successful dramatist . At least I thought so as I looked round the luxurious library in which the dyspeptic dramatist ( . Mr . G . R . Sims ) was writing at a window , overlooking a

rather dull court-yard . Fill this chamber with Chippendale bookcases , tables covered with curios , easy chairs , and cover the walls with pictures , some of them relating to Mr . Sims ' s plays . One of the curios which Mr . Sims treasures is a cast of Napoleon I . 's face , and signs of his belligerent leanings are a pair of duelling pistols . But they are under a glass case . So I suppose they are onlornaments now . "

y * * * " Next door is the chamber of the faithful Mr . Armfelt , who was once Gordon ' s private secretary , I believe , and is master of a dozen languages . His room is also full of books , piled up to the ceiling , and your eye also catches rows of letter files , memoranda-books , and ledgers which suggest

Among The Bohemians.

an extensive business connection . I don't know how many thousands a yeai the famous and popular playwright makes out of his various literary and dramatic ventures . " * * * " Mr . Sims docs most of his work in a delightfully bright and cheerful chamber upstairs which overlooks the Regent ' s Paik and the lake . But little luxury here , for it is ' made up' to resemble the poor author's garret . That

is what the facetious Sims says , but you musn't believe him . He likes to play at Bohemianism , and he thinks bare boards and a table littered with MSS . and pipes are suggestive of Bohemia . In one corner is the author's bed , so that he can turn in when the midnight oil is low . ' The Battle of Life , ' groans the dyspepsia-ridden one sententiously— ' Life ' s a Failure if you have a liver . ' " # * *

" Round the corner are the stables which are Mr . Sims ' s delight . Here he has four or five spanking horses , and I don ' t know how many nice new traps . " # # # Mr . Sims frequents all the racing fixtures held near London , but he is only a small investor . He was at Kempton the other day , and met William Terriss

and Miss Millward there . He went down with the expressed intention of backing Wishing Gate for the Breeders' Foal Stakes , but George Everett had lunched with the owner , who had no fancy for his horse , so that when the animal galloped in the easiest of winners there was weeping and gnashing of teeth in the camp of Bohemia . Miss Millward had half-a-sovereign on the winner , just on account of its name , and was very much pleased the rest of

the day . How she did laugh at the losers ! # # * Bro . Lawrance , the owner of Wishing Gate , is a member of the Domatic Lodge , and was introduced by George Everett .

* * # Mr . E . W . Gardiner is a lucky man in having secured the affections of such a womanly woman as Miss Kate Rorke , whose portrait I have borrowed from the Penny Illustrated Paper , in case any one of my readers

knows her not . The English stage possesses but few honest , painstaking workers such as she . Her performance in " The Profligate " was sincere , as , in fact , all her characters are , and she adds to her professional repute the highest virtues of a dutiful daughter and a

' sincere friend . *• # * Bro . Fleming , whose tall , smart figure so long adorned the vestibule of Drury-lane , has departe for the fresh fields and pastures of the Haymarket . He is Scotch to the

backbone , and one glance of his eagle eye was understood to be sufficient for the hundreds of deadheads who nightly impressed their importance upon him . He is an ardent and original member of the Drury-lane Lodge , and can manufacture a balance-sheet with any man living . * # # William . Terriss will not be seen at the Adelphi in " London Day by Day , " as he goes on a tour to America . I am very much afraid there is very little money to be brought back . The Yankees are funny people , and have a knack of not appreciating melodrama of the English school .

* * * Archibald Groves , the young editor of the New Review , is contesting West Ham , or going' to contest it when there is a vacancy . He is a man of eight or ninc-and-twenty , but looks younger . His career has been fashioned out of his own love of work , for he sacrificed—so says an evening - contemporary—avast fortune because he would not fall in with the wishes of an uncle

and adopt the Church as a profession . Me was for some time on the staff of the Daily News , which he left to associate himself with Mr . Austin , the head of the National Press Agency and secretary to Bro . Henry Irving . Then came the New Review , with its marvellous success ; and now the bestdressed young man of Fleet-street wants to become a Member of Parliament and get married .

* * * Bro . George Grossmith has severed for a while his long- connection with thc Savoy , and is going to qualify himself during the next few months as a " Society Clown , " for which his body and manner are eminently suited . George is much respected in the "hupper suckles , " but he made a terrible mistake in writing those very funny recollections of his some little while ago . He forgot that all

men who have any pretentions to he leading men in a profession have " recollections " which could be written up into the shape of a shilling book ; but leading men , as a rule , don ' t recollect for the benefit of an tmappreciative public . I hear that another favored actor is preparing his views upon people he has met , and that he is going to print them . What a pity !