Some Notes On Freemasonry In Australasia.– – (Continued).

Grand Master , elected for the sixth consecutive time , is a prominent figure in Sydney commercial circles , with more than thirty years experience as a Mason . He was the first Grand Registrar of United New South Wales , and

subse-III . O . M . CHAPMAN , . 1 . 1 ' ., I ' . l ' . O . SECRETAIIY OF NEW S 01 _ TH WALKS , S . C . quently Deputy Grand Master . According to the sixteenth annual report , ending May 31 st , 1904 , there were 198 lodges in work in New South Wales , with 10 , 000 odd subscribing members . At one time there were 230 lodges , but erased

warrants and amalgamations have reduced the figures to the effective total stated . The total funds amounted to ^ . ' 13 , 234 , independently of the two important subsidiary benevolent agencies , one being the Orphans' Society with £ 25 , 619 assets , and the other the Benevolent Institution with about £ 8000 .

One or two items in connection with ( he Constitutions may be referred to , as being divergent from our English laws . Thus the elective system prevails , as regards officers , in both private lodges and Grand Lodge . The immense area of country covered by the lodges is provided for by the appointment of inspectors of districts , whose duties embrace

periodical visitations and detailed reports thereon to each Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge . Uniformity of ritual also is rigidly enforced , though it is hot pleasant to know that the official system of working is printed and published under the authority of the Grand Lodge . Some

four or live years ago our old acquaintance , the St . Andrew Lodge , No . 7 , rebelled against the uniformity ukase , they preferring their original Scottish working . On the powers that be insisting that the only recognised ritual must be adhered to , and on their threatening pains and penalties in

the event of refusal , an open revolt resulted , and the lodge for some little while was out of the pale . An application to the Grand Lodge of Scotland for a warrant to work on lines independent of New South Wales , as a matter of course could not be granted , and the end of it was that the rebellious

and conservative members swallowed the leek and submitted to the inevitable . In English Masonry we happily live in a more tolerant atmosphere , as far as mere ritual is ' concerned , old associations and old methods of working in many Provinces not being interfered with by the authorities ;

indeed , two attempts to enforce a uniform practice of the Emulation system have been defeated in Grand Lodge . ( To be continued ) .

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