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closed to the 1 st tyegree , and Mr . John Harrison , C . E ., was initiated into the mysteries of the Craft by Bros . P . Ms . Hudson and Astley , the W . M . explaining the working tools , and delivering the usual charge . A candidate having been proposed for initiation at the next regular meeting , the Lodge was closed in form and with solemn prayer , and the members separated , highly delighted with the proceedings of this the first meeting in the Masonic year , which augurs well for the future prosperity of this highly-respectable and influential Lodge .

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Yarborott & H Chapter ( No . 812 ) . —The members of this Chapter assembled on Thursday , July 17 ; present , the E . Comps . George Biggs , P . Z ., as Z . ; Edwards , H . ; and Wynn , P . Z ., as J . ; Comps . Williams , Treas ., and Purdy , E . Res , Comps . Grice and Shaboe , Naghtan , Crew , and others , and Comp . How , P . Z .,. No . 593 . Bro . Jessamine , of Lodge No . 203 , was exalted into the Sublime Degree , in that able manner in which the ceremonies are performed in this wellconducted Chapter , which having been duly closed , the Comps . adjourned to banquet at 7 P . M . Comp . Crew , in responding to the toast of "The Charities of the Order , " alluded to the case of Bro . Rolls , of the Yarborough Lodge , who was lost at sea , and his wife dying soon after , their four orphan children would have had no home but the workhouse : the Lodge had nobly aided them , and one daughter was now in the school ; he urged the Brotherhood to support those admirably conducted institutions . The girls were so educated as to be fitted for any station in life . He mentioned another claim of the family of one who bad sat at that board . Comp . Biggs also mentioned the case of a Brother , who in his prosperity had made his young daughter a governor of the Institution , and that child afterwards became an inmate of the school . Chapter of Lnstrnotion , under the sanction of the Mount Sion Chapter ( No . 169 ) . —* A preliminary meeting of the promoters was held at the White Hart Hotel , in Bishopsgate- street , on Tuesday , the 10 th of June , when it was resolved "That the meetings of this Mount Sion Chapter of Instruction Second be on the second and fourth Tuesday in every month , May excepted , from seven till nine in the evening . That Comp . Muggeridge be the Preceptor and Treasurer . "

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Dudley .- ^ - The Dudley Chapter ( No . 313 ) . —At a meeting of this Chapter on the 13 th July , a memorial to the Supreme Grand Chapter ( through the Grand Superintendent ) , against their proposed alteration of probationary time for candidates , was unanimously agreed to . The memorial was precisely similar to that framed at the No . 730 Chapter , and given in full in our last number . We hope the petition will be universally adopted .

Newcastle . —Chapter of Swinburne ( No . 24 ) . —A convocation was opened on the 16 th July , by the M . E . Comp . John Barker , Z . ; E . Comps . B . J . Thompson , as H ., and E . D . Davis , as J . ; Comp . F . II . Woolley , P . S . Two Comps . were elected as joining members , and Bros . Michael Lyners and Jacques de Hart , for exaltation , who being present , were duly exalted into the Sublime Degree , by M ^ . E . Comp . Davis , P . Z ., in the solemn and impressive way in which he so ably discharges the ceremony . This being the annual meeting for election , the following Comps . were declared on the ballot duly elected : —B . J . Thompson , M . E . Z . ; E . D . Davis , II . ; John Hopper , J . ; F . H . Woolley , E . ; J . R . Hodge , N . ; John Plarrison , P . S . ; Wni . Johnstone , Treas . ; Alex . Dickson , Janitor . The Chapter was closed in love and harmony at 8 P . M .

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