MASONIC.
A very important meeting of Worshipful ifasters and Immediate Past Masters, undorthe English and Now Zealand Constitutions, says the Christchurch l'ms, was held on Saturday aftornoon, The New Zealand Constitution has been recognised by over twenty Grand Lodges in all parts of the world, including, of course, the Grand Lodges of Victoria, Now South Wales, and South Australia, who are in full recognition by the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland and Scotland, Thesedistinguishedbodies, howover, have declined to grant recognition to the New Zealand Constitution, now numberine; ninotynine' Lodges. The meeting of Saturday was convonod by a Worshipful Master under the English Constitution and ono under tho New Zealand for tho; purpose of considering the best means of getting over the difficulty, There was a thoroughly ■'representative meeting, the Lodges present being the Canterbury/ Conyers, and Amberlcy, under tho English Constitution; the Unanimity, St. Augustine, Kaiapoi, Ashley, Lincoln, Concord, JCaikoura, and Ch'ristchurob, untler ?ea)and Cpnstitujigni 'After some discussion, a number pf'resqlu.-, tions wero unauimously adopted, and copies will bo forwarded to the dile. rent Lodges in the colony'for then? approval and adoption. If these m ' carried by the Lodges, those an interest in the matter are san r guine that the diferenco which hjis existed between tho Cgnstiintipns sinco tho formation of the Grind Lodge of Now Zealand in 1890 wili ibobappil^_,"doD« awaywitb*
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 23 August 1894, Page 2
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223MASONIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 23 August 1894, Page 2
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