E. H. ADDINGTON

ON FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. 75 '
The report on Foreign Correspondence was prepared by E. "W. Bro.
Arthur S. Gorrell. His review of Louisiana is largely that of the Grand
Master's Address and is in the nature of a synopsis of it. He notes in
full our preparations for the commemoration of our Centennial.
In his review of Wisconsin we note his statement that the Grand
Lodge of Saskatchewan is not opened in any degree, and does not give
instruction in the Esoteric work. All of which seems to us to be strange.
Is the Grand Lodge a Masonic Lodge of no degree? Who does control
the Esoteric workings of the Lodges in the Province of Saskatchewan?
Does anybody?
SCOTLAND, 1911.
We regret that the Proceedings that we have received are only those
for February, May and August. We regret this for the reason that the
business of those meetings is chiefly of a domestic character, while the
Proceedings having to do with their Lodges in Foreign Lands and matters
of a more general sort are considered at subsequent times. It follows
that in the Proceedings before us we have very little of matters
that concern the Fraternity at large.
It may interest our Brethren in Louisiana to know that the building
of the new Temple is reported as making rapid progress, and that a
special convocation was held April 28th to lay the " Memorial. Stone " of
the new building. The only remark that we feel'Called upon to make is
that in as much as the walls of the building were well up the stone that
was placed was not called a corner stone, but a Memorial Stone. We
trust that some of the Brethren on this side the pond will take note
when called upon to place a stone in a completed wall.
The Grand Committee ruled that a Lodge could not enact a By-Law
prohibiting the reception of petitions from men of the Navy under the
rank of Corporal or Petty Officer, and the Grand Lodge reversed it.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1911.
The Board of General Purposes reported as follows:
'' The number of initiations that have taken place during the past
year amounted to 406, and the total number of subscribing members is
4,119, being an increase of 524 on last year. There will be 61 Lodges
in active working when the Pinnaroo and Tumby Bay Lodges are consecrated;
of these 12 are city, 11 suburban, and the remaining 38 are in
the country (i. e., outside a 10-mile radius of the city). The whole of.
the city Lodges meet at the Freemasons' Hall, whilst of the remaining
49, no less than 27 have their own Temples, and it is fully expected that
within the next few months several more Temples will be erected.''
We note that the hygenic promoter is abroad in South Australia,
and has induced the Board of General Purposes to recommend that a
Volume of the Sacred Law be provided for each initiate to be used by
him during the various ceremonies and then presented to him when he
has attained his third degree.