Stella Australis.—1. There is no doubt but the retiring W.M. should hold the chair until a successor be installed in his place. 2. The Wardens can only date their services from investiture, so must necessarily await the installation of the Master. 3. The retiring W.M cannot invest the new officers. In fact there is no retiring W.M. until the Master elect has been installed, and there can be no new officers to invest. 4. This opinion is a sound one. 5. A dispensation from Grand Lodge could not be got to indemnify the Wardens for short service. The necessity of a Warden serving for one entire year to qualify him for eligibility to the chair is a landmark, and cannot be swept away. 6. This opinion is a sound one. General interests should be conserved before individuals are thought of. A District Grand Master has power only within his district. You do not say if that portion of the minutes referring to the election of the new Master has been confirmed, which is one important point in the case. We read a short time since of a W.M. elect of a Lodge in America who was sick receiving his Installed Master's degree in bed, his officers afterwards being invested by the Installing Master in the Lodge-room. It is from America generally speaking that one gets their "eye-openers," but we can scarcely agree with the desirability of following this example.

We regret we have not time or space this month to answer our esteemed correspondent Bro. G. Adams with regard to Lodges of Sorrow, but will give a sketch of what we think should be done in next month's issue.

(To The Editor of the New Zealand Craftsman.)

Dear Sir and Brother,—Can you tell us through the medium of your magazine the way in which Lodges of Sorrow are carried out. One was held in Dunedin in memory of our late Brother Nathan, but we cannot get at the details.

Further evidence of the kindly favour with which our efforts are received in countries far away from New Zealand we have just received as we go to press from Bro. Dr. M. Mathison, of Arumac, Queensland. He writes: "Mr. L. Brusk, of Sydney, N.S.W., sent me a copy of The New Zealand Craftsman and Masonic Review, with which I am highly pleased. I must say it is the only Masonic publication in the Southern Hemisphere that is worth subscribing to as far as I have seen of them. I wish it every success and prosperity, and may the number of its subscribers increase daily." Now, brethren, will you not help us to promote this reputation that New Zealand is getting for respectable Masonic journalism.