MASONIC.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 289, 10 June 1909, Page 5

MASONIC.

Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. SYDNEY. >nstmlny. Considerable trouble (ycisi - be.lweon a. section of tho Masons over iiu' flection- of a Grandmaster. When Lord Chelmsford became Go-vernor a was suggested that he should recc'-v tho, position, but Mr Nesbit, Town t lerk, insisted that he had a prrv/r claim, and informed Lord CJiHm.siV -A to that <?ffocfc. The latter did nut reply to tho letter, but sent it t<r> tho Grand Lodge. Subsequently the Governor complied with the request of a deputation to allow himself to bo nominated, but to-day ho withdrew his name. Another candidate has therefore been nominated to oppose Mr Nesbit. (Received this day, 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, to-day. The Deputy Grand-master, Bro. Montgomerio • Hamilton, has been elected Grand-master of the Masons, receiving 009 votes to Bro. Nesbit 's 191.