The Schools Quarterly Courts.

THE SCHOOLS QUARTERLY COURTS .

THE Quarterly Courts of the two Educational Institutions are to be held next week , the half yearly elections to the two Funds being the chief items of business to be transacted , but apart from this there are other matters requiring consideration at the hands of the subscribers .

The first of the two meetings—that associated with the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls—is to be held on Thursday ,- when the Court will be asked to sanction an arrangement by which Bro . George Heaton P . P . G . D .

West ,. Yorkshire purchases a perpetual presentation for the sum of eleven hundred guineas . The only disagreement possible in regard to this item of business is in regard to

the price to be paid for the privilege , but inasmuch as there are great" advantages on both sides we see no reason for anything but unanimity when the bargain is formally brought forward for confirmation .

* ' The next item is a proposal to recognize , by means of votes , the work done by the various Masonic Charitable Associations now so general throughout the country . It is suggested that for a completed sum of fifty guineas contributed one of the Executive Officers of an Association

shall be granted the privileges of a Life Subscriber , with one vote at each election , and an additional vote for each subsequent fifty guineas . This recognition of a very good work has been a long time coming , but it will be none

the less appreciated on that account , indeed , we fully expect it will be welcomed as a boon , and will probably have a lasting beneficial effect on the Inst itutions adopting

it—for we may here add that the Boys School has a similar proposition to submit to its Court , to be held the following day .

The election will be proceeded with so soon as the other business is disposed of , and for this there are twenty-six approved candidates , with fifteen vacancies . The Boys School subscribers will be first asked to agree

to special premium votes being given to Stewards and others who work on behalf of the approaching Centenary celebration , just as was done by the sister Institution on a similar occasion ten years back . Then comes the

consideration of the proposal in connection with the Charity Association subscriptions , and finally a minor alteration in the laws relating to the election of members of the Board .

For the election to this Fund there are forty-seven available candidates , with fifteen vacancies , so that the struggle for the coveted scholarships may be expected to be a pretty severe one .

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

THE regular monthly meeting of the Council was held on Friday , 24 th ult ., being presided over by Bro .

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

George Everett P . G . Treas . Vice-Patron , who was supported by Bros . Russell , Margrett , Cumberland , Chapin , Lyon , & cL It was reported that £ 4 , 000 had been invested in London County Council Stocks , and that Bro . Thomas Fenn had effected the purchase , as usual , without brokerage , & c .:, which gained for his firm a renewed vote of thanks .

The receipt of £ 1 , 166 14 s 6 d , being share of proceeds of the Royal Albert Hall meeting of 14 th June , was reported . ' . Grants were made to an ex-pupil , and to three boys on

the out-educated List , and interesting letters were read from two old Masonians snowing appreciation of the School , and advantages gained therefrom enabling them to secure good appointments .

Bro . Eve , for the Board of Management , handed in notices of Motion for the Quarterly Court , to grant extra privileges to Stewards at the Centenary Festival exactly as

was done at the Girls Centenary , also to Annual Subscribers , and further to recognize the labours of the executive Officers of Masonic Charitable Associations which bring up large sums in support of the three Institutions .

Bro . Thomson Lyon gave notice to alter Law 53 vesting election of members of Board of Management on extraordinary vacancies in the Board , instead of in the Council as at present . : *

Cheshire.

CHESHIRE .

^|^ HE annual meeting of Provincial Grand Lodge was JL held on the 29 th ult ., at the Town Hall , Sandbach , the Provincial Grand Master Earl Egerton of Tatton presiding . There was a large attendance of Brethren from the Lodges in the Province , and a number of visiting Brethren from Lancashire .

Brother Henry Jackson P . M . P . P . J . G . W .. presented the Provincial Grand Treasurer ' s financial statements , and the accounts were passed as satisfactory .

Bro . Clayton P . G . A . D . C . presented the reports of the Committee ot Benevolence , the Cheshire Masonic Benevolent Institution , and the Cheshire Educational Masonic Institution to the Lodge , and the reports were adopted .

The Deputy Provincial Grand Master Bro . Sir Horatio Lloyd , in the course of an address , referred to the honour which the Queen had conferred upon their Provincial Grand Master by creating him an Earl . In the name of the Province he presented his Lordship with a beautifully illuminated address of congratulation .

The Earl of Egerton , who was received with cheers , said it had been his privilege to be connected with Masonry in various capacities for a long time , and he felt deeply the many kindnesses which he had received from his fellow Masons . He warmly thanked them for the address . He

should treasure it as long as he lived , and it would be a heirloom in his family . During the past ten years there had been a great increase in the number of Lodges and in the membership of the Province of Cheshire , and he hoped the numbers would continue to increase . The progress of that

Province had elicited the sympathy of the Prince of Wales , who , in commemoration of the Queen ' s reign of sixty years , had empowered him to confer past Provincial rank on six

Brethren , members of the Province . The six Brethren were : —Bros . H . Gordon Small and J . H . Holt S . W ., Robert Finlow J . W ., George Ibeson Registrar , E . j ! Sidebottom S . D ., and C . H . Andrews J . D .

Altrincham and Liscard were nominated as the place of the next annual meeting , but the nominee of Liscard withdrew in favour of Altrincham . Grand Lodge was afterwards closed . The weather was so wet that the procession to church had to be abandoned . —" Manchester Guardian "