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Stewards , and there is one list still outstanding . Three of the seventeen Derbyshire Lodges , with four Stewards , gave £ 77 14 s . Last year , and the year before , however , it figured far more conspicnously as a supporter of the Boys ' , nor has it been wholly unmindful of the other Charities .

Bro . Curteis took upon himself , at the last moment , to prevent Devon being wholly unrepresented , and the sum standing against his name is sixty guineas , but the Province liberally supported the Benevolent in February , to the extent of close on £ 600 . It also supported the Boys' in 1875 and

1876 , and has indeed been unrepresented in only one of the last nine lists . Dorset has but thirteen Lodges , but though it gave £ 305 to tho Benevolent in February , and over £ 180 to the Girls in May , it mustered £ 80 17 s on this occasion . In 1876 it helped the Benevolent to the extent

of £ 222 , and the Boys' m 1875 to the extent of over £ 633 . Durham is a tolerably strong Province , with its twentyfour Lodges . Tbe Prov . Grand Secretary , Bro . Crookes , sent np a list of £ 158 lis , though , as recently as May , a sum of £ 286 2 a 6 d was handed to the Girls ' , while the

Boys * fared in 1876 to the extent of £ 275 2 s , and in 1875 to the still greater extent of £ 372 19 s 6 d . Essex ( 16 Lodges ) was represented by two of them , whose united contributions amounted to £ 75 16 s . Last year it was down for £ 144 18 s , while in February it gave £ 113 13 s to the

Benevolent , and a small contribution to the Girls' in May . It has been absent from only two out of the nine lists during the three years . Gloucester ( 14 Lodges ) is not strong in point of numbers , but two of these forwarded between them £ 338 2 s , though its contributions to the

other two Charities this year amount to over £ 163 , and though last year it supported the Boys'to the amount of £ 276 14 s , and gave it forty guineas the year previous . As Bro . W . W . Beach M . P ., who presided at this Festival , is the Prov . Grand Master of Hants and the Isle of Wight ,

onr readers will not be surprised to hear he was most loyally supported by those whom he has ruled for the last eight years so successfully . The Province has twenty-nine Lodges , of which eight — namely , the Newport , Isle of Wight ( No . 151 ) , two Portsmouth

( Nos . 257 and 487 ) , Fareham ( No . 309 ) , Lymington ( No . 319 ) , one Southampton ( No . 394 ) , one Aldershot ( No . 723 ) , and the Gosport Lodge ( No . 903 ) , — contributed the very handsome total of £ 624 Is , — it had already figured though , in May , for over £ 222 to the

Girls ' , and in February for £ 171 5 s to the Benevolent , while , with only a single absence , in the three years its contributions to the three charities in that period exceed in the aggregate £ 2 , 000 . This is a result in the highest degree creditable to the Province and its chief . Little Herts , with

its nine Lodges , was represented by three of them , but only two lists , yielding together £ 59 17 s , have been returned , the representative of the St . Albans Lodge not having sent his in . This small province , at eight out of the last nine Festivals has given in all over £ 930 . There

are forty Lodges in Kent , which is always to the fore on these occasions , its contribution in this instance being £ 571 19 s . In February , it gave a little short of £ 500 to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and £ 175 4 s 6 d to the Girls in May . Last year its contributions to the

Benevolent , Girls , and Boys , were £ 465 19 s , £ 135 2 s 6 d ,

and £ 659 19 s 6 d respectively , and in 1875 , £ 305 2 s , £ 142 3 s , and £ 206 17 s : so that at the nine Festivals it has paid over a total of £ 3160 9 s 6 d . East Lancashire has a Charitable Institution of its own , bnt nine Stewards , representing eight Lodges , of which three belong to

Manchester , sent up £ 202 2 s , and one list is still to come . The Province gave £ 340 s 5 s to the Benevolent in February , and something to the Girls at the last Festival . Indeed it has baen represented at all the Festivals during the three years . This is likewise the case with West Lancashire

which i-i down for £ 185 17 s , with one list outstanding . In May , it gave £ 310 16 s to the Girls , and last year , when Lord Skelmersdale presided , over £ 1 , 500 to the Benevolent . Leicester and Rutland , one of our smallest Provinces , with only ten Lodges , contributes £ 400 18 s 6 d . In 1876 it

gave over £ 100 to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and in 1875 over £ 180 to the Boys . We congratulate this small province on so admirable a result . Lincolnshire is apparently resting on its oars this year , and

contributes £ 53 lis only , but it gave the Girls' £ 543 14 s , and , the Boys' £ 245 14 s in 1876 , and in 1875 £ 573 to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . Middlesex follows up its achievements of £ 329 5 s and £ 744 4 s 6 d in February and May respectively with a further sum of £ 315 10 s on

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this occasion . Last year it contributed to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , Girls ' , and Boys' £ 198 2 s , £ 711 12 s , and £ 121 5 s 6 d respectively , and in 1875 £ 166 7 s , £ 581 19 s , and £ 400 Is respectively . Its contribntions to the three Institutions in the three years amount

to over £ 3 , 570 . Northumberland musters fifteen Lodges , and sent up £ 304 15 s , or a little in excess of what it contributed last year , namely : £ 303 9 s . Notts ( 8 Lodges ) was represented by one , to the extent of £ 64 Is . It will be found in the list for the Girls' both this and last year , and

likewise as supporting the Boys' in 1876 . N . Walesand Salop ( 24 Lodges ) gives £ 175 7 s , and has regularly contributed to boih Schools during the year . Oxford , with 7 Lodges , gives only £ 40 17 s 6 d , but then ifc made a considerable effortin February , when its Provincial Grand Master , Princo

Leopold , wonld , bnt for his weak health , have taken the chair , and raised for the Benevolent £ 279 13 s , Moreover , it has nofc missed a single one of the last nine Festivals , having regularly sent up one or more Stewards . Somersetshire ( 19 Lodges ) is down for £ 58 16 s , but then in

February ifc contributed £ 253 14 s to the Benevolent , and in 1874 over £ 540 to the Boys . South Wales E . Div . ( 10 Lodges ) contributes £ 132 15 s , and South Wales W . Div . ( 9 Lodges ) £ 168 . These are about on a par with their lists in the two preceding years . Staffordshire

( 21 Lodges ) uniformly supports " Our Boys , " while not neglectful of tho ether Institutions . This time it is down for £ 149 2 s " , having already this year contributed over £ 300 to the other two , namely , over £ 160 to the Girls ' , and £ 145 to tbe Royal Masonic Benevolent

Institution . Suffolk ( 18 Lodges ) figures for £ 115 10 s , but thongh this is a modest sum , it must be noted , to the credit of the Province , that it has not—of late , at all eventsallowed any Festival to pass without sending a something . The same remark applies to Surrey , with its seventeen

Lodges . It figures now for £ 90 6 s , having given £ 40 19 s to the Girls' in May , and £ 111 0 s 6 d to the Benevolent in February . In 1876 it raised £ 210 15 s 6 d for the Boys' School . Sussex ( 19 Lodges ) is represented by a Brighton Lodge , which sends £ -70 18 s , which , in round

figures , is about as much in excess of its contribution ( £ 233 7 s 6 d ) to the Girls' in May , as the latter was over that to the Boys' ( £ 206 5 s 6 d ) in 1876 . Warwickshire ( 29 Lodges ) subscribes £ 77 14 s , but last year it had over eighty Stewards working for it , who made up amongst

them £ 2 , 000 . Moreover , it gave £ 467 5 s 6 d , in February , to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and has , indeed , been only once unrepresented at the last nine Festivals . Wilts ( 10 Lodges ) figures for the respectable sum of £ 142 16 s , having given , this year , £ 122 14 s to the

Girls ' , and £ 201 6 s 6 d to the Benevolent . Last year , also , it supported all three , and the Boys' and Benevolent in 1875 . North and East Yorkshire , it seems to us , might display more energy . It has fire and twenty Lodges on its roll , but only three are represented , one Hull , one Scarborough ,

ancl one York Locige , the amount being £ 72 9 s , with the Scarborough list outstanding . This , however , is an advance on the four other sums contributed latterly . The last in order of the Provinces is West Yorkshire ; eleven Stewards did duty for this last Festival , tbe result of their combined

efforts being £ 766 10 s . It will be em ugh if we add that this , added to the former contributions iu 1875 , 1876 , and 1877 , makes up a total of £ 4 , 684 Is Od , of which £ 1 , 920 has fallen to the share of the Boys ' , £ 1 , 420 17 s to the Girls ' , £ 1 , 342 10 s to the Benevolent . It was unrepresented at

the Girls' in 1876 , so that its average contribution afc the eight Festivals is over £ 585 ; and a very good average it is . We are now approaching the end of our examination . The district abroad which figures in the list is Hong Kong , with Seventy Guineas as the amount of ifcs contribution .

Tbe seven various are , a Steward from a Knight Tetnplar Conclave ; Stewards from three Mark Lodges , but one list only is returned ; Bro J . M . P . Montagu , Steward on behalf of the R . and S . Masters , whose list is Eighty Guineas ; the Royal Order of Scotland , for whom Bro . C .

F . Matier acted with such success as to appear for One Hundred and Three Guineas ; and one unattached , who figures for himself , with the very excellent contribution of One Hundred Guineas . It will suffice if we add thafc , allowing for the lists which

have not yet been returned , the Boys' Festival for 1877 will yield , in all probability , a grancl total of £ 13 , 500 , or very little short of an average of £ 60 per Steward . Last year , there were some 28 G Stewards , and if we deduce the average from the total of the donations and subscriptions ,