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are but a few shillings short of £ 460 . Its Benevolent subscriptions are trifling . The activity of Oxford is recognised on all sides , and though it has but nine Lodges on its roll , it always shows to advantage , and always makes a point of having over one

or two Stewards at least to represent it . This year three , or just a third of its Lodges , havo contributed over £ 88 , which added to its subscriptions at the six previous Festivals makes a total of £ 566 for the Boys' School

alone . However , the Girls' School has been more highly favoured , having received £ 742 and odd shillings , while the Benevolent has fared even better , with an aggregate for the seven Festivals of over £ 867 . The latter facts

may be accounted for owing to Princo Leopold , Duke of Albany , having promised to preside at the Benevolent in 1877 , and only failed to carry out his promise at the very last moment through indisposition , while last year he did preside at the Girls' Festival , and Oxford supported him

to the extent of close on £ 310 . Somersetshire has twentytwo Lodges , and one of these , Agriculture , No . 1199 , of Congresbury , contributes £ 69 6 s . It has been regularly represented at all the Festivals of this School since 1875 inclusive . Its principal service to the Boys was in 1875 ,

when its chief , tho Earl of Carnarvon , Pro Grand Master of England , occupied the chair , and the sum raised was over £ 540 . It has given altogether just over £ 1 , 033 to this Charity , to the Benevolent a fraction over Five hundred guineas and to "Our Girls" over £ 1 , 041 , its total

to the three Institutions being nearly £ 2 , 600 . It has only missed one Benevolent and ono Girls' Festival during the seven years now concluded . Staffordshire , with its twentythree Lodges , though boasting such well-known places as Burton and Stoke-on-Trent , Walsall and Wolverhampton ,

has since the death of the late Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot in 1877 , laboured under the serious disadvantage of having no chief , it being impossible the Grand Registrar in charge could render much service , save in

general terms , m stimulating Lodges to deeds of Charity . Its subscription in this case is only £ 36 15 s , and it gave a like sum last year , but it did extremely well in aid of the Wood Green ' School in 1875 with £ 221 . in 1876 with

close on £ 290 , in 1877 with over £ 149 , and in 1879 with £ 216 . In fact , it has subscribed iu all over £ 985 to Bro . Binckes ' s Institution in the last seven years , having never once been conspicuous by its absence . To the Girls , though unrepresented at the Festivals of 1875 and 1878 , it

has subscribed as nearly as possible £ 1 , 347 , while the total raised for the Benevolent in 1875 , when its late Chief presided ; in 1877 , when at the last moment he did duty for Prince Leopold ; in 1878 ; and this year , is £ 751 , making together for the three some £ 3 , 083 . Suffolk , though by no

means a strong Province , has three able and enthusiastic Craftsmen in Lord Waveney Provincial Grand Master , Rev . C . J . Martyn Deputy Provincial Grand Master , and Bro . Lucia P . G . S . B . Provincial Grand Secretary . It has twenty Lodges , of which four meet in Ipswich , two in

Bury St . Edmunds , and two in Lowestoft , and it is greatly to its credit that it has never missed supporting a single ono of the last twenty-one Festivals . Its latest contribution to the Boys is £ 135 14 s , which , with the sums given in 1875 , 1876 , 1877 , 1878 , 1879 , and 1880 , give an

aggregate to this Institution of over £ 746 . The Benevolent at its seven Festivals has fared just a little better , the sums it has received amounting to over £ 751 ; while the Girls' School is credited with , in round figures , £ 494 , giving a graud total of £ 1 , 991 . Surrey ( twenty-two

Lodges ) is in the same category with Suffolk , having been regularly represented during the years we have been travelling through . This time the Surrey , No . 416 , of Reigate , upholds the honour of the Province to the extent of £ 56 14 s , bnt last year it gave onr Boys' £ 1 . 23 18 s , in 1878

over £ 20 & , and in 1876 over £ 210 . Its total for the Boys ' is just over £ 812 , for the Girls' £ 437 , and the Benevolent £ 533 , or together for all three Charities £ 1 , 782 . Sussex , twenty-four Lodges , though it missed the Girls' in 1876 and the Benevolent in 1875 , has done gloriously . That it

should have exerted its utmost strength in recognition of the honour paid it in selecting Brighton for this year ' s Festival was only natural , but our readers can hardly have expected it would head the Provincial poll , surpassing even

Durham itself , tho Chairman ' s own Province , with over £ 771 . However , it has done this , and we heartily congratulate it on its success . Adding this to £ 920 and odd shillings , being the result of six previous Festivals , we have a total for our Boys' of £ 1 , 091 . Our Girls' have boon supported

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to tho oxtent of over £ 807 , while the influence of Bro Terry ' s eloquence has indnced tho county to support the Benevolent to the extent of over £ 1 , 250 . This makes £ 3 , 748 in seven years to the three central Masonic

Charities . We will content ourselves with adding—May the county of Southdown continue its liberality in tho next seventy or seven hundred years—though we may not be alive to record it—on the scale it has exhibited during the seven years that are just completed !

Turn we next onr attention to the Eastern and Western Divisions of S . Wales , the former with fifteen and the latter wi th nine Lodges . The contributions of the two Divisions are unequal , but not more so than are tbe respective numbers

of their Lodges . South Wales East is down for £ 105 , having given last year £ 126 5 s , in 1878 £ 84 , in 1877 £ 132 15 s , in 1876 £ 210 , and in 1875 £ 236 5 s . Thus , at six of the seven Festivals it has subscribed in all £ 894 5 s . On the other hand , South Wales West , which figures for a modest ten

guineas this year , gave £ 300 in 1880 , £ 168 in 1877 , and £ 130 4 s in 1875 , or together £ 608 14 s . For the Girls ' School they are much closer , the Eastern Division having given £ 558 2 s , and the Western £ 536 5 s , while it must not be overlooked that in 1875 both Divisions are set down ,

conjointly with Monmouthshire , as having raised among them £ 464 10 s . To the Benevolent they have also given about the same , the Eastern Division contributing £ 250 in 1876 , and the Western £ 225 in 1879 , and £ 10 10 s in 1880 , or together £ 235 10 s . Summing , up these figures , we find that South Wales East has enriched our Charities to

the extent of £ 1 , 702 , and South Wales West to that of £ 1 , 380 , which , as we have said , is in a somewhat fair proportion to their respective Lodge rolls . Warwickshire has thirty Lodges , of which fourteen hail

from Birmingham . Of these fourteen four sent up Stewards , the senior of the two Warwick Lodges and the Leamington and Rugby Lodges being also represented . There were in all fourteen Stewards , and their joint lists amounted to a fraction over £ 232 . This raises its total contributions

to " Our Boys " to £ 3 , 215 12 s 6 d , its great achievement belonging to the year 1876 , when its Provincial Grand Master presided , and the eighty and odd Stewards made up the excellent total of £ 2 , 000 . The Girls have benefited to the extent of over £ 1 , 121 , and the Benevolent to that

of close on £ 629 , making for all three Chanties an aggregate of £ 4 , 966 . At the Schools' Festivals it has been invariably represented , but it deputed no brethren as Stewards at those of the Benevolent Institution in 1876 and 1878 . Here , again , we have the case of a strong

Province giving evidence of its earnestness and strength . We have the greater pleasure in bearing this testimony to Warwickshire's efforts , because , in one memorable instance , we had the misfortune to bring down on our devoted head a somewhat severe criticism by its able and

justly-respected Chief . Worcestershire , with two Stewards doing duty for two of its eleven Lodges , gives £ 57 15 s . The amount it contributed last year to the Boys is not stated in the list , but in 1879 it figured for £ 580 13 s . The Girls' School received nearly £ 142 in 1879 , over £ 364

in 1880 , and in May last over ' £ 68 , or , together , nearly £ 574 , but only the sum of £ 42 has found its way all these seven years into the coffers of the Royal Masonic

Benevolent ' institution . Still we must remember that Worcestershire has bestirred itself " muchly " since 1879 , though the four preceding years were , as happens now ana again with some of its covertsdrawn blank .

, ' The Province of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire with twenty-seven Lodges , gives £ 151 , the joint result of the efforts of four Stewards acting for as many

Lodges , namely , Bro . J . Walton for Lodge Humber , No . 57 , Hull ; Bro . J . W . Woodall for tbe " Old Globe " Lodge , No . 200 , Scarborough—not , as was announced by us last week , Lion Lodge , No . 312 , Whitby—our learned

contributor Bro . T . B . Whytehead as representing Eboracom , No . 1611 , the junior York Lodge , which has thus figured at all three Festivals this year ; and Bro . H . Preston , Lodge De la Pole , No . 1605 , Hull . The aggregate of its lists ** 1875187718781880 and 1881 is just £ 398 there

, , , , , having been no brethren acting on its behalf in 1876 anc 1879 . ^ " To the Girls it has contributed £ 239 8 s , together v itb an unknown , or , at least , at the time unstated , am oU ® at the 1878 Festivalbut the Benevolent has been a very

, large recipient , the aggregate of its lists for the six yea IS 76-1881 both inclusive being within a few shillings £ 1 , 076 , of which over £ 855 belongs to last year , when w > Earl of Zetland Provincial Grand Master presided .