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has taken tho lead in this instance , so the Provinces may succeed in wresting it from her at the Festival in May or June next , or , it may be , at both Festivals . But if the total is not as large as we have seen it on former occasions , it is very fairly distributed , thirty-two out ot
the forty-one Provinces , or , as nearly as possible , fourfifths , having sent up representatives . The three districts which can boast of Lodges , but have no local organisation , are absentees , as they generally are ; but we cannot in reason expect much from the five Lodges in the Channel
Islands , and the three Isle of Man Lodges , which are too remote , though tho former have occasionally done some service . Bedfordshire , however , with its five Lodges , appears to concern itself but little about our Institutions . It contributed less than £ 40 at the Boys' Festival in 1879 ,
and not quite £ 50 at that of the Girls' School the year following , but it has given nothing whatever to the Benevolent at its last nine anniversaries . The absentee Provinces are Cambridgeshire ( four'Lodges ) , which , since the beginning of 1875 , has given £ 46 among our three
Institutions and Herefordshire , also with four Lodges , gave £ 10 10 s to the Girls' School in 1878 , and £ 65 5 s to the Benevolent two years previously * , Cumberland and Westmoreland ( 19 Lodges ) , Lincolnshire ( 21 Lodges ) , Monmouthshire ( 8 Lodges ) , Northumberland ( 21 Lodges ) ,
both Divisions of South Wales , the one having 15 , and the other 9 Lodges , and Jersey ( 7 Lodges ) . All these , however , have figured more or less frequently , though we would take the liberty of suggesting that Northumberland ,
with its great industrial centre , Newcastle , might be oftener found in the list of contributing Provinces . It has clone well for the Boys' School certainly , but has not shown quite as much for the other Charities .
Taken alphabetically , Berks and Bucks , with its twentyone Lodges , heads the list of the Provinces that were represented , and its four Stewards , three acting for as many Berks Lodges , and one for a Bucks Lodge , raising amongst them the sum of £ 109 12 s 6 d . Last vear it gave over
£ 243 to the Benevolent , nearly £ 200 to the Girls' School , and about £ 177 to the Boys' School , and was only once among the non-contributing Provinces during the Septennial Period 1875-81 . Bristol has eight Lodges , and her contribution of £ 216 18 s is a most welcome one .
Cheshire , with its thirty-nine Lodges , sent up two Stewards , the total of whose lists amounts only to £ 37 16 s , but as we have said before , there is a very flourishing Educational Institution supported by ifc , which for many years has
been doing good service , and it would be too much , therefore , to expect that it should be as liberal in its subscriptions to the central Charities as if it had no local Charity of its own . However , it raised for them over £ 422 last
year , of which £ 321 found its way into the Girls School Treasury . The sum of forty guineas , by the representative of St . Andrew ' s , No . 1151 , Tywardreath , does duty for Cornwall , with its twenty-eight Lodges , but every now and then this remote county puts on a spurt , by
whicb one of the Institutions benefits very considerably . We may look , therefore , to the county which gives the title of Duke to the Heir Apparent being sooner or later represented in a manner worthy of its known reputation . Derbyshire , twenty Lodges , sends up £ 50 ; but , as it gave
last year £ 53 lis to the Benevolent , £ 459 I 6 s to the Girls' School , and £ 176 14 s 6 d to the Boys' School , or in all £ 690 Is 6 d , and was represented at seventeen out of the twenty-one Festivals during 1875-81 , we cannot be otherwise than pleased to find it among the contributories on
this occasion . Devonshire , fifty Lodges , raised , in round figures , some £ 2 , 660 during 1875-81 , having been only thrice absent from the lists in that period . Last year it gave £ 565 , and now it figures for £ 74 lis , which , as it has its own local Charity Organisation , is by no
means to be contemned . Dorsetshire , with thirteen Lodges , contributes a round £ 100 . Last year it gave to each of the Institutions , and in 1875-81 , played a very conspicuous part in its support of our Charities ,
while Durham ( twenty-eight Lodges ) gives £ 63 lis , having done something at each of last year ' s Festivals , and raised over £ 728 for "Our Boys" in 1881 , when its chief , the Marquis of Londonderry , presided at the Festival of that Institution .
A home county—Essex—with its twenty Lodges , next claims our attention . Bnt little more than a month since it had placed over it a new ruler , in the person of Lord Brooke , M . P ., and with a view , it may be , to signalising this event , five of its Lodges , by the medium of as many
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brethren , have together contributed £ 235 4 s 6 d , or but little short of the £ 244 10 s it raised for the Boys' School last summer . It had previously contributed £ 93 10 s to the R . M . B . I ., and £ 15 15 s to the Girls' School , while , during tho period 1875-81 it was only unrepresented on
three occasions . Last year Gloucestershire , which has bnt fourteen Lodges all told , raised £ 115 10 s for the R . M . B . I ., £ 137 lis for the R . M . I . G ., and £ 295 Is for the R . M . I . B ., or during the year a fraction over £ 548 . In 1881 , it gave the Benevolent £ 263 lis , " Our Girls "
£ 1000 , and "Our Boys" £ 283 10 s , or , together , over £ 1 , 547 , while in 1880 its contributions reached £ 680 ; in 1879 £ 840 ; in 1878 £ 727 9 s ; and in 1877 £ 589 , " Our Boys " having been favoured to the extent of £ 42 in 1875 , and £ 276 14 s in 1876 . Totalling them up , we have
contributions from this county amounting , during the last eight years , to £ 5 , 251 , and now it has commenced the current year with an aggregate , from six Stewards acting on its behalf , of £ 2 ] 3 3 s , which , added to the former sum , gives the excellent average per Lodge of about £ 397 10 s .
Well done , Gloucestershire ! Hants and the Isle of Wight , thirty-eight Lodges , is another stronghold of Freemasonry , which shines conspicuously on these occasions . It has only been twice absent from the Festivals it has been our privilege to record , and has raised for the Benevolent
£ 1 , 566 5 s 6 d , for the Girls' School £ 861 13 s 6 d , and for the Boys' School £ 2 , 168 6 s 6 d or altogether in the eight years £ 4 , 596 5 s 6 d . It now gives , by the medium of three Stewards , acting for as many Lodges , the sum of £ 14916 a . In ordinary circumstances , we should say this was but a
small amount for so large a Province , but doubtless it is reserving its strength for the Festival of the Girls' School on the 9 th May next , when its Provincial Grand Master
R . W . Bro . W . W . B . Beach , will take the chair . When he did so in 1877 for " Our Boys" it raised over £ 624 , and we may look to see this at least equalled at the Festival in question .
" Little Herts , " another Home County , now boasts its round dozen of Lodges , and worthily maintained its reputation on Wednesday , when six Stewards , representing five Lodges and the Chapter attached to one of them , raised £ 233 4 s . Last year it contributed £ 1 , 049 14 s 6 d among
our Charities , the Benevolent securing £ 533 14 s out of it , or rather more than the half . As Brother Terry is connected with the Province , we are not surprised at his obtaining the chief support , though all have fared well , the Benevolent having received £ 1 , 960 12 s 6 d in 1875-81 , and the
Girls' and Boys' Schools £ 552 6 s 6 d and £ 720 Is respectively during the same period . It has been unrepresented at only one out of twenty-five Anniversaries . Kent , a third Home County , like Hants and the Isle of Wight , is doubtless very properly reserving its strength
for its particular Festival , that of the Boys' School in June , when its highly popular chief , Viscount Holmesdale , will preside . This will explain why , though boasting fortynine Lodges , its contributions on Wednesday last reached
only £ 148 5 s with one list still to be delivered . However , last year it raised £ 975 19 s for the Charities , and in 1875-81 , £ 7 , 723 10 s 6 d , or in the eight years only a few shillings short of £ 8 , 700 .
East Lancashire , in point of numbers , is our strongest Province , its Lodges mustering to the strength of ninetytwo . On this occasion its sixteen Stewards , so far as their lists have been received , figure for £ 212 Is 6 d . Lasfc year it raised within sixpence of £ 772 , of whicb the Benevolent
managed to secure nearly £ 415 . In 1875-81 it gave to the same Institution £ 4 , 179 Is , of which £ 3 , 542 was contributed at the Festival in 1879 , when R . W . Bro . Colonel Le Gendre N . Starkie P . G . M . presided . During the same period the Girls' School has benefited to the extent of
£ 762 0 s 6 d ancl the Boys' School to £ 1 , 338 . These figures give an aggregate of £ 7 , 263 2 s 6 d . Its neighbour , Wesfc Lancashire , with its eighty-one Lodges , shows a fair total likewise—in round figures over £ 1 , 000 more . Its eleven representatives contributed among them on this occasion
£ 244 15 s . Last year its figures reached £ 689 12 s and in 1875-81 , £ 7 , 307 19 s 6 d . These amounts give , as the general result , a total of subscriptions reaching to £ 8 , 242 6 s 6 d . Leicestershire and Rutland , which has but ten Lodges , by
the hands of its Past Prov . G . Master , R . W . Bro . Kelly , contributes a useful £ 36 15 s . It gave last year to the Benevolent Institution £ 152 15 s , ancl to " Our Boys " £ 89 5 s . or together £ 242 . Its subscriptions in 1875-81 stand thus : to the Benevolent £ 250 18 s : to the Girls' School
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has taken tho lead in this instance , so the Provinces may succeed in wresting it from her at the Festival in May or June next , or , it may be , at both Festivals . But if the total is not as large as we have seen it on former occasions , it is very fairly distributed , thirty-two out ot
the forty-one Provinces , or , as nearly as possible , fourfifths , having sent up representatives . The three districts which can boast of Lodges , but have no local organisation , are absentees , as they generally are ; but we cannot in reason expect much from the five Lodges in the Channel
Islands , and the three Isle of Man Lodges , which are too remote , though tho former have occasionally done some service . Bedfordshire , however , with its five Lodges , appears to concern itself but little about our Institutions . It contributed less than £ 40 at the Boys' Festival in 1879 ,
and not quite £ 50 at that of the Girls' School the year following , but it has given nothing whatever to the Benevolent at its last nine anniversaries . The absentee Provinces are Cambridgeshire ( four'Lodges ) , which , since the beginning of 1875 , has given £ 46 among our three
Institutions and Herefordshire , also with four Lodges , gave £ 10 10 s to the Girls' School in 1878 , and £ 65 5 s to the Benevolent two years previously * , Cumberland and Westmoreland ( 19 Lodges ) , Lincolnshire ( 21 Lodges ) , Monmouthshire ( 8 Lodges ) , Northumberland ( 21 Lodges ) ,
both Divisions of South Wales , the one having 15 , and the other 9 Lodges , and Jersey ( 7 Lodges ) . All these , however , have figured more or less frequently , though we would take the liberty of suggesting that Northumberland ,
with its great industrial centre , Newcastle , might be oftener found in the list of contributing Provinces . It has clone well for the Boys' School certainly , but has not shown quite as much for the other Charities .
Taken alphabetically , Berks and Bucks , with its twentyone Lodges , heads the list of the Provinces that were represented , and its four Stewards , three acting for as many Berks Lodges , and one for a Bucks Lodge , raising amongst them the sum of £ 109 12 s 6 d . Last vear it gave over
£ 243 to the Benevolent , nearly £ 200 to the Girls' School , and about £ 177 to the Boys' School , and was only once among the non-contributing Provinces during the Septennial Period 1875-81 . Bristol has eight Lodges , and her contribution of £ 216 18 s is a most welcome one .
Cheshire , with its thirty-nine Lodges , sent up two Stewards , the total of whose lists amounts only to £ 37 16 s , but as we have said before , there is a very flourishing Educational Institution supported by ifc , which for many years has
been doing good service , and it would be too much , therefore , to expect that it should be as liberal in its subscriptions to the central Charities as if it had no local Charity of its own . However , it raised for them over £ 422 last
year , of which £ 321 found its way into the Girls School Treasury . The sum of forty guineas , by the representative of St . Andrew ' s , No . 1151 , Tywardreath , does duty for Cornwall , with its twenty-eight Lodges , but every now and then this remote county puts on a spurt , by
whicb one of the Institutions benefits very considerably . We may look , therefore , to the county which gives the title of Duke to the Heir Apparent being sooner or later represented in a manner worthy of its known reputation . Derbyshire , twenty Lodges , sends up £ 50 ; but , as it gave
last year £ 53 lis to the Benevolent , £ 459 I 6 s to the Girls' School , and £ 176 14 s 6 d to the Boys' School , or in all £ 690 Is 6 d , and was represented at seventeen out of the twenty-one Festivals during 1875-81 , we cannot be otherwise than pleased to find it among the contributories on
this occasion . Devonshire , fifty Lodges , raised , in round figures , some £ 2 , 660 during 1875-81 , having been only thrice absent from the lists in that period . Last year it gave £ 565 , and now it figures for £ 74 lis , which , as it has its own local Charity Organisation , is by no
means to be contemned . Dorsetshire , with thirteen Lodges , contributes a round £ 100 . Last year it gave to each of the Institutions , and in 1875-81 , played a very conspicuous part in its support of our Charities ,
while Durham ( twenty-eight Lodges ) gives £ 63 lis , having done something at each of last year ' s Festivals , and raised over £ 728 for "Our Boys" in 1881 , when its chief , the Marquis of Londonderry , presided at the Festival of that Institution .
A home county—Essex—with its twenty Lodges , next claims our attention . Bnt little more than a month since it had placed over it a new ruler , in the person of Lord Brooke , M . P ., and with a view , it may be , to signalising this event , five of its Lodges , by the medium of as many
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brethren , have together contributed £ 235 4 s 6 d , or but little short of the £ 244 10 s it raised for the Boys' School last summer . It had previously contributed £ 93 10 s to the R . M . B . I ., and £ 15 15 s to the Girls' School , while , during tho period 1875-81 it was only unrepresented on
three occasions . Last year Gloucestershire , which has bnt fourteen Lodges all told , raised £ 115 10 s for the R . M . B . I ., £ 137 lis for the R . M . I . G ., and £ 295 Is for the R . M . I . B ., or during the year a fraction over £ 548 . In 1881 , it gave the Benevolent £ 263 lis , " Our Girls "
£ 1000 , and "Our Boys" £ 283 10 s , or , together , over £ 1 , 547 , while in 1880 its contributions reached £ 680 ; in 1879 £ 840 ; in 1878 £ 727 9 s ; and in 1877 £ 589 , " Our Boys " having been favoured to the extent of £ 42 in 1875 , and £ 276 14 s in 1876 . Totalling them up , we have
contributions from this county amounting , during the last eight years , to £ 5 , 251 , and now it has commenced the current year with an aggregate , from six Stewards acting on its behalf , of £ 2 ] 3 3 s , which , added to the former sum , gives the excellent average per Lodge of about £ 397 10 s .
Well done , Gloucestershire ! Hants and the Isle of Wight , thirty-eight Lodges , is another stronghold of Freemasonry , which shines conspicuously on these occasions . It has only been twice absent from the Festivals it has been our privilege to record , and has raised for the Benevolent
£ 1 , 566 5 s 6 d , for the Girls' School £ 861 13 s 6 d , and for the Boys' School £ 2 , 168 6 s 6 d or altogether in the eight years £ 4 , 596 5 s 6 d . It now gives , by the medium of three Stewards , acting for as many Lodges , the sum of £ 14916 a . In ordinary circumstances , we should say this was but a
small amount for so large a Province , but doubtless it is reserving its strength for the Festival of the Girls' School on the 9 th May next , when its Provincial Grand Master
R . W . Bro . W . W . B . Beach , will take the chair . When he did so in 1877 for " Our Boys" it raised over £ 624 , and we may look to see this at least equalled at the Festival in question .
" Little Herts , " another Home County , now boasts its round dozen of Lodges , and worthily maintained its reputation on Wednesday , when six Stewards , representing five Lodges and the Chapter attached to one of them , raised £ 233 4 s . Last year it contributed £ 1 , 049 14 s 6 d among
our Charities , the Benevolent securing £ 533 14 s out of it , or rather more than the half . As Brother Terry is connected with the Province , we are not surprised at his obtaining the chief support , though all have fared well , the Benevolent having received £ 1 , 960 12 s 6 d in 1875-81 , and the
Girls' and Boys' Schools £ 552 6 s 6 d and £ 720 Is respectively during the same period . It has been unrepresented at only one out of twenty-five Anniversaries . Kent , a third Home County , like Hants and the Isle of Wight , is doubtless very properly reserving its strength
for its particular Festival , that of the Boys' School in June , when its highly popular chief , Viscount Holmesdale , will preside . This will explain why , though boasting fortynine Lodges , its contributions on Wednesday last reached
only £ 148 5 s with one list still to be delivered . However , last year it raised £ 975 19 s for the Charities , and in 1875-81 , £ 7 , 723 10 s 6 d , or in the eight years only a few shillings short of £ 8 , 700 .
East Lancashire , in point of numbers , is our strongest Province , its Lodges mustering to the strength of ninetytwo . On this occasion its sixteen Stewards , so far as their lists have been received , figure for £ 212 Is 6 d . Lasfc year it raised within sixpence of £ 772 , of whicb the Benevolent
managed to secure nearly £ 415 . In 1875-81 it gave to the same Institution £ 4 , 179 Is , of which £ 3 , 542 was contributed at the Festival in 1879 , when R . W . Bro . Colonel Le Gendre N . Starkie P . G . M . presided . During the same period the Girls' School has benefited to the extent of
£ 762 0 s 6 d ancl the Boys' School to £ 1 , 338 . These figures give an aggregate of £ 7 , 263 2 s 6 d . Its neighbour , Wesfc Lancashire , with its eighty-one Lodges , shows a fair total likewise—in round figures over £ 1 , 000 more . Its eleven representatives contributed among them on this occasion
£ 244 15 s . Last year its figures reached £ 689 12 s and in 1875-81 , £ 7 , 307 19 s 6 d . These amounts give , as the general result , a total of subscriptions reaching to £ 8 , 242 6 s 6 d . Leicestershire and Rutland , which has but ten Lodges , by
the hands of its Past Prov . G . Master , R . W . Bro . Kelly , contributes a useful £ 36 15 s . It gave last year to the Benevolent Institution £ 152 15 s , ancl to " Our Boys " £ 89 5 s . or together £ 242 . Its subscriptions in 1875-81 stand thus : to the Benevolent £ 250 18 s : to the Girls' School