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MIDLANDJ ? AILWAY . EASTER HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS . EARLY ISSUE OP TICKETS . The Midland Eailway Booking Offices at ST . PANGEAS and MOOEGATE STEEET Stations will be open for the issue of tickets all day on Wednesday , Thursday , and Saturday , March 21 st , 22 nd , and 24 th . Tickets dated to suit the convenience of passengers , will be issued at the principal West End and City Eeceiving Offices of the Company , including 445 West Strand ; 5 Charing Cross ( corner of Northumberland Avenue ); 1 Shaftesbury Avenue , Piccadilly Circus ; 33 Cannon Street ; 495 Oxford Street ; 13 Aldersgate Street ; Messrs . Cook and Son ' s Tourist Offices , and the Eailway Stations . EASTER EXCURSIONS . On Thursday , March 22 nd , CHEAP TICKETS available for return on the following Tuesday , will be issued from London ( St . Pancras and City Stations ) to many of the principal towns and holiday resorts on and beyond tho Midland line ; and a CHEAP FOUE DAY'S TEIP will also be run to EDINBUEGH , GLASGOW , and other parts of Scotland , leaving St . Pancras at 9 * 30 p . m . on the same day . Obtain Tickets at Midland and Cook and Son ' s Offices . GEO . H . TUENEE , General Manager . Derby , March 1894 .

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HOTELS , ETC . Tp ALING—Feathers Hotel . EASTBOUENE—Pier Hotel , Cavendish Place . View of Sea and Pier . A . TAYLOE , Proprietor . EAST MOLESEY— Castle Hotel , Hampton Court Station . Specimen Menus , with Tariff , on application . JOHN MAYO , Proprietor . HAVEEFOEDWEST—Queen ' s Family and Commercial Hotel . BEN . M . DAVIES , Proprietor . RICHMOND—Station Hotel , adjoins Eailway Station . Every accommodation for Large or Small Parties . SANDWICH—BELL FAMILY and Commercial Hotel . Good Stabling . J . J . FILMEE , Proprietor . COWE S ( WEST)—Gloucester and Globe Hotels . G . A . MUESELL , Proprietor .

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PHOTOGRAPHY . S . HOGKETT & Co ., Photographic Printers , POTTEES EOAD , NEW BAENET .. NEGATIVES sent to us by Parcels Post , securely packed , receive prompt attention , and Prints in SILVER , PLATINOTYPE , P . O . P ., giving best obtainable results , forwarded without delay . We are also pleased to answer inquiries , and give information and advice , for which our large experience fully qualifies us . Price Lists on application .

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FAILING EYESIGHT . _ - ^—wmrffaf ; . "T ) EESONS suffering from Defective / SgfSSj |\ \ 4 JS % S $ ki - * - Vision ( particularly those who WtoSBBBgJJ T §& BBaB » ' £ 'k ^ k eenunaD leto getsuitableglas-\ g || 3 jjP ^ *\§ fe | p ** ses elsewhere ) , should consult Mr . Bluett , who has had 30 years ' practical experience in making and adapting Spectacles for every form of defective Eyesight , and for which he has received numerous unsolicited testimonials . The Eyes carefully Examined and Sight Tested FREE . Spectacles from 1 / 6 per pair . Ophthalmic ] F . BLUETT , { Optician 8 a GREAT PORTLAND STREET , LONDON , W . ( Four doors from Oxford Street . )

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BEO . JOHN PEOBEET will be happy to provide high class Music for Masonic Meetings , Consecrations , Installations and Ladies' Nights . For terms : —Woodville , New Barnet , N .

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BOOKBINDING in all its branches . Price list on application . Morgan , Fleet Works , Bulwcr Eoad . New Barnet .

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ELECTION OF GRAND TREASURER , 1894-95 . BRO . CHAS . W . HUDSON , in thanking the many Brethren who supported him in his candidature on Wednesday last , begs to announce that he will stand for the appointment again on an early occasion . Brighton , 9 th March 1894 .

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Our Millenary.

OUR MILLENARY .

WE may be excused for saying a word in regard to ourselves on the occasion of the issue of this , our thousandth number , but we shall confine our remarks to an expression of thanks for the favours of the past , with the hope that we may be even more

liberally supported in the future , and so enabled to do more for the good of the cause we have at heart . In these days of journalistic enterprise it is no very difficult task to point to a specialty suited to the needs and

requirements of every class—the merest caprices and whims of fashion being catered for by some new aspirant for public favours , but it is not all these ventures that exist for a thousand weeks ; therefore we

should express our gratification that the FEEEMASON ' CHBONICLE has done so . We have received several kind expressions of approval during the last month , and these , coupled with the fact that we have a journal

of respectable age to work for , inspire us with fresh enthusiasm , which will lead , we hope , to satisfactory results . We trust it may be our good fortune to address

our readers under equally gratifying conditions on the completion of the two thousandth number of the FBEEMASON ' S CHBONICLE .

Masonic Sonnets, No. 86.

Masonic Sonnets , No . 86 .

BY BBO . CHAS . F . FORSHAW , LL . D ., 295 and 2417 ( E . C . ) Hon . Mem . 1242 ( E . C . ) and 24 ( S . C . ) — : o : —

Written in commemoration of the Thousandth issue of " The Freemason ' s Chronicle . " — : o : —

A Thousand numbers is an epoch great In press career—Masonic or profane—So I to-day would fain commemorate The Craft ' s Own Paper in poetic strain . Since first the CHRONICLE appeared to Light , ( Mav nought e'er come its Columns brierhfc to soveri

Papers have been and gone and lost to sight , But Brethren true wish theirs' to live for ever . Long may its leaves portray with Wisdom ' s might The Strength and Beauty of The Mystic Tie ; Pointing to Bealms that know no earthly

night—The blest abode of Him who is Most High I And thither led hy Truth ' s and Love ' s own pages We find a refuge on the Eock of Ages 1 Winder House , Bradford , 6 th March 1894 .

There are three candidates , said the " Evening News and Post" of the 2 nd inst ., for the post of Grand Treasurer of the Freemasons—Brother Hudson , of