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The School Elections.
THE SCHOOL ELECTIONS .
nn HE half yearly elections of . the two Masonic Educational J- Institutions , which took place on Thursday and Friday , present some interesting features for consideration . In the first place it is most satisfactory that so large a number as
forty-four children could be admitted from the two lists aggregating sixty-one approved candidates , reduced to fiftynine by the withdrawal of two—a boy and a girl—for presentation ; and we hope the two funds may always be equally well able to admit as large a proportion of the candidates
as has been the case this week , although it is questionable whether a long continuance of such a state of affairs would not be likely to prove detrimental , as many Brethren might be led to imagine there were really not so many calls upon the different funds as is urged from time to time , when speaking of them and their needs .
Not so satisfactory , however , is it when we turn to a consideration of the polling of the different candidates , for the number of votes required to secure a place is simply appaling , when viewed in connection with their actual cost .
In the case of the Girls School , for which there were thirty-three candidates remaining on the list , of whom twentyfour were admitted , the highest successful polled 5 , 294 votes , and the lowest 2 , 903 , whilst the highest among the unsuccessful failed to secure a place with her 1 , 721 votes .
For the Boys School there were twenty-six candidates to go to the poll , and twenty vacancies to fill . The lad who secured 'the first place had no less than 9 , 564 votes polled on his behalf , while the lowest on the list of successful polled 4 , 768 . There were no less than three unsuccessful candidates
who polled upwards of four thousand votes each—4 , 555 , 4 , 396 , and 4 , 229—and it may well be asked , how much higher are these immense totals to rise ? Of course we shall be told
the subscribers to the Institution get a fair return for their money—if the matter is to be considered on a financial basisbut on the other hand we may ask what return a donor of ten guineas gets for his money under present conditions .
Particulars in regard to the successful candidates will be found in our advertisement pages ; the following were unsuccessful , the votes . polle 4 oh behalf of each being also given :.. ¦
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR . GIRLS . T , A . „ ., Votes : Forward Polled Total Perry , Ada Emily 542 uyg iy 2 i Lewell , Annie — 835 835 Ferry . Elizabeth — i »
Lerpmiere , Lilian Irene yy 27 104 Sail , Doris JA JA Hodgkinson , Clarice Lillian 12 21 33 Caine , Dorothy 13 jy o Peace , Alice Kate r , ^
Hopkins , Clotilde Protheroe — 4 4 ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . Brannon , Allan Cuthbert — 4555 4 ^ 5 Loeran . Morris Arthur Rat ^ nm iSm t ers e ~^
Oliver , Edward — 4229 4220 Fletcher , John Hinton — 2196 21 go George , James Robert — i ^ u I 5 lI La Nauze , Basil William — T 30 Q 120 Q
Grand Lodge Of Ireland.
GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND .
ON Thursday evening , 4 th inst , at the Quarterly meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland a full-sized portrait of Sir James Creed Meredith , LL . D ., Deputy Grand Master , was unveiled in the presence of a large assembly of members of
the Order . The painting is by Bro . Moyniham , and was formally presented by Viscount Templetown Senior Grand Warden to the Deputy Grand Master , who gave its custody to the Grand Lodge . .
On the same occasion the Right Hon . Gerald Fitzgibbon was installed Representative of the Grand Lodge of Canada at the Grand Lodge , of Ireland . A letter was received from Her Majesty the , Queen acknowledging the address of welcome presented on behalf of the Masonic Order of Ireland , on the occasion of her visit to Dublin .
North Wales.
NORTH WALES .
A MEETING of this Provincial Grand Lodge was held at the Drill Hall , Denbigh , on Friday ,. 5 th inst ., under the auspices ' and banner of the Royal Denbigh Lodge , No . 1143 . Lord Harlech Provincial Grand Master was received with the customary ceremonial by the Provincial Grand Officers , and took his place in the chair .
Bro . Sir W . Grenville Williams acted as Deputy Prov . Grand Master .
The Provincial Grand Secretary gave a report upon his examination of the minutes of the several Lodges in the . Province which , he said , showed marked improvement in the last ten years in their orderly and methodical working . He highly complimented all the Secretaries , and had a special word of commendation for the well-tried veterans who
continued to exhibit their loyalty to Masonry by ungrudgingly devoting the considerable time and attention which the due writing of Lodge minutes demanded . The minutes chronicled unusual activity and zeal on the part of the Province in the matter of the Charity Institutions and charity appeals which
the war in South Africa had rendered inevitable . Grants had been made to distressed South African Lodges , to the Welsh Hospital Fund , to the Widows and Orphans Fund , the War Relief Fund , and in one instance to the Reservist ' s' Fund . At least £ 240 had been altogether so laid out , of which amount 100 p-uineas came from the St . Tudno Lodge .
Brother W . Price Smith P . M . presented the Auditors ' report , which was accepted , a vote of thanks to the Auditors being passed . ' Brother C . K . Benson P . M . P . P . G . J . W . Chairman of the
North Wales Masonic Charitable Association read his report , and a vote of thanks to the Committee and Officers of the Association was passed for their services . Brother Tuxford was re-elected Treasurer .
The Prov . Grand Master appointed and invested the Officers for the year . The statistical returns showed that the total membership of the twenty Lodges in the Province is now 1033 , that for 1899 being 1027 , and that for 1807 . IOAA .
Other , business having been transacted ; the Prov . Grand Master closed the Lodge . Afterwards the Brethren attended a Masonic banauet at the Town Hall .
¦ Brother Murray Lyon mentions in his history of Mary ' s Chapel that the Duke of Fife , then Viscount Macduff , was initiated in the Lodge of Holyrood House , St . Luke , No , 44 ,, thirty years ago .
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The School Elections.
THE SCHOOL ELECTIONS .
nn HE half yearly elections of . the two Masonic Educational J- Institutions , which took place on Thursday and Friday , present some interesting features for consideration . In the first place it is most satisfactory that so large a number as
forty-four children could be admitted from the two lists aggregating sixty-one approved candidates , reduced to fiftynine by the withdrawal of two—a boy and a girl—for presentation ; and we hope the two funds may always be equally well able to admit as large a proportion of the candidates
as has been the case this week , although it is questionable whether a long continuance of such a state of affairs would not be likely to prove detrimental , as many Brethren might be led to imagine there were really not so many calls upon the different funds as is urged from time to time , when speaking of them and their needs .
Not so satisfactory , however , is it when we turn to a consideration of the polling of the different candidates , for the number of votes required to secure a place is simply appaling , when viewed in connection with their actual cost .
In the case of the Girls School , for which there were thirty-three candidates remaining on the list , of whom twentyfour were admitted , the highest successful polled 5 , 294 votes , and the lowest 2 , 903 , whilst the highest among the unsuccessful failed to secure a place with her 1 , 721 votes .
For the Boys School there were twenty-six candidates to go to the poll , and twenty vacancies to fill . The lad who secured 'the first place had no less than 9 , 564 votes polled on his behalf , while the lowest on the list of successful polled 4 , 768 . There were no less than three unsuccessful candidates
who polled upwards of four thousand votes each—4 , 555 , 4 , 396 , and 4 , 229—and it may well be asked , how much higher are these immense totals to rise ? Of course we shall be told
the subscribers to the Institution get a fair return for their money—if the matter is to be considered on a financial basisbut on the other hand we may ask what return a donor of ten guineas gets for his money under present conditions .
Particulars in regard to the successful candidates will be found in our advertisement pages ; the following were unsuccessful , the votes . polle 4 oh behalf of each being also given :.. ¦
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR . GIRLS . T , A . „ ., Votes : Forward Polled Total Perry , Ada Emily 542 uyg iy 2 i Lewell , Annie — 835 835 Ferry . Elizabeth — i »
Lerpmiere , Lilian Irene yy 27 104 Sail , Doris JA JA Hodgkinson , Clarice Lillian 12 21 33 Caine , Dorothy 13 jy o Peace , Alice Kate r , ^
Hopkins , Clotilde Protheroe — 4 4 ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . Brannon , Allan Cuthbert — 4555 4 ^ 5 Loeran . Morris Arthur Rat ^ nm iSm t ers e ~^
Oliver , Edward — 4229 4220 Fletcher , John Hinton — 2196 21 go George , James Robert — i ^ u I 5 lI La Nauze , Basil William — T 30 Q 120 Q
Grand Lodge Of Ireland.
GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND .
ON Thursday evening , 4 th inst , at the Quarterly meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland a full-sized portrait of Sir James Creed Meredith , LL . D ., Deputy Grand Master , was unveiled in the presence of a large assembly of members of
the Order . The painting is by Bro . Moyniham , and was formally presented by Viscount Templetown Senior Grand Warden to the Deputy Grand Master , who gave its custody to the Grand Lodge . .
On the same occasion the Right Hon . Gerald Fitzgibbon was installed Representative of the Grand Lodge of Canada at the Grand Lodge , of Ireland . A letter was received from Her Majesty the , Queen acknowledging the address of welcome presented on behalf of the Masonic Order of Ireland , on the occasion of her visit to Dublin .
North Wales.
NORTH WALES .
A MEETING of this Provincial Grand Lodge was held at the Drill Hall , Denbigh , on Friday ,. 5 th inst ., under the auspices ' and banner of the Royal Denbigh Lodge , No . 1143 . Lord Harlech Provincial Grand Master was received with the customary ceremonial by the Provincial Grand Officers , and took his place in the chair .
Bro . Sir W . Grenville Williams acted as Deputy Prov . Grand Master .
The Provincial Grand Secretary gave a report upon his examination of the minutes of the several Lodges in the . Province which , he said , showed marked improvement in the last ten years in their orderly and methodical working . He highly complimented all the Secretaries , and had a special word of commendation for the well-tried veterans who
continued to exhibit their loyalty to Masonry by ungrudgingly devoting the considerable time and attention which the due writing of Lodge minutes demanded . The minutes chronicled unusual activity and zeal on the part of the Province in the matter of the Charity Institutions and charity appeals which
the war in South Africa had rendered inevitable . Grants had been made to distressed South African Lodges , to the Welsh Hospital Fund , to the Widows and Orphans Fund , the War Relief Fund , and in one instance to the Reservist ' s' Fund . At least £ 240 had been altogether so laid out , of which amount 100 p-uineas came from the St . Tudno Lodge .
Brother W . Price Smith P . M . presented the Auditors ' report , which was accepted , a vote of thanks to the Auditors being passed . ' Brother C . K . Benson P . M . P . P . G . J . W . Chairman of the
North Wales Masonic Charitable Association read his report , and a vote of thanks to the Committee and Officers of the Association was passed for their services . Brother Tuxford was re-elected Treasurer .
The Prov . Grand Master appointed and invested the Officers for the year . The statistical returns showed that the total membership of the twenty Lodges in the Province is now 1033 , that for 1899 being 1027 , and that for 1807 . IOAA .
Other , business having been transacted ; the Prov . Grand Master closed the Lodge . Afterwards the Brethren attended a Masonic banauet at the Town Hall .
¦ Brother Murray Lyon mentions in his history of Mary ' s Chapel that the Duke of Fife , then Viscount Macduff , was initiated in the Lodge of Holyrood House , St . Luke , No , 44 ,, thirty years ago .