Visit Of The Stewards To The Girls' School.

Gibson , Gertrude Hare , Ethel Lang , Fanny OberdoerEfer , Mabel Osmond , Eva Owens , Annie Parker , Rosa Pelham , Florence Popkiss , Ada Stephenson . Recitation— " The Pied Piper of Hamelin "—Robort Browning—Athalinda Allison .

Solo — " Mennet " —Rafif—14 hands . —7 Pianos . —Grace Bartrum , Ellen Delafons , Minnie Gongh , Florence Mason , Annie Parker , Florence Popkiss , Agnes Stephenson . Recitation— " Morte d'Arthur " —Lord Tennyson— Ellen Ashton .

Duet— " Symphony XIII . "—Haydn—23 hands . —7 Pianos . —Grace Bartrum , Norah Besley , Emily Cecil , Ellen Delafous , Minute Gough , Gertrude Greenwood , Louisa Johnson , Florence Mason , Mabel Osmond , Annie Parker , Alice Pope , Florence Popkiss , Agnes Stephenson , Mildred Wrighton .

Prizes Given by the Institution . College of Preceptors' Examination . —Thirty entered , all passed three highest take prizes—Athalinda Allison , Edith Eastwood , Agnes Fyfe . Class III . —Ethel Fallding , Proficiency .

Class IV . —Marion Warner , Proficiency . Class V . —Beatrice Knott , Profioiency . Class VI . —Florenoe Dnnlop , Proficiency . Class VII . —Proficiency , Ettie Chapman ; General Usefulness ,

Sophia Smith , Alice Harbord ; Needlework , Alice Pope , Beatrice Cookes , Ruth Byers , Agnes Goorling , Fanny Wain ; Order and Attention ( as proved by Conduct MarkB throughout the year ) , Jane Turner , Lucy Besley .

Part III . Song— " With a laugh as we go round "—Sir W . Sterndale Bennett . Recitation— " Betsy and I are out "—Will Carleton—Ada Crow .

Solo— " Toccata —Paradise—Agnes Stephenson . Recitation— "How Betty and I made up "—Will Carleton—Ada Crow . Dnet— " Overture to Preciosa "—Weber—28 hands . —7 Pianos . —

Grace Bartrum , Emily Cecil , Ada Crow , Ellen Delafons , Eva Gibson , Minnie Gough , Florence Mason , Fanny Oberdoerffer , Annie Parker , Rosa Pelham , Florence Popkiss , Sophia Smith , Agnes Stephenson , Mary Wyatt .

Prizes given by Friends of the Institution . B y Bro . Robert Grey , for Religions Knowledge ( as distinguished at the Cambridge Examination ) : —Ellen Senior , Jane Taylor , Fanny Oberdoerffer , Josephine March , Julia Priestley . By Bro . J . H . Matthews , for Music ( Royal Academy Examination ) ,

( 1 st Prize ) : —Agnes Stephenson . ( 2 nd Prizes)—Grace Bartrum , Ellen Delafons . The " Wentworth Little" Memorial Prize , for Music ( 3 rd Prizes ) ; —Annie Parker , Florence Mason , Florenco Popkiss . By Bro . and Mrs . Louis Hirsch for Music ( 4 th Prizes ) : —Minnie

Gough , Gertrude Greenwood . The " John Boyd " Memorial Prize , for Drawing : —Alice Pope , Nina Prideaux , Louisa Johnson . By Bro . P . H . E . Brette , D . D ., for French ( as distinguished at

Cambridge Examination ) : —Fanny Oberdoerffer . By Bro . Robert Grey , for Elocution : —Ellen Ashton , Ada Crow , Athalinda Allison , Daisy Capon . B y Bro . Thomas Fenn , for Arithmetic : —Mabel Osmond , Grace Bartrum .

The Supreme Council of the 33 rd Degree , for Good Conduct ( 1 st Prize ) : —Emil y Cecil . By Bro . Frank Richardson , for Good Conduct ( 2 nd Prizes ) : —Mabel Osmond , Rosa Pelham , Gertrude Hare . B y Mrs . Edgar Bowyer , for Needlework ( 1 st Prize ) : —Sophia

Riley . The " Yates " Memorial Prize ( per St . James ' s Lodge , No . 842 ) , for Cookery ( list Prize ) : —Nina Prideanx . By Bro . Ralph Clutton , for Cookery ( 2 nd Prize ) : —Clara Pratt . By Bro . John Faulkner , for Cookery ( 3 rd Prize ) : —Mabel Osmond ,

B y Colonel Jame 3 Peters ( Trustee ) , for Calisthenics and Deportment : —Gertrude Balch . By Miss Godson , for Swimming : —Rosa Pelham , Mary Skelton , Annie Parker . By Bro . John Faulkner , for Amiability ( selected by her Schoolfellows ) : —Sophia Riley .

Prizes in Junior School . By Bro . Frank Richardson , for Proficiency : —Amy Cutbusb , Bertha Dear . e . The " Heury Lovauder" Memorial Pr ' ze , for Arithmetic : —Amy Cutbiish .

By Miss Bowyer , for Good Conduct : —Isabel Knight . Pianoforte Solo— " Victoria" — Kuhe—It hands . —7 Pianos .-Grace Bartrum , Ellen Delafons , Minnie Gough , Florenco Mason , Annie Parker , Florence Popkiss , Agues Stephenson .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

'j'HE Board of Stewards appointed to arrange for the approaching - •- Festival in connection with tho Boys' Institution held their fir .-t meeting « t Freemasons' Hall , ou Friday last week . Brn . Richard Eve , Grand Treasurer and Patron of the Institution , pi-psided . The following brethren were elected Officers of the Board : —Bros . Evo

President ; G . Cooper , Major G . L'Tnbeit , Horace Brooks Marshall , ¦ Rev . C . J . Martyi :, Col . Peters , A'dermsin Savory , and J . L . Thomas , Honorary Presidents ; C . Belton , A . F . Godson , M . P ., C . F . Hogard ,

" '•Ke nning , A . T . Lsiyton and J . L . Mather , Acting Presidcta : T . Hastings Miller Hon . Trcnsurer ; and Frederick Birekes Hon . Secretary . It was resolved that the Festival shall take place at the " rystal Palace , on Tuesday , 14 th June ; that the Steward ' s fee shall

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be two gnineas , as visual ; and that ladies and brethren shall dine together , as in recent years , at the same tables . A sub-committee , consisting of Bros . C . Belton , Charles Dairy , C . F . Hogard , George Kenning , C . J . Knightley , and Dr . George Mickley was appointed , to consider the musical arrangements . The next meeting of the Board was fixed for Monday , the 23 rd inst .

On Saturday last the general committee held its monthly meeting . at Freemasons' Hall , under the presidency of Bro . J . L . Mather , Assistant G . D . C . ; there was a good attendance . After the usual reading of minutes , the report of the Audit Committee was approved , and ordered to be entered . The nominations for the

House and Audit Committees were considered ; for the former only the prescribed number were handed in , but for the latter there were twelve brethren nominated , viz : —Bros . W . A . Sonrrah , Henry Young , J . H . Hawkins , Andrew McDowall , T . Cubitt , G . P . Gillard , H . S . Goodall , T . Griffiths , C . F . Hogard , W . Maple , S . Richardson ,

and E . C . Soppet . Of these , nine will bo elected in due course . Three petitions were considered and accepted , and the names ordered to be placed on the list of candidates for the October election . Five applications , by ex-pupils , for grants towards outfit were favourabl y entertained ; and the proceedings closed with the customary vote of thanks .

The Committee of tho R . M . Benevolent Institution , at their meeting at Freemasons' Hall , ou Wednesday , resolved that on Friday next they will proceed to the election of forty widows and sixteen male applicants for the benefits of the

Institution . In both classes , however , three cases will be deferred till vacancies arise . Seeing there is a list of 130 candidates , it is obvious that many of the poor old people will be disappointed . Asa solatium , however , we understand it

is the decision of the Committee to present each of the unsuccessful candidates with half a guinea . This is one gratifying result of the success which attended the recent Festival , and will add another memento to the Jubilee

year . It will be remembered that in previous years the unsuccessful candidates who were next highest on the poll in their respective lists have had sums of money , the two

highest in each case from the John Hervey Fund , and the third from the Emulation Lodge of Improvement . No doubt those who have the control of these funds will deal in a like liberal fashion this year .

[ The Prov . Grand Chapter of Middlesex will celebrate its thirteenth convocation , at the Abercorn Hotel , Great Stanmore , this day ( Saturday ) . The Companions will assemble at three o ' clock . i

Obituary.

Obituary .

BROTHER C . MATON . THE remains of Bro . C Maton , of Kew , were interred on Tuesday last , in Richmond Cemetery , in the presence of a circle of sorrowiug relatives and friends , iuclnding representatives of Lodges where our [ deceased Brother was an honoured member . Though the intelligence i came upon us with no surprise , inasmuch as we had been

almost prepared for it , at the meeting last week of tho Richmond Lodge , yet the melancholy event has evoked expressions of sincere regret amongst a very great number of tho 3 e who knew Bro . Maton , either in his private , business , or Masonic capacities . For sometime past he had been suffering from an affection of the throat , which

defied all the remedial attention which was paid to it , and the patient succumbed to it on Friday , the Gfch instant . He had been prevented from attending his duties at the Royal Alfred Lodge at Kew , of which be was at the time of his decease Worshipful Master , and also the Richmond Lodge , of which he was a member ; and , as reported

in our last issue , reference to Bro . Maton ' a illness was made at the meeting of the latter , on tho 2 nd inst ., with the hope that he might be speedily restored to health . Snch , however , was not to b ° , and I tlvise who shared in thu good wishes spoken at that meeting were I called upon , sooner than they had expected , topiy their last tribute

of sorrowing respect to a much-esteemed fehow vvoiktr in the Craft . The funeral proc » ssi n h-lt the resiiienco of the deceased shortl y ! nltor three o'clock , and p-ocpeded t > the Cemetery , where it was mob | by a body of the deceased ' s employes , and by members of several i Masonic Lodges , minings . t whom we noticed Bros . Rowland , Ambrose ,

lA'din , Nash , Ih ' irby , Dare , Sa [ Sworth , Costelow , Eydmann , ! Whe-ler , W . Ililion , F . Reynolds , E . Downs , W . Gomm , I B . Blusbr , W . Coornbe .-, Cox , J . Mnnro , W . W . M .-i ^ an , & c . & e . j The service iu the < hapel and at t . ho gravi -sirlo was impressivel y ' , renderi d bv the < ¦ fiieiniiug Chaplain , nnd the coffin was literall y

¦ embowered with beautiful wreaths and fl * ral crosses , s ^ nt as tributes i of afF-ction , fmm friends . Ammig .-t them were mus .-ivo wreaths j from the Royal Alfred and Richmond Lo . L'es , and other .- ; from | Masonic acquaintance of the deceased . It will bo recollected that ¦ only some five months since M » v > . Ma'on departed this lite , and was

! i ' terreci in Richmond Cemetery ; it added to tiie solemnity of the : scene on Tur-s-. day when the re-opened grave showed her coilin ; i upon it the fouiains of her beloved husband w-re placed . At a i comparatively early nge he , too , has been called from us , and there I are many besides those who were most intimately associated with him in local Freemasonry who will esteem the memory of Charles Maton . —as a brother , a neighbour , and a friend .