Provincial Contributions To The Masonic Institutions,

Festivals in 1878 and 1879 had no Provinces more immediately interested in supporting them . Two columns of averages bave been added . The first shows in round figures , fractions of the £ sterling being omitted from the calculations , the average per Festival at

which each Province was represented , and the second the average amount contributed by each for the whole twentyone Festivals that have been held in the seven years . Taking the grand total contributed by the Provinces at all twentyone Festivals as £ 118 , 216 , we have the eminently

satisfactory average of £ 5 , 629 . If we deal with the totals contributed to the three several Institutions , we have the following result : —Benevolent Institution total £ 39 , 046 , average per Festival £ 5 , 578 ; Girls' School , total , £ 33 , 399 , average per Festival £ 4 , 770 ; Boys' School , total £ 45 , 774 , average per Festival £ 6 , 539 .

R . M . B . I . R . M . I . G . £ s d £ s d Beds ... 48 6 0 Berks and Bucks - 1203 12 0 1250 2 6 Bristol 119 0 0 320 15 6

Cambridgeshire - 25 0 0 5 5 0 Cheshire 791 5 0 875 19 11 Cornwall 658 10 0 378 0 0 Cumberland and Westmoreland . 126 2 0 200 0 0 Derbyshire 456 7 6 333 5 6

Devonshire 1122 16 696 5 8 Dorsetshire- - - - 1051 0 0 515 0 0 Durham 174 0 6 814 5 0 Essex 493 11 6 623 0 3

Gloucestershire . - - - 646 18 0 2123 8 6 Hants and I . of Wight - - 1275 15 6 583 8 6 Herefordshire . - - 65 5 0 10 10 O Herts I 960 12 6 552 6 6 Kent' 2547 6 6 1860 14 0

Lancashire , E . .... 4179 10 762 0 6 „ W . - 2431 17 0 1389 6 0 Leicestershire an * Kntland - . 250 18 0 535 12 0 Lincolnshire - - - - 683 4 6 753 14 0 Middlesex 2063 5 0 3293 3 9

Monmouthshire - - - - 445 15 0 721 15 0 Norfolk - - - - - 448 10 0 429 8 0 North Wales and Salop - - 21 0 0 459 8 6 Northamptonshire and Hunts - 793 2 0 105 0 0

Northumberland - - - - 149 18 6 Nottinghamshire .... 41 15 0 274 1 0 Oxfordshire - - . - - - 867 9 6 742 4 O Somersetshire - - - - 525 3 0 1041 12 0 South Wales , East Div . - - 250 0 0 558 2 0 West Div . - - 235 10 0 536 5 0

Staffordshire - - - - 751 2 0 1346 17 0 Suffolk - - - - - 751 5 0 493 19 6 Surrey 533 8 0 437 6 0 Sussex 1250 4 0 807 2 6 Warwickshire .. .. 628 14 6 1121 8 0 Wilts 971 17 6 729 19 6

Worcestershire - - - - 42 0 0 574 7 0 Yorkshire ( N . and E . ) - - - 1075 17 0 239 8 0 ( W . ) .... 6426 15 0 4748 13 0 Channel Islands .... Jersey 299 5 0 105 0 0 Isle of Man 39046 4 0 33396 5 1

Provincial Contributions To The Masonic Institutions,

It must not be forgotten that the sum raised by Worcestershire at the Boys' Festival last year was not stated in the published list , neither was tho amount furnished in the case of N . and E . Yorkshire at the Girl ' s Festival in 1878 . Where we in a position to make good these omissions , we

should show larger totals and higher averages for the Provinces in question . Further , in 1875 the contributions of Monmouthshire and the two Divisions of South Wales were lumped together in one sum , and placed to tbe credit

of Monmouthshire . Were the amount properly apportioned among the three it stands to reason the South Wales Divisions Avould show better totals and averages , while Monmouthshire would be less well off in these respects . Appended is the summary in question : —

No . of Festivals Average Avenge R . M . I . B . Total at which Pro- per per » , e A viace was Represen- Festival . ij S a Xi s a represented . tation . 38 17 0 87 3 0 2 43 i

1571 8 3 4025 2 9 20 201 191 196 7 0 936 2 6 10 93 44 15 15 0 46 o 0 3 15 2 798 13 6 2465 18 5 20 123 117 4 , 92 9 O 1528 19 O 1 9 AK 9 *

570 0 0 896 2 0 7 128 42 1004 3 0 1793 16 0 18 99 85 842 3 6 2660 10 8 18 147 126 i « in is r » aa 7 is n ic « n tan

Q 1956 16 6 2945 2 0 12 245 130 890 5 1 1916 16 10 18 106 91 1932 12 0 4702 18 6 17 276 223 1971 6 0 3830 13 0 19 201 182 75 15 0 2 37 3

720 1 0 3233 0 0 20 161 153 3315 10 0 7723 10 6 21 367 367 1338 0 0 6279 16 21 299 299 3486 16 6 7307 19 6 21 347 347

831 6 6 . 1617 16 6 11 147 77 489 4 0 1935 2 6 15 129 92 2034 8 0 7390 16 9 21 351 351 388 10 0 1556 0 0 13 119 74

632 18 0 1510 16 0 12 125 71 1106 13 0 1587 16 16 99 75 113 8 0 1011 10 0 8 126 48 1357 6 0 1507 4 6 6 251 71 318 3 0 633 19 0 9 70 30

566 9 0 2176 2 6 21 103 103 1033 2 0 2599 17 0 19 136 123 894 5 0 1702 7 0 13 130 81 608 14 0 1380 9 0 9 153 65

985 8 0 3083 7 0 16 192 146 746 5 0 1991 9 6 21 94 94 812 8 6 1783 2 6 21 84 84 1691 19 6 3749 6 0 19 197 178 3215 12 6 4965 15 0 19 261 236

299 5 0 2001 2 0 14 142 95 638 8 0 1254 15 0 7 179 59 397 19 0 1713 4 0 15 114 81 3491 9 0 14636 17 0 21 696 696 85 1 0 85 1 0 1 85 4 105 0 0 509 5 0 3 169 24 45774 3 4 118216 12 5 5629

South Wales (Western Division).

SOUTH WALES ( WESTERN DIVISION ) .

THE annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of this Province will be held on Wednesday next , tbe 20 th inst ., at Neyland , New Milford , under the banner of the Neyland Lodge , No . 990 . R . W . Bro . Col . Lloyd-Phillips P . G . M . is expected to preside , and we doubt not there will be a

strong gathering of the Craft on the occasion . Among the business to be transacted will be the consideration of the Grand Treasurer ' s accounts and the Report of the Prov . G . Lodge Committee . Both these documents are of the most satisfactory character , though the figures they

deal with are unusually modest . These figures show Receipts , including Balance from last account , amounting to £ 78 19 s 5 d . The expenditure , which includes a donation of twenty guineas to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , and one of five guineas to the Provincial Fund of

Benevolence , amounts to £ 46 Os 4 d , so that the Balance in Prov . G . Treasurer ' s hands at ihe close of the year was £ 32 19 s Id . The Prov . G . Lodge Fund of Benevolence is likewise on a small but satisfactory scale . With a balance from last

year of £ 18 16 s lOd , the receipts amount to £ 27 16 s , while a donation of five guineas'to the widow of a deceased brother , forms the single item of expenditure , leaving a balance in hand of £ 22 Is . The election of a Prov . G .

South Wales (Western Division).

Treasurer and Charity Commissioner , and the appointment and investiture of Prov . G . Officers will necessarily form part of the programme , and at the conclusion of the regular business , the brethren will go in procession to Llanstadwell Church , which has been kindly lent for

the occasion , for the purpose of attending divine service . The collection which is customarily made at the close of the service will be in aid of the local and Masonic Charities . A banquet will follow at the South Wales Hotel , Neyland , at the hour of 4 p . m . We are

p leased to note that the Great Western Railway will offer the greatest possible facilities for the conveyance to and fro of the brethren at very reasonable terms . Indeed , the Great Western cannot be too highly commended for its liberality at these occasional gatherings of the Craft .

The death is announced of Bro . Macrae Moir , which took p lace on Wednesday night , very unexpectedly , after a brief illness . The deceased brother , who was a native

of Aberdeenshire , occasionally acted as deputy judge in the Lord Mayor ' s Court on behalf of the late Mr . Russell Gurney , the Recorder of London , and had just been recommended for the office of permanent Deputy Judge of that Court .