R.M. Institution For Boys. Analysis Of The Subscription List.

R . M . INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . ANALYSIS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST .

( Continued from page 35 . ) LITTLE Herts , Avith its ten Lodges , is generally among the contributors , ancl it is down for £ 26 5 s . We must not be surprised at the smallness of the amount , seeing that , in May , it gave the Girls £ 68 5 s , and to the Benevolent

£ 645 lis 6 d m February , this being the largest Provincial total . Last year Bro . Binckes obtained support to the extent of £ 59 17 s , -with one list still to be sent in , -while £ 143 16 s 6 d was contributed to the Girls , and £ 176 8 s 6 d to the Benevolent . In 1876 Bro . Binckes received £ 82 17 s

from the Province , and Bro . Terry £ 102 13 s ; in 1875 the former £ 130 Is , and the latter £ 217 12 s , whilo a contribution of £ 17 17 s was handed to the Girls' School , making a total for the four years of over £ 1 , 671 , with only one absence during the time . We must congratulate our Herts

brethren on the steadfast support they extend to all our Institutions . Kent is one of our most influential Lodges , having , as was stated in our notice of its Provincial Meeting last week , forty-three Lodges . Six of its Lodges , represented by five Stewards , contributed among them

£ 478 , being the second largest amount from any Province , Bro . Emmerson ' s list yielding £ 151 9 s , and Bro . Lukey ' s £ 136 10 s . TJp to last May it had contributed £ 3 , 508 , giving an average of over £ 300 per Festival . Its total has now reached £ 3 , 986 , which yields an average for the

twelve Festivals of over £ 33 * 2 . We do not think it necessary to enlarge on the merits of this statement , as it speaks for itself . We therefore move on to East Lancashire , with its array of eighty-six Lodges . Six of these sent up amongst them eight Stewards , and their total is £ 294 15 s .

As we remarked last May , this Province has an Educational Institution of its own , and considering the terrible depression of trade for a long time past , it would not have surprised us had the Province been less fully represented . However , it invariably contributes , though

somewhat modestly it must be acknoAvledged , considering the number of its Lodges . Of the six , three are Bolton , and three Manchester ; and Bro . Hine , who is chairman of the Provincial Institute just referred to , heads the list with a total of £ 200 5 s . A single Liverpool Lodge , Ancient Union , No .

203 , is the one representative of West Lancashire and its seventy-seven Lodges , the amount of its contribution being £ 57 15 s . The same remarks apply to this division of Lancashire as to its Eastern neighbour , with this addition that its contributions last year and the year previous exceeded

£ 2 , 000 . Two Stewards from Pelham Pillar Lodge , No . 792 of Grimsby , sustain the honour of Lincolnshire , but one list only has been returned , the amount being £ 16 16 s . It did not figure at either of the other two Festivals this year , but it contributed to all three Institutions in 1877 and 1876 ,

its subscription to the Girls School in the latter year reaching £ 543 14 s , while in 1875 it gave £ 573 to the Benevolent , and smaller sums to the other Institutions . Thus it has done admirably on the whole , though it has not obtained the same prominence this year as it has enjoyed

m former years . It must terribly miss " A Warden of tbe Fens , " whose efforts were constantly being directed to helping our Institutions . Middlesex is another of our

Provinces , which has figured at all the Festivals during the last four years . Eleven Stewards representing six Lodges and two Chapters—one , however , acting independentlygave among them £ 194 7 s—or rather the seven lists sent

R.M. Institution For Boys. Analysis Of The Subscription List.

in , up to the day of the Festival , amount to this sum , for there are still four outstanding , so that there is plenty of roomfora considerable increase . It has twenty-seven Lodges , and up to February , including the Festival of this year , its contributions amounted to over £ 3 , 770 . If we add to this

the £ 177 3 s 6 d handed to the Girls' School in May , and this present £ 194 7 s , we obtain a total of over £ 4 , 141 raised towards the last twelve Festivals , or an average short of £ 350 per Festival . Monmouthshire ( eight Lodges ) was represented by its Provincial G . Master , Lieut . Col . Lyne ,

and the total of his list is £ 166 19 s . It contributed modestly to the Girls in May , and last year gave two hundred guineas to tho Benevolent , while conjointly with South Wales it gave £ 464 10 s to the Girls in 1875 . Thus Monmouthshire , which gave birth to our Harry the Fifth , has

done admirably . Norfolk with fourteen Lodges was represented by four Stewards , of whom its Provincial Grand Master , Lord Suffield , was one , and the aggregate of their lists is £ 279 6 s . This is its first appearance during the present year , but in 1877 it supported its Prov . G . Master

when he presided at the Festival of the Girls' School to the extent of £ 210 , and it gave the Benevolent £ 82 17 s the same year , ancl supported the Boys and Benevolent in 1876 . The two Lodges whicli appear in the list are both of Norwich . The next in order is Oxfordshire which

with Apollo University as one of its eight Lodges exercises a very considerable influence throughout the Fraternity . Its four Stewards—three for Apollo University , No . 357 , and one for the Churchill , No . 478 , of Oxford likewisetogether gave £ 75 lis 6 cl . In May the same two Lodges

with three others were down for £ 144 6 s 6 d , ancl in February again the same two gave between them £ 47 10 s 6 d to the Benevolent . Last year it supported all the Institutions , the Boys receiving £ 40 7 s 6 cl , the Girls £ 62 9 s with one list outstanding , and the Benevolent , when , but for

indisposition , its Provincial G . Master H . E . H . Prince Leopold would have presided , £ 279 13 s . In 1876 , £ 93 lis was the amount it gave the Boys , £ 50 went to the Girls , and £ 100 7 s to the Benevolent . In 1875 , its contributions were £ 170 3 s , with two lists still to be received , to the Boys , £ 52 9 s

to the Girls , and £ 70 6 s to the Benevolent , making for the twelve Festivals , a total of over £ 1 , 186 . Somersetshire ( nineteen Lodges ) has a representative for one of them in the list , but the amount of his contribution is not given . However , in May , when its Prov . G . Master , the Earl of

Carnarvon occupied the chair , the total of its subscriptions was £ 318 3 s . In February last it figured for £ 85 18 s . At the Boys' Festival in 1877 it was clown for £ 58 16 s , and at that of the Benevolent for £ 253 14 s . In 1876 it gave to the Boys £ 72 9 s , to the Girls £ 31 10 s , and to the Benevolent £ 66 6 s . At the Festival of the

Boys School in 1875 , when the Earl of Carnarvon likewise presided it figured still more conspicuously , the total of its lists being £ 540 12 s 6 d , and one outstanding . Twenty guineas was its contribution to the Girls' in the same year , but at the Benevolent it was not , if we remember ,

represented , this being the only occasion of its absence during the four years Ave have been dealing Avith . Staffordshire with its twenty-one Lodges has a representative in the person of Bro . James Walker of the St . Peter ' s , No . 419 , of Wolverhampton , and his list amounts

to £ 3 t > 14 s . It Avas likewise represented at the Benevolent in February , when ifc contributed £ 156 7 s . Last year onr Boys received £ 149 2 s , the Girls £ 161 3 s , ancl the Benevolent £ 145 . At this last Festival , as onr readers Avill doubtless remember , its Prov . G . Master , the late Earl of Shrewbury and Talbot , took the chair at the very last moment ,