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1876 ; Durham ( twenty-five Lodges ) , which , however , contributed liberally in 1877 to both the Boys' and Girls ' Schools , and to the Boys' in the two preceding years ; Herefordshire ( four Lodges ) , which has not figured at any Festival since that of the Girls' in 1876 : Leicester ancl

Rutland ( ten Lodges ) , which gave just over £ 400 last year to the Boys' School , and contributed in 1876 to the R . M . B . I . Lincolnshire has twenty Lodges , but though it is not included in the present list , it has never failed in its duty , and has freely given in 1875 , 1876 , and 1877 , to one

or other of our Institutions . Monmouthshire , with its eight Lodges is another absentee , but it sent a representative last year , in the person of Dep . Prov . G . M . Bro . Homfray , whose list presented tie handsome total of £ 210 . Norfolk can boast of fourteen Lodges , six of which are situated in

the thriving city of Norwich ; bnt it has given at the three preceding Festivals of this Institution , and also handsomely supported its Provincial Grand Master , Lord Suffield , when he presided last year at the Girls' Festival . Northumberland has eighteen Lodges , one-half of them in

Newcastleon-Tyne ; but it supported the Boys' School both last year and the year before . North Wales and Salop musters twenty-five Lodges , but it supported both our Schools last year , and moreover the Sir Watkin Testimonial for a perpetual presentation to the Boys' is in course of being raised ,

so that we must not be surprised that our brethren ot this Province should find it necessary for the present to limit their attentions to this particular task . Both divisions of South Wales , the Eastern with its eleven , and the Western with its eight Lodges , are unrepresented on this occasion ;

but both figured in the Boys' list last June , and contributed to the same Institution in 1875 and 1876 , and to the Benevolent in the latter year . Warwickshire has twenty-nine Lodges , and of these no less than sixteen belong to Birmingham ; but it gave over £ 467 at this Festival last year , and

the munificent sum of £ 2 , 000 to the Boys' School in 1876 , when its Provincial Grand Master presided . The Channel Islands ( four Lodges ) ancl Jersey ( seven Lodges ) are also nnrepresented , but they contributed to the Girls' in 1876 . So far we havo dealt with absentee Provinces , ancl we

must remind our readers again that it does not follow of course that these Provinces do not contribute in the course of the year to this particular Institution ; and in the majority of cases we have shown they do contribute to the sister Charities , or have done so to one or

more of them at previous Festivals . We cannot , of course , expect of them too much ; and of two courses , it certainly seems better that a Province , unless it be a very considerable one indeed , had better concentrate its efforts , and send np , iu turn , a handsome list or lists to one Institution ;

than that it should distribute its efforts among all three . But in the case of the regular absentees whom we have named above , we would suggest to Bro . Terry ancl his brother Secretaries , whether it would not be as well if they gave these Provinces the opportunity of contributing .

We can well imagine that , at all events , Beds , Cambs , and Worcester — for the Isle of Man is somewhat remotely situated—would like to contribute , and we throw it out as a suggestion to Bros . Little and Binckes , whose Festivals have yet to come , that they should pay a flying

visit to these Provinces , or if that be out of the question , that they should delegate the task of awakening a certain interest in our Institutions to some well-known and

influential brethren hailing from those Provinces . We offer this suggestion on the ground principally that we do not like to see the names of certain Provinces invariably absent on these occasions .

As to the Provinces which sent up Stewards , we note that Berks and Bucks ( sixteen Lodges ) , sent np seven Stewards , and their lists , with a contribution of ten guineas from Provincial Grand Lodge , presented a total of £ 157 9 s . The Lodges represented were the two Windsor , Etonian ,

No . 209 , and Windsor Castle , the Newbury Lodge , No . 574 , Loyal Berkshire Lodge of Hope , the two Maidenhead Lodges , St . John ' s , No . 795 , and Ellington , No . 1566 , St . Peter and St . Paul , No . 1410 , Newport-Pagnell , and Watling Street , No . 1639 , of Stoney Stratford . This

contributed at all three Festivals last year , the two Schools in 1876 , and all three Institutions in 1875 . Bristol ( eight Lodges ) sent np a representative , hailing from the Beaufort Lodge , No . 103 , ancl his list yielded £ 134 15 s . Last year ,

by the hands of its Provincial Grand Master , the Earl of Limerick , it gave £ 161 8 s to the Benevolent , and was a contributor to all three Charities in 1875 . Cheshire has a strong array of thirty-nine Lodges . Three of these—a

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Stockport , No . 104 , a Crewe , No . 321 , ancl a Birkenhead , No . 537 , sent up together £ 172 2 s , by the hands of seven Stewards , five of whom belonged to the Stockport Lodge , St . John ' s , No . 104 . It was a contributor at the Boys' and Benevolent last year ; indeed , in only one out of the last

ten Festivals has it been an absentee . Moreover , it has a perpetual presentation to the Boys ' , and an Educational Institution of its own , which , from an account wo published last year in these columns , is , as our readers aro aware , in a very flourishing condition . Cornwall has twenty-seven

Lodges , and was represented by its Prov . Grand Master , the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , aud Bro . Hughan . The former had a list of £ 460 , the highest individual list , not only in the Provinces , but in the whole body of Stewards , while Bro . Hughan sent np £ 110 . Moreover , it must be

borne in mind that at the Boys' Festival in 1876 , the latter brother was Steward , when his list was between £ 400 and £ 500 , so that its contribution this year of £ 570 is highly creditable . Derbyshire was another Province which was fortunate in obtaining the services of its Prov . Grand Master

( the Marquis of Hartington ) as Steward . It has eighteen Lodges , and , in addition to his lordship , Bro . T . A . Turner , of Mundy Grove Lodge , No . 506 , Shipley , acted as Steward , the total of their two lists being £ 170—namely , Lord Hartington ' s £ 155 , ancl Bro . Turner ' s £ 15 . Last year it

supported the Boys' and the Benevolent , and the former also found favour in its sight in 1875 and 1876 . There was a representative of Dorsetshire in the person of Bro . J . M . P . Montagu , Past Dep . Prov . G . Master , whose list of contributions amounted to £ 150 . Last year its list at this Festival

was over £ 300 , £ 180 to the Girls in May , and over £ 80 to the Boys in June . It freely contributed to the Benevolent in 1876 , and the Boys in 1875 the very handsome sum of £ 633 , so that , albeit there are only thirteen Lodges in this

Province , it is a foremost contributor to all our Charities . Devonshire has forty-six Lodges , and one of these—the Loyal , No . 251 , of Barnstaple—is represented , while one of its twenty-six Chapters also sent up a Steward . The lists of these two amounted to £ 110 . This is as much as could

have been expected , for last year its contribution to the Benevolent was only a little short of £ 600 , and , indeed , it has been absent only at one out of the last ten Festivals . The three Stewards from Essex raised among them £ 88 16 s . It has sixteen Lodges , three of which—No . 160 , of

Roehford , No . 453 , of Woodford , and No . 1000 , of Southendwere represented b y the three Stewards already referred to . Its contribution to the Benevolent last year was over £ 113 , and to the Boys £ 75 16 s . In 1876 , it gave £ 144 18 s to the Boys , and has been a contributing Province at eight

of the last ten Festivals . Gloucestershire ( fourteen Lodges ) had a single representative , in the person of Bro . H . Godfrey , of Foundation Lodge , No . 82 , of Cheltenham , whose list yielded £ 118 . Last year its contributions to our three Charities slightly exceeded £ 500 . It figured likewise as a

supporter of the Boys both in 1875 and 1876 . Hants and the Isle of Wight has thirty Lodges , and two of these—the Carnarvon , No . 804 , of Havant , and the Gosport , No . 903 , of Gosport—made up between them £ 70 7 s 6 d . It must be remembered , however , that at the Festival of the Boys '

School in 1877 , when its Provincial G . Master , Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., presided , its contributions reached £ 624 Is , while in May last it gave £ 222 to the Girls , and was down last February for £ 171 5 s to the Benevolent . It has onl y been once absent , from the Festivals of the last three years ,

and Bro . Terry , therefore , has every reason to be satisfied , even though his contribution this year falls short of what it was in 1877 . Herts ( ten Lodges ) sent up six Stewards . The aggregate of the six lists was £ 645 lis 6 d , of which £ 300 was the result of Bro . Iles ' s exertions on behalf of

the Province , while Bros . James Boatwright , of the Hertford , No . 403 , Hertford , James Shilcock , of the Cecil , No . 449 , Hitchin , Henry Hollis , of the Berkhampstead , No . 504 , Berkhampstead , W . W . Morgan jun ., of tho Gladsmuir , No . 1385 , Barnet , and Comp . G . Ward Verry , of the

Gladsmuir Chapter , made up the remaining £ 345 and odd shillings among them . To Bro . W . W . Morgan jun . we may offer our congratulations on the success of his first appearance in the capacity of Steward . Bro . Morgan jun . is onl y a very young Mason , but he has shown there is good work

in him , the result of his first effort being £ 146 18 s , ancl this has since been increased to £ 160 . About onehalf of this was raised b y the sale of shilling tickets , on the principle so successfully carried out by Bro . J . Constable , and but a small portion of the other moiety came from his Lodge , so that Bro . Morgan must have worked hard to