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Festival Of The R.M.I. For Girls.

for him to cherish a hope that Bro . Hedges would shortly announce a satisfactory amount for 1890 , whioh would not only meet the annual necessities of tho Institution , but admit of their adding to its invested fuuds . The Stewards' lists were then announced by the S ecretary . The Chairman next gave Our Kindred Institutions , both 0 f which he said was equally deserving with that which had been so

enthusiastically received . Bro . Binokea responded . Although the Chairman , after celebrating a great success on behalf of the Institution over whose Festival he had that day so ably presided , did not make any direot mention of his ( Brother Binckes' ) name , it was in accordance with usnal custom that the brother associated with the Institution whose Festival was imminent to be called npon

to respond , and he did not hesitate in appearing before the Brethren , for something like the 29 th anniversary , while he was still the Secretary of the Boys ' . Without making anything more than an indirect allusion to the position in whioh he was plaoed , he never had greater pleasure than on the present ocoasion in responding to the toaBt of Sucoess to the other Institutions , and particularly to the

Boys' Sohool , to whioh their excellent Chairman had made such kind allusion . There could be no doubt in the mind of anybody that tho Girls' School was the Institution that had commended itself , and was commending itself , and would continue to commend itself , ter the nearest and dearest sympathies of every one who boasted of being a Freemason ; and , as one who had a long connection with the Boys '

Sohool , but took great interest in the success of the Girls , he did not hesitate to say he was more than delighted iu the close of life to see the Girls' Sohool waa in a state securing snoh a position in the estimation of the Masonic world . He would even hope that , after all said and done , the Boys' Sohool would not be forgotten . It had been subjected to a tremendous ordeal ; but it had done a

large amount of good , and was still doing a large amount and he hoped in the future would do a larger amount of good . In stating these faots , and indulging in that aspiration , he was sure he should carry with him the feelings and sympathies of every brother present . Never mind who might have been occupied in that work or not ; he was about to retire into private life , and he hoped , spite of all that

had heen said , he migbt have the satisfaction to carry into that retirement the sympathies of a majority of the brethren among whom , for near upon 30 years , he had laboured assiduously and not unsuccessfully . There were those who were of a turn of mind who would study English poetry . There were " The pleasures of Memory , " " Tho Pleasures of Imagination , " and " The Pleasures of

Hope . " Well , Memory and Imagination might almost be swallowed up in regard to the Girls' and the Benevolent Institutions ; Memory and Imagination no longer existed in reference to them ; but Memory and Hope in regard to the Boys' School might be indulged in . They had to preside over them on the occasion of the Festival of the Boys ' Sohool , not , the Provincial Grand Mastor of any largely organised

Province , but one who had proved himself a good Mason , a man and a brother ; a Past Senior Grand Warden ; a man who stood high in the councils of their Sovereign , —the First Lord of the Admiralty , and he sincerely hoped that he might be supported at that Anniversary Festival—the ninety-second—on the 2 nd of July , unmistakably the last that ho ( Bro . Binckes ) would

have any participation in , to his intense regret , but to the satisfaction of some few , not , he hoped , of a majority ; his best efforts would be directed to make it a success , under the guidance of the Provisional Management Committee , who were doing all they could to render the Institution perfect wherever it could be proved to be imperfeot ; and ¦ objected , as the Institution had been , to a strict investigation , he

questioned very mnoh if they had not come out of it well . There were 264 sons of Freemasons being educated in the Institution . They knew the successes aohieved—that 1400 or 1500 lads had been ednoated there . They knew . that Freemasonry was increasing , and the demands on the Institution would increase with it , aud he did trust that the Festival of tbe 2 nd of July would not be less than

either of those already held this year , —the Benevolent in February , and the Girls' School that night . Congratulating them both on their sucoess , he would like if he could , by any quiet sympathetic appeal to those who he knew still had their sympathies with him , to make this his last and final effort the greatest success of his MaBonic life . When he said that they wonld understand that he was not speaking

egotisticall y . Brother Riohard Eve Past Grand Treasurer said the success of the evening had been achieved by their Board of Stewards , who had been most successful ; a debt of thanks was due to them for the way they had performed their duties . Bro . Col . Peters replied , and then Bro . Sir Arthur Otway proposed the Ladies , for which Bro . E . Luxmore Marshall replied . The concert in the

Temple was given under the direotion of Bro . Fredk . A . Jewson , Organist of the Alliance Lodge , No . 1827 . Madame Agnes Larkcom , Miss Laura Brown , Miss Frances Hipwell , Miss Bertha Colnaghi , Bro . Edwin Houghton , and Bro . Egbert Roberts P . M . P . G . Organist fiaaex , assisted . Solo Pianoforte . Madamo MioMlj oolo Tioliu , Madamo Dunbar Perkins ( gold medallist , London Academy of Music ); and solo cornet , Mr . Arthur Slade .

The Distribution of Prizes took place on Monday , at Battersea nine . Sir Franois Bnrdett , Bart ., the Chairman of the Festival , was accompanied by Lady and Miss Burdett . There was a fair attendc ® . „ ^ " * supporters of tbe Sohool , who expressed themselves Offin- , r , wifch the entire arrangements . The following is the « mciai Programme of the day's proceedings : — PART I .

slw- be 8 nn £ bv a 11 Present . selection of Mnaic , & c , by the pupils , by the Pnpila . PRIZES BY THE INSTITUTION . Wiffiam Win ding ' ^ ° ld m 8 dal f ° P roficienov ' with £ 5 bv Bro * 1 ^^ mm w ' 8 ilTer medal for good cond ^ ot , with £ 5 b *

Festival Of The R.M.I. For Girls.

Cambridge Local examination , 18 entered , all passed . Class II . Honoura—Maude Hill ( gold medallist last year ) , Ethel Fullding , Caroline Weare , Amy Cutbush , Lucy Smith . Class III . Honours—Isabella MoLeod , Beatrice Knott , Edith Matthews , Annie Biojkbank , KateWortley . Satisfied Examiners—Florence Habgood , Cha-lotte Webb , Mary Sherington , Ettie Chapman , Hannah Tngli ** , Olive

Hurst , Mary Tanner , Jano Hutchings . College of Precoptors' examination , 37 entered , 31 passed . Prize winners—Bertha Dean , Lilian Friih , Luoy Harrison , Ethel Gillett . General proficienoy . 3 rd Class—Mary Allen ; 4 th Class—Ethel Craft ; 5 th Class—Ethel Sanders ; lith Class—Ethol Michael . Needlework . Second prizes—Minnie Woodward , Kato Stoke ?* , Dora Gibson . Order and attention ( as proved by conduot marks throughout the year ) . Ethel Vowles , Lanra Johnson .

PART II . Selections , by the Pupils . PRIZES GIVEN BY FRIENDS OF TTIE INSTITUTION . By Bro . Robert Grey , for Religions Knowledge ( as distinguished at Cambridge examination)—Manda Hill , Ethel Falldin ^ , Isabella MoLeod , Beatrice Knott .

By Bvo . William Winn , for General Knowledge ( aa Teault of Cambridge examination)—Caroline Weare , Amy Cutbush , Lucy Smith . By Bro . Thomas Fenn , for Arithmetio—Lucy Smith , Isabella MoLeod .

By Bro . J . H . Matthews , for Muaio ( first prizes)—Louisa Pincombe , Charlotte McMillan ( vocal ) . " Wentworth Little" Memorial , for Mnsio ( second prizes)—Maud Keily , Mary Nicholson , Mathilde Pratt . By Mrs . D . P . Cama , for Music ( third prize)—Mildred Wrighton .

By Bro . and Mrs . Louis Hirsch , for Musio ( little girls)—Gertrude Lockwood , Edith Proudfoot . By Bro . Eugene Monteuuis , for French—Edith Matthews . " John Boyd" Memorial , for Drawing—Annie Brookbank , Amy

Cutbush , Kate Wortley . By Bro . Robert Grey , for Elocntion—Luoy Smith , Evelyn Cunti , Jessie Beilby . By Bro . Ralph Clutton , for the best Prefect—Ethel Fallding . The Supreme Council 33 ° , for Good Conduct ( first prize)—Mand Hill .

By Bro . Frank Richardson , for Good Conduot ( second prizes)—Isabella MoLeod , Bessie Locke . By Mrs . D . P . Cama , for Needlework ( first prize)—Beatrice High . By Mrs . D . P . Cama , for Cookery ( first prizes)—Mary Hammond , Gertrude Greenwood .

By Bro . John Faulkner , for Cookery ( second prize ) —Jane Hutchings . " Yates" Memorial , St . James ' s Lodge , No . 842 , for usefulness in Domestic Duties—Mary Hammond . By Bro . Col . James Peters , for Calisthenioa and

Deportment—Florence Habgood , Ethel Hill . By Miss Godson , for Swimming—Beatrice High , Ada Fearon , Florence Motion . By Bro . John Faulkner , for Amiability ( selected by her Sohoolfellows)—Kate Wortley .

JUNIOR SCHOOL . By Bro . Frank Richardson , for General Proficienoy—Fanny Campbell . By " Henry Levauder " Memorial , for Arithmetic—Edith Melbniah . Calisthenics and Marching . The National Anthem .

The London and North Western Railway Company have , as usual , a strong liefc of attraotive excursions for the holiday season . To-day (¦ -Saturday ) oheap tickets will be issued to Birmingham , Coventry , Leamington , Kenilworth , Warwick , Walsall , Wolverhampton , Leicester , Burton , Derby , Liverpool , Manchester , and other parts of Lancashire ; the various parts of WaleB , the English Lake district ,

and , in fact , all of the principal stations served by this important system . On Whit Monday also , excursions will be run to most of the places mentioned above whioh are within the limits of a day trip , while on the following Thursday , at Midnight , a cheap two days excursion will start to Manchester , so as to enable Londoners to visit

the races to be held there on Friday and Saturday . As regards the regular Tourist Service , the London and North Wostern are this year making every effort to cater for their patrons , and it is expected the demand made on their resources , especially in connection with the service to Edinburgh , in association with the Exhibition there , will clearly demonstrate the popularity of their route .

A meeting of the Duke of Fife Lodge , No . 2355 , was held at the Alexandra , Clapham Common , on Wednesday , 21 st inst . Bro . S . Cochrane P . M . W . M . presided .

Several interesting reports and other matters are un avoidably held over till next week .

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Festival Of The R.M.I. For Girls.

for him to cherish a hope that Bro . Hedges would shortly announce a satisfactory amount for 1890 , whioh would not only meet the annual necessities of tho Institution , but admit of their adding to its invested fuuds . The Stewards' lists were then announced by the S ecretary . The Chairman next gave Our Kindred Institutions , both 0 f which he said was equally deserving with that which had been so

enthusiastically received . Bro . Binokea responded . Although the Chairman , after celebrating a great success on behalf of the Institution over whose Festival he had that day so ably presided , did not make any direot mention of his ( Brother Binckes' ) name , it was in accordance with usnal custom that the brother associated with the Institution whose Festival was imminent to be called npon

to respond , and he did not hesitate in appearing before the Brethren , for something like the 29 th anniversary , while he was still the Secretary of the Boys ' . Without making anything more than an indirect allusion to the position in whioh he was plaoed , he never had greater pleasure than on the present ocoasion in responding to the toaBt of Sucoess to the other Institutions , and particularly to the

Boys' Sohool , to whioh their excellent Chairman had made such kind allusion . There could be no doubt in the mind of anybody that tho Girls' School was the Institution that had commended itself , and was commending itself , and would continue to commend itself , ter the nearest and dearest sympathies of every one who boasted of being a Freemason ; and , as one who had a long connection with the Boys '

Sohool , but took great interest in the success of the Girls , he did not hesitate to say he was more than delighted iu the close of life to see the Girls' Sohool waa in a state securing snoh a position in the estimation of the Masonic world . He would even hope that , after all said and done , the Boys' Sohool would not be forgotten . It had been subjected to a tremendous ordeal ; but it had done a

large amount of good , and was still doing a large amount and he hoped in the future would do a larger amount of good . In stating these faots , and indulging in that aspiration , he was sure he should carry with him the feelings and sympathies of every brother present . Never mind who might have been occupied in that work or not ; he was about to retire into private life , and he hoped , spite of all that

had heen said , he migbt have the satisfaction to carry into that retirement the sympathies of a majority of the brethren among whom , for near upon 30 years , he had laboured assiduously and not unsuccessfully . There were those who were of a turn of mind who would study English poetry . There were " The pleasures of Memory , " " Tho Pleasures of Imagination , " and " The Pleasures of

Hope . " Well , Memory and Imagination might almost be swallowed up in regard to the Girls' and the Benevolent Institutions ; Memory and Imagination no longer existed in reference to them ; but Memory and Hope in regard to the Boys' School might be indulged in . They had to preside over them on the occasion of the Festival of the Boys ' Sohool , not , the Provincial Grand Mastor of any largely organised

Province , but one who had proved himself a good Mason , a man and a brother ; a Past Senior Grand Warden ; a man who stood high in the councils of their Sovereign , —the First Lord of the Admiralty , and he sincerely hoped that he might be supported at that Anniversary Festival—the ninety-second—on the 2 nd of July , unmistakably the last that ho ( Bro . Binckes ) would

have any participation in , to his intense regret , but to the satisfaction of some few , not , he hoped , of a majority ; his best efforts would be directed to make it a success , under the guidance of the Provisional Management Committee , who were doing all they could to render the Institution perfect wherever it could be proved to be imperfeot ; and ¦ objected , as the Institution had been , to a strict investigation , he

questioned very mnoh if they had not come out of it well . There were 264 sons of Freemasons being educated in the Institution . They knew the successes aohieved—that 1400 or 1500 lads had been ednoated there . They knew . that Freemasonry was increasing , and the demands on the Institution would increase with it , aud he did trust that the Festival of tbe 2 nd of July would not be less than

either of those already held this year , —the Benevolent in February , and the Girls' School that night . Congratulating them both on their sucoess , he would like if he could , by any quiet sympathetic appeal to those who he knew still had their sympathies with him , to make this his last and final effort the greatest success of his MaBonic life . When he said that they wonld understand that he was not speaking

egotisticall y . Brother Riohard Eve Past Grand Treasurer said the success of the evening had been achieved by their Board of Stewards , who had been most successful ; a debt of thanks was due to them for the way they had performed their duties . Bro . Col . Peters replied , and then Bro . Sir Arthur Otway proposed the Ladies , for which Bro . E . Luxmore Marshall replied . The concert in the

Temple was given under the direotion of Bro . Fredk . A . Jewson , Organist of the Alliance Lodge , No . 1827 . Madame Agnes Larkcom , Miss Laura Brown , Miss Frances Hipwell , Miss Bertha Colnaghi , Bro . Edwin Houghton , and Bro . Egbert Roberts P . M . P . G . Organist fiaaex , assisted . Solo Pianoforte . Madamo MioMlj oolo Tioliu , Madamo Dunbar Perkins ( gold medallist , London Academy of Music ); and solo cornet , Mr . Arthur Slade .

The Distribution of Prizes took place on Monday , at Battersea nine . Sir Franois Bnrdett , Bart ., the Chairman of the Festival , was accompanied by Lady and Miss Burdett . There was a fair attendc ® . „ ^ " * supporters of tbe Sohool , who expressed themselves Offin- , r , wifch the entire arrangements . The following is the « mciai Programme of the day's proceedings : — PART I .

slw- be 8 nn £ bv a 11 Present . selection of Mnaic , & c , by the pupils , by the Pnpila . PRIZES BY THE INSTITUTION . Wiffiam Win ding ' ^ ° ld m 8 dal f ° P roficienov ' with £ 5 bv Bro * 1 ^^ mm w ' 8 ilTer medal for good cond ^ ot , with £ 5 b *

Festival Of The R.M.I. For Girls.

Cambridge Local examination , 18 entered , all passed . Class II . Honoura—Maude Hill ( gold medallist last year ) , Ethel Fullding , Caroline Weare , Amy Cutbush , Lucy Smith . Class III . Honours—Isabella MoLeod , Beatrice Knott , Edith Matthews , Annie Biojkbank , KateWortley . Satisfied Examiners—Florence Habgood , Cha-lotte Webb , Mary Sherington , Ettie Chapman , Hannah Tngli ** , Olive

Hurst , Mary Tanner , Jano Hutchings . College of Precoptors' examination , 37 entered , 31 passed . Prize winners—Bertha Dean , Lilian Friih , Luoy Harrison , Ethel Gillett . General proficienoy . 3 rd Class—Mary Allen ; 4 th Class—Ethel Craft ; 5 th Class—Ethel Sanders ; lith Class—Ethol Michael . Needlework . Second prizes—Minnie Woodward , Kato Stoke ?* , Dora Gibson . Order and attention ( as proved by conduot marks throughout the year ) . Ethel Vowles , Lanra Johnson .

PART II . Selections , by the Pupils . PRIZES GIVEN BY FRIENDS OF TTIE INSTITUTION . By Bro . Robert Grey , for Religions Knowledge ( as distinguished at Cambridge examination)—Manda Hill , Ethel Falldin ^ , Isabella MoLeod , Beatrice Knott .

By Bvo . William Winn , for General Knowledge ( aa Teault of Cambridge examination)—Caroline Weare , Amy Cutbush , Lucy Smith . By Bro . Thomas Fenn , for Arithmetio—Lucy Smith , Isabella MoLeod .

By Bro . J . H . Matthews , for Muaio ( first prizes)—Louisa Pincombe , Charlotte McMillan ( vocal ) . " Wentworth Little" Memorial , for Mnsio ( second prizes)—Maud Keily , Mary Nicholson , Mathilde Pratt . By Mrs . D . P . Cama , for Music ( third prize)—Mildred Wrighton .

By Bro . and Mrs . Louis Hirsch , for Musio ( little girls)—Gertrude Lockwood , Edith Proudfoot . By Bro . Eugene Monteuuis , for French—Edith Matthews . " John Boyd" Memorial , for Drawing—Annie Brookbank , Amy

Cutbush , Kate Wortley . By Bro . Robert Grey , for Elocntion—Luoy Smith , Evelyn Cunti , Jessie Beilby . By Bro . Ralph Clutton , for the best Prefect—Ethel Fallding . The Supreme Council 33 ° , for Good Conduct ( first prize)—Mand Hill .

By Bro . Frank Richardson , for Good Conduot ( second prizes)—Isabella MoLeod , Bessie Locke . By Mrs . D . P . Cama , for Needlework ( first prize)—Beatrice High . By Mrs . D . P . Cama , for Cookery ( first prizes)—Mary Hammond , Gertrude Greenwood .

By Bro . John Faulkner , for Cookery ( second prize ) —Jane Hutchings . " Yates" Memorial , St . James ' s Lodge , No . 842 , for usefulness in Domestic Duties—Mary Hammond . By Bro . Col . James Peters , for Calisthenioa and

Deportment—Florence Habgood , Ethel Hill . By Miss Godson , for Swimming—Beatrice High , Ada Fearon , Florence Motion . By Bro . John Faulkner , for Amiability ( selected by her Sohoolfellows)—Kate Wortley .

JUNIOR SCHOOL . By Bro . Frank Richardson , for General Proficienoy—Fanny Campbell . By " Henry Levauder " Memorial , for Arithmetic—Edith Melbniah . Calisthenics and Marching . The National Anthem .

The London and North Western Railway Company have , as usual , a strong liefc of attraotive excursions for the holiday season . To-day (¦ -Saturday ) oheap tickets will be issued to Birmingham , Coventry , Leamington , Kenilworth , Warwick , Walsall , Wolverhampton , Leicester , Burton , Derby , Liverpool , Manchester , and other parts of Lancashire ; the various parts of WaleB , the English Lake district ,

and , in fact , all of the principal stations served by this important system . On Whit Monday also , excursions will be run to most of the places mentioned above whioh are within the limits of a day trip , while on the following Thursday , at Midnight , a cheap two days excursion will start to Manchester , so as to enable Londoners to visit

the races to be held there on Friday and Saturday . As regards the regular Tourist Service , the London and North Wostern are this year making every effort to cater for their patrons , and it is expected the demand made on their resources , especially in connection with the service to Edinburgh , in association with the Exhibition there , will clearly demonstrate the popularity of their route .

A meeting of the Duke of Fife Lodge , No . 2355 , was held at the Alexandra , Clapham Common , on Wednesday , 21 st inst . Bro . S . Cochrane P . M . W . M . presided .

Several interesting reports and other matters are un avoidably held over till next week .

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