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The Girls School.

THE GIRLS SCHOOL .

THE Quarterly Court was held on Saturday , under the presidency of Brother Henry Smith Deputy Prov . G . M . West Yorkshire P . G . D . Treasurer of the Institution . In the course of the proceedings it was stated that the total receipts of the Institution for the year 1894 amounted to £ 20 043 3 s Id , and that of the twenty-three girls selected for

years , was lost , it being suggested that it would be a better recognition if Bro . Hammerton were allowed a life presentation to the School . The chairman was re-elected Treasurer , and out of a list of forty-one girls twenty-two were admitted to the

submission to the last Cambridge local examination all passed , ebht of them with honours and eleven with distinction . A motion to confer a large number of votes on Bro . Charles Hammerton , in acknowledgment of his supplying the School gratuitously with some £ 650 worth of goods during the last six

Institution . Particulars of the successful candidates are given in our advertisement column , the following are details of the unsuccessful , the votes in their cases being carried forward for October next , in all cases where they are then eligible :

No . on List . Namo . Votes : Forward . Polled . Total . 29 Hargreaves , I . ... ... — 2586 2586 24 Stevenson , L . ... ... — 2538 2538 6 Morris , G ... ... 1056 1480 2536 21 Marsh , E . E . ... ... — 2466 2466 33 Stanford , E . B . ... ... — 1492 1492 31 Rouse , M . A . ... ... — 1262 1262

38 Harrison , A . ft . ... ... — 1046 1046 37 Holloway , M . ... ... — 504 504 15 Wadsworth , E . ... ... 6 211 217 18 Dransfield , L . E . ... ... 60 141 201 30 Canova , T . K . C . ... ... — 166 166 22 Bate . D . M . ... ... — 142 142

5 Robinson , A . M . ... ... 21 113 134 25 Richardson , F . ... ... — 131 131 7 Williams , V . M . ... ... 54 59 113 8 Minns , D . L . ... ... 16 64 80 17 Woodward , C . M . ... ... 57 20 77 11 Tanner , S . ... ... 6 24 30 36 Heaps , M . A . ... ... — 5 5

THE entertainment at the ¦ Eoyal Masonic Institution for Girls , on the occasion of the annual visit of the Stewards to the School , on Monday , 6 th May next , will commence at 4 o ' clock with the singing of the Old Hundredth . The other items include a piano solo , sixteen hands on eight pianos ; a

trio , with forty-eight hands ; a duet with thirty-two ; part songs , recitations , & c . The prizes won by the pupils will also be presented , and after refreshment and an inspection of the Institution the children will go through the calisthenic and marching exercises which have won for them so much renown in

the past . We hope the day will be a fine one , in which case a pleasant and successful time is assured . The President of the year , the Et . Hon . the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe Deputy Grand Master of England and Provincial Grand Master of Cornwall will preside at the Institution festivities , as well as at the Festival the following Wednesday .

It is satisfactory to know that the Board of Stewards for the Festival is gradually creeping up , and will probably number three hundred before the day of the celebration arrives . Anxiety

is thus relieved in one particular , and if the average collections are anything like what has been achieved in the past the success of this year ' s Festival seems to be assured , a result all will be pleased to see realised .

The Boys School.

THE BOYS SCHOOL .

THE Quarterly Court of this Institution was held on Friday of last week , as already briefly recorded in our pages , the chair being occupied by Bro . Eichard Eve Past Grand Treasurer Patron and Trustee of the Institution . In addition to the business recorded in our last issue the Court conferred the rank

of Honorary Patron on Brother Thomas Fenn Past President of the Board of General Purposes , ancl the rank of Honorary Vice-President on Bros . Jabez Hogg and Wharton P . Hood , M . D ., on account of eminent services generously rendered by them to the Institution , the first as stockbroker in the investment free of

The Boys School.

brokerage of £ 30 , 000 of the School's funds , the second as Honorary Surgeon-Oculist for thirty-two years , and the third as Honorary Medical Officer for twenty-seven years . Bro . Charles E . Keyser , M . A ., F . S . A ., J . P ., Past Grand Deacon was unanimously re-elected Treasurer of the Institution . The halfyearly election , of which we gave results last week , concluded the proceedings .

Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents . All Letters must bear the name and address of the writer , not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

TERMINATION OF OFFICE .

To the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —ENQUIRER , in your last issue , calls attention to a point that has been raised in Scotland regarding tenure of office . He regards the matter as a trivial one , and suggests that rather doubtful compliment to your readers that they take " pleasure arguing the pros , and cons , of such trifles . " Reduced to practice in Subordinate Lodges the

declaring of the offices vacant or the absence of such declaration is of course of trifling import , but in Provincial Grand Lodges , in Scotland at least , it is of much importance . Here Master Masons—Brethren who are not members of Provincial Grand Lodge—if a member in good standing in any Lodge in the Province are eligible for appointment to any office elective or commissioned .

When any Master Mason is so appointed he is required to pay the " Test fee " exigible from regularly qualified members of the Provincial Grand Lodge . In most Provincial Grand Lodges members must have paid their test fee for the ensuing year to entitle them to vote in the election for new Officers . M . Ms . who have held office , and been allowed to exercise the right

of membership , cannot , at tho end of their year , qualify for the ensuing year , as thoy may not bo re-elected . Now , Sir , ENQUIRER will admit that at times two or three votes , or oven one vote , at an election meeting means a great deal , and the question whether the Master Mason Officers in Provincial Grand Lodges havo a right to voto for their successors in office is not a trivial one , but such as is worthy of discussion .

Yours fraternally , THE MALLET Glasgow , 23 rd April 1895 .

To the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE .

DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I was much impressed with the letter from ENQUIRER on the above question , because not long since it exercised my own mind to a considerable extent . I had observed so much difference in the working , in this respect , in the Province of which I am a member , that when it became my duty , and

privilege , to instal my successor , I gave the matter most close and earnest consideration , and I came to the conclusion that when there was no other business before the Lodge , save and except the routine of opening , reading minutes , and correspondence , and that the installation ceremony followed close on these , it was tho right and proper thing to terminate the offices before opening up to the second Degree , as the opening up , then being a

necessity , constituted itself as a part and portion of the installation ceremony . If there had been a passing to do before the installation , I should have retained the Officers until that ceremony was concluded , or had there been a raising on the same day as the installation , I should , after having finished the raising , have returned to the second Degree and then terminated the offices . I am , & c , BKADSTOW .

THE OBJECTOR .

WHAT an excellent illustration of the perversity of human nature the constitutional Lodge " objectors " are ! No matter what may come before the Lodge , their self-assuming duty of objecting must be exercised .

Their only hope of being seen and heard is in this one channel . Self-wise , self-important , self-conceited , they assume to guard the law , guard the morals , guard the treasury—guard everything proposed by anyone hut themselves .

They take much pride in displaying themselves and airing their views in the presence of visitors , and to strangers they appear , at first sight , as the Solomons of the Ledge ; but to those who visit the Lodge frequently , they soon are regarded at their proper value and weight . To the membership they become a bore and a nuisance ; they tire of the frothy vapourings and

leave their places in the Lodge vacant . Ask such absentees for the cause of their non-attendance , and evasive answers are given because of the delicacy to give the true cause by personal reference . It is thus to be seen that many who would take an active interest in the Lodge are forced to remain away to the Lodge ' s hurt . What a pity some electrical genius—some Edison—does

not invent an electrical apparatus by which any one of the bored Brethren can touch a button , connect the current , and shock the Lodge bore so he would be compelled to desist 1 We call upon the electrical fraternity to come to our aid and help us to suppress this worst foe of Lodge success . A fortune greater than ever has been realised by any other electrical process awaits the lucky genius who shall invent such a machine . — " The Companion . "