Lodge Meetings Next Week.

LODGE MEETINGS NEXT WEEK .

Puller particulars as to place of meeting of the undermentioned Lodges are given in the Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Book ( published by Grand Lodge for the benefit of the Charity Fund ) .

Monday . 557 Loyal Victoria , Callington 1177 Tenby , Tenby 1753 Obedience , Okehampton 2279 Thornham , Thornham 2553 Rufford , Nottingham

Tuesday . 171 Amity , Ship and Turtle 70 St . John , Plymouth 103 Beauford . Bristol

124 Marquis of Granby , Durham 158 Adam , Sheerness 252 Harmonic , Dudley 265 Royal Yorkshire , Keighley 364 Cambrian , Neath 393 Sfc . David . Berwick

421 Loyal of Industry , S'thmotton 510 St . Martin , Liskeard 558 Temple , Folkestone 660 Camalodunum , New Malton 673 St . John , Liverpool 734 Londesborough , Bridlington 847 Fortesque , Honiton 960 Bute . Cardiff

974 Pentalpha , Bradford 1002 Skiddaw , Cockermouth 1244 Marwood , Redear 1780 Albert Edward , Southampton 1785 Sfc . Petroc , Padstow 2129 Dorothy Vernon , Bakewell 2561 West Essex , Buckhurst Hill

Wednesday . Grand Chapter , at 6 . 74 Athol , Birmingham 94 Phcenix , Sunderland 137 Amity , Poole 159 Brunswick , East Stonehouse 168 Mariner , Guernsey 282 Bedford , Tavistock 298 Harmony , Rochdale

326 Moira of Honour , Bristol 327 St . John , Wigton 406 N'thern Counties , N'castle-on-T . 417 Faith & Unanimity , Dorchester 429 Royai Navy , Ramsgate 838 Franklin , Boston

970 Sfc . Anne , East Looe 1003 Prince of Wales , Jersey 1013 Royal Victoria , Liverpool 1063 Mailing Abbey , West Mailing 1085 Hartington , Derby

1167 Alnwick , Alnwick 1431 Sfc . Alphege , Solihull 1461 Clausehtum , Woolston 1549 Abereorn , Great Stanmore 1660 Arlecdon , Frizzington

1736 St . John , Halifax 1862 Stranton , West Hartlepool 2382 Loyal Hay , Hay

Thursday . 742 Crystal Palace , Sydenham 1790 Old England , Thornton Heath 2580 Crouch End , Highgate 24 Newcastle O . T ., Newcastle 110 Loyal C'brian , Merfchyr-Tydvil

123 Lennoi , Richmond , Yorks 195 Hengis ; , Pournemouth 219 Prudence , Todmorden 249 Mariner , Liverpool 266 Naphtali , Heywood 269 Fidelity , Blackburn 289 Fidelity , Leeds

294 Constitutional , Beverley 295 Combermere Union , Macclesfield 317 Affability , Manchester 509 Tees , Stockton 531 Sfc . Helen , Hartlepool 637 Portland , Stoke-upon-Trenfc

792 Pelham Pillar , Grimsby 856 Restormel , Lostwithiel 1231 Savile , Elland 1284 Brent , Topsham 1304 Olive Union , Horncastle 1384 Equity , Widnes 1565 Earl of Chester , Lymm 1829 Burrel ] , Brighton 1899 Wellesley , Sandhurst 2321 Acacia , Bradford 2496 Wirral , Birkenhead

Friday . 1489 Marquess of Ripon , Highbury 2511 Sfc . John at Hackney , Hackney 242 St . George , Doncaster 291 Royal Philanthropic , Highbridge 306 Alfred , Leeds 521 Truth , Huddersfield 837 De Grev and Ttinon . Rinnn

936 Adair , Aldeburgh 998 Welehpool , Welehpool 1230 Barnard , Barnard Castle 1648 Prince of Wales , Bradford 1664 Gosforth , Gosforth 1754 Windsor , Penarth 2433 Minerva , Birkenhead Saturday .

1223 Amherst , Riverhead 1550 Prudence , Plymouth 1929 Mozart , Croydon 2442 St . Clement , Leigh 2541 St . Andrew , Avonmonth

Holiday Arrangements.

HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS .

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . THIS Company issue ordinary as well as excursion tickets at their principal City and West-end Offices , and this arrangement is probably never so much appreciated as during the week preceding the Bank Holiday , when large numbers of people avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded for obtaining tickets at their own time and without the crowding and ¦ worry inseparable from a large railway station at holiday seasons . The fares charged are the same as at Paddington . The following are the offices at which tickets are issued , viz .: —193 and 407 Oxford Street ; 181 Tottenham

Court Road , W . ; 53 New Oxford Street ; Gloucester Mansions ( 10 Cambridge Circus ) , Shaftesbury Avenue , W . O . ; "The Piazza , " Covent Garden ; 269 Strand ; 26 Regent Street , S . W . ; 29 Charing Cross ; 17 Brompton Road ; 4 Holborn Circus ; Nag ' s Head Yard , 137 Borough High Street , E . C . ; 118 Minones , E . ; 5 Arthur Sfcreet East , London Bridge , E . C . ; 82 Qneen Victoria Street ; 67 Gresham Street ; 4 Cheapside ; and at the L . B . & S . O . Company ' s Excursion Office ( under Grand Hotel ) , Trafalgar Square . Tickets can also be obtained at Clapham Junction ; Kensington ( Addison Road ); Uxbridge Road ; Hammersmith , and other stations .

The booking offices at Paddington station will he open for the issue of tickets all day on Wednesday , Thursday , Friday and Saturday , 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th and 5 th August , and the tickets issued ( except those for specified excursion trains ) will be available for use on any of those days . To meet the expected additional traffic by the ordinary trains on Saturday , 5 th August , the Company will run in duplicate the 11 . 45 a . m . and

3 . 0 and 9 . 0 p . m . trains from London to the West of England , the 4 . 45 and G . 50 p . m . trains to the North , and Ihe 12 . 0 noon train to Weymouth , Hereford , and South Wales . The first portion of the 11 . 45 a . m ., 3 . 0 and 9 . 0 p . m . trains will leave Paddington at 13 . 38 a . m ., 2 . 55 p . m ., and 8 . 55 p . m . respectively , hut the first portions of the other tiains will leave at the advcitiscd times , and ihe tecoid a few minutes situ v > aids , the long distance

Holiday Arrangements.

passengers being as far as possible taken in the first portion , but with a few exceptions both trains will stop at the advertised stations to take up and set down passengers . Fast excursion trains leave Paddington every Wednesday for Shrewsbury , Aberystwyth , Dolgelly , Barmouth , Llandudno , & c . ; and at midnight every Wednesday for Cardiff , Swansea , & c . ; every Thursday for Clevedon , Taunton , Tiverton , & c , and at midnight for Chester , Liverpool , & o . ; every

Thursday and Friday night , to Weston-Super-Mare ; every Thursday , Friday night and Saturday , to Dawlish , Teignmouth , Falmouth , Penzance , and other resorts in the West of England ; every Thursday and Saturday , to Bridgwater , Minehead , Torquay , Kingsbridge , & c . ; every Friday , to Newbury , Devizes , & c , and at night to the Scilly Islands ; every Friday and Saturday ,

to Savernake , Marlborough , & c . ; every Friday night and Saturday , to Exeter , Plymouth , & c , and to Douglas ( Isle of Man ) ; every Friday and Monday , to Swindon , Stroud , Gloucester , Cheltenham , Hereford , & c . ; every Saturday , to Frome , Yeovil , Dorchester , Weymouth ( for the Channel Islands ) , Lynton , Lynmouth , llfracombe , Launceston , & c . ; aud every Saturday and Monday , to Bath , Bristol , & c .

Cheap half-day excursions are also run every Monday ( except 7 fch August to Maidenhead , Marlow , Aylesbury , & c . ; every Tuesday , to Abingdon Oxford , and Blenheim and Woodstock ; every Wednesday , to Reading , Newbury , Marlborough , Devizes , & c . ; and every Thursday , to Stratford-on-Avon , Banbury and Leamington .

Passengers are booked' every Saturday to Guernsey and Jersey , via Weymouth , and the short sea passage to the Islands , by the trains leaving Paddington at 8 . 50 a . m . and 9 . 45 p . pi . Third class return tickets , available for a fortnight or less , are issued at a fare o £ 24 s 6 d . There is now a daily daylight service from Weymouth to Guernsey and Jersey , in addition to the night beat .

On Wednesday , 2 nd August , an excursion will run to Cheltenham , Worcester , Malvern , Hereford , & a . ; on Thursday , 3 rd August , to Cork and Killarney ; on Friday , 4 th August , to Stratford-on-Avon , Crewe , Manchester , Waterford , Killarney , Belfast , Giant's Causeway , & c . ; and at midnight , to Cardiff , Swansea , Oxford , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , Chester , Birkenhead ,

Liverpool , & c . ; on Sunday , 0 th August , to Gloucester , Cheltenham , Weston-Super-Mare , Exeter , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Torquay , Plymouth , & c . ; and at midnight , to Oxford , Leamington , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , & c . On the Bank Holiday , excursions will run to Reading , Goring , Swindon , Bath , Bristol , Weston-Super-Mare , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & c .

Excursions will be run to London from most of the principal stations , ' and cross country trips have also been arranged . Cheap tickets are issued daily from London and many suburban stations to Staines , Windsor , Taplow , Maidenhead , Henley , Goring , Wallingford , and other riverside resorts . These tickets can be obtained during the whole of fche summer months . The train service to and from the riverside stations has also been considerably improved .

MIDLAND RAILWAY . ON Bank Holiday , 7 th August , and on the previous Saturday , certain booked trains will he discontinued , of which due notice will be given by special bills at the stations . For the convenience o £ the public the Midland Railway Company have arranged that fche Booking Offices at St . Pancras and Moorgate

Street Stations shall be open for the issue of tickets all day on Friday and Saturday , 4 th and 5 th August . Tickets to all principal stations on the Midland Railway will also be obtainable beforehand at their City and Suburban Offices throughout the metropolis . The tickets obtained at these Offices will be available from St . Pancras Station , and will be issued at the same fares as charged at that Station , and dated to suit the convenience of

passengers . Cheap excursion trains will be run from London on Friday night , 4 th August , to Stirling , Perth , Aberdeen , Inverness , & c , for 4 or 10 days , and to Edinburgh , Glasgow , Dumfries , Castle Douglas , Ayr , & c , for 4 and 10 days , by which trains third class return tickets will be issued at a single fare for the double journey , available for 16 days . Cheap excursion tickets will be issued from London ( St . Pancras ) to Dublin , Belfast , Londonderry , & c , and

excursion tour tickets to the North of Ireland , on Friday , 4 th August ( see bills for times , fares , routes , & c ) . On Saturday , 5 th August , a cheap excursion train will be run to Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , Leicester , Nottingham , Melton , Burton , Derby , Manchester , Liverpool , Blackburn , Bolton , Preston , Wigan , Blackpool , Rochdale , Oldham , Bury , the Furness District , Sheffield , Leeds , Bradford , Barnsley , Keighley , York , Hull , Scarboro ' , Darlington , Durham , Newcastle , Carlisle , & c , & c , for three

or six days . On Monday , 7 th August , day trips will be run from London ( St . Pancras ) to Southend-on-Sea , St . Albans , Harpenden , Luton , Bedford , and Kettering ; a one , two , or three days trip to Leicester ; a one , two , four , or five days trip to Birmingham ; and a two or five days excursion to Manchester . Tickets for these trains for starting from St . Pancras Station can be obtained on the two days previous to the running of the trains at the above-named offices .

Cheap season excursion tickets are now issued each Saturday , until 30 fch September , from London ( St . Pancras ) to Matlock , Buxton , Liverpool , Southport , Blackpool , Lytham , St . Anne ' s-on-Sea , Scarboro ' , Bridlington , Whitby , Morecambe , Lancaster , the English Lake District , & c , available for passengers to return in either three , eight , ten , fifteen , or seventeen days , and to the Isle of Man on Friday nights and Saturday mornings for three , eight , ten , fifteen , or seventeen days . Fortnightly excursions to Northallerton ,

Richmond , Darlington , Durham , Newcastle , and Berwick will be'run on alternate Fridays , from 4 th August to 29 th September inclusive , leaving St . Pancras at 8 . 30 p . m ., and affording facilities for four , ten , or sixteen days ' stay . Cheap week-end tickets are issued every Friday and Saturday from London ( St . Pancras ) and other principal Midland Stations to numerous seaside and inland holiday resorts , including the " Peak" District of

Derbyshire , Yorkshire , the North East Coast , Morecambe , Dumfries , Ayr , Kilmarnock , Glasgow , Greenock , Melrose , Edinburgh , Perth , Dundee , Aberdeen , & c , & c . The tickets are available for return on the following Sunday ( where train service permits ) , Monday or Tuesday , and those issued on 4 th and 5 th August will be available for return up to Wednesday , 9 th August .

A cheap excursion train will be run to London on Saturday , 5 th August , from Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , & c , for 3 , 4 , or 7 days ; and from Carlisle , Keighley , Bradford , Leeds , Barnsley , Sheffield , Liverpool , Manchester , Blackburn , Bolton , Burnley , Bury , Rochdale , Burton , Derby , Lincoln , Nottingham , Leicester , & c , for six days ; also from Liverpool , Southport , Warrington , & c , for 3 days . Passengers will be booked hy these trains at cheap fares to Brighton and other South Coast Stations , for 8 , 12 , or 15 days ; and to Paris and other places on the Continent , having the