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strength and compiled the very handsome amount of £ 377 2 s . Thus the total for 1892 reached £ 704 15 s . During the present year its Returns have been as follows : to the R . M . B . I . in February , £ &\ i 8 s . ; to the Girls' School last month , ; £ ao 6 16 s . ; and to this Institution on Wednesday , ^ 170 2 s . Thus during the three years in which Buckinghamshire has stood alone , it has distributed £ 1674 12 s . among our Charities . This is an excellent record for a Province of such limited numbers .
The six lodges in CAMBRIDGESHIRE taken collectively , and the Lodge of the Three Grand Principles , No . 441 , Cambridge , particularly had a most worthy representative in the person of Bro . S . H . Sharman , who has undertaken the duties of Steward on previous occasions , and has generally succeeded in rendering an excellent account of his Stewardship . On this occasion the amount of his list was ^ 63 , which , after the contri .
bution of £ 26 5 s . by Bro . F . Osmond Carr , of No . 859 , to the Old People in February , and that of £ 203 14 s . by Bro . B . Chennell , as the Provincial represenat the Girls' School Festival in May , brings the total for the current year to ^ 292 19 s . These figures speak well for the zeal of this Province , especially when it is borne in mind that this is far from being an isolated cise . Last year
Cambridgeshire raised ^ 326 8 s . for the Benevolent Jubilee . In 1891 it gave ^ 85 16 s . to the Girls' School , and £ 141 4 s . to this Institution , while in 1890 it apportioned ^ , " 259 2 s . between the Benevolent and Boys' Institutions , ^ 315 Fimong the three Charities in 18 S 9 , and gave ^ 362 5 s . to the Girls' School at its Centenary Festival in 1 SS 8 . Though the Province of
CHESHIRE has 45 lodges on its roll , it has been exerting itself on so generous a scale and to such good purpose during the last three years , that little heed will be taken of the modesty cf its contributions in 1 S 93 . In 1891 it raised £ 134 ios . for the Girls ' School , and ^ 1050 , by the hands of 51 Stewards , to this Institution . In 1 S 92 , with 75 brethren doing duty as Stewards , it raised ^ 19 88 ios . for the Benevolent Jubilee , ^ 117 12 s ., by the hands of five Stewards , for the Girls'School , and
. £ . 62 8 s . lor this Institution , the number of Stewards being four . Ihese returns give a grand total for the year of , £ 2168 ios . In February it rested for a while , and last month it figured for only £ 13 13 s ., while on Wednesday the representatives of two of its lodges returned ; £ 2 i , so that the present year , as regards our Central Charities , has been unproductive . But for more than 30 years it has done good service by maintaining an Educational Institute of its own , while it has for some time past been engaged in organisining a Benevolent
Institute which shall do for Cheshire wh . it the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution does for the whole English Craft . In order to accomplish this end it has raised about ; £ " 3 coo . so that if it has figured only to a small extent , or not at all , in connection with the Central Charities , it has been well occupied in making suitable provision for its own aged and indigent brethren and their widows . It has been the good fortune at several previous Festivals , of the 30 lodges on he roll of
CORNWALL , to have had Bro . Gilbert B . Pearce as their representative , and on Wednesday the sum raised by that energetic brother was returned as . £ 225 15 s ., this being the first and only occasion on which the Province has taken part in the year ' s Festivals . But in 1 S 92 , when Bro . the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , its Prov . G . Mister , and Deputy G . Master of England , presided at the Jubilee ol the Benevolent Institution , the Stewards acting on its behalf—of whom , by the way , Bro , In
G . B . Pearce was one—compiled the very handsome total of ^ 776 15 s . 1 S 91 , it raised , hy the hands ot Bro . Major J . Ross , . £ 158 ios . for the Old People , and per Bro . G . B . Pearce , . £ 131 55 . for the Boys' School . In 1 S 90 it raised ^ 380 is ., of which i , " i 37 ios . was handed over per Bro . Major Ross to the Boys' School , £ " 132 6 s ., per Bro . G . B . Pearce , to the Girls' School , and £ 110 5 s ., per Bro . I "' . \ V . Thomas , to the Old People . In 1 SS 7 , Bro . Pearce was sole Steward at all three Festivals , and the amounts he raised totalled up to , £ 704 us .
It is not the first time we have had the pleasure of noting the name of our respected Bro . VV . F . Lamonby among the Stewards for one or other of our Charities—he was indeed a Steward , hailing from the District of Victoria , at the Girls' Centenary in iSSS—but , we believe , this is his first occasion since his return home that he has taken upon himself to represent the Province of
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND , with ils roll of 20 lodges . For this reason both he and his list of £ 6 3 5 s . are very welcome , and we trust we shall have the pleasure of recording many other successes of . 1 similar character at future Anniversaries . This is the first and only Festival in 18 93 at which this Province has been represented , but last year it did
good service at the Benevolent Jubilee by contributing by the hands of Bro . G . J . McKay , now the D . P . G . M ., the considerable sum of ^ 420 , while in 1891 it raised . £ 4 6 4 s . for the Old People and . £ 265 13 s . for Our Boys . In 18 S 6 it raised , £ 500 for the Boys' School and in 1888 , £ 1050 for the Old People and £ 210 for the Girls' Centenary .
It would seem as if DERBYSHIRE lad been reserving itself for this particular Festival . At all events , it took no part in that of the Old People and figured for only ; £ io 18 s . in the Girls' School Returns last month . But on Wednesday , of the 25 lodges on its roll no less than 14 sent Stewards , the Royal Sussex , 353 , Winshill , furnishing as many as eight Stewards , while Bro . Percy Wallis , in addition to representing the St . Oswald
Lodge , No . 850 , Ashbourne , did duty for the whole Province . A Royal Arch Chapter and a Rose Croix Chapter were also entered , and in addition there were seven brethren Unattached , the total number of representatives being 29 . Ot these P , ro . Wallis handed in £ 141 15 s ., Bro . Sir John Smith ( Unattached ) £ 105 , Bro . G . Tarver , of the Royal Sussex , No . 353 , £ 178 ios . ; Bro . John Jones , of Arboretum , No . 731 , £ 102 18 s . ; the total irom all sources reaching the substantial sum of £ 1000 . In 18 92 the Province was very successfully represented
nt the Benevolent Jubilee , its 47 Stewards compiling the excellent total of I . 1362 IOS ., while ( or the Girls'and Boys' School Festivals it raised ^ 126 and V . 249 i . Ss . respectively , making the grand total for the year £ 1738 14 s . In 1891 it was unrepresented at the Old People ' s Anniversary but it subsequently contributed . £ 13 6 ios . to that of the Girls' School , and £ 843 17 s . to that of the sister School at Wood Green , the total of the two contributions being £ 9 80 7 s . These are ur . doubtc-dly figures of which our Derbyshire friends have good reason to be proud
DEVONSHIRE was represented by Bro . F . Luget , whose list amounted to £ 179 us . In February , Bro . John Chapman , representing the St . John ' s Lodge , No . 328 , Torquay , handed in a list of £ 26 15 s ., and as the Province took no part in the Girls' School Festival last month , the total for the current year is only £ 206 6 s , However , in 18 92 it raised . £ 807 l . Ss . Gd . for the Jubilee of the R . M . B . I ., £ 68 5 s .
for the Girls' School Festival , and . £ 47 5 s . for that of the Boys' School , or together £ 923 8 s . 6 d ., while in i . Syi it returned £ 6 3 to Ihe R . M . B . I ., and £ 408 2 s . to the Hoys' School , the tivo together amounting to £ 471 2 S . In the year 18 S 8 il raised £ 1013 5 s , of which the Boys'School , at whose Festival Bro . Viscount Ebrington , ils P . G . M . ' i-, ter , presided , received . £ 840 , Ihe Girls'School at i ' s Centenary , £ ti 6 , and the Old People the small balance of £ 47 £ s . Of the 13 I - idles in
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DORSETSHIRE , one the Lodge of Amity , No . 137 , Poole , sent up a Steward , whose list amounted to £ 15 15 s , but Bro . Major William Watts , as an Unattached Steward , had the satisfaction of compiling a total of £ 135 , the whole Return from this district bein * - £ 150 15 s . In May , two Stewards , of whom the same Bro . Major Watts was one
compiled £ 82 5 s ., the total for the year being thus £ 233 . Last year the Province contributed £ " 500 6 s . at the Benevolent Jubilee and £ 10 ios . lor each of the School Festivals , giving a total of £ 521 5 s ., and in i 8 ci it raised £ 6 3 for the Girls' School and £ 248 17 s . for "Our Boys , " or together £ 311 17 s . In 1 SS 8 , the Province figured for £ " 294 at the Girls' Centenary and for £ 113 3 s . at the Festival of the Old People , the two contributions reaching a total of £ 407 is .
DURHAM , with its array of 35 lodges , has taken part in all three Festivals , Bro . F . H . Bennett , its representative at that of the R . M . B . I . in February , having handed in a list of £ 115 ios ., while Bro . Robirt Hudson , its Prov . G . Secretary , did dut y as Steward at the two School Festivals , his list for the Girls being , £ 107 2 s . and for the Boys £ 115 ios ., and the year's total £ 338 2 s . In 1892 it raised £ 720 5 s . for
the Benevolent Jubilee , the principal item being the £ 610 on Bro . Charles Barron ' s list ; £ 105 for the Girls' School , and £ 209 per Bro . F . H . Bennett for the Boys ' School , making a total for the year of £ 1034 5 s . In the preceding year it raised ; £ 4 S 8 5 s ., of which the Old People received £ 168 , the Girls' School £ 193 4 s ., and the Boys' School ^ 127 is . The Province which next claims our attention is that of
ESSEX , which has prospered so abundantly under the presidency of Bro . Lord Brooke , the Chairman , and which , on so many occasions , has manifested the esteem and respect in which it holds his lordship . Thus in 1884 , when this distinguished brother acted as Chairman at the Girls' School Festival , the Province supported him b y raising £ 1000 , the total of its contributions to the three Charities being £ 1 ^ 46 .
In the year of the Queen's Jubilee they amounted to £ 873 4 s ., and in that of the Girls' Centenary to . £ 1297 3 s . 6 d ., ol which the favoured Institution received £ S 74 6 s . In 1890 the total distributed amongst the three was £ 977 ios . In 1 S 91 it raised in all £ 1648 , the R . M . B . I . receiving £ 244 13 s . 6 d ., the Girls' School £ 137 us ., and the Boys' School £ 1265 15 s . 6 d . Last year even these tall figures were surpassed , the amount raised for the Jubilee of the Benevolent Institution
being £ 2318 2 s . 6 d ., while the Girls and Boys Schools received . £ 193 4 s . and £ 96 18 s . 6 d . respectively , the aggregate of the three sums being , £ 2608 5 s ., which for a Province of 33 lodges is little short of wonderful . After such labours as these , however , we cannot be surprised at the Province having taken a short respite , and that at the Festivals of the Old People and Girls' School it should have contented itself with such minor contributions as £ 81 17 s . 6 d . to the former and
£ 21 to the . latter . It is , indeed , highly probable that- the very large sum raised in 1892 has to some extent unfavourably affected the total returned on Wednesday . At the Benevolent Jubilee the number of its Stewards was 44 , so that the average per list was not very far short of £ 53 . On this occasion 27 lodges , a lodge of instruction , and three Royal Arch chapters were represented , while the number of brethren who acted as Stewards was 51 , of whom the D . P . G . M ., Bro . F . A . Philbrick , Q . C ,
and the Prov . Grand Secretary , Bro . 1 . Railing , may be taken to have represented the Province generally , and six brethren and three ladies were Unattached , the remaining 40 doing duty for the lodges and chapters aforesaid . The total obtained by tV . e combined efforts of these brethren , together with the Chairman ' s donation , reached the handsome sum of £ " 223 . *; gs ., the principal items being
as follows , namely : £ 52 ios ., the personal donation of the Chairman ; £ 18 9 from Bro . T . Railing , P . G . Sec . ; £ 105 from Bro . J . J . Knight , of the Brooke Lodge , No . 2005 , * £ ny 12 s . Irom Bro . Hunter , Epping Lodge , No . 1077 , ^ 170 from Bro . jas . Speller , Warner Lodge , No . 2256 ; £ 164 18 s . from Bro . Bromhead , and . £ " 157 ios . trom Comp . Shurmur , of the William Shurmur Lodge and Chapter respectively .
As regards the Province of GLOUCESTERSHIRE , bearing in mind , as we do , that it has only 15 lodges on ils roll , and that at last year's Festival of this Institution it bore the burden and heat of the day , it is not surprising that its contributions on this occasion , and indeed during the year generally , should have been on a more limited scale than usual , the sum it contributed to the Old People in February having amounted to only ^ 58 3 s . 6 d ., and
to the Girls' School in May to , £ 147 , while on Wednesday it reached £ 84 , making the total for 1893 . £ 28 9 3 s . Cd . In 1892 it raised £ 1739 Us ., of which the Old People received £ 63 , the Girls' School £ 21 , and the Boys' School , for which the Prov . Grand Master , Bro . Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P ., acted as Chairmain , £ 16 45 lis . As these figures give an average for the year of about - £ 115 per lodge , we have good reason for congratulating the Province on what it has done , albeit on a modest scale , during the present year . There were in all seven Stewards hailing from
HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT , of whom Bro . Le Feuvre , D . G . D ., D . P . G . M ., was Unattached , while the rest represented six out of the 47 lodges on the roll of the Province . The total ol their lists was j £ 3 ii 14 s ., and included such items as ^ 77 13 s . from the D-P . G . M ., and . £ 52 10 s . from Bro . E . W . Ward , of the Economy Lodge , No . 7 6 , Winchester . Last monthfour Stewardsrepresenting six lodgescompiled ihu
, , , excellent sum of ^ 294 is . 6 d ., and in February , with as many brethren acting for as many lodges , the total was ^ 72 3 s . 6 d ., the product of the year ' s work being . £ 678 2 s . In 1892 the Province raised £ 1650 17 s . 6 d ., of which the Benevolent Jubilee absorbed £ 1345 19 s . 7 d ., while in 1891 the amount was , £ 6 g 5 us . 6 d . In 1888 , thc year ot the Girls' Centenary , and in 1887 , the year ot the Queens Jubilee , when Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., P . G . M ., was Chairman at the
Benevolent Festival , the returns were on a large scale , the total for the latter year being , £ 1785 9 s . 6 d . Add to trtis , that during the last four or live years the Province has been busily engaged in organising an Educational Institution of its own , which is in fairly prosperous circumstances , and it will be allowed that this Province knows well how to discharge this class of duties successfully . As lor the Province of
HERTFORDSHIRE , which , till recently , was playfully described as " Little Herts , '' the work it does is admirable . In February , when Bro . C . E . Keyser , one of its most prominent members , undertook at the last moment to preside as Chairman , the Province , though there had been a very heavy strain on its resources last year , pulled itse together , and with Bro . Keyser ' s very material help had the satisfaction of coir .-piling the very large total of - £ 1444 13 s . 6 d . In May , it raised £ 215 5 s . for tl >* 0
Girls' School , and on Wednesday , the lurther sum of , £ 378 19 s . 6 d ., Bro . Keyser both occasions compiling the biggest individual items . 'Phis places the total to the whole year at , £ 20 j 8 18 s ., and as there are but 21 lodges on the roll , ' amount of kudos due to the brethren is beyond all praise , especially if we ta > into account that these tall figures follow upon a still more successful year—that 1892 in which , in addition to £ 188 3 6 i . Od . raised for the Benevolent J ^ tluse subscriptions returned to the School F ' estivals , which placed the total tor year at ^ 2135 6 s . 6 d . Comment on such splendid work is needless . The Province of
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strength and compiled the very handsome amount of £ 377 2 s . Thus the total for 1892 reached £ 704 15 s . During the present year its Returns have been as follows : to the R . M . B . I . in February , £ &\ i 8 s . ; to the Girls' School last month , ; £ ao 6 16 s . ; and to this Institution on Wednesday , ^ 170 2 s . Thus during the three years in which Buckinghamshire has stood alone , it has distributed £ 1674 12 s . among our Charities . This is an excellent record for a Province of such limited numbers .
The six lodges in CAMBRIDGESHIRE taken collectively , and the Lodge of the Three Grand Principles , No . 441 , Cambridge , particularly had a most worthy representative in the person of Bro . S . H . Sharman , who has undertaken the duties of Steward on previous occasions , and has generally succeeded in rendering an excellent account of his Stewardship . On this occasion the amount of his list was ^ 63 , which , after the contri .
bution of £ 26 5 s . by Bro . F . Osmond Carr , of No . 859 , to the Old People in February , and that of £ 203 14 s . by Bro . B . Chennell , as the Provincial represenat the Girls' School Festival in May , brings the total for the current year to ^ 292 19 s . These figures speak well for the zeal of this Province , especially when it is borne in mind that this is far from being an isolated cise . Last year
Cambridgeshire raised ^ 326 8 s . for the Benevolent Jubilee . In 1891 it gave ^ 85 16 s . to the Girls' School , and £ 141 4 s . to this Institution , while in 1890 it apportioned ^ , " 259 2 s . between the Benevolent and Boys' Institutions , ^ 315 Fimong the three Charities in 18 S 9 , and gave ^ 362 5 s . to the Girls' School at its Centenary Festival in 1 SS 8 . Though the Province of
CHESHIRE has 45 lodges on its roll , it has been exerting itself on so generous a scale and to such good purpose during the last three years , that little heed will be taken of the modesty cf its contributions in 1 S 93 . In 1891 it raised £ 134 ios . for the Girls ' School , and ^ 1050 , by the hands of 51 Stewards , to this Institution . In 1 S 92 , with 75 brethren doing duty as Stewards , it raised ^ 19 88 ios . for the Benevolent Jubilee , ^ 117 12 s ., by the hands of five Stewards , for the Girls'School , and
. £ . 62 8 s . lor this Institution , the number of Stewards being four . Ihese returns give a grand total for the year of , £ 2168 ios . In February it rested for a while , and last month it figured for only £ 13 13 s ., while on Wednesday the representatives of two of its lodges returned ; £ 2 i , so that the present year , as regards our Central Charities , has been unproductive . But for more than 30 years it has done good service by maintaining an Educational Institute of its own , while it has for some time past been engaged in organisining a Benevolent
Institute which shall do for Cheshire wh . it the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution does for the whole English Craft . In order to accomplish this end it has raised about ; £ " 3 coo . so that if it has figured only to a small extent , or not at all , in connection with the Central Charities , it has been well occupied in making suitable provision for its own aged and indigent brethren and their widows . It has been the good fortune at several previous Festivals , of the 30 lodges on he roll of
CORNWALL , to have had Bro . Gilbert B . Pearce as their representative , and on Wednesday the sum raised by that energetic brother was returned as . £ 225 15 s ., this being the first and only occasion on which the Province has taken part in the year ' s Festivals . But in 1 S 92 , when Bro . the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , its Prov . G . Mister , and Deputy G . Master of England , presided at the Jubilee ol the Benevolent Institution , the Stewards acting on its behalf—of whom , by the way , Bro , In
G . B . Pearce was one—compiled the very handsome total of ^ 776 15 s . 1 S 91 , it raised , hy the hands ot Bro . Major J . Ross , . £ 158 ios . for the Old People , and per Bro . G . B . Pearce , . £ 131 55 . for the Boys' School . In 1 S 90 it raised ^ 380 is ., of which i , " i 37 ios . was handed over per Bro . Major Ross to the Boys' School , £ " 132 6 s ., per Bro . G . B . Pearce , to the Girls' School , and £ 110 5 s ., per Bro . I "' . \ V . Thomas , to the Old People . In 1 SS 7 , Bro . Pearce was sole Steward at all three Festivals , and the amounts he raised totalled up to , £ 704 us .
It is not the first time we have had the pleasure of noting the name of our respected Bro . VV . F . Lamonby among the Stewards for one or other of our Charities—he was indeed a Steward , hailing from the District of Victoria , at the Girls' Centenary in iSSS—but , we believe , this is his first occasion since his return home that he has taken upon himself to represent the Province of
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND , with ils roll of 20 lodges . For this reason both he and his list of £ 6 3 5 s . are very welcome , and we trust we shall have the pleasure of recording many other successes of . 1 similar character at future Anniversaries . This is the first and only Festival in 18 93 at which this Province has been represented , but last year it did
good service at the Benevolent Jubilee by contributing by the hands of Bro . G . J . McKay , now the D . P . G . M ., the considerable sum of ^ 420 , while in 1891 it raised . £ 4 6 4 s . for the Old People and . £ 265 13 s . for Our Boys . In 18 S 6 it raised , £ 500 for the Boys' School and in 1888 , £ 1050 for the Old People and £ 210 for the Girls' Centenary .
It would seem as if DERBYSHIRE lad been reserving itself for this particular Festival . At all events , it took no part in that of the Old People and figured for only ; £ io 18 s . in the Girls' School Returns last month . But on Wednesday , of the 25 lodges on its roll no less than 14 sent Stewards , the Royal Sussex , 353 , Winshill , furnishing as many as eight Stewards , while Bro . Percy Wallis , in addition to representing the St . Oswald
Lodge , No . 850 , Ashbourne , did duty for the whole Province . A Royal Arch Chapter and a Rose Croix Chapter were also entered , and in addition there were seven brethren Unattached , the total number of representatives being 29 . Ot these P , ro . Wallis handed in £ 141 15 s ., Bro . Sir John Smith ( Unattached ) £ 105 , Bro . G . Tarver , of the Royal Sussex , No . 353 , £ 178 ios . ; Bro . John Jones , of Arboretum , No . 731 , £ 102 18 s . ; the total irom all sources reaching the substantial sum of £ 1000 . In 18 92 the Province was very successfully represented
nt the Benevolent Jubilee , its 47 Stewards compiling the excellent total of I . 1362 IOS ., while ( or the Girls'and Boys' School Festivals it raised ^ 126 and V . 249 i . Ss . respectively , making the grand total for the year £ 1738 14 s . In 1891 it was unrepresented at the Old People ' s Anniversary but it subsequently contributed . £ 13 6 ios . to that of the Girls' School , and £ 843 17 s . to that of the sister School at Wood Green , the total of the two contributions being £ 9 80 7 s . These are ur . doubtc-dly figures of which our Derbyshire friends have good reason to be proud
DEVONSHIRE was represented by Bro . F . Luget , whose list amounted to £ 179 us . In February , Bro . John Chapman , representing the St . John ' s Lodge , No . 328 , Torquay , handed in a list of £ 26 15 s ., and as the Province took no part in the Girls' School Festival last month , the total for the current year is only £ 206 6 s , However , in 18 92 it raised . £ 807 l . Ss . Gd . for the Jubilee of the R . M . B . I ., £ 68 5 s .
for the Girls' School Festival , and . £ 47 5 s . for that of the Boys' School , or together £ 923 8 s . 6 d ., while in i . Syi it returned £ 6 3 to Ihe R . M . B . I ., and £ 408 2 s . to the Hoys' School , the tivo together amounting to £ 471 2 S . In the year 18 S 8 il raised £ 1013 5 s , of which the Boys'School , at whose Festival Bro . Viscount Ebrington , ils P . G . M . ' i-, ter , presided , received . £ 840 , Ihe Girls'School at i ' s Centenary , £ ti 6 , and the Old People the small balance of £ 47 £ s . Of the 13 I - idles in
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DORSETSHIRE , one the Lodge of Amity , No . 137 , Poole , sent up a Steward , whose list amounted to £ 15 15 s , but Bro . Major William Watts , as an Unattached Steward , had the satisfaction of compiling a total of £ 135 , the whole Return from this district bein * - £ 150 15 s . In May , two Stewards , of whom the same Bro . Major Watts was one
compiled £ 82 5 s ., the total for the year being thus £ 233 . Last year the Province contributed £ " 500 6 s . at the Benevolent Jubilee and £ 10 ios . lor each of the School Festivals , giving a total of £ 521 5 s ., and in i 8 ci it raised £ 6 3 for the Girls' School and £ 248 17 s . for "Our Boys , " or together £ 311 17 s . In 1 SS 8 , the Province figured for £ " 294 at the Girls' Centenary and for £ 113 3 s . at the Festival of the Old People , the two contributions reaching a total of £ 407 is .
DURHAM , with its array of 35 lodges , has taken part in all three Festivals , Bro . F . H . Bennett , its representative at that of the R . M . B . I . in February , having handed in a list of £ 115 ios ., while Bro . Robirt Hudson , its Prov . G . Secretary , did dut y as Steward at the two School Festivals , his list for the Girls being , £ 107 2 s . and for the Boys £ 115 ios ., and the year's total £ 338 2 s . In 1892 it raised £ 720 5 s . for
the Benevolent Jubilee , the principal item being the £ 610 on Bro . Charles Barron ' s list ; £ 105 for the Girls' School , and £ 209 per Bro . F . H . Bennett for the Boys ' School , making a total for the year of £ 1034 5 s . In the preceding year it raised ; £ 4 S 8 5 s ., of which the Old People received £ 168 , the Girls' School £ 193 4 s ., and the Boys' School ^ 127 is . The Province which next claims our attention is that of
ESSEX , which has prospered so abundantly under the presidency of Bro . Lord Brooke , the Chairman , and which , on so many occasions , has manifested the esteem and respect in which it holds his lordship . Thus in 1884 , when this distinguished brother acted as Chairman at the Girls' School Festival , the Province supported him b y raising £ 1000 , the total of its contributions to the three Charities being £ 1 ^ 46 .
In the year of the Queen's Jubilee they amounted to £ 873 4 s ., and in that of the Girls' Centenary to . £ 1297 3 s . 6 d ., ol which the favoured Institution received £ S 74 6 s . In 1890 the total distributed amongst the three was £ 977 ios . In 1 S 91 it raised in all £ 1648 , the R . M . B . I . receiving £ 244 13 s . 6 d ., the Girls' School £ 137 us ., and the Boys' School £ 1265 15 s . 6 d . Last year even these tall figures were surpassed , the amount raised for the Jubilee of the Benevolent Institution
being £ 2318 2 s . 6 d ., while the Girls and Boys Schools received . £ 193 4 s . and £ 96 18 s . 6 d . respectively , the aggregate of the three sums being , £ 2608 5 s ., which for a Province of 33 lodges is little short of wonderful . After such labours as these , however , we cannot be surprised at the Province having taken a short respite , and that at the Festivals of the Old People and Girls' School it should have contented itself with such minor contributions as £ 81 17 s . 6 d . to the former and
£ 21 to the . latter . It is , indeed , highly probable that- the very large sum raised in 1892 has to some extent unfavourably affected the total returned on Wednesday . At the Benevolent Jubilee the number of its Stewards was 44 , so that the average per list was not very far short of £ 53 . On this occasion 27 lodges , a lodge of instruction , and three Royal Arch chapters were represented , while the number of brethren who acted as Stewards was 51 , of whom the D . P . G . M ., Bro . F . A . Philbrick , Q . C ,
and the Prov . Grand Secretary , Bro . 1 . Railing , may be taken to have represented the Province generally , and six brethren and three ladies were Unattached , the remaining 40 doing duty for the lodges and chapters aforesaid . The total obtained by tV . e combined efforts of these brethren , together with the Chairman ' s donation , reached the handsome sum of £ " 223 . *; gs ., the principal items being
as follows , namely : £ 52 ios ., the personal donation of the Chairman ; £ 18 9 from Bro . T . Railing , P . G . Sec . ; £ 105 from Bro . J . J . Knight , of the Brooke Lodge , No . 2005 , * £ ny 12 s . Irom Bro . Hunter , Epping Lodge , No . 1077 , ^ 170 from Bro . jas . Speller , Warner Lodge , No . 2256 ; £ 164 18 s . from Bro . Bromhead , and . £ " 157 ios . trom Comp . Shurmur , of the William Shurmur Lodge and Chapter respectively .
As regards the Province of GLOUCESTERSHIRE , bearing in mind , as we do , that it has only 15 lodges on ils roll , and that at last year's Festival of this Institution it bore the burden and heat of the day , it is not surprising that its contributions on this occasion , and indeed during the year generally , should have been on a more limited scale than usual , the sum it contributed to the Old People in February having amounted to only ^ 58 3 s . 6 d ., and
to the Girls' School in May to , £ 147 , while on Wednesday it reached £ 84 , making the total for 1893 . £ 28 9 3 s . Cd . In 1892 it raised £ 1739 Us ., of which the Old People received £ 63 , the Girls' School £ 21 , and the Boys' School , for which the Prov . Grand Master , Bro . Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P ., acted as Chairmain , £ 16 45 lis . As these figures give an average for the year of about - £ 115 per lodge , we have good reason for congratulating the Province on what it has done , albeit on a modest scale , during the present year . There were in all seven Stewards hailing from
HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT , of whom Bro . Le Feuvre , D . G . D ., D . P . G . M ., was Unattached , while the rest represented six out of the 47 lodges on the roll of the Province . The total ol their lists was j £ 3 ii 14 s ., and included such items as ^ 77 13 s . from the D-P . G . M ., and . £ 52 10 s . from Bro . E . W . Ward , of the Economy Lodge , No . 7 6 , Winchester . Last monthfour Stewardsrepresenting six lodgescompiled ihu
, , , excellent sum of ^ 294 is . 6 d ., and in February , with as many brethren acting for as many lodges , the total was ^ 72 3 s . 6 d ., the product of the year ' s work being . £ 678 2 s . In 1892 the Province raised £ 1650 17 s . 6 d ., of which the Benevolent Jubilee absorbed £ 1345 19 s . 7 d ., while in 1891 the amount was , £ 6 g 5 us . 6 d . In 1888 , thc year ot the Girls' Centenary , and in 1887 , the year ot the Queens Jubilee , when Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., P . G . M ., was Chairman at the
Benevolent Festival , the returns were on a large scale , the total for the latter year being , £ 1785 9 s . 6 d . Add to trtis , that during the last four or live years the Province has been busily engaged in organising an Educational Institution of its own , which is in fairly prosperous circumstances , and it will be allowed that this Province knows well how to discharge this class of duties successfully . As lor the Province of
HERTFORDSHIRE , which , till recently , was playfully described as " Little Herts , '' the work it does is admirable . In February , when Bro . C . E . Keyser , one of its most prominent members , undertook at the last moment to preside as Chairman , the Province , though there had been a very heavy strain on its resources last year , pulled itse together , and with Bro . Keyser ' s very material help had the satisfaction of coir .-piling the very large total of - £ 1444 13 s . 6 d . In May , it raised £ 215 5 s . for tl >* 0
Girls' School , and on Wednesday , the lurther sum of , £ 378 19 s . 6 d ., Bro . Keyser both occasions compiling the biggest individual items . 'Phis places the total to the whole year at , £ 20 j 8 18 s ., and as there are but 21 lodges on the roll , ' amount of kudos due to the brethren is beyond all praise , especially if we ta > into account that these tall figures follow upon a still more successful year—that 1892 in which , in addition to £ 188 3 6 i . Od . raised for the Benevolent J ^ tluse subscriptions returned to the School F ' estivals , which placed the total tor year at ^ 2135 6 s . 6 d . Comment on such splendid work is needless . The Province of