Analysis Of The Returns.

£ 21 9 for the Girls' School , and £ 430 19 s . for this Institution . In 1888 the tota stood at £ 1298 14 s ., of which £ 1147 18 s . was in behalf of the Girls' Centenary ; and in 1886 it was £ 1829 , of which £ 1346 was contributed to the Girls' School , at whose Festival the late Bro . General Brownrigg presided as Chairman .

SUSSEX invariably does well when Brighton is the scene of a Festival gathering , and Wednesday proved no exception to the rule , notwithstanding the heavy calls made upon its resources last year and at the Boys' Festival in 1891 . The Province itself was in charge of Bros . J . M . Reed , Prov . Grand Treasurer , and V . P . Freeman , Prov . Grand Secretary , but the chief work appears to have been done by the former , whose list amounted to £ 31 = ; , Bro . Freeman handing in a personal

donation of £ ios . 10 s . There were also one brother and two ladies Unattached , and 15 lodge representatives , who represented 12 lodges . The total from all sources reached £ 943 os . 6 d ., of which £ 325 ios . has already been assigned , while Bro . Charles Hudson , of the Royal York and Earl of Sussex Lodges , Nos . 315 and 2201 respectively , is entered for a solid £ 105 , and Bros . Tanner and W . Wright , of the Pelham Lodge , No . 1303 , Lewes , for £ 94 ios . and £ 115 ios . respectively , or together £ 210 . In February six of the 29 lodges compiled £ 180 14 s ., and last month three Stewards sent up £ gi 19 s ., the sum total for 1893

being £ 1217 13 s . 6 d . In 1892 the Province contributed £ 1156 6 s . t <„ the Benevolent Jubilee , £ 1038 7 s . to the Girls' School in support of the Duke of Connaught ' s Chairmanship , and £ 32 lis . to this Institution ; or in all , £ 2226 4 s . In 1891 the total was £ 1347 2 s ., namely , £ 2 gi 6 s . for the old People , £ 323 18 s . 6 d . for the Girls' School , and to this Institution £ 73 1 17 s . 6 d . We do not need to go further back than this for evidences of the goodwill shown by Sussex to our several Institutions . There was quite a strong contingent of 17 Stewards from

WARWICKSHIRE , who represented amongst them seven of the 31 lodges on the roll , that of Athol , No . 74 , Birmingham , being responsible for 10 of the number . The total raised was £ 327 13 s ., the principal amounts being £ 102 18 s ., constituting the joint lists of Bros . J . VV . Margetts and Ryland Smith , Shakespeare Lodge , No . 284 , Warwick , and £ 149 3 s . from the Athol brethren . In February , the sum contributed by six Stewards was £ 63 , and in May , by eight Stewards , £ 141 17 s . 6 d ., making the total for the year £ 532 ios . 6 d .

In 1892 , the amount was £ 2410 4 s ., of which £ 2186 was in respect of the Benevolent Jubilee . In 1891 , the year's aggregate was £ 425 15 s ., of which £ 326 was raised for this Institution . At the Girls' Centenary , when Lord Leigh , P . G . M ., was Honorary Treasurer of the Board of Stewards for the Girls' School Centenary , the Province raised £ 1440 6 s . 6 d . for that Institution . The highest amount contributed by Warwickshire at any previous Festival was on the occasion of the Boys' School Festival in 1876 , when Lord Leigh was in the chair , and upwards of 80 Stewards amongst them raised £ 2000 . Though

WILTSHIRE has only 11 lodges on its roll , it is a staunch supporter of our Institutions , its rule being to give its aid to each one in turn . This year it figured at the Girls' School Festival for £ 185 17 s ., the Steward who represented it being Bro . James Sparks . On Wednesday , Bro . W . T . Briscoe for the Province and Lodge No . 626 , returned £ 102 5 s . 6 d ., thereby placing the year ' s total at £ 288 2 s . 6 d . In 1892 the Province devoted its chief attention to the Old People , to whose Jubilee it contributed

£ 483 14 s ., the Returns to the Girls' and Boys' Schools being £ 10 ios . and £ 36 15 s . respectively , and the total for the year , £ 530 19 s . In the preceding year it gave its entire support to this Institution , in behalf of which it raised £ 357 Ss . 6 d ., while at the Girls' Centenery in 1888 it figured for £ 345 8 s . 6 d . Thus , though the figures are somewhat lower , the Province has well maintained its prestige during the present year . Two of the 13 lodges in

WORCESTERSHIRE sent up contributions amounting to £ 63 , Bro . R . Westwood's list for the Worcester Lodge , No . 2 S 9 , being £ 52 ios . It took no part in the Old People's Anniversary , in February , but it made a goodly show in May when it raised £ " 245 3 s . for Our Girls , the list of Bro . W . T . Page , of Lodge Semper Fidelis , No . 529 ,

Worcester , amounting to £ 180 is . Thus the amount obtained this year is £ 308 3 s . This falls short of the 1892 total , which reached £ 489 5 s ., composed of £ 243 12 s . to the Old People , £ 144 17 s . to the Girls' School , and £ 100 163 . to this School , In 1891 , the aggregate stood at £ 408 6 s ., and in 1888 , at £ 848 3 s ., the Girls ' Centenary receiving £ 605 18 s . Of the 31 lodges in

NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE , four were directly represented , while the Province a » a whole was looked after by Bros . Lieut .-Col . the Hon . W . T . Orde-Powlett , D . P . G . M ., and W . H . Cowper , who have before charged themselves with this duty and fulfilled it successfully . The efforts of the eight Stewards resulted in a contribution of £ 323 8 s ., of which £ 127 is ., being the joint list of Bros . Orde-Powlett and Cowper ,

was the principal item . This raises the year ' s total to £ 413 14 s ., the Province having contributed £ 90 6 s . to the Girls' School in May . In 1892 the sum raised for ' the Jubilee of the R . M . B . I . was £ 717 9 s ., of which £ 468 4 s . constituted the joint list of Bros . Orde-Powlett and Cowper , while the total for the year was £ 733 4 s . In 1891 the Benevolent Institution received £ 274 4 s ., and this Institution £ 189 , the year ' s total being £ 463 4 s . There were 26 Stewards from

WEST YORKSHIRE , the subscriptions and donations they raised being returned in one sum of £ 430 ios . In February the Province subscribed £ 455 13 s . to the Benevolent Institution , and in May , £ 142510 "Our Girls , " the sum total for the year being £ 2311 3 s . Last year it stood at £ 3907 183 ., while in 1891 it was £ 2400 us ., the Benevolent at its Jubilee receiving £ 3555 in the former year , and this Institution £ 1685 lis . in the latter . These are very formidable figures , and certainly stand in no need of commendation .

THE ISLE OF MAN was represented at the Girls' School , in May , to the small extent of £ 13 12 s . 6 d ., and on Wednesday , to that of £ 30 18 s ., giving a total of £ 44 ios . 6 d . Last year it raised £ 52 10 s . for the Old People ' s Jubilee , £ 46 2 s . for the Girls' School , or in all £ 98 I 2 s ., while in 1891 it sent a Steward to each of the School Festivals , the support to the Boys' School reaching £ 100 ios . These are small figures , but then the Isle of Man is a small Province . There were five

FOREIGN STATIONS who shared in the work of Wednesday , namely , Malta , Cyprus , the Eastern Archipelago , Bengal , and West Africa , the sums raised thus far amounting to £ 105 , of which Bro . W . E . Cook's list , as representative of the Malta Masonic Charity Association , for £ 94 103 . was the most considerable item . Bro . Surgeon-Capt . Kiddle , whose name is becoming very familiar in connection with our Festivals , was Steward for the Lodge oi St . Paul ' s , No . 2277 , Limassol , Cyprus , and has £ 10 10 s . to his credit .

CONCLUDING REMARKS . We need say little further . The task of analysing the figures has been a formidable one , but the Returns all round are so generally satisfactory that we should gladly have discharged it had it been twice or even thrice as exacting .

Distribution Of Prizes At The Boys' School.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT THE BOYS' SCHOOL .

On Tuesday afternoon Lady Brooke distributed the prizes to the successful competitors of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , at the School-house , Wood Green . Her Ladyship was accompanied b y Lord Brooke , Prov . Grand Master for Essex , and a numerous company assembled to do honour to the occasion . Bro " . Richard Eve , P . G . Treas ., was called on to preside .

Bro . RICHARD EVE opened the proceedings with a lucid statement of the position of the Institution and the good it was doing , and the claims it had on the liberality of the Craft . The Rev . H . A . HEBB , M . A ., the Head Master of the School , then made a statement , in which he said that although they had had an anxious winter , owing to an epedemic of scarlet fever in Wood Green , yet the

School itself had escaped . Two isolated cases of scarlet fever had been promptly removed to the new Sanatorium , and no spread of the disease had taken place . The bill of health for the year was a very clean one , thanks to the care and skill of the medical officer , and the excellent sanitary condition of the place . But the extra month's holiday given at Christmas

on account of the prevalence of fever in the neighbourhood had damaged the South Kensington work irretrievably , and that in a year , when the standard had been raised enormously , he felt , however , the poor results he had apprehended were no one ' s fault ; boys and members had done their best . He then read the successes for the past year in public examinations as a proof that the work had been done well :

Department of Science and Art , South Kensington . —Mathematics—First Stage—4 in the First Class , 19 in the Second Class ; Second Stage—1 in the First Class , 4 in the Second Class ; Sound , Light , and Heat—Stage E . —S in the First Class , 11 in the Second Class ; Physiology—4 in the Second Class ; Freehand Drawing—8 in the Second Class .

Cambridge Local Examinations . —First Class—with Distinction in Religious Knowledge— 1 ; Second Class—with Distinction in Mathematics and Arithmetic—4 ; Third Class—1 ; Passes—19 . Pitman ' s Shorthand . —Elementary Certificates—iS ; Membership—2 . These were results that all could judge of , but there were results which onl y those could rightly estimate who were in touch with the daily and hourly life of the School . He could assure them that there was growing up a keener sense of duty and responsibility , greater teachableness , and a better

THE LADY DROOKE . appreciation of the right relations between boys and masters . This was largely due to the excellent influence of those boys who had received an extension of school life under the new scheme , by which the Board allow

boys distinguished both in public examinations and for their good conduct and influence in the School , to stay on at School beyond the age of 15 * He pointed out that this was not simply an individual benefit to clever boys here and there , but a great moral gain to the whole School , for these hoys not onl y raised the standard of the work , but were aii example and a restraint

to the younger , and a link connecting the boys with their teachers . Passing to the games , he said that the success in cricket and football had been excellent in spite first of the deplorable condition of the ground , which , however , the Board had now taken in hand , and secondly of the insufficiency of the playing fields owing to the growing energy of the boys and their

enthusiasm for games , making him long for the time when Lord Lathom s plan to remove the School into the country would be carried out . The new Reading Room had proved a great success , and the boys app ' ciated enormously the freedom they enjoyed there . It was their own apartment and home . They managed it entirely themselves ; they kept

their own order , with thc result that everything was done in the most careful way , and the quietness was almost that of a club reading room . ' " ¦ especially thanked Bro . Masters for his present of beautiful p ictures and valuable books , and Bro . Duret for the really noble gift of 102 volumes 0 the Chandos Classics . After expressing his grateful thanks to the Board

for all they had done during the past year for the improvement of the School , and for their personal kindness ( o him , he took that public opportunity 0 thanking from the bottom ol his heart his staff of assistant masters , who

were men who had distinguished themselves at Oxford and Cambridge ' and to whose loyal co-operation and devotion the progress of the School an the improvement of the moral tone of the boys was so largely due . Lad y Brooke then delivered the prizes as follows :