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Craft Masonry.
Then , when there is a fairl y large permanent income derived from investments , there will be less need for Officers and Stewards to work at such high pressure . As for the other occurrences of the year , we note that the Speech Day and Distribution of Prizes were held in the Great Hall of the Institution on the day preceding the Festival . Bro . C . E . Keyser , P . G . D ., Treasurer , occupied the Chair ,
and the prizes were distributed with a few kindly words of congratulation to each recipient , by the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos , who was accompanied by her husband , Bro . Lord Egerton , the Festival Chairman of the year . Among those who received prizes , were the boys who had succeeded in passing the preceding Cambridge Middle Class Examination . These numbered in all
27 , of whom , one was awarded Second Class Honours in the Senior Division , while in the Junior Division three took Second , and three Third Class Honours , and the remaining 20 satisfied the Examiners . Other evidences have been forthcoming during the year of the excellence of the training which the boys pass through during their stay in the School , and we may affirm , as in the case of the Girls '
School , that while these proofs are furnished of the good work that is being done , there necd . be little , if any , fear as to the funds necessary for the efficient maintenance of the School being obtained from the general body of English Masons . The Annual Athletic Sports were held , thanks to the kindly intervention of Bro . George Everett , Past G . Treasurer , at Kempton Park on Saturday the
Sth June . There was a larger muster than usual of the friends and supporters of the School , and from the manner in which the different events in the programme were contested , it was evident that the physical , like the mental , training of the children is carefully looked after , and that the School has on its roll of pupils quite a number of promising young athletes , who will , there is little doubt , fare all the
better in after life , because they have been taught thus early to rely upon their own strength , and skill , and judgment , in order to hold their own in the cricket field and on the running track . Turning to the Quarterly General Courts held during the year we find that a fair amount of business has been brought to the notice of the Governors and Subscribers . Notwithstanding that the number of boys now in
the establishment has been greater during the present year than at any previous period in the career of the Institution , the number of candidates at the April and October elections has been somewhat greater than usual . In April there were 47 candidates on the list , and of these , 23 were elected , while in October there were only 17 vacancies to be filled from 46 candidates , and as on the latter occasion
all the last cases obtained places among the successful , the list for the Spring Election of next year starts with the 29 candidates remaining over from October , irrespective of those whose names have been , or between now and January next will be , added . Still if the affairs of the Institution go on prospering as they have done latterly , this tendency on the part of candidates to increase in numbers may be
held in check . Early in the year—or to be precise , at its meeting on the 25 th January—the Council determined upon increasing the salary of the Secretary of the Institution to £ 700 per aimnm , so that he might be on an equal footing , in respect of his remuneration , with ( hi ! Secretaries of the other Institutions ; but the propriety , not of the act itself , but of its being done by the Council on its own
initiative , without any recommendation from the Board of Management , was called in question at the Quarterly Court in April , and a motion was made to modify Law 95 in such a manner as to prevent the salaries of the Secretary , Head Master , Medical Officer , and Matron , being increased or diminished without such recommendation . The question was discussed at some length , but on a division was lost
by a majority of voices . At the same Court , the rank of Honorary Patron was conferred on Bros . Thomas Fenu , P . President of the Board of General Purposes—already a Vice-Patron of the Institutionin recognition of his valuable services to the School , and that of Vice-Patron on Bro . Jabez Hogg , Surgeon Oculist , and Bro . Wharton P Hood , M . D ., Honorary Medical Officer , in lecognition of the services
they had respectively rendered . At the Quarterly Courts in January and July , nothing of any great moment occurred , except that , at , the former the valuable services rendered by Bro F . Smitbson , P . G . D . of England , of the Province of West Yorkshire , were recognised b y the brethren conferring upon him the rank of Honorary Vice-Patron . It is also worthy of record that at different times during the year ,
entertainments have been given to the boys at Wood Green , the most notable being a dramatic and musical entertainment organised bv Bro . !•' . VV . Macklin , VV . M ., and the members of the Asaph Lodge , No . 1319 ; a musical entertainment by Bros . Short and Bradford of the Derby Allcroft Lodge , No . 21 ( 58 , and their friends ; and a descriptive account of a journey to the United States , with lime light
effects , by Bro . Horace VV . Banks , VV . M ., of the Citadel Lodge , No . 1897 . Lastly , we mention with a great deal of pleasure , that acting on a suggestion which emanated in the first instance from the Committee Dinner Club , the friends of ( he Institution are engaged in forming a Scholarship Fund , which , without in any way trenching upon the moneys contributed for the support and maintenance of
the School , will enable the executive lo bestow upon deserving boys , who have completed ( heir school career , such assistance as will place them on a level with pupils from other schools in competing for University and other Scholarships . Those who may desire to know more of the proposal will do well to seek information of the
Secretary , and at the offices of the Institution in Freemasons' Hall , it is enough for us lo say that , the proposal which has only just been publicly announced , has made a good start , and is in every way worthy of the support and encouragement of ( he friends of the School .
Craft Masonry.
PROVINCIAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE ASSOCIATIONS . The Associations and Institutions which are included under this head are of two kinds . There are those which confer on a small scale in the district or Province in which they are located , the Educational and other benefits which , the Central Institutions confer on the Craft generally ; and there are others which are established for the purpose of enabling brethren of limited means becoming
Subscribers or Governors to the General Charities . Among the former , we note with pleasure , that for the first time in its existence a Festival was held on the 3 rd July , on behalf of the East Lancashire Educational and Benevolent Institution . A strong Committee , with Bro . Sillitoe , P . G . S . B . Eng ., and P . P . G . W ., as Chairman , and Bro , James Newton , Prov . Asst . G . Sec , as Secretary , having been con .
stitutcd , a Board of 482 Stewards was formed , and it was arranged that the Festival should be held in the Concert Room of the Royal Botanical Gardens , Old Trafford , Manchester . Bro . Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , Prov G . Master , was in the Chair , and in the course of the proceedings Bro . Newton bad the satisfaction of announcing that the donations and subscriptions amounted to the very
handsome sum of £ 4934 15 s . fid . A result like this must have been far in excess even of the most sanguine expectations , and reflects the greatest possible credit on the' Province , the Chairman , and all who had a hand in bringing it about . Indeed , it exceeds anything of its kind that has been previously done in the Provinces—and there have been several occasions in which the Provincial Charity Festivals
have been productive of large sums— and if only a few more Anniversary Festivals are held on this scale , and with similar results , the neighbouring Provinces of West Lancashire and Cheshire , with other Provinces which possess similar organisations , will have to look to their laurels . As for West Lancashire , to which we have just referred , and which has three Institutions , one for the education
of Masons' Children , the Hamer Fund for providing decayed brethren with annuities , and the Alpass Fund for the Widows of Masons , there have been the nsual fetes and concerts held in their behalf , and though we are unable to furnish p recise details as to the amounts obtained by these means , we are aware that very considerable suras have resulted from them . So , too , as res-arris
Cheshire , which has two such bunds—the Educational , of long standing , and the Benevolent , of more recent establishment—we know that both of these have been doing good work , and that notwithstanding the large amount contributed by the Province to the Boys' School in connection with Lord Egerton ' s Chairmanshi p at the Festival of that Institution , the support they have
received has been more than sufficient for their requirements . The annual Festival on behalf of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Educational and Benevolent Fund was held at Southampton , on the 15 th January , under the presidency of Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M P ., Prov . G . Master , the sum obtained in donations and subscri p tions being £ 345 . The North and East Yorkshire , the Devonshire ,
Dorsetshire , and other Provincial Funds have also fared prosperously , Cornwall and Lincolnshire likewise have their local Institutions oi Funds , while Durham can boast a similar organisation , which lust year received over £ 450 in donations and subscriptions , and expended some £ 170 in the maintenance and Education of Children . There are , doubtless , other Funds of a like character throughout the
country to which we have not referred , while as recently as last month the finishing touches were given to the establishment of n " Kelly Memorial Fund , " in the Province of Leicestershire and Rutland , for Educational and Benevolent purposes . Of the other class of Association , which affords brethren the means of becoming Life Subscribers and Life Governors by easy stages , those established
in Cambridgeshire and Staffordshire havo been the means of raising goodly sums for the Central Charities , and there are likewise many other Funds which are continually being organised by Lodges of Instruction , as well as others which are connected with private lodges . These , too , have done some good work , and there is no doubt their efforts in behalf of our great Institutions will be continued .
BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE
The following are the details , month b y month , of the number of cases relieved , and the amounts distributed amongst them b y the Board of Benevolence during the period covered b y this summary : — December , 1894 , 35 cases relieved with £ 810 ; January , 1895 , 26 eases , amount £ 575 ; F ' ebruary , 36 cases , amount £ 825 ; March , 33 cases , amount £ 745 ; April , 30 cases , amount £ 745 ; M » , v ,
43 cases , amount £ 930 ; June , 22 cases , amount £ 485 ; Jul )' , ' •>¦> cases , amount £ ' 870 ; August , 17 cases , amount £ 495 ; September , 19 cases , amount £ 500 ; October , 33 cases , amount £ 805 ; November , 41 cases , amount £ 905 . Total from 1 st December , 1894 , to 30 tli November , 1895 , 370 cases , amount distributed amongst them i '
relief , £ 8890 . In our review of Freemasonry in 1894 , the Returns for the corresponding pei-iod weic 376 cases relieved with £ 9075 , so that their is not a very mateiial difference between the totals for the two periods , at all events not such it difference as need give rise to the opinion that the Board has been too generous , or less (/ onerous than is desirable with the distribution of the Fun '
entrusted to its charge . Considering , indeed , that the sii ""' experienced brethren have been in office during this year its for many years previously—Bro . Robert Grey , P . G . D ., as President , and Bn | SJames Brett , P . G . P ., and C . A . Cottebrune , P . G . P ., as Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents respectively , there is little likelihood of tin ' Board oyer which they preside , ever erring in the direction cither "I extravagance or niggardliness .
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Craft Masonry.
Then , when there is a fairl y large permanent income derived from investments , there will be less need for Officers and Stewards to work at such high pressure . As for the other occurrences of the year , we note that the Speech Day and Distribution of Prizes were held in the Great Hall of the Institution on the day preceding the Festival . Bro . C . E . Keyser , P . G . D ., Treasurer , occupied the Chair ,
and the prizes were distributed with a few kindly words of congratulation to each recipient , by the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos , who was accompanied by her husband , Bro . Lord Egerton , the Festival Chairman of the year . Among those who received prizes , were the boys who had succeeded in passing the preceding Cambridge Middle Class Examination . These numbered in all
27 , of whom , one was awarded Second Class Honours in the Senior Division , while in the Junior Division three took Second , and three Third Class Honours , and the remaining 20 satisfied the Examiners . Other evidences have been forthcoming during the year of the excellence of the training which the boys pass through during their stay in the School , and we may affirm , as in the case of the Girls '
School , that while these proofs are furnished of the good work that is being done , there necd . be little , if any , fear as to the funds necessary for the efficient maintenance of the School being obtained from the general body of English Masons . The Annual Athletic Sports were held , thanks to the kindly intervention of Bro . George Everett , Past G . Treasurer , at Kempton Park on Saturday the
Sth June . There was a larger muster than usual of the friends and supporters of the School , and from the manner in which the different events in the programme were contested , it was evident that the physical , like the mental , training of the children is carefully looked after , and that the School has on its roll of pupils quite a number of promising young athletes , who will , there is little doubt , fare all the
better in after life , because they have been taught thus early to rely upon their own strength , and skill , and judgment , in order to hold their own in the cricket field and on the running track . Turning to the Quarterly General Courts held during the year we find that a fair amount of business has been brought to the notice of the Governors and Subscribers . Notwithstanding that the number of boys now in
the establishment has been greater during the present year than at any previous period in the career of the Institution , the number of candidates at the April and October elections has been somewhat greater than usual . In April there were 47 candidates on the list , and of these , 23 were elected , while in October there were only 17 vacancies to be filled from 46 candidates , and as on the latter occasion
all the last cases obtained places among the successful , the list for the Spring Election of next year starts with the 29 candidates remaining over from October , irrespective of those whose names have been , or between now and January next will be , added . Still if the affairs of the Institution go on prospering as they have done latterly , this tendency on the part of candidates to increase in numbers may be
held in check . Early in the year—or to be precise , at its meeting on the 25 th January—the Council determined upon increasing the salary of the Secretary of the Institution to £ 700 per aimnm , so that he might be on an equal footing , in respect of his remuneration , with ( hi ! Secretaries of the other Institutions ; but the propriety , not of the act itself , but of its being done by the Council on its own
initiative , without any recommendation from the Board of Management , was called in question at the Quarterly Court in April , and a motion was made to modify Law 95 in such a manner as to prevent the salaries of the Secretary , Head Master , Medical Officer , and Matron , being increased or diminished without such recommendation . The question was discussed at some length , but on a division was lost
by a majority of voices . At the same Court , the rank of Honorary Patron was conferred on Bros . Thomas Fenu , P . President of the Board of General Purposes—already a Vice-Patron of the Institutionin recognition of his valuable services to the School , and that of Vice-Patron on Bro . Jabez Hogg , Surgeon Oculist , and Bro . Wharton P Hood , M . D ., Honorary Medical Officer , in lecognition of the services
they had respectively rendered . At the Quarterly Courts in January and July , nothing of any great moment occurred , except that , at , the former the valuable services rendered by Bro F . Smitbson , P . G . D . of England , of the Province of West Yorkshire , were recognised b y the brethren conferring upon him the rank of Honorary Vice-Patron . It is also worthy of record that at different times during the year ,
entertainments have been given to the boys at Wood Green , the most notable being a dramatic and musical entertainment organised bv Bro . !•' . VV . Macklin , VV . M ., and the members of the Asaph Lodge , No . 1319 ; a musical entertainment by Bros . Short and Bradford of the Derby Allcroft Lodge , No . 21 ( 58 , and their friends ; and a descriptive account of a journey to the United States , with lime light
effects , by Bro . Horace VV . Banks , VV . M ., of the Citadel Lodge , No . 1897 . Lastly , we mention with a great deal of pleasure , that acting on a suggestion which emanated in the first instance from the Committee Dinner Club , the friends of ( he Institution are engaged in forming a Scholarship Fund , which , without in any way trenching upon the moneys contributed for the support and maintenance of
the School , will enable the executive lo bestow upon deserving boys , who have completed ( heir school career , such assistance as will place them on a level with pupils from other schools in competing for University and other Scholarships . Those who may desire to know more of the proposal will do well to seek information of the
Secretary , and at the offices of the Institution in Freemasons' Hall , it is enough for us lo say that , the proposal which has only just been publicly announced , has made a good start , and is in every way worthy of the support and encouragement of ( he friends of the School .
Craft Masonry.
PROVINCIAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE ASSOCIATIONS . The Associations and Institutions which are included under this head are of two kinds . There are those which confer on a small scale in the district or Province in which they are located , the Educational and other benefits which , the Central Institutions confer on the Craft generally ; and there are others which are established for the purpose of enabling brethren of limited means becoming
Subscribers or Governors to the General Charities . Among the former , we note with pleasure , that for the first time in its existence a Festival was held on the 3 rd July , on behalf of the East Lancashire Educational and Benevolent Institution . A strong Committee , with Bro . Sillitoe , P . G . S . B . Eng ., and P . P . G . W ., as Chairman , and Bro , James Newton , Prov . Asst . G . Sec , as Secretary , having been con .
stitutcd , a Board of 482 Stewards was formed , and it was arranged that the Festival should be held in the Concert Room of the Royal Botanical Gardens , Old Trafford , Manchester . Bro . Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , Prov G . Master , was in the Chair , and in the course of the proceedings Bro . Newton bad the satisfaction of announcing that the donations and subscriptions amounted to the very
handsome sum of £ 4934 15 s . fid . A result like this must have been far in excess even of the most sanguine expectations , and reflects the greatest possible credit on the' Province , the Chairman , and all who had a hand in bringing it about . Indeed , it exceeds anything of its kind that has been previously done in the Provinces—and there have been several occasions in which the Provincial Charity Festivals
have been productive of large sums— and if only a few more Anniversary Festivals are held on this scale , and with similar results , the neighbouring Provinces of West Lancashire and Cheshire , with other Provinces which possess similar organisations , will have to look to their laurels . As for West Lancashire , to which we have just referred , and which has three Institutions , one for the education
of Masons' Children , the Hamer Fund for providing decayed brethren with annuities , and the Alpass Fund for the Widows of Masons , there have been the nsual fetes and concerts held in their behalf , and though we are unable to furnish p recise details as to the amounts obtained by these means , we are aware that very considerable suras have resulted from them . So , too , as res-arris
Cheshire , which has two such bunds—the Educational , of long standing , and the Benevolent , of more recent establishment—we know that both of these have been doing good work , and that notwithstanding the large amount contributed by the Province to the Boys' School in connection with Lord Egerton ' s Chairmanshi p at the Festival of that Institution , the support they have
received has been more than sufficient for their requirements . The annual Festival on behalf of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Educational and Benevolent Fund was held at Southampton , on the 15 th January , under the presidency of Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M P ., Prov . G . Master , the sum obtained in donations and subscri p tions being £ 345 . The North and East Yorkshire , the Devonshire ,
Dorsetshire , and other Provincial Funds have also fared prosperously , Cornwall and Lincolnshire likewise have their local Institutions oi Funds , while Durham can boast a similar organisation , which lust year received over £ 450 in donations and subscriptions , and expended some £ 170 in the maintenance and Education of Children . There are , doubtless , other Funds of a like character throughout the
country to which we have not referred , while as recently as last month the finishing touches were given to the establishment of n " Kelly Memorial Fund , " in the Province of Leicestershire and Rutland , for Educational and Benevolent purposes . Of the other class of Association , which affords brethren the means of becoming Life Subscribers and Life Governors by easy stages , those established
in Cambridgeshire and Staffordshire havo been the means of raising goodly sums for the Central Charities , and there are likewise many other Funds which are continually being organised by Lodges of Instruction , as well as others which are connected with private lodges . These , too , have done some good work , and there is no doubt their efforts in behalf of our great Institutions will be continued .
BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE
The following are the details , month b y month , of the number of cases relieved , and the amounts distributed amongst them b y the Board of Benevolence during the period covered b y this summary : — December , 1894 , 35 cases relieved with £ 810 ; January , 1895 , 26 eases , amount £ 575 ; F ' ebruary , 36 cases , amount £ 825 ; March , 33 cases , amount £ 745 ; April , 30 cases , amount £ 745 ; M » , v ,
43 cases , amount £ 930 ; June , 22 cases , amount £ 485 ; Jul )' , ' •>¦> cases , amount £ ' 870 ; August , 17 cases , amount £ 495 ; September , 19 cases , amount £ 500 ; October , 33 cases , amount £ 805 ; November , 41 cases , amount £ 905 . Total from 1 st December , 1894 , to 30 tli November , 1895 , 370 cases , amount distributed amongst them i '
relief , £ 8890 . In our review of Freemasonry in 1894 , the Returns for the corresponding pei-iod weic 376 cases relieved with £ 9075 , so that their is not a very mateiial difference between the totals for the two periods , at all events not such it difference as need give rise to the opinion that the Board has been too generous , or less (/ onerous than is desirable with the distribution of the Fun '
entrusted to its charge . Considering , indeed , that the sii ""' experienced brethren have been in office during this year its for many years previously—Bro . Robert Grey , P . G . D ., as President , and Bn | SJames Brett , P . G . P ., and C . A . Cottebrune , P . G . P ., as Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents respectively , there is little likelihood of tin ' Board oyer which they preside , ever erring in the direction cither "I extravagance or niggardliness .