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Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
ANNUAL FESTIVAL . The 95 th Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls svas held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons' Tavern . Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Prov . Grand Master for Hants and the Isle ot Wight , presided , and among other brethren present svere—Bros . Sir E . H . Lechmere , Bart ., M . P ., P . G . M . Worcestershire ; Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., P . G . M . Middlesex ; Viscount Ranelagh , K . C . B . ; Lord Garvagh ; Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Secretary ; Capt . S . G . Homfray , Dep . G . M . Monmouthshire : Cant . Hunter . P . P . G . M . Aberdeenshire ; Ralph Gooding , G . S . Deacon ; Col .
Peters . G . Ssvd . Br . ; Edgar Bosvyer , G . Std . B . ; Rev . H . A . Pickard , r- . U . C . j Kobert Grey , P . G . D ., Chairman of Stwds ; Frank Richardson , P . G . D . ; Peter de Lande Long , P . G . D . ; J . A . Rucker , P . G . D . ; J . Messent , P . G . S . B . ; C . Greenwood , P . G . S . B . ; H . G . Buss , Asst . G . Sec ; H . Smith , P . G . Sec . W . Yorks ; J . Terry Sec R . M . B . I . ; 1 . E . Le Feuvre . P . G . Sec . Hamps . and I . of Wight ; Richard Eve , P . G . W . Hampshire ; H . A . Dubois , Chairman Ladies' Stewards ; C . Greenwood , jun ., P . G . Sec . surrey ; Dr . Morris , Charles Hammerton , L . E . Evans , of New York ; J . R . Armitage , J . P . ; Dr . Howell , E . C . Mather , T . Mount Humphries , Reginald Young , John balkner , Chas . Belton , VV . Bellingham , A . F . Kibble , J . W . Baldsvin , and others .
After dinner the toasts svere proposed . The CHAIRMAN : Brethren , there is one uniform duty imposed by the constitution on Englishmen ; it is cheerfully acknowledged by every section of the community , but by no body of men more readily and heartily than by Freemasons . And sve have an additional reason this evening svhy we should drink the health of her Majesty , because during the past year she has consented to become a Patroness of the Girls' School Institution ; I , therefore , ask you to drink "The Health of Her Majesty the Queen . " hness the
The CHAIRMAN , in proposing the toast of " His Royal Hig Prince of Wales , M . W . G . M ., Patron and President of the Institution ; the Princess of Wales , Patroness ; and the other members of the Royal Family , " said : Brethren , the next toast I have to propose to you is that of the Prince of Wales , the Grand Master ; the Princess of Wales , and the rest of the members of the Royal Family . It has been a great matter of congratulation to us that the Prince of Wales , ready as he is to discharge his duty in every walk of lifecan find time to join the pursuits of Freemasonry , and take an
, active interest in its welfare ; and thai two of his Royal brothers , among their multifarious duties , also find time to join the Masonic Art . I think ifc forms an additional testimony for the regard svhich they must associate svith the great body of Freemasons . And the Princess of Wales has taken an active interest in the Masonic Girls' School . We know one of the wings of the School is associated svith her name . ( Hear , hear . ) I ask you to drink this toast svith enthusiasm . ( Hear , hear . )
The CHAIRMAN : The next toast I have to propose to you is " 1 he Pro Grand Master , the Deputy Grand Master , and the Officers of the Grand Lodge . " The Pro Grand Master , the Earl of Carnarvon , and the Earl of Lathom have taken alsvays the most active interest in Freemasonry . Although they have large and important provinces to { attend to , yet they often find time to take their places in Grand Lodge whenever they have it in their posver . They are also supporters of Masonic Charities , and
I am sure it svill be agreeable to you to hear that the Earl of Skelmersdale has had the most honourable success by coming in at the head of an examination for the army . I hope it svill be no distant day before he enters our Order and emulates the virtues of his father . The Senior Grand Warden , the Earl of Milltown , svould have been here to-night , but that it svas the night of the meeting of his own lodge in this building . I will couple with this toast the name of our Bro . Sir Francis Burdett .
Sir F . BURDETT , Prov . Grand Master , Middlesex , in reply , said : For the kind manner in svhich my health has been proposed by the excellent Chairman , and for the manner svhich it has been received by you all , it must be clear to you that I feel considerable difficulty in responding for the toast I have nosv undertaken to respond to . ( Hear , hear . ) It has been the fortune of Grand Lodge to present Grand Officers for a great length of time who have
performed their duties svith perfect satisfaction to all beneath them . For a series of years the appointments have been satisfactory to all Masons , and we have just come to a nesv series of Grand Officers who , I am perfectly sure , will give satisfaction to all the brethren . The Past Grand Officers have done their duty in a manner that has satisfied all the brethren , and I feel confident that the Past Grand Officers and the Grand Officers svill
alsvays as far as they can support the Institutions which we constantly meet at these Festivals to encourage . The Grand Officers are alsvays ready to perform their duty , and always ready to support others svho support them , and to give advice and assistance in the management of the Institution . We have a great many Provincial Grand Officers around us , and sve all feel a great
amount of respect for them , and greatly thank them for the support they have given to the Institutions , and I trust for a great many years to come the Provincial Grand Officers and the Grand Officers will be supported as they have been hitherto , for svith this feeling , I have to thank you for the kind manner in svhich you have received this toast . ( Hear , hear ) .
Sir li . H . LECHMERE , Prov . Grand Master for Worcestershire : Brethren , three reasons have induced me to come here to-night . First of aU I wished to show my interest in the Charity ; next , to have the pleasure of joining some brethren from the far distant towns of Worcestershire . The province has of late years appeared more interested in the Great Charities than it svas in times past . And last , but not least , I have come here to
support my old friend and Masonic contemporary , your Chairman . I have bad the pleasure for a very brief period , in a very brief visit to the Masonic Girls' School , last evening , but I wish I could have spent hours there to see those bright , cheery , healthy school g irls and those charming governesses , above all , in this School . You have all the elements for giving girls a useful education , svith a knosvledge of household svork , which cannot be
derogatory to the highest in the land , but must be most beneficial to girls who have to make their way in life . Some thirty-four years ago your Chairman and myself svere associated together at the university , and while there derived a knosvledge of Masonry , which I am happy to say , flowing from Oxford , has diffused the best princip les of Masonry through the lengh and breadth of the land . Our Charirrnan holds a very proud position
tonight , in having to address this large and appreciative audience , and we only nosv svait a svord from him upon the benefits and requirements of the School . Bro . Beach has been a thorough Mason ever since he has been a Mason ,- he has never lost his grasp of its principles , and has never allowed the liht of Masonry burning in his mind to be extinguished , and I may
g add he presided at the Festival of the Boys' School in the first year of his Masonic life . I am sure you svill drink his health svith enthusiasm , and I trust that the result of his speaking svill be most gratifying to himself and successful to the Charity itself . I ask you therefore to drink to " The Health of the President of the evening , Bro . Beach . '
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
The CHAIRMAN in responding said : Sir E . Lechmere and brethren I thank you most heartily and sincerely , every one of you for the very kind way in which you have received this toast , and I thank my old friend , Bro . Sir Edsvard Lechmere , for the very kind svay in svhich he has introduced it to you . ( Hear , hear . ) He has brought back to my mind associations of a far gone period , svhen lie and I entered Freemasonry together , and certainl y we did take the light of Masonry at the pure fount , and we then felt
compelled to take an active interest in the Order . As our Bro . Lechmere said I svas induced almost immediatel y after entering the Order to become a Stesvard for the Boys' School , which at the moment I hardl y knesv what it referred to . But I svas told it was an excellent institution connected with Freemasonry , and I instantly said I will do my best to support it . I became a Steward ; I came up to London and attended one or tsvo meetings and the Festival , and I svas then imbued in the belief that it svas conducive
to the interests of Freemasonry and the community at large ; and I made up my mind to do the best I could to support such a glorious Order . I am sure that any one svho takes an interest in Freemasonry has something noble in viesv . We have precepts to guide us that have existed from generation to generation . We also have the memory of those who have gone before us ; we have many noble Masons svho have stood forward in different ages whose memory we revereand
, svhose example we may svell imitate . Onl y let us do the best sve can to justify the confidence svhich is placed in us that sve may do the best to support such a glorious institution , and if sve support such an institution sve may be sure we have done something for the interests of mankind . I thank you very heartily for the very kind svay in which you have drunk my health . The CHAIRMAN : I have nosv the gratification of proposing to you the toast of the evening , namely , " Success to the Royal Masonic Institution
for Girls . " I had the pleasure of attending yesterday at the distribution of prizes , and I am glad to be able from my own testimony to announce to you that the School is in a most satisfactory and efficient state . I think it svas most gratifying to us all the manner in svhich the girls svent through their various performances . It shosvs that the education at the School has been very carefully attended to . The various domestic and useful arts have been laid great store by , and I svould not have countenanced as far as my osvn
individual opinion goes any relaxation of attention paid to useful duties for accomplishments . But that has not been at all relaxed , and at the same time the cultivation of accomplishments has been very carefully svatched , and I think the various girls have done great honour to themselves in the way they have distinguished themselves in various avocations . In the Cambridge local examinations fifteen girls svent in for that examination , and out of them fourteen passed , three ol them with honours , and tsvo ot them for
honour in religious subjects . I think this is most gratifying , because it shows that svhere an amount of talent exists it should be cultivated and made the most of . I think sve also have reason to congratulate ourselves upon the health svhich exists in the Schools at the present moment , because though I believe last year there was some illness there , yet svhen I went over the infirmary there was not one girl svho was the inmate of that part of the School . ( Applause . ) I think this does great credit to the doctor svho looks
after them , while as our Bro . Sir Edsvard Lechmere has said it is gratifying to see hosv happy they look ; it is a great inducement to all who go there to take an active interest in them , and to shosv that their interests are not neglected by the Freemasons . Then we have the satisfaction too that the mistresses , with the exception of Miss Davis—svho , I am sorry to say , is at present suffering from illness—that every member of the stall has been a pupil in that School ; and that shows , I think , that those svho svere once educated
there still turn back svith affection to the svalls where they have received the elements of education , and are glad to go back there and assist in imparting the education svhich they obtained themselves . One of the assistant mistresses in the School has been recently appointed as the head of the Masonic School in Dublin , and another girl has also been appointed to the head of the Bristol Asylum . ( Applause . ) That , I think , shows that those svho are appointed to teach in the School are well svorthy of the confidence reposed
in them . During the last io years the School has increased from 112 to 239 . This involves a great additional expenditure , and at the same time it involves additional responsibilities upon all those who are charged with its conduct . Now , brethren , the Committee have never found themselves justified in spending everything they have receis-ed ,- they have thought it a prudent use of their responsibility to build up for themselves a certain amount of capital ; but I must point out to you , at the same time , that whilst prudent
considerations have guided them , yet , at the same time , this capital forms a very small portion of the sum necessary to conduct this School ; and unless the liberality of Masons is exercised to a considerable extent , this School must fail to carry out the great ends which as present it is doing . Brethren , it is in the firm reliance on the liberality of the brethren that the additional expenditure which has been requisite has been incurred . The number of the girls at present educated with these funds has been justified by the liberality
which has m past years been called forth by the brethren , and I earnestly hope that it may not be relaxed upon the present occasion , and that the funds may be placed on a firmer basis than ever they have been in the past . Brethren , I feel sure that if any of you pay a visit to that School you svill be svell rewarded , and I hope that though further calls may be made upon your liberality at a future time—as I hear that even now theschoolroomis scarcel y large enough for the requirements of the pupils—yet I hope that the funds
will be sufficient to maintain the School in the same state of efficiency that it has been in the last few years . I commend this toast to your notice , and will couple with it the name , in the absence of Bro . Creaton , of Bro . Peter de Lande Long . Bro . HEDGES then read thc follosving list of subscriptions :
HOUSE COMMITTEE . £ s . d . Bro . H . A . Dubois 25 o o „ Charles Hammerton ... 26 5 o „ Peter de Lande Long ... 84 o o „ E . C . Mather 46 5 o ,, J . H . Matthews 2 G 5 o „ Joshua Nunn 54 12 o „ Lieut .-Col . James Peters 105 o o „ Frank Richardson ... 27 10 o
LONDON . Lodge . Grand Masters Bro . James S . Burroughs ... 37 16 o 1 Bro . J . G . L . Hemmerde 28 7 o 1 „ R . Gooding , M . D . . 15 15 o 2 „ William H . Rylands , 21 o o F . S . A . .. ; .. !
£ s . d Chapter . 2 Comp . E . Letchsvorth ... 52 10 o Lodge . 4 Bro . Capt . H . A . Bennett 14 14 o 5 „ F . Pattison 33 12 o 6 ,, B . de B . Lopez ... 10 10 o 7 „ John Donaldson ... 21 o o 8 „ F . J . Rushton ... 10 10 o 9 „ James Forbes o „ Russell Elliott ... 12 12 o
10 „ Rev . J . W . Palmer , M . A iS 7 6 11 „ 1 . H . McQueen ... 38 G C 12 „ W . I . Beedell ... 27 C o 14 „ G . S . Walmsley ... 27 6 o 18 „ Samuel S . Hasluck 3 6 15 o 21 „ T . A . Ives Howell , 35 14 o M . R . C . S . E . ... 22 „ Henry Povey ... 40 o o
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Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
ANNUAL FESTIVAL . The 95 th Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls svas held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons' Tavern . Bro . W . W . B . Beach , M . P ., Prov . Grand Master for Hants and the Isle ot Wight , presided , and among other brethren present svere—Bros . Sir E . H . Lechmere , Bart ., M . P ., P . G . M . Worcestershire ; Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., P . G . M . Middlesex ; Viscount Ranelagh , K . C . B . ; Lord Garvagh ; Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Secretary ; Capt . S . G . Homfray , Dep . G . M . Monmouthshire : Cant . Hunter . P . P . G . M . Aberdeenshire ; Ralph Gooding , G . S . Deacon ; Col .
Peters . G . Ssvd . Br . ; Edgar Bosvyer , G . Std . B . ; Rev . H . A . Pickard , r- . U . C . j Kobert Grey , P . G . D ., Chairman of Stwds ; Frank Richardson , P . G . D . ; Peter de Lande Long , P . G . D . ; J . A . Rucker , P . G . D . ; J . Messent , P . G . S . B . ; C . Greenwood , P . G . S . B . ; H . G . Buss , Asst . G . Sec ; H . Smith , P . G . Sec . W . Yorks ; J . Terry Sec R . M . B . I . ; 1 . E . Le Feuvre . P . G . Sec . Hamps . and I . of Wight ; Richard Eve , P . G . W . Hampshire ; H . A . Dubois , Chairman Ladies' Stewards ; C . Greenwood , jun ., P . G . Sec . surrey ; Dr . Morris , Charles Hammerton , L . E . Evans , of New York ; J . R . Armitage , J . P . ; Dr . Howell , E . C . Mather , T . Mount Humphries , Reginald Young , John balkner , Chas . Belton , VV . Bellingham , A . F . Kibble , J . W . Baldsvin , and others .
After dinner the toasts svere proposed . The CHAIRMAN : Brethren , there is one uniform duty imposed by the constitution on Englishmen ; it is cheerfully acknowledged by every section of the community , but by no body of men more readily and heartily than by Freemasons . And sve have an additional reason this evening svhy we should drink the health of her Majesty , because during the past year she has consented to become a Patroness of the Girls' School Institution ; I , therefore , ask you to drink "The Health of Her Majesty the Queen . " hness the
The CHAIRMAN , in proposing the toast of " His Royal Hig Prince of Wales , M . W . G . M ., Patron and President of the Institution ; the Princess of Wales , Patroness ; and the other members of the Royal Family , " said : Brethren , the next toast I have to propose to you is that of the Prince of Wales , the Grand Master ; the Princess of Wales , and the rest of the members of the Royal Family . It has been a great matter of congratulation to us that the Prince of Wales , ready as he is to discharge his duty in every walk of lifecan find time to join the pursuits of Freemasonry , and take an
, active interest in its welfare ; and thai two of his Royal brothers , among their multifarious duties , also find time to join the Masonic Art . I think ifc forms an additional testimony for the regard svhich they must associate svith the great body of Freemasons . And the Princess of Wales has taken an active interest in the Masonic Girls' School . We know one of the wings of the School is associated svith her name . ( Hear , hear . ) I ask you to drink this toast svith enthusiasm . ( Hear , hear . )
The CHAIRMAN : The next toast I have to propose to you is " 1 he Pro Grand Master , the Deputy Grand Master , and the Officers of the Grand Lodge . " The Pro Grand Master , the Earl of Carnarvon , and the Earl of Lathom have taken alsvays the most active interest in Freemasonry . Although they have large and important provinces to { attend to , yet they often find time to take their places in Grand Lodge whenever they have it in their posver . They are also supporters of Masonic Charities , and
I am sure it svill be agreeable to you to hear that the Earl of Skelmersdale has had the most honourable success by coming in at the head of an examination for the army . I hope it svill be no distant day before he enters our Order and emulates the virtues of his father . The Senior Grand Warden , the Earl of Milltown , svould have been here to-night , but that it svas the night of the meeting of his own lodge in this building . I will couple with this toast the name of our Bro . Sir Francis Burdett .
Sir F . BURDETT , Prov . Grand Master , Middlesex , in reply , said : For the kind manner in svhich my health has been proposed by the excellent Chairman , and for the manner svhich it has been received by you all , it must be clear to you that I feel considerable difficulty in responding for the toast I have nosv undertaken to respond to . ( Hear , hear . ) It has been the fortune of Grand Lodge to present Grand Officers for a great length of time who have
performed their duties svith perfect satisfaction to all beneath them . For a series of years the appointments have been satisfactory to all Masons , and we have just come to a nesv series of Grand Officers who , I am perfectly sure , will give satisfaction to all the brethren . The Past Grand Officers have done their duty in a manner that has satisfied all the brethren , and I feel confident that the Past Grand Officers and the Grand Officers svill
alsvays as far as they can support the Institutions which we constantly meet at these Festivals to encourage . The Grand Officers are alsvays ready to perform their duty , and always ready to support others svho support them , and to give advice and assistance in the management of the Institution . We have a great many Provincial Grand Officers around us , and sve all feel a great
amount of respect for them , and greatly thank them for the support they have given to the Institutions , and I trust for a great many years to come the Provincial Grand Officers and the Grand Officers will be supported as they have been hitherto , for svith this feeling , I have to thank you for the kind manner in svhich you have received this toast . ( Hear , hear ) .
Sir li . H . LECHMERE , Prov . Grand Master for Worcestershire : Brethren , three reasons have induced me to come here to-night . First of aU I wished to show my interest in the Charity ; next , to have the pleasure of joining some brethren from the far distant towns of Worcestershire . The province has of late years appeared more interested in the Great Charities than it svas in times past . And last , but not least , I have come here to
support my old friend and Masonic contemporary , your Chairman . I have bad the pleasure for a very brief period , in a very brief visit to the Masonic Girls' School , last evening , but I wish I could have spent hours there to see those bright , cheery , healthy school g irls and those charming governesses , above all , in this School . You have all the elements for giving girls a useful education , svith a knosvledge of household svork , which cannot be
derogatory to the highest in the land , but must be most beneficial to girls who have to make their way in life . Some thirty-four years ago your Chairman and myself svere associated together at the university , and while there derived a knosvledge of Masonry , which I am happy to say , flowing from Oxford , has diffused the best princip les of Masonry through the lengh and breadth of the land . Our Charirrnan holds a very proud position
tonight , in having to address this large and appreciative audience , and we only nosv svait a svord from him upon the benefits and requirements of the School . Bro . Beach has been a thorough Mason ever since he has been a Mason ,- he has never lost his grasp of its principles , and has never allowed the liht of Masonry burning in his mind to be extinguished , and I may
g add he presided at the Festival of the Boys' School in the first year of his Masonic life . I am sure you svill drink his health svith enthusiasm , and I trust that the result of his speaking svill be most gratifying to himself and successful to the Charity itself . I ask you therefore to drink to " The Health of the President of the evening , Bro . Beach . '
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
The CHAIRMAN in responding said : Sir E . Lechmere and brethren I thank you most heartily and sincerely , every one of you for the very kind way in which you have received this toast , and I thank my old friend , Bro . Sir Edsvard Lechmere , for the very kind svay in svhich he has introduced it to you . ( Hear , hear . ) He has brought back to my mind associations of a far gone period , svhen lie and I entered Freemasonry together , and certainl y we did take the light of Masonry at the pure fount , and we then felt
compelled to take an active interest in the Order . As our Bro . Lechmere said I svas induced almost immediatel y after entering the Order to become a Stesvard for the Boys' School , which at the moment I hardl y knesv what it referred to . But I svas told it was an excellent institution connected with Freemasonry , and I instantly said I will do my best to support it . I became a Steward ; I came up to London and attended one or tsvo meetings and the Festival , and I svas then imbued in the belief that it svas conducive
to the interests of Freemasonry and the community at large ; and I made up my mind to do the best I could to support such a glorious Order . I am sure that any one svho takes an interest in Freemasonry has something noble in viesv . We have precepts to guide us that have existed from generation to generation . We also have the memory of those who have gone before us ; we have many noble Masons svho have stood forward in different ages whose memory we revereand
, svhose example we may svell imitate . Onl y let us do the best sve can to justify the confidence svhich is placed in us that sve may do the best to support such a glorious institution , and if sve support such an institution sve may be sure we have done something for the interests of mankind . I thank you very heartily for the very kind svay in which you have drunk my health . The CHAIRMAN : I have nosv the gratification of proposing to you the toast of the evening , namely , " Success to the Royal Masonic Institution
for Girls . " I had the pleasure of attending yesterday at the distribution of prizes , and I am glad to be able from my own testimony to announce to you that the School is in a most satisfactory and efficient state . I think it svas most gratifying to us all the manner in svhich the girls svent through their various performances . It shosvs that the education at the School has been very carefully attended to . The various domestic and useful arts have been laid great store by , and I svould not have countenanced as far as my osvn
individual opinion goes any relaxation of attention paid to useful duties for accomplishments . But that has not been at all relaxed , and at the same time the cultivation of accomplishments has been very carefully svatched , and I think the various girls have done great honour to themselves in the way they have distinguished themselves in various avocations . In the Cambridge local examinations fifteen girls svent in for that examination , and out of them fourteen passed , three ol them with honours , and tsvo ot them for
honour in religious subjects . I think this is most gratifying , because it shows that svhere an amount of talent exists it should be cultivated and made the most of . I think sve also have reason to congratulate ourselves upon the health svhich exists in the Schools at the present moment , because though I believe last year there was some illness there , yet svhen I went over the infirmary there was not one girl svho was the inmate of that part of the School . ( Applause . ) I think this does great credit to the doctor svho looks
after them , while as our Bro . Sir Edsvard Lechmere has said it is gratifying to see hosv happy they look ; it is a great inducement to all who go there to take an active interest in them , and to shosv that their interests are not neglected by the Freemasons . Then we have the satisfaction too that the mistresses , with the exception of Miss Davis—svho , I am sorry to say , is at present suffering from illness—that every member of the stall has been a pupil in that School ; and that shows , I think , that those svho svere once educated
there still turn back svith affection to the svalls where they have received the elements of education , and are glad to go back there and assist in imparting the education svhich they obtained themselves . One of the assistant mistresses in the School has been recently appointed as the head of the Masonic School in Dublin , and another girl has also been appointed to the head of the Bristol Asylum . ( Applause . ) That , I think , shows that those svho are appointed to teach in the School are well svorthy of the confidence reposed
in them . During the last io years the School has increased from 112 to 239 . This involves a great additional expenditure , and at the same time it involves additional responsibilities upon all those who are charged with its conduct . Now , brethren , the Committee have never found themselves justified in spending everything they have receis-ed ,- they have thought it a prudent use of their responsibility to build up for themselves a certain amount of capital ; but I must point out to you , at the same time , that whilst prudent
considerations have guided them , yet , at the same time , this capital forms a very small portion of the sum necessary to conduct this School ; and unless the liberality of Masons is exercised to a considerable extent , this School must fail to carry out the great ends which as present it is doing . Brethren , it is in the firm reliance on the liberality of the brethren that the additional expenditure which has been requisite has been incurred . The number of the girls at present educated with these funds has been justified by the liberality
which has m past years been called forth by the brethren , and I earnestly hope that it may not be relaxed upon the present occasion , and that the funds may be placed on a firmer basis than ever they have been in the past . Brethren , I feel sure that if any of you pay a visit to that School you svill be svell rewarded , and I hope that though further calls may be made upon your liberality at a future time—as I hear that even now theschoolroomis scarcel y large enough for the requirements of the pupils—yet I hope that the funds
will be sufficient to maintain the School in the same state of efficiency that it has been in the last few years . I commend this toast to your notice , and will couple with it the name , in the absence of Bro . Creaton , of Bro . Peter de Lande Long . Bro . HEDGES then read thc follosving list of subscriptions :
HOUSE COMMITTEE . £ s . d . Bro . H . A . Dubois 25 o o „ Charles Hammerton ... 26 5 o „ Peter de Lande Long ... 84 o o „ E . C . Mather 46 5 o ,, J . H . Matthews 2 G 5 o „ Joshua Nunn 54 12 o „ Lieut .-Col . James Peters 105 o o „ Frank Richardson ... 27 10 o
LONDON . Lodge . Grand Masters Bro . James S . Burroughs ... 37 16 o 1 Bro . J . G . L . Hemmerde 28 7 o 1 „ R . Gooding , M . D . . 15 15 o 2 „ William H . Rylands , 21 o o F . S . A . .. ; .. !
£ s . d Chapter . 2 Comp . E . Letchsvorth ... 52 10 o Lodge . 4 Bro . Capt . H . A . Bennett 14 14 o 5 „ F . Pattison 33 12 o 6 ,, B . de B . Lopez ... 10 10 o 7 „ John Donaldson ... 21 o o 8 „ F . J . Rushton ... 10 10 o 9 „ James Forbes o „ Russell Elliott ... 12 12 o
10 „ Rev . J . W . Palmer , M . A iS 7 6 11 „ 1 . H . McQueen ... 38 G C 12 „ W . I . Beedell ... 27 C o 14 „ G . S . Walmsley ... 27 6 o 18 „ Samuel S . Hasluck 3 6 15 o 21 „ T . A . Ives Howell , 35 14 o M . R . C . S . E . ... 22 „ Henry Povey ... 40 o o