The Coming Boys' School Election.

founding lodges or Royal Arch chapters . Their services , therefore , in these respects should be remembered . What we desire , however , is that the most deserving cases may be returned as successful , and that on behalf of Nos . i , 21 , 53 , 61 , and 64 , whose names must be removed from the list under Law 53 if

they do not obtain places among the 16 to be admitted , no effort will be spared to avoid failure . The other candidates with equal , or it may be even greater claims upon our sympathy , can afford to wait another six months , but with the five we have enumerated it is a case of " now or never , " and we hope for their sake the result will be " now . "

The Coming Girls' School Election.

THE COMING GIRLS' SCHOOL ELECTION .

The half-yearly election of children into the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls will take place at the Quarterly General Court which will be held in the great hall at Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday , the 26 th inst . Notwithstanding that the number of girls on the establishment was increased by 20 in the spring of

the current year , the list of candidates is a long one , comprising 49 names , while the vacancies to be filled are only nine . London is pretty numerously represented , the number of its candidates being 15 , and there is one other case in which it shares the responsibility with one of the home counties ( Surrey ); the

remaining 33 cases are Provincial or from Districts abroad . Eight of the London girls are brought forward from the April election , and seven are new cases , the whole of the former having votes to their credit , and three of them being favourably placed as regards the present election , No . 9 having 1355 votes in hand ; No .

5 , 1281 votes ; and No . 7 , ri 6 i votes . No . 20 , who hails from London and Surrey , has 1481 votes brought forward . The Province of Devon has no less than live candidates , of whom one , with four votes to her credit , has but this chance remaining to her of being elected , as , in the event of failure , her name will

be removed from the list under the operation of Law 53 , which fixes the maximum age of admission at 11 years . Of the other four , No . 12 has 914 votes to the good , and No . 11 is a candidate for the first time . Durham , Lancashire ( East ) , Lincolnshire , Middlesex , and West Yorkshire are each responsible for two

cases , those from the first-named Province—Nos . 25 and 3 8—having 28 and 20 votes respectively to the good ; while one of the East Lancashire girls is a new case , and the other brings forward five votes . Of the two Lincolnshire girls , one has 7 8 votes to the good , and the other will make her debut as a candidate at

this election . The Middlesex girls must succeed this time , or their names will be struck out of the list , but one of them—No . 27—has 1138 votes to her credit , and the other—No . 35—has 370 votes . The West Yorkshire cases are placed at No . 6 and 39 , while the girl at No . 15 derives her claim to support partly

from Suffolk and partly from West Yorkshire . The remaining 17 girls are distributed among as many Provinces or Districts abroad , four of them having claims upon more than one Province , while one hails from what is now a foreign jurisdiction , that of New Brunswick , the lodge of which the father was a member

having formerly been under the jurisdiction of our Grand Lodge . Of these 17 candidates , No . 3 , from Kent , has in hand 1449 votes , and No . 10 , from Essex , 145 1 votes ; No . 13 , from Essex and Kent , has 522 votes ; and No . 14 , from Malta , 394 votes . No . 29 , from New Brunswick , in the first instance , and then from Suffolk and

Kent , has 1175 votes to the good , while No . 32 , from a lodge in the District Grand Lodge of Turkey , brings forward 1214 votes . No . 45 , from Warwickshire , has 1503 votes , and No . 4 8 , from Staffordshire and Cheshire , 1521 votes . In addition to the four already specified , there are two hailing from

North Wales ( No . 19 ) and the Isle of Man ( No . 49 ) , respectively , whose names will be removed from the list if they fail in securing places on the 26 th instant , so that we cannot too strongly impress upon their friends the necessity of obtaining all the support they can command , if they seriously desire their

admission into the School . One child has lost both its parents , and another has a stepmother living , while there are four who have both father and mother , and in another case the father is entered as divorced , but with these exceptions the candidates are in every instance fatherless . In some 14 cases the fathers

contributed in the days of their prosperity to this or our other Institutions , and in some 24 they had served the Craft well during periods ranging from 10 to upwards of 32 years . Such

are the leading particulars in the list of 49 candidates for election to this Institution a fortnig ht' hence , and we can onl y hope that the most deserving cases will be included among the successful children on that occasion .

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Provincial Grand Lodge Of Dorsetshire.

PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF DORSETSHIRE .

It is clear from the report we published last week of the ' proceedings at the recent annual meeting at Wareham of the Prov : Grand Lodge of Dorsetshire that the condition of the Craft in this county is most prosperous . The funds were shown to be in a flourishing state , with a considerable balance in hand , while

the Report of the Dorset Masonic Charity as presented by Bro . S . R . BASKETT , its Honorary Secretary , was especially satisfactory , there having been in the year 1888 a substantial increase in the number of its subscribers from 16 7 the year previous to 251 , the rate of this increase being as nearly as possible 50 per

cent . Bro . MONTAGUE J . GUEST , Prov . G . Master , in his customary address , likewise expressed his gratification at the progress and the amount of work accomplished by the lodges , as shown by the returns which each had furnished for the year , so that in every branch of Masonic duty the brethren in Dorsetshire

had acquitted themselves well since their previous annual muster . We are also pleased to note that the Prov . G . Master drew particular attention to the Report presented in April last by the Committee of Investigation appointed to inquire into the management , discipline , and expenditure of the Royal Masonic

Institution for Boys , and that , at his invitation , the Prov . Grand Lodge , after full and fair discussion , passed a resolution expressing confidence in the ability and impartiality of the members composing it and a hope that its recommendations would be adopted by the School authorities . This does not necessarily imply that the Province of Dorsetshire is of the same mind as the

Committee of Investigation on every one of the points raised or referred to by the latter , but that as the Committee vvas composed of good men in whom the Craft had . every confidence , and was appointed with full powers to fulfil the task entrusted to it ,

its recommendations should be acted upon as far as possible in the interests of the Institution itself , which , after the turmoil of the past 12 or 18 months , is sorely in need of restoration to orderly government . We lay some stress upon this action of the Province of Dorsetshire , because it must be evident from an

article we recently published that not all the brethren are imbued with the same respect for authority . There are those who are willing enough to accept the recommendations of the late Committee of Investigation , the present Provisional Committee , which is administering the affairs of the School , or any other Committee ,

provided such recommendations do not clash with their own preconceived opinions of what is necessary to be done . But the moment some proposal is made to which they personally object they set about moving heaven and earth in order to defeat it . As we pointed out in the article just referred to , no Committee expects

that all its recommendations will please everybody , but it has a rig ht to expect that the entire confidence expressed in its ability and impartiality shall be something more than mere words , and that its recommendations , provided they are just , reasonable , and expedient , shall be adopted as far as is practicable . We applaud ,

therefore , this action of Dorsetshire , for though it had reference to the report and recommendations of the late Committee of Investigation , its loyal support of authority as represented by

that body can hardly fail to exercise a beneficial influence in behalf of the Provisional Committee of Management , which is doing its best to give effect to those recommendations in a just and reasonable manner .

The Grand Lodge Movement In New Zealand.

THE GRAND LODGE MOVEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND .

We have received further particulars as to the steps that are being taken in New Zealand for the establishment of a United Grand Lodge on the lines already adopted in South Australia , New South Wales , and Victoria . From these we learn that a

convention of delegates from the lodges under the several Constitutions was appointed to be held last month , and , from many oi the statements contained in the circular addressed to the Craft by the Central Executive Committee of the New Zealand Masonic

Union , there appears to be very little reason to doubt that , however weak may have been some of the arguments previously p forth by the Committee in favour of the movement—and we have felt it our duty to exhibit their weakness in some of our more

recent articles—the desire for the proposed change is becoming so strong , that we may expect to hear at an early date , if n 0 forthwith , that an appeal has been addressed by a United Grant Lodge of New Zealand to our Grand Lodges for recognition , anc > to

assuming that everything is found to have been done in due r and regularly , that the appeal has been answered in the afnrn 1 '" tive . The Committee state unhesitatingly their belief that majority of the lodges and of the brethren of the Order' .. favour of the movement ; that "the Scotch lodges of the No Island are unanimous in their support ; the majority of the