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Article Untitled ← Page 2 of 2 Article THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS. Page 1 of 1 Article ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS, Page 1 of 1 Article THE RECENT FESTIVAL OF THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. Page 1 of 1 Article WEST LANCASHIRE MASONIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, 1884. Page 1 of 1
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WE print elsewhere a short but important letter " Statuettes , " from our esteemed Bro . C . E . K EYSER , of Hertfordshire . The appeal he makes is one , we venture to think , will not be made in vain to many true Freemasons atnono-st us . The Masonic pulp it at St . Albans is a matter of some just pride " to all who realize the ancient traditions of English Masons , and as
there are manyJohannite Masons amongst usfpace Bro . J ACOB NORTON ) , we feel sure that they will be g lad to have the opportunity of helping to complete the good work by the erection of the two required and deficient statues of St . John the Evangelist and St . John the Baptist . Anyhow , we venture to express the hope , alike in America as in England , that by Easter the pulp it will have become a perfect work ,
LEEDS has been chosen as the place for the installation of Bro . T . W TEW as Provincial Grand Master of West Yorkshire . Remembering another great gathering at Leeds some years ago for a similar purpose
which has never faded from our memory , we have no doubt the selection of Leeds for this purpose is both politic and proper . A large gathering is anticipated , and the West Yorkshire brethren will we doubt not give a very hearty greeting to the distinguished brother H . R . H . the G RAND M ASTER has appointed to rule over them .
* * * THE important developement which our Provincial Masonic and Educational Associations have taken during the last few years is remarkably illustrated
by the last report of the East Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution . So striking is that report , and so creditable to our good brethren in East Lancashire , that , having received it too late this week to do justice to its contents , we defer our remarks upon it until our next issue .
* # * As a rule , everything connected with Freemasonry runs its course so smoothly , that those who feel inclined to belaud its doings are deterred from saying anything in the way of praise , lest it should savour too much of fulsome flattery . But circumstances occasionally happen which justify a
word or two of laudation , as , for ] instance , when Bro . GIDDY , D . G . M . Griqualand , consecrated a new Masonic hall in the Diamond Fields , South Africa , on the 4 th February ult ., in respect of which it seems worth while pointing out that it has been erected by and for the use of the Sir Charles Warren Lodge , and that if it has no great architectural pretensions as a
hall , it has been well and solidly built , while its interior is well filled and arranged . One of the rooms has been fitted up as a library ; the books with which its shelves are furnished having been selected by Bro .
Sir CHARLES WARREN himself when the lodge was established a few years since . Such a circumstance justifies our offering lo the members of ( his lodge a few words of congratulation on so signal an evidence of their devotion lo the Craft .
The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
We have very great pleasure in announcing to our readers that of the pupils of our Girls' School who underwent the Cambridge Middle-class Examinations in December last , every one , without exception , succeeded in satisfying the Examiners , while of the ten juniors four obtained honours . So complete a success as this must be highly gratifying , not only to the it is
educational staff , to the excellence of whose training principally due , but likewise to the Craft , who must rejoice to have such indisputable evidence that the funds they so generously contribute towards this Institution are turned to such excellent accounts . We congratulate the Committee , Miss Davis and her able and zealous staff , and the Secretary , Bro . Hedges , on the result . .
The following is a list of the pupils examined and the positions assigned them in their respective divisions :
SENIORS—Satisfied the Examiners . —Mary Norrish , Mona Hennett , Eleanor Spurring , and Clara Kingcombe . J UNIORS—Honours ; Class IL—Julia Harvey . * Honours : Class III . —Alice Cecil , * f Edith Hicks , $ and Jane Taylor . Satisfied the Examiners . —Ellen Ward , f Amy Swaine , J \] ary Wyatt , Cicely Jardine , Ellen Senior , and Agnes Deeley .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys,
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS ,
It is with an equal degree of pleasure that we announce a similarl y satisfactory result in connection with the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . Sixteen of the pupils went up for the Cambridge Middle-class Examinations , ( juniors ) in December last , and while all of them , with not a single exception , passed , no less than 12 succeeded in doing so with honours . Evidence such as this of the value of the educational system pursued at our
Boys School is most valuable , and coming , as it does , concurrently with that furnished by the result at the same examination in the case of the Girls' School , will not fail to exercise a most beneficial influence among the Craft generally , who will be more than ever inclined to contribute aid to our Institutions when they find them so successfully conducted . We offer our hearty congratulations to the Head Master , Bro . Dr . Morris , the House Committee , and the Secretary , Bro . Fred . Binckes .
We append a list showing the classification of the 16 , and the special distinctions awarded to sundry of their number .
J UNIORS . —Honours : 1 st Class . —1 . H . Bingham , distinguished for Mathematics and Latin ; 2 . W . R . Cooper , distinguished for Latin and French ; 3 . A . T . Howarth ; 4 . H . King , distinguished for Latin and French . 2 nd Class . —5 . J . Hurst ; 6 . A . J . Kennedy , distinguished for Latin ; 7 . S . ' W . Richardson : S . C . B . Sharp ; o . W . Stanton .
3 rd Class . —10 . G . N . C . Keighley ; 11 . J . C . Potts ; 12 . A . Woon . Satisfied the Examiners . —13 . R . P . Deeley j 14 . P , A . Gedge ; 15 . N . G . Southam ; 16 . J . Ward . Sixteen candidates sent up ; sixteen passed . Honours , twelve . Satisfied Examiners , four .
The Recent Festival Of The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
THE RECENT FESTIVAL OF THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
The final meeting of the Board of Stewards was held at Freemasons ' Hall , on Friday , the 6 th inst . Bro . H . B . Marshall , Grand Treasurer , and Patron and Treasurer of the Institution , occupied the chair , while amonothose present were Bros . Frank Richardson , P . G . D . ; J . Lawrence , S . j
Byng , J . Bnttain , George Mickley , George Powell , Geo . E . Fairchild , W , Murlis , J . Boulton , Thos . Clark , J . J . Goode , G . Norrington , H . E . Dehane Edgar Bowyer , P . G . Std . Br . ; John Collier , H . McClelland , J . M . Chapman , T . C . Walls , Chas . J . Rich , Henry Mason , Alex . Mullord , and James Terry , Hon . Secretary .
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed votes of thanks to the Board of General Purposes for the use of the Temple ' and to Bro . Grand Secretary for having expedited the arrangements for its ' use , were passed with acclamation . Bro . TERRY announced the result of the Festival as - £ 17 , 802 6 s . 6 d ., there being lists still outstanding .
A vote of thanks was passed to R . W . Bro . Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P ., P . G . M . Gloucestershire , for his kindness in presiding ; after which followed the reading of a most complimentary resolution agreed to by the Committee of Management , in which the members of the Board of Stewards were individually and collectively thanked for their valuable
services . A similar vote to the officers of the Board for the manner in which they had severally fulfilled their duties having been unanimously agreed to , and the Hon . Treasurer having received instructions to discharge the bills and close the accounts , the Chairman was thanked for presiding and the Board dissolved .
Since the publication of the Returns in our issue of the 2 Sth ult ., there have been received four fresh lists , namely : —
LONDOX . Lodge 1679 , Bro . J . Bagot Scriven £ 24 3 o ,, 1716 , „ Henry J . Hancock 54 5 o „ 1766 „ Rev . H . G . Henderson ... 10 10 o EAST LANCASHIRE .
163 , Lodge of Integrity 42 o o WEST YORKSHIRE . Bro . Sir H . Edwards , Bart ., P . P . G . M ., and another , each ten guineas 21 o o There have also been received various additions to lists as then announced ,
the most considerable of which are in respect of Lodge No . 65 , per Bro . C . J . Rich , £ 10 ios ., raising his total to £ 242 lis . ; Lodge No . 1558 , per Bro . Chas . Sims , £ 27 5 s ., raising his total to ^ , " 202 12 s . ; Lodge No . 1732 , per Bro . H . Stiles , increasing his to £ 61 7 s . 6 d , ; and for the Province of Suffolk , per Bro , Major Dods , £ 26 5 s ., and so making his total into £ 246 15 s .
West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution, 1884.
WEST LANCASHIRE MASONIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION , 1884 .
The report of this Institution for the past year is , in all respects , satisfactory , and must be highly gratifying to its President , the Earl of Lathom , and its numerous well-wishers and supporters . Considering , indeed , the amount of good it has been able to confer on the children of poor West
Lancashire brethren since its establishment in 1 S 50 , and that the amount of its investments is about equal to that of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , we have good reason to be satisfied with this evidence of the zeal and generosity of the province , and the more so , as there con be no doubt whatever that a local Charity like this , which can dispose of so considerable
an income , must exercise a very appreciable effect m lessening the pressure on our central Schools . However , we shall be doing the Institution a service which it deserves at our hands , and help it far more effectually than by dilating on its merits , if we give a brief account of its financial statement for the period dealt with in the course of this report . On 1 st January , iSS 4 , there was balance brought forward from the previous year of close on £ iS 4 S , and the total recei pts from all sources amounted to over £ 2310 of which
, nearly £ 1446 represent the donations and subscriptions , and £ 722 the interest on investments and deposit account at bank . This gives a total for the year on the Dr . side of the account of nearly £ 4167 , which , we are told , is rather less than the amount for 1883 ; but the falling off , which is very slight , _ is explained as being due to the exceptional efforts made to provide the requisite sum for entirely maintaining certain of the children on the
foundation . On the other hand , the amount expended for the special objects of the Institution is slightly in excess of £ 1525 , which sum was disbursed for the " education , clothing , maintenance , and advancement in life of 1 C 1 children , " in respect of two of whom the sum of £ 357 was handed over to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , being the amount fixed by law for two purchased admissions , so that no further payments will have to be made their
on account . Of the four other children on the Combined Fund , two boys have been placed at a school near Preston , while arrangements have been made for the admission of the other two—both girls—into the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , on payment of an annual sum as agreed upon . However , we have here expended during i 88 4 bvlhis local Charity in assisting 161 children no less a sum than £ 1525 , the casual disbursements all told little
being a within £ 57 . Of the remainder , £ 2000 has been utilised in the purchase of a Swansea Harbour Trust Bond , and the rest , some X 5 S 5 , is the balance in bank and Treasurer ' s hands at the close of the year's transactions . The property of the Institution consists of over £ 17 , 878 invested moneys and the aforesaid balance at bank , & c , of £ 585 , or together in round figures , £ 18 , 463 . During the year 25 children were elected upon the foundationand there
, were 19 approved applicants on the list for the election on the 6 th inst ., of whom three were for election on the Combined Fund , which , having regard to the benefits it affords , it is now proposed to increase . It is also very satisfactory to note that the support received from the lodges is now distributed over a wider area , there being fewer lodges than before with the words " no return" recorded against them in the statistics appended to the report . There is , it seems , still some room for improvement in this and unite
| respect , we with the Honorary Secretaries , Bros . G . Broadbridgc and Robert Martin , in hoping that b y the end of the current year it will have come to be recognised b y all the lodges in West Lancashire that it is not only a privilege , but likewise a duty which is incumbent upon them , to support their Masonic Educational Institution . We are pleased beyond measure at a report so favourable , and offer our sincere congratulations to all , from the President downwards , who have had a share in securing tl ' year ' s success .
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WE print elsewhere a short but important letter " Statuettes , " from our esteemed Bro . C . E . K EYSER , of Hertfordshire . The appeal he makes is one , we venture to think , will not be made in vain to many true Freemasons atnono-st us . The Masonic pulp it at St . Albans is a matter of some just pride " to all who realize the ancient traditions of English Masons , and as
there are manyJohannite Masons amongst usfpace Bro . J ACOB NORTON ) , we feel sure that they will be g lad to have the opportunity of helping to complete the good work by the erection of the two required and deficient statues of St . John the Evangelist and St . John the Baptist . Anyhow , we venture to express the hope , alike in America as in England , that by Easter the pulp it will have become a perfect work ,
LEEDS has been chosen as the place for the installation of Bro . T . W TEW as Provincial Grand Master of West Yorkshire . Remembering another great gathering at Leeds some years ago for a similar purpose
which has never faded from our memory , we have no doubt the selection of Leeds for this purpose is both politic and proper . A large gathering is anticipated , and the West Yorkshire brethren will we doubt not give a very hearty greeting to the distinguished brother H . R . H . the G RAND M ASTER has appointed to rule over them .
* * * THE important developement which our Provincial Masonic and Educational Associations have taken during the last few years is remarkably illustrated
by the last report of the East Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution . So striking is that report , and so creditable to our good brethren in East Lancashire , that , having received it too late this week to do justice to its contents , we defer our remarks upon it until our next issue .
* # * As a rule , everything connected with Freemasonry runs its course so smoothly , that those who feel inclined to belaud its doings are deterred from saying anything in the way of praise , lest it should savour too much of fulsome flattery . But circumstances occasionally happen which justify a
word or two of laudation , as , for ] instance , when Bro . GIDDY , D . G . M . Griqualand , consecrated a new Masonic hall in the Diamond Fields , South Africa , on the 4 th February ult ., in respect of which it seems worth while pointing out that it has been erected by and for the use of the Sir Charles Warren Lodge , and that if it has no great architectural pretensions as a
hall , it has been well and solidly built , while its interior is well filled and arranged . One of the rooms has been fitted up as a library ; the books with which its shelves are furnished having been selected by Bro .
Sir CHARLES WARREN himself when the lodge was established a few years since . Such a circumstance justifies our offering lo the members of ( his lodge a few words of congratulation on so signal an evidence of their devotion lo the Craft .
The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
We have very great pleasure in announcing to our readers that of the pupils of our Girls' School who underwent the Cambridge Middle-class Examinations in December last , every one , without exception , succeeded in satisfying the Examiners , while of the ten juniors four obtained honours . So complete a success as this must be highly gratifying , not only to the it is
educational staff , to the excellence of whose training principally due , but likewise to the Craft , who must rejoice to have such indisputable evidence that the funds they so generously contribute towards this Institution are turned to such excellent accounts . We congratulate the Committee , Miss Davis and her able and zealous staff , and the Secretary , Bro . Hedges , on the result . .
The following is a list of the pupils examined and the positions assigned them in their respective divisions :
SENIORS—Satisfied the Examiners . —Mary Norrish , Mona Hennett , Eleanor Spurring , and Clara Kingcombe . J UNIORS—Honours ; Class IL—Julia Harvey . * Honours : Class III . —Alice Cecil , * f Edith Hicks , $ and Jane Taylor . Satisfied the Examiners . —Ellen Ward , f Amy Swaine , J \] ary Wyatt , Cicely Jardine , Ellen Senior , and Agnes Deeley .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys,
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS ,
It is with an equal degree of pleasure that we announce a similarl y satisfactory result in connection with the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . Sixteen of the pupils went up for the Cambridge Middle-class Examinations , ( juniors ) in December last , and while all of them , with not a single exception , passed , no less than 12 succeeded in doing so with honours . Evidence such as this of the value of the educational system pursued at our
Boys School is most valuable , and coming , as it does , concurrently with that furnished by the result at the same examination in the case of the Girls' School , will not fail to exercise a most beneficial influence among the Craft generally , who will be more than ever inclined to contribute aid to our Institutions when they find them so successfully conducted . We offer our hearty congratulations to the Head Master , Bro . Dr . Morris , the House Committee , and the Secretary , Bro . Fred . Binckes .
We append a list showing the classification of the 16 , and the special distinctions awarded to sundry of their number .
J UNIORS . —Honours : 1 st Class . —1 . H . Bingham , distinguished for Mathematics and Latin ; 2 . W . R . Cooper , distinguished for Latin and French ; 3 . A . T . Howarth ; 4 . H . King , distinguished for Latin and French . 2 nd Class . —5 . J . Hurst ; 6 . A . J . Kennedy , distinguished for Latin ; 7 . S . ' W . Richardson : S . C . B . Sharp ; o . W . Stanton .
3 rd Class . —10 . G . N . C . Keighley ; 11 . J . C . Potts ; 12 . A . Woon . Satisfied the Examiners . —13 . R . P . Deeley j 14 . P , A . Gedge ; 15 . N . G . Southam ; 16 . J . Ward . Sixteen candidates sent up ; sixteen passed . Honours , twelve . Satisfied Examiners , four .
The Recent Festival Of The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
THE RECENT FESTIVAL OF THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
The final meeting of the Board of Stewards was held at Freemasons ' Hall , on Friday , the 6 th inst . Bro . H . B . Marshall , Grand Treasurer , and Patron and Treasurer of the Institution , occupied the chair , while amonothose present were Bros . Frank Richardson , P . G . D . ; J . Lawrence , S . j
Byng , J . Bnttain , George Mickley , George Powell , Geo . E . Fairchild , W , Murlis , J . Boulton , Thos . Clark , J . J . Goode , G . Norrington , H . E . Dehane Edgar Bowyer , P . G . Std . Br . ; John Collier , H . McClelland , J . M . Chapman , T . C . Walls , Chas . J . Rich , Henry Mason , Alex . Mullord , and James Terry , Hon . Secretary .
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed votes of thanks to the Board of General Purposes for the use of the Temple ' and to Bro . Grand Secretary for having expedited the arrangements for its ' use , were passed with acclamation . Bro . TERRY announced the result of the Festival as - £ 17 , 802 6 s . 6 d ., there being lists still outstanding .
A vote of thanks was passed to R . W . Bro . Sir M . E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., M . P ., P . G . M . Gloucestershire , for his kindness in presiding ; after which followed the reading of a most complimentary resolution agreed to by the Committee of Management , in which the members of the Board of Stewards were individually and collectively thanked for their valuable
services . A similar vote to the officers of the Board for the manner in which they had severally fulfilled their duties having been unanimously agreed to , and the Hon . Treasurer having received instructions to discharge the bills and close the accounts , the Chairman was thanked for presiding and the Board dissolved .
Since the publication of the Returns in our issue of the 2 Sth ult ., there have been received four fresh lists , namely : —
LONDOX . Lodge 1679 , Bro . J . Bagot Scriven £ 24 3 o ,, 1716 , „ Henry J . Hancock 54 5 o „ 1766 „ Rev . H . G . Henderson ... 10 10 o EAST LANCASHIRE .
163 , Lodge of Integrity 42 o o WEST YORKSHIRE . Bro . Sir H . Edwards , Bart ., P . P . G . M ., and another , each ten guineas 21 o o There have also been received various additions to lists as then announced ,
the most considerable of which are in respect of Lodge No . 65 , per Bro . C . J . Rich , £ 10 ios ., raising his total to £ 242 lis . ; Lodge No . 1558 , per Bro . Chas . Sims , £ 27 5 s ., raising his total to ^ , " 202 12 s . ; Lodge No . 1732 , per Bro . H . Stiles , increasing his to £ 61 7 s . 6 d , ; and for the Province of Suffolk , per Bro , Major Dods , £ 26 5 s ., and so making his total into £ 246 15 s .
West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution, 1884.
WEST LANCASHIRE MASONIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION , 1884 .
The report of this Institution for the past year is , in all respects , satisfactory , and must be highly gratifying to its President , the Earl of Lathom , and its numerous well-wishers and supporters . Considering , indeed , the amount of good it has been able to confer on the children of poor West
Lancashire brethren since its establishment in 1 S 50 , and that the amount of its investments is about equal to that of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , we have good reason to be satisfied with this evidence of the zeal and generosity of the province , and the more so , as there con be no doubt whatever that a local Charity like this , which can dispose of so considerable
an income , must exercise a very appreciable effect m lessening the pressure on our central Schools . However , we shall be doing the Institution a service which it deserves at our hands , and help it far more effectually than by dilating on its merits , if we give a brief account of its financial statement for the period dealt with in the course of this report . On 1 st January , iSS 4 , there was balance brought forward from the previous year of close on £ iS 4 S , and the total recei pts from all sources amounted to over £ 2310 of which
, nearly £ 1446 represent the donations and subscriptions , and £ 722 the interest on investments and deposit account at bank . This gives a total for the year on the Dr . side of the account of nearly £ 4167 , which , we are told , is rather less than the amount for 1883 ; but the falling off , which is very slight , _ is explained as being due to the exceptional efforts made to provide the requisite sum for entirely maintaining certain of the children on the
foundation . On the other hand , the amount expended for the special objects of the Institution is slightly in excess of £ 1525 , which sum was disbursed for the " education , clothing , maintenance , and advancement in life of 1 C 1 children , " in respect of two of whom the sum of £ 357 was handed over to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , being the amount fixed by law for two purchased admissions , so that no further payments will have to be made their
on account . Of the four other children on the Combined Fund , two boys have been placed at a school near Preston , while arrangements have been made for the admission of the other two—both girls—into the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , on payment of an annual sum as agreed upon . However , we have here expended during i 88 4 bvlhis local Charity in assisting 161 children no less a sum than £ 1525 , the casual disbursements all told little
being a within £ 57 . Of the remainder , £ 2000 has been utilised in the purchase of a Swansea Harbour Trust Bond , and the rest , some X 5 S 5 , is the balance in bank and Treasurer ' s hands at the close of the year's transactions . The property of the Institution consists of over £ 17 , 878 invested moneys and the aforesaid balance at bank , & c , of £ 585 , or together in round figures , £ 18 , 463 . During the year 25 children were elected upon the foundationand there
, were 19 approved applicants on the list for the election on the 6 th inst ., of whom three were for election on the Combined Fund , which , having regard to the benefits it affords , it is now proposed to increase . It is also very satisfactory to note that the support received from the lodges is now distributed over a wider area , there being fewer lodges than before with the words " no return" recorded against them in the statistics appended to the report . There is , it seems , still some room for improvement in this and unite
| respect , we with the Honorary Secretaries , Bros . G . Broadbridgc and Robert Martin , in hoping that b y the end of the current year it will have come to be recognised b y all the lodges in West Lancashire that it is not only a privilege , but likewise a duty which is incumbent upon them , to support their Masonic Educational Institution . We are pleased beyond measure at a report so favourable , and offer our sincere congratulations to all , from the President downwards , who have had a share in securing tl ' year ' s success .