Stewards' Lists.

Lodge £ s - d - 2168 Bro . E . Y . Jolliffe 106 1 o Mark Lodge 139 Bro . Charles Pulman ... 10 10 0 UNATTACHED . Bro . R . G . Barton > o 10 o „ Robert Berridge 10 10 o

„ J . J . Berry 23 2 o . , Joseph Clever 25 12 6 „ Henry Cox 21 o o ,, G . Gardner 5 5 ° „ H . P . Hay 10 10 o Millner lutsum 13 2 6

„ „ George Kenning 10 10 0 „ W . G . Kentish 15 " 5 ° . „ ] ohn H . Lane 11 n o „ H . B . Marshall , jun . ... 10 10 0 „ J . L . Mather 36 15 °

„ JE . J . Mclntyre , Q . C . ... 20 5 0 „ W . Morley 10 10 o „ J . C . Osterstock 3 6 15 0 „ W . J . Spratling 20 o o „ R . J . Taylor 10 10 0 „ James Terry 21 o 0 „ J . Warcup 15 0 0

THE PROVINCES . BERKS AND BUCKS . Lodge 209 Bro . H . ] ohn Stollery .., 40 o o 414 ,, J- Wesley Martin ... 68 5 o 591 „ John Lawson ) 6 o 0 o 591 „ Harry Martin ) 771 „ W . Albert Hart ... 44 2 o

945 » Rev- Henry Lewis ... 66 13 6 1566 „ E . J . Shrewsbury ... 12 o o 1 S 94 „ G . H . Charsley ... 17 > 7 ° 1899 „ S . G . Kirchhoffer ... 26 5 o 2043 ,, Edward Margetts ... 15 15 0 Chspter 414 i _ omp . R . C . Mount ... 35 14 0 591 „ J . Lawson 21 o o

BRISTOL . Unattached—Bro . W . Parnell ... 15 15 0 CAMBRIDGESHIRE . Province and 859 C . Geldard ... 200 o o CORNWALL .

Province Gilbert B . Pearce ... 141 15 0 DERBYSHIRE . Lodge 1028 Bro . Alfred Schofield ... 31 10 o Chapter 1235 Comp . J . H . Lawson ... 26 5 0 Unattached—Bro . G . Fletcher ... 10 10 0

„ ,, P . Wallis ... 10 to o DURHAM . Province & 7 646 ™ . F . Wilson .., 63 o 0 509 Bro . M . B . Dodds . ... 10 10 0 ESSEX , Lodge

160 Bro . George Wood ... 13 12 0 276 „ A . G . Maskell ... 47 •; o 6 97 „ J . T . Bailey 26 5 o ' 343 » Charles C . Potter ... 30 o o 1437 „ G . B . Gilbey 10 10 0 ' 457 „ . !• C . Hopwoud ... Si 2 o 2154 „ Mark Gentry ... 13 13 o GLOUCESTERSHIRE . 1067 „ Will C . Heane ... S 3 11 0

HANTS AND ISLK OF WIGHT . 2 ifi \ " George A . Mursell ... 6015 0 206 S „ George F . Bevis ... 15 15 0 HEREFORDSHIRE . Prov . and 751 Bro . John Bodenham ( see also Shropshire and Staffordshire ) ... 26 5 0

HERTFORDSHIRE . 403 Bro . Joseph Hunt ... 2615 6 1327 „ Wilham Lewis ... 54 11 0 1479 „ Horace Slade ... 32 11 0 2054 „ Stephen H . Moore 63 o o

KENT . 1273 „ Herbert Black ... 61 19 0 1414 „ Charles W . Smith ... 24 15 6 143 6 „ H . T . Samson ... 3 6 15 0 15 \ 6 „ George Kennedy ... 3 6 15 0 U . r ttached—Bro . G . Adamson i . s l * i 0

LANCASHIRE ( EASTERN DIVISION ) . 343 Bro . W . Troughton ... 10 10 0 348 „ John Kenyon ... 10 10 o " ¦ ' 93 ,, John Stovold ... 63 o o Unattachfd—R . Williamson ... : o 10 0 LANCASHIRE ( WESTERN DIVISION ) .

Chap . 673 Comp . W . Leonard-Marsden 10 10 0 Lodge

730 tiro . J . 5 5 0 1325 ,, J- H . Bradshaw ... 26 5 0 1325 ,. J- W- Burgess ... 31 10 o 1335 > , A . H . Crossley ... 10 10 0 1335 » J- D . Murray ... 31 10 0 1476 „ W . B . Richardson ... 10 10 o 150 . 5 > , Robert Foute ... 10 10 0

MIDDLESEX . 1194 Bro . Edward Monson ... 27 16 6 1238 „ E . Kogers 105 o o 1309 „ G . H . Harding ... 10 o 0 1326 „ C . W . Baker ... 1 5 15 0 1326 „ Jas . Clark Gnslin ... 15 15 o

1326 „ James Lawrence .,. 15 15 0 1326 „ W . R . Vassila ... 10 10 o ' 326 „ J- A . Wilson ... 10 10 0 ' 4 ' 5 » Henry Pritchard ... 29 ' 8 o 1460 „ C . E . Wright ... 46 4 0 1494 „ A . E . Sansom ( see 2033 )

2048 „ C . I . Axford ... 42 o o 210 5 „ W . R . Palmer .., 3 6 15 o 210 5 »» R . H . Cama 10 10 0 3163 „ W . Steward , jun . ... 31 14 o MONMOUTHSHIRE .

Province Bro . W . Watkins ,,, 10 10 o 457 „ F . A . Powell ,., 20 o o 818 „ J . 0 . Marsh ... 10 10 0

Stewards' Lists.

NORFOLK . £ s . d . 1-2 Bro . H . G . Harwell ... 52 10 o NORTH WALES . 1336 „ C . K . Benson ... 38 17 ° 1849 „ Col . Hon . W . E . Sackville-West ... 116 11 o NOTTINGHAMSHIRE .

Unattached—Thos . Salisbury ... 16 16 o OXFORDSHIRE . 340 Bro . Harry Drinkwater ... 31 10 o 357 „ L . MieVille 27 7 o 357 „ P . Colville Smith ... 11 7 o 478 „ Rev . H . R . Cooper-Smith 21 o o

1703 „ Geo . Handel North 10 10 o SHROPSHIRE . 117 „ V . C . L . Crump ... 57 ' 5 ° 11 7 „ T . P . Deakin ... 3 ' ' ° ° 262 „ A . Lowcock 63 o o 262 „ Will . E . Harding ... 115 10 0

262 „ J . H . Redman ... 10 10 o Chap . 262 Comp . Crump 3 ' 1 ° ° Lodge 611 Bro . Rowland G . Venables 5210 o C 11 „ Aithur Marsden ... 52 10 o CM „ T . J . Salwey ... 10 10 o 112 4 „ Sir W . Williams- " )

Wynn , Bait > 127 I o 112 4 „ W . H . Spaull J 1432 „ Chas . Drew ... ... 37 l 6 ° 1575 ., Lieut .-Col . Gordon Warren 3 ' 10 O

1621 „ J . H . Cooksey ... 36 > 5 ° 1621 „ W . Lascelles Southwell no 5 o 1896 „ John Bodenham ( see also Herefordshire and Staffordshire ) 94 10 o 21 3 „ Rev . H . Kemble Southwell iS o o Unattached—A . C . Spaull ... 5210 o

„ „ F . R . Spaull ... 52 10 o „ „ T . H . Price ... 10 10 0 SOMERSETSHIRE . Province and 437 Bro . W . H . 163 iG o Good 53 Bro . J . L . Stnthert ... 236 io 0

SOUTH WALES ( EASTERN DIVISION ) . Province Bro . J . L . Lewis ... 105 o o STAFFORDSHIRE . ^ Bro . J . B . Piercy ... 1 " 624 „ VV . H . Bailey 726 „ J . Bodenham ( see ^ 320 5 o also Herefordshire and Shropshire

I 7 Q 3 ,, M . Barker ... J SUFFOLK . 81 Bro . W . Page Phillips ... 52 10 o 332 „ Rev . S . Maude ... 63 o 0 1452 „ H . W . H . Elwes ... 4019 o 1681 „ H . Harvey-Gt-orge ... 63 o o SURREY . Um f-t CI CH- nil tr r tsro acoic

.--.. .. , 452 . c u . , 30 15 O S 89 „ W . Chapman ... 37 16 o 1149 „ H . E . Turner ... 23 15 o 1638 „ John Drewett ... 42 o o 1892 „ " Win . Pile 37 19 o 1981 „ John Youldori ... 21 0 o 2 . 95 „ F . A . Guimaraens .., 37 5 6

Chapter 1395 Comp . A . H . Bowles ... 32 11 0 SUSSEX . Bro . Gerard Ford ... 31 10 o WARWICKSHIRE .

Lodge 74 Bro . James Moffat .,. v 74 „ Adolphe Arbenz I 74 „ Dr . Hugh Thomas 74 „ Joseph Gothard 74 „ T . J . Graham ... 74 ••losiah Collins ...

74 „ ( ames C , Pool j 136 10 o 74 „ Thomas Surman 74 ,. C . W . Collins ... 74 „ W . H . Johnson 74 „ Felix Jones . „ 74 „ J . Slater Foster 74 „ Geo . Hardy ' WORCESTERSHIRE .

Lodge 252 Bro . James Turner ... 56 14 0 2 S 0 „ Alf . Barnett Rowe ... 80 0 0 259 „ Alderman B . Williamson , J . P 54 n o Unat . „ A . F . Godson , M . P . 10 10 0 Chapter 377 Comp . J . W .

Consterdine-Chadwick 10 10 0 YORKSHIRE—NOKTH AND EAST . •605 „ J . R . Ansdell ... gi 7 o YORKSHIRE—WEST . 139 „ E . S . Tavlor ... \ 139 „ Fred . R . Booth 139 „ Ed vard S . Tozer 290 „ William Harrop . 110 .. Samuel White

448 „ W . D . Shoebridge 521 „ John W . Turner 521 „ Abraham Armitage 521 „ J . G . Thompson 974 „ Herbert A . Foster 974 »> John Ridley Oddy 350 o o 1019 „ Joseph Haslegrove 1042 ,, Xavier Meyer 1102 „ John K . lbberson

1211 „ J . W . Fourness ' 239 ,, Thomas E . Barker 1239 » Thomas H . Vernon 1239 » V . G . S . Dearden 1239 „ A . J . Fossdyke I 5 ' 5 ,, T . W . Embleton „ John Gibbs /

EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO . Dist . Bro . F . H . Gottlieb ... 10 10 o

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SUMMARY .

£ s . d . Berks and Bucks ... ... 407 11 6 Bristol ... _ ... ... 1 5 15 o Cambridgeshire ... .... 200 o o Cornwall ... ... ... 141 15 o Derbyshire ... ... 78 15 o

Durham ... ... ... 73 10 o Essex ... ... ... 222 7 o Gloucestershire ... ... 53 n o Hants and Isle of Wight ... 7 610 0 Herefordshire ... ... 26 5 o

Hertfordshire ... ... 176 17 6 Kent ... ... ... 175 19 6 Lancashire ( East ) ... ... 94 10 o „ ( West ) ... ... 136 10 o Middlesex ... ... ... 418 2 6 Monmouthshire ... ... 62 o o STEWARDS—LONDON STEWARDS—PROVINCES ... GRAND TOTAL

£ s . d . Norfolk ... ... ... 52 10 Q North Wales ... ... 155 8 0 Nottinghamshire ... ... * 6 16 0 Oxfordshire ... ... 101 14 c Shropshire ... ... .. 1022 17 0

Somersetshire ... ... 400 6 0 South Wales ( East Division ) 105 o 0 Staffordshire ... ... 320 5 0 Suffolk ... ... ... 219 9 0 Surrey ... ... ... 269 1 fi

Sussex ... ... ... 31 10 o Warwickshire ... ... 136 10 0 Worcestershire ... ... 212 5 0 Yorkshire ( North and East ) ... 9170 „ ( West ) 35 ° o o Eastern Archipelago ... io 10 0 ... £ 59 ° 9 ° 6 ... £ 5855 3 ° £ 11 , 764 3 6 A

Analysis Of The Returns.

ANALYSIS OF THE RETURNS .

"All's well that ends well , " and if the 99 th Anniversary of the Girls ' School has not been so productive as its more immediate predecessor , it has produced more than was generally expected , and what , with the permanent income of the Institution , will probably suffice for the requirements of the coming year , leaving nothing to speak of in the way of margin to meet untoreseen expenses . For this result we must be thankful . It would not have been pleasant to find that , in order to meet the necessary outlay of

the School , an inroad must be made upon the invested moneys which it has taken so many years and such trouble to accumulate , and it is a relief to know that the occurrence of any such evil contingency is now almost absolutel y out of the question . Next year , no doubt , when the Centenary celebration takes place , we may hope to realise a result that will be permanently , as well as immediately beneficial , but for the moment we are content with the week's proceedings and , as our custom is , shall enter without further introductory comment on the task of analysing the Returns .

The total announced by Bro . Hedges was £ 11 , 764 8 s . 6 d „ the number of brethren who gave their services as Stewards being 277 , or two more than assisted at last year ' s anniversary . Both these facts are gratif ying . We were afraid the total would have been only about as much in excess of , £ 10 , 000 as it turns out to have been short of £ 12 , 000 , while as to the 277

Stewards , we never imagined that between the 2 nd April , when the Board numbered only 203 brethren , and the nth May , there would have been an influx of 74 new Stewards . We are glad to have been disappointed in both cases , nor should we have shown ouiselves seriously chagrined , had our disappointment been of a more pronounced character . We are out in our reckoning , but in the right direction .

As to the distribution of this amount and these Stewards between London and the Provinces , we find that London with 121 Stewards or four less than last year , returned £ 5 909 os . 6 d ., which , all things considered , may be pronounced satisfactory , while as to the Provinces , the 156 brethren representing these returned £ 5855 8 s ., the Stewards in 1886 being 150 in number , and the sum of their lists £ 7672 5 s . We must not , however , lose sight of the fact that the Chairman of Wednesday was more immediatel y

supported by a Province which was organised less than two years ago , while last year ' s Chairman was a veteran Mason and his Province of ancient organisation . Little matters like this must not be lost sight of , for it is just these little things which are of no account with the multitude , which go to make the difference between a success that is great and a success that is ordinary , or between one that is complete and one that is onl y partial . Taking

LONDON first , we remark that of the 121 brethren who acted on its behalf , the House Committee constituted a group of 13 , of whom two , however , Bros . Fenn and Letchworth , acted as well as representatives , the former of Lodge No . 8 ^ —and to very good purpose he seems to have played his part—and the latter of Chapter No . 2 . The lists of these 13 brethren , including what

they raised from the aforesaid lodge and chapter respectively , amounted in all to £ 569 6 s . A second group of 20 brethren acted as Unattached Stewards , and these together made up a total of £ 344 13 s . There thus remained as representatives of lodges and chapters onl y 88 Stewards , who acted lor 85 Craft lodges , 3 Royal Arch chapters , and a Mark lodge , and the aggregate of whose lists was £ 4995 is . 6 d . This does not materially

differ Irom last year , when the number of Metropolitan Masonic bodies represented was substantially about the same , and we remarked at the time that while on an average about one third of the London lodges sent Stewards , in the case of this Institution the proportion was onl y about one fourth . We cannot pretend to furnish a reason for this , but as the lower proportion has been observed for two consecutive years , we trust

steps will be taken in the future to distribute the London representatives among more of the lodges . As to the individual items , composing the London total , we are pleased to . find that the three-figuie lists are more numerous and more productive than they were last year . Indeed , two of them stand as Nos . 1 and 2 respectively of the lists of the whole Board of Stewards , the first—and easily the

firstbeing the list of Bro . G . Embhn , who represented the Lodge of Justice , No . 147 , and whose return amounted to £ 420 , while the second was that of Bro . Abel Simner , of the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 , who returned ^ 353 15 s . The onl y other list that exceeded £ 200—that ot Bro . Stothert , ot the Royal Sussex Lodge , No . 53 , Bath , who figures with £ 236 ios . —will be found among the Provincial Returns under the head ot Somersetshire , the third

London list—that of Bro . Herbert S . Glutton , of Lodges Nos . 406 and 1537 , amounting to £ 168 , and a most valuable contribution—being rather more than £ 185 below Bro . Simner ' s total , and ^ 252 below that of Bro . Emblin . The fourth hi ghest list was that of Bro . SiUs J . Humfress , of Lodge No . 733 , amounting to £ 161 14 s ., and then followed the joint list of Bros . Dopson and Purdue as Stewards of the

Ranelagh Lodge , No . 834 , for £ 150 , and that of Bro . T . Fenn as a member of the House Committee and Steward for Lodge No . 83 for £ 14 8 ' Bro . Josiah H . Roberts ol Lodge No . 700 , handed in £ 132 , and so ranked seventh in order . Bros . Flack and Meierhoff of the Old Concord , No . i 7 > raised together £ 120 , and Bro . Walter Martin , as Steward for No . 8 79 , contributed exactly the same amount . The remaining six three-figure lists are close together , Bro . E . Anderton of the Aldersgate Lodge No . i ° 57 >