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The Girls School Festival.
THE GIRLS SCHOOL FESTIVAL .
There will be a general feeling of regret that Tuesday ' s Festival on behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls has not been attended with results more nearly commensurate with its annual requirements , and the regret will be the more acutel y felt when it is remembered that with better management on
the part of the authorities a larger product might , and in all probability would , have been obtained . When it became known that his Royal Highness the President of the Institution had graciously consented to open the Centenary Memorial—now known as the Alexandra — Hall
we suggested that the inauguration ceremony should be made subservient to—or at all events should in some way or other be associated with—the interests of the Anniversary Festival . Something was done , we believe , at the last moment , and in a half-hearted kind of way . but the idea of connecting
the two events together with the object of enlarging the Festival receipts , and so benefiting the Institution , never appears to have found favour with the Committee . The opportunity was allowed to pass almost without an effort to utilise it for the purposes we have stated , and the result is that the Returns are very much
below what we have all along been hoping , and many have been . expecting they would be . However , if we think unfavourably of a policy which allowed so splendid a chance to pass almost entirely unheeded , we have nothing but commendation to bestow on the brethren who constituted the Board of
Stewards on this occasion . Their duty was not to concern themselves about the wisdom or unwisdom of this or that policy , but to obtain all the assistance they could for the Institution in the shape of donations and subscriptions ; and considering that the Benevolent Institution requires £ 15 , 000 annually to meet
its expenditure in annuities , and that the Boys School supporters are sparing no efforts in order to restore its somewhat dilapidated fortunes , we consider the Stewards of Tuesday are to be congratulated on the success of their labours . Lord CARRINGTON , too , was most earnest in his advocacy of the School's interests ,
and his Province of Buckinghamshire— -albeit a small one and not yet completely organised—fully realised our hopes by generousl y supporting its popular chief . In short , all did their dut y admirably , and had the circumstances of the year been turned to better account , we feel confident the success obtained through their instrumentality would have been of greater magnitude .
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
THE 103 RD ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL . Ihe 103 rd Annual Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held on Tuesday last at Freemasons' Tavern , Bro . Lord Carrington , Past Grand Master PJhew South Wales and Provincial Grand Master designate for Bucks , presiding , here was a large and brilliant gathering of brethren , among the more distinguished being Bros . Chief Justice Way , P . G . M . of South Australia ; Sir John B . ^ nekton ; Rev . Robert J . Simpson , P . G . Chap . ; Col . Sir Francis Burdett , Bart . ;
- "'•anadwell H . Clerke , G . Sec ; Richard Eve , P . G . Ireas . ; Edward lerry , ' •«¦ Treas . ; Augustus Harris , P . G . Treas .. ; Henry Smith , Col . Peters , Frank K | chardson , Faulkner , E . Monteuuis , P . G . S . B ., and many others . of 1 ? P tuous banquet was served by Messrs . Spiers and Pond , at the conclusion winch Bro . Lord CARRINGTON called upon the brethren to drink with the "thusiasm of Masons " The Health of their Chief Patroness , Her Majesty the Uueen . " ' ' J
_ jhe toast having been heartily responded , to , Pri CHAIRMAN said the next toast was that of "His Royal Highness , the theT ° ^ Y aIes ' Most Worshipful Grand Master , Grand Patron and President of nf u tll '' i tne Princess of Wales , Grand Patroness ; and the other Members ¦ ' "le Roval F .-imiK . " .
-T ., . - * * "J ' ¦ "is toast was likewise honoured . Earl ° f r AUKIN ' GT 0 N next rose and P ° posed the toast of "The Right Hon . the sent , atll 0 ™> M -w - Pro Grand Master , and the rest of the Grand Officers , Pre-\ ver ' dsl : - " He said the toast was one which spoke for itself ; no words of his ° f 11 ec ^ ary to say a word of praise of Bro . the Earl of Lathom , and the names wit ] , . 1 ? , brethren spoke for themselves . He therefore , with all cordiality and pru ' | ernal affection , called upon the brethren to greet the toast which he Lse < J . coupling with it the name of Bro . Sir Francis Burdett .
Bro p h - lVing been drunk ' altl 10 l ° | , S ' FRANCIS BURDETT , Bart ., Prov . G . M . of Middlesex , in reply , said he , lev . 1 / " ad had the opportunity of responding to that toast on many occasions , Present " p S 0 mucn pleasure in doing so as on the present occasion . Of the * , vel ] K ° Grand Master it was also unnecessary for him to speak . He was so wn to the brethren and had done his work so thoroughly that anything he
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could say would be superfluous . As for the Deputy Grand Master , the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , he had been Grand Master of Cornwall for a good many years , and he was also a Vice-President of the Institution . He took great interest in Masonry in general . Their Senior Grand Warden , Lord Wantage , was well known as a man who had done a great deal for rifle shooting , and what he had
done in the rifle world he no doubt would do in the Masonic world . Bro . Admiral Inglefield , the Junior Grand Warden , and their Grand Chaplains were also known to them , and they would carry out their duties thoroughly and conscientiously , and he felt confident that they andthe rest of the Grand Officers would perform their duties to the satisfaction of the brethren in general . He thanked them on behalf of the Grand Officers for the kind way they had received the toast .
The next toast was " Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Carrington , G . C . M . G ., Past Grand Master . New South Wales , and Prov . Grand Master Bucks , Chairman of the Day , " was proposed by Chief Justice WAY , P . G . M . South Australia . At the outset he thanked the brethren for the fraternal welcome they had accorded to him , which indicated their sympathy and goodwill for their fellow subjects in the Australian colonies and of all her Majesty ' s colonies across the seas . He was
honoured also with being entrusted with the toast he was about to submit to them as a proof that their brotherhood was something deeper and wider than their local constitutions . It was 22 years ago since he was in England . He had not seen an English spring for very many years , but he had seen nothing more lovely since his arrival in England than he saw at the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls on the previous day . It was the springtime of the lives of those dear girls
where they were prepared for a pure , a happy , and a useful womanhood by the training they were receiving at the Institution . They had learned the duty of relief in Australia from the mother Grand Lodge of the world . In the great colony of New South Wales they had founded an institution on the same lines as the English . Masonic Institution for Girls . He thought they would agree with him that the brethren of New South Wales were not far wrong when they proposed to
name that institution after the lady who so graciously performed a duty on the previous afternoon . He thought that no better name could be selected than that of Lady Carrington . But he was entrusted with a toast to which he felt it was almost impossible to do justice . The Prime Minister of England the other day had referred to the career of Lord Carrington as Governor of New South Wales as a distinguished career in one of the greatest of her
Majesty s colonies . His lordship had shown in New South Wales that a Governor might be thoroughly in sympathy with all the aspirations of a colony loyal with the Crown , and if his lordship left his native land there vvas no one who would be more welcome as Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia than Lord Carrington . The example of Lord Carrington had been a most
important factor in bringing about the Masonic unity of New South Wales , and he did not wonder that he had been accepted by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales for a high post in English Masonry . Chief Justice Way concluded by asking the brethren to join with him in drinking with all honours and all possible enthusiasm the health of Lord Carrington . The toast was most enthusiastically received .
Bro . Lord CARRINGTON , in reply , said hospitality and goodfellowship was the characteristic of Britishers all the world over . The moment he got into New South Wales , where he landed as representative of their beloved Queen , before he almost had time to look round , he was invited to dinner by the Mayor of S ydney , He found himself among a hospitable kindly-disposed people , who were anxious to welcome him , and he found himself returning "thanks in the Great Hall of the
city . He thought the brethren would , agree with him that the difficulty was not so much what to say as what not to say . He carefully wrote out two or three sentences , which he most carefully gave the press , and he learned the sentences by heart , delivered himself of them , and promptly sat down . A gentleman sitting near to him looked at him with great attention . He was a Member of Parliament , and a great sufferer from political speeches . When
he ( Lord Carrington ) sat down that gentleman smacked his neighbour on the back , gave a grunt , and exclaimed loud enough to be heard all over the hall , " Thank the Lord he can ' t speak . " He had been told that short speeches were the order of the evening , and as they had fortunately three and twenty songs to listen to , he therefore thought that it was for that quality that he had been selected to preside over that magnificent meeting . It was not merely as a matter of form , but with
all gratitude , with all respect , and with all fraternal affection he thanked them most heartily and most sincerely for the welcome which they had given his most unworthy self . ( No , no . ) He also thanked Chief Justice Way for the manner he had proposed the toast . Chief Justice Way was perhaps the most hospitable of all the hospitable people who Jived in Australia . No one went to Adelaide but who was asked to his house . The reception they had given the name of New South
Wales imposed upon him to touch on Masonry in Australia . He was entrusted by that good Mason the Grand Master , H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , to do all he could to heal the unhappy breach which then , existed in New South Wales . It was easy to talk about healing a breach , but it was not always satisfactory to interfere . On the occasion of the Jubilee about 600 Masons under the English and Scotch Constitutions , sat down in the hall at Sydney to celebrate
the Jubilee of the Queen . He expressed the ' -hope that the unhappy difficulties could be got over , and the Grand Lodge of New South Wales were also anxious for it . Every credit was due to one of the best and truest Masons , the late Earl of Carnarvon , for his knowledge of Masonic law , and his diplomacy went a long way to get over the difficulties . During the whole of the negociations not one unkind or unfraternal expression was used which had to be regretted . That year
he had the distinguished honour of being obligated as the first Grand Master of New South Wales . But he was not there to talk about New South Wales , for a finer colony did not exist in the whole British Empire . There had been confided to him the toast of the evening , which was " Success to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , and the Health of the Treasurer , Bro . Henry Smith , P . G . D .,
Vice-Patron , D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire . After that toast they would have the announcement of the lists , and , therefore , he should say very few words . But he should like to say , although many brethren knew far more of the Institution than he could pretend to know , that he could not fail to be convinced of the grand treatment and of the good management of the Institution . Although the Head Mistress and her assistants might be ' an uncommonly good lot , yet that
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The Girls School Festival.
THE GIRLS SCHOOL FESTIVAL .
There will be a general feeling of regret that Tuesday ' s Festival on behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls has not been attended with results more nearly commensurate with its annual requirements , and the regret will be the more acutel y felt when it is remembered that with better management on
the part of the authorities a larger product might , and in all probability would , have been obtained . When it became known that his Royal Highness the President of the Institution had graciously consented to open the Centenary Memorial—now known as the Alexandra — Hall
we suggested that the inauguration ceremony should be made subservient to—or at all events should in some way or other be associated with—the interests of the Anniversary Festival . Something was done , we believe , at the last moment , and in a half-hearted kind of way . but the idea of connecting
the two events together with the object of enlarging the Festival receipts , and so benefiting the Institution , never appears to have found favour with the Committee . The opportunity was allowed to pass almost without an effort to utilise it for the purposes we have stated , and the result is that the Returns are very much
below what we have all along been hoping , and many have been . expecting they would be . However , if we think unfavourably of a policy which allowed so splendid a chance to pass almost entirely unheeded , we have nothing but commendation to bestow on the brethren who constituted the Board of
Stewards on this occasion . Their duty was not to concern themselves about the wisdom or unwisdom of this or that policy , but to obtain all the assistance they could for the Institution in the shape of donations and subscriptions ; and considering that the Benevolent Institution requires £ 15 , 000 annually to meet
its expenditure in annuities , and that the Boys School supporters are sparing no efforts in order to restore its somewhat dilapidated fortunes , we consider the Stewards of Tuesday are to be congratulated on the success of their labours . Lord CARRINGTON , too , was most earnest in his advocacy of the School's interests ,
and his Province of Buckinghamshire— -albeit a small one and not yet completely organised—fully realised our hopes by generousl y supporting its popular chief . In short , all did their dut y admirably , and had the circumstances of the year been turned to better account , we feel confident the success obtained through their instrumentality would have been of greater magnitude .
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
THE 103 RD ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL . Ihe 103 rd Annual Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held on Tuesday last at Freemasons' Tavern , Bro . Lord Carrington , Past Grand Master PJhew South Wales and Provincial Grand Master designate for Bucks , presiding , here was a large and brilliant gathering of brethren , among the more distinguished being Bros . Chief Justice Way , P . G . M . of South Australia ; Sir John B . ^ nekton ; Rev . Robert J . Simpson , P . G . Chap . ; Col . Sir Francis Burdett , Bart . ;
- "'•anadwell H . Clerke , G . Sec ; Richard Eve , P . G . Ireas . ; Edward lerry , ' •«¦ Treas . ; Augustus Harris , P . G . Treas .. ; Henry Smith , Col . Peters , Frank K | chardson , Faulkner , E . Monteuuis , P . G . S . B ., and many others . of 1 ? P tuous banquet was served by Messrs . Spiers and Pond , at the conclusion winch Bro . Lord CARRINGTON called upon the brethren to drink with the "thusiasm of Masons " The Health of their Chief Patroness , Her Majesty the Uueen . " ' ' J
_ jhe toast having been heartily responded , to , Pri CHAIRMAN said the next toast was that of "His Royal Highness , the theT ° ^ Y aIes ' Most Worshipful Grand Master , Grand Patron and President of nf u tll '' i tne Princess of Wales , Grand Patroness ; and the other Members ¦ ' "le Roval F .-imiK . " .
-T ., . - * * "J ' ¦ "is toast was likewise honoured . Earl ° f r AUKIN ' GT 0 N next rose and P ° posed the toast of "The Right Hon . the sent , atll 0 ™> M -w - Pro Grand Master , and the rest of the Grand Officers , Pre-\ ver ' dsl : - " He said the toast was one which spoke for itself ; no words of his ° f 11 ec ^ ary to say a word of praise of Bro . the Earl of Lathom , and the names wit ] , . 1 ? , brethren spoke for themselves . He therefore , with all cordiality and pru ' | ernal affection , called upon the brethren to greet the toast which he Lse < J . coupling with it the name of Bro . Sir Francis Burdett .
Bro p h - lVing been drunk ' altl 10 l ° | , S ' FRANCIS BURDETT , Bart ., Prov . G . M . of Middlesex , in reply , said he , lev . 1 / " ad had the opportunity of responding to that toast on many occasions , Present " p S 0 mucn pleasure in doing so as on the present occasion . Of the * , vel ] K ° Grand Master it was also unnecessary for him to speak . He was so wn to the brethren and had done his work so thoroughly that anything he
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
could say would be superfluous . As for the Deputy Grand Master , the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , he had been Grand Master of Cornwall for a good many years , and he was also a Vice-President of the Institution . He took great interest in Masonry in general . Their Senior Grand Warden , Lord Wantage , was well known as a man who had done a great deal for rifle shooting , and what he had
done in the rifle world he no doubt would do in the Masonic world . Bro . Admiral Inglefield , the Junior Grand Warden , and their Grand Chaplains were also known to them , and they would carry out their duties thoroughly and conscientiously , and he felt confident that they andthe rest of the Grand Officers would perform their duties to the satisfaction of the brethren in general . He thanked them on behalf of the Grand Officers for the kind way they had received the toast .
The next toast was " Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Carrington , G . C . M . G ., Past Grand Master . New South Wales , and Prov . Grand Master Bucks , Chairman of the Day , " was proposed by Chief Justice WAY , P . G . M . South Australia . At the outset he thanked the brethren for the fraternal welcome they had accorded to him , which indicated their sympathy and goodwill for their fellow subjects in the Australian colonies and of all her Majesty ' s colonies across the seas . He was
honoured also with being entrusted with the toast he was about to submit to them as a proof that their brotherhood was something deeper and wider than their local constitutions . It was 22 years ago since he was in England . He had not seen an English spring for very many years , but he had seen nothing more lovely since his arrival in England than he saw at the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls on the previous day . It was the springtime of the lives of those dear girls
where they were prepared for a pure , a happy , and a useful womanhood by the training they were receiving at the Institution . They had learned the duty of relief in Australia from the mother Grand Lodge of the world . In the great colony of New South Wales they had founded an institution on the same lines as the English . Masonic Institution for Girls . He thought they would agree with him that the brethren of New South Wales were not far wrong when they proposed to
name that institution after the lady who so graciously performed a duty on the previous afternoon . He thought that no better name could be selected than that of Lady Carrington . But he was entrusted with a toast to which he felt it was almost impossible to do justice . The Prime Minister of England the other day had referred to the career of Lord Carrington as Governor of New South Wales as a distinguished career in one of the greatest of her
Majesty s colonies . His lordship had shown in New South Wales that a Governor might be thoroughly in sympathy with all the aspirations of a colony loyal with the Crown , and if his lordship left his native land there vvas no one who would be more welcome as Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia than Lord Carrington . The example of Lord Carrington had been a most
important factor in bringing about the Masonic unity of New South Wales , and he did not wonder that he had been accepted by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales for a high post in English Masonry . Chief Justice Way concluded by asking the brethren to join with him in drinking with all honours and all possible enthusiasm the health of Lord Carrington . The toast was most enthusiastically received .
Bro . Lord CARRINGTON , in reply , said hospitality and goodfellowship was the characteristic of Britishers all the world over . The moment he got into New South Wales , where he landed as representative of their beloved Queen , before he almost had time to look round , he was invited to dinner by the Mayor of S ydney , He found himself among a hospitable kindly-disposed people , who were anxious to welcome him , and he found himself returning "thanks in the Great Hall of the
city . He thought the brethren would , agree with him that the difficulty was not so much what to say as what not to say . He carefully wrote out two or three sentences , which he most carefully gave the press , and he learned the sentences by heart , delivered himself of them , and promptly sat down . A gentleman sitting near to him looked at him with great attention . He was a Member of Parliament , and a great sufferer from political speeches . When
he ( Lord Carrington ) sat down that gentleman smacked his neighbour on the back , gave a grunt , and exclaimed loud enough to be heard all over the hall , " Thank the Lord he can ' t speak . " He had been told that short speeches were the order of the evening , and as they had fortunately three and twenty songs to listen to , he therefore thought that it was for that quality that he had been selected to preside over that magnificent meeting . It was not merely as a matter of form , but with
all gratitude , with all respect , and with all fraternal affection he thanked them most heartily and most sincerely for the welcome which they had given his most unworthy self . ( No , no . ) He also thanked Chief Justice Way for the manner he had proposed the toast . Chief Justice Way was perhaps the most hospitable of all the hospitable people who Jived in Australia . No one went to Adelaide but who was asked to his house . The reception they had given the name of New South
Wales imposed upon him to touch on Masonry in Australia . He was entrusted by that good Mason the Grand Master , H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , to do all he could to heal the unhappy breach which then , existed in New South Wales . It was easy to talk about healing a breach , but it was not always satisfactory to interfere . On the occasion of the Jubilee about 600 Masons under the English and Scotch Constitutions , sat down in the hall at Sydney to celebrate
the Jubilee of the Queen . He expressed the ' -hope that the unhappy difficulties could be got over , and the Grand Lodge of New South Wales were also anxious for it . Every credit was due to one of the best and truest Masons , the late Earl of Carnarvon , for his knowledge of Masonic law , and his diplomacy went a long way to get over the difficulties . During the whole of the negociations not one unkind or unfraternal expression was used which had to be regretted . That year
he had the distinguished honour of being obligated as the first Grand Master of New South Wales . But he was not there to talk about New South Wales , for a finer colony did not exist in the whole British Empire . There had been confided to him the toast of the evening , which was " Success to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , and the Health of the Treasurer , Bro . Henry Smith , P . G . D .,
Vice-Patron , D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire . After that toast they would have the announcement of the lists , and , therefore , he should say very few words . But he should like to say , although many brethren knew far more of the Institution than he could pretend to know , that he could not fail to be convinced of the grand treatment and of the good management of the Institution . Although the Head Mistress and her assistants might be ' an uncommonly good lot , yet that