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CONTENTS . LEADERS— . PAGE The Recent School Elections ... ... ... ... ... 511 Perpetual Presentations ... ... ... ... ... * 5 12

Royal Masonic Institution for Boys—Quarterly Court and Election ... ... 5 > 2 Provincial Grand Chapter of Berkshire ... ... ... 5 U Consecration of the Victoria Lodge at Windsor ... ... ... 513 Provincial Grand Chapter of Essex ... ... ... ... 515 Consecration of the Royal Connaught Lodge , No . 2 G 7 G ... ... 515 Presentation to Bro . VV . H . Cowper , G . Std . Br . ... ... ... 515

Ciuy ' s Hospital Ke-lindowment l'und ... ... ... ... 510 The Secret Societies of all Ages and Countries ... ... ... 516 A Well-deserved Honour ... ... ... ... ... 5 •£ Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 " " ' MASONIC

NOTESQuarterly Communication of the Distri' t Grand Lodge of Canterbury , N . Z . 519 Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of North Dakota ... ... ... 5 "J Annual Meeting of the Piovincial Grand Lodge of Cambridge ... ... 519 Correspondence ... ... ... ... . . ... S-o Masonic Notes and Queries ... ... ... ... ... 520 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 5- ° Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 522 Mark Masonry ... ... ... ... ... 522

Allied Masonic Degrees ... ... ... ... ... ... 523 The Craft Abroad ... _ ... ... ... ... ... 523 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution ... ... ... ... 524 Lodges and Chapter of Instruction ... ... ... ... ... 524 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 5 20

The Recent School Elections.

THE RECENT SCHOOL ELECTIONS .

Freemasons' Tavern was thc scene of considerable excitement on Thursday and Friday of last week , when the autumn elections for the admission of children into our Scholastic Institutions were held . On both days the great hall was crowded with

the friends and supporters of the different candidates , and the exchange of votes proceeded briskly , especially in the case of the Boys' Election , until the poll was closed . The election into THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS took place at the Quarterly General Court of the Governors and

Subscribers , on Thursday , the 7 th inst . Bro . Sir REGINALD HANSON , Bart , M . P ., Treasurer , presided , and when the regular business was over , the poll was opened for the election of 15 girls , from an approved list of 26 " . Success was pretty equally divided between London and the Provinces , the former carrying live out of its eight candidates , and the Provinces lo out of its

18 , the remaining girl , who had claims upon town , country , and abroad being among the unsuccessful . The London five were placed ist , nth , 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th , No . 1 obtaining 6834 votes , or considerably more than 2000 in excess of the second successful girl ; No . 11 obtained 3920 votes ; No . 13 , who brought forward

2157 votes from . the April election , 36 9 6 votes ; and Nos . 14 and ' 5 i 333 < 5 and 288 4 votes respectively . The 10 Provincial candidates who won vacancies were placed as follows : the Worcestershire girl , No . 2 , with 4 6 45 votes ; the Sussex , No . 3 , with 4420

votes ; two of the three West Yorkshire lassies at No . 4 and No . 6 , with 4300 votes in the former case , and 4253 in the latter , the Gloucestershire candidate being sandwiched between them at No . 5 with 4280 votes , of which 2612 were brought forward from April . No . 7 , with claims on the two Lancashiros ,

stood seventh with 4212 , and as this was her only chance ol obtaining admission into the Institution , she is to be congratulated on the success achieved in her behalf by her friends and supporters . The next in . order hailed from Oxfordshire , and polled 7 85 votes in April . On this occasion she increased

Iter total to 4188 , and thereby won thc eighth place , while No . 9 , from Kent , scored 408 7 votes , and No . 10 , from Norfolk and Suffolk , 3962 votes . The remaining Provincial , from Warwickshire , was placed 12 th with 3705 . The unsuccessful were 11 in number , the girl from North Wales and the Western Division of South Wales being at the head with 28 73 votes , while the

The Recent School Elections.

next two , from London and Bengal respectively , will cany forward in tlie one case 2561 votes and in the other 2522 . There were two other girls who polled upwards of looo votes and four whose , total exceeded 800 , tlie remaining two , of whom one was

from \ V . 1 orks . polling 199 , and being a last case will have her name removed from the list , while the other was from Valparaiso . Two of the three last cases stood No . 1 and No . 7 on the poll , while as regards the third case , which we have fust s : u'd conies from

West Yorkshire , we regret her failure , but it is evident , from the smallness of her total , that the Province did not support her candidature . As regards the votes , there wen ; 9088 brought forward from April and 7 ( 1 , 155 issued for this election , making

the total available 85 , 243 , but of the number issued there were only 68 , 080 polled , so that there remain S 075 to be accounted for , the bulk of them , of course , being unused . The election into

THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION' FOR BOYS took place at the Quarterly General Court of Governors and Subscribers which was held on Friday , the Sth inst ., under the presidency of Bro . Richard Eve , P . G . Treas ., Chairman of the

Board of Management . The number of vacancies was 16 —• one having been added since the issue of the voting papers , and the number of candidates competing for ( hem 47—reduced by the withdrawal of two Provincial cases , from 41 ; as

originally declared . Mere the contest was an exceedingly keen one , as may imagined from the large number of candidates , and from the fact that between the boys who emerged first and 16 th on the poll the difference in the number of votes they respectively

obtained did not great !) ' exceed 800 , while the number of unused votes was only 3039 out of a total issued for this election of 84 , 524 . As between London and the Provinces , the former , which furnished , 17 candidates , was successful in carrying only

live , while the Provinces , elected 10 out of 2 S , one of the two remaining cases , with claims upon London and Kent being successful and the other , though a last case , and polling as many as 2318 , being among those that failed . A boy from London

who had only this chance left him of gaining admission and who brought forward 1922 votes secured the lirst place with 4 616 votes , while the Kentish boy , who brought forward 1060 votes was a good second with 4414 . No . 3 from London ,

who started with 1299 votes , polled in all 4329 votes , and thus was placed at No . 3 , while one of the two lads from South Wales K . D ., who had 32 votes from April came fourth with 429 6 . No . 5 from London , without previous experience of the ballot , scored

4281 , and the Durham boy who was also a new case followed close with 417 8 votes . One of the two West Lancashire lads , starting with only three votes in hand won the seventh vacancy with 4127 , while another in which the same Province had an interest

conjointly with Derbyshire , polled 4124 . The East Lancashire youth stood ninth with 4110 votes , and thc boy in whose success it had a part interest with Middlesex and Monmouthshire was 1 ithwith 4086 votes , the case with claims on Guernsey , Hants and Isle of

Wight , and Malta taking the intermediate place with 4109 votes . No . 12 from London and Kent , polled 3993 votes , of which 2131 were brought forward from April . No . 13 from Northumberland polled 39 83 votes , and No . 14 from Cumberland and

Westmoreland , who had compiled 1161 vote . at four previous ballots , increased that number to 3908 , while No . 15 from London , starting with 2023 to his credit finished up with a total of 3800 . The last to win a vacancy had 1124 votes in hand at starting and