Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS— ™ ' The Recent School Elections ... ... ... ••••••" 9 * Perpetual and Life Presentations ... ... •••— "J Royal Masonic Institution for Boys ( Quarterly Court and Election ) ... ... 192 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls ( Quarterly Court and Election ) ... « - ¦••' 94 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Cornwall ... ... ••••••' 95 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ••¦••••' 95

MASONIC NOTESUnited Grand Lodge Festival ... ... ... ... •••' 97 Perpetual and Life Presentations ... ... ... ¦•¦ ' 97 Death of Bro . W . H . Lee , P . P . G . D . Middx . ... ... ... ' 97 Reviews ... ... ... ... ... •¦••¦•' 9 ^ Board of Benevolence ... ... ... ... ... ••¦ ' 9 ^ Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ••¦ 19 S

Mark Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... ' 99 Ancientand Accepted Rite ... ... ... ¦•¦¦¦ ' 99 Lodges and Chapter of Instruction ... ... ... ••¦ 200 Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... — 200 The Craft Abroad ... ... ... ... ... - 200 Obituary ... ... ... ... ... ... •••20 a Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... •••201

The Recent School Elections.

THE RECENT SCHOOL ELECTIONS .

It docs not frequently happen that the Spring Quarterly General Court of thc Royal Masonic Institution for Boys precedes that of thc sister School , but this year the Easter

holidays fell inconveniently for these important meetings , and the Hoys' School Court was postponed for a week while the other was held the day following" instead of thc day preceding .

Thus it came about that thc half-yearly election of children into THE ROVAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS took place at the Quarterly General Court held at Freemasons '

lavern on Friday , the 15 th inst ., when , after the regular business had been disposed of , a poll was opened , and 27 boys were elected out of an approved list of 41 ) candidates—a Devonshire lad havin-r been withdrawn from nomination under a

1 ' t'i'pclual Presentation after the voting papers had been issued . I'ull particulars of the proceedings , as well as lists of the successful and unsuccessful candidates were published last week in a special edition of this journal , and will be found reproduced elsewhere . We therefore - / ive our usual analvsis of the

result with a view lo showing how success has been distributed between town and country . The place of honour at the •'end of the poll was taken bv one of three bovs bavin" * claims """ support on London and the Province of Middlesex , who was

"ew to the ordeal , and for whom , as it was his only chance of being admitted , his friends and supporters succeeded in obtaining 4 s' 1 votes . The second place fell lo a lad from London and otirrey , who was also a candidate for the first timc , and had 4

| otes give to him , while a third new candidate , with claims on ' ¦ ondon and the Province of North and East Yorkshire , stood * - l ' i with 375 1 votes . A London boy , who obtained 1268 Vr » les at the election in October , 1807 , raised his total 103625 ¦

oles , and thereby secured fourth place , a Staffordshire lad , who , a 'l onl y 12 votes at the two elections last year , being close up WUl 1 3 » oS votes . A second London and Middlesex candidate s eeurcd the sixth vacancy with 3570 votes , all polled on this

occa-•' " . Hie next in order being a new applicant from Lincolnshire , V ° scorctl 357- votes , and a second London boy , who totalled 3 . v ) 5 votes right away . The Guernsey and Alderney lad , who , ' Ctl with i 3 if ) voles tothe good from three previous ballots , was sh - ' ninth w ' uh 3507 votes , and then a new boy—from Ilertford' lll e —for whom 34 S 2 votes were found . No . 11 was one of

The Recent School Elections.

two lads hailing from Buckinghamshire who added 1841 to the 156 9 votes brought forward , making his total 3410 , the Northants and Hunts boy , who started with 47 8 votes from three elections being close at his heels with 3408 . No . 13 had been before the

electors on live previous occasions and this being his last chance , his friends put their shoulders to the wheel and carried him in with a total of 3342 votes , of which 1547 stood already to his credit . He was one of three candidates from Essex , the boy

from South Wales ( E . D . ) who scored 68 7 votes at last year ' s elections , being next in order with 3313 votes , this , likewise , being thc only chance left to the candidate of being admitted into the School . A new applicant from the Province

of Middlesex was placed 15 th on the list with 3313 votes , while No . 16 from Devonshire , and No . 17 from London had already been before the voters , the former , who brought forward 885 votes from October , last .

finishing up with 3297 , while the latter had had two previous trials , from which he brought forward 1842 votes , and finished up thc day with 3266 . No . 18 was one of four boys hailing from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , had had no previous

experience , and scored at this election 3259 votes . Nos . 19 and 20 were both London boys , the former a new candidate , who polled 3090 , and the latter , one of four-ballot standing , who increased his credit of 623 votes to 3053 , and thereby obtained

the 20 th vacancy . No . 21 was an applicant from Essex , which had thc pleasure of carrying two out of its three cases . In this instance , the boy who had no further chance of getting elected , polled only 144 votes last October , but the case was well worked ,

and when the poll closed it was found that he totalled up 3024 votes . A new candidate from West Yorkshire was only a few votes behind , his total being 3001 , while a London boy , who started with 977 votes from thc four preceding elections ,

augmented that figure to 2794 . No . 24 , a boy from Warwickshire , scored 2782 votes at his first and only attempt , and thc saint good fortune attended the efforts in behalf of the lad with claims on Dorsetshire and Kent who

secured 2747 votes . The boy from Oxfordshire who had 10 S 4 votes at starting , finished up with 2624 , while the last of the successful was a new case from London who had the good fortune to win the 27 th vacancy with the very modest total of

1990 votes ; a Hampshire and Isle of Wight boy , who polled 93 in October last , raising his total to 1976 , and being thus defeated by but few more than a score of votes . The third Essex candidate finished up with I 74 8 votes , and a London youth , who was

before the voters at both of last year ' s elections , with 16 43 , being followed , but at a somewhat long interval , by another ' London candidate who polled 1208 votes at his lirst attempt , and by yet another from the same section of the Craft , who only

succeeded in increasing his total of 4 88 votes last October to 824 . The other unsuccessful candidates ranged from 797 to as low as 2 votes for the fourth Hampshire and Isle of Wight boy , but there is only one of the 22 who failed who will have his

name removed from the list between now and next October , and be hails from London and polled in all 1208 votes . To sum up the results as between London and the Provinces and Abroad , London sent up 17 candidates and carried the election of seven , while

in four out of the live cases in which it had a joint interest with one or more Provinces it was also successful . The Provinces and Abroad furnished 27 candidates , of whom 16 were successful and 11 unsuccessful . As for thc votes brought forward or added under Law 33 , they amounted together to 14 , 16 7 , while