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mment as the multitude of Stewards and the largeness of their amounts ° 1 the Girls' Centenary Festival , and almost invariably in the same direction 3 0 [ praise . It was a grand feat that of bringing together so large a Board " A raising so vast a sum ; but are not the members of Wednesday ' s p stival to be commended for the courage with which they pursued their

t ,-k and the enerey they must have employed in order to obtain even so mall a total as £ 8673 , when the Girls' Stewards had worked so hard and S iccessfully , that there remained , on their departure from the field , but and for this have

1 ' ttle or nothing to obtain ? We think so , reason we followed our plan of recent years , and been careful , and in some cases even minute , in our investigations . Of the two sections of the Board , that representing

LONDON , thoug h being the more numerous and mustering in all 113 brethren , was the le-s successful in obtaining the sinews of war for the current year . Its total reached no more than , £ 4 . 186 2 s ., while as a representative body its character was even less satisfactory , there being 36 out of the 113 Stewards

unattached ; three acting for as many chapters ; one for the Committee Dinner Club ; and 73 acting for 78 lodges , there being five brethren who each stood for two lodges . In short , only a little over one fifth of the Metropolitan lodges sent Stewards , whereas—as we have often pointed out u efore—the proportion is commonly about one third . Of serviceable lists

the hig hest was that of Comp . W . H . Baker of the Robert Burns Chapter , No . 25 , who obtained £ 210 , and then after a long gap we have the following ] namely , Bros . William Land , No . 742 , and R . H . Rogers , No . 1791 , bracketed together , the amount of each list being £ 116 us . Bro . H . T Chapman , of the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 , being third with £ 111 9 s .

Bros . John L . Anderson , Yarborough , No . 554 , and H . J . Lardner , of the West Smithfield , No . 1623 , both returning £ 107 2 s . Bros . Berg , of the Cripp legate Lodge , No . 1613 , and Raynham W . Stewart , Committee Dinner Club , both return £ 105 , and Bro . Walter Hopekirk , of Nos . 179

and 19 86 , ends the list with £ 101 6 s . 6 d . Bro . Sergison , of the Friends in Council Lodge , No . 1383 , with ^ 9 6 , and a few other lists reaching to about Lao comp lete the array of Returns which are worthy of being specified . Having completed our survey of the Returns from the Metropolitan area , we turn our attention to

THE PROVINCES , which are less numerously , and at the same time less remuneratively represented than we have known them to be for some years . Of course , it is easy enough to account for the serious falling off , and as every one was prepared for something of the kind , we do not imagine that any one will be

very greatly surprised . Still we had gone on hoping till the very last , that a Return sufficient to satisfy the year ' s requirements might , after all , be forthcoming , and we confess to a strong feeling of disappointment that it is not so . Nor , we venture to think , are we by any means alone in this feeling . It was generally anticipated that the Centenary Festival of the Girls '

School would carry everything before it , but not that it would have so completely overwhelmed the prospects of the sister School at Wood Green . However , we need not pursue the matter further , The Provinces have kept pace with London in the paucity of their Stewards and the diminution of their Returns , the number of those who have sent representatives being 28 ,

or one less than it was last year , while the Stewards themselves were 105 , as compared with 145 in 1887 , and the total of their lists , so far as they have been received , ^ 4487 ios . 6 d ., as compared with £ 579 8 7 s . 6 d . The absentees were 16 in number , namely , BEDFORDSHIRE ( five lodges ) , which has this year confined its attention to the Girls' School ;

BRISTOL ( eight lodges ) , which , in consequence of the Charitable Association it has been engaged in establishing , has been unable to lend any considerable amount of assistance to any of the Central Charities , even the Girls' School Centenary having failed to obtain more than a very modest amount of support . Last year , however , Bro .

Pierrepont Harris was Steward for the Benevolent Institution and raised for 't £ 115 ios ,, and Bro , Purnell represented it at the Girls' Festival , his list being the modest one of 15 guineas ( £ 15 15 s . ) , while , to go no further back than 1886 , it raised £ 318 ios . for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , £ 145 19 s . for the Girls' School , and ^ 26 5 s . for this Institutiongiving a

, total for the year of £ 490 14 s ., or an average of over ££ >\ per lodge . CAMBRIDGESHIRE ( six lodges ) did so well at the recent Centenary , that though we regret it should have elected to stand out on this occasion , we cannot grudge it the respite it deserves . CUMBERLAND and WESTMORLAND ( 20 lodges ) honourabl y fulfilled its promise to raise 1000 guineas ( £ 1050 ) for the

Benevolent Institution in February , and its Prov . Grand Master and Prov . Grand Secretary splendidly represented it in the Albert Hall on the 7 th inst . DORSETSHIRE , which has only 13 lodges on its roll , has contented itself with its contribution of £ 294 to the Girls' School for the current year , while it raised £ 113 for the Benevolent Institution in 1887 and

Qividided £ 320 between the Benevolent and the Girls the year preceding . under these circumstances we must hope that Dorsetshire will please to remember the Boys' School in 188 9 and so distribute its help to our Central nstitutions with its accustomed impartiality . HEREFORDSHIRE ( five lodges ) , lh anks to the efforts of its Prov . Grand Master—R . W . Bro . Sir J . R . oailey , Bart ., M . P . —was modestly represented at the Albert Halland

, gave the Girls' School some little help last year , and help of a more uostantiai character in 1886 , but for this Institution it has done nothing since 188 3 . As for HERTFORDSHIRE ( 15 lodges ) , it must e quite a dozen years since we have had to include it among . 1 . " ¦ u 1 _ p __ . 1 _ . 11 yca . o since wc nave uau LU 11 IU 1 UUC IL cllllUIlg absentees

. , but we cannot be surprised at this when we know that Cem 'f ° ^ S for the 0 Id Pe ° P le in February , and over £ 649 for the Iod s . a fevv weeks ago . LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND ( 12 Sc i y » w'th a record of nearly £ 650 contributed to the Girls ' Pres every reason to be satisfied with its success during the dUr - yea <"> even if it had no previous achievements to its account 0 f t ) " £ the years preceding . MONMOUTHSHIRE ( IO lodges , and one the n " ° ^ ' recent creation ) , has raised upwards of £ 523 during _ c . present vpar ™_ v _'_ iQ in TS » T ;_ ¦ r . _;«_ i /" o _ - _ r _ r _^_ . fV . __ . TJ _ ,.. „> CI , 1 ¦ 11 iii 11 UiC

and Cf . J ~ - ™> " ¦ ' ¦ " - ••*""/ ___ n-u JClO'JW U JLJ ^ yo UUIUUI , Uaso ¦ 0 S ' the GirIs' Sch ° > in l 886 close on £ 200 for the R ° y tion - j . nevo ' Institution , and 30 guineas ( £ 31 ios . ) for this Institute Gi ?" c l 88 s over £ > of which the ° ld Folks received £ 20 ° > and R < . „_ . ¦ School the balance . NORFOLK ( 16 lodees ) . raised £ 61 for the

loo G ° ' when Bro . Diver represented the Lodge of Friendship , No . BrJ frf ! i e armouth ' & T 3 S > for the Girls' Sch ° Centenary , when held ' its ; j . uffield > P . G . M ., and half a dozen other brethren worthily upail d fimjf' NORTHUMBERLAND ( 21 lodges ) , raised ^ 900 in February , Girls' r IL a sma 11 amount at the Albert Hall Festival , while at the celebration in 1886 it raised over £ 906 , and at that of the Boys '

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School in 1883 over £ 1223 . NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ( 14 lodges ) , raised over £ 176 for the Girls' School three weeks since , £ 52 ios . for the Old People in February , and we believe it will give still more substantial help to this Institution — if all goes well —at its Festival in 1889 . SOUTH WALES , EASTERN DIVISION ( 16 lodges ) , had the bulk of its

energies engaged for the Old Folks . Owing to Bro . Sir George Elliot , Bart ., M . P ., its Provincial Grand Master , having undertaken to preside at the Festival of that Institution in February last , and worked with a will and raised £ 865 on that occasion , and as it was modestly represented by its chief at the Albert Hall , it would be unreasonable to

expect more Irom this source during the present year . WARWICKSHIRE ( 31 lodges ) stood out conspicuousl y among the supporters of the Girls ' School a few weeks since , when Bro . Lord Lei gh , its Prov . Grand Master , was honorary Treasurer of the Board of Stewards , and it has occasionally played almost as prominent a part , or even one more prominent , on other occasions . WILTSHIRE ( IO lodges ) , though by no means strong-, is a

frequent supporter of all our Institutions . It gave close on £ 350 to the Girls ' School at its Centenary , while it is by no means improbable that some of the lodges in the CHANNEL ISLANDS ( five lodges ) are represented on the list of Bro . Col . de Carteret , Prov . Grand Master of J ERSEY . But even if this were not so , it occasionally lends a helping hand , as in February on the

occasion of the Benevolent Festival , and at previous celebrations . Thus it will be seen that , even , without the attractions and inducements to take part in the Girls' Centenary , the bulk of the Provinces who were absentees on Wednesday are . pretty regular and generous in the support they vouchsafe to our Charities .

In reviewing this section of the Stewards' Returns , we shall find ourselves in a somewhat similar predicament as when we analysed that of the recent Centenary Festival , but for an exactl y opposite reason . Then we found ourselves dealing with lists compiled during a period of exceptional enthusiasm , when almost every lodge and every province was anxious to show its loyalty to our oldest Institution ; now we are analysing a set of

Returns which have been compiled for this Charity in spite of that exceptional enthusiasm for another , and when , as a consequence , the ever-flowing stream of Masonic generosity has been pretty nearly exhausted . Thus , the consideration and forbearance it is our duty to exhibit towards the Craft generally , whether contributing or non-contributing to a particular Festival

, are more imperatively demanded of us on this occasion , and the opinion we are inclined to express on the result of Wednesday ' s labours is not so much one as to the smallness of the amount as one of gratitude that the contributions should have been for the most part so considerable . Thus , the Province of

BERKS AND BUCKS , which has 20 lodges , and sent up four Stewards on Wednesday , one unattached , and three as representatives of as many of its lodges , is not so very much behind the total ol its regular contribution . It raised £ 123 8 s . for the Benevolent in February , and £ 715 7 s . for the Girls' Centenary . On

Wednesday it gave £ 122 8 s ., making for the whole year £ 961 3 s ., which is more by £ 200 than its aggregate of contributions in the Jubilee year , and the latter in its turn was a round £ 200 in excess of its average for the three previous years . It should be mentioned further that every one of its lodges has been directly represented at one or other of the Festivals during the current year .

CHESHIRE . had three of its lodges represented at the Benevolent Festival in February last , when the four brethren acting on their behalf raised a total of £ 63 . At the Centenary on the 7 th instant , its total , with one list still outstanding , was £ 457 18 s ., being the aggregate of 20 Returns . On Wednesday a single Steward upheld the credit of the Province by handing in a total of £ 39 18 s .,

so that the year ' s amount is £ 560 16 s . As we have pointed out on many previous occasions Cheshire has some 40 lodges , and it might have been expected to contribute more largely , but then it has its Educational Association which has been established over 20 years , and does annuall y plenty of good and useful work . The Province of

CORNWALL , which has 30 lodges on its roll , has not equalled its performance of last year , when , with Bro . Pearce as its representative at all three Festivals , it raised ^ 704 us . But this was a total of exceptional merit , and this year it has rested somewhat , being content with £ 372 15 s . for the Centenary , an

admittedly incomplete list of Bro . Truscott ' s , of £ 10 ios . in February last for the Benevolent , and £ 82 by the same Bro . Truscott on this occasion , the total , so far as as it is yet known , being £ 465 53 ., so that the Province during this and the preceding year has raised £ 116 9 16 s ., Bros . Pearce and Truscott having done most of the the work as representative Stewards .

DERBYSHIRE , with 21 lodges , returns £ 75 12 s ,, for £ 54 . 12 s . of which the list of Bro . A . P . Wood , for the Mundy Grove Lodge , No . 506 , Shipley , is responsible , the balance of 20 guineas being the amount contributed b y Bro . W . Naylor , unattached . In February , No . 1179 , at Ilkeston , gave £ 26 5 s . per Bro .

Dakin , and its total at the Girls Centenary was £ 776 ns . 6 d „ making altogether for the current year £ 878 8 s . 6 d . Last year it raised within a fraction of £ 626 , and in 1886 ^ 176 15 s ., while in 1885 , when its Prov . G . Master , the Marquis of Hartington , M . P ., presided at the Festival of this Institution , its total amounted to £ 1546 17 s ., the grand total for the last four years being £ 3227 .

It is impossible not to experience a certain amount of disappointment that the Chairman ' s Province of

DEVONSHIRE , which has a muster roll of over 50 lodges , should have contented itself with a total contribution of no more than £ 840 . The return for the year is certainly a good one , when the £ 47 5 s . so raised for the Old People in February , and the £ 126 ios . which figured in the Girls' Centenary list are added , amounting as it does to £ 1013 15 s . But , notwithstanding this , and

having regard to what the Provinces of other Festival Chairmen have done for them in recent years , the amount subscribed on Wednesday is not as imposing as might have been expected from a Province which , as regards the number of its lodges , is about fifth in order of strength . However , it has a Fortescue Annuity Fund and an Educational Fund , which draw con *

siderably on its resources , and do a large amount of good locally . We must not , however , allow the opportunity to pass without complimenting Bros , the Rev . W . Whitley and John Brewer on the success of their labours in raising between them £ 700 7 s . out of the whole Return , and the Jordan Lodge , No . 1402 , Torquay , which had two excellent . Stewards in Bros . John

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mment as the multitude of Stewards and the largeness of their amounts ° 1 the Girls' Centenary Festival , and almost invariably in the same direction 3 0 [ praise . It was a grand feat that of bringing together so large a Board " A raising so vast a sum ; but are not the members of Wednesday ' s p stival to be commended for the courage with which they pursued their

t ,-k and the enerey they must have employed in order to obtain even so mall a total as £ 8673 , when the Girls' Stewards had worked so hard and S iccessfully , that there remained , on their departure from the field , but and for this have

1 ' ttle or nothing to obtain ? We think so , reason we followed our plan of recent years , and been careful , and in some cases even minute , in our investigations . Of the two sections of the Board , that representing

LONDON , thoug h being the more numerous and mustering in all 113 brethren , was the le-s successful in obtaining the sinews of war for the current year . Its total reached no more than , £ 4 . 186 2 s ., while as a representative body its character was even less satisfactory , there being 36 out of the 113 Stewards

unattached ; three acting for as many chapters ; one for the Committee Dinner Club ; and 73 acting for 78 lodges , there being five brethren who each stood for two lodges . In short , only a little over one fifth of the Metropolitan lodges sent Stewards , whereas—as we have often pointed out u efore—the proportion is commonly about one third . Of serviceable lists

the hig hest was that of Comp . W . H . Baker of the Robert Burns Chapter , No . 25 , who obtained £ 210 , and then after a long gap we have the following ] namely , Bros . William Land , No . 742 , and R . H . Rogers , No . 1791 , bracketed together , the amount of each list being £ 116 us . Bro . H . T Chapman , of the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 , being third with £ 111 9 s .

Bros . John L . Anderson , Yarborough , No . 554 , and H . J . Lardner , of the West Smithfield , No . 1623 , both returning £ 107 2 s . Bros . Berg , of the Cripp legate Lodge , No . 1613 , and Raynham W . Stewart , Committee Dinner Club , both return £ 105 , and Bro . Walter Hopekirk , of Nos . 179

and 19 86 , ends the list with £ 101 6 s . 6 d . Bro . Sergison , of the Friends in Council Lodge , No . 1383 , with ^ 9 6 , and a few other lists reaching to about Lao comp lete the array of Returns which are worthy of being specified . Having completed our survey of the Returns from the Metropolitan area , we turn our attention to

THE PROVINCES , which are less numerously , and at the same time less remuneratively represented than we have known them to be for some years . Of course , it is easy enough to account for the serious falling off , and as every one was prepared for something of the kind , we do not imagine that any one will be

very greatly surprised . Still we had gone on hoping till the very last , that a Return sufficient to satisfy the year ' s requirements might , after all , be forthcoming , and we confess to a strong feeling of disappointment that it is not so . Nor , we venture to think , are we by any means alone in this feeling . It was generally anticipated that the Centenary Festival of the Girls '

School would carry everything before it , but not that it would have so completely overwhelmed the prospects of the sister School at Wood Green . However , we need not pursue the matter further , The Provinces have kept pace with London in the paucity of their Stewards and the diminution of their Returns , the number of those who have sent representatives being 28 ,

or one less than it was last year , while the Stewards themselves were 105 , as compared with 145 in 1887 , and the total of their lists , so far as they have been received , ^ 4487 ios . 6 d ., as compared with £ 579 8 7 s . 6 d . The absentees were 16 in number , namely , BEDFORDSHIRE ( five lodges ) , which has this year confined its attention to the Girls' School ;

BRISTOL ( eight lodges ) , which , in consequence of the Charitable Association it has been engaged in establishing , has been unable to lend any considerable amount of assistance to any of the Central Charities , even the Girls' School Centenary having failed to obtain more than a very modest amount of support . Last year , however , Bro .

Pierrepont Harris was Steward for the Benevolent Institution and raised for 't £ 115 ios ,, and Bro , Purnell represented it at the Girls' Festival , his list being the modest one of 15 guineas ( £ 15 15 s . ) , while , to go no further back than 1886 , it raised £ 318 ios . for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , £ 145 19 s . for the Girls' School , and ^ 26 5 s . for this Institutiongiving a

, total for the year of £ 490 14 s ., or an average of over ££ >\ per lodge . CAMBRIDGESHIRE ( six lodges ) did so well at the recent Centenary , that though we regret it should have elected to stand out on this occasion , we cannot grudge it the respite it deserves . CUMBERLAND and WESTMORLAND ( 20 lodges ) honourabl y fulfilled its promise to raise 1000 guineas ( £ 1050 ) for the

Benevolent Institution in February , and its Prov . Grand Master and Prov . Grand Secretary splendidly represented it in the Albert Hall on the 7 th inst . DORSETSHIRE , which has only 13 lodges on its roll , has contented itself with its contribution of £ 294 to the Girls' School for the current year , while it raised £ 113 for the Benevolent Institution in 1887 and

Qividided £ 320 between the Benevolent and the Girls the year preceding . under these circumstances we must hope that Dorsetshire will please to remember the Boys' School in 188 9 and so distribute its help to our Central nstitutions with its accustomed impartiality . HEREFORDSHIRE ( five lodges ) , lh anks to the efforts of its Prov . Grand Master—R . W . Bro . Sir J . R . oailey , Bart ., M . P . —was modestly represented at the Albert Halland

, gave the Girls' School some little help last year , and help of a more uostantiai character in 1886 , but for this Institution it has done nothing since 188 3 . As for HERTFORDSHIRE ( 15 lodges ) , it must e quite a dozen years since we have had to include it among . 1 . " ¦ u 1 _ p __ . 1 _ . 11 yca . o since wc nave uau LU 11 IU 1 UUC IL cllllUIlg absentees

. , but we cannot be surprised at this when we know that Cem 'f ° ^ S for the 0 Id Pe ° P le in February , and over £ 649 for the Iod s . a fevv weeks ago . LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND ( 12 Sc i y » w'th a record of nearly £ 650 contributed to the Girls ' Pres every reason to be satisfied with its success during the dUr - yea <"> even if it had no previous achievements to its account 0 f t ) " £ the years preceding . MONMOUTHSHIRE ( IO lodges , and one the n " ° ^ ' recent creation ) , has raised upwards of £ 523 during _ c . present vpar ™_ v _'_ iQ in TS » T ;_ ¦ r . _;«_ i /" o _ - _ r _ r _^_ . fV . __ . TJ _ ,.. „> CI , 1 ¦ 11 iii 11 UiC

and Cf . J ~ - ™> " ¦ ' ¦ " - ••*""/ ___ n-u JClO'JW U JLJ ^ yo UUIUUI , Uaso ¦ 0 S ' the GirIs' Sch ° > in l 886 close on £ 200 for the R ° y tion - j . nevo ' Institution , and 30 guineas ( £ 31 ios . ) for this Institute Gi ?" c l 88 s over £ > of which the ° ld Folks received £ 20 ° > and R < . „_ . ¦ School the balance . NORFOLK ( 16 lodees ) . raised £ 61 for the

loo G ° ' when Bro . Diver represented the Lodge of Friendship , No . BrJ frf ! i e armouth ' & T 3 S > for the Girls' Sch ° Centenary , when held ' its ; j . uffield > P . G . M ., and half a dozen other brethren worthily upail d fimjf' NORTHUMBERLAND ( 21 lodges ) , raised ^ 900 in February , Girls' r IL a sma 11 amount at the Albert Hall Festival , while at the celebration in 1886 it raised over £ 906 , and at that of the Boys '

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School in 1883 over £ 1223 . NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ( 14 lodges ) , raised over £ 176 for the Girls' School three weeks since , £ 52 ios . for the Old People in February , and we believe it will give still more substantial help to this Institution — if all goes well —at its Festival in 1889 . SOUTH WALES , EASTERN DIVISION ( 16 lodges ) , had the bulk of its

energies engaged for the Old Folks . Owing to Bro . Sir George Elliot , Bart ., M . P ., its Provincial Grand Master , having undertaken to preside at the Festival of that Institution in February last , and worked with a will and raised £ 865 on that occasion , and as it was modestly represented by its chief at the Albert Hall , it would be unreasonable to

expect more Irom this source during the present year . WARWICKSHIRE ( 31 lodges ) stood out conspicuousl y among the supporters of the Girls ' School a few weeks since , when Bro . Lord Lei gh , its Prov . Grand Master , was honorary Treasurer of the Board of Stewards , and it has occasionally played almost as prominent a part , or even one more prominent , on other occasions . WILTSHIRE ( IO lodges ) , though by no means strong-, is a

frequent supporter of all our Institutions . It gave close on £ 350 to the Girls ' School at its Centenary , while it is by no means improbable that some of the lodges in the CHANNEL ISLANDS ( five lodges ) are represented on the list of Bro . Col . de Carteret , Prov . Grand Master of J ERSEY . But even if this were not so , it occasionally lends a helping hand , as in February on the

occasion of the Benevolent Festival , and at previous celebrations . Thus it will be seen that , even , without the attractions and inducements to take part in the Girls' Centenary , the bulk of the Provinces who were absentees on Wednesday are . pretty regular and generous in the support they vouchsafe to our Charities .

In reviewing this section of the Stewards' Returns , we shall find ourselves in a somewhat similar predicament as when we analysed that of the recent Centenary Festival , but for an exactl y opposite reason . Then we found ourselves dealing with lists compiled during a period of exceptional enthusiasm , when almost every lodge and every province was anxious to show its loyalty to our oldest Institution ; now we are analysing a set of

Returns which have been compiled for this Charity in spite of that exceptional enthusiasm for another , and when , as a consequence , the ever-flowing stream of Masonic generosity has been pretty nearly exhausted . Thus , the consideration and forbearance it is our duty to exhibit towards the Craft generally , whether contributing or non-contributing to a particular Festival

, are more imperatively demanded of us on this occasion , and the opinion we are inclined to express on the result of Wednesday ' s labours is not so much one as to the smallness of the amount as one of gratitude that the contributions should have been for the most part so considerable . Thus , the Province of

BERKS AND BUCKS , which has 20 lodges , and sent up four Stewards on Wednesday , one unattached , and three as representatives of as many of its lodges , is not so very much behind the total ol its regular contribution . It raised £ 123 8 s . for the Benevolent in February , and £ 715 7 s . for the Girls' Centenary . On

Wednesday it gave £ 122 8 s ., making for the whole year £ 961 3 s ., which is more by £ 200 than its aggregate of contributions in the Jubilee year , and the latter in its turn was a round £ 200 in excess of its average for the three previous years . It should be mentioned further that every one of its lodges has been directly represented at one or other of the Festivals during the current year .

CHESHIRE . had three of its lodges represented at the Benevolent Festival in February last , when the four brethren acting on their behalf raised a total of £ 63 . At the Centenary on the 7 th instant , its total , with one list still outstanding , was £ 457 18 s ., being the aggregate of 20 Returns . On Wednesday a single Steward upheld the credit of the Province by handing in a total of £ 39 18 s .,

so that the year ' s amount is £ 560 16 s . As we have pointed out on many previous occasions Cheshire has some 40 lodges , and it might have been expected to contribute more largely , but then it has its Educational Association which has been established over 20 years , and does annuall y plenty of good and useful work . The Province of

CORNWALL , which has 30 lodges on its roll , has not equalled its performance of last year , when , with Bro . Pearce as its representative at all three Festivals , it raised ^ 704 us . But this was a total of exceptional merit , and this year it has rested somewhat , being content with £ 372 15 s . for the Centenary , an

admittedly incomplete list of Bro . Truscott ' s , of £ 10 ios . in February last for the Benevolent , and £ 82 by the same Bro . Truscott on this occasion , the total , so far as as it is yet known , being £ 465 53 ., so that the Province during this and the preceding year has raised £ 116 9 16 s ., Bros . Pearce and Truscott having done most of the the work as representative Stewards .

DERBYSHIRE , with 21 lodges , returns £ 75 12 s ,, for £ 54 . 12 s . of which the list of Bro . A . P . Wood , for the Mundy Grove Lodge , No . 506 , Shipley , is responsible , the balance of 20 guineas being the amount contributed b y Bro . W . Naylor , unattached . In February , No . 1179 , at Ilkeston , gave £ 26 5 s . per Bro .

Dakin , and its total at the Girls Centenary was £ 776 ns . 6 d „ making altogether for the current year £ 878 8 s . 6 d . Last year it raised within a fraction of £ 626 , and in 1886 ^ 176 15 s ., while in 1885 , when its Prov . G . Master , the Marquis of Hartington , M . P ., presided at the Festival of this Institution , its total amounted to £ 1546 17 s ., the grand total for the last four years being £ 3227 .

It is impossible not to experience a certain amount of disappointment that the Chairman ' s Province of

DEVONSHIRE , which has a muster roll of over 50 lodges , should have contented itself with a total contribution of no more than £ 840 . The return for the year is certainly a good one , when the £ 47 5 s . so raised for the Old People in February , and the £ 126 ios . which figured in the Girls' Centenary list are added , amounting as it does to £ 1013 15 s . But , notwithstanding this , and

having regard to what the Provinces of other Festival Chairmen have done for them in recent years , the amount subscribed on Wednesday is not as imposing as might have been expected from a Province which , as regards the number of its lodges , is about fifth in order of strength . However , it has a Fortescue Annuity Fund and an Educational Fund , which draw con *

siderably on its resources , and do a large amount of good locally . We must not , however , allow the opportunity to pass without complimenting Bros , the Rev . W . Whitley and John Brewer on the success of their labours in raising between them £ 700 7 s . out of the whole Return , and the Jordan Lodge , No . 1402 , Torquay , which had two excellent . Stewards in Bros . John

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