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A Splendid Balance Sheet.
increase received by the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution last year must be in a great measure attributed to the almost superhuman efforts put forth by its zealous
Secretary Brother James Terry , in arranging for the Festival in February last , when , nnder the presidency of Brother Sir Michael E . Hicks Beach , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master of Gloucestershire , the splendid total of
£ 17 , G 36 Gs 8 d was announced as the united exertions of tho three hundred and fifty Stewards who undertook to represent the various Lodges in London and the Provinces . In like manner , probably , mnst the increase of the Boys ' total be set down to the indomitable exertions of Brother
Frederick Binckes , through whose persistent and welldirected appeals in behalf of the Preparatory School Buildings a very substantial amount was raised . The past year ' s receipts by this Institution include , of course , the
special grant from Grind Lodge of £ 1 , 000 , voted at the June Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge , on the motion of Brother Raynham "W . Stewart P . G . D . Brother
Binckes , it mnst be remembered , still requires a little more help to enable him to place the Preparatory School on the basis which its advocates and well-wishers wonld be
gratified to see it ; ancl seeing that the next Festival in aid of the Boys' School will complete a quarter of a century of his exertions in that direction , it is to be hoped that it will resolve itself into a kind of " silver wedding , " at
which the silver—and gold too—will roll in plenteously in order that Brother Binckes may see the desire of his heart fulfilled , aud the top-stone placed on tho splendid superstructure he has so ably designed and assisted to a
successful issue . The occasion of this Twenth-Fifth Anniversary in Brother Binckes ' s Festival career should be an incentive to all the brethren to aid him in the accomplishment of his landable scheme , and we have no doubt such will be the case . In the Girls' School list it
must be specially noted thero is a munificent gift of a thousand guineas , presented by the Province of West Yorkshire , through its late Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Sir Henry Edwards , Bart . ; and there are good things in store
for Bro . Hedges , as Secretary of that Institution , as wc aro reminded that at last month ' s Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge a grant of £ 1 , 000 was made towards the purchase of the additional land at Battersea Rise , thongh .
tho committee have acted wisely in keeping that sum as a nest-egg for next year , instead of including it in tho current balance-sheet . Respecting the prospects of tho coming year , it is gratifying to note signs already of increasing
activity in the cause of charity . The Province of Cambridgeshire has made a noble start , by voting out of its Benevolent Fund one hundred guineas to each of the three Institutions , —a graceful act , which will be duly appreciated by the Craft at large . Subjoined aro the returns furnished to us officially from headquarters , in the order of the respective totals : —
Eoyal Masonic Benevolent Institution . . £ s a Donations and Subscriptions - . - 17 , 570 11 4 Dividends ... 1 , 899 1 6 Grand Lodge ... 1 , 600 0 0
Grand Chapter . - - 150 0 0 Legacy ... 105 0 0 lionfc of Meadow - •- 18 0 0 Interest on Cash at Gall - - 31 14 3 21 , 374 7 1
Royal Mason Institution for Girls . Si a a Donations aud Subscriptions ( including £ 1050—Sir lfonry Edwards Presentation , West Yorkshire ) 11 , 203 15 8 Dividends— " General Fund " —5 avs . - ¦ 1 , 575 0 0
" Susteutation Pund" 6 qrs . - - 171- 3 0 Graud Lodge- - - - - 150 0 0 ; Grand Chapter . .. . 10 10 0 j Admissions under Law LXIII . - ¦ - 100 0 0 t Music Pees - - - - - 193 14 6 Miscellaneous ... . ( il ] fj . [ . 16 , 763 ID 6
A Splendid Balance Sheet.
Eoyal Masonic Institution for Boys . £ s d Donations and Subscriptions - - . 14 , 423 110 Music Pees . - . . - SO 17 0 United Graud Lodgo—Annual - . . 150 0 0
Ditto Special - - . 1 , 000 0 0 Supremo Graud Chapter - - - 10 10 0 Sale of Lists of Subscribers - - . 2 12 0 Dividends on £ 17 , 000 - . . - 553 5 2 Legacy - - - - - 52 10 0 16 , 272 16 0
Lodge of Benevolence .
Month . Cases relieved . Amount . £ a d January - - 36 - 750 0 0 February - - 30 - - 710 0 0 March - . 34 . •755 0 0
April . - 43 983 0 0 May - - 28 620 0 0 June - - 27 703 0 0 July . . 25 770 0 0 August - 17 - 415 0 0
September ' . - 27 •' - 675 0 0 October . . 35 - - , 1 , 185 . 0 0 November . 38 •1 , 075 0 0 Dccamber - - 47 - - 1 , 512 O 0 387 10 , 153 0 0
Taking a prospective glance afc the prospects ot the Festivals for tho current year , we have first to consider that of the Benevolent Institution . Bro . Terry has secured tho services of the Marquis of Hertford , Senior Grand Warden ,
as Chairman for his Festival , and although the noble Marquis will nofc be backed np by a Province , the Institution is so high in tho esteem of the Craffc that we may anticipate a brilliant result from the gathering next month in aid of
its funds . For tho Girls' Festival Bro . Hedges has enlisted the sympathy of the popular Provincial Grand Master of Surrey , Bro . General J . Studholme Brownrigg , C . B ., ancl we are assured that his Province will use even greater
exertions than were shown on the occasion this respected chief presided at the Festival of the Benevolent Institution in 1883 . The Chairman for the third Festival of the year has not yet been announced , bufc we have heard a whisper ;
he is likely to be one of the most popular heads of tho Craffc . Moreover , the Festival of the Boys' School will , so to speak , mark the silver wedding of Bro . Binckes in his
.. association with the Institution , this year ' s Festival being the Twenty-Fifth hell since ho has filled the office of Secretary . Doubtless his many friends and supporters will seize the opportunity to do him special honour on the occasion .
.. .. It is to bo hoped that other Provinces will emulate the magnificent example sefc by Cambridgeshire , and thafc hy this timo next year we may be able to announce au equally satisfactory advance as is our pleasure to record afc the opening of 1886 .
Bro . Frank Richardson P . G . D . presided over a regular meeting of the General Committee of the Royal Masonio Institution for Girls , held at Freemasons' Hall , on Thursday last , when , amongst other business transacted , the sum
often guineas was voted towards a "Twelfth Night" entertainment to the pupils afc Battersea Rise , aud a further sum of £ 50 was granted for the purpose of providing a paling for the boundary of the grounds of the Institution . Ten
petitions were placed on the list for the April election . Ifc was resolved to recommend to the Quarterly Court , on Saturday , that the lisfc of candidates should include fchirtyseven applicants , and that the number of vacancies to ho
filled shall be twenty-two . Three notices of motion , the terms of which will be found in our advertising columns , were given by Bro . J . II . Matthews , Vice-Patron , P . Grand Std . 13 ., and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to Bro , Richardson for presiding .
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A Splendid Balance Sheet.
increase received by the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution last year must be in a great measure attributed to the almost superhuman efforts put forth by its zealous
Secretary Brother James Terry , in arranging for the Festival in February last , when , nnder the presidency of Brother Sir Michael E . Hicks Beach , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master of Gloucestershire , the splendid total of
£ 17 , G 36 Gs 8 d was announced as the united exertions of tho three hundred and fifty Stewards who undertook to represent the various Lodges in London and the Provinces . In like manner , probably , mnst the increase of the Boys ' total be set down to the indomitable exertions of Brother
Frederick Binckes , through whose persistent and welldirected appeals in behalf of the Preparatory School Buildings a very substantial amount was raised . The past year ' s receipts by this Institution include , of course , the
special grant from Grind Lodge of £ 1 , 000 , voted at the June Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge , on the motion of Brother Raynham "W . Stewart P . G . D . Brother
Binckes , it mnst be remembered , still requires a little more help to enable him to place the Preparatory School on the basis which its advocates and well-wishers wonld be
gratified to see it ; ancl seeing that the next Festival in aid of the Boys' School will complete a quarter of a century of his exertions in that direction , it is to be hoped that it will resolve itself into a kind of " silver wedding , " at
which the silver—and gold too—will roll in plenteously in order that Brother Binckes may see the desire of his heart fulfilled , aud the top-stone placed on tho splendid superstructure he has so ably designed and assisted to a
successful issue . The occasion of this Twenth-Fifth Anniversary in Brother Binckes ' s Festival career should be an incentive to all the brethren to aid him in the accomplishment of his landable scheme , and we have no doubt such will be the case . In the Girls' School list it
must be specially noted thero is a munificent gift of a thousand guineas , presented by the Province of West Yorkshire , through its late Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Sir Henry Edwards , Bart . ; and there are good things in store
for Bro . Hedges , as Secretary of that Institution , as wc aro reminded that at last month ' s Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge a grant of £ 1 , 000 was made towards the purchase of the additional land at Battersea Rise , thongh .
tho committee have acted wisely in keeping that sum as a nest-egg for next year , instead of including it in tho current balance-sheet . Respecting the prospects of tho coming year , it is gratifying to note signs already of increasing
activity in the cause of charity . The Province of Cambridgeshire has made a noble start , by voting out of its Benevolent Fund one hundred guineas to each of the three Institutions , —a graceful act , which will be duly appreciated by the Craft at large . Subjoined aro the returns furnished to us officially from headquarters , in the order of the respective totals : —
Eoyal Masonic Benevolent Institution . . £ s a Donations and Subscriptions - . - 17 , 570 11 4 Dividends ... 1 , 899 1 6 Grand Lodge ... 1 , 600 0 0
Grand Chapter . - - 150 0 0 Legacy ... 105 0 0 lionfc of Meadow - •- 18 0 0 Interest on Cash at Gall - - 31 14 3 21 , 374 7 1
Royal Mason Institution for Girls . Si a a Donations aud Subscriptions ( including £ 1050—Sir lfonry Edwards Presentation , West Yorkshire ) 11 , 203 15 8 Dividends— " General Fund " —5 avs . - ¦ 1 , 575 0 0
" Susteutation Pund" 6 qrs . - - 171- 3 0 Graud Lodge- - - - - 150 0 0 ; Grand Chapter . .. . 10 10 0 j Admissions under Law LXIII . - ¦ - 100 0 0 t Music Pees - - - - - 193 14 6 Miscellaneous ... . ( il ] fj . [ . 16 , 763 ID 6
A Splendid Balance Sheet.
Eoyal Masonic Institution for Boys . £ s d Donations and Subscriptions - - . 14 , 423 110 Music Pees . - . . - SO 17 0 United Graud Lodgo—Annual - . . 150 0 0
Ditto Special - - . 1 , 000 0 0 Supremo Graud Chapter - - - 10 10 0 Sale of Lists of Subscribers - - . 2 12 0 Dividends on £ 17 , 000 - . . - 553 5 2 Legacy - - - - - 52 10 0 16 , 272 16 0
Lodge of Benevolence .
Month . Cases relieved . Amount . £ a d January - - 36 - 750 0 0 February - - 30 - - 710 0 0 March - . 34 . •755 0 0
April . - 43 983 0 0 May - - 28 620 0 0 June - - 27 703 0 0 July . . 25 770 0 0 August - 17 - 415 0 0
September ' . - 27 •' - 675 0 0 October . . 35 - - , 1 , 185 . 0 0 November . 38 •1 , 075 0 0 Dccamber - - 47 - - 1 , 512 O 0 387 10 , 153 0 0
Taking a prospective glance afc the prospects ot the Festivals for tho current year , we have first to consider that of the Benevolent Institution . Bro . Terry has secured tho services of the Marquis of Hertford , Senior Grand Warden ,
as Chairman for his Festival , and although the noble Marquis will nofc be backed np by a Province , the Institution is so high in tho esteem of the Craffc that we may anticipate a brilliant result from the gathering next month in aid of
its funds . For tho Girls' Festival Bro . Hedges has enlisted the sympathy of the popular Provincial Grand Master of Surrey , Bro . General J . Studholme Brownrigg , C . B ., ancl we are assured that his Province will use even greater
exertions than were shown on the occasion this respected chief presided at the Festival of the Benevolent Institution in 1883 . The Chairman for the third Festival of the year has not yet been announced , bufc we have heard a whisper ;
he is likely to be one of the most popular heads of tho Craffc . Moreover , the Festival of the Boys' School will , so to speak , mark the silver wedding of Bro . Binckes in his
.. association with the Institution , this year ' s Festival being the Twenty-Fifth hell since ho has filled the office of Secretary . Doubtless his many friends and supporters will seize the opportunity to do him special honour on the occasion .
.. .. It is to bo hoped that other Provinces will emulate the magnificent example sefc by Cambridgeshire , and thafc hy this timo next year we may be able to announce au equally satisfactory advance as is our pleasure to record afc the opening of 1886 .
Bro . Frank Richardson P . G . D . presided over a regular meeting of the General Committee of the Royal Masonio Institution for Girls , held at Freemasons' Hall , on Thursday last , when , amongst other business transacted , the sum
often guineas was voted towards a "Twelfth Night" entertainment to the pupils afc Battersea Rise , aud a further sum of £ 50 was granted for the purpose of providing a paling for the boundary of the grounds of the Institution . Ten
petitions were placed on the list for the April election . Ifc was resolved to recommend to the Quarterly Court , on Saturday , that the lisfc of candidates should include fchirtyseven applicants , and that the number of vacancies to ho
filled shall be twenty-two . Three notices of motion , the terms of which will be found in our advertising columns , were given by Bro . J . II . Matthews , Vice-Patron , P . Grand Std . 13 ., and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to Bro , Richardson for presiding .