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SATUEDAY , 3 RD AUGUST 1895 .

The Boys School.

THE BOYS SCHOOL .

THE usual monthly Council Meeting was held on Friday , 26 th ult ., at Freemasons' Hall . Bro . Richard Eve was in the chair , and among those present were Bros . Fairchild , Stephens , J . J . Thomas , C . W . Hudson ,

Dr . W . H . Kernpster , J . E . Le Feuvre , H . Pritchard , J . Glass , J . W . Burgess , John Strachan , H . P . Hodgson , George Motion , Arthur Adams , H . Woodrow , George Cook , Harold Imray and W . H . Saunders .

After the usual routine business had been taken , a resolution of sympathy with Mrs . J . L . Mather , on the death of her husband , was passed . Bro . Eve ' s notice of motion to increase tbie salary of the Head Master from £ 525 to £ 630 was seconded by Bro . Le Feuvre and carried nem . con .

THE following is the result of the South Kensington Examinations June 1895 ; Practical Plane and Solid Geometry , —14 Certificates . Geology , —8 Certificates . Mathematics and Drawing , —The results of these Sections are not yet received .

Alpass Benevolent Institution.

ALPASS BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .

AT a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Festival in aid of this Fund the chairman , Bro . Robert Wylie Deputy Provincial Grand Master and Past G . D . Eng . announced that Bro . Col . Baldwin , J . P ., P . Prov . S . G . W . and Prov . Grand J . had

consented to preside at the Festival , to be held at the Prince of Wales Hotel , Southport , on Wednesday , the 16 th of October next , and he was pleased to say the arrangements were progressing satisfactorily .

Grand Chapter.

GRAND CHAPTER .

A QUAETEELY CONVOCATION of the Supreme Grand Chapter will be held at Freemasons' Hall , London , on Wednesday next , 7 th inst ., at Six o ' clock in the ' evening punctually . BUSINESS . Minutes of tho last Quarterly Convocation to be read for confirmation .

THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL PURPOSES . To tho Supremo Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England . The Committeo of General Purposes beg to report that they have examined the Accounts from the 16 th April to the 10 th July 1895 , both inclusive , which they find to be as follows : To Balance , Grand Chapter - - - £ 801 19 9

„ „• Unappropriated Account - 203 12 8 „ Subsequent Receipts - - - 438 10 11 £ 1 , 444 3 4 By Disbursements during the Quarter - 377 9 8 „ Balance - - - - - 864 7 6 „ „ Unappropriated Account - - 202 6 2 £ 1 , 444 3 4

which Balances are in tho Bank of England , Law Courts Branch . The Committeo have likewiso to report that they have received the following Petitions : — 1 st . From Companions Thomas William Faulkner as Z , George Augustus Mursell as H , Henry Haven Wheeler as J , and six others for a Chapter to be attached to the Medina Lodge , No . 35 , to be called " The Asher Barfield Chapter , " and to meet at tho Masonic Hall , Cowes , in the Isle of Wight .

2 nd . From Companions Walter Wollsman as Z , Oliver Claudo Robson as H , Edmund Robert Bartley Dcnniss as J , and seven others for a Chapter to bo attached to the Willesden Lodge , No . 2489 , Willesden , to be called " Tho Willesden Chapter , " and to meet at Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen Street , London .

3 rd . From Companions Henry Bond as Z , John Gabriel Albert as H , Arthur Dutton as J , and eloven others for a Chapter to be attached to the Avondale Lodge , No . 2395 , to be called " Tho Avondale Chapter , " and to meet at Anderton's Hotel , Fleet Street , London . 4 th . From Companions Godfrey A . B . Geary as Z , Rev . William Morris as H , William Corder Aiken as J , and six others for a Chapter to be attached to the Tyrian Lodge , No . 1628 , to be called " The Tyrian Chapter , " and to meet at the Masonic Hall , Bundaberg , Queensland .

5 th . From Companions Charles Jolly as Z , Thomas Ringrose as H , John George Hammond as J , and fifteen others for a Chapter to be attached to the Royal Victorian Jubilee Lodge , No . 2184 , to be called "The Victorian Chapter , " and to meet at the Phoenix Hotel , Rainham , in the county of Essex .

The foregoing Petitions being regular , the Committee recommend that the prayers thereof be respectively granted . The Committee have likewise received Memorials , with extracts of Minutes , for permission to remove the following Chapters : — ' The Chapter of Israel , " No . 1502 , from the Masonic Hall , Hope Street , Liverpool , to Freemasons' Hall , Eastbank Street , Southport .

" The St . Aubyn Chapter , " No . 954 , from the Ebrington Masonic Hall , to the St . Aubyn Masonic Hall , Moon Street , Morice Town , Devonport . " The Hamer Chapter , '' No . 1393 , from the Masonic Hall , Hope Street , to the Alexandra Hotel , Dale Street , Liverpool . " The Royal Union Chapter , No . 382 , from the Chequers Hotel , Uxbridge , to the Albany Hotel , Twickenham .

" The Mount Moriah Chapter , " No . 143 , from the Albion Hotel , Aldersgate Street , to tho Criterion Restaurant , Piccadilly . The Committee have to report that the Priory Chapter , No . 1863 , Tynembuth , having ceased to meet , they recommend that the Chapter be summoned to show cause why it should not be removed from the Roll of Chapters .

( Signed ) ROBERT GREY , President Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C , 17 th July 1895 .

The Freemasons of the north will be pleased to know that the last stone of the Masonic Hall in Pilgrim Street , Newcastle , has been laid by Brother F . F . Schnitger , says the " Newcastle Chronicle . "

Upwards of eleven hundred new members were registered under the Scottish Constitution during the quarter ending 20 th July , as shown by the accounts for that period , prepared by the Grand Cashier .

Dr . Longhurst P . P . Grand Organist Kent , the well-known Organist of Canterbury Cathedral , who has been celebrating bis golden wedding , has been connected with the Cathedral since 1823 . He was first admitted as a chorister , and in course of

time became lay clerk and assistant organist , and , finally , organist and master of the choristers . His elder brother , John Alexander Longhurst , was early in the century a popular boy

singer at Covent Garden when under the management of the Kembles . Both John Alexander Longhurst and his surviving brother , the present organist of Canterbury Cathedral , have been successful teachers of singing .