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GREATWESTERNRAILWAY. DURING August and September Special Fast Excursions will leave Paddington Station as under : NEW DAYLIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN WEYMOUTH AND CHANNEL ISLANDS . SATURDAY TO MONDAY TRIPS . Direct Steamers between W 2 YMOUTH and GUEBNSEY . Direct Steamers between WEYMOUTH and JERSEY . Shortest Sea Passage . Every Saturday at 915 a . m . ( Special Daylight Service Express ) , and at 915 p . m . ( Night Boat Express ) for Guernsey and Jersey , for 3 , 8 , 10 , 15 or 17 days . Return Fare , Third Class and Fore Cabin , 24 s 6 d . 3 , 8 , 10 , 15 or 17 days in NORTH WALES . Weekly Excursions to Shrewsbury , Aberystwyth , Barmouth , Rhyl , Llandudno , & c . Every Saturday . At 8-10 a . m ., for Shrewsbury , Oswestry , Borth , Aberystwyth , Llangollen , Corwen , Bala , Blaenau Festiniog , Dolgelly , Barmouth , Harlech , Criccieth , Rhyl , Llandudno , Conway , Bettws-y-coed , Bangor , Carnarvon , Llanberis ( for Snowdon ) , & c . Every Friday Night . At 10-10 p . m . for Exeter , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Plymouth , Devonport , Bodmin , Wadelridge , Newquay , Truro , Falmouth , St . Ives , Penzance , & c , for 3 , 8 , 10 , 15 or 17 days . Every Saturday . At 755 a . m . for Minehead ( for Lynton and Lynmouth ) , Barnstaple , llfracombe , Plymouth , Devonport , Newquay , Truro , Falmouth , St . Ives , Penzance , & c , for 3 , 8 , 10 , 15 or 17 days . At 8-20 a . m . for Weston-Super-Mare , Exeter , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Torquay , Kingswear , Dartmouth . & c , for 3 , 8 , 10 , 15 or 17 da ) s . At iri 5 a . m . for Frome , Shepton Mallet , Wells , Yeovil , Bridport , Dorchester , Weymouth ( for the Channel Islands ) , Portland , & c , for 3 , 10 or 17 days . At 12-5 p . m . for Newbury , Marlborough , Devizes , Trowbridge , Warminster , & c , for 3 , 10 or 17 days . At 12-35 p . m . for Clevedon , Bridgwater , Taunton , Minehead ( for Lynton and Lynmouth ) , Barnstaple , llfracombe , Wellington ( Som . ) , Tiverton , & c , for 3 , 10 or 17 days . At 3-30 p . m . for Swindon , Chippenham , Bath and Bristol , for 3 , 10 or 17 days . At 4-0 p . m . for Cirencester , Stroud , Gloucester , Cheltenham , Chepstow , Newport , Cardiff , Neath , Swansea , & c , for 3 , 10 or 17 days . At 10-10 p . m . for Weston-Super-Mare , Exeter , Dawlish , Teignmouth , Torquay , Kingswear , Plymouth , & c , for 3 , 8 , 10 , 15 or 17 days . Tickets , pamphlets , and lists of Farmhouse and Country Lodgings can be obtained at the Company's Stations and at the usual Beceiving Offices . HY . LAMBEBT , General Manager .

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HOTELS,ETC. — : o : — T 71 ALING—Feathers Hotel . EASTBOURNE—Pier Hotel , Cavendish Place . View of Sea and Pier . A . TAYLOR , Proprietor . EAST MOLESEY—Castle Hotel , Hampton Court Station . Specimen Menus , with Tariff , on application . JOHN MAYO , Proprietor . H AVERFORDWEST—Queen ' s Family and Commercial Hotel . BEN . M . DAVIES , Proprietor . BICHMOND—Station Hotel , adjoins Railway Station . Every accom-. i modation for Large or Small Parties . SANDWICH—BELL Family and Commercial Hotel . Good Stabling . J . J . FILMER , Proprietor . COWES ( WEST)—Gloucester and Globe Hotels . G . A . MUR 3 ELL , Proprietor .

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PHOTOGRAPHY. HOCKETT&WHITE, Photographic Printers , POTTEES KOAD , NEW BAEJSET . NEGATIVES sent to us by Parcels Post , securely packed , receive prompt attention , and Prints in SILVER , PLATINOTYPE , P . O . P ., giving best obtainable results , forwarded without delay . We are also pleased to answer inquiries , and give information and advice , for which our large experience fully qualifies us . Price Lists on application .

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OLD Books and Curiosities relating to Freemasonry , Knights Templars , Rosicrucians or other Secret Societies wanted . Address , W . W . Mr-iron , Ne » 1 'a . rnet . BOOKBINDING in all its branches . Price list on application . Morgan , Fleet Works , Bulwer Road , New Barnefc ,

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LONDONANDNORTHWESTERNRAILWAY. SOMMEK EXCURSIONS . CHEAP EXCURSIONS will be run from London ( Euston ) , Broad Street , Kensington ( Addison Koad ) , Willesden Junction , etc ., as follow : — On Friday night , 16 th August , To Carlisle , Moffatt , Dumfries , Nowiou St nvarfc , Stranraer , Wigtown Whithorn , Castle Douglas , Kirkcudbright , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Greenock and Gourock for eleven days-and to Aberdeen , Stonehaven , Montrose Brechin , Arbroath , Forfar , Kirriemuir , Blairgowrie , Coupai- Angus , Dundee ' Perth , Crieff , Oban , Loch Awe , Dalmalty , Tyndrnm , Crianlarich , Killin ' Fort William , Callander , Bridge of Allan , Dunblane , Stirling , and Inverness , ' for five and eleven days . Note . —By these trips Cheap Third Class tickets will be issued at a Single tare for the Double Journey , available for return on any day within 16 days from the date of issue . To Lancaster , Morecambe , Carnforth , Carlisle , the English Lake District , and the Furness Lino , for three and six days . On Saturday , 17 th August , To Douglas ( Isle of Man ) , for ten days . To Blackpool , Birkenhead , Chester , Nortlnvich , Blackburn , Bolton , Southport , Wigan , Preston , Crewe , Hereford , Leominster , Ludlow , Stafford , The North Stafford Line , Ashton , Bradford , Halifax , Liverpool , Manchester , Rochdale , Oldham , Runcorn , Stalybridge , Stockport , Warrington , Widnes , Burton , Derby , Leicester , Nuneaton , Rugby , Coventry , Kenilworth , Leamington , Birmingl am , Dudley , Walsall , Wolverhampton , & c , for 3 and 6 days . To Londonderry via Fleetwood or Morecambe and Steamer direct , for 16 days . On every Saturday during August and September , To Shrewsbury , Rhyl , Abergele , Colwyn Bay , Llandudno , Dolgelly , Barmouth , Aberystwyth , and other Stations in North Wales , for 3 , 8 , 10 , 15 and 17 days . IIALF-D - Y EXCURSION TO SHAKESPEARE ' S COUNTRY . ON THURSDAY , 15 TH AUGUST , A CHEAP HALF-DAY EXCURSION will leave London ( Euston ) 12-30 noon , Kensington ( Addison Road ) 12-12 noon , Willesden Junction 12-40 p . m ., & c , & c , for Stratford-on-Avon , returning thence at 7-40 p . m . the same day . Third Class Return Fare , 3 s 6 d . For times , fares , and full particulars see small bills , which can be obtained at any of the Company ' s Stations and Town Offices . FRED HARRISON , General Manager . London , August 1895 .

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" FEASTING" AS A PRELIMINARY FOR MASONRY . To the FREEMASON ' S CHBONICLE . DEAE SIE AND BROTHEB , —A column of Questions and Answers is one of the features of the " Echo , " and among the subjects recently touched &

upon therein is Freemasonry , one of the writers apparently desiring w nv » how to obtain admission to the Order . He is answered by " Blennerhasset , who I think I remember as frequently expressing his views in this way , and who on this occasion describes himself as having been a member of our 10

Order for forty years . He advises the enquirer to get a friend prupw him for initiation , and adds : "It then becomes a question of fees , feasting , initiating , passing in the several degrees to develop you into a free ana accepted Mason . " . _

I ask is this a decent or respectable way for a Mason of forty years experience to express himself ? and where does the question " feasting " come in as a part of the development into a free and accepted Mason ? The writer 01 the reply may have been a Brother nearly forty years , but he is not yet a wouio

Freemason , in the true acceptation ot the term , or ne . uu * »»»"" ideas as he has done . True , it may happen that most of the meetings ot nis individual Lodge have been followed by " feasting , " but there are plenty o Lodges on the Register where it is not so , the members finding sufficient !!

Masonry of itself to interest them , without the addition of feasting , x doubts my word let him visit a dozen or twenty Provincial Lodges on tne ordinary meeting nights , and despite the great superiority of everything