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THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .

THE Quarterly General Court of tho Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held on Saturday , at noon . Licut .-Coloncl Creaton , Vice-Patron and Trustee , occupied the chair , and in opening the proceedings announced the event to which we allude more full y in another column , namely the death of the Secretary , Bro . R . Wentworth

Little . The formal bnsiness having been disposed of , and authority having been given to tho chairman alone to sign cheques , Lieut .-Col . Creaton ' s motion that nineteen Girls be elected instead of eighteen , so as to bring the number of pupils up to 200 , was agreed to . In due course the poll

was opened and remained so till three o ' clock . About an hour afterwards the result was announced , and it was known who were the unfortunate five who could not be received into the School at this election . It must , however , bo satisfactory for them in the hour of their defeat

to know that other opportunities will be granted them , and consequently that ultimate success is by no means beyond their reach . These five aro G . Alice Jay , who being first on the list came out last on the poll , with 508 votes , of which 215 wero the result of four previous applications ;

M . S . Cooper , who with 419 votes from two previous attempts , polled but 304 ' votes additional , or together 723 votes ; E . M . Hill , also a candidate for the third time , who increased her score of 11 votes to 742 votes ; and E . M . Garnett ancl M . J . Sampson , both candidates for the first

time , who polled 622 and £ > n respectively . So much for the unsuccessful , with whom , as the smaller number , we have dealt first . The nineteen successful , whom we heartily congratulate on the result of the ballot , include all those who would have had no further chance of cettinoo n

into the School . Indeed tho girl at the head of the poll , G . Simmonds , would have been ineli gible in October , and this being her first as well as her last chance , her friends made a supreme effort , and she came out first , with 1664 votes , or nearly 500 more than tho number polled by the

second successful candidate . London thus secured the first place , but the second was taken by the one Leicester candidate , D . Bolton , who polled ll 7 l votes at this her first application . ISo . 3 , a London candidate , would have failed altogether had she not scored a sufficient

number of votes , as she would have been over age in October . To her previous credit of 141 votes were added 933 votes , making a total of 1 , 074 . ISTo . 4 was an applicant for the first time last October , and obtained 405 votes . This was increased to 1 , 041 on Saturday , and the fourth place fell to one of the three candidates from

Lancashire East . M . Whyatt , the one Lancashire "VV . candidate , was onlv a single vote behind her Eastern rival .

There already stood to her credit 418 votes , and a further 622 raised the total to 1 , 040 . Bessie Reed , hailing from London , stood 6 th , with a total of 1 , 022 , of which 317 were the result of two previous attempts . INTns . 7 and 8 were applicants for the first time , the former , from Notts ,

polling 1 , 016 votes , and the latter from West Yorkshire , who had this solitary chance allowed , 1 , 004 votes . A second East Lancashire lass stood next , with 974 , of which 419 were the result of two previous efforts . London was

close at her heels , however , as E . E . Spurging obtained 974 votes , of which 396 votes were brought forward from three previous ballots . A Devonshire girl , S . M . Norrish , who scored 178 in October last , increased the number to 963 . The 12 th on the list , a London girl , by name G . A .

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Daly , increased her credit of 116 to 947 votes . No . 13 , E . R . Bellamy , was a candidate for the first time , and obtained 941 votes from her Lincolnshire friends and supporters . E . E . Wilton , of Singapore , for whom at her two previous attempts 187 votes had been cast , had 724

given her on Saturday , so that she stood 14 th , with 911 votes , and not far behind her a London rival , II . E . Hood , who had this last chance only of success , and succeeded in raising her score from 283 to 896 . Nos . 16 , 17 and 18 were all candidates for the first time , R . A . Symon , from

the Province of Hants ancl tho Isle of Wight , obtaining 872 votes ; A . M . Brunskill , from Durham , 853 votes , and E . 0 . Thomas , from Warwickshire , 852 votes . The last of the successful was Clarissa E . Wright , of London , who had 217 votes to her credit from two previous applications ,

and was fortunately able to increase this number to 816 . Thus London carried seven out of her eight candidates , E . Lancashire two , Hants and Isle of Wight one out of two , while the Bristol , Essex , and Somersetshire candidates —ono from each Province—failed to obtain a place . Wo append , as usual , the results of election : —

SUCCESSFUL . N hst ° Nftln 0 Forward To-day Total 18 * Simmonds , Grace ( last ) ¦ - — 1664 1664 16 * Bolton , Dora - - - — 1171 1171 2 Thomson , Louisa Marion ( last ) ¦ 111 933 107-4 1-4 Wayne . Marv Louisa - . - . 405 636 1011

7 Whyatt , Marion .... 418 622 1040 5 Reed , Bessie .... 317 705 1022 20 * Ciirtor , Mancl ... . — 1016 1016 22 * GWloy , Clara Maria ( last ) ¦ ¦ — 1004 1004 12 Stephenson , Lilian - - - 419 555 974

3 Spurging-, Eleanor Elizabeth - 396 576 972 13 Norrish , Snsanna Maty - . 178 785 963 8 Daly , Gertrude Annio - - - 116 831 947 15 * Bollamy , Effie Rose ... — 911 941 6 Wilton , Morranco Eliza - . 187 724 911

4 Hood , Harriott Emily ( last ) - 2 S 3 013 896 23 * SymoD , Rosina A . ... — 872 872 24 * Brunskill , Adelaide Moat — 853 853 19 * Thomas , Emily Cory ... — 852 852 11 Wright , Clarissa Elizabeth - . 217 599 S 1 G

UNSUCCESSFUL . N li ' st Nnmo Forward To-day Total 10 Hill , Evalina Mary ... 11 731 742 9 Cooper , Marion Sclina - - . 419 304 723 17 * Garnott , Edith Mary ... — C 22 622

21 * Sampson , Mabel Jano . .. — 577 577 1 Jay , Gertrude Alice ... 215 293 508 * Indicates first application .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

THE Quarterly General Court of the Boys' School was held at . Freemasons' Hall , at tho hour of noon on Monday , Lieut .-Col . Creaton occupying the chair . When the ordinary business had been disposed of , tlie poll was opened for the election of thirty-one , instead of thirty , as

originally proposed , out of an approved list of seventyeight candidates . The poll closed at three p . m ., and as soon afterwards as possible the result was announced , full

particulars of which are appended . The contest was comments by no features of special interest , and the few remarks we feel it our duty to offer are of the ordinary character . We note in the first place that eight out of the