Provincial Grand Lodge Of Dorset.

Lodge £ B d

1146 , Swanago , for 1886 - - - - - 3 0 0 372 , Shaftesbury , for 1886 - - - - 2 15 0 137 , Poole , for 1886 - . . - -200 707 , Bridport , Bro . Montagu ' s subscription for 1885-6 2 0 0 665 , Lyme Regis , for 1886 . - - - 1 17 0 417 , Dorchester , for 1886 - - - - 0 15 0 1266 , Blandford , for 1886 - - - - - 0 15 0 1037 , Portland .. . ... Nil .

The total contributions for the year amount to £ 56 5 a 6 d , of which £ 43 3 s 6 d are annual subscriptions , and £ 13 2 s 6 d are donations . Annual subscriptions form part of the revenue , and are applied to

relief , assistance , and education . Donations go to the capital account , and are invested as oppor . tunity offers . The revenue for the year ending 30 th June 1886 is as follows : —

£ s d Interest and dividends - - . . 91 16 10 Annual subscriptions - - - - 43 3 6

Total revenue - - . £ 135 0 4 available for the objeots of the Charity . N . B . —If the other Lodges and brethren in the Province will only imitate the example of Beaminster , the revenue will be brought up to about £ 200 a-year , and the Charity will then be able to carry out fully its educational objeots .

Five petitioners have been relieved daring the year , viz .: — £ s a

Widow , 472 - - - . . . 20 0 0 Mrs . S ., 1168 - - - . . . 20 0 0 Mrs . S ., 1168 - . . . . - 5 0 0 Bro . 1037 - . - - . . 20 0 0 A Lewis . 622 - - - - - . 20 0 0

for his advancement in life . This sum is now applied for the lad ' s board and lodging as an out of door apprentice to a chemist and druggist ; his parents not having a home , and living with friends at a distance from the lad ' s place of employment . It is to the education and advancement in life of the children of

our more unfortunate brethren that the efforts of the Dorset Masonic Charity might be more especially directed , with a prospeot of everincreasing usefulness ; for no other object affords so good a return for charitable work as giving to the young a good preparation for the battle of life .

The Abstract of Accounts will show the exact state of the finances of the Charity . The special thanks of the General Committee and of the P . G . Lodge are due to Lady Charlotte Schreiber , for her kind donation of £ 5 j to Bro . E . A . Hambro , for his annual subscription of £ 5 : and to

W . Bro . "White , for a donation of £ 5 during his Mastership of Lodge 1168 , Sherborne . Oar special thanks are also due to the brethren of the Manor

Lodge , No 1367 , Beaminster , for their wide and general support as subscribers , and the brilliant example they have given to the province of what may be accomplished by hearty and zealous co-operation .

We fraternally recommend this example to the other Lodges and brethren in the province , and exhort them to " go and do likewise . " ( Signed ) HENRY C . BURT , Chairman .

5 th July 1886 . E . T . BUDDEN , Hon . Sec .

APPENDIX 1 . —SHEWING ABSTRACT OJP ACCOUNTS . I

Cash Account for year ending 30 bh June 1886 . Dr . July 1 1885 , to June 30 1886 . m £ s d To interest and dividends - - - - 91 16 10 „ Annual Subscriptions - - . - 43 3 6

135 0 4 „ Donations . ¦ . . . 13 2 0 „ Balance of previous account - - - 29 0 10 ,, Bond Redeemed . .... loo 0 0 ,, Quebec Bond ditto - - - - 60 0 0 £ 337 3 2

Cr . 1 July 1885 , to 30 th June 1888 . B y Mrs . Mills . . - - . 20 0 0

j ) Mrs . Senior - - - ¦ - 20 0 0 » Mrs . Smith . . . . - 5 0 0 )> Bro . Warren - - - - 20 0 0 > , ,, Arthur Bugden - - - - 20 0 0

85 0 0 » Forms of petition , printing , & c . - - - 10 0 » Purchase of Stock . . - - 103 0 0

,. Difference" on Norwegian Bonds - - 1 IS 8 j ) Balance in hand viz .: At Bank . . . 142 19 6 Secretary ' s hands . . 3 5 0 146 4 6 £ 337 3 2

Provincial Grand Lodge Of Dorset.

Relief Account .

1 st July 1885 to 30 th June 1886 . £ a d £ a d By Grants - - 85 0 0 Vo balance of pre- „ Sundry payments 2 18 8 vious account 27 8 5 „ Balance - - 7-1 10 1 „ Revenue - - 135 0 4

£ 162 8 9 I £ 162 8 9 Capital Account . Lsfc July 1885 . 30 th June 1886 .

£ s d £ s d fo capital as per ao- By investments . 2068 13 0 count 30 th June „ Cash at Bank * - 71 14 , 5 1886 . - . 2127 5 5 „ Donations - 13 2 0

£ 2140 7 5 I £ 2140 7 5 Examined and found correct , ( Signed ) H . GiRBS W . M . 170 . Weymouth , 5 th July 1886 . ZILLWOOD MiiiLEDGE P . M . 170 . * This amount has been invested by tho Trustees since the date of ihis Report .

The Report was approved and unanimously adopted by P . G . Lodge , and the customary thanks voted to the sup-Dorters of the Charity . A donation of ] 0 guineas was then

? oted to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and Bro . W . James P . M . 707 was appointed Provincial Steward for the next Festival . Several additions and revisions of

; he bye-laws were then adopted , and the usual thanks voted ; o the W . M . and brethren of 1266—the entertaining Lodge . Swanage was named as the place for holding the Provincial Grand Lodge in 1887 . The Officers for the ensuing year

were then appointed , as follows : — Bro . J . W . Luflf ( Mayor of Blandford ) P . M . ) 0 . w , 622 and 1266 - - . j Semor Warden J . Whitehead Smith P . M . 622 - Junior Warden Rev . Richard Milner P . M . 1616 and ) n . , . 1268 - - - . j Chaplain Eegi eTe , o te ° ' ) Th 01 'ntm ^ ^ ^ } Treaaarer Thomas Randell P . M . 1146 . - Registrar Robert Case P . M . 417 ( re-appointed ) Secretary J . S . C . Hanham WlM . 1266 - . Senior Deacon W . Osmond P . M . 417 - - Junior Deacon T . W . E . White P . M . 1168 . - Supt . of Works H . Gibb 3 W . M . 170 - - - Director of Ceremonies P . G . Wheatley W . M . 137 - - Assist . Dir . of Ceremonies W . W . Pooka W . TML . 386 . . Sword Bearer James Ley J . W . 472 - - - Organist P . Barry W . M . 472 - - . Pursuivant J . W . Tribbett S . W . 386 - - B . A . Hogg W . M . 417 J . S . Stroud S . W . 417 - -1 q . , C . Roberts S . W . 472 . > Stewards J . Stewart S . W . 1266 G . E . Turner J . W . 1266 . J P . Long 707 - - - - Tyler

The P . G . M . paid a graceful compliment to the town of Blandford ( as well as to Lodge 1266 ) by investing the Chief Magistrate for the year with the collar and jewel of Prov . Senior Grand Warden . The Provincial Grand Lodcre was

then closed , and the brethren adjourned to the well-known hostelry the Crown Hotel , where a high class banquet was served by the widow of our late much esteemed Bro . Robert Eyers , P . M . 1266 . The Charity box realised ten guineas .

The Theatres, &C.

THE THEATRES , & c .

Opera Comique . — A comedy , in three acts , entitled " Bachelors , " was pat on at this theatre on Monday , tho 9 th inst ., in place of "The Pool ' s Revenge . " The piece was brought out at tho Hay market in September 1881 , while under the temporary management of Mr . Charles Brookfield , and is from the German of Benedix , bv Messrs . Robert Buchanan and Hermann Vozin . The work haH

some clever and amusing lines in it , while the plot , though rather thin deals with a brotherhood of bachelors , sworn to celebacy , bat who in the end become involved in the toils of matrimony . Tho complications arising out of the various amorous perplexities of tho bachelors , the oldest of whom unintentionally involves himself in

engagement to three ladies on the samo day , are amusing , and caused a fair amount of laughter . Mr . Hermann Vezin , as the hero of the three engagements , displayed considerable amount of eccentric comedy acting of an amusing character , in fact , it was very agreeable to see Mr . Vezin in a part we hardly expect to find him

undertaking ; Mr . William Herbert wa 3 spirited as Charles Lovelace , the impetuous young lover of Mrs . Lynu Loseby ; whilo Mr . A . E . Drinkwater was acceptable as Rufus Marrable . Mr . Prank Green , rather overdid the part of Potts , but was very amusing , and caused a considerable amount of laughter . Miss Florence Chalgrove was bright aud pleasing as Mrs . Lynn Loseby j Mis 3 Eva Sothera attractive as