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/„ 76 - and in the year preceding , when the Girls' School celebrated its Centenary , •tatnounte d to £ 656 gs . 6 d ., of which " Our Girls ' , " received £ 568 12 s . ' The Province that next claims our attention is

SHROPSHIRE . It comprises exactly a dozen lodges , or two more than in 1885 , when it was constituted a Province separate and distinct from North Wales . But though small lurnerically , it has greatly distinguished itself as a supporter of our Institutions . In 1887 its chief , Bro . Sir O . Wakeman , Bart ., presided as Chairman at the Girls ' Festival , and his lodges backed him up right well vvith £ 1022 17 s . The next year it figured among the contributing Provinces at the Centenary Festival of the same

Institution , its subscriptions amounting to £ 770 15 s . In 1 S 91 this Institution received £ 212 12 s . Cd . out of the £ 455 gs . Gd . raised during the year , and in February it raised £ 446 5 s . for the Old People . In May the Girls' School was presented with £ 105 , and on Wednesday two of the Brothers Spaull , acting Unattached , and two lodge representatives , made up a total of £ 97 2 s . Cd ., which increased the full Return for the year to £ 648 7 s . Gd . The credit of

SOMERSETSHIRE and its 25 lodges could not have been in better keeping than that of Bro . Viscount Dungarvan , P . G . M ., and Bro . Lieut .-Col . A . Thrale Perkins , the former of whose lists totalled up to £ 31 ios . Last month four Stewards , including the P . G . M ., together returned £ 19 6 15 s ., and in February , its total reached £ 635 10 s ., making in all £ 864 15 s . duringthe current year . In 1891 , the Old People received £ g 2 I 2 s ., the Girls' School , £ 186 7 s . 6 d ., and this Institution £ 483 gs ., the three Returns

reaching £ 7 62 8 s . 6 d . In iSgo the sum of £ 548 iSs . was apportioned between the Old People and the Boys' School , and in 1888 , at the Girls' Centenary , the Returns amounted to £ 946 is ., out of which the late Bro . Stothert had the pleasure of compiling £ 883 is . These are most creditable figures , and show unmistakably that under its present chief , as under the late lamented Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon , the Province is a staunch supporter of our Institutions . There are now 18 lodges on the roll of

SOUTH WALES ( EAST DIVISION ) , and these had a most worthy representative in Bro . Dr . H . N . Davies , J . P ., who must have worked hard and very successfully to have been able to compile a list of £ 315 . There were also two other Stewards , one of them being Bro . Sir George Elliot , Bart ., the respected Prov . Grand Master , but their contributions have

not yet been received . In February it gave £ 180 to the Benevolent Institution , so that the whole amount for the current year is £ 4 P 5 , which compares very favourably with the £ 479 15 s . subscribed in 1891 , and of which the R . M . B . I . had the satisfaction of receiving £ 380 . Its neighbour .

SOUTH WALES ( WESTERN DIVISION ) , with a smaller array of ten lodges , was represented by Bros . W . B . Roderick and J . Bourne , whose joint list amounted to £ 150 , the total for the year , including £ 32 lis . subscribed to the Benevolent Jubilee , being £ 182 ns . Last year the Old People and "Our Boys ' , " were the recipients of the kind support of the Province to the extent of £ 354 is ., of which the former Institution received £ 248 , and the latter £ 106 is .

STAFFORDSHIRE is in the same unfortunate position as Berkshire and Middlesex—that is to say , it has lost its popular chief . Yet it has contrived to raise the very considerable sum of £ 280 7 s ., of which Bro . T . J . Barnett , as Steward for the St . Peter ' s Lodge , No . 4 ip , Wolverhampton , has the satisfaction of being entered for £ 136 ios ., while his co-Steward , Bro . Frank Thompson , representing the Abbey Lodge , No . 624 , Burton-on-Trent , obtained the balance of £ 143 17 s . In May its

two Stewards raised £ 84 for the Girls School , and in February , it contributed £ 366 5 s . to the Benevolent Jubilee , so that the product of the whole year has been £ 730 12 s . which is not far short of the £ 761 15 s . 6 d . which it subscribed in i 8 gi , and of which this Institution secured a fraction over £ 452 . These are gratifying evidences that the Province , which comprises 30 lodges , is actuated by a large amount of goodwill towards our Charities . For the third time during this present year of grace the Province of

SUFFOLK has figured in the Returns . In February , it gave by the hands of 27 Stewards what for a county which has 22 lodges and is mainly agricultural must be regarded as the very handsome sum of £ 1161 15 s . In May , its respected D . P . G . M ., Bro . the Rev . C . j . Martyn , P . G . Chap ., was its solitary representative and his list was £ 42 : and on Wednesday , Bro . C . J . N . Row , for the Province and

the Stour Valley Lodge , No . 1224 , Sudbury , handed in the sum of £ 110 ios . —the total for the year being £ 1314 5 s . In i 8 go and 1891 its contributions reached £ 619 13 s . Gd . in the former and £ 0 75 2 s . 6 d . in the latter , but in 1889 , when Bro . Lord Henniker , P . G . AI ., was Chairman for the Girls' School , it raised £ 1048 17 s . 6 d ., of which the favoured

Institution was benefited to the extent of £ 571 13 s . 6 d ., while in 1888 the Girls ' School at its Centenary celebration received £ 517 12 s ., the amounts contributed to the other Charities enlarging the year ' s subscription to £ 1195 12 s . In the year of the Queen's Jubilee the total raised was £ 794 16 s ., of which the Old People obtained £ 418 19 s . Six out of the 35 lodges on the roll of

SURREY were represented in Wednesday ' s lists , and there were three brethren , including Bro . Col . Money , C . B ., P . G . M ., Unattached , the aggregate returned by them being £ 425 igs . Cd . The hig hest list was that of Bro . W . J . Mason , Cyclist Lodge , No . 2246 , East Molesey , who compiled a sum of £ 147 , Bro . Col . Money handing in £ 73 ios ., and Bro . W . Pile , Wallington Lodge , No . 1892 , Carshalton , £ G 6 i 7 s . Gd . in February the province contributed £ 2124 8 s . 6 d . to the Benevolent Institution

and in May £ 2 ig to the Girls' School , the three amounts reaching £ 276 9 8 s . In the preceding three years the total distributed among the Charities ranged from about £ 500 in i 88 g , to some £ 650 in i 8 go , but in 1888 it stood at £ 1298 14 s ., of which £ 1147 J 8 s . was received by the Girls' School ; in 1887 it was slightly short ° [ £ 800 ; while in 1886 , when the late Bro . General Brownrigg presided at the Girls' Festival it amounted to £ i 82 g , of which £ 1346 was in support of the General ' s Chairmanship . After three such achievements as the Province of

SUSSEX can point to with legitimate pride as the subscription of £ 731 17 s . 6 d . to this Institution in June , i 8 gi ; of / 1215 3 s . to the Benevolent Jubilee in February ; and ° » £ 1038 7 s . in support of the Chairmanship of H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , 1 * . M ., at the Girls' School Festival in May , it is not surprising that only a wee

contribution amounting to £ 31 ios . was forthcoming on Wednesday . However , •° ° s . Richard Clowes , Unattached , and A . F . Lamette , as Steward for the Stanford Lod ge , No . 1947 , Hove , deserve kudos for having kept the Province out of the IRB ° absen te < -s , and for having helped to swell the year ' s aggregate to £ 2285 . In ' ? ° 5 , when the late Bro . Sir W . W . Burrell , Bart ., M . P ., was Chairman at the ltls Festival , his Province supported him to the extent of . £ 1850 .

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Five out of the 31 lodges in WARWICKSHIRE appear in the Returns of Wednesday , their lists together amounting to -163 . In May the figure reached £ 150 14 s ., there being the same number of lodges represented , but the Stewards , including three Unattached , were nine . In February ,

however , the Province made a very successful appearance—the most successful , indeed , of which we have any knowledge—at the Benevolent Jubilee , when , with quite a small array of Stewards , it subscribed £ 2018 , the total for the whole year being , therefore , £ 2231 14 s . The nearest approach to the February performance was in 1876 , when Bro . Lord Leigh , Prov . G . M ., presided at the Boys ' School Festival , and some 80 and odd brethren amongst them raised £ 2000 .

WILTSHIRE , as ' our readers are aware , is one of our smaller Provinces , the number of its lodges being only n . It is , therefore , greatly to its credit that , after subscribing £ 483 14 s . to the Jubilee of the Old Folk in February , it should have been

represented , albeit on a very moderate scale , at the Festivals of the two Schools , the amount received by the Girls' Institution in May being £ 10 ios ., and that contributed for the benefit of " Our Boys " on Wednesday , £ 36 13 s . This gives an aggregate of £ 530 19 s . for 1892 . In June , 1891 , the Province raised £ 357 55 . 6 d . for this Institution .

Two out of the 13 lodges on the roll of WORCESTERSHIRE will be found in Wednesday ' s lists , the brethren who represented them being Bros Chambers and Hicks , the latter being included in the Shropshire list as well

The amount they raised was £ 100 16 s ., of which Bro . Chambers was responsible for £ 8 g Ss ., the other Returns during the year being £ 243 12 s . in February , and £ 144 17 s . in May , the sum total for 1892 being £ 489 5 s . Last year the total was £ 408 6 s ., while in 1888 , the year of the Girls' Centenary , it was £ 84835 ., of which the favoured Institution secured £ 60 * 18 s .

We have been so accustomed to associate big Returns with the large and in fluential Province of

WEST YORKSHIRE , that many will wonder its contribution on Wednesday , by the hands of only seven Stewards , should not have exceeded £ 105 . But in May the Girls' Institution received only £ 250 , the Schools faring thus indifferently , not because the Province is indifferent to their claims on its support , but because the Jubilee ofthe Benevolent

Institution in February had absorbed £ 3555 of its moneys . Moreover , the authorities of the Boys' School must have been prepared for—at all events , they will not be disappointed by—the modesty of the present subvention , knowing , as they do , that West Yorkshire raised £ 1685 ns . for it in June , 1891 , after giving £ 400 to the Old People in the previous February , and £ 315 to the Girls' School in the month of May . The amounts received from

FOREIGN STATIONS reached £ 71 8 s ., which is a welcome contribution from any source , but all the more welcome when those who furnish it hail from a distance . The names of two out of the five Stewards who had a hand in raising it—Bros . John Kenyon and Surgeon Capt . Kiddle—must be familiar to our readers .

CONCLUDING REMAHKS . We shall content ourselves with adding—what , indeed , we have stated elsewhere—that , considering how splendid a response was made to the appeals of the Secretary and Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for support at the Jubilee of its establishment , and that the Girls ' School Festival in May was by no means the least successful of its anniversary celebration , the friends as well as the authorities of the Boys' School have every reason to be gratified by the generous amount of support vouchsafed to it on this occasion .

The Sports At Kempton Park.

THE SPORTS AT KEMPTON PARK .

Kempton Park , with its lovely surroundings , was at its best on Saturday last , when "Our Boys , " accompanied by nearly a thousand ladies and brethren , assembled together in response to the kind invitation of Bro . G . Everett , P . G . Treasurer , for the purpose of celebrating their annual athletic sports . The guests on their arrival were received b y Bro . Everett , and after ample justice had been done toa most excellent lunch , the proceedings of the day commenced to the delightful strains of the band of the T Division of Police .

Under the able management of the Committee , Stewards , and Judges , the sports were carried out in a most satisfactory manner , not a single hitch occurring during the day . Appended will be found thc results : Bowling at the Wicket—G . P . Johnstone , 1 ; Rushworth , 2 ; Brewer , 3 13 entered . 100 Yards'Race . Preparatory School—Dickinson , 1 ; Metcalfe , 2 ; Spain , 3 , 17 ran . Won by a foot .

440 Yards' Handicap . Upper School—Steward ( scratch ) , 1 , * Collinson ( to yards start ) , 2 ; Groombridge ( 40 ) and Leeming ( 40 ) , a dead heat for third place . 36 entered . 220 Yards' Handicap . Lower School—Fry ( 20 yards ) , 1 ; Blyther ( 20 ) , a ; Chinneck ( 25 ) , 3 . Won by a yard . 31 entered . High Jump . Upper School—Collinson , 4 ft . n ' n . High Jump . Lower School—Atkinson , 4 ft .

High Jump . Preparatory School—Spain , 3 ft . 7 m . Cross Country Race—Fursey , 1 ; Steward , 2 ; Watkins , 3 . 440 Yards' Handicap . Lower School—Chinneck ( 50 yards ) , 1 ; Coulthurst ( 40 ) , 2 ; Atkinson ( scratch ) , 3 . Won by a yard . 100 Yards' Race . Upper School—Final heat : Steward , 1 ; Lester , 2 ; A , Harrison , 3 . Won by a foot , six inches between second and third . 32 ran in three trial heats .

300 Yards' Race . Steward , 1 ; Giblett , 2 ; Bird , 3 . Won easily . 30 entered 100 Yards' Race . Lower School—Lofthouse , 1 ; Mossop , 2 ; Fursey , 3 Won by a foot . 28 ran . 1000 Yards' Handicap—Bedford ( 150 yards ) , 1 ; Jennings ( 70 ) , 2 ; Fursey ( 35 ) , 3 51 entered . 300 Yards' Race . Preparatory School—Spain , 1 ; Chadwick , 2 ; Dickinson , 3 Won easily . 14 ran .

Throwing the Cricket Ball—Thomas , 64 yards , 1 ; Stevenson , 60 yards 2 . Eight competed . ' 220 Yards' Handicap . Upper School—A . Harrison ( 10 yards ) , 1 ; Leeming ( 25 ) , 2 ; Coupland ( 10 ) , 3 . Won by three yards . 36 entered . 100 Yards' Race ( under 13)—Mossop , 1 ; Dobby , 2 ; Blyther , 3 . 27 entered , A close race .

Not the least amusing occurrence of the day was an impromptu race got up between the members of the Board of Management and thc officers of the Institution , which resulted in an easy win for the Head Master , who was