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T ONDON & NORTH-WESTERN L / RAILWAY . HALF DAY IN SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY . Cheap Excursions will be run from London ( Euston ) , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Willesden Junction , & c , 3 s follows : ON SATURDAY , OCTOBER 12 th , To STRATKORD-ON-AVON FOR THE HALF-DAY . Third Class Return Fare , 3 s . ( 3 d . Every FRIDAY and SATURDAY till Further Notice , To CHURCH STRETTON , returning , the following Monday or Tuesday . For times 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 , October , 1 S 95 .

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W ANTEL— TYLER for 1 st Thursdays October , December , February , April , June , August , for LODGE held at Highgate . —Apply , stating [ qualifications , to R . C . TURNER , 7 S , Crouch Hill , N .

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" DUTCH BULBS . EVERY DAY . GREAT UNRESERVED SALES . MESSES . PKOTHEROE & MOERIS , WILL SRLL BY AUCTION , AT THEIR CENTRAL SALEROOMS , 67 & GS , CHEAPSIDE , LONDON , E . C , EVERY DAY , AT TWELVE O ' CLOCK . Large consignments of HYACINTHS , TULIPS , CROCUS , NARCISSUS , and other Bulbs , received direct from Holland , and lotted to suit large and small buyers . 5 , 000 Lots sold every week . Commissions executed for those unable to attend the Sal-s . Lots packed and forwarded to all parts . Sixpence remitted in Stamps will ensure supply of Catalogues for 12 Sales . Auction Rooms and Offices , 6 7 and CS , Cheapside , London , E . C .

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QRAND MASONIC BAZAAR . MOTHER LODGE , KILWINNING , No . o . TRADES' HALL , Glassford Street , GLASGOW . 5 TH , 6 TH , AND 7 TH DECEMBER . LAURENCE MATHESON , Sec , Kilwinning . BAZAAR OFFICE—6 9 , BUCHANAN STREET , GLASGOW .

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MONTAGUE MANSION IV —• ( Opposite the British Museum Entrance ) , GREAT RUSSELL STREET , W . C . Most conveniently situated for Business or Pleasure . Cab Fare from " Montague Mansion " is One Shilling to nearly all Railways , Theatres , and the Royal Courts of Justice . Omnibuses to all parts for a few pence . Bedroom , Bath , Breakfast , and Attendance , 5 s . and 5 s . Cd . Night Porter . Telephone 2 go 6 . Terms Moderate .

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A HOME-LIKE RESIDENCE for GENTLEMEN . Bright , superior House ; central ; gold table ; bath ( h . & c . ); terms moderate . —14 , Brunswick-square , London , W . C .

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ESTABLISHED 1 SG 5 . T 5 LAD 0 N AND HUMPHREYS , *~* MANUFACTURING MASONIC JEWELLERS . ; APRONS , COLLARS , FURNITURE , AND REGALIA . i 7 . GREAT QUEEN STREET , W . C , AND iG , CLERKENWELL ROAD , E . C , LONDON .

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THE METROPOLITAN ( Victoria ) LODGE OF INSTRUCT / ON , 105 G . NOTICE OF REMOVAL . 'he above Lodge , formerly held for many years at the £ ortiigal Hotel , Heet-street , K . C ., held its first Lodge on ™ ° ay , the 20 th inst ., at the Mail Coach ( Bro . T . S . "eivell ' s ) , 60 , Farringdon-street ( between Ludgate Circus Jnd Holborn Viaduct ) , where it will be held in future , on 1 ' tiday evenings at 7 o'clock prompt .

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QTAGE LADIES & GEN 1 LEMEN S ^ desirous of entering the Theatrical Profession in IJ rama , Comedy , Comic Opera , or Music Hall , apply for terms to j MR . CARLTON ST . AUBYN , ¦^ le Manager Olympic Theatre , Royal Aquarium Theatre , 'neatre Royal , Scarboro' , & c . ( Letter for interview ) . Mr . CARLTON ST . AUBVN , Schcol of Diamatic Ait , 87 , New Oxford-slrect .

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WANTED . —FURNITURE for a New Lodge . — Address , W . C . TYLER , 50 ,

Waterloo-road , S .

PAIETY RESTAURANT STRAND .

LUNCHEONS ( HOT AND C OLD

At Popular Prices , in BUFFET and RESTAURANT ( en First Floor ) , also Chops , Steaks , Joints , Entrees , & c , in the GRILL ROOM

AFTERNOON TEA

Consisting of Tea or Coffee , Cut Bread and Butter , Jam , Cake , Pastry , ad lib ., at Is . per head , served from 4 till 6 in RESTAURANT ( First Floor ) .

DINNERS IN RESTAURANT

From 5 . 30 till 9 , at fixed prices ( 3 s . 6 d . and 5 s . ) and a la Carte . In this Room the VIENNESE BAND performs from 0 tills Smoking after 7 . 45 .

AMERICAN BAR

THE GRILL ROOM

is open till Midnight

PRIVATE DINING ROOMS for large ana small Parties .

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NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY . Established 183 G . LONDON : 1 , MOORGATK STREET , E . C . ABERDEEN : r , UNION TERRACE . INCOME AND FUNDS ( 18 94 ); Fire Premiums „' 7 ° ' , ooo Life Premiums 232 , 000 Interest 171 , 000 Accumulated Funds - £ AAA ,

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: l ____ i ______ £ ^ SATURDAY , OCTOBER 5 , 1895 .

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Masonic Notes .

The Board of Management of the R . M . I , for Boys has resolved to perpetuate the memory of its late member , Bro . William Masters , by founding a prize to be named after him . It is estimated that a sum of / ioo will be sufficient for the purpose and the list

( already well started by the members of the Board ) is open to be added to by any of the friends of our lamented brother whose zeal for the Institution merits this lasting recognition . Bro . McLeod will be glad to receive any donation for the fund .

* * * We take leave to remind our readers that the School Elections will be held in the great hall of Freemasons ' Tavern next week , that for the Girls' School taking place at the Quarterly General Court on Thursday , the 10 th inst ., and that for the Boys' School on the day

following . On both occasions the chair will as taken at the hour of noon , and in both cases the poll will be opened at 1 p . m ., or as soon as the ordinary business of the day has been transacted . In both cases also the poll will close precisely at 3 p . m . # * +

1 'or the Girls School the number of candidates is 34 , of whom 19 remain over from the April election , while the remaining 15 have had their names placed on the list in the interval that has since elapsed . The number of vacancies to be competed for is 17 , or 18 ,

if the Committee ' s recommendation is carried . For the Boys' School Election there are 46 candidates , of whom 21 remain from April last and 25 have been added since . Here , however , there is a far greater disproportion between the competitors and the vacancies they

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will compete for , the number of the latter having been originally declared as 16 , now , however , increased to 17 by the withdrawal of a boy from the School by his parents before the expiration of his full term . For particulars of the several cases we must refer our readers to the lists attached to the voting papers .

* # There are , however , certain of them to which we consider it our duty to call particular attention . We allude to the " last cases , " that is to say , to the children who will have their names struck off the list in the event of their failing to win places among the

successful candidates . There are three such in the Girls'List , namely : No . 1 ( Warwickshire ) , No . 11 ( East Lancashire ) , and No- i ' J ( Cheshire ); and five on the Boys' List , namely : Nos . 3 , 7 , 9 , and 19 ( London ) , and No . 26 ( G ! ouc ; stershire ) . In behalf ; of these children we make our accustomed earnest appeSI

to all Governors and Subscribers who are not committed to the support of any particular case or cases to give them the benefit of their votes and of such influence as they may be able to command , and we do this on the usual ground that the claims of these children to be admitted into the Institutions for which

they are severally candidates have been approved , and that being so , that they ought not to be sent away disappointed while there is the slightest chance of securing their election . The rest of the candidates can wait , these cannot . # * *

We heartily congratulate Concordia Lodge , No . 67 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania , on the completion of the first century of its existence , and the celebration of that auspicious event in the Masonic Hall , Philadelphia , on Friday , the 13 th ultimo . The warrant for this lodge was granted on the 26 th August ,

1795 , and the brethren therein named were constituted a Lodge of Freemasons on the 12 th September follow ing . At the present time there are 182 members , the full number of those who have joined the lodge , either as initiates or from other lodges , during the period of its existence being 976 . Of these two have been brethren of exceptional merit , each in his day having

the great honour to be elected to the chair of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania . The elder was Bro . James Hutchinson , who was Grand Master during the years 1854-55 , and the other Bro . C . P . McCalla , whose name must be familiar to many of our readers , and who was Grand Master in 188 9 and 1890 . A full account of the celebration will be found in the columns

of the Philadelphia Keystone of the 21 st ult ., to which we are indebted for the foregoing brief particulars of the career of this Concordia Lodge . We trust the same measure of prosperity maybe lusted out to it in the future as in the past .

» * * We gather from one of the organs of the Birmingham press that Bro . . Lord Leigh , Provincial Grand Master of Warwickshire , in the exercise of his undoubted discretion , has seen fit to instruct the Grand Secretary of his Province to decline to furnish to the

press any account of the proceedings that took place at the annual meeting of his Provincial Grand Lodge on the 24 th instant , or the names of those who were present on the occasion . We regret that his lordship should have thought it incumbent upon him to adopt

this course , but lie is justified in what he has done by the Book of Constitutions , and our duty is to show respect for his wishes by remaining silent as to what passed at the meeting in question . * * *

The news of the death of 'Bro . the Rev . Charles W . Spencer-Stanhope , Past Grand Chaplain of England and Grand Superintendent of Cheshire , will be received with general regret . The services which Bro . Spencer-Stanhope had rendered in the various branches of Masonry with which he was connected were fully recognised , while he himself was as highly respected

as he was universally popular . We publish elsewhere a sketch of his Masonic career , but we should be wanting in our duty if we did not take this opportunity of expressing our sorrow at the death of so estimable a Mason , and our sincere sympathy with his family and the large circle of friends , both Masonic and extra-Masonic , who mourn his loss .

We beg to announce that the Empress Lodge , No , 2581 , will be consecrated at the Empire of India Exhibition , Earl's Court , on Monday , the 14 th inst . The ceremony will be performed by the V . W . Grand Secretary , who will be assisted in his task by sundry Grand Officers . The hour appointed for the proceedings to commence is 5 p . m , , while the banquet which fallows is timed for 7 p . m . t