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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS , CLAPHAM JUNCTION , S . W . At a GENERAL COURT of this Institution , held in the F REEMASONS' TAVEUN , Great Oueen Street , Lincoln ' s Inn ' Fields London , VV . C , on THURSDAY , the ioth October , 1001 , Bro . HENRY SMITH , P . G . D ., D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire ' in the Chair , after the General Business was disposed of the Governors and Subscribers prccieded to the election by la'lot of i ( . Girls into the Institution , from a list of 25 approved Candidates , when the following were declared duly No . on No . on ELECTED . Poll . List . . Votes . 1 .. 20 ... Odore , Erminia Celeslina ( last ) SS 14 ¦ ... iS ... Rodwell , Phyllis Mary ... 57 ' 3 3 ... 7 ... Wright , Elizabeth May _ ... 5693 4 ... lG ... Davidge , Nellie Alice Louise ... 5241 s ... 4 ... Leftwich , Doris Elizabeth ... 5232 0 ... 22 ... Norris , Maud Evelyn ... 5224 7 ... 12 ... Chapman , Dorothy 5140 5 ... 25 ... Gozzett , Elizabeth Beatrice ... 5130 y ... 5 ... Brown , Annie ( last ) 5104 10 „ . 9 ' loulden , Ethel Gertrude ( last ) 4 S 0 S 11 . 23 ... Richards , CaioVire Mary Ina 4653 IZ ... 24 ... Kett , Hilda 439 S 1 3 ... 10 ... Slingsby , Margery Frances ... 4343 1 4 ... 17 ... Lloyd , Flcrence Marie ... 4301 , ... 1 5 ... Race , Mary Victoria 41 C 0 ! 0 ... 3 ... Meade , Dorothy Helena ... 3 SG 2 The rumbercf votes recorded lo unsuccessful candidates can be obtained on application at the Secretary ' s ofiice , and will be duly carried forward at the next election , if eligible . fc F . R . VV . HEDGES , Secretary .

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NOTICE . A SPECIAL EDITION will be issued on SATURDAY MORNING- containing a full Report of the Quarterly Court of tho H . M . I , for Boys , with result ofthe Election .

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W ^^ Ww ^ R ^^^^& SATURDAY , OCTOBER 12 , 1901 .

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The Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held in the great hall of Freemasons ' Tavern , on Thursday , the loth instant . Bro . Henry Smith , P . G . D ., P . D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire-, occupied

the chair , and the regular business having been dispatched , the poll was opened for the election of 16 from an approved list of 25 candidates . The names of the successful children will be found in our advertisement columns .

4 * * The Quarterly General Court of the Governors and Subscribers of thc Royal Masonic Institution lor Boys was held in the same place to-day ( Friday ) . The chair was taken b y liro . C . E . Keyser , P . G . D .,

I reasurer of the Institution , promptly at the appointed hour of 12 noon , and as soon as the regular busine-s hid been transacted , a pall was opened for the election of 20 from an approved list of 46 candidates . Great interest was taken in the proceedings , which

were ncl concluded atthe time of our going to press . However , we shall publish a supplemei t to this number to-morrow ( Saturday ) , which will contain a report of what was done and li-. ts uf thc Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates .

liie Committee of Management of tho Royal alasonic Benevolei . l Institution held their regular "ninthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall , on Wedntsday , the y ' . h instant , at 4 p . m . Thu chair was liken uy Bro . W . Vincent . I ' . G . Std . Br ., and , on the minutes

of Hie . September Committee being read and verified the Secretary re period the deaths of one male and one widow annuitant . The Report of the Finance Committee was re-ad , adopted , and ordered to be entered

on the minutes , and the Committee then dealt with sundry petitions , to ( he number of three ( or . e man and t »' o widows ) , with the result that they were approved , and the names ordered lo be entered on the lis's ol candidates lor the election in May , U 102 .

It is worth while noting that lac Provinces whose annual meetings were reported in our issues of the 28 th ult . and 5 th instant respectively , namely .

Cornwall and Cheshire in the former , and Durham in the latter , have all of them Charitable Associations or Organisations of their own , which are liberally sup . Potted by the lodgcj and brethren , and arc conse-

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quently able to do excellent nnd efficient work in helping those brethren , their widows , and children , who are in necessitous circumstances . Cheshire , for example , has its Educational Institution , which was established in 1863 , and its Benevolent Institution , the formation

of which was first contemplited in 1890 , while the Festival , to which it owes its establishment , was held in the Town Hall , Chester , under the presidency of the then Provincial Grand Master , Lord—subsequently Earl—Egerton of Tatton , on the 15 th June , 1893 Durham has its Hudson Benevolent Fund—so named

to commemorate the va ! uable services of Bro . Robert Hudson , P . G . S . B ., Prov . Grand Secretary to the Province—and the Educational Fund , which , we believe , has been in existence about a quarter of a century . Cornwall has an Annuity and Benevolent Fund all in one , which also is doing effective work , as will be seen from our later remarks .

• • * As regards the Cheshire Funds , it will , doubtless , interest our readers if we quote particulars as to its formation from Bro . Armstrong ' s book , which is the subject of one of our leading articles . At a meeting

of the Prov . Grand Lodge , which was held at Sandbach on the Sth October , 1862 , Bro . E . G . Willoughby , in the course of the proceedings—and we cannot do better than quote Bro . Armstrong ' s account— " drew attention to a scheme for the establishment of an

Educational Institution for the children of distressed Freemasons in thia Province on the basis of one which had been formed in W . Lanes ., and been found to answer remarkably well in that Province . That had begun on a small scale , but in this the 12 th

year of its existence the Governors had , owing to the very considerable increase in its funds , been enabled to educate 27 children . He and others interested in the undertaking had had an interview with the P . G . M . "the late Viscojnt Combermere , the hero of Bhurtpore

— " who highly approved of the plan , and promised his cordial support . Circulars had also been sent to the W . Masters of the Lodges in the Province , to the Past and Present P . G . Ollicers , and other influential Masons , detailing the objects of the Institution . As

he had not given proper notice before the holding of this P . G . Lodge , the formal proposal and discussion of any motion on the subject would be deferred to a P . G . Lodge of Emergency , which would be held at Crewe in Jamury next . " * * *

Accordingly , a P . G . Lodge of Emergency was held at the Crewe Arms Hotel on the 28 th January , 1 S 63 , when Bro . Willoughby moved "That an Educational Institution for thc Province of Cheshire be established on a principle similar to that existing in the Province

of VV . Lancashire , and that every lodge in the Province shall contribute the sum of Ss . out of every initiation , and is . out of every joining fee to the funds of this Institution , the same to be paid through the P . G , Treasurer , and by him handed over to the Treasurer

of the Education Fund . " Exception was taken to that part of the motion which made it compulsory on the lodges to pay the sums stated , and an amendment having been proposed to substitute the words " and this I ' . G . Lodge do earnestly recommend that every

lodge in the Province shall contribute , " and accepted by Bro . Willoughby , the scheme was adopted . The Prov . G . Master was elected President , Lady Combermere Lady Patroness , and the Dep . P . G . M . and Pro 7 . G . Wardens Vice-Presidents . The other officers

( Honorary ) were also appointed , and also a Working Committee composed of thc VV . Masters , Treasurers , and Secretaries ofthe lodges ; and the Cheshire Educational Institution was established , and has since proved of the greatesl benefit to the children that have been elected to its benefits .

Thc Cheshire Benevolent Institution , as Bo . Armstrong points out , owes its inception " to the amended Charity Organisation introduced in 1890 . At the first meeting of the new Committee of Benevolence , held at Crewe on November 25 : h , ISJI , Bro .

Herbert Finch , P . P . G . Registrar , r ^ al a piper , in the course of which he pointed out the necessity of such an Institution in the Province , and recommended the newly-appointed Charity Representatives to mike it one of their objects to accomplish . " The P . G . M . ( Lord Egerton ) did all in his power to help forward

the scheme , and at the Prov . Grand Lodge held at Congleton in September , 1892 , the Committee of Benevolence , in their Report , gave it as their opinion that it was desirable to " lurn their attention in the coming year to a strong effort towards the Fund for providing the means of granting annuities to the aged Freeuia-joiis and thu wido . vs of Freemasons belonging

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to the Province of Cheshire , so as to assist them until they can be elected on the Funds of the London Institution . " » » * The suggestion was acted on , and it was decided at a meeting of the Committee of Benevolence held at

Crewe , on November 30 th , 1892 , that an inaugural Festival should be held at Chester in the following year . Officers were appointed pro tern ., and these with the nine Charity Councillors were constituted a Provisional Committee . The Festival was accordingly

held in the Toiv . i Hall , Chester , on the 15 th June , 18 93 , under the presidency of Bro . James Salmon , the Chairman of the Institution , in the unavoidable absence of the Prov . Grand Master , as the Chairman , and Bro . R . Newhouse had the pleasure of announcing a total

of donations and subscriptions promised amounting to £ 3180 , of which , £ 2500 was already paid into the bank . The Prov . Grand Master headed the list with 50 guineas , and all the lodges in the Province contributed

to the result . This year a Festival has been held under the presidency of the Hon . Alan de Tatton Egerton , M . P ., Frov . Grand Master , in aid of this and the Educational Institution , the total of the contributions being returned at upwards of ^ 2000 .

* » As regards the Cornwall Annuity and Benevolent Fund , according to our report in the Freemason of the 28 th ult ., the total income , including a small balance brought forward from previous account , was

stated as £ 684 , the interest on investments being . £ 2 3 8 , and the donations and subscriptions , ^ 420 . The annual charges on the Fund included five annuities to aged Masons , £ 90 ; 11 annuities to widows , £ 162 ; and six education grants , £

75—making a total of ^ 327 ; and the Committee recommended the addition of five annuities to widows , £ g > , and three educational grants , £ 55 , thereby raising the total annual charges to £ 472 . The invested capital now amounts to ^ 7199 , being an

increase of , £ 481 on the year . These figures are most creditable to the Province , and so also are the returns of the Charity Association , from which it appears that the total raised by its means was 345 guineas , or 48 guineas more than in the previous year . * » *

ihe Province of Durham , the annual meeting of which was reported in our columns last week , is also active in the cause of Charity , and not only contributes regularly to the Central Masonic Institutions , but also has , as we have said , Funds or Institutions of its own ,

of which one—the Educational Fund—has been in existence for very nearly a quarter of a century , while the other—the Hudson Benevolent Fund—was founded only a few years since , but has already made such progress in the good opinion of the brethren as to be

able to grant annuities to sundry aged brethren and widows of brethren who are in necessitous circumstances . As for the older Fund for educational purposes it provides for about 24 children . Each of these

Funds has an invested capital of upwards of , 63000 , a considerable part of which was raised at a Festival held in 1 S 99 under the presidency of the late Sir Hedworth Williamson , Bart ., Prov . G . Master , who always readily did what he could to promote their

success . * * » Our readers will no doubt have seen from the report referred to in the preceding Note , that it is iu contemplation to hold another Festival , in order to still

further strengthen the position of these Funds . The Charities' Committee of the Province recommend the adoption of this course on thc twofold ground thit it is " the first year of our Provincul Grand Master "Lord Barnard—" and thc first year of our Grand

Master presiding over the Craft . " An incentive . vas added in the announcement maie at the meeting to the effect that if such a Festival were held , and a sun raised equivalent to ihe proceeds of the 1 N 99 Fjs ' . ival , the Funds " would be placed in a position to meet all

applicants without having recourse to voting , and free from precarious subscriptions . " We should think there will be little difficulty in this , as Lord B irnard has promised his help , and " to place such resources is were at his disposal at Raby Castle and Park " in lid of Ihe movement .

* * It will be gathered from this series of Notes tint these Provincial Charities by whatever titles they may be known , are steadily increasing in importance and

gradually doing more anil moro of the beneficent work in Provinces and Districts which is done for the whole country , and on a larger scale , by the Central Institutions .