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--pHOMAS MORING , Established 1791 . SEAL ENGRAVER , HERALDIC PAINTER , & c . 52 , HIGH HOLBORN , LONDON , W . C . ILLUMINATED ADDRESSES IN THE BEST STYLE . MASONIC AND HERALDIC BANNERS . Send for Specimens of High Class Stationery , Visiting Cards , and Dies gratis . Also gratis on application : —Book of Examples of Monumental Brasses , and Specimen Book of Brass Door Plates . Catalogue of Seal Engraving , etc . ( illustrated ) , 13 stamps

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STAGE LADIES & GENTLEMEN desirous of entering the Theatrical Profession in Diama , Comedy , Comic Opera , or Music Hall , apply for turns to MR . CARLTON ST . AUBYN , Late Manager Olympic Theatre , Royal Aquarium Theatre , 'theatre Koyal , Scarboro' , & c . ( Letter for interview ) . Mr . CARLTON ST . AUBVN , School of Dramatic Art , S 7 , New Oxford-street .

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PRANK HASWEL L ¦ * - ( EsriHLisuKD 1817 ) , . -SIGN AND GLASS WRITER TO THE TRADE . JiSOHO STREET , OXFORD STREET , LONDON , W . ARTISTIC WRITER TO THE FINE ARTS .

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MAYO'S CASTLE HOTEL , EAST MOLESEY , HAMPTON COURT STATION ( Adjoining the RAILWAY , and facing the RIVER and PALACE ) . BRO . JOHN MAYO na . , ?! , P accommodation in the new wing of this o ! dcwaiJlisncd and noted Riverside Hotel for Banquets for any nuMOcr up to 100 . Every convenience for Ladies' Gathercan ' ^ P 3010 ^ landing to river , whence Steam Launches si i- J '' Specimens of Menus , with prices , sent on 'Miiication . Five Lodges meet at the Castle Hotel , and < - crence may be made to the respective Masters as to the ca . cnng , & c .

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WANTED—VOL . II . of GOULD'S /¦ .,.,, '" STORY , in Morocco . Apply Office of the ' " 1 mason .

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Price is . 6 a . ^ HANDY BOOK to the Study of USTS ™ w ? . - Y ' PR'NTED , and MANUSCRIPT Masons ^ r 17 ' ~ P of Ancient Free and Accepted 172 W 0 , « " ^ (" Moderns" and "Ancients" ) from 1 ' alilcs R u WltI I « PP end > x and Valuable Statistical S « nte Gra ^ w J , 0 Hl ? . LAN 1 £ ' - - - ' - » 4 «* , Pas ' ° f BcvonS ? ^ S n of lowa > Past Prov - Gra"d Registrar ' 717-iRSfi' ! . ' . f > c- '& c- ' ' «* orof "Masonic Records , to Brc , vV „ ,, ^ f rs' lodges , " & c , & c , and dedicated WILLIAM J AMES HUGHAN , P . S . G . D . England . nd ° n : GKORGK KENNINO , I 6 & 16 a , Gt . Queen-st ., W . C .

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SITUATION IN A CITY WAREHOUSE WANTED for Son of Master Mason ; age 16 . Smart and willing . Has had some City experience . Address F . ELLIOTT , 13 , Market-terrace , White Postlane , Manor-park , E .

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GAIETY RESTAURANT STRAND .

LUNCHEONS ( HOT AND COLD )

At Popular Prices , in BUFFET and RESTAURANT ( on 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 6 till S Smoking after 7 . 45 .

AMERICAN BAR

THE GRILL ROOM

is open till 12 . 30

PRIVATE DINING ROOMS for large and small Parties .

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i ^ E ^^^ S SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 29 , 18 9 6 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

A regular Quarterly Communication of United Grand Lodge will be held at Freamasons' Hall on Wednesday , the 4 th prox . The business to be transacted will be for the most part of the usual character , but the M . W . Pro Grand Master has Riven notice of

motion to the effect that Grand Lodge should offer their humble and respectful sympathy to the Queen on the calamity that has befallen her youngest daughter the Princess Beatrice , Princess Henry of Bittenberg , by the death on service in a foreign land of her husband , H . R . H . Prince Henry of Battenberg . Such

a motion will meet with the loyal approval of the whole Masonic community , not only because the Queen is the sovereign ruler of this country and because so many members of her family a' -e or have been in the front rank of English Freemasons ; but likewise because of those fine womanly qualities which during the whole course of her long and prosperous

reign her Majesty has exhibited towards all classes of her subjects . By none is the calamity which has recently befallen the Queen , her daughter the Princess Beatrice , and the whole Royal Family more deeply lamented , and from none will it evoke deeper and more heartfelt sympathy than from those among her subjects who arc members of the Masonic brotherhood .

Masonic Notes.

As for the business which will come before Grand Lodge in the ordinary course , there is nothing that calls for any special remark , unless , indeed , it be that Bro . jW , H . Bailey will pass from the stage of Grand Treasurer nominate to that of Grand Treasurer elect without any of that unseemly disturbance which has occurred

at the March Communication for the past two or three years . And it is for this reason that we welcome the re-appearance on the agenda paper of the notice of motion which Bro . W . F . Lamonby gave in December last , but which the pressure of his private avocations prevented him from bringing forward on that occasion .

* * * It may not be possible to prevent touting and canvassing for votes on behalf of candidates for office , but a decided expression of opinion against the detestable practice , such as Bro . Lamonby ' s motion is calculated to elicit from the members of Grand Lodge , will not

be without its effect . Moreover , we must bear in mind that though the touting for votes has been most conspicuous in the case of the elections to the office of Grand Treasurer , there are other elections during the year—to the Boards of General Purposes and

Benevolence and the Colonial Board—at which touting has been more or less openly practised . There are brethren returned to these Boards who owe their success not to any special fitness they possess , but because they do not scruple to obtain support by means of this obnoxious practice .

* * The number of lodges for which the M . W . Grand Master has been pleased to grant warrants of constitu tion since the December Grand Lodge is 12 . Of these

three are located in the London district , six in the Provinces , and three in foreign parts , namely , one in the District of Madras , one in Zululand , and one in the Canterbury District of New Zealand . The highest number now on the roll is 2602 .

» The Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons will be held at Mark Masons ' Hall , on Tuesday , the 3 rd prox . Among the business to be transacted is the election of a brother to the office

of Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year , and , as more than one candidate was proposed at the December Communication , there will be a contest , which , as the Mark is a far less numerous body than the Craft , will , we hope , pass off in orderly fashion .

? * * From the Report of the General Board , w hich will be presented at the meeting , it appears that warrants have been granted for five new Mark and two new Ark

Mariners lodges since last December , and that there were issued during the three months ending 31 st December , 1 S 05 , 307 Mark and 83 Ark Mariner Certificates , raising the total number registered in the former Degree to 34 . 985 , and in the latter to 4747 .

We have very great pleasure in announcing that of the 32 pupils of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys who entered for Preliminary Section of the Cambridge University Local Examinations , as many as 30 passed , one boy receiving the mark of " distinction " for Geography . What makes this announcement additionally

gratifying is the fact that the average age of these 32 was only 13 years and five months . This demonstrates most clearly the excellence of the educational training in force at the School . It is also worthy of note that E . J . Coupland , the senior boy in the School , who is only i 6 ij years of age , has passed the Matriculation

Examination for the London University in the first division . This speaks well for the " retention system " which has latterly been adopted by the Institution , and which allows the Board of Management to retain in the School after the usual age for leaving— 15 yearsany boy who gives promise of being able to win distinction in the higher class of scholastic studies .

* * We have received the fourth and fifth lists of contributions to the Boys' School Scholarship . O . ving to the heavy demands upon our space , we are under the necessity of deferring their publication till next week . We may , however , mention incidentally that the latter

of the two lists includes ^ 50 voted by Supreme Grand Chapter at its Quarterly-Convocation on the 5 th inst . ; ^ 52 ios . from the Supreme Council , 33 ; , £ 25 from the Skinners' Company ; and £ 10 from the St . Hilda Lodge , No . 240 , South Shields ; while in the former is included £ 21 from the Rothesay Lodge , No . i 037 .

* * At the regular meeting of Lodge Qaalujr Coro nati , No . 2076 , on Friday , the 6 th prox ., Bro . E . Conder , jun ., will read a paper entitled " The City Company of Masons . "