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Bank Holiday Railway Facilities.
BANK HOLIDAY RAILWAY FACILITIES .
— : o : — THE GREAT WESTERS RAILWAY COMPANY ISSUE ordinHry in well aa excursion tickets at their principal City and Weat-o d Office " , aud thia arrangement ia probably pevor fo mneh appreciated aa daring the week preceding the Bank Holiday , when large numbers of people avail themselves of the
opportunity thus aflbiWl fen- oStvi ing ti .-kots nt their own time and without the crowding ant w < i-y iisi > p liable from a large railway station at holiday season ** . Tho fares charged are the same aa at Paddington , and the tickets aro available for use under precisely the same conditions nn those issued at that station . The booking offices afc Paddinirt in station will beopon for the issue
of tickets all day ou Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , August 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th , and 5 th , and the tickets issued ( except those for specified excursion trains ) will ba available for use on any of those days . To meet the expected additional traffic by tho ordinary trains on Saturday , 5 th August , the Company will run in duplicate , the 5 * D and
90 p . m . trains to the West of England , and the 12 * 0 noon aud 3 * 15 p . m , trains to Weymouth , Hereford , and South Wales respectively . The first portion of the 50 and 9 * 0 p . m . trains will leave Paddington at 4 * 55 and 8 * 55 p . m . respectively , bnt the first portions of the other trains will leave at the adveitised time ? , and the second a few minutes afterward *** , the long distance passengers being as far as
possible taken in the first portion , but with a few exceptions both trains will stop at the advertised stations to take up and set down passengers . On Wednesday , 2 nd August , an excursion train will leave Paddington at 7 * 55 a . m . for Gloucester , Cardiff , Newport , Swansea , New Miiford , & o . ; passengers will also be booked at excarsion fares to certain stations in the South of Ireland . Fast excursion
trains for the West of England will leave Paddington at 10 * 10 p . m . on Friday , 4 th August , and at 7 * 55 a . m . and 1 * 55 p . m . on Saturday , 5 th August , reaching Exeter in 5 £ hours , and Plymouth in 7 i hours . Excursions will also be run on Saturday to Bath , Bristol , Dorchester , Weymouth ( for the Channel Islinds ) , Choltonham , Worcester , Malvern , Hereford , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , Shrewsbury ,
Chester , Liverpool , Manchester , and other slationa on the Great Western System . On Sunday , 6 th August , excursions will be ran to Cirencester , Stroud , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & c , and at 12 * 15 midnight an excursion for 1 or 4 days will leave Paddington for Oxford , Leamington , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , & o . On Monday cheap trains will be
run to Bath , Bristol , Stroud , Gloucester , Cheltenham , Reading , Pangbourne , Goring , Wallingford , & o . Cheap third class excursion tickets are issued daily by specified trains from Paddington , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Hammersmith , nnd certain stations on the Metropolitan , Metropolitan District and North London Railway ? , to Staines , Windsor , Taplow , Maidenhead , Henley , and other popular riversides resorts .
THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN COMPANY ANNOUNCE that the ticket offices at Enaton , Bivmd Street , Kensington , aud Willesden Junction will be open throughout the day , from Monday , 30 th July , to Monday , 7 th August , inclusive , so that passengers wishing to obtain tickets for destination on tho London and North Western Railway can do so at any time of the day prior to the starting of the train . The Company also announce that on
Thnraday , 3 rd August , and Friday , 4 th Angust , the 2 * 0 p . m . train from London ( Boston ) will convey passengers to Carnfortb and North thereof only . Special trains will leave Boston at 6 * 25 p . m . for Holyhead and Ire . land . On Saturday , 5 th August , the 2 p . m . train from London ( Euston ) will convey passengers to Carnforth and North thereof only . A special train will leave Willesden Junction nt 2 * 57 p . m . for North .
ampton , Rugby , Trent Valley station ? , and Stafford . Special trains will leave Euston afc 4 * 25 p . m . for Coventry and Birmingham . The 7 * 0 p . m . express from Birmingham to London will travel via Northampton , thus affording an additional service from Birmingham to Northampton , and Northampton to London . Chenp Excursions will bo run by this Company from London to Birmingham , Coventry , Leamington , Kenilworth , Dudley , Walsall , Wedfiesbury ,
Wolverhampton , Leicester , Liverpool , Manchester , Huddersfield , Bradford , Shrewsbury , Hereford , Aberystwyth , Bortb , Abergavenny , South and Central Wales , Chester , North Wales , Bolton , Blackburn , Southport , Morecambe , Blackpool , Carlisle , the English Lake District , Scotland , and to various other placea on the Company ' s system . Similar traina will be run from many of tho districts named to London , including bookings to Brighton , Hastings , St . Leonard ? , Portsmouth , Southampton , & o ., and also to Paris and the Continent .
THE MIDLAND RAILWAY HAVE arranged , for the convenience of the public , that the booking offices at St . Pancraa and Moorgate Street Stations shall be c pen for the issue of tickets all day on Friday and Saturday , August 4 th and 5 th . Tickets to all principle Stationa on the Midland Railway will also be obtainable beforehand at their City and Suburban offices , and the offices of Mesa re . Thos . Cook arid Son , a full list Of which will be fonnd in the Midland time table and other
announcements . The tickets obtained afc these offices will be available from St . Pancras Station , and will be issued afc the same fares as charged at that station , and dated to suit the convenience of passengers . Cheap excursion trains will be run
from London to Leicester , Nottingham , Melton , Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , Burton , Derby , Manchester , Liverpool , Blackburn , Bolton , Rochdale , Oldham , Bury , the Furnesa District , Carlisle , & c , & c , on Saturday , 5 th August , returning tho following
Bank Holiday Railway Facilities.
Thursday ; and to Edinburgh and Glasgow , rr taming the following Saturday ; and ticketa for these trains for starting frcm St . Pancraa Station can be obtained on the two days previous to the running of the trains at tho above-named offioe *? . Chenp excursion trains for six days will also be run to London from Carlisle , Liverpool , Manchester , Blackburn , Bo ' . ton , Burnley , Bury , Rochdale , Burton , Derby , Nottingham , Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , Leicester , & c ,
on Saturday , 5 th August . Passengers will be booked by these trains at cheap fares to Brighton and other South Coast Stations for 5 , 8 , 10 or 15 days , to Paris and other placea on the Continent , having the priviledgo of returning within 16 days . On Monday , 7 th August , cheap day tripa will also be run from Darby , Nottingham , Leicester , Birmingham , Northamptonf Bedford , & c , to London ; and from London ( St . Pancras ) to St . Albans , Harpenden , Luton , Bedford , Leicester , and Birmingham , and a two days' excarsion to Manchester .
Masonic Sonnets.—No. 63.
MASONIC SONNETS . —No . 63 .
BY BRO . CHAS . P . FOBSHAW , LL . D .
— : o : — glut ^ Mfixlm . WOK . BRO . A LDERMAN JAMES WILLIAM DAVIS , F . S . A ., P . M . PROBITY LODGE , 61 , P . P . G . J . D . WEST YOBKS .
Back to the dust from whence his body sprang , Goes the cold clay of him we loved so well ; And tho' his death givea us a poignant pang , We know that in Grand Lodge be now doth dwell . Right glad waa I to have his friendship here—For many favours had I afc hia hands—And when I leave thia aad snblnnar sphere ,
I hope to meet him in those Better Landa . Tho holy precepts of Freemasonry Were well engendered in his noble soul ; Truth , Love and Honour , and fidelity , He over loved to practice and extol . And tho' a wave of sadness floods each breast , We joy that after Labour he haa Rest . Winder House , Bradford . 26 th July 1893 .
The monthly meeting of the Board of Benevolence was held on Wednesday , the 19 th inst ., at Freemasons' Hall , W . C , Bro . James Brett Senior Vice-President presided , and the Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents' chairs were occupied by Bros . C . A . Cottebruno Junior Vice-President
and C . J . R . Tijou ; Bros . E . Letchworth Graud Secretary , A . A . Pendlebury Assist . Grand Secretary , W . Dodd , and W . H . Lee attended from the Grand Secretary ' s office . Among the other brethren who attended were Bros . Wm . Vincent , Charles Dairy , David D . Mercer , George R .
Langley , James Bunker , George Graveley , S . V . Abraham , Henry Garrod , Charles Frederick Hogard , W . P . Brown , A . 0 . Woodward , George Head , S . H . Goldschmidt , Henry J . P . Dumas , Thomas Minstrell , George A .-Read , Charles Sheppard , F . W . Crohn , George P . Carter , Richard W .
Fraser , William Georgo Poole , W . Gilbert , C . H . Webb , H . Massey , W . Belchamber , E . M . Money , Thomas Simmons , A . Lefeber , Thomas Beecroft , R . Perry , H . J . Light , Max Mendelssohn , John F . Jones , and H . Sadler . The brethren confirmed recommendation to tho Grand Master , made at
the June meeting , to tho amount of £ 405 . There were 26 cases on the new list . These were qualified through Lodges in the London district , and at Hampton Court , Deal , Boston , Port Louis , Stretford , Gosport , Chingford , Waltham Cross , Singapore , Truro , Constantinople ,
Newport , Isle of Wight , South Shields , Plymouth , Dartford , Calcutta , and Leamington . In the course of a three hours ' sitting , one of theso was dismissed , and three were deferred .
The remainder were relieved with a total sum of £ 565 . This amount was composed of six recommendations to the Grand Master for £ 40 each , and four of £ 30 each , seven grants of £ 20 each , four of £ 15 each , and one grant of £ 5
Bro . W . Oxtoby , Borough Surveyor of Beverley , Yorkshire , has just been selected Surveyor of Ramsgate from a large number of applicants . We feel sure Beverley regrets losing so able an officer , and we offer hearty good wishes to Bro . Oxtoby on his appointment .
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Bank Holiday Railway Facilities.
BANK HOLIDAY RAILWAY FACILITIES .
— : o : — THE GREAT WESTERS RAILWAY COMPANY ISSUE ordinHry in well aa excursion tickets at their principal City and Weat-o d Office " , aud thia arrangement ia probably pevor fo mneh appreciated aa daring the week preceding the Bank Holiday , when large numbers of people avail themselves of the
opportunity thus aflbiWl fen- oStvi ing ti .-kots nt their own time and without the crowding ant w < i-y iisi > p liable from a large railway station at holiday season ** . Tho fares charged are the same aa at Paddington , and the tickets aro available for use under precisely the same conditions nn those issued at that station . The booking offices afc Paddinirt in station will beopon for the issue
of tickets all day ou Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , August 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th , and 5 th , and the tickets issued ( except those for specified excursion trains ) will ba available for use on any of those days . To meet the expected additional traffic by tho ordinary trains on Saturday , 5 th August , the Company will run in duplicate , the 5 * D and
90 p . m . trains to the West of England , and the 12 * 0 noon aud 3 * 15 p . m , trains to Weymouth , Hereford , and South Wales respectively . The first portion of the 50 and 9 * 0 p . m . trains will leave Paddington at 4 * 55 and 8 * 55 p . m . respectively , bnt the first portions of the other trains will leave at the adveitised time ? , and the second a few minutes afterward *** , the long distance passengers being as far as
possible taken in the first portion , but with a few exceptions both trains will stop at the advertised stations to take up and set down passengers . On Wednesday , 2 nd August , an excursion train will leave Paddington at 7 * 55 a . m . for Gloucester , Cardiff , Newport , Swansea , New Miiford , & o . ; passengers will also be booked at excarsion fares to certain stations in the South of Ireland . Fast excursion
trains for the West of England will leave Paddington at 10 * 10 p . m . on Friday , 4 th August , and at 7 * 55 a . m . and 1 * 55 p . m . on Saturday , 5 th August , reaching Exeter in 5 £ hours , and Plymouth in 7 i hours . Excursions will also be run on Saturday to Bath , Bristol , Dorchester , Weymouth ( for the Channel Islinds ) , Choltonham , Worcester , Malvern , Hereford , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , Shrewsbury ,
Chester , Liverpool , Manchester , and other slationa on the Great Western System . On Sunday , 6 th August , excursions will be ran to Cirencester , Stroud , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & c , and at 12 * 15 midnight an excursion for 1 or 4 days will leave Paddington for Oxford , Leamington , Birmingham , Wolverhampton , & o . On Monday cheap trains will be
run to Bath , Bristol , Stroud , Gloucester , Cheltenham , Reading , Pangbourne , Goring , Wallingford , & o . Cheap third class excursion tickets are issued daily by specified trains from Paddington , Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Hammersmith , nnd certain stations on the Metropolitan , Metropolitan District and North London Railway ? , to Staines , Windsor , Taplow , Maidenhead , Henley , and other popular riversides resorts .
THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN COMPANY ANNOUNCE that the ticket offices at Enaton , Bivmd Street , Kensington , aud Willesden Junction will be open throughout the day , from Monday , 30 th July , to Monday , 7 th August , inclusive , so that passengers wishing to obtain tickets for destination on tho London and North Western Railway can do so at any time of the day prior to the starting of the train . The Company also announce that on
Thnraday , 3 rd August , and Friday , 4 th Angust , the 2 * 0 p . m . train from London ( Boston ) will convey passengers to Carnfortb and North thereof only . Special trains will leave Boston at 6 * 25 p . m . for Holyhead and Ire . land . On Saturday , 5 th August , the 2 p . m . train from London ( Euston ) will convey passengers to Carnforth and North thereof only . A special train will leave Willesden Junction nt 2 * 57 p . m . for North .
ampton , Rugby , Trent Valley station ? , and Stafford . Special trains will leave Euston afc 4 * 25 p . m . for Coventry and Birmingham . The 7 * 0 p . m . express from Birmingham to London will travel via Northampton , thus affording an additional service from Birmingham to Northampton , and Northampton to London . Chenp Excursions will bo run by this Company from London to Birmingham , Coventry , Leamington , Kenilworth , Dudley , Walsall , Wedfiesbury ,
Wolverhampton , Leicester , Liverpool , Manchester , Huddersfield , Bradford , Shrewsbury , Hereford , Aberystwyth , Bortb , Abergavenny , South and Central Wales , Chester , North Wales , Bolton , Blackburn , Southport , Morecambe , Blackpool , Carlisle , the English Lake District , Scotland , and to various other placea on the Company ' s system . Similar traina will be run from many of tho districts named to London , including bookings to Brighton , Hastings , St . Leonard ? , Portsmouth , Southampton , & o ., and also to Paris and the Continent .
THE MIDLAND RAILWAY HAVE arranged , for the convenience of the public , that the booking offices at St . Pancraa and Moorgate Street Stations shall be c pen for the issue of tickets all day on Friday and Saturday , August 4 th and 5 th . Tickets to all principle Stationa on the Midland Railway will also be obtainable beforehand at their City and Suburban offices , and the offices of Mesa re . Thos . Cook arid Son , a full list Of which will be fonnd in the Midland time table and other
announcements . The tickets obtained afc these offices will be available from St . Pancras Station , and will be issued afc the same fares as charged at that station , and dated to suit the convenience of passengers . Cheap excursion trains will be run
from London to Leicester , Nottingham , Melton , Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , Burton , Derby , Manchester , Liverpool , Blackburn , Bolton , Rochdale , Oldham , Bury , the Furnesa District , Carlisle , & c , & c , on Saturday , 5 th August , returning tho following
Bank Holiday Railway Facilities.
Thursday ; and to Edinburgh and Glasgow , rr taming the following Saturday ; and ticketa for these trains for starting frcm St . Pancraa Station can be obtained on the two days previous to the running of the trains at tho above-named offioe *? . Chenp excursion trains for six days will also be run to London from Carlisle , Liverpool , Manchester , Blackburn , Bo ' . ton , Burnley , Bury , Rochdale , Burton , Derby , Nottingham , Birmingham , Walsall , Wolverhampton , Leicester , & c ,
on Saturday , 5 th August . Passengers will be booked by these trains at cheap fares to Brighton and other South Coast Stations for 5 , 8 , 10 or 15 days , to Paris and other placea on the Continent , having the priviledgo of returning within 16 days . On Monday , 7 th August , cheap day tripa will also be run from Darby , Nottingham , Leicester , Birmingham , Northamptonf Bedford , & c , to London ; and from London ( St . Pancras ) to St . Albans , Harpenden , Luton , Bedford , Leicester , and Birmingham , and a two days' excarsion to Manchester .
Masonic Sonnets.—No. 63.
MASONIC SONNETS . —No . 63 .
BY BRO . CHAS . P . FOBSHAW , LL . D .
— : o : — glut ^ Mfixlm . WOK . BRO . A LDERMAN JAMES WILLIAM DAVIS , F . S . A ., P . M . PROBITY LODGE , 61 , P . P . G . J . D . WEST YOBKS .
Back to the dust from whence his body sprang , Goes the cold clay of him we loved so well ; And tho' his death givea us a poignant pang , We know that in Grand Lodge be now doth dwell . Right glad waa I to have his friendship here—For many favours had I afc hia hands—And when I leave thia aad snblnnar sphere ,
I hope to meet him in those Better Landa . Tho holy precepts of Freemasonry Were well engendered in his noble soul ; Truth , Love and Honour , and fidelity , He over loved to practice and extol . And tho' a wave of sadness floods each breast , We joy that after Labour he haa Rest . Winder House , Bradford . 26 th July 1893 .
The monthly meeting of the Board of Benevolence was held on Wednesday , the 19 th inst ., at Freemasons' Hall , W . C , Bro . James Brett Senior Vice-President presided , and the Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents' chairs were occupied by Bros . C . A . Cottebruno Junior Vice-President
and C . J . R . Tijou ; Bros . E . Letchworth Graud Secretary , A . A . Pendlebury Assist . Grand Secretary , W . Dodd , and W . H . Lee attended from the Grand Secretary ' s office . Among the other brethren who attended were Bros . Wm . Vincent , Charles Dairy , David D . Mercer , George R .
Langley , James Bunker , George Graveley , S . V . Abraham , Henry Garrod , Charles Frederick Hogard , W . P . Brown , A . 0 . Woodward , George Head , S . H . Goldschmidt , Henry J . P . Dumas , Thomas Minstrell , George A .-Read , Charles Sheppard , F . W . Crohn , George P . Carter , Richard W .
Fraser , William Georgo Poole , W . Gilbert , C . H . Webb , H . Massey , W . Belchamber , E . M . Money , Thomas Simmons , A . Lefeber , Thomas Beecroft , R . Perry , H . J . Light , Max Mendelssohn , John F . Jones , and H . Sadler . The brethren confirmed recommendation to tho Grand Master , made at
the June meeting , to tho amount of £ 405 . There were 26 cases on the new list . These were qualified through Lodges in the London district , and at Hampton Court , Deal , Boston , Port Louis , Stretford , Gosport , Chingford , Waltham Cross , Singapore , Truro , Constantinople ,
Newport , Isle of Wight , South Shields , Plymouth , Dartford , Calcutta , and Leamington . In the course of a three hours ' sitting , one of theso was dismissed , and three were deferred .
The remainder were relieved with a total sum of £ 565 . This amount was composed of six recommendations to the Grand Master for £ 40 each , and four of £ 30 each , seven grants of £ 20 each , four of £ 15 each , and one grant of £ 5
Bro . W . Oxtoby , Borough Surveyor of Beverley , Yorkshire , has just been selected Surveyor of Ramsgate from a large number of applicants . We feel sure Beverley regrets losing so able an officer , and we offer hearty good wishes to Bro . Oxtoby on his appointment .