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• tents and purposes , level . Then there is a long array of moderate lists , or some of the provinces show very conspicuously . ' At this Festival the principal - feature is the exceptionally heavy totals of several among the London lists , and the absence of any very considerable return among the provinces . It . should also bc stated that the number of absentee provinces is below the average . In other respects there is nothing that calls ' for any special
comment . A large proportion ot those London lod ges whose names arc so familiar to the brethren by reason of the regularity or frequency of their appearance in these lists , have sent ' up representatives , and we regret to add , a large proportion of those other lodges which are onl y less familiar by reason of the regularity or frequency of their absence , are yet again unrepresented . Wc shall most cordially welcome what wc trust we may describe as the good
time coming when similarly unflattering remarks will be quite uncalled for . Jt is manifestly desirable we should point out , even at the risk of being charged with " damnable iteration , " that lodges and brethren , when they make a point of figuring among the non-contributories , are guilty of a double offence against propriety . They studiously refrain from doing their duty , and they lay on willing shoulders a burden , the support of which
should of right be distributed with something like an approach to equality among the whole Craft . The honour of having founded or helped to found our Institutions belongs to certain brethren and the lodges of which they were members . But our Schools , speaking comparatively , are of ancient date , and even the Benevolent Institutirjti is well on its way towards the time when its jubilee may fitly be celebrated . Thus many years have
passed since the whole body of English Freemasons solemnly charged itself with the maintenance of our three Charities , and , to phrase it as gently as possible , it is certainly un-Masonic for a lodge or brother to shirk its or his share of a solemn pledge or responsibility . It is only about a decade , since a former Grand Master very forcibly pointed out that our Institutions were a credit to those who supported them , but not to those who , though they
might possess the means , yet lacked the will to bear their share of the burden . What held good when remarks to this effect were made holds good now , but with this important distinction , that as the responsibility has been very largely increased , the neglect of those who evade thier part of such responsibility is far less venial . It is scarcely possible to praise too highly those who so generously maintain our Charities , for what would become of
the latter if the former should one day turn round and say : VVe have done our duty again and again ; let-the others now do theirs . Where , in suchan eventuality , would our Institutions then find themselves ? Even the energy of a Binckes or a Terry might be unable to discover the ' wherewith to replenish the emptied coffers of our Institutions . This , however , as we have hinted , is an old story . In repeating it on this occasion we have
apologised , but if we prolong our remarks , they will become tiresome and lose much of their force . Let us betake ourselves , therefore , without further preface , to our self-appointed task of examining the returns . for the $ 6 th Festival of the Boys' School , which , subject to the exceptions that have already been taken , may be written down as being most satisfactory , whethdr we regard them as having yielded in the aggregate over ^ 14 , , or in their distribution among London and different provinces . LONDON .
Ihe breihren constituting the Board of Stewards on Saturday were 290 in number , of whom 130 acted on behalf of London and 156 for the provinces , the remaining four representing foreign stations or Degrees outside the limits o ( Constitutional Masonry . Of the 130 London Stewards , 21 were unattached , one acted on behalf- of the " Committee Dinner Club , " while the olher I 02 acted as representatives of 06 lodges and 4 Royal Arch
chapters . 1 hus , numerically , the London portion of the Board was the weaker , but when comparing it with the same portion of thc February and May . Boards , we find it less by 30 Stewards than at the former Festival , but 13 more than at the latter . Of the 21 unattached , one ( Rev . Bro . A . F . A . Woodford ) acted in a like capacity at the two previous' Festivals , while four others figured similarly in February , and yet five others in May , not to
mention those brethren who on one or other or both of those occasions represented lodges or chapters . As regards the lodges and chapters 14 out of the I'S red-apron lodges sent up Stewards , nine of them having contributed to all three Festivals five of the remaining nine having had Stewards at two Festivals , and the other four at one . It is very gratifying to note that the lodges which are exceptionally honoured are worthy of the
distinction . Many other metropolitan lodges have sent up Stewards at the February or May Festival , if not at both , as . many as 25 having been present at all three , while 27 appear to have divided their attention between the Schools or between one School and the Benevolent . Seven of the con-. tributing lodges have been constituted since the beginning of 1881 , while two are of this year ' s creation . As regards the amounts of the several
lists , we have already pointed out that some of them are unusuall y heavy , that of Bro . W . A . Scurrah , as Steward for the Royal Savoy . Lodge , No . 1744 , taking a long lead even of West Yorkshire , the largest contributing province ; while Bro . George Skudder , of . Temper-• ance Lodge , No . 16 9 , is beaten in this honourable rivalry only by the aforesaid Bro . Scurrah and West Yorkshire . These two Stewards have managed
between them to enrich the Boys' School to the extent of £ 1170 , Bro . Scurrah ' s list amounting to £ 630 , and Bro . Skudder ' s to ^ 540 . VVe shall take the liberty of congratulating these worthy brethren and the lodges they severally represented on the proud position they hold in the returns . Successes like these are as unusual as they are brilliant , and perhaps the best thing we can do is to leave them without further comment , to speak for themselves in
the unadorjied eloquence of their own figures . But , strange to relate , these are by no means the only big lists wc find included in the London total . The . Eccleston Lodge , No . 1624 , per its worthy and Worshipful Bro . Charles Tayler , contributes the large sum of £ 325 ios ., while Comp . J . C . Parkinson , as Steward for the Universal Chapter , No . 181 , is entered for £ 283 10 s . We shall give to these lists lhat greater degree of prominence which thev
unquestionably deserve , if we point out that the highest individual London list at Bro . Terry ' s Festival in February , was that of Lodge No . 12 S 7 , which figured for £ 202 7 s . Gd ., while the highest in May was that of Bro McDonald , acting on behalf of the London Rifle Brigade Lodge , No . 1962 , his total being , £ 264 12 s . Even in the big total raised for thc'Boys' School Festival in 1883 , thc highest London list was only £ 200 , there being two such amounts , Bro . j . L . Mather ' s-for the Committee Dinner Club , and Bro .
i . J . Robertson ' s for Lodge No . 1538 ( St . Martin's-le-. Grand ) . If , as has been often slated , a total that is distributed over a wide surface tells a more eloquent tale than one that is circumscribed , —lhat is , of course , as regards the great amount of active sympathy it discloses , —there is no doubt that a score or two of such lists as we have specified are not only honourable to those who furnish them , but likewise have a wonderful effect in swelling the general total . But besides the above four - { lists , Iherc are no less than 18
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others which run into three figures , namely : the Selwyn Lodge , No . 19 O 1 , with Bro . A . Bellis , P . M ., as Steward , £ 173 5 s . ; the Victoria Lodge , No . 1056 , per Bro . James Boulton , P . M ., £ 161 3 s . 6 d . ; the Star Lodge , No . 1275 , per Bro . D . Moss , £ 130 ; that of Bro . Tlios . Butt , P . M . and Treas .. of the Nelson Lodge , No . 700 , amounting to £ 129 3 s . 6 d . —if we add Bro . Bertram ' s ten guineas , we have a total for the lodge of ^ 139 13 s . 6 d . ; Faith
Lodge , No . 141 , per Bro . Coop , £ 125 ; the Highgate Lodge , No . 1366 , with ; £ i 2 i , the joint list of Bros . Trick , W . M ., and Galer , J . D . ; the City of London , 901 , per Bro . David Hughes , W . M ., £ 118 . is . 6 d . ; Prosperity Lodge , No . 65 , which contributes , per Bro . W . Chicken , P . M ., £ 117 is . 6 d . ; the Friends-in-Council , No . 13 S 3 , per Bro . K . R . Murchison . ^ no 5 s . ; Royal Jubilee , No . 72 , with Bro . J . N . Bate , P . M ., as Steward ; Carnarvon
Lodge , No . 1572 , per Bro _ Albert T . Pearce , W . M . ; Royal Hanover , per Comp . H . B . Marshall , G . Treas . ; the Committee Dinner Club , per Bro . Edgar Bowyer , P . G . Std . Br . ; and Bro . Torkington , unattached , each of which , or whom as the case may be , figures for £ 105 ; Granite Lodge , No . 1328 , per Bro . J . Lewis Thomas , ^ 101 17 s . ; and the Great City Lodge , No . 1426 , per Bro . F . T . C . Keeble , W . M .-, and thc Royal Leopold , No . 1669 ,
per Bro . Newington Bridges , P . M ., each of which is entered for a level £ 100 . The total raised by these 22 three-figure lists is £ 3797 Ss ., or rather more than a moiety ot the whole amount raised by London . Among the other found several of £ 60 , £ 70 , and ^ 80 , and upwards , that . of the Lord Mayor'sitems will be including' his lordship ' s personal donation of 20 guineas as Chairman—being only a fraction short of £ 70 . The Friends-in-Council
and Royal Leopold Lodges have been represented at all three Festivals for this year , the former having sent up a three-figure list at the Girls' Festival in May , while the amount contributed by the latter , per Bro . Cranch , in February , was not stated at the time . The London total- is ^ 712 6 s , 6 d ,. or rather more than ^ soo less than in February , but' between . £ 1300 and JCi-ioo more than in Mav .
THE PROVINCES . . In reviewing the Returns from the Provincial Stewards , 'it is gratifying to remark that , though they amount in the aggregate to about £ 1450 less than London sent up , and though the sum total is about midway between the sums they contributed in February and May respectively , —being £ 6349 ISs ., as against £ 6098 , within a fraction , at the former Festival , and C 6737 at the latter—there are fewer absentee provinces than usual . Even
in June of Iasfyear , when , owing to the contributions to the Building Fund being . included , Bro . Binckes was successful in obtaining from them over £ 5 J 77 I J there were but 35 provinces represented , and on Saturday last 33 ' put in an appearance . Thus the number ' unrepresented was only eight , namely , Bristol ( 8 lodges ) , represented at the Benevolent Festival in February to the extent of over £ 293 ; Cumberland and Westmorland ( 20 lodges ) ,
which has been resting on its oars since the- last Boys festival , when it figured as a contributor of 1000 guineas ; Dorsetshire ( 13 lodges ) , , which sent up a Steward in February , but of whose- contributions . this year we have no further record ; Herefordshire ( four lodges ) , which helped a little in June of last year ; Leicestershire and Rutland ( 10 lodges ) , which raised £ 350 for the Benevolent in February last and £ 405 for the Boys '
School in June , 18 S 3 ; Norfolk ( 16 lodges ) , which has not been represented at all this year ; and'Jersey ( seven lodges ) , which gave 200 guineas to our Boys' at their Festival for 1883 . If to these we add the five Bedfordshire , three Isle of Man , and five Channel Islands lodges , we have a total of 91 lodges which contributed nothing on Saturday , though most of the absent provinces at all events have done a something more or less noteworthy at
previous anniversaries : As for the Bedfordshire lodges , we are heartily tired of drawing attention to the repeated evidences we have of their seeming indifference to the needs of our Institutions . As regards the Isle of Man lodges we look to them for no assistance , and are not disappointed , while those in the Channel . Islands give us occasional evidence , as in February last , of the liberality of their disposition . Of the contributing provinces the first on the list is that of
BERKS AND BUCKS , six of whose 22 lodges make up a total of £ 163 16 s ., raising its total of subscriptions and' donations for the current year to £ 453 6 s . 6 d ., or about /' 20 less than it raised in 1883 . This is one of the many provinces on
whose presence we may confidently reckon at our annual celebrations . It should be mentioned , however , that in this instance the whole of the amount raised is . given by Berks lodges , those hailing from Bucks having had no share in the work . We must congratulate . -
CAMBRIDGESHIRE on its reappearance in the lists . Last year the Girls' School was benefited to the extent of £ 128 . Thisyearthe second senior Cambridge lodge , that * of the Three Grand Principles , No . 441 , figures for £ 174 6 s ., but " the Boys ' School proves to have been , the favoured Institution . We are delighted beyond measure at this very substantial evidence of the renewed interest taken by this small province in the proceedings of our Charities .
. CHESHIRE stands out more prominently than usual , nine of its 39 lodges being represented by 12 Stewards , while £ 36 15 s . is the smallest amount included in any individual list . The sum of the contributions is not far short of . £ 500 , the precise amount being ^ 49 8 6 s . This added , to the £ 126 raised for Bro . Terry in February and £ 55 14 s . for Bro . Hedges in May , gives a total for
the year of £ 68 oi a very , serviceable amount even for so considerable a . province , especially if we keep in mind that it has its own Educational Institute . Of the nine represented lodges ,- Zetland , No . 537 , Birkenhead , .-has sent up one or more Stewards to all . three festivals for the year ; while Unanimity , No . 89 , Dukenficld , appeared ia the Benevolent list , and the Stamford , No . 1045 , Altrincham , in that of the Girls' School in May . There are some 29 ' lodges on the roll of
CORNWALL , but its presence at our Festivals—during the current year , at all events—is due to the hearty goodwill impartially exhibited towards all our Institutions by Bro . Controller S . Graham Bake , who has served the office of . Steward , at each of the Anniversaries held last year and this . His lists have not
been heavy ; but it would have been unreasonable to expect this in the case of a brother enrolling himself as a member of six consecutive Boards of Stewards . His list of £ 28 7 s . makes a total for the present year of £ 88 4 s . ; but we could wish that a few more of our Cornish brethren had figured in his company , because some little time has passed since the province put forth a degree of strength worthy of its reputation . . DERBYSHIRE , with a roll of 20 lodges , two of which sent up Stewards , contributes £ 94 ios .,
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Analysis Of The Returns.
• tents and purposes , level . Then there is a long array of moderate lists , or some of the provinces show very conspicuously . ' At this Festival the principal - feature is the exceptionally heavy totals of several among the London lists , and the absence of any very considerable return among the provinces . It . should also bc stated that the number of absentee provinces is below the average . In other respects there is nothing that calls ' for any special
comment . A large proportion ot those London lod ges whose names arc so familiar to the brethren by reason of the regularity or frequency of their appearance in these lists , have sent ' up representatives , and we regret to add , a large proportion of those other lodges which are onl y less familiar by reason of the regularity or frequency of their absence , are yet again unrepresented . Wc shall most cordially welcome what wc trust we may describe as the good
time coming when similarly unflattering remarks will be quite uncalled for . Jt is manifestly desirable we should point out , even at the risk of being charged with " damnable iteration , " that lodges and brethren , when they make a point of figuring among the non-contributories , are guilty of a double offence against propriety . They studiously refrain from doing their duty , and they lay on willing shoulders a burden , the support of which
should of right be distributed with something like an approach to equality among the whole Craft . The honour of having founded or helped to found our Institutions belongs to certain brethren and the lodges of which they were members . But our Schools , speaking comparatively , are of ancient date , and even the Benevolent Institutirjti is well on its way towards the time when its jubilee may fitly be celebrated . Thus many years have
passed since the whole body of English Freemasons solemnly charged itself with the maintenance of our three Charities , and , to phrase it as gently as possible , it is certainly un-Masonic for a lodge or brother to shirk its or his share of a solemn pledge or responsibility . It is only about a decade , since a former Grand Master very forcibly pointed out that our Institutions were a credit to those who supported them , but not to those who , though they
might possess the means , yet lacked the will to bear their share of the burden . What held good when remarks to this effect were made holds good now , but with this important distinction , that as the responsibility has been very largely increased , the neglect of those who evade thier part of such responsibility is far less venial . It is scarcely possible to praise too highly those who so generously maintain our Charities , for what would become of
the latter if the former should one day turn round and say : VVe have done our duty again and again ; let-the others now do theirs . Where , in suchan eventuality , would our Institutions then find themselves ? Even the energy of a Binckes or a Terry might be unable to discover the ' wherewith to replenish the emptied coffers of our Institutions . This , however , as we have hinted , is an old story . In repeating it on this occasion we have
apologised , but if we prolong our remarks , they will become tiresome and lose much of their force . Let us betake ourselves , therefore , without further preface , to our self-appointed task of examining the returns . for the $ 6 th Festival of the Boys' School , which , subject to the exceptions that have already been taken , may be written down as being most satisfactory , whethdr we regard them as having yielded in the aggregate over ^ 14 , , or in their distribution among London and different provinces . LONDON .
Ihe breihren constituting the Board of Stewards on Saturday were 290 in number , of whom 130 acted on behalf of London and 156 for the provinces , the remaining four representing foreign stations or Degrees outside the limits o ( Constitutional Masonry . Of the 130 London Stewards , 21 were unattached , one acted on behalf- of the " Committee Dinner Club , " while the olher I 02 acted as representatives of 06 lodges and 4 Royal Arch
chapters . 1 hus , numerically , the London portion of the Board was the weaker , but when comparing it with the same portion of thc February and May . Boards , we find it less by 30 Stewards than at the former Festival , but 13 more than at the latter . Of the 21 unattached , one ( Rev . Bro . A . F . A . Woodford ) acted in a like capacity at the two previous' Festivals , while four others figured similarly in February , and yet five others in May , not to
mention those brethren who on one or other or both of those occasions represented lodges or chapters . As regards the lodges and chapters 14 out of the I'S red-apron lodges sent up Stewards , nine of them having contributed to all three Festivals five of the remaining nine having had Stewards at two Festivals , and the other four at one . It is very gratifying to note that the lodges which are exceptionally honoured are worthy of the
distinction . Many other metropolitan lodges have sent up Stewards at the February or May Festival , if not at both , as . many as 25 having been present at all three , while 27 appear to have divided their attention between the Schools or between one School and the Benevolent . Seven of the con-. tributing lodges have been constituted since the beginning of 1881 , while two are of this year ' s creation . As regards the amounts of the several
lists , we have already pointed out that some of them are unusuall y heavy , that of Bro . W . A . Scurrah , as Steward for the Royal Savoy . Lodge , No . 1744 , taking a long lead even of West Yorkshire , the largest contributing province ; while Bro . George Skudder , of . Temper-• ance Lodge , No . 16 9 , is beaten in this honourable rivalry only by the aforesaid Bro . Scurrah and West Yorkshire . These two Stewards have managed
between them to enrich the Boys' School to the extent of £ 1170 , Bro . Scurrah ' s list amounting to £ 630 , and Bro . Skudder ' s to ^ 540 . VVe shall take the liberty of congratulating these worthy brethren and the lodges they severally represented on the proud position they hold in the returns . Successes like these are as unusual as they are brilliant , and perhaps the best thing we can do is to leave them without further comment , to speak for themselves in
the unadorjied eloquence of their own figures . But , strange to relate , these are by no means the only big lists wc find included in the London total . The . Eccleston Lodge , No . 1624 , per its worthy and Worshipful Bro . Charles Tayler , contributes the large sum of £ 325 ios ., while Comp . J . C . Parkinson , as Steward for the Universal Chapter , No . 181 , is entered for £ 283 10 s . We shall give to these lists lhat greater degree of prominence which thev
unquestionably deserve , if we point out that the highest individual London list at Bro . Terry ' s Festival in February , was that of Lodge No . 12 S 7 , which figured for £ 202 7 s . Gd ., while the highest in May was that of Bro McDonald , acting on behalf of the London Rifle Brigade Lodge , No . 1962 , his total being , £ 264 12 s . Even in the big total raised for thc'Boys' School Festival in 1883 , thc highest London list was only £ 200 , there being two such amounts , Bro . j . L . Mather ' s-for the Committee Dinner Club , and Bro .
i . J . Robertson ' s for Lodge No . 1538 ( St . Martin's-le-. Grand ) . If , as has been often slated , a total that is distributed over a wide surface tells a more eloquent tale than one that is circumscribed , —lhat is , of course , as regards the great amount of active sympathy it discloses , —there is no doubt that a score or two of such lists as we have specified are not only honourable to those who furnish them , but likewise have a wonderful effect in swelling the general total . But besides the above four - { lists , Iherc are no less than 18
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others which run into three figures , namely : the Selwyn Lodge , No . 19 O 1 , with Bro . A . Bellis , P . M ., as Steward , £ 173 5 s . ; the Victoria Lodge , No . 1056 , per Bro . James Boulton , P . M ., £ 161 3 s . 6 d . ; the Star Lodge , No . 1275 , per Bro . D . Moss , £ 130 ; that of Bro . Tlios . Butt , P . M . and Treas .. of the Nelson Lodge , No . 700 , amounting to £ 129 3 s . 6 d . —if we add Bro . Bertram ' s ten guineas , we have a total for the lodge of ^ 139 13 s . 6 d . ; Faith
Lodge , No . 141 , per Bro . Coop , £ 125 ; the Highgate Lodge , No . 1366 , with ; £ i 2 i , the joint list of Bros . Trick , W . M ., and Galer , J . D . ; the City of London , 901 , per Bro . David Hughes , W . M ., £ 118 . is . 6 d . ; Prosperity Lodge , No . 65 , which contributes , per Bro . W . Chicken , P . M ., £ 117 is . 6 d . ; the Friends-in-Council , No . 13 S 3 , per Bro . K . R . Murchison . ^ no 5 s . ; Royal Jubilee , No . 72 , with Bro . J . N . Bate , P . M ., as Steward ; Carnarvon
Lodge , No . 1572 , per Bro _ Albert T . Pearce , W . M . ; Royal Hanover , per Comp . H . B . Marshall , G . Treas . ; the Committee Dinner Club , per Bro . Edgar Bowyer , P . G . Std . Br . ; and Bro . Torkington , unattached , each of which , or whom as the case may be , figures for £ 105 ; Granite Lodge , No . 1328 , per Bro . J . Lewis Thomas , ^ 101 17 s . ; and the Great City Lodge , No . 1426 , per Bro . F . T . C . Keeble , W . M .-, and thc Royal Leopold , No . 1669 ,
per Bro . Newington Bridges , P . M ., each of which is entered for a level £ 100 . The total raised by these 22 three-figure lists is £ 3797 Ss ., or rather more than a moiety ot the whole amount raised by London . Among the other found several of £ 60 , £ 70 , and ^ 80 , and upwards , that . of the Lord Mayor'sitems will be including' his lordship ' s personal donation of 20 guineas as Chairman—being only a fraction short of £ 70 . The Friends-in-Council
and Royal Leopold Lodges have been represented at all three Festivals for this year , the former having sent up a three-figure list at the Girls' Festival in May , while the amount contributed by the latter , per Bro . Cranch , in February , was not stated at the time . The London total- is ^ 712 6 s , 6 d ,. or rather more than ^ soo less than in February , but' between . £ 1300 and JCi-ioo more than in Mav .
THE PROVINCES . . In reviewing the Returns from the Provincial Stewards , 'it is gratifying to remark that , though they amount in the aggregate to about £ 1450 less than London sent up , and though the sum total is about midway between the sums they contributed in February and May respectively , —being £ 6349 ISs ., as against £ 6098 , within a fraction , at the former Festival , and C 6737 at the latter—there are fewer absentee provinces than usual . Even
in June of Iasfyear , when , owing to the contributions to the Building Fund being . included , Bro . Binckes was successful in obtaining from them over £ 5 J 77 I J there were but 35 provinces represented , and on Saturday last 33 ' put in an appearance . Thus the number ' unrepresented was only eight , namely , Bristol ( 8 lodges ) , represented at the Benevolent Festival in February to the extent of over £ 293 ; Cumberland and Westmorland ( 20 lodges ) ,
which has been resting on its oars since the- last Boys festival , when it figured as a contributor of 1000 guineas ; Dorsetshire ( 13 lodges ) , , which sent up a Steward in February , but of whose- contributions . this year we have no further record ; Herefordshire ( four lodges ) , which helped a little in June of last year ; Leicestershire and Rutland ( 10 lodges ) , which raised £ 350 for the Benevolent in February last and £ 405 for the Boys '
School in June , 18 S 3 ; Norfolk ( 16 lodges ) , which has not been represented at all this year ; and'Jersey ( seven lodges ) , which gave 200 guineas to our Boys' at their Festival for 1883 . If to these we add the five Bedfordshire , three Isle of Man , and five Channel Islands lodges , we have a total of 91 lodges which contributed nothing on Saturday , though most of the absent provinces at all events have done a something more or less noteworthy at
previous anniversaries : As for the Bedfordshire lodges , we are heartily tired of drawing attention to the repeated evidences we have of their seeming indifference to the needs of our Institutions . As regards the Isle of Man lodges we look to them for no assistance , and are not disappointed , while those in the Channel . Islands give us occasional evidence , as in February last , of the liberality of their disposition . Of the contributing provinces the first on the list is that of
BERKS AND BUCKS , six of whose 22 lodges make up a total of £ 163 16 s ., raising its total of subscriptions and' donations for the current year to £ 453 6 s . 6 d ., or about /' 20 less than it raised in 1883 . This is one of the many provinces on
whose presence we may confidently reckon at our annual celebrations . It should be mentioned , however , that in this instance the whole of the amount raised is . given by Berks lodges , those hailing from Bucks having had no share in the work . We must congratulate . -
CAMBRIDGESHIRE on its reappearance in the lists . Last year the Girls' School was benefited to the extent of £ 128 . Thisyearthe second senior Cambridge lodge , that * of the Three Grand Principles , No . 441 , figures for £ 174 6 s ., but " the Boys ' School proves to have been , the favoured Institution . We are delighted beyond measure at this very substantial evidence of the renewed interest taken by this small province in the proceedings of our Charities .
. CHESHIRE stands out more prominently than usual , nine of its 39 lodges being represented by 12 Stewards , while £ 36 15 s . is the smallest amount included in any individual list . The sum of the contributions is not far short of . £ 500 , the precise amount being ^ 49 8 6 s . This added , to the £ 126 raised for Bro . Terry in February and £ 55 14 s . for Bro . Hedges in May , gives a total for
the year of £ 68 oi a very , serviceable amount even for so considerable a . province , especially if we keep in mind that it has its own Educational Institute . Of the nine represented lodges ,- Zetland , No . 537 , Birkenhead , .-has sent up one or more Stewards to all . three festivals for the year ; while Unanimity , No . 89 , Dukenficld , appeared ia the Benevolent list , and the Stamford , No . 1045 , Altrincham , in that of the Girls' School in May . There are some 29 ' lodges on the roll of
CORNWALL , but its presence at our Festivals—during the current year , at all events—is due to the hearty goodwill impartially exhibited towards all our Institutions by Bro . Controller S . Graham Bake , who has served the office of . Steward , at each of the Anniversaries held last year and this . His lists have not
been heavy ; but it would have been unreasonable to expect this in the case of a brother enrolling himself as a member of six consecutive Boards of Stewards . His list of £ 28 7 s . makes a total for the present year of £ 88 4 s . ; but we could wish that a few more of our Cornish brethren had figured in his company , because some little time has passed since the province put forth a degree of strength worthy of its reputation . . DERBYSHIRE , with a roll of 20 lodges , two of which sent up Stewards , contributes £ 94 ios .,