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CONTENTS . PAGE LSAPBRThe School Electiors ... ... ... ... ... 199 Masonic Jurisprudence ... ... ... ... .-- - 2 °° Royal Masonic Institution for Boys ( Quarterly Court and Election ) ... ... 200 Board of Benevolence ... ... ... ... ... •••201

IRELANDBelfast Masonic Charities ( Annual Meeting and Concert ) ... -,. 201 Craft Masonry ... ... ... •••... •••202 Science , Art , and the Drama ... ... — 2 ° 3 MASONIC NOTESGrand Festival ... ... ... ... ... ... 205 Schcol Quarterly Courts ... ... ... ... ... 205 Irish Masonic Charities ... ... ... ... ... 205

The Late Bro . Zillwood Milledge ... ... ... ... 205 •Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... •¦•20 G Reviews ... ... ... ... ... - - 2 ° 6 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 206 Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 207 Mark Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 S Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 210

The School Elections.

THE SCHOOL ELECTIONS .

The usual busy scene was witnessed in the large hall of Freemasons' Tavern on Thursday and Friday of last week when the spring elections of candidates to fill the vacancies that have occurred in our Scholastic Institutions during- the past six months took place . For

THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS there were 22 candidates , of whom seven remained on the list from last October , and 15 of these were elected . London , which furnished four candidates and had a part interest in three others , had the satisfaction of securing the election of all her own girls

and two out of the three in whose success she was only partialK concerned , while the others who obtained vacancies hailed from the Provinces . The London and Middlesex girl headed the poll with 6342 votes , the second in order being wholly London and

scoring 5733 votes . The Oxfordshire candidate came next with 5274 votes , and was closely followed by the Kentish girl , who received 51 S 2 . Another Loudon girl was placed liflh with 5114 votes , and was followed bv one . of the two girls from Hampshire

and the Isle of Wight , who was a candidate in October and scored a total of 5002 votes , of which 74 already stood to her credit . The Lincolnshire girl , who brought forward nine votes and who had only this chance left her of

"inning admission into the School , stood next with 4 ^ 47 votes , and was followed by a London girl with 4774 votes , and the Northants and Hunts girl with 40 ( 13 voles , the 'oth in order deriving her interest partly from West Yorkshire

' "id partl y from London , and scoring 4553 voles . No . 11 was ° "c of two candidates from South Wales ( E . D . ) , and polled 433 y votes , of which foiir stood to her credit from the October Election , while No . 12 , from Cheshire and

Lincolnshire , who had obtained 30 votes at her three previous ballots , finished the day with 4310 votes . Two more Provincial girls , hailing from Staffordshire ; and Worcestershire

rcs P'' (; tivel y followed , the first in order obtaining 4254 votes and the other 4016 votes , while the remaining London girl , who 1 ; u ' 134 votes to her credit from October , brought up the rear Wlln 3439 votes . The highest Unsuccessful girl polled 3229 , a » d the next in order 1206 , votes , and these , as well as four of

The School Elections.

the remaining five candidates , will carry forward the votes they have received to the next election , the only child who has serious reason to lament the result of the ballot being the Essex girl ,

who stood No . I on the list , and was unable to poll more than 313 votes , and of these 104 already stood to her credit from her four previous ballots . She will be 11 years of age in June , and consequently her name will be removed from the list .

As regards the general result , it is worth recording that five of the seven candidates remaining from October last were elected , and 10 of the 15 whose claims had since been approved . The total of the available votes was 86 , 8 4 6 , of which only 388

were brought forward and 10 added under Law 4 6 . But of the 86 , 44 8 votes issued for this election only 7 6 , 857 passed the Scrutineers , so that 9591 votes were either unused or spoiled-For the election of 23 children into

THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS there were , as previously announced in our columns , 37 candidates , of whom live remained from last October , and 32 were cases whose claims had since been approved . London

contributed six candidates of her own , and had a part interest in five others , while the remaining 26 derived their claim from the Provinces and Abroad . At this election London appears to have been unfortunate , and carried only two of its own cases

and two in which it was interested , the former being placed low down at Nos . 20 and 22 with 4538 and 4185 votes respectively , while , as regards the latter , the boy from London and Madras , who had already 1209 votes in hand , obtained the

second place with 575 8 votes , and the London and Lssex boy the 21 st place with 4532 votes . The Essex candidate headed the poll with 74 62 votes , the Cheshire lad standing third with 5720 votes , and the boy from Cambridgeshire , who started with

439 6 votes 111 hand , fourth , with 5519 votes . A boy with claims upon Nottinghamshire and West Lancashire secured the fifth vacancy with 5445 votes , thereby escaping the misfortune of having his name removed under Law 70 , and one of the three

Kentish candidate's sixth with 53 8 9 votes , a second boy from the same Province being close up with 53 82 votes , while the Sussex boy scored 5101 votes , and one of the West Yorkshire lads 509 1 votes , while his companion from the same Province

was placed 12 th with 4 ygS votes . The boys from Warwickshire and Northumberland took the 10 th and nth places between the two Yorkshire candidates , the former obtaining 5070 votes , and the latter 5006 votes , of which , however , 4229 already stood

to his credit Irom ( lie October election . Worcestershire secured the 131 I 1 vacancy with 49 80 , and the boy from W . Yorkshire and VV . Lancashire 1 lie . 14 th with 497 8 votes , while the Hampshire and Isle of Wight lad was close up with 497 8 votes , of which 1511

were alread y in hand . The Durham boy stood next with 4913 votes , and the Northants and Hunts , who had this one and onl y chance of gaining admission into the School , next with 4 664 votes , the Middlesex youth , with 2196 votes to his credit , being

placed at No . 1 , 8 with 4581 votes , the Devonshire boy being No . 19 with 453 8 voles . Buckinghamshire secured the 23 rd and last vacancy with 3 6 75 , one of the London candidates being only a few votes behind , with a total of 3 6 54 votes ,

and another from the same district , whose name will unfortunatel y be removed from the list , next with 3193 votes . Six other Unsuccessful candidates scored over 1000 votes , and there were two

who polled upwards of goo . Looking at the general results , we find that all the five old candidates obtained places , while two of the three who had only

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