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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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GLASGOW SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION
OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Patron, the Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow;
general committee, the Hon. the Lord Provost (chair-
man), Prof. Veitch, and Jas. Cleland Burns (deputy-
chairmen), Sir James Watson, Sir Peter Coats, L.
Leisler, Esq., Peter Clouston, Esq., John Wilkie,
Esq., John LFre, Esq., James Brown, Esq., Alexander
Ronaldson, Esq., J. C. Wakefield, Esq., Hugh Baird,
Esq., Wm. W. Watson, Esq., Rev. David Brown, Rev.
Andrew Leiper, Ales. Crura, Esq., Thomas Hill, Esq.;
ladies' committee, Mrs. J. Napier, Misses Jeffrey,
Mrs. Coats, Mrs. Ramsay, Mrs. Matheson, Mrs. Dick,
Miss Boyd, Mrs. G. Matheson, Mrs. Grahame, Mrs.
Paton, Mrs. Charles Watson, Mrs. Bums, Miss Parker,
Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Young ; convener, Mrs. Napier ;
vice-convener. Miss Jeffrey, Meltia Lodge, Helensburgh;
acting committee. Professor M'Kendrick, C. H.Alston,
Esq., Rev. George S. Burns, D.D., J. Alex. Camp-
bell, Esq., J. C. Burns, Esq., J. Coats, Esq., J.
Couper, Esq., Js. S. Higginbotham, Esq., T. D.
Fmdlay, Esq., Sir Wm. Thomson, J. Dunlop, Esq.,
Major Bannatyne, J. M. Martin, Professor Veitch,
John Y. King; secretary, J. Grahame, Esq., 12 St.
Vincent Place ; treasurers, D. Matheson, Esq., 142
St. Vincent St., and Professor Macqueen, Glasgow
Veterinary College, Buccleuch St.; inspector, Fred-
erick White, 68 Bath Street ; and three assistants.
Office of the society, 68 Bath Street. Hours, 9 to
10 a.m., and 4 to 5 p.m.
WEAVERS' SOCIETY OF ANDERSTON.
Alex. Davie, preses ; John Belch, junr., treasm'er ;
J. M. Taylor, writer, 180 St. Vincent St., secretary.
The object of this Society is to afford charitable aid
to such of its members and their widows as may be
reduced to destitute circumstances. The fee or entry
money, payable by a son or son-in-law of a member,
or by an apprentice indentured to a member (a weaver
by trade), is £2 2s., and the entrance fee payable by
all others is £5 5s., with the addition of 2s. per
annum in the case of sons, sons-in-law, and appren-
tices, and of 5s. per annum in the case of all others,
for every year the applicant exceeds 30 years of age
at the date of his admission. Members must not be
under the age of 14 when admitted, nor above the
age of 45, and must be resident in the district
formerly known as the burgh of Anderston, or neigh-
bourhood thereof.
KINTYRE CLUB.
Instituted 1825.
Office-bearers for year 1881 — Patron, His Grace the
Duke of Argyll ; president, Major Mackay of Carskey,
Campbeltown ; hon. secretaries, W. G. and J. W.
Lindsay, 30 George Square ; hon. treasurer, William
"Watson, 133 St. Vincent Street ; directors. Bailie
Duulop, J. TempletoD, jun., Rev. D. Macleod, D.D.,
Niel M'Michael, H. Ferguson, W. M'Pherson, and
A. Sinclair.
The club, besides the promotion of friendly feeling,
affords assistance and counsel to deserving natives of
Kintyre, and provides bursaries and prizes for the
encouragement of education in the various schools
throughout Kintyre, and in Glasgow University.
Membership is constituted by payment of 3 guineas
either in one sum or spread over 3 years.
GLASGOW SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.
The Hon. John Ure, Lord Provost, hon. president ;
the Magistrates, hon. directors; James Robertson, 136
Buchanan St., hon. treasurer ; T. Haig, 14 Robert-
son Street, and D. A. B. Murray, 65 Gt. Clyde St.,
hon. secretaries. Chapel, 9 Brown Street. The Rev.
J. M. Campbell, chaplain ; H. Burt and J. Morrison,
missionaries; William M'Lagan, church officer and
librarian; Wm. Crawford, 11 West Nile Street, col-
lector. Seamen's Institute and Reading Room, 146
Broomielaw. Mission Station 59 Morrison St., S.S.,
Divine Service in chapel on Sabbaths, at 11, 2,
and 6.30 o'clock ; and on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings, at 8 o'clock. Services in the Seamen's
Institute every week day from 11.15 a.m. to 12, and
Friday evening at 8 o'clock. South-side Bethel
services at 2 p.m. and 6.30 on Sabbaths; and
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at T.SO p.m.
The above society, instituted to promote the tem-
poral and spiritual interests of seamen, provides suit-
able chapel and mission stations, supports a chaplain
and missionaries, educates seamen's orphan children,
supplies Scripture tracts and libraries to ships, relieves
extraordinary cases of destitution, and offers the ad-
vantages of the Seamen'slnstitute free to sailors ; is
entirely supported by voluntary contributions. Lega-
cies, donations, and subscriptions earnestly solicited.
PRISON GATE MISSION.
23 William Street, Calton.
This institution is for the purpose of providing
employment for discharged female prisoners who are
desirous of doing better. The women are employed
in washing and laundry work, sewing, and knitting,
for which they are paid a small daily wage and their
food. Average number of inmates 53, of whom
about 20 lodge in the Home.
Directors, Robert Simpson, A. A. Fergusson, Peter
Walker, and William Galbraith ; treasurer, J. C.
White, Oakfield Cottage, Hillhead ; ladies' com-
mittee, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Fergusson, Miss White,
Mrs. G. Stewart, Mrs. Macpherson, Miss Miller, and
Mrs. Cuthbertson ; hon. superintendent. Miss A. A.
Bryson, Belmar Terrace, Pollokshields, to whom or
to the treasurer contributions may be sent.
INCORPORATION OF HAMMERMEN.
Deacon, David Kinghorn, 172 Lancefield St. ; col-
lector, James C. Macewan, 94 Garscube Road; John
L. K. Jamieson, 9 Crown Terrace, DowanhiU, late
deacon; David C. Glen, 21 Greenhead St., late col-
lector; master court, Wm. Smith, Archd. Gilchrist,
J. Broadfoot, J. Donald, A. M'Onie, W. Macfarlane,
John Young, John Mowat, Wm. Boyd, Wm. Wilson,
John Phillips, George M. Blair; clerk, A. Paterson,
LL.D., 45 West George Street.
BLACK'S BEQUEST FOR DOMESTIC
SERVANTS.
Founded by Dr. James Black, sometime surgeon in
Jamaica, afterwards residing in Glasgow, and who
died in 1834. The funds arc to be given to faithful
domestic servants settled in Glasgow or neighbour-
hood, who have been ten years or upwards in one
situation. Amount, £2 10s. per annum. There are
about 200 pensioners. Factors, Mitchell, Cowan, &
Johnston, 160 West George Street.