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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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IGLASGOW MEDICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Objects of the society — 1. To carry on medical
mission work among the poor in Glasgovr. 2. To
encourage a missionary spirit among medical students
in Glasgow. 3. To co-operate with kindred societies
in training and supporting medical missionaries.
OflBce-bearers — Hon. President, the Right Hon. Lord
Overtonn ; president, Dr. J. D. Maclaren ; vice-presi-
dent, Wm. Sloan, Esq. ; secretaries, Dr. Thos. Brown
Henderson, 19 Elmbank Place, R. Hope Robert-
son, Esq., 58 St. Vincent Street ; treasurer, Robert
Gonrlay, Esq., Bank of Scotland ; superintendents.
Dr. G. Muir Connor, 2 Whitehill Gardens, Armadale
Street, Dennistoun, and Dr. A. Templeton, 14 Park-
'grove Ten, West; treasurers for Ladies' Auxiliary,
;Mrs. John Gumprecht, 7 Newton Place, and Miss
Hamilton, 3 Belmar Terrace, Pollokshields. Dis-
pensary, 123 Moncur St., Calton, is open for the
sick poor every Monday, Taesday, Thursday, and Fri-
day between 12 and 1 o'clock. Dispensary, 6 Oxford
iStreet, S.S., is open everj Monday, Wednesday, and
iFriday, between 11 and 1 o'clock. Every Sabbath
day evangelistic meetings are held in both dispensaries
at half-past two and seven o'clock.
INCORPORATION OF HAMMERMEN.
Deacon, Jas. M'Ewan, 60 Peel Street, London Rd.;
bollector, Andrew Maclean, Fairfield Works, Govan ;
late deacon, David Tullis, St. Ann's Works, John St.,
BriJgeton ; late collector, James Fergus, 58 York St.,
master court, John Thomson, Alexander Davie, Thos.
Potter, Archibald Stewart, John F. Miller, David
Richmond, Duncan Campbell, Dugald M'Corkindale,
Wm. Robertson, Wm. A. Kinghorn, Charles Connell,
and Robert Sutherland; clerk, A. Craig Paterson,
LL.B., 45 West George Street.
GLASGOW CORN TRADE BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
Instituted 1880.
President, John Stevenson ; vice-president, Samuel
Plamilton ; treasurer, Thomas M'Leao, Regent Mills;
ecretary, Samuel Wilson, 31 Waterloo Street.
Object. — To provide allowances for decayed mem-
bers and for relatives of deceased members who were
dependent on them prior to their decease. After
such cases are provided for the directors may grant
relief not exceeding one-fifth of the entire free annual
revenue to persons in necessitous circumstances who,
though not members of the Association, have been
engaged as principals or employees in the corn trade
in Glasgow and neighbourhood. Membership con-
sists of corn merchants and their chief clerks and
salesmen. Payment of £10 as entry money consti-
tutes life membership. Capital in 1894 amounted to
£1-195.
THE BALMANNO BEQUEST.
Founded by the late Miss Balmanno, in 1856, for
Iproviding anouities of £20 each, to unmarried ladies,
'natives of Glasgow, not under 40 years of age, who
have been brought up in the prospect of independence,
and accustomed to superior society, but who from
adversity may have fallen into reduced circumstances.
There are at present seven annuitants.
; Factor, J. Roxburgh Strong, C.A., 110 West
George st.
' FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF INDIGENT
GENTLEWOiMEN OF SCOTLAND,
Above fifty years of age, and unmarried.
Founded 1847.
Patroness— The Queen. Committee of Manage-
ment—Glasgow, Revs. James Stalker, D.D., James
Black, D.D., J. Marshall Lang, D.D., Very Rev.
J. Watson Reid, James Campbell of TuUichewan,
Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson, Walter G. Blackie,
Ph.D., LL.D., Geo. Smith; Edinburgh, Revs. Geo.
Philip, D.D., Andrew Thomson, D.D., Alex. Whyte,
D.D., John M'Murtrie, D.D., E. C. Dawson, M.A.,
J. F.W. Grant.M.A., Henry Cook, W.S., John Kennedy'
W.S., William Robson, S.S.C. ; local treasurer
for Glasgow, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scotland;
secretary J. T. Maclagan, 6 North St. David Street,
Edinburgh ; treasurer, PL A. Hotson, British Linen
Company Bank; auditor, Jas. Alex. Robertson, C.A.
GLASGOW BUTE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
President, Ex-Provost of Rothesay ; vice-president,
T. M. Wilson, Glasgow; hon. treasurer, James A.
M'Leish, 194 St. Vincent Street; hon. secretary,
Alex. Robertson, 128 Wellington Street.
The objects of this soeiety'are to afford aid to in-
digent persons belonging to Bute— principally such
as are of advanced age and respectability of character.
No person in receipt of parochial relief to receive
the benefits of the society, except in extraordinary
circumstances.
A single payment of two guineas constitutes life
membership. Ladies admitted as life members on a
single payment of one guinea.
GLASGOW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
For the relief of the destitute sick, and others in
extreme poverty.
The Lord Provost, president; Sir Jas. King, Bart.,
J. A. Campbell, M.P., and Lord Overtonn, vice-
preses; Rev. J. Renfrew, J. Gourlay, R. Gow, R.
Westlands, A. Sclanders, J. Kirkpatrick, William
C. Coghill, M. Hunter, William Orr, Robert M'Lean,
W. D. Cairney, D. Dreghoru, W. F. Salmon, and
James Murray, acting committee; Wm. Orr, 109 St.
Vincent Street, treasurer; W. D. Cairney, secretary,
Religious Institution Rooms, 200 Buchanan St.
THE GLASGOW EASTWOOD CLUB.
President, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart, of Pollok;
vice-presidents, David Tod, of Eastwood Park, Arch.
Brownlie, of Monkcastle, and 18 directors; treasurer,
James Dunlop, Clydesdale Bank, PoUokshaws; secre-
tary, John George Sewell, solicitor, 83 West Regent
street, Glasgow.
This society was instituted in 1797 by several
gentlemen residing in or near Glasgow connected by
birth or otherwise with the parish of Eastwood, for
the purpose of holding a social meeting once a year,
and of collecting a sum of money for distribution
among the deserving poor of that parish. About
£118 is annually distributed at the end of December,
each recipient getting 12s. The annual meeting
is held on the second Wednesday of December, to
which all connected with the parish of Eastwood are
invited.