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MISCELLANEOUS.
CLYDE COEINTHIAN YACHT CLUB.
Commodore, Stewart Clark; vice-commodore, Wm.
C. S. Connell; rear-commodore, P. M. luglis ;
stewards, William A. Wylie, Andrew Mitchell, Duncan
Campbell, Andrew Arthur, John Connell, D. F. D.
Xeill, W. Jardine, jr., P. M. Coats, Peter Donaldson,
and John E. Wilson ; hon. secretary and treasurer,
E. Harvey Pirie, 173 St. Vincent street.
The admission for members is £1 Is., and annual
subscription £1 Is. ; junior members (under 21) and
lady members 10s. 6d. admission, and 10s. 6d.
subscription.
The distinguishing flags of the club are " Red Burgee
with White St. George's Cross, and Ked Lion Ram-
pant on Y'ellow Shield, and a Red Ensign."
The matches of the club are held at Hunter's
Quay.
POLOC CRICKET CLUB.
GrOUXD SlIAWIIOLM, POLLOK POLICIES.
This club was formed in 1879. The ground, a
portion of which is laid out for Lawn Tennis, is
beautifully situated within the Pollok Policies, and is
close to Pollokshaws Station. The present member-
ship is over 100. Annual subscription, £1 Is. ; lady
members 6s.
Hon. President, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart.,
of Pollok ; president, Mr. John G. Sewell, Pollok-
shaws; hon. sec. BIr. Alex. Miller, 14 South Apsley
Place, Glasgow; hon. treasurer, Alex. Kidd, Fife
Place, Shawlands; hon. match secretary, Mr. Wm.
Lochhead, 64 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow; hon.
match secretary, 2nd eleven, Mr. Robert Thomson,
29a St. Vincent Place, Glasgow; convener of lawn
tennis committee, Mr. W. E. Fulton, 16 George Sq.,
Glasgow; captain, Mr. J. M. Lucas.
CLYDESDALE CRICKET CLUB.
Instituted 1848.
GROUND — TITWOOD PARK, CROSSMTLOOF.
Patrons, Earl of Glasgow, Sir John Stirling-Max-
well, Bart.; hon. president, John Robb, Esq., Busby
House, Busby ; president, A. Campbell, Esq. ; vice-
president, Eben. Hendry, Esq. ; general committee,
Messrs. P. H. Abercrombie, John Brown, J. H. Ed-
miston, H. Evans, Eben. Hendr}', William Houston,
A. M. Hosie, A. N. Hunter, H. C. Jack, Wm. Martin,
J. A. Mackenzie, and John Imrie; hon. treasurer,
Wilham Houston, 125 Buchanan Street; hon. secy.,
John Brown, 50 Nicholson Street.
GLASGOW CHESS CLUB,
Athex^um, St. George's Place.
Instituted 1841.
President, ]\Ions. G. E. Barbier ; hon. secretary, J. R.
Longwill, 113 Douglas Street. Clubroom open daily
from 9 a.m. till 10 p.m. Annual subscription 10s.
in addition to AthensBum subscription.
GLASGOW GOLF CLUB,
This club's course and club house are in the
Alexandra Park, and also at Gailes, Irvine. The
membership is about 700. .Jas. R. Motion, captain;
Adam Neilie, 175 St. Vincent Street, secretary and
treasurer.
HUTCHESONTOWN GARDENS,
SHAWilOSS ROAD, CEOSSJIYLOOF STATION.
President. John Coutts,26 M'Kiulay Street; vice-
president, Wm. ]M'Onic-, 251 Kenmure Street; treas.
Allan Wallace, IG Dixon Avenue; secretary, Robert
Hamilton, 73 Nithsdale Drive; committee, Robert
Christie, John Bryce, Wm. Allan, P. G. Addie, T.
Hanbidge, A. Johnson, J. J. Watson, Wm. Russell.
THE WESTERN BATHS, EILLHEAD.
Directors — Chairman, The Hon. Lord Provost
Bell; Alex. A. Fergusson, Fergus Ferguson, James
A. Ferguson, Chas. J. Findlay, W. G. Gardiner, Robert
M'Lelland, George Blorton, Jaoies Muirhead, John
Pirrie, Wm. Smart, M. C. Thomson, W. J. Tillie,
G. L. Watson.
These baths, which are situated in Cranworth
Street, Hillhead, near the Botanic Gardens, are lighted
throughout by electric light ; and the an-angements
generally are such as to make the establishment serve
as much as possible the purposes of a first-class club.
Forms of application for member.ship may be had
from the secretary, Mr. J. Wright Robb, 49 West
George Street, Glasgow.
Associations too late for Classification.
WESTERN DISTRICT SABBATH-SCHOOL
UNION.
Hon. directors — Sir John K Cathbertson, John E.
Watson, Esq., C.A., Thomas Morrison, Esq., M.A.,
LL.D., William MacLean, Esq , William Fyfe, Esq.,
Peter Gardner, Esq., David M'Cowan, Esq..' Timothy
Bost, Esq., Thomas Speai's, Esq., and Robert A.
Bryden, Esq.
Office-bearers for 1895-96 (the Jubilee Year of the
Union) — president, Joseph C. Robertson, Esq., J.P. ;
vice-president, David Meiklereid, Esq.; treas., James
Connell, 149 Hope street; secretaries, R. Lockhart
Bryden, B.L., 15 Daihousie Street, and Thomas B.
Adam, 235 Bath Street; directors, Messrs. David
Bell, Thomas Ross, Thomas N. Hill, William Smith,
Archibald Carswsll, WiUiam Sim, John Fergus, Wm.
Kirkland, Robert W. Henry, and Charles Fairley.
Directors and representatives from societies meet
in Hall of Free St. Matthew's Church on last Tues-
day of January, March, May, September, and Nov.
THE MASTER BAKERS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY
OF GLASGOW.
This society, instituted in October, 1795, under
the name of The Master Bakers' Friendly Society of
the Suburbs of Glasgow, was founded for the purpose
of giving its members while incapacitated from work
a sum of aliment weekly, as also for paying the repre-
sentatives of deceased members an allowance for funeral
money. In 1858 the name of the society was ahered
to its present designation, while recently its rules
have been revised, and the scope of its membership
enlarged. The interest of the members is held in
shares.
President, W. W. Ross, 196 Langside road, Glasgow ;
treasurer, Adam Runcie, 27 Hope street, Glasgow;
secretary; James Robertson, writer, 104 W. Regent
street, Glasgow.