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LATE INSTITUTIONS.
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NATIONAL THRIFT SOCIETY.
Glasgow Branch.
OflSce:— 81 St. George's Place, Glasgow.
London Office, 1 Finsbnry Cireus, E.G.
The National Thrift Society has for its object the
ancourageinent and promotion of thrift in various
ways, and especially by holding meetings and thrift
chats, publishing and circulating thrift literature,
stablishing district penny banks in connection with
savings banks, and co-operating with other institu-
tions for promoting the welfare and social improve-
ment of the industrial classes and young people
throughout the country. The society is entirely
unsectarian and unpolitical, and its operations are
carried on amongst all classes of the community,
riirift publications for distribution will be forwarded
10 donors and subscribers when desired, or to any
.ustitution mentioned by them for this purpose.
Clergymen and others who may be desirous of
javing thrift mtetings, or a disiributiou of tlirifc
literature, at schools, institutes, mission halls, &c. ;
and employers of labour who may be willing to have
'thrift chats" at factories, ironworks, shipbuilding
yards, &c., are requested to communicate with the
iecretary.
The society is maintained by voluntary contribu-
tions from emplojers and others, and any who may
be disposed to accord it their support aie invited to
end their names to the secretary at either the
London or Glasgow offices. Lectures and meetings
3n ihrilt are given free of charge, and tbe publica-
;ions issued by the society are for gratuitous dis-
tribution. Thomas Bowden Green, 81 St. George's
Place, Glasgow, secretary.
LIBER A.L ASSOCIATION OFFICES AND
READING ROOMS.
Bridgeton, 72 Clyde Street, Calton ; Camlachie,
573 Gallowgate; St. Rollox, 200 Stirling Road and
Dennistoun Liberal Club, Roslea Drive; College,
272 New City Road ; Central, 95 Dumbarton Road ;
Tradeston, 168 Houston Street; Blackfriars and
Hutchestown, 207 Kutherglen Road,
"EVENING TIMES" CAMERA CLUB.
President, J. H. A. M'Intyre, M.I.M.E.; vice-
presidents, T. S. Muir, D. R. Macdonald, A. H. Dun-
can, and J. M. Ewing; secretaries, Robert Sproul
and Wm. Carmichael ; treasurer, W. M. Gossip, assist.-
treas. J. D. Sloan ; lanternist, Robert Dalziel ;
librarian, J. L. Crichton ; committee, K. M'Lean,
W. G. Mackie, J. Christie, Robert Taylor, Thomas
Davidson, R. Burnie, H. C. Shelley, T. R. Murray,
James Gray, P. R. Weisner, D. W. Macdonald,
W. Louis Primrose, E. 0. Broadbent, S. Smith.
Rooms, 46 Gordon Street.
The Objects of the club are : the study and pro-
motion of the subject of photography in all its
branches by means of lectures, demonstrations, ex-
cursions, musical evenings, and social meetings. The
annual subscription is 7s. 6d., and entitles members to
use the dark room and apparatus, the library, and to
bring a friend to the excursions and social meetings
of the club. Open lantern night every Tuesday
during the winter season.
GLASGOW LIBERAL COUNCIL.
Michael Swan, J.P., chairman; vice-chairmen,
W. N. MacCartney, J. P., ex- Bailie Peter Burt, J. P.,
James Fleming, J. P., John S. Dunn, J. P., Thomas
Mason, D.L., and Baihe William Fife, J.P. ; hon.
treasurer, Thomas Wright, 2 Berkeley Terrace; hon.
secretary, James R. Chalmers, 129 St. Vincent St.
GLASGOW VIGILANCE ASSOCIATION.
Hon.-president, Murdoch Cameron, M.D ; presi-
dent, James Sinclair; vice-presidents, Professor Geo,
Adam Smith, D.D , LL.D., and John Connal ; hon -
treasurer, Walter Linton, 81 Rentield Street; joint
hon.- secretaries, David D. Dunlop and J. C. Paterson,
187 W George Street.
Objects: — To secure (1) a diminution of drunken-
ness by means of a stricter administration of the
Licensing Laws ; (2) the abolition of houses, resorts,
and practices which are injurious to the morals of
the community.
Those sympathizing with the objects can become
members by contributing a sum of not less than one
shilling per annum.
UNITED
KINGDOM
AND GENERAL
INSTITUTION.
TEMPERANCE 11
PROVIDENT
Established in 1840 — Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, ANNUITIES, AND ENDOWMENTS.
I'ONDON. GLASGOW. DUBLIN.
Adelaide PL, London Bridge. | (lueen's Bldgs., 136 Buchanan St. | 4 Palace St.
ACCUMULATED CAPITAL EXCEEDS £6,375,000.
A.NNUAL Income, £660,000.— Pkofits Divided to 1896, £2,827,850.— Claims Paid, £4,740,000.
^•^- — The Temperance and General Sections are kept in separate classes, and each receive their own Profits.
Managen-s for Scotland, JAS. ROBERTSON & SON; Office, 136 Buchanan St., Glasgow.
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