The result was that 10 Liberals to 4 Tories had been elected.
The Town Council had recommended Mr. Mills for the office of Recorder, he
having acted for several years as the late Mr. Palmer’s deputy in that
office.
April 24th.—The first week in June had been fixed for the Prince of
Wales’ visit to the town.
Mr. Frederick Palmer had been re-appointed chairman, and Messrs. J. A.
Norman and J. F. Neave, vice-chairmen of the Board of Guardians.
Mr. Simms Reeve had been appointed Recorder in the place of Mr. Palmer
deceased; it was stated that he was called to the Bar in 1850 and was a
member of the Norfolk Circuit.
May 8th.—Funds were being raised for the purpose of decorating the town
on the occasion of the Prince of Wales’ visit.
May 11th.—The Town Council had formed itself into a committee to consider
the public steps to be taken with regard to that event.
May 25th.—Simms Reeve, Esq., had been appointed Judge of the Borough
Court of Record.
May 29th.—Mr. de Caux had met with an accident through falling from a
cart on the Drive.
June 1st.—James Scott, Esq., J.P., and one of the Councillors for the St.
George’s Ward, had died.
June 8th.—Records the first visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to the
town, when he lodged at Mr. Cuddon’s house (Shaddingfield Lodge). The
town was very handsomely decorated, and His Royal Highness was received
at the Southtown Railway Station by the Reception Committee which
consisted of Lord Sondes, the Mayor, the Recorder, the Town Clerk, and
Messrs. William Mabson, W. T. Attwood, R. D. Barber, F. Dendy, H. R.
Harmer, Frederick Ferrier, E. H. H. Combe, F. Danby-Palmer, E. P. Youell,
S. Nightingale, R. S. Watling, and Bessey. After the Recorder had
presented the Corporate address, His Royal Highness and the Committee
proceeded to the Town Hall, where 200 guests were entertained.
Subsequently His Royal Highness proceeded to the Grammar School and
opened the newly-erected hall there. In the evening the town was
illuminated.
June 15th.—Mr. S. K. Smith had been elected a Councillor for St. George’s
Ward in the place of Mr. J. Scott deceased.
June 19th.—“Notes and Queries” contained a notice of Palmer’s
“Perlustration of Great Yarmouth,” 400 pages of which had then been
issued from the press.
A man named Howes had been killed through the bursting of a rocket at the
Coastguard Station during the Prince’s visit.
June 22nd records the funeral of the late Mr. Edward Fyson, a member of
the Town Council and Captain in the Rifle Volunteers.
The Rev. J. J. Raven had had the degree of D.D. conferred upon him by the
University of Cambridge.
June 26th.—Mr. Simms Reeve had sat as Recorder for the first time at the
Quarter Sessions.
The Town was filling rapidly with visitors.