_North Ward_.
Nightingale, (C) 558
Skoulding, (C) 503
Livingston, (L) 240
Woodger, (L) 200
Foreman, (N) 18
_Market Ward_.
Barnby, (C) 258
Martins, (C) 216
Reeder, (L) 99
Lawn, (L) 53
Tyrrell, (C) 53
_Regent Ward_.
Burton, (L) 213
Blake, (L) 186
George, (C) 181
Wright, (C) 173
_St. George’s Ward_.
Foreman, (C) 276
de Caux, (L) 257
Wiltshire, (C) 241
Green, (L) 220
_Nelson Ward_.
Bracey, (C) 613
Veale, (C) 538
Palmer, (L) 375
Clowes, (L) 306
_St. Andrew’s Ward_.
Gooda, (C), and Attwood, (L),
unopposed.
Subsequently a meeting of Liberals was held in the Regent-ward to
congratulate Messrs. Burton and Blake upon their “victory” there. Mr.
Lovewell Blake (chairman), and Messrs. F. Palmer, J. Woodger, J. F.
Neave, T. Green, Frank Burton, and J. H. Norman took part in this
proceeding.
Nov. 10th.—Upon the motion of Mr. E. P. Youell, seconded by Mr J. T.
Bracey, Mr. C. Woolverton had been elected Mayor of the Borough. The
following were at that time the Ward Aldermen:—North, William Mabson;
Market, W. Laws; Regent, William Danby-Palmer; St. George’s, G. S.
Shingles; Nelson, H. R. Harmer; St. Andrews’, R. Purdy.
Nov. 16th.—Mr. William Worship had been injured in an accident which had
happened on the Great Eastern line near Kelvedon.
Nov. 30th.—Mr. A. E. Cowl had passed the Legal Examination.
Dec. 4th.—A Mrs. Harvey had died at Rollesby at the age of 104 years.
A very heavy gale, almost rivalling that of 1860, had visited this coast.
The following Income Tax Commissioners had been nominated:—The Mayor, and
Messrs. S. C. Burton, E. P. Youell, W. Mabson, F. Danby-Palmer, J. W. de
Caux, and J. T. Bracey.
Dec. 18th.—Garson Blake, Esq. had been appointed Belgian Consul in
succession to the late Mr. Preston.
Dec. 28th.—The following gentlemen then held commissions in the Rifle
Volunteers:—Major, James Henry Orde; Captains, William Holt, W. P. P.
Matthews, A. J. Palmer, and G. W. Moore; Lieutenants, S. Aldred, C.
Diver, B. Wilson, W. H. Palmer, and H. E. Buxton; Ensigns, F.
Danby-Palmer, J. T. Clarke, W. Brown, and R. Stanier; Adjutant, F. A.
Cubitt; Surgeon, W. E. Wyllys; Chaplain, H. R. Nevill; Quarter-Master, T.
W. Doughty.
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With this year ends the file of the _Norwich Mercury_, which was
preserved by the late Robert Palmer-Kemp, Esq., that gentleman dying at
his seat, Coltishall Manor (which was devised to him by his grandfather,
William Danby-Palmer, Esq.), on 11th May, 1873. Mr. Kemp was for many
years an active County Magistrate; and in the earlier part of his life,
prior to leaving Yarmouth, took part, with his half-brother, Major Samuel
Charles Marsh, and other members of his family, in our local politics;
later on, however (although in the Commission of the Peace for our
borough) he rarely visited his native town. Leaving no issue, he devised
his estates to his cousin, George William Danby-Palmer, Esq. (who
subsequently assumed the name of Kerrison, under the provisions of the
will of the late Charles Kerrison, Esq.), and that gentleman still holds
the Coltishall property.