1.--The celebration of May Day, which, from time immemorial, has been
observed at Lynn by children parading the streets with garlands of
flowers and the sounding of horns, was this year prohibited by the
authorities of the borough.
25.--Miss Read, a native of the city, appeared at Norwich Theatre as
Belvedera ("Venice Preserved"). "Her performance was marked by talent
and feeling very creditable in so young an actress."
26.--A specimen of the common plant _valerian rubra_ was exhibited at the
show of the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society with the following
inscription upon the label attached: "This plant was raised from seed
found in a cement coffin discovered beneath the ruins of Wymondham Priory
church. The period of interment is proved antecedent to 1300."
31.--Married at Kensington, by the Rev. T. B. Murray, the Rev. George
William Murray, of Merton College, Oxford, assistant minister of St.
Peter's, Pimlico, fifth son of Charles Murray, formerly of Norwich, to
Marianne, second daughter of Major-General Sir William Douglas, K.C.B.,
of Timperdean, Roxburghshire.