1.--The remains of Richard Peck, an agricultural labourer, aged 69, were
buried in Docking churchyard. "The deceased had worked for forty-two
years on the Choseley Farm, an extra-parochial place, and _cottage
property_, distant from Docking two and a half miles, where he was
obliged to reside, no labourers being permitted to live at Choseley.
Thus he walked to and from his work five miles per day, 30 miles per
week, 1,560 miles per year, and the extraordinary number of 65,520 miles
during his forty-two years' employment. This circumstance might be
multiplied by numbers in England in general, and West Norfolk in
particular, showing cogent reasons for Mr. Baines' Poor-law Bill being
made the law of the land."
6.--Died at her residence, St. Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, aged 38,
Harriet Gurney Gordon, many years a favourite actress at Norwich and at
different metropolitan and provincial theatres.
16.--Mrs. Fanny Kemble commenced a course of Shakesperian readings at the
Assembly Rooms, Norwich.
28.*--"Mr. Clare Sewell Read, son of Mr. George Read, of Plumstead, near
Norwich, has been awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society the prize for
the best essay on the farming of Buckinghamshire. Mr. Read obtained last
year the society's prize for his essay on Oxfordshire, and had also been
a successful competitor in a former year for his essay on farming in
South Wales."
29.--Died, aged 86, Mr. J. Watts, of Yarmouth, for many years coachman of
the Telegraph coach running between Norwich and Yarmouth.