1.--The marriage of H.R.H. Princess Alice and the Grand Duke of Hesse was
celebrated throughout the county with great rejoicing. The day was
observed at Norwich as a public holiday; at a special meeting of the Town
Council a congratulatory address to the Queen was adopted; the Mayor gave
a luncheon at St. Andrew's Hall, and in the evening a firework display
was given in the Market Place.
--At the Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder (Mr. O'Malley,
Q.C.), Edward Durrant (27), grocer, surrendered to his bail on the charge
of "having by fraud in playing with cards won the sum of 14s., the money
of Samuel Boughton, at the Star Inn, Haymarket, Norwich." There were
other counts, charging the defendant with defrauding other persons by the
same means. Mr. Serjeant Ballantyne, specially retained, succeeded in
obtaining a verdict of not guilty. The Recorder observed: "Well,
prisoner, you have had a most merciful jury; that is all I can say." The
defendant was cheered as he left the Court.
9.--The first of the peripatetic shows of the Norfolk Agricultural
Association was held at East Dereham. "The cautious and timid members of
the Norfolk Association who prophesied that so many dark and dreadful
events would happen to the society if absolved from her marriage vow
which wedded her entirely to Norwich, and Swaffham, must have been
pleasantly surprised by the entire success of the Dereham meeting." So
great was the rush to the show-ground that more than once the barrier was
broken down. The sum of 230 pounds was taken in admission money, whereas
it had never before amounted to 150 pounds, and rarely exceeded 80
pounds.
17.--Mr. Henry Stevenson, one of the proprietors of the NORFOLK
CHRONICLE, was driving through Upper Surrey Street, Norwich, with his
wife, when the horse started off at full speed in the direction of All
Saints' church, where the phaeton was upset, and Mrs. Stevenson sustained
injuries from which she died an hour afterwards.
27.--Died, in St. John de Sepulchre, Norwich, the Widow Rumsby, aged 100
years.
--Died, in London, Mr. H. L. Styleman le Strange. He was the only son of
Mr. Henry Styleman, of Snettisham Hall, where he was born in 1815.
Educated at Eton and at Christchurch, Oxford, he travelled, on the
completion of his University career, in Egypt, and, returning home in
1836, his majority was celebrated at Hunstanton Hall, the ancient
residence of the le Stranges. In 1839 he procured the Royal licence to
assume the patronymic surname of le Strange, in addition to that of
Styleman, and in the same year married Jamesina Joice Ellen, daughter of
Mr. John Stewart, of Balladrum, Inverness, by whom he left issue two sons
and three daughters. Mr. le Strange, acceding to the request of the
Conservative party, stood for the Western division of the county, and was
defeated by a small majority. He left the hustings with the promise that
at the next election he would again offer himself; he kept his promise,
but eventually withdrew, and retired from politics. He then commenced
his great work of painting the roof of Ely Cathedral, on the design and
execution of which he bestowed many years of hard toil. At his death the
work was about half completed, and he had only recently received
recognition of his artistic talents by being appointed a member of a
commission for investigating the state of the frescoes in the new Houses
of Parliament. Hunstanton church is a monument to his taste and skill.
Mr. le Strange was senior co-heir to the baronies of Hastings and Foliot,
and co-heir to those of Camoys and Strathbolgie. He had served the
office of High Sheriff of Norfolk, was a magistrate and deputy
lieutenant, and a director of the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway Company.
30.--Mr. Simmons, of Lydney, Gloucestershire, made a balloon ascent from
the Orchard Gardens, Norwich, and, after attaining an altitude of 5,000
feet, descended in Spixworth Park. There he lightened the balloon by
landing a fellow-passenger, and having re-ascended to the height of
12,000 feet, finally came to earth in Mr. Trafford's park at Wroxham.
Mr. Simmons made another ascent from the Orchard Gardens on September
8th, and descended at Little Plumstead; and after re-ascending, came down
among the ruins of St. Benet's Abbey.