17.*--"Mr. Thomas W. Rutland, carpenter, West Wymer Street, Norwich, has
invented a very ingenious means of communication between the passengers
and guard in a railway train. It has the additional advantage of acting
also as an extra break when required. By its use a passenger can at once
communicate with both guard and driver, and at the same time a signal is
exhibited which shows from what carriage the alarm is given."
20.--At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a communication
was received from the Dean and Chapter as to the giving up of their
interest in Mousehold Heath, with the view of enabling the Council to
convert the Heath into a people's park.
26.--The Christmas "burlesque and comic pantomime" produced at Norwich
Theatre was written by F. C. Burnand, and entitled, "Snowdrop, King
Bonbon, and the Seven Elves, or the Magic Mirror and the Fatal Sewing
Machine." At Sanger's Circus, on the Castle Meadow, was produced "the
equestrian pantomime," entitled, "Jack the Giant Killer, or Harlequin and
the Fairies of the Crystal Fountain." A great novelty at the Christmas
Fair was "the striking feature of a roundabout worked by a steam engine,
which at the same time turns a barrel organ."
30.--Died at Dunston, John Fish, aged 100 years and 10 months.
1865.