6.--At a meeting of the Norfolk Agricultural Association, held at the
Swan Hotel, Norwich, it was decided to abandon the annual show for that
year, "because the bringing of cattle from all parts of the country would
be inconsistent with what is being done to prevent the transit of cattle
during the prevalence of the cattle plague."
8.--The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Hon. T. de Grey,
arrived at Holkham, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester.
"Their Royal Highnesses _de facto_ opened the new line of the West
Norfolk Junction Railway, which had been pushed forward by the contractor
so as to be ready for the purpose." It was by this line that the Prince
and Princess travelled to Holkham. Their Royal Highnesses returned to
Sandringham on the 13th.
11.--The first wintry weather of the season was experienced on this date,
when there was a considerable fall of snow, accompanied by showers of
rain and sleet, followed by a sharp wind frost. Telegraphic
communication with London was suspended, in consequence of the blowing
down of several miles of the telegraph line.
--Lost in the Bay of Biscay, by the wreck of the steamship London, on her
voyage to Australia, the Rev. John Woolley, D.C.L., formerly headmaster
of Norwich Grammar School, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and
principal and professor of classics and logic in the University of
Sydney. Mr. G. V. Brooke, the actor, formerly a member of the Norwich
Company, went down in the same ill-fated vessel.
13.--The new building, then known as the Consolidated Bank, London
Street, Norwich, was opened for the transaction of business. It was
designed by Mr. R. M. Phipson, of Norwich and Ipswich, and built by Mr.
Hall, of Pottergate Street, at the cost of 4,000. It is now known as the
National Provincial Bank.
--A vessel running through Yarmouth Roads was observed to be flying a
"waif." Two lifeboats, the Rescuer, belonging to the Ranger Company, and
the Friend of All Nations, the property of the Young Company of Beachmen,
put off to her assistance. The Rescuer, in attempting to pass through
the rough water at the bar, unshipped her rudder, was capsized, and
twelve of her crew of sixteen were drowned.
15.--Judgment was given in the Arches Court by Dr. Lushington, in the
action, Edwards and Mann _v._ Hatton, otherwise known as the "Mattishall
Church Rate case." The plaintiffs were the churchwardens, and the
defendant a parishioner of Mattishall. Hatton having refused to pay the
Church Rate, proceedings were taken in the Arches Court to enforce it.
The whole sum in dispute was 6s. 8d., but it had given rise to many
months of litigation, to much unpleasantness and ill-feeling in the
parish, and to rioting and disturbance. Two objections were urged
against the rate: (1) That proper notice had not been given on the church
doors, as provided by the Act of Parliament; and (2) that the rate was
unequal and unjust. The Court entered judgment for the churchwardens,
and condemned the defendant in the costs of the protracted proceedings.