5.--A remarkable outrage was perpetrated at Little Walsingham church. A
few minutes after the clerk had tolled the "curfew" bell, a violent
explosion took place in the south transept. It was found that a charge
of gunpowder had been placed beneath the organ and ignited by a train of
cotton. The instrument, with the exception of the swell organ, was
scattered to pieces, the south transept window entirely destroyed, and
other windows seriously damaged. The organ was purchased in 1862, at the
cost of 250, and the total amount of damage done by the explosion was
about 300. A reward of 200 was offered for information that would lead
to the conviction of the perpetrator of the outrage.
9.--Mr. Frederick Elwin Watson was elected Mayor, and Mr. William Copeman
Clabburn appointed Sheriff of Norwich.
16.--Eight vessels were wrecked and five lives lost, on the Norfolk
coast, between Mundesley and Palling.
17.--A Bohemian waxwing (_Bombycilla garrulus_) was observed at Old
Buckenham, and another was shot the same day near Thetford. By the first
week of December the birdstuffers received at least 22 specimens, from
Mutford, Worstead, Northrepps, St. Faith's, Rollesby, Cawston Woodrow,
Wroxham, and other districts. In the last week of December it was stated
that more than one hundred specimens had been procured. "With the
exception of one or two stragglers, this species has not been noticed
here since 1863, when some sixteen specimens were killed in Norfolk."