8.--Died at Thetford, in his 73rd year, Mr. Isaac Carr. He was described
as "a veteran politician of the old school, who was deputed some two
years since by Mr. Harvey, M.P., to compile a history of Thetford, which
he had not completed at the time of his death."
9.--The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new dock at Lynn
was performed by Mrs. Jarvis, wife of Mr. L. W. Jarvis, chairman of the
Dock Company. (_See_ July 7th, 1869.)
10.--The first screw steamboat built in Norwich was launched from Field's
boatbuilding yard, Carrow Abbey. She was named the Alexandra, and was
intended for passenger traffic on the local rivers. Mr. John Hart
Boughen was the owner of the vessel.
--Mr. Elijah Crosier Bailey was appointed Clerk of the Peace for the city
and county of the city of Norwich.
--The Norwich Town Council, on the motion of Mr. Field, adopted a
resolution affirming the desirability of arranging with the Board of
Guardians for the collection by one set of paid collectors of all the
public rates within the corporate district of Norwich. On April 21st the
Town Council adopted the report of a joint committee of the Corporation
and the Guardians, who recommended that the corporate district be divided
into eight districts; that the then four collectors be retained at the
salary of 140 per year each; that four new collectors be appointed, at
the salary of 100 a year each; that in future two poor rates be made
yearly, namely, one in January and one in July, both of such rates to be
collected in two instalments, the first in January and July, and the
second in April and October; and that a like arrangement be made as to
the making and collection of the rates of the Board of Health. This
arrangement was known as the consolidation of the rates.
27.--Died at North Creake, in his 71st year, the Ven. R. E. Hankinson,
M.A., Archdeacon of Norwich. He was educated at Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1821, and was ordained in the
same year by Bishop Bathurst, of Norwich. For some years he was minister
of Well Walk Chapel, Hampstead; in 1847 was presented by the Dean and
Chapter of Norwich to the incumbency of St. Margaret and St. Nicholas,
King's Lynn, which he held until 1863, when he was presented to the
rectory of North Creake; and was appointed to the Archdeaconry of Norwich
in 1857. He was succeeded by the Rev. Augustus Macdonald Hopper,
honorary canon and rural dean, and proctor for the Archdeaconries of
Norfolk and Norwich, who was collated on April 26th.
31.--At the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, a meeting of the Conservative and
Constitutional Association passed a resolution condemnatory of Mr.
Gladstone's resolutions on the Irish Church. Many meetings were held for
the same purpose in different parts of the county, and on April 23rd the
Norwich Diocesan Church Association recorded its protest against the
measure.