4.--The headquarters of the 7th Dragoon Guards arrived at Norwich, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. Peyton. The Cavalry Barracks being under
repair, the officers took up their quarters at the Royal Hotel.
6.--Great excitement was caused at Diss by the closing of the doors of
Messrs. Fincham and Co.'s Bank. In a circular issued shortly afterwards,
Mr. Simpson stated that he was compelled to adopt this course owing to
the continued strain upon his resources. On the 7th it was announced
that arrangements were being made by which it was hoped the business of
the Bank would be carried on; and on the same day Messrs. Gurneys
intimated that they would afford banking facilities to the customers of
Messrs. Fincham and Simpson during the temporary suspension of business.
A meeting of the creditors was held on the 10th, and a committee
appointed; and representatives of the London and Provincial Bank carried
out negotiations which resulted in the Bank being re-opened on the 11th.
Another meeting was held on November 2nd, for the purpose of proving
debts and of realising the estate. Payment to the creditors of 10s. in
the pound was arranged, it being understood that further dividends would
be paid as the estate was realised. The liabilities were reported to be
87,305 5s. 6d., and the assets 54,491 18s. 2d.
13.--Sir Samuel Bignold, on the completion of his 80th year, was
presented by the clerks at the Union Offices with a silver inkstand and
an illuminated address. Several of the Conservative Ward Associations
adopted congratulatory addresses, and, on the 17th, a resolution was
passed by the Town Council expressive of the congratulations of that
body. On January 9th, 1872, the proprietors of the Norwich Union Fire
Office presented Sir Samuel with a service of plate and his portrait,
painted by Ventnor.
15.--Died at his residence, Buckingham Palace Road, London, Mr. Richard
Young, who, on the 13th inst., had been re-elected by the Livery of the
Corporation Sheriff of London and Middlesex. Mr. Young, who was a
merchant and shipowner, and a director of the Great Eastern Railway and
other companies, was born at Scarning, in 1809, and was a self-made man.
16.--Died at the house of her nephew, Mr. H. Wilkin, West Pottergate
Street, Norwich, Sarah Nolbrow, aged 100 years.
17.--The Norwich Town Council accepted a portrait of Mr. Jacob Henry
Tillett, painted by Sandys, to be placed in St. Andrew's Hall.
--The Sanitary Committee reported to the Norwich Town Council that the
number of outbreaks of small-pox in the city was such as to occasion
considerable alarm. It was stated that the necessary precautions had
been taken, and, in case of death, burial within forty-eight hours had,
as far as possible, been enforced, and arrangements made to prevent the
bodies of children being carried to the Cemetery in cabs. Dr. Eade, at a
meeting of the Town Council on November 28th, referred to the alarming
spread of the disease, and urged the necessity of enforcing vaccination.
During this and the succeeding month several persons were prosecuted for
neglect of precautionary measures. On December 19th it was reported to
the Town Council that the Marchioness of Lothian had munificently given
to the city a small-pox hospital. (_See_ March 23rd, 1872.)
18.--A new Corn Hall, erected through the enterprise of Mr. J. W. Davey,
was opened at Yarmouth. It was designed by Mr. J. B. Pearce, and built
by Mr. J. W. Lacey, at the cost of 3,800. "For many years past the corn
merchants had met in all weathers in front of the Duke's Head Hotel,
without the slightest shelter, and transacted their affairs at great
inconvenience to themselves and to the annoyance of the general public."
26.--At Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder, Mr. O'Malley,
Q.C., Henry Brown Woolsey (36), formerly a clerk at Carrow Works, pleaded
guilty to feloniously embezzling 558, the monies of his employers, Mr. J.
J. Colman and others, and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude,
although recommended to mercy by the prosecutors. Considerable comment
was made upon the disparity of the sentences in this and in the Hoskins
case (_q.v._ page 210).