1.--The 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Duff, M.P., went into camp at Hunstanton Park, and were officially
inspected on the 6th by Colonel Harenc, commanding the 31st Brigade Depot
at Yarmouth.
2.--Two troops of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) marched from
Norwich, _en route_ to York; the headquarters left on the 8th.
19.--Died, Mr. Wace Lockett Mendham, Town Clerk of Norwich. He was in
his 66th year, and was appointed to the office on the death of Mr. J. R.
Staff, in 1855. A Liberal in politics, "previous to his appointment he
might have been a warm partisan, but in his office of Town Clerk he most
carefully concealed his political feelings, and acted with strict
impartiality." Mr. Mendham married Miss Tillett, a sister of Mr. J. H.
Tillett. He was succeeded as Town Clerk by Mr. Henry Blake Miller.
21.--The Norwich Central Conservative Club was formally constituted at a
meeting of the party, held at the Bell Hotel.
22.--Died at Cardiff, aged 38, Mr. Henry Powel Smith, fourth son of Mr.
George Smith, formerly manager of the Norwich Theatrical Circuit.
24.--In pursuance of a writ from the Exchequer Division of the High Court
of Justice, the Sheriff of Norwich, by his Under-Sheriff (Mr. F. Fox),
empanelled a jury at the Royal Hotel to inquire what lands and tenements,
and their yearly value, were possessed by James Frederick Neale, of St.
Andrew's Hall Plain, grocer, and what goods and chattels any person had
in trust for him, as he was truly indebted to the Crown in the sum of 801
10s., "which sum was in danger of being lost unless some method more
speedy than the ordinary course of procedure at law be had." These
proceedings constituted another phase of the notorious Creak case. The
jury found that Mr. Neale possessed property to the amount of 855,
including 300 book debts, 505 stock-in-trade, and 50 paid on a life
insurance policy, besides freehold property of the value of 16 a year.
The jury thought they were not bound to find what was Mr. Neale's
indebtedness to the Crown, or what was the yearly value of the property
he held belonging to the late Margaret Creak.
29.--The 1st Dragoons (Royal)--five troops with headquarters--arrived at
Norwich, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Graham.