7.--The first section of the Yarmouth and Stalham Railway--the portion
extending from the first-mentioned town to Ormesby--was inspected by
Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and the first train was run on the 8th.
(_See_ July 15th, 1878.)
20.--The Norwich Rifle Volunteers were, for the first time, officially
inspected in their new scarlet uniform. The inspecting officer was
Colonel Harenc.
21.--By the death, on this date, at Duntrune, Forfarshire, of Miss
Clementine Stirling Grahame, in her 96th year, Mr. J. Edmund Lacon, of
Yarmouth, succeeded to the estate of Duntrune, and to the relics and
papers of the great Viscount Dundee.
22.--The first stone of the Hunstanton Convalescent Home was laid by the
Countess of Leicester. The building was erected as a memorial of the
convalescence of the Prince of Wales.
24.--Died at Denton Rectory, near Harleston, the Ven. William Arundell
Bouverie, B.D., Hon. Canon of Norwich, and formerly Archdeacon of
Norfolk, in his 80th year. He was appointed to the living of Denton in
1839, accepted the archdeaconry in 1850, and resigned it in 1869, in
consequence of ill-health.