3.--Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Mr. Edward Birkbeck were returned
unopposed for the division of North Norfolk.
4.--The funeral took place at Langham of William Nelson, who died at the
age of 101 years 4 months.
8.--Mr. Kay, Q.C., was appointed third Chairman of the Norfolk Court of
Quarter Sessions.
--King's Lynn election took place, and resulted as follows: Sir W.
ffolkes (Liberal), 1,286; the Hon. R. Bourke (Conservative), 1,257; Lord
Claud J. Hamilton (Conservative), 1,192; Mr. Frank Lockwood (Liberal),
1,151.
9.--Polling took place in the Western Division of Norfolk, and resulted
as follows: Mr. William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 2,671; Mr. G. Bentinck,
2,433; Mr. Anthony Hamond, 2,304.
10.--Mr. Thomas Johnson Seppings, of Wormegay Grange, Mayor of King's
Lynn, died suddenly when presiding at a meeting of a Committee of the
Corporation, held at the Town Hall. Mr. Seppings was in his 69th year.
14.--Lord Walsingham was elected second Chairman of Swaffham Quarter
Sessions, in place of Sir William Bagge, deceased.
23.--Mr. Bret Harte, the celebrated American author, delivered, at
Noverre's Rooms, Norwich, a lecture descriptive of early Californian
life, entitled, "The Argonauts of '49."