8.--The Spring Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held at
Lynn, but the change of venue resulted in a very small entry.
19.*--"Died, a few days ago, in a modest dwelling in Yarmouth, Charles
Crawshay Wilkinson, the inventor of perforated sheet stamps. The
Government offered a very handsome reward for a contrivance by which
postage and other stamps might be most easily separated. Mr. Wilkinson,
then only a working-man, in the service of a distinguished firm,
exercised the considerable technical knowledge and natural cleverness he
possessed, and constructed a perforating machine similar to those now in
use. This success was made known to his employers, who presented him
with a sum for the invention, but obtained the credit for it, and also
the large reward offered. The inventor gained a competency by his
industry, went to Yarmouth, and lived happily in retirement. With the
exception of intimate friends, very few knew him as the real originator
of a device which had benefited countless millions of people."