1.--The first Norwich Cricket Week commenced on the Lakenham Ground.
3.--North Walsham pariah church was re-opened, on the completion of the
new roof to the nave. The work was carried out at the cost of 2,208, by
Messrs. Cornish and Gaymer, under the direction of Mr. J. B. Pearce,
architect, of Norwich.
13.--Died at Bilney rectory, the Rev. Henry Collison, aged 89. Mr.
Collison, who was one of the oldest clergymen of the Church of England,
was the eldest surviving son of Mr. Nicholas Cobb Collison, a merchant of
London, by his marriage with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Peter
Stoughton, of Wymondham. He was formerly chaplain of the King's Bench
Prison, of the old Marshalsea in the Borough, and of the Court of the
Palace of Westminster. For some time he served as military chaplain at
the Cape of Good Hope, and afterwards held the rectory of Bilney for
nearly half a century. Mr. Collison married, in 1851, Harriett Mary,
younger daughter of Mr. Thomas Abel Ward, of Watford, Herts.
30.--The Norwich Town Council, who had erected two electric lights in the
Market Place, decided to extend the system experimentally to several of
the principal streets, at a cost not exceeding 400, for twelve months.
(_See_ April 24th, 1883.)