14.--The last sections of the line of railway from Wroxham to the Wells
branch of the Great Eastern Railway Company, by which the union of East
and West Norfolk was effected, was inspected, on its completion, by
Major-General Hutchinson. The line was opened for traffic on May 1st.
15.--A party of about twenty members of the North Walsham and Aylsham
Agricultural Association started from Norwich on a trip to Holland, the
expenses of which were defrayed by Mr. Samuel Hoare and Sir T. Fowell
Buxton, Bart. They arrived at Rotterdam on the 16th. In the course of
the tour much valuable information was obtained regarding the Dutch
systems of agriculture and dairying.
18.--The portrait of Mr. Harry Bullard, to which fifteen hundred persons
subscribed, in recognition of his eminent services to the city, was hung
in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich. It was painted by Mr. Frank Holl, A.R.A.
22.--A county meeting, in furtherance of the movement originated by the
Prince of Wales for establishing a Royal College of Music, was held at
St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Earl of
Leicester.
25.--Mary Ann Plunkett, aged nineteen, was murdered at Mill Hill, Catton,
by a youth of twenty-two, named William George Abigail, who shot her in
the head with a revolver. He was tried at Ipswich Assizes, before Mr.
Baron Pollock, and sentenced to death. The execution was carried out at
Norwich Castle, by Marwood, on May 22nd.