1.--A three weeks' mission, in furtherance of the Blue Ribbon movement,
was commenced in Norwich by its founder, Mr. Francis Murphy. The new
pledges taken during the mission numbered 10,000, and upwards of 15,000
blue ribbons were distributed.
--The express service from the Eastern Counties to Doncaster was opened
by the Great Eastern Railway Company, over their own and the Great
Northern joint line.
5.--The coming of age of Mr. Russell J. Colman, eldest son of Mr. J. J.
Colman, M.P., was celebrated by a dinner given in the grounds of Carrow
House, to between 3,000 and 4,000 of the _employes_ at Carrow Works.
9.--The death was recorded of Mr. John Laffan Hanly, proprietor and
editor of the "Levant Times," at Constantinople, at the age of 48. Mr.
Hanly was for some time chief reporter on the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, and
subsequently editor of the "Lincolnshire Chronicle."
13.--The French fishing lugger, La Reine des Anges, deeply laden with
herring, was wrecked on the Middle Cross Sand off Yarmouth, and of her
crew of eighteen, ten were drowned.
17.--Special thanksgivings were offered in the churches in Norwich "for
the glorious success achieved by our arms at Tel-el-Kebir, with the
consequent collapse of the rebellion of Arabi and the prospect of the
restoration of peace in Egypt."
24.--Died at Yarmouth, Mr. Charles John Palmer, F.S.A. He was Mayor of
the borough in 1835, 1854, and 1855, and was very zealous in promoting
various local undertakings, among which was the restoration of the parish
church. Mr. Palmer was the author of several antiquarian works, the best
known of which is his "Perlustration of Great Yarmouth."
27.--The coming of age of Mr. Edward Evans Lombe, eldest son of the Rev.
Henry Evans Lombe, was celebrated at Bylaugh Park.