2.--A gale, which prevailed throughout England, was severely felt on the
Norfolk coast. A large number of vessels ran into Yarmouth Roads for
shelter, among them H.M.S. Narcissus and her escorts Valorous and Echo.
A fine vessel, the Falls of Bruar, 1,742 tons register, the property of
the Glasgow Shipping Company, was wrecked, and only five hands out of the
crew of twenty-nine were saved.
21.--The Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. F. Oddin Taylor) gave a _soiree
musicale_ at Blackfriars' Hall, at which the principal performers were M.
Leopold Godowsky, Miss Alexes Leighton, Senor A. Gimenez Manjon, Signor
Bottesini, and Mr. Odell.
26.--The first of many protracted discussions took place at a meeting of
the Norwich Town Council, upon a report furnished by the City Engineer
(Mr. P. P. Marshall) upon the state of the sewerage system of the city.
The old sewers were said to be in a defective state, and it was proposed
to abandon the low-level system, and to adopt the separate system with a
new rising main, at an estimated cost of 78,000.
29.--The church of St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich, which for many years had
been in a dilapidated state, was opened after restoration at the cost of
3,000.
--At the annual dinner of the North Walsham and Aylsham Agricultural
Association, held at North Walsham, cigarettes, made from tobacco grown
in Norfolk by Sir Edward Birkbeck, M.P., were handed to the guests. The
President (Lord Suffield) described the tobacco as "very good," and said
that Sir Edward, who had taken considerable interest in the experiment,
"believed that its growth was really going to do something for the
benefit of Norfolk farmers."