1.--Died suddenly, at his residence, Bank Plain, Norwich, Mr. Arthur
Preston, solicitor. He was the youngest son of Mr. John Preston, of
Great Yarmouth (who was twice Mayor of that borough), and was born on
July 3rd, 1819. After serving his articles with Mr. Roger Kerrison he
was admitted a solicitor in 1842, and from 1844 to 1864, when Mr.
Kerrison died, he was in partnership with him. Mr. Preston was appointed
Clerk to the Burials Board in 1861, and held the office until his death;
he had been a director of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society since
1867, and president since 1885; and he was the Norwich solicitor to the
British Gas Light Company, Limited, to which office he was appointed in
1864. Mr. Preston was twice married--in 1854 to Maria, daughter of Mr.
Robert Waters, and in 1869 to Louisa Jane, daughter of the Rev. J.
Culling Evans, of Stoke Pogis, Buckinghamshire. He left a family of five
sons and three daughters.
--An outbreak of fire at West Beckham Workhouse caused damage to the
amount of 1,500.
5.--The proceedings of the Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced at
Noverre's Rooms, Norwich, and concluded on the 6th.
16.--The E and D Troops of the 19th (Princess of Wales' Own) Hussars
marched from Norwich Cavalry Barracks for Hampton Court and Kensington.
The remaining troops left on the 26th, on which day three troops of the
20th Hussars marched in under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Blake.
21.*--"A party of emigrants, numbering sixty, from parishes in the
neighbourhood of Diss, have left this week for Canada."
28.--Died, at 19, Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke Square, London,
Lieut.-Colonel George Black, formerly Chief Constable of Norfolk, in his
79th year. It was on October 20th, 1852, that Colonel (then Captain)
Black, a half-pay officer of the Royal Staff Corps, who had seen service
as adjutant in Canada, was appointed to the command of the Norfolk
Constabulary, and he held the post until the autumn of 1880, when he
retired on a pension. For sixteen or seventeen years Colonel Black held
the command of the Norwich Rifle Battalion in succession to Colonel
Brett. At the funeral, which took place at Willesden Cemetery on May
2nd, the coffin was borne to the grave by six superintendents of the
Norfolk Constabulary.