6.--The Norwich Cricket Week commenced on this date, and concluded on the
11th. The principal match of the week was Norfolk _v._ Parsees. Scores:
Norfolk, 138-73; Parsees, 78-129. Sir Kenneth Kemp's amateur theatrical
company appeared at the Theatre on the 8th in "The Porter's Knot" and "To
Oblige Benson"; on the 10th the comedy was repeated, and a "Cups and
Saucers" was produced as an after-piece.
10.--Upwards of 10,000 people were present at a Primrose League _fete_
given at Houghton Park by Mr. E. Kenyon-Stow. Addresses were delivered
by Lord Henry Bentinck, M.P., Mr. Weston Jarvis, M.P., and Mr. Whitmore,
M.P.
18.--Died, at Norwich, Mr. Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. He was the youngest
son of Mr. Seth William Stevenson, and was born at Surrey Street,
Norwich, March 30th, 1833. Educated at King's College School, London, he
became, on attaining his majority, a co-partner in the proprietorship of
the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, and at the age of 22 was elected honorary
secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, a position which he filled
with marked ability to the close of his life. Volume I. of his standard
work, "The Birds of Norfolk," was published in December, 1866, and Volume
II. in September, 1870; and Volume III. was in course of publication at
the time of his death. His other literary work included a memoir of his
friend, the Rev. Richard Lubbock, M.A., rector of Eccles, published with
a revised edition of Lubbock's "Fauna of Norfolk," edited by Mr. T.
Southwell (1879), and numerous contributions to the Transactions of the
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, of which he was one of the
founders, and filled the office of president in 1871-72. Mr. Stevenson
was appointed Sheriff of Norwich in 1875. He married, in 1856, Eliza
Dangerfield, stepdaughter of Mr. Edward Slater, who died from injuries
received in a carriage accident on July 17th, 1862; his second wife was
Ann Emilia, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm. Self, surgeon, of Hackney.
30.--Lord Walsingham killed to his own gun, on his small moor at
Blubberhouses, Yorkshire, 1,058 grouse. Of these, 1,036 were taken home
the same night, and 22 were picked up the following day. "The record of
his having killed 842 grouse to his own gun on August 28th, 1872, had
been so freely disputed by many persons, who professed to regard it as a
physical impossibility, that it was his lordship's intention to prove
more could be accomplished."