2.--Major F. A. Cubitt was presented by past and present officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk
Regiment with a silver candelabrum upon retiring from the adjutancy of
the battalion, after nearly fifteen years' service.
6.--Mr. W. R. Cooper, solicitor, was elected Clerk to the Norwich
magistrates in succession to Mr. G. B. Kennett, resigned.
11.--Died, at Unthank's Road, Norwich, Mr. James Calthrop Barnham, aged
82. He was descended from an old Norwich family, and one of his
ancestors, James Barnham, was a Sheriff of the city in 1738. Mr. Barnham
was a governor of Norwich Grammar School, and one of the original members
of the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society.
12.--Died, at Newmarket Terrace, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Daynes. Born in
December, 1815, he was a member of the Town Council, and a persistent
advocate of the adoption of the wood pavement scheme. A Guardian of the
Poor, he was thoroughly versed in the details of Poor-law administration,
and as a member of the School Board he displayed great earnestness as a
public economist. Mr. Daynes was prominently associated with the
Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, and in 1851-52 served the office of
"Grand Master" of that body.
--The Rev. William Pelham Burn, curate of St. Mary Abbot, Kensington, was
elected vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, in succession to the Rev.
F. Baggallay, who had accepted the living of Holy Trinity, Weymouth.
13.--At a meeting of the Yare Preservation Society, it was resolved,
"That the society be called the Yare and Bure Preservation Society, whose
objects shall be the preservation of the rivers Yare and Bure, and their
tributaries, from illegal fishing."
14.--Died, at Park Lane, Norwich, Mrs. Phillips, widow of Mr. Frederick
Lawrence Phillips, aged 77. Mrs. Phillips was well known to playgoers of
a past generation as the beautiful and accomplished Miss Ellen Daly, a
favourite actress in London and provincial theatres.
--An outbreak of rabies occurred in Norfolk. A mad dog ran through the
southern portion of the county, and bit several persons; it was
ultimately shot at New Buckenham. On June 30th the Norwich Town Council
adopted the muzzling order, and similar regulations were introduced by
the Norfolk County Council. A fund was raised for the purpose of sending
to Paris for treatment by Pasteur the eight persons who had been bitten
by the dog. The muzzling regulations in Norwich were withdrawn in the
last week in October.
19.--The annual meeting of the East Anglian, Cambridge, and
Huntingdonshire branches of the British Medical Association was held in
Norwich under the presidency of Dr. Beverley, who, with Mrs. Beverley,
received on the 20th a large number of distinguished visitors at a garden
party given by them at Brundall.
23.--Two squadrons of the 20th Hussars marched from Norwich for
Aldershot. The headquarters of the regiment left on the 24th under the
command of Colonel Graves.
27.--Died, at his residence, Grove House, Chapel Field, Norwich, Mr.
Robert Leeds, aged 79. Mr. Leeds devoted much time to several important
undertakings connected with the agricultural interest. He became a
member of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1852, and in 1869 was elected
to the Council; in 1862 he assisted in the formation of the company which
built the Agricultural Hall, Islington; and it was greatly owing to his
influence that the Smithfield Club removed their annual show from Baker
Street to the new hall. Mr. Leeds gave his practical aid to the
establishment of the Salisbury Hotel Company, and to founding the
Farmers' Club; he was a member of the Norfolk Agricultural Association,
and an energetic supporter of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent
Institution.
28.--The portrait of Mr. Cadge, painted by Professor Herkomer, was
unveiled at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Mr. Cadge announced that
Mr. B. E. Fletcher, of Marlingford, had munificently offered to build at
Cromer a Convalescent Home for the reception of Hospital patients, and
the Earl of Leicester, with like generosity, had promised to endow it
with 15,000, or, if necessary, with 20,000. Mr. Cadge retired from the
office of senior surgeon on October 4th. (_See_ April 25th, 1893.)
30.--H.M.S. Howe entered Yarmouth Roads, and on July 1st was joined by
the Anson, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Richard E. Tracey, and the
Rodney. The officers and men of the squadron were invited to various
entertainments provided ashore by the townspeople, and the vessels sailed
on July 4th.