8.--Mr. Wilson Barrett commenced a week's engagement at Norwich Theatre,
in the character of Belphegor. His other impersonations included Claud
Melnotte, Chatterton, The Stranger, and Hamlet.
12.--The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. Edward Wild) unveiled at Norwich Cathedral
a window inserted in the south aisle to the memory of officers of the
Norfolk Regiment. The window was the gift of the officers and men of the
regiment.
--The British Training Squadron, consisting of the Active, the Calypso,
the Volage, and the Ruby, entered Yarmouth Roads, and sailed on the 14th
for the north. Each ship's company numbered about 500 men and boys.
15.--A Select Committee of the House of Commons inquired into the merits
of the St. Faith's Allotment Bill, by which it was sought to obtain
Parliamentary sanction to the compulsory purchase of 18.5 acres of land
owned by the Countess de Rechberg, in the parish of Horsham St. Faith's,
for the purpose of providing allotments for forty applicants under the
Allotments Acts, 1887 and 1890. On the 17th the chairman (Sir Stafford
Northcote) announced that the Committee were of opinion that the preamble
of the Bill was proved, and that the order should be confirmed, but they
thought the justice of the case would be met if 10a. 2r. 6p. were given
up for allotments, and the Countess de Rechberg be ordered to pay her own
costs and one-third of the costs of the promoters. The Local Government
Board subsequently held an inquiry to decide the amount to be paid to the
Countess for the compulsory purchase of the land. The Countess demanded
1,291 6s. (originally 1,451); the County Council offered 1,025 8s. 6d.;
and the Local Government Board inspector awarded 1,131 15s. 6d.
16.--Lord Walsingham was elected High Steward of Cambridge University,
and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. His lordship was
introduced as a distinguished member of the Eton and Cambridge elevens,
as an excellent shot, and as a great authority on shooting game.
Further, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and had given special
attention to the study of microlepidoptera.
24.--The Goulburn pulpit, erected in the nave of Norwich Cathedral, was
dedicated on this date. It was the gift of the Very Rev. E. M. Goulburn,
formerly Dean of Norwich, and was executed in Caen stone by Mr. James
Forsyth, of Hampstead, from designs by Mr. R. Herbert Carpenter, F.S.A.,
and Mr. Benjamin Ingelow.
27.--The Norwich Census returns were published on this date, as
follow:--Tenements of less than five rooms, 7,654; inhabited houses,
23,268; uninhabited, 1,739; building, 205. Persons: Males, 46,615;
females, 54,348; total, 100,964.