8.--The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at
Wymondham, and was continued on the 9th. The Earl of Kimberley was
president for the year.
10.--A prolonged strike in the building trade, at Norwich, was settled on
this date. The bricklayers' strike commenced on May 4th, and that of the
carpenters and joiners on June 1st. In both cases the men demanded an
extra payment of one penny per hour, and the acceptance by the masters of
a code of rules framed by them. The employers declined to accede to
these demands, but submitted a code of their own, and offered a halfpenny
advance. The Mayor (Mr. Wild) intervened, and although at the time his
action had no effect, the men ultimately accepted the masters' code of
rules.
14.--Dedication services were held at the parish church of Great Yarmouth
on the completion of the extensive and protracted work of restoration.
The undertaking was commenced in 1847 by the Rev. Henry Mackenzie,
afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, and continued from time to
time by the three successive vicars, Bishop Hills, of British Columbia,
Archdeacon Nevill, and Canon Venables. The latest portion of the work
was begun in the spring of 1890, and cost about 1,500. About 40,000 was
expended upon the entire restoration.
17.--Died, at Eastbourne, Mr. Willoughby Smith, the distinguished
electrician, who was born at Yarmouth on April 16th, 1828. He
superintended the manufacture and laying of the first submarine cable.
In 1866 he was electrician on board the Great Eastern steamship during
the laying of the first successful Atlantic cable and on the recovery and
completion of the cable that had been lost the year before. For these
services Mr. Smith received a gold medal and an address from the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. In 1883 he was President of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers, and in 1888 published a work,
entitled "Yarmouth Past and Present."
21.--At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council a letter from the Privy
Council was read, in which it was stated, with reference to a scheme for
altering the boundaries of the wards of the city, that such alteration
could not be permitted unless an alteration was also made in the number
of the wards. (_See_ March 15th, 1892.)
25.--An exhibition of the works of Edward Thomas Daniell, comprising
etchings, water-colours, and oil paintings, was held at the rooms of the
Norwich Art Circle.
--The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions Norfolk Regiment, encamped
at Great Yarmouth under the command of Brigadier-General Bulwer.
27.--Lord Walsingham presided at a meeting of the subscribers to the
Norwich Castle Museum scheme, at which it was decided to extend, at an
additional cost of between 4,000 and 5,000, the original scheme for
converting the Castle and the surrounding buildings to the purposes of a
Museum. It was announced that the Prince of Wales had contributed to the
fund a further donation of fifty guineas. (_See_ August 4th, 1894.)
30.--A thunderstorm of extraordinary severity burst over Ellingham Park,
the seat of Mr. Henry Smith. "The lightning seemed literally to sweep
the park with a sheet of fire, and immediately after the storm six
bullocks and heifers were found lying dead under an elm tree. Other
cattle were injured, and the tree itself was split in half, and some of
the branches hurled a considerable distance." Further thunderstorms
occurred in other parts of the county on August 2nd.