1.--The students entered into occupation of the Norwich and Ely Training
College for female teachers in elementary schools. The cost of the
college was about 10,000, and of the practising schools 2,122. The
buildings were designed by Messrs. Oliver and Leeson, of
Newcastle-on-Tyne, and erected by Messrs. J. Youngs and Son. The college
was formally opened on October 12th by the Bishops of Norwich and Ely.
--Died the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, Canon of Norwich Cathedral, and
rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London. He was 67 years of age, and
was appointed to his canonry in 1867. In 1885 Canon Nisbet was elected
proctor in Convocation for the Norwich Chapter.
5.--Thorpe Market church was re-opened after extensive restoration. The
building was erected in 1796 by the second Lord Suffield on the site
formerly occupied by the original church, which had fallen into decay,
and was in consequence demolished.
--A fire of a most disastrous character occurred at Norwich in the
north-east angle of the large block of buildings lying between Bank
Street and Queen Street. The outbreak was confined to a three-storey
building occupied by Mr. R. A. Cooper, wholesale confectioner, of Queen
Street. Police-constable Hook was struck by falling masonry, and
sustained a fractured spine, from which he died in Hospital on the 10th.
12.--Mr. C. E. Cooke, of Litcham, sold his famous eight-years-old hackney
stallion. Cadet 1,251, for 3,000 to Mr. Alexander J. Cassatt, president
of the American Hackney Horse Society.
14.--Mr. Ben Greet's company of pastoral players performed the garden
scenes in "Twelfth Night" in the grounds of Mr. A. R. Chamberlin, the
Grove, Ipswich Road, Norwich, in aid of the funds of the Norfolk and
Norwich Hospital.
17.--Died, at Weston House, Colonel Sir Hambleton Custance, K.C.B., aged
82. He was a son of Mr. Hambleton Thomas Custance, of Weston, by Mary,
only child of Miles Bower, and was born at Norwich. He married, in 1840,
Frances, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, premier baronet of England, and
widow of the Rev. Henry Walpole Nevill. For more than fifty years he
held a commission in the old First or West Norfolk Militia, from the
command of which he retired in 1881 with the rank of honorary colonel,
when he received the dignity of K.C.B. From 1863 to 1878 he was
vice-chairman of the General Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Musical
Festival, a justice of the peace, and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, and
in 1859 served the office of High Sheriff. Lady Custance died on October
4th.
22.--Died, Mr. Thomas R. Tallack, formerly secretary of the Norfolk and
Norwich Hospital. He had done useful archaeological work, and among the
most important of his undertakings was the putting of the city archives
into good order and making them easy of access for reference. Mr.
Tallack had also made a valuable transcript for the Norfolk and Norwich
Archaeological Society of the Tanner MS.