1.--The first lecture of a series on Ecclesiastical History was delivered
in the nave of Norwich Cathedral by Archdeacon Farrar on "Ignatius and
Polycarp." (_See_ January 5th, 1893.)
8.--Died suddenly, at Bristol, Mr. William James Metcalfe, Q.C., Recorder
of Norwich, and judge of the Bristol County Court. He was a son of the
Rev. W. Metcalfe, of Foulmire, Cambridgeshire, and was born in 1818.
Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his M.A. degree,
he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1845, and became Queen's
Counsel in 1873. Mr. Metcalfe was Recorder of Ipswich from 1866 to 1874,
and succeeded Mr. P. O'Malley, Q.C., in the Recordership of Norwich. In
1879 he was appointed to his County Court judgeship. He was succeeded as
Recorder of Norwich by Mr. Thomas Richardson Kemp, Q.C.
12.--Captain Lugard addressed two influential meetings at St. Andrew's
Hall, Norwich, upon the situation in Uganda. A resolution expressive of
satisfaction with the action of the Government was adopted.
18.--Died, at Portland Place, Bath, Mr. James Hunt Holley, aged 88. He
was a son of Mr. James Hunt Holley, of Blickling, and was educated under
Valpy at Norwich School. Possessed of considerable landed property, he
took great interest in agriculture, and in 1858 purchased the estate of
Oaklands, Okehampton, in Devonshire, on the borders of Dartmoor, where,
remote from railways, agriculture had been neglected. The improvements
which he carried out in the district gave great impetus to trade. He was
an active magistrate, and during the earlier part of his life a staunch
Free-trader and a Whig of the old school; but being unable to follow the
extreme views of his party he ultimately withdrew from politics. Mr.
Holley married a daughter of Admiral Windham, of Felbrigg Hall.
19.--The Prince of Wales presided at a dinner given at the Hotel
Metropole, London, to Lord Suffield, on his retirement from the command
of the Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery.
26.--The Compton Comedy Company commenced a twelve nights' engagement at
Norwich Theatre, and Ginnett's Circus began its winter season at the
Agricultural Hall.
1893.