4.--The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at
Yarmouth under the presidency of Lord Suffield, and was continued on the
5th.
12.--A three days' military tournament, in which the 1st King's Dragoon
Guards, the depot of the Norfolk Regiment, and the Norwich Artillery
Volunteers took part, commenced at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, in aid
of the clothing fund of the Cadet Corps. Exhibition boxing was given by
Frank Slavin and Jim Young.
--Mr. A. Morley, M.P., Postmaster-General, addressed a Liberal meeting at
St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich.
17.--The Norwich School of Music was established at a meeting held at the
Guildhall.
--Mr. A. E. Collins, M.I.C.E., of Reading, was appointed by the Norwich
Town Council, city engineer and architect in place of Mr. Buchan,
resigned.
25.--Mr. Joseph Arch, M.P., at a meeting held at New Buckenham, delivered
to the agricultural labourers his famous address which was quoted
throughout the country for some time afterwards. "You poor, craven
milk-and-water fools," said the hon. member for North-west Norfolk, "why,
you button up your pockets at the thought of paying 2.25d. a week when
you are told by a lot of lying scampery and scandalism that I have run
away with your money. . . . Professor Rogers once said when speaking of
the tenant farmers, that their heads were as soft as the mangolds they
grew. I think some of the labourers' heads are as soft as the mangolds
they hoe."
28.--The Norfolk Volunteer Brigade camp commenced at Yarmouth. The four
battalions numbered 1,923 of all ranks. Brigadier-General Bulwer was in
command.