1.--The 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment formed a marching column
of 200 of all ranks, and under the command of Col. Dawson proceeded to
Stratton Strawless, where a camp was formed in the park. On the 2nd the
march was resumed to Blickling Park, where the column encamped, and in
the afternoon attended service at the parish church. On the morning of
the 3rd outpost duty was practised, and in the afternoon the column
marched to Norwich, and was dismissed at the Drill Hall.
2.--A serious fire occurred on board the Jenny Lind steamboat at Foundry
Bridge, Norwich.
11.--At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Russell of
Killowen, Frederic Butcher, 15, carpenter's apprentice, was indicted for
feloniously shooting at the Rev. Arthur Hamilton Upcher, with intent to
do him grievous bodily harm, at Baconsthorpe, on January 3rd. The
prisoner was found guilty, and recommended to mercy on account of his
youth. He was sentenced to nine calendar months' imprisonment.
--At the Norwich Assizes, before the Lord Chief Justice, Frederick Miles,
27, labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mildred Miles, his
wife, at St. John Timberhill, Norwich, on June 1st. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy on the ground
that he had received great provocation. His lordship passed sentence of
death, which was afterwards commuted to penal servitude for life.
15.--Died at 24, Fairfax Road, South Hampstead, London, Mr. Philip Soman,
senior proprietor of the "Norfolk Daily Standard," aged 60.
18.--The old Toll House premises at Yarmouth were opened as a museum.
19.--Mr. Henry Staniforth Patteson was elected leader of the Conservative
party in Norwich, in place of Lieut.-Col. Bignold, deceased.
21.--A terrible tragedy occurred near Yarmouth. George Stanford, a bank
clerk, aged 25, in the employment of Messrs. Gurneys and Co., drowned his
_fiancee_, Edith Mary Argyle, in the Steam Mill dyke, at Caister, and
then committed suicide by drowning himself.
29.--The foundation-stone of the new church of St. Peter, Sheringham, was
laid by Mrs. Upcher, the principal contributor of the total sum of 7,000,
the estimated cost of the building. The church was designed by Messrs.
St. Aubyn and Wadling, of Lamb Buildings, Temple, London, and the
contractors were Messrs. Bardell Bros., of King's Lynn.