1.--Dr. Jameson, of Transvaal raid fame, travelling as Dr. Johnson,
accompanied by Dr. Rutherford Harris, visited Norwich, and stayed at the
Maid's Head Hotel.
2.--The coming of age of Mr. John Calthorpe Blofeld, eldest son of Mr.
Blofeld, of Hoveton House, was celebrated by the tenantry on the Hoveton
estate.
11.--Died at Wreningham Rectory, the Rev. Arthur Wilson Upcher, who for
48 years was rector of Ashwellthorpe and Wreningham. Born at Sheringham
in 1815, he was an excellent oar, and rowed number seven in the Cambridge
boat when the first University boat race was contested from Westminster
to Putney in 1836. Mr. Upcher was also a remarkably good shot.
13.--The announcement was made that Messrs. Gurneys and Co. had issued a
circular stating the completion of arrangements for an important
amalgamation of the businesses of certain private banks as a company
under the name of Barclay and Co., Limited. The registered capital was
6,000,000. On October 31st the members of the old firm of Messrs.
Gurneys and Co. were presented with a massive silver shield mounted on
solid oak, and an illuminated address in which the subscribers, the
citizens of Norwich, expressed their high appreciation of the long and
honourable career of the firm and the influence for good exercised
individually by the members. The presentation was made by the Mayor (Mr.
John Moore).
19.--In the Queen's Bench Division, before the Lord Chief Justice and a
special jury, the action Austin _v._ the Central News, Limited, and
several provincial newspapers, the "Norfolk News" included, came on for
trial. Mr. Austin, M.P. for West Limerick, complained that the
defendants had published a libel concerning him, in a paragraph stating
that in a speech he had sympathised with dynamiters. The jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff, damages 1,000, of which the "Norfolk News"
Company were adjudged to pay 100.
30.--A recumbent effigy placed in the north transept of Norwich Cathedral
to the memory of the late Bishop Pelham was unveiled by the Rev. Canon
Patteson. It was the work of Mr. James Forsyth, sculptor, of Finchley
Road, Hampstead.