16.--The Wild-Collins voting apparatus, for expediting and facilitating
voting at Parliamentary and Municipal elections, invented by Mr. Edward
Wild and Mr. A. E. Collins, City Engineer, was exhibited at the Municipal
offices, Norwich.
17.--Died at Old Buckenham, Mr. William Thomas Simpson, in his 67th year.
A native of Bury St. Edmund's, where his father was master of the Grammar
School, he was the senior partner of the old established firm of Salter
and Simpson, auctioneers and valuers. Mr. Simpson had great practical
knowledge of agriculture, and was an excellent breeder and judge of
cattle.