7.--The Norwich Town Council elected Mr. Ernest Edward Wild,
barrister-at-law, judge of the Guildhall Court of Record, in place of Mr.
Carlos Cooper, deceased.
22.--Died at 14, Trinity Street, Norwich, Mr. William Hunter, aged 77.
He was a native of Bury St. Edmund's, was elected Mayor of Norwich in
1881, and appointed a justice of the peace in 1893.
26.--Died at Belper, the Rev. Edwin Augustus Hillyard, vicar of Christ
Church, in that town. He was formerly rector of St. Lawrence, Norwich,
and the pioneer of ritualistic observances in the churches of the city.
"Mr. Hillyard was the first to have celebrations for the departed, and
they have been held in one church or another in Norwich ever since."
27.--A disastrous fire occurred at Lynn, and caused destruction of
tradesmen's stock and property of the value of 150,000. It originated on
the premises of Messrs. Jermyn and Perry and Jermyn and Son, wholesale
and retail drapers and furniture and general warehousemen.
1898.