1.--Died at the Mount, Thorpe Hamlet, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Jarrold,
widow of Mr. Thomas Jarrold. She was the author of the popular
"Household Tracts," and was for many years an active worker amongst the
poor.
5.--At the Guildhall Police-court, Norwich, Mr. Edmund Reeve, on behalf
of the Norwich Electric Tramways Company, applied to the justices, under
the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, for a magistrates' certificate that
the capital of the company had been subscribed. The capital was stated
to be 240,000, and 50 per cent. thereof had been paid up. The
application was granted. The work of laying the tramways was commenced
on the Earlham and Thorpe routes on June 22nd. (_See_ April 19th, 1900.)
8.--Mr. Edward Wild was elected leader of the Conservative party in
Norwich in place of Mr. H. S. Patteson, resigned.
11.--A great sale of shire horses, the property of the Prince of Wales,
was conducted at Wolferton by Messrs. Sexton, Grimwade, and Beck.
Fifty-four lots averaged 224 7s. 9d., and the sale realised 12,117. The
three-year-old filly, Sea Breeze, was bought by Sir Blundell Maple for
1,150 guineas.
22.--A shocking boat disaster occurred at Wells-next-the-Sea. Five
members of the coastguard were drowned through the capsizing of their
boat, and five men of the crew of the gig of H.M.S. torpedo boat Alarm,
Sub-Lieutenant William Lowther, lost their lives through a like mishap.
The second disaster, which was discovered when search was being made for
the missing coastguard, was the indirect outcome of the first; for when
the coastguard boat did not arrive in response to the Alarm's signals to
take off stores intended for use at the Wells coastguard station, it was
decided on board the Alarm to launch the gig and execute the commission.
22.--Mr. Arthur F. Gentry, borough accountant of Colchester, was
appointed City Accountant of Norwich, at the salary of 400 per annum.
--At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was decided that the
Norwich City Waterworks Bill, 1898, be referred to the Law and
Parliamentary Committee with the object of obtaining powers in the Bill
for the Corporation to purchase the Waterworks. The Bill, which was
promoted by the City of Norwich Waterworks Company for raising additional
capital and for obtaining powers to make additional works, came before a
Select Committee of the House of Commons on March 15th. The committee
stipulated that the proposed new capital should be reduced from 100,000
to 60,000, and the borrowing powers to 15,000, which with the unused
capital and stock would give the company 90,000. On October 18th the Law
and Parliamentary Committee reported that having regard to the importance
and magnitude of the acquisition of the undertaking by the Corporation,
and the limited time within which steps must be taken to promote a Bill
in the next session of Parliament, they recommended that further action
be delayed until next year. The recommendation was adopted.
24.--A party of members of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society
visited Tasburgh for the purpose of viewing a site known as the Chapel
Piece, where a quantity of ancient human remains had been unearthed.
"There is little doubt that the site was used as a burial-ground by the
inhabitants of the Roman station over the river upon the adjacent hill,
in the enclosure of which the present church of Tasburgh stands."
25.--Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, delivered at St. Andrew's Hall,
Norwich, his lecture entitled "Across the Polar Region."