9.--Died at Surrey Street, Norwich, Mr. Henry George Barwell. Born on
February 4th, 1829, he was the fourth son of Mr. John Barwell, and was
educated at Hofwyl, near Berne, and at Norwich Grammar School. He was
engaged as private secretary to Mr. Birkett, brother-in-law of Sir Morton
Peto, and was afterwards employed in the construction of a portion of the
Great Northern Railway between Lincoln and Newark, and on its completion
was sent out to Flensburg as one of the staff in the making of the Royal
Danish Railway. In 1856 he joined the firm of Barwell and Sons. Taking
up the practical study of art in 1870, he became a frequent exhibitor at
the Royal Institution of Painters in Water Colours; he was one of the
founders of the Norwich Art Circle, and for twenty-five years was hon.
secretary of the Norwich School of Art.
15.--The Norfolk Infantry Volunteer Brigade went into camp at Colchester
under the command of Col. G. S. Burton, commanding the 9th Regimental
District. The four battalions numbered about 2,000 men.
--The 7th Dragoon Guards left Norwich by train for Bulford Camp,
Salisbury Plain, to take part in the cavalry manoeuvres.
25.--In the Court of Appeal, before Lords Justices A. L. Smith, Rigby,
and Vaughan Williams, judgment was given in the long pending appeal the
Corporation of Thetford _v._ the County Council of Norfolk. This was an
appeal from a judgment of Mr. Justice Wills. The question was whether in
the case of a borough of not less than 10,000 inhabitants and having
separate courts of Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions, the salaries of
the recorder and the clerk of the peace, and of the clerk to the borough
justices in Petty Sessions in such borough, and certain other expenses
connected with the Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions were transferred
from the borough fund to the county fund. Thetford was a borough
containing a population of less than 10,000, and was situated for
administrative purposes within the county of Norfolk. It had a separate
court of Quarter Sessions presided over by a recorder, who was paid a
salary of 40 per annum, and there was a clerk of the peace who was paid
by fees. Before and since the Local Government Act of 1888 the salary of
the recorder and the fees (with certain exceptions) of the clerk of the
peace were paid out of the borough fund, and the clerk to the borough
justices was paid a salary out of the same fund. The plaintiffs
contended that by the Act of 1888 the liability for the expenses was
transferred to the defendants, and they claimed a declaration to that
effect, and they further claimed to be reimbursed the expenses paid by
them. There was also a question raised by cross-appeal as to the payment
of the salary of the clerk of the Petty Sessions. The court dismissed
the appeal, and allowed the cross-appeal.
26.--Dr. J. E. Talmage lectured at Victoria Hall, Norwich, on "Utah and
its People."
--The Norwich Town Council adopted the report of a special committee
appointed to enquire into the sanitary condition of the courts and yards
of the city. The effect of the recommendations was to enforce upon the
owners of property the fulfilment of the provisions of the Public Health
Act and the Norwich Corporation Act of 1889.