19.--The Norwich Diocesan Conference opened at Noverre's Rooms, Norwich,
and was concluded on the 20th.
--A trial trip over the completed portion of the Norwich electric
tramways was run. A memorial signed by clergy and others was presented
to the Town Council, protesting against the proposed introduction of
Sunday traffic over the system. The overhead wires erected by the
Tramway Company were inspected on June 12th by Mr. A. P. Trotter,
electric adviser to the Board of Trade; and on July 26th Col. Yorke,
R.E., of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, made an inspection
of 22 miles of route on about 16 miles of roads. On the 30th the cars
commenced running over the Magdalen Road, Earlham Road, Dereham Road, and
Thorpe Road routes. Twenty-five thousand persons were carried on this
day. The Newmarket Road route was opened on August 9th, and the Unthank
Road route on December 22nd.
20.--Two men, Pratt, of Tunstead, and Thomas Stafford, from Surrey, were
at work in a seven foot cylinder, 90 foot below the surface of the
ground, at North Waltham Waterworks, when the earth fell in and they were
entombed. The accident occurred at fire p.m. Strenuous efforts were
made to rescue the men, and mainly through the exertions of one Tom
Holford they were brought to the surface much exhausted, but otherwise
uninjured, at 9.15 p.m. on the 21st.
25.--The centenary of the death of the poet Cowper at East Dereham on
April 25th, 1800, was observed. Cowper spent the closing years of his
life in a house in the Market Place, on the site of which the Cowper
Congregational church is now erected. His body was interred in St.
Edmund's Chapel, in the north transept of the parish church. At the
commemoration service the sermon was preached by the Rev. John Callis,
rector of Holy Trinity, Norwich.
26.--The Duke of York visited Yarmouth and attended the opening and
dedication of the Missions to Seamen Church and Institute.