1.--The nomination of candidates for East Norfolk took place at the
Shirehall, Norwich. Mr. William Louis St. Julian Prioleau, of Plumstead
Hall, was proposed by the Unionists, and Mr. Robert James Price by the
Liberals. The polling on the 5th was as follows: Price, 4,563; Prioleau,
3,733.
--At the Town Hall, Aylsham, Major Henry Speaker Follett, 7th Dragoon
Guards, of Coney Weston, Suffolk, was nominated Unionist candidate for
North Norfolk; Sir William Brampton Gurdon, K.C., of Assington Hall,
Suffolk, was nominated by the Liberals. The polling took place on the
8th: Gurdon, 4,490; Follett, 3,493.
4.--Polling took place for South Norfolk. The candidates were Mr. Edward
Mann, of Thelveton Hall (Unionist), and Mr. A. W. Soames (Liberal). The
result was declared at the Shirehall, Norwich, on the 5th: Soames, 3,986;
Mann, 3,566.
--The nomination took place at the Town Hall, Lynn, of Sir William
ffolkes, Bart., of Hillington (Unionist), and Mr. George White, of Eaton
Grange, Norwich, manufacturer (Liberal), as candidates for North-West
Norfolk. The polling was on the 11th, and the result was declared on the
12th: White, 4,287; ffolkes, 3,811.
--Mr. William Lewis Boyle, of Elsing Hall (Unionist), and Mr. F. W.
Wilson, of the Dale, Scarning (Liberal), were nominated at East Dereham
for the representation of Mid Norfolk. The election took place on the
8th, and the poll was declared on the 9th: Wilson, 3,996; Boyle, 3,422.
5.--At Swaffham, Mr. Thomas Leigh Hare, of Stow Hall (Unionist), and Mr.
Richard Winfrey, of Sutton House, Peterborough, and Stanley House,
Swaffham (Liberal), were nominated candidates for South-West Norfolk.
The polling on the 12th resulted as follows: Hare, 3,702; Winfrey, 3,636.
6.--Died at Pinetown Bridge, South Africa, Mr. Walter Waring, surgeon
Norwich. He had gone out to the seat of war as captain in the Militia
Medical Staff Corps, and the cause of his death was dysentery. Formerly
medical-officer to the Norwich Dispensary, he was known as Mr. Walter
Scott Walters; he afterwards assumed the name of Waring.
17.--Died at the Close, Norwich, the Ven. Henry Ralph Nevill, Archdeacon
of Norfolk and a canon of Norwich Cathedral. He was fourth son of Mr.
Richard J. Nevill, of Llangennech Park, Carmarthenshire, and was born
June 17th, 1821. For four years he was travelling tutor to the Earl of
Ducie. His first curacy was at Yarmouth, in 1848, and he ultimately
became vicar of that parish in 1859. In 1873 he received a residentiary
canonry in Norwich Cathedral, and in 1874 Bishop Pelham appointed him
Archdeacon of Norfolk, in succession to Archdeacon Blakelock. In 1881
Archdeacon Nevill was elected vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, and held the
living until 1884. He was a member of the governing body of the Grammar
School, and was well known throughout the diocese as an able organiser
and administrator.
19.--The Earl of Albemarle was welcomed with great enthusiasm at
Quidenham Park on his return from active service in South Africa in
command of the City of London Imperial Volunteers.