Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood Part 55

May 4th. A lad named Everett Albert Parker thrown into a ditch at Flegg Burgh by four schoolboys and drowned.

May 8th. Mr. Samuel Linay, of Norwich (formerly a clerk in the office of the late John Lomas Cufaude, Esq., of Yarmouth, Clerk of the Peace), admitted an attorney and solicitor of the Court of Chancery, and subsequently catered into partners.h.i.+p with Wm. Sadd, Esq., of Norwich (to whom he served his articles)-firm, Sadd and Linay. The same year Mr.

Linay was also appointed a Commissioner for taking oaths in the Superior Courts.

May 14th. Mr. F. W. Robinson resigned the office of Inspector of Weights and Measures (see Feb., 1857), and Mr. R. J. Buddery was appointed to the situation.

May 21st. Insubordination in the Gaol, and conspiracy to kill a warder.

May 27th. Mrs. Cator, wife of the Rev. Wm. Cator, and daughter of Lady Elizabeth Orde, died at Beckenham, Kent.

May 31st. The Mayor's new robe first worn in public. It was purchased by the Corporation, and is made of flowered scarlet silk.

May 31st. Rev. Jas. Smith, B.A., eldest son of J. C. Smith, Esq., M.D., died, aged 57.

May. Mr. C. F. Laws pa.s.sed his final examination for an attorney.

June 10th. The brigantine "Good Design," of this port, lost off the Spurn. Crew saved.

June 11th. The Great Yarmouth Provisional Order Port and Haven Bill confirmed in the House of Commons.

June 11th. A deputation from Yarmouth waited upon the President of the Local Government Board (the Right Hon. Sclater-Booth) in London, respecting the "trickery" resorted to in the Election of Guardians, and urged a remedy.

June 13th. The brig "Eleanor," of Yarmouth, collided with the barque "Belle Vue," and was dismasted.

June 24th. Mr. J. E. Bales entertained at the Rose to a luncheon by his friends on the attainment of his 80th birthday. (See March 27th, 1876.)

June 25th. The "Refuge," a model floating battery 40 ft. long, and in the form of two oblongs crossed like a star, with a sliding keel, water-tight compartments, &c., left the Roadstead for s.h.i.+elds.

June 30th. A ma.s.sive and elaborately-chased silver salver and a sum of money presented by the paris.h.i.+oners to Archdeacon Nevill, in token of esteem. (See Jan. 23rd and 25th.)

June. Messrs. P. Chamberlin and J. S. Clowes, jun., pa.s.sed examinations for attorneys. The latter died in 1884.

July 2nd. Mr. Shadrake, master of the Gorleston National Schools, presented with a gold watch and chain and a purse of 20 guineas, as a memento of esteem.

July 16th. Mr. Edward Morgan saved the life of George Daudy while bathing, and the 26th of Oct. received the Humane Society's award on vellum for his courageous conduct.

July 22nd. A comet visible at Yarmouth for several days previous to this date. Its reputed distance from the earth was 27,000,000 miles.

July 27th. The Rev. J. Upjohn, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, for many years vicar of Gorleston, died in London.

July 30th. Rents first demanded by the Corporation for stalls on the beach, and subsequently for music-stands, chairs, &c.

July 31st. The smack "Elizabeth and Mary" launched from Messrs. Fellows'

yard.

Aug. 3rd. A new Primitive Methodist Temple, Priory Plain, to accommodate 1,100 persons-on the site of a Chanel built in 1850-decided upon at a public meeting and luncheon held this day. (See June 22nd, 1875.)

Aug. 10th to 24th. Local Government Board Inquiry, relative to the election of Guardians in St. George's and Regent Wards in the previous April, was opened at the Tolhouse Hall, before George Taylor, Esq. Mr.

J. H. Norman was subsequently unseated in favour of Mr. I. Preston, jun.

(Regent), and Mr. W. J. Foreman gained the seat for St. George's.

Aug. 20th. H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, accompanied by two or three officers of the 7th Hussars, paid an unexpected visit to Yarmouth; and again on Aug. 28th, and proceeded to Lowestoft on the following day. He was entertained here by the Hon. Courtenay Boyle, in apartments at No. 3, Kimberley Terrace.

Aug. 23rd. Mr. Saml. Durrell, many years a.s.sistant overseer of Gorleston and Southtown, died, aged 82.

Aug. 27th. The Royal a.s.sembly Rooms sold by auction to Mr. Henry W. Ulph for 2,050, and since then to the officers of the P.W.O. Royal Artillery. (See Jan. 1st, 1863.)

Sept. 4th. The dead body of a newly-born babe found on the river-side ridge of the Bridge, but how it came there was never traced out.

Sept. 10th. The never-to-be-forgotten appalling Thorpe railway accident, in which the Yarmouth night mail collided with the Norwich down train, and resulted in the death of 27 persons, besides wounding 50 others.

Sept. 16th. Sergt.-Major Hanlon, E.N.M., (on his retiring from the service after 22 years,) presented with a chaste silver tea-service and silver inkstand by Sir E. Lacon, Bart., M.P., and the officers and non-commissioned officers of his regiment, at the Town Hall.

Sept. 19th. The new three-masted schooner "Eunice" launched from Messrs.

Fellows and Son's yard. Dimensions-156 ft. over all; beam, 24 ft.; depth of hold, 13 ft.; registered tonnage, 260 tons.

Sept. 20th. The war s.h.i.+ps "Northumberland," "Sultan," and "Monarch"

anch.o.r.ed in the Roads, but left again on the 23rd.

Sept. 23rd. Lieut. F. A. Newington, R.M.L.I., of H.M.S. "Sultan," after leaving a ball at the Town Hall, jumped into the river and rescued from drowning two women who had fallen overboard while in the act of landing from the steamtug "Victoria," at 3.30 a.m. A public subscription amounting to 47 5s. 6d. was afterwards got up, and Mr. Newington was presented with a breach-loading gun, value 34, and an illuminated testimonial, for his bravery; on Nov. 17th he was also presented with a sword by the officers of his s.h.i.+p.

Oct. 1st. First annual meeting of the Young Men's Christian a.s.sociation held at the Town Hall.

Oct. 7th. Sir Thos. W. B. Proctor Beauchamp, Bart., died at Langley Park, aged 59.

Oct. 18th. The Rev. T. Allnut, after eight years' ministration in Gorleston, preached his farewell sermons at St. Andrew's Church, in that Parish. On May 14th, 1875, was inst.i.tuted to the Rectory and Parish Church of Stibbard, Norfolk.

Oct. 19th. The smack "Alert," of this port, run into by the full-rigged s.h.i.+p "Edith," in the North Sea, and foundered. Two hands were drowned.

Oct. 20th. Mr. W. J. Lincoln appointed Town Hall keeper in place of Mr.

G. Harvey, resigned.

Oct. 29th. The settlement of the Rev. Arthur Peaton, as Unitarian Minister at the Old Meeting, Middlegate Street, in the place of the late Rev. R. Sh.e.l.ley, decided by a public meeting.

Oct. H. R. Harmer, Esq., captured, on Hoveton Broad, a pike 8 ft. 1 in.

in length, and weighing 15 lbs. It was presented to the Mayor.

Oct. The Misses Pearson and MacLaughlin received the War Medal granted by the Emperor of Germany. (See Sept., 1870.)

Nov. 7th. The Lowestoft, Yarmouth, and Southtown Tramway Company wound up by order of the Master of the Rolls.

Nov. 9th. C. C. Aldred, Esq., elected an Alderman, in the place of W.

Laws, Esq., resigned.

Nov. 11th. Mr. William Webb pa.s.sed his final examination before the Incorporated Law Society as an attorney and solicitor.

Nov. 12th. N. G. Barthropp, Esq., died, aged 60.