Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood Part 64

Sept. 29th. One thousand five hundred and twenty-six police cases summarily dealt with by the Magistrates during the past year.

Sept. 29th. The Port and Haven Commissioners' receipts from dues for the past half-year amounted to 6,883 18s.

Sept. 30th to Oct. 1st. The celebrated actress, Mrs. Rousby, appeared at the Theatre Royal as "Princess Elizabeth" in '_Twixt Axe and Grown_.

Mrs. Rousby died in April, 1879.

Oct. The high flint wall enclosing St. Mary's Catholic Church, Regent Road, pulled down, and a low wall, surmounted with a light handsome palisading, put in its place. In 1879 the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Caister Road, was enclosed with a stone wall mounted by an iron railing.

Oct. 10th. Three men belonging to the "Sea Gull," owned by Messrs.

Hewitt and Co., drowned at sea whilst ferrying fish.

Oct. 13th. The Lord Bishop of British Columbia (Dr. George Hills) again preached in St. Nicholas' Church.

Oct. 15th. The Right Rev. Bishop Mackenzie, Sub-Dean of Lincoln and Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham, died at Lincoln. (See 1844 and Aug., 1869.)

Oct. 21st. Messrs. Grout and Co. presented at the Paris Exhibition with a gold medal for superiority in the manufacture of pure silk c.r.a.pe.

Oct. 23rd. The fis.h.i.+ng lugger "Eustace" foundered at sea.

Oct. 23rd. Inspector George Tewsley, chief-clerk in the Leeds Police Force, and son of our late Superintendent of Police, promoted to Lieutenant in the Edinburgh Constabulary, at a salary of 170 a-year. On Jan. 1st, 1879, the Leeds Force presented him with an illuminated address.

Oct. 24th. The Gorleston Storm Company's lifeboatmen gallantly rescued the crew of the brig "Fuschia," which foundered on Scroby Sands.

Oct. E. P. Youell, Esq., appointed by the Lord Lieutenant a Magistrate for the County of Suffolk.

Nov. 2nd. Mr. J. Green, of Gorleston, sprang into the river at the Brush and rescued a child named Warner from drowning. In March, 1879, he was awarded the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal and clasp for his gallantry.

Nov. 4th. A wooden building constructed on the North Nelson Road, which Messrs. W. and G. Pinder used as a circus up to March 22nd, 1879.

Messrs. Pinder first made their acquaintance with Yarmouth during the existence of the Regent Hall.

Nov. 5th. 80th birthdays of Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Marshall, twin sisters, of this town, the only two surviving "children" of the late Robert Blake, fish merchant, out of a family of 22.

Nov. 8th. A terrific gale and serious damage to fis.h.i.+ng craft (about 70) and s.h.i.+pping generally, with loss of life, including three hands belonging to the smack "Olive Leaf."

Nov. 16th. Destructive floods throughout the County-Norwich on this date being the greater sufferer; part of the Great Eastern Railway was submerged, as well as the Hundreds in the Northern and Eastern Divisions.

Nov. 27th. The Town Council appointed as Burial Board for the parish of Gorleston, and in 1879 the new Cemetery at Gorleston was formed.

Dec. 14th. The news of the death of her Majesty's second daughter Princess Alice observed in the town with the usual outward manifestations of sorrow.

Dec. Smack "Ingomar" lost through a collision.

Dec. 18th. Robert David Barber, Esq., J.P., T.C., and Actuary of the Yarmouth Savings Bank, died, aged 72 years. Mr. Barber was Mayor of the Borough in 1874. He was succeeded in the Council by Mr. Fredk. Carpenter on Jan. 16th, 1879; W. Barnard, Esq., as a Magistrate on March 7th, 1879; and Mr. Alfred Teasdel in the banking firm.

Dec. 20th. The s.s. "C. S. Butler," with 900 tons of coal, of London, wrecked on Hasbro' Sand, but her crew of 17 saved by the "Tyro."

Dec. 23rd. Lieut.-Colonel James Duff, M.P. for North Norfolk, died in London, aged 47 years. His remains were interred in the quiet churchyard at Westwick, Westwick Park. As a Statesman, an officer in the army, a Freemason, or a private gentleman, Col. Duff's general manner, his courtesy, and his hospitality endeared him to the hearts of all cla.s.ses and sects who had the honour of his acquaintance.

Dec. 26th. Three Yarmouth gentlemen skated a distance of 23 miles over the rivers Thirne and Bure.

Dec. 31st. During the past half-year the Y. and N. N. Railway had carried 89,762 pa.s.sengers, and taken 2,607 14s. 5d. The gross receipts amounted to 3,503 16s., and the expenditure was 1,629 8s.

Dec. 31st. The number of herrings landed at the Fishwharf during the season amounted to 10,150 lasts; and in the previous year 19,405 lasts, by about 650 fis.h.i.+ng boats.

Dec. One hundred and eighty-four public-houses and 121 beer-houses in Yarmouth.

Dec. Three hundred and thirty-seven English and foreign vessels arrived in port during the year. Number of coasters 973. 24 vessels were totally lost off this coast in 1878, one with all hands, and 67 a.s.sisted in by lifeboat crews.

The receipts for this year's Roads Regatta were 203 7s. 8d. The expenditure left a balance of 11 2s.

Marriages: Jan. 10th, A. E. Cowl, Esq., to Miss Emma E. Gambling; Feb.

16th, E. B. K. Lacon, Esq., to Florence A. Foster; Feb. 27th, J. S. Cobb, L.D.S., R.C.S., to Caroline S. Simpson; March 5th, Mr. Jas. Rivett to Miss A. Pike; April 30th, Rev. E. G. H. Murrell to Miss Agnes E. Aldred; May 7th, Rev. R. J. Tacon, J.P., of Rollesby, to Caroline B. Pitt; June 11th, Rev. H. J. Bode to Miss G. H. Murrell; Aug. 8th, Mr. F. W. Dendy to Miss J. Baumgartner.

Deaths: Jan., Capt. c.o.x, late County Court Bailiff; Jan. 18th, Mrs. Geo.

Danby Palmer, aged 91; Jan. 26th, Mr. H. W. Weller, seven years manager of Southtown Gas Works, aged 47; March 17th, Mr. T. G. Ridgway Knight; May 31st, Rev. G. W. Steward, of Caister, aged 73; June 1st, Mr. Frank Noverre, aged 71; June 4th, Mr. J. T. Savage, aged 52; June 2nd, Garson Blake, Esq., J.P., aged 63; June 3rd, Capt. John Porter Laws, aged 71; June 11th, Capt. T. Davis, R.N.; June 24th, Mr. Alderman J. W. Bunn, aged 49; Dec. 18th, R. D. Barber, Esq., J.P., aged 72; Dec. 30th, Rev. J.

Randerson, aged 72; Dec. 31st, Mr. T. W. Attwood, aged 60.

Launches: Jan. 2nd, dandy smack "Charlie"; Jan. 11th, smack "Rover"; Feb.

7th, smack "Daylight"; May 16th, dandy cutter "Susie"; June 5th, dandy cutter "Moggy"; June 17th, smack "Oak"; Aug. smacks "Myrtle," "Prompt"

and "Violet May"; Aug. 29th, trawling smack "Cyprus"; Sept. "Hilda"; Sept. 18th, "Progress"; same month "William Henry" and "Ettie."

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The winter was one of the longest and severest known for many years past, lasting over seven months. The Southtown slabs and marshes were for several weeks covered with ice.

1879.

Jan. 1st. Rateable yearly value of property in Yarmouth was 92,603.

Number of paupers relieved this day-indoor, 307; outdoor, 852.

Expenditure for year ending Michaelmas, 1878, in-maintenance, 3,778; out-relief, 4,413. Salaries, rations, and superannuation of officers, 1,824; maintenance of lunatics in asylums, 1,273; other expenses, 1,401; total relief to the poor, 12,689.

Jan. Mr. J. T. Bottle, architect of this town, wrote and published a poetical play ent.i.tled, _Brian Boru_, of which the Spectator says:-"There is so much that is pure, and stately, and dramatic in the tragedy, that we cannot but hope much for the author."

Jan. 18th. Weston, the American pedestrian, started from the Royal Exchange on a walk of 2,000 miles in 1,000 hours. After completing 1,782 miles he lectured at the Yarmouth Theatre. On Feb. 28th, Weston had walked 1,977 miles, being 22 miles in arrear.

Jan. 21st. Edward Birkbeck, Esq., of Horstead Hall, Norwich, elected M.P. for North Norfolk, in place of the late Col. Duff, by a majority of 490 over Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., of Warlies, Waltham Abbey, Ess.e.x. The declaration of the poll at Aylsham next day was-Birkbeck (C.), 2,742; Buxton, 2,252. About 1,600 voters polled in Yarmouth, and the remainder in the Division. The const.i.tuency comprised 6,474 electors, but 1,480 abstained from voting. It was a sharply-contested battle, and cost, according to official returns, Mr. Birkbeck, 3,496; and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 3,189 14s. 8d.

Feb. 9th. Mr. F. Hewitt's smack "Henry and Polly" foundered on the s.h.i.+pwash Sand, and on Feb. 10th, the "William" on Scroby.

Feb. 12th. St. John's Church re-opened.

Feb. The smack "Himalaya" launched.