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Feb. 15th. The Walrond Smack-Beys' Home opened by Earl Nelson. (See June 22nd, 1875.) This Gothic building cost with fittings about 2,000, and will accommodate about 40 boys.
Feb. 21st. Mr. William Laws, as superintendent of St. Nicholas' Sunday School since 1844, presented with several testimonials previous to his leaving for Beccles.
Feb. 22nd. East Suffolk Election. Lord Mahon having been elevated to the House of Peers on the death of his father, his seat in Parliament for East Suffolk became vacant, and Lieut.-Colonel St. John Barne (C.) and Charles Easton, Esq. (L.), contested for the seat. Poll-Colonel Barne, 3,659; Mr. Easton, 2,708-majority, 951. Colonel Barne's election cost 4,140, and Mr. Easton's 2,312.
Feb. 23rd. Fire at Mr. John Harris' pipe manufactory, Priory Plain.
Damage about 150.
Feb. 23rd and 24th. Sir Randal Roberts, Bart., appeared at the Theatre Royal, and impersonated ”Charles Devereux” in the comedietta _Under a Veil_, written by himself; and on the 25th and 26th he appeared as ”Lieutenant Ringston, R.N.,” in _Naval Engagements_, with the Maitland Blue Beard Burlesque Company.
The Marine Drive widened 60 feet, between Britannia and Wellington Piers, a distance of 3,000 feet; cost, 2,500. (See April 22nd.)
A new gasometer (No. 3), capable of holding 63,000 cubic feet of gas, and its tank 406,350 gallons of water, was erected at the Southtown Gas Works, which, with other modern improvements, cost 5,000.
April 1st. The Hon. Frederick Walpole, of Rainthorpe Hall, Flordon, M.P.
for North Norfolk, died in London. Deceased was third surviving son of the third Earl of Orford, and was born in 1822.
April 14th. Loss of the ”Cygnet” and all hands.
April 18th. The full-rigged s.h.i.+p ”Humboldt,” with 349 emigrants on board, ran on to Winterton Beach.
April 20th. The Rev. G. Merriman, M.A., presented with a gold watch, silver tea service, and a silver claret jug, by the St. James'
congregation.
April 21st. Lieutenant-Colonel James Duff elected a Member of Parliament for North Norfolk, in place of the Hon. F. Walpole, deceased. (See April 1st, 1876, and Nov. 26th, 1868.) Poll-Colonel Duff (C.), 2,302; Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. (L.), 2,192; majority, 110. Out of the 6,231 voters on register, only 4,494 voted. Number on register in the Borough (including Runham), 1,980; number voted in Yarmouth, 1,380.
April 22nd. R. Morgan, Esq., C.E., Government Board Inspector, visited Yarmouth respecting the borrowing of 3,300 by the Corporation, for widening the Drive, &c.
April 23rd. Lady Elizabeth Susan Orde died at Hopton. She was eldest daughter of Henry Charles, sixth Duke of Beaufort, and born June 23rd, 1798.
April 28th. E. P. Youell, Esq., presented by the paris.h.i.+oners of Gorleston with a ma.s.sive silver four-gla.s.s epergne, value 80, for his zealous exertions in connection with the restoration of Gorleston Church.
(See Aug. 14th, 1871.)
May 9th. The Yarmouth brig ”Tradesman” lost on the Normandy coast.
June 2nd. Meeting at the Town Hall resolved to have a four-dial clock in St. Peter's Tower, which was placed there the same year.
June 8th. The Gt. Yarmouth Bowling Green opened.
June 13th. Vice-Admiral Thomas Lewis Gooch, youngest son of the late Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, Bart., died at Yarmouth, aged 69 years.
June 22nd. Capt. Wm. Holt, 16 years connected with the 2nd N.R.V., presented, on his retirement, with four elegantly-chased silver dessert spoons by the members of D. Company. (See Dec. 4th, 1883.)
July 8th. Heavy thunderstorm. The electric fluid struck the chimney and entered a cottage in the factory yard, disarranging and breaking the furniture and ornaments in the room; it also did damage to other property in the town, including some amount of destruction of property belonging to Mr. H. Harding, St. Nicholas' Road, who had a large chimney knocked down and many squares of gla.s.s broken.
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