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May 25th. The smack ”Dauntless” lost on Haak Sand.

May 27th. Rev. Edward Venables, B.A., son of the Vicar of Yarmouth, ordained by the Bishop of Chichester, and was appointed to a curacy at Hastings.

June 8th. The Royal Hotel partly rebuilt and re-modelled.

June 16th. Five gentlemen belonging to the Britannia Amateur Rowing Club rowed from Wroxham to Norwich, _via_ Yarmouth (63 miles), in 10 hrs. 40 min.

June 17th. Three Gorleston young men-Edwin Darby, Augustus Hawes, and Arthur Thrower-accidentally drowned in the river Wensum.

June 24th. On the death of his father, Viscount Canterbury, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., Henry Charles, fourth Viscount (who married in 1872 Amyee Rachel, the only daughter of the late Hon. F. Walpole, M.P.), succeeded to the t.i.tle.

July 2nd. The Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Bill pa.s.sed the House of Lords, and Royal a.s.sent given by Commission on July 19th.

July. The billyboy ”Breeze,” of this port, collided with H.M.S. ”Wye,”

off Carlton, and foundered.

July 9th. The inhabitants and the Board of Trade awarded Thomas Love and William Mann, of the smack ”Fawn” two medals and two watches for their bravery in rescuing five hands from the smack ”Bessie,” of London, during the gale of Jan. 30th.

July 10th. Mr. I. S. Cooper's tender of 325 10s. for each of the two brick mortuary chapels in the new Cemetery accepted by the Corporation.

July 11th. The Royal a.s.sembly Rooms purchased by Mr. W. Butcher for 1,975. (See 1851, and April, 1869.)

July 21st to 27th. Encampment of the 3rd and 4th Norfolk Rifles (about 920 rank and file), under command of Lieut.-Col. Duff, M.P., and Lieut.-Col. R. T. Gurdon, on the North Denes. On the brigade day about 2,000 volunteers, divided into 30 companies, were manuvred, and it was estimated that some 20,000 civilians were present.

July 24th. Mr. Charles John Stokes (22), a member of the Lynn Volunteers, mysteriously drowned in the river Yare. On the 28th the body was picked up, and subsequently buried at Lynn; but by order of the Secretary of State it was (Aug. 31st) exhumed, and a _post-mortem_ examination made, but no marks of violence were discovered.

July 25th. The two princ.i.p.al stones of the nave of St. James' Church laid by the Mayor (T. B. Steward, Esq.) and Mayoress. Cost of the nave was given at 3,150.

July 27th. Capt. Stokes, of the smack ”Falcon,” awarded a gold watch by the Emperor of Germany for rescuing the crew of the wrecked s.h.i.+p ”Elise,”

in Nov., 1876.

Aug. 7th. The North Norfolk Railway having been inspected the previous day by Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., was opened to the public as far as completed, namely, Yarmouth, Caister, and Ormesby (5 miles). The line was constructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Jarvis, of London. May 16th opened to Hemsby, and on July 15th, 1878, from this village to Martham.

(See May 8th and July.)

Aug. 9th. St. George's Board Schools, St. Peter's Plain, opened, Mr. J.

T. Bottle being the architect. This Gothic building comprises girls'

school, 64 ft. by 20 ft., and accommodates 200 children; infants' room, 60 ft. by 23 ft., for 300 girls; and another room, 24 ft. by 20 ft.; also lobbies, offices, and an open and covered playground. Cost, 2,370.

Aug. 11th. Collision between the steam tugs ”United Service” and ”Express” at the Harbour's mouth. Estimated damage to the latter, 200.

Aug. 21st. Mr. Charles Panchen, of this town, rescued from drowning a gentleman visitor whilst bathing from the South Beach, and in Nov. was awarded the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal for his gallantry.

Aug. 21st. Miss Clementine Stirling-Graham died at Duntrune, aged 95.

On the death of this lady, John Edmund Lacon, Esq., of this town, succeeded to her estates in Forfars.h.i.+re, and to all papers and relics of the great Viscount Dundee.

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