Part 63 (1/2)

March 24th. The training-s.h.i.+p ”Eurydice” wrecked off Dunnose, Isle of Wight, and over 360 lives lost. This vessel anch.o.r.ed in Yarmouth Roadstead in 1877.

March 25th. The annual income this year of the Port and Haven Commissioners was 12,478 10s. 3d., and for 1879, 12,110 15s. 1d.

March 28th. Loss of the smacks ”Henry,” ”Dairy Maid,” and ”Deerhound;”

also the barque ”Theresa” and brig ”Vladimir” in a gale.

April 1st. Major Hector Tullock, R.E., held an enquiry at Runham-Vauxhall respecting the borrowing of 1,000 for carrying out the water and drainage scheme; also on Feb. 11th, 1879.

April. Memorial window placed in the chancel-part of the Parish Church in memory of William Palgrave, Esq. (who died in 1838), and Elizabeth, his wife, by their surviving children.

April. Intelligence received at Yarmouth of the loss of the barque ”Ponda Chief” off Natal. (See Aug. 2nd, 1875.)

April 17th. Public meeting at the Town Hall to oppose the Town Council in the proposed building of a new Town Hall, but on Jan. 16th, 1879, the loan of 30,000 was sanctioned by the Treasury.

April 20th. The Army and East Norfolk Militia Reserves called up, and subsequently the former sent to Colchester and the latter to Ireland.

April 23rd and 24th. Frank Buckland and Spencer Walpole, Esqs., two of her Majesty's Commissioners, held an enquiry at the Sailors' Home respecting the destruction of small soles and other trawl fish, by order of the Secretary of the Home Department.

April. A handsome and costly monument, rather above 20 feet in height, erected in the Cemetery. It bears the following inscription:-”Erected by his bereaved and sorrowing mother, in fond remembrance of Charles S. T.

Mills, Esq. (the dearly beloved and only son of Charles and Maria Mills), who died at Great Yarmouth on the 19th December, 1875, aged 29 years.

Gone before.” This monument is of solid Aberdeen polished grey granite, surmounted by a beautiful marble upright figure representing ”Truth,” the latter being the work of an Italian sculptor. The tomb is surrounded at the base by floral wrought-iron railings, fixed in 1879. (See Sept., 1883.)

April. The congregation of St. Andrew's presented the Rev. E. G. H.

Murrell with a silver salver and two silver napkin-rings, as a wedding present.

May 1st. The new nave of St. James' Church built and opened at a cost of 3,250. Interior length, 103 ft.; width, 33 ft.; height, 53 ft.; exterior height, 70 ft. Accommodates about 700 wors.h.i.+ppers. This nave forms only a third of the proposed entire building.

May 2nd. Mrs. T. Burton Steward, wife of the Captain of the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers, presented with a handsome silver-plated epergne, subscribed for by the officers and men of the corps.

May 3rd. Mr. Archibald Forbes, war correspondent to the _Daily News_, lectured at the Aquarium on the leading episodes, from personal experience, of the Battle of the s.h.i.+pka Pa.s.s, crossing the Danube, and the Battle of Plevna. Mr. Forbes' first visit to Yarmouth was in 1872, during the stay of the Prince of Wales.

May 6th. H.M. steam-yacht ”Hawk” and schooner ”Mermaid” anch.o.r.ed in the Roadstead.

May 7th. Rev. F. C. Villiers presented with a handsome epergne by the North-end Mission congregation in this town.

May. Sir Francis Goldsmid, Bart., Q.C., F.R.G.S., died from an accident.

In 1854 he was a candidate with Mr. Rumbold for the representation of the Borough.

May 9th. Quay House sold by auction for 1,720.

May 12th. Fire at Messrs. H. and E. Brand's outfitting premises, South Denes Road.

May 23rd. Fire in a tar store at Gorleston belonging to Mr. J. Fleming Hewett; damage 80.

May 26th. Mr. H. S. Baumgartner, of Gorleston, pa.s.sed the preliminary examination of the Apothecaries' Hall.

May 29th. The Venerable Archdeacon Perowne made his first visitation since being appointed to the place of Archbishop Hopper, deceased.

June 20th. Mr. Edward T. Ayers, author of several legal works, pa.s.sed the intermediate examination under the Solicitors' Act, 1877, held by the Incorporated Law Society; and on the same date Mr. W. H. Cowl successfully pa.s.sed a similar examination.