Part 64 (2/2)

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.”

18789.

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.

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