Part 9 (1/2)

Feb. 23rd.-Mr. Kay, a.s.sistant Poor Law Commissioner, had been down with a view to bringing the Town under the Poor Law Amendment Act.

March 23rd.-The ”Export Merchants” had given a dinner to their friends at the Star Hotel, when George Danby Palmer, Esq., presided.

March 30th.-At the Vestry meeting the paris.h.i.+oners claimed and exercised the right of electing both Churchwardens.

April 6th.-The nomination for the first Board of Guardians (N. Palmer, Esq., acting as Returning Officer) had been sent in. The following gentlemen were elected:-Messrs. John Brightwen, H. V. Wors.h.i.+p, S. V.

Moore, S. Miller, jun., E. N. Clowes, W. Chambers, J. Fish, G. Harley, S.

Cobb, R. P. Kemp, S. Palmer, and W. Grave.

April 20th.-The following officers were elected by the Board:-R. P. Kemp, Chairman; S. Cobb, Vice-Chairman; J. L. Cufaude, Clerk; D. Turner, Treasurer; B. L. Love, Auditor; Harry Wors.h.i.+p and Joseph Bayly, Registrars; Charles Bell and Henry Palmer, Joint Superintendent Registrars; and - Kemp, Governor of the Workhouse.

May 4th.-The Guardians had fixed the site for the new Workhouse on the North Denes.

May 11th.-Mr. Harry Wors.h.i.+p and Mr. J. Bayly had been elected parish surgeons.

May 18th.-Mackerel were selling at 2 14s. per hundred.

May 25th.-The inhabitants had voted an address to the Princess Victoria.

June 22nd.-The paper appears in mourning for the King. It contained a notice that ”The proclamation of Her Majesty the Queen was to be made to-morrow” (_i.e._, on 21st June.)

June 29th.-Mr. Baring had given 25 to the Methodist Chapel.

The Queen had been proclaimed by the Mayor ”in front of the Hall” and at other places in the town.

Kerrison Kerrison, Esq., son of M. Kerrison, Esq., of Ranworth, had been drowned while bathing from the beach.

July 13th.-S. Palmer, Esq., had called a meeting at his own house to consider the question of selecting candidates for the representation of the Borough, when Mr. Rumbold and Mr. Wilts.h.i.+re were introduced to the electors.

July 29th.-The election is reported, when Mr. Baring was proposed and seconded by Messrs. Ambrose Palmer and Richard Ferrier; Mr. Rumbold by Sir George Parker and Mr. Brightwen; Mr. Gambier by Mr. J. Penrice and Mr. J. E. Lacon; and Mr. Wilshere by Mr. Robert Palmer Kemp and Mr. B. U.

Dowson.

The poll closed-

Rumbold 790 Wilshere 779 Baring 699 Gambier 685

August 24th.-The Races had been held, Mr. Wilshere, M.P., staying with Mr. S. Palmer, while Mr. Rumbold, M.P., was at the Mayor's house.

Sept. 7th.-First meeting of the ”Reform” Magistrates for the purpose of granting licences; present-The Mayor, Dr. Penrice, G. Danby Palmer, S.

Cobb, Charles Nicholls, and William Hammond, Esqs., and ”the first step taken towards breaking up the monopoly which had hitherto been enjoyed by brewers and spirit merchants.”

Sept. 14th.-The ”Foxhound” (Captain Betts), belonging to G. Danby Palmer, Esq., had sailed with 1,250 barrels of herrings for Venice.

The schooner ”Wilshere” had been launched from Messrs. Fellows' yard for Messrs. Barker and Stone, who entertained their friends on the occasion at the Star Hotel.

Sept. 21st.-21 had been voted for pulling down the Pudding Gates.

Sept. 28th.-The Lord Bishop had held a confirmation, and received an address from the Corporation at the Guild Hall.