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19.-A great Conservative demonstration took place at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, in connection with a conference of the Eastern Division of the National Union of Conservative a.s.sociations. Lord Walsingham presided, and Sir John Gorst, Q.C., M.P., Under Secretary for India, was the princ.i.p.al speaker.
NOVEMBER.
2.-Died, Sir Lewis Whincop Jarvis, in his 72nd year. He was a son of Mr.
Lewis Weston Jarvis, and a grandson of Mr. Robert T. Whincop, a former Town Clerk of Lynn. For more than fifty years he carried on business as a banker and solicitor in his native town of Lynn, and on January 15th, 1878, received the honour of knighthood in recognition of the many eminent services he had rendered to the borough. He married, in 1850, Emma, daughter of Mr. Alexander Bowker, by whom he left issue five sons and a daughter. Sir Lewis was an alderman of Lynn, and was Mayor for three successive years, 186063.
9.-At the meeting of the Norwich Town Council Mr. Alexander Robert Chamberlin was elected Mayor of the city, but upon his declining to qualify Mr. Joshua Farrar Ranson was chosen. Mr. George White was appointed Sheriff.
-The Marquis of Salisbury was appointed High Steward of the borough of Great Yarmouth.
10.-The Gorleston lifeboat, the Refuge, was capsized whilst upon salvage service, and of her crew four were drowned.
13.-Mr. Harry Furniss delivered at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, a lecture on ”Art and Artists.”
15.-Upton church, which had been restored at the cost of 1,122, was re-opened by the Bishop of Norwich.
26.-At Blofield Petty Sessions, Jeremiah Cozens Wiley, farmer, of Little Plumstead; Samuel Rose, farm steward; William Feek and Thomas Powley, labourers, of the same place, were summoned on the information of John Ford, an inspector of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for ”unlawfully ill-treating and torturing 16 bullocks by dishorning them on October 8th and 15th.” Mr. Colam, barrister-at-law, prosecuted on behalf of the society, and Mr. H. J. Gidney, of Aylsham, defended. The case excited great interest, and the court was crowded by a large number of scientific witnesses and leading agriculturists. The act of dishorning the animals was admitted by the defendants, and in support of the contention of the prosecution that the operation was unnecessary and cruel were called Professor Walley, princ.i.p.al of the Edinburgh Veterinary College; Professor McCall, princ.i.p.al of the Glasgow Veterinary College; Professor F. Collins, F.R.C.V.S., Mr. G. A. Lepper, F.R.C.V.S, Professor Pritchard, President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London; Mr. c.o.x, F.R.C.V.S., Professor J. McQueen, and several local veterinary surgeons. It was urged in defence that the operation, although painful, was necessary and humane, because it prevented cattle injuring each other with their horns. Several prominent agriculturists and graziers, including Mr. Clare Sewell Read, Mr. B. B.
Sapwell, and Mr. William Case, gave evidence in support of this view.
The magistrates dismissed the informations, and the chairman (Mr. Edward Gilbert) said ”they considered the operation a most painful one, but they did not suppose that Mr. Wiley did it with any cruel intention towards the animals on which the operation was performed. If it went forth to the public that it was advisable to have polled cattle it would be seen also that it was advisable that the animals should be operated upon at an earlier stage.” (_See_ April 16th, 1889.)
29.-Mr. J. L. Toole commenced a three nights' engagement at Norwich Theatre as Mr. Milliken, M.A., in the comedy of ”The Don.” The pieces produced on the 30th and on December 1st were ”The Butler,” ”The Spitalfields Weaver,” ”Paul Pry,” and ”Ici On Parle Francais.”
DECEMBER.
1.-The weather was very mild at this date. ”That 1888 will be noted as an extraordinary year in the meteorological annals of this country is a fact requiring no demonstration-snow in harvest and blossoming primroses in the open air on the eve of December, February rains throughout the summer months, and March gales in November.” A correspondent, writing to ”The Times,” on December 3rd, stated: ”I am still supplied with green peas grown in my garden at Brundall, the roses are all in flower; the fields abound in primroses and wild flowers.” The cuckoo was said to have been heard at North Elmham on December 6th. In Norwich primroses and other vernal flowers were in full bloom on Christmas eve, and strawberries were gathered at Swainsthorpe on Christmas morning.
5.-The Prince of Wales and Prince George of Wales arrived at Didlington Hall on a visit to Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst, M.P., and left on the 8th.
10.-Lieut.-Colonel Foster was presented with a gold watch, subscribed for by past and present members of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment, on his retirement from the corps, after twenty-five years'
service.
22.-A public inquiry was held at the Guildhall Norwich, by Mr. Charles Chapman, a.s.sistant Commissioner under the Royal Commission on market rates and tolls, into the circ.u.mstances of markets and fairs in the city.
Statements were made by many of the leading citizens. A similar inquiry was held at Yarmouth.
29.-The Norfolk County Club, whose quarters were originally at the Royal Hotel, and subsequently in St. Giles' Street, having purchased the old Bank House, Upper King Street, Norwich, the reconstruction of the premises for the purposes of the club was completed on this date under the superintendence of Mr. Edward Boardman. The house was formerly the residence of Mr. Anthony Hudson, and was afterwards known as Greyfriars'
College.
31.-Mr. Henry Birkbeck, on the completion of the fiftieth year of his connection with the banking-house of Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay, and Buxtons, ”the Norwich and Norfolk Bank,” was presented by the managers and clerks with a silver salver in commemoration of the event.
1889.
JANUARY.
3.-The Norfolk magistrates met at the s.h.i.+rehall, Norwich, for the last time for the discharge of the general business of the county. Mr. J. R.
Bulwer, Q.C., presided. On the motion of Sir Francis Boileau, Bart., seconded by Mr. C. S. Read, a vote of thanks was accorded to the senior Chairman, Mr. R. T. Gurdon, ”for the impartial, courteous, and punctual manner in which he has discharged the various duties appertaining to the office of Chairman during the eighteen years in which he has with marked ability presided over this Court.” One of the last acts of the Court was to grant to the Under-Sheriff (Mr. Hales) the sum of 700 towards the expenses of the County Council elections, which took place on January 24th. The first meeting of the Norfolk Provisional County Council was held at the s.h.i.+rehall, Norwich, on February 7th. Mr. Gurdon was elected provisional chairman by 37 votes against 18 recorded for Lord Kimberley.