24.—Wheat was standing uncut in several parts of Norfolk, on the same farm where corn was sown for next year’s crop.
28.—A salmon trout, 57 inches in length and weighing 16½ pounds, was caught at the New Mills, Norwich. On the 31st another of 26 pounds weight was taken at the same place.
29.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Corporation an address was ordered to be presented to the Prince Regent, praying for “the utmost retrenchment of the public expenditure consistent with the welfare of the State.”
NOVEMBER.
2.—Died at Narford Hall, the seat of Mr. Andrew Fountaine, his son-in-law, Mr. Thomas Penrice, of Great Yarmouth, to whom the eccentric Lord Chedworth left the bulk of his large property.
9.*—“The wealth of Mr. Watson Taylor, the purchaser of Houghton Hall, is immense. For that mansion, and a large track of land around, he gave the Marquis Cholmondeley £350,000. Mr. Taylor, by the will of an ancestor, is bound to spend £700,000 in landed estates, and besides the income which may arise from them he has £95,000 a year.”
10.—Buxoo, a Bengalese, a native of Calcutta, was publicly baptised at Burnham Market church by the Rev. John Glasse, by the names of John Henry Martin. He was brought over to this country in a ship commanded by Capt. Glasse.
14.—The Courier steam packet made its passage from Foundry Bridge, Norwich, to Yarmouth in three hours twenty-five minutes.
28.—The Duke of Gloucester made his annual visit to Mr. T. W. Coke, M.P., at Holkham Hall. During the week’s shooting Mr. Coke killed at Warham a female Falco Lagopus, or rough legged falcon, measuring nearly five feet across the wings, and two feet one inch in length. The male bird was afterwards caught in a trap at Wighton. Two of these birds were taken the following week at Wighton.
Died this month, Mrs. Tabitha Starling, of Brooke, aged 103.