Aug. 10th.—Youell’s nurseries were in full bloom.
Mr. John Morton, of Caister, had taken the degree of a M.C.S. Edin.
Aug. 17th.—The late high tide had removed nearly 60 acres of beach and sandbanks at Caister, and a shoal called the Hood, lying to the North of the village had disappeared. Consequent upon this there had been a large deposit of sand upon Yarmouth Beach.
Robert Rising, Esq., the auditor, having applied for a summons against Mr. Henry Pickard, late assistant overseer and rate collector, on a charge of embezzling £675 13s. 8¾d., at the hearing of such information the prisoner pleaded “guilty,” and failing sufficient distress he was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. He had sureties to the amount of £400 who were being proceeded against.
Aug. 24th.—Col. Peel, M.P., J. S. Dunkald, Esq., and Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., had acted as Stewards of the Races.
The Ferries had been let by William Walpole, Esq., by auction, the upper ferry for £250, and the Gorleston ferry for £175 per annum.
Aug. 31st.—Lady Bolton, a niece of Lord Nelson, had visited Capt. Manby, who had been a schoolmate of his Lordship 79 years previously.
Sept. 14th.—The churchwardens and overseers had been summoned before the Justices to show cause why they neglected or refused to pay over to the Guardians the sum of £789, in accordance with their order, and the hearing of the case adjourned.
Sept. 21st.—A supplemental rate of 2d. in the £ had been made to meet this demand. It appeared that the Guardians asked for £2,800 for the current quarter, but the overseers insisted that £2,200 would suffice, and only in the first instance raised that amount, hence the deficiency.
Sept. 28th.—There was likely to be an appeal against this supplemental poor’s rate.