Feb. 2nd.—The annual Sailors’ Home meeting had been held in the new building on the Drive.
Mr. Henry R. Harmer had been appointed a Chancery Commissioner.
Feb. 6th.—At a Vestry meeting it had been determined to take a poll of the parish as to whether the Vestry Act (13 and 14 Vic. cap. 57) should be applied to the parish.
Feb. 9th.—Two hundred and eighty-eight appeals had been lodged against the Poor’s Rate.
Feb. 16th—“Costerton v. Lacon” had been tried. In this action the plaintiff, a solicitor at Yarmouth, complained of having been slandered by the defendant, who was M.P. for the town, and who ultimately consented to a verdict against him for 40s. and costs.
Feb. 20th.—The poll of the parish had closed as under:—
| For applying the Vestry Act | 737 |
| Against | 414 |
| Majority | 323 |
Mr. Clowes then proposed, and Mr. Livingston seconded, a resolution to the effect that a Vestry Clerk be appointed at a salary of £100 per annum, and ultimately this was carried, and a vote of thanks to the Vicar and his assessor (C. J. Palmer, Esq.), terminated the proceedings.
Feb. 23rd.—The Conservatives had adopted Mr. C. H. Chamberlin (a Liberal) as their candidate for the office of Vestry Clerk, the other candidate being Mr. S. B. Cory.
Feb. 27th.—The case of Morant v. Chamberlin (which involved the right of user of part of the Quay by George Danby-Palmer, Esq.), had been decided as follows: “Verdict for plaintiff, issue on the 4th plea for defendant.”