On the revision of the Proxy Book, Mr. C. Diver had appeared for the Conservatives and Mr. F. Danby-Palmer for the Liberals.
Mr. Copeman, of Long Stratton, had purchased No. 4, South-quay, (the Elizabethan mansion restored by the late John Danby-Palmer, Esq.), for £1,150 and £60 for fixtures.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-seven changes had been rung on St. Nicholas’ bells on the 1st and 2nd inst., by the Parish ringers.
March 6th.—The proposal of the Government to disfranchise the Borough was the subject of general comment.
W. H. Bessey, Esq., J.P. and Town Councillor, had died in his 68th year.
March 9th.—The Town Council had adopted a petition to Parliament deprecating the proposed disfranchisement of the Borough.
Lord Bury (accompanied by Mr. F. Danby-Palmer) was sounding the constituency of East Norfolk with a view to contesting the division upon the next vacancy.
The seat on the newly constructed Haven Board held by the shipowners had been contested with the following result:—
| For Mr. Watling | 191 |
| „ Mr. Scott | 91 |
And the former was consequently elected.