The constitution of the Guardians was then 10 Tories and 6 Liberals.
April 23rd.—“Yachting Items”: Mr. Palmer was building a schooner yacht. Mr. Preston had purchased the “Otter.” The “Red Rover” (Nightingale) was being altered, as was also the “Syren.”
Messrs. Mills and Blake had launched a new barge.
Mrs. Bowyer Vaux, her son, and a friend, had been upset in a sailing boat on Breydon.
April 30th.—At a sale of Gas Shares, those of £30 realised £45 per share, and those of £7 10s., £11 10s. per share. It was stated that the maximum dividend of 8½ per cent. was regularly paid on this stock.
May 4th.—Sir Alexander Shafto Adair, Bart., (Lib.), and Lord Mahon (Con.) were candidates for East Suffolk.
May 14th.—Mr. J. Fenn had caught a perch weighing 3½ lbs. and 18 inches in length.
May 18th.—There was a report current of a fracas having taken place between two leading members of the Tory party during a meeting at the Star Hotel.
May 21st.—The Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club Dinner had taken place at the Town Hall.
May 25th.—“It is stated that the gallant gentleman, (Major Foreman) who figured in the melée that arose at the late conference of the Conservative party is about to seek legal redress for the attack made upon him (by Mr. E. H. L. Preston.)”