May 11th.—The Town Council had formed itself into a committee to consider the public steps to be taken with regard to that event.
May 25th.—Simms Reeve, Esq., had been appointed Judge of the Borough Court of Record.
May 29th.—Mr. de Caux had met with an accident through falling from a cart on the Drive.
June 1st.—James Scott, Esq., J.P., and one of the Councillors for the St. George’s Ward, had died.
June 8th.—Records the first visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to the town, when he lodged at Mr. Cuddon’s house (Shaddingfield Lodge). The town was very handsomely decorated, and His Royal Highness was received at the Southtown Railway Station by the Reception Committee which consisted of Lord Sondes, the Mayor, the Recorder, the Town Clerk, and Messrs. William Mabson, W. T. Attwood, R. D. Barber, F. Dendy, H. R. Harmer, Frederick Ferrier, E. H. H. Combe, F. Danby-Palmer, E. P. Youell, S. Nightingale, R. S. Watling, and Bessey. After the Recorder had presented the Corporate address, His Royal Highness and the Committee proceeded to the Town Hall, where 200 guests were entertained. Subsequently His Royal Highness proceeded to the Grammar School and opened the newly-erected hall there. In the evening the town was illuminated.
June 15th.—Mr. S. K. Smith had been elected a Councillor for St. George’s Ward in the place of Mr. J. Scott deceased.
June 19th.—“Notes and Queries” contained a notice of Palmer’s “Perlustration of Great Yarmouth,” 400 pages of which had then been issued from the press.
A man named Howes had been killed through the bursting of a rocket at the Coastguard Station during the Prince’s visit.
June 22nd records the funeral of the late Mr. Edward Fyson, a member of the Town Council and Captain in the Rifle Volunteers.
The Rev. J. J. Raven had had the degree of D.D. conferred upon him by the University of Cambridge.