The only mails then brought to Yarmouth by rail were those from London and Norwich.
The “Repository” sale at the Bath Room on the Regatta day had realized £82.
Mr. C. D. Arnott had had conferred on him the degree of M.D. by the Edinburgh University.
Aug. 16th.—A Poor’s rate of 1s. 4d. in the £ had been made.
The Railway Company was forwarding its own goods by water as the cheaper process.
Aug. 23rd.—Messrs. Youell’s nurseries were very attractive, they had 4,000 carnations and 180 fuchsias in bloom.
Complaints had been made that “for two Sundays past” great quantities of herring had been despatched to London by rail.
Six hundred sail of colliers and merchant vessels which had been wind-bound here had proceeded to sea.
Aug. 30th.—The abolition of the coal dues, and the question of the better delivery of the mails were being agitated.
Mrs. Spooner (Dr. Bateman’s sister) had met with a fatal accident by falling downstairs.