June 18th. E. A. Ducket and F. H. S. Raven took their B.A. degrees at Cambridge.
June. The Lord Chancellor of England appointed Francis Roxburgh, Esq., Q.C., to be the Judge of the County Courts of the district, in place of S. B. Bristowe, Esq., Q.C., transferred.
June 18th. The smack “Excellent” lost on the Dutch coast.
June 27th. Isaac Hill, T. Saul, L. Blake, and A. Palmer, Esqs., took the oath as Borough Magistrates.
July. Mr. C. J. Wiltshire, son of C. H. Wiltshire, Esq., passed the intermediate examination of the Law Society.
July 9th. Review of nearly 60,000 Volunteers in Windsor Park by the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Eleven officers and 309 men of the Yarmouth Corps attended. The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Sir Garnet Wolseley, and others rode down the lines.
July 12th. New Grand Stand, South Denes, first opened. (See Sept. 18th, 1880.)
July 14th. The wife of Mr. A. E. Blagg, Market Row, unfortunately knocked down and killed by a railway truck while passing over the level crossing on the Southtown Road.
July 19th. John Worlledge, Esq., late County Court Judge, died at Brooklyn, Ipswich, aged 72 years. (See June 31st, 1880.)
July 19th. The Duke of Argyle and Admiral Hamilton landed here from the Trinity yacht “Galatea.”