Nov. 27th. Mad pranks of a bull belonging to Mr. Southgate. It entered Mr. Harrison’s grocer’s shop in the Market, injuring one of the assistants and damaging the goods. Afterwards running down Regent Street and along the Hall Quay, it found its way to the Broad Row, where it smashed windows and did other injury, till being secured by a rope round a lamp-post, it was killed, and the carcase removed on a cart. The inhabitants were much terrified, and tradesmen quickly closed their shops.
Dec. 4th. William Holt, Esq., Magistrates’ Clerk and Borough Coroner, died, aged 57 years.
Dec. 4th. Mr. C. A. Goodwin passed a very successful examination as second mate at the London Local Marine Board.
Dec. 4th. Gale and heavy thunderstorm.
Dec. 5th. Mr. Charles Diver resigned his seat in the Council for Regent Ward, and paid the £25 fine; and Mr. Walter Brown was elected to the seat on 24th, by 224 votes, or 52 more than Mr. F. Burton. On Dec. 11th Mr. Diver was appointed Borough Coroner, and Dec. 13th as Magistrates’ Clerk. (See June 24th, 1869, and Jan. 8th, 1884.)
Dec. 8th. John Reeve (38), of Hopton, fell off a load of hay in Gorleston, and died from injuries received.
Dec. 9th. William Jackson, porter on the Eastern and Midlands Railway, at Yarmouth, was run over by a railway carriage, and one of his legs was subsequently amputated at the Hospital.
Dec. 11th and 12th. Another destructive gale and very high tide, the wind blowing “great guns.” Loss of Messrs. Bessey and Palmer’s “Francis” and three hands; the carrier steamer “Marie,” owned by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and all hands (12); also Mr. M. Barber’s brigantine “Susannah,” with a crew of four or five hands; and five smacks. About 60 lives were lost in all.
Dec. The season’s catch of herrings was 19,232 lasts.
Dec. Sir Francis Roxburgh, Q.C., appointed Mr. John Etheridge Chief Clerk to the Registrar of the County Court.