Norfolk Annals, Vol. 2: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth CenturyMackie, Charles
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Norfolk Annals, Vol. 2: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century
Mackie, Charles
Norfolk (England) -- History
—In the Rolls Courts Sir John Romilly gave judgment in the case of the
Norwich Yarn Company, which came before the Court upon appeal from the
Master’s certificate. The question was whether the directors of the
company were entitled to levy contributions upon shareholders, in order
to pay certain sums advanced or borrowed by them for carrying on the
business of the company, which had become insolvent. Originally
projected in 1833, with the view of relieving the distress which at that
time affected the poor of Norwich, the company struggled on with
increasing difficulties for sixteen years, until in 1850 it was wound up
by order of the Court. His lordship now discharged altogether a question
of fraud on the part of the directors. He was of opinion that the
directors were entitled to be allowed all sums advanced by them, with
simple interest at five per cent., and to be repaid that amount as far as
the sum in Court would extend, with payment of the costs, and afterwards
by a surplus raised by a call from the contributors in proportion to the
number of shares held by them respectively, and that the cost of the
proceedings must be borne by the estate of the company.
JUNE.
3.—The Rev. J. Alexander was presented with a purse containing £500, and
a clock, on the occasion of his entering the fortieth year of his
ministry at Prince’s Street Independent chapel, Norwich. The Rev. S.
Titlow and other clergymen of the Church of England were present.
7.—A male specimen of Savi’s warbler, the rarest of British marsh
warblers, was shot near Brundall. “This is the only bird of the species
obtained in the county since 1842, when a pair were killed at South
Walsham, which, with one in the Norwich Museum, are all that are known to
have occurred in Norfolk. The one in the Museum was obtained by the Rev.
James Brown, at Limpenhoe, in the early part of the century.”
21.—At a meeting held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, it was decided to
establish a pack of foxhounds in Norfolk, and to invite Lord Suffield to
become master. The first meet of the pack took place at Melton Constable
Park, on November 25th.
23.—A panorama, with the present form of variety entertainment, was
exhibited for the first time at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, by Mr. J.
Batchelder. The views were illustrative of a tour in Southern Africa.
25.—The left wing of the West Norfolk Militia arrived at Norwich from
Fermoy, co. Cork; the right wing reached the city on the 26th. An
influential deputation of the inhabitants of Fermoy, prior to the
departure of the regiment, presented to the colonel a farewell address,
in which they congratulated him upon having the command of “so highly
respectable and well disciplined a corps.”
JULY.
5.—A fine brig of 200 tons was launched from Mr. J. S. Southgate’s
shipyard at Wells-next-the-Sea. She was christened the Rambler, by Miss
Ellen Rump. From Mr. Henry Tyrrell’s yard at Wells, on September 3rd,
was launched a new schooner, called the Gem.
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