was launched on Oct. 15th. It was 200 tons measurement, and was the third yacht built for his Lordship by Mr. Tutt.
The Rifle Galley Club met at the Oak on Oct. 20th and decided to have built by Mr. Hutchinson a six-oared galley, 34 feet long, and to be named "The Rifleman".
Mr. George Bruce Poole resigned his post as Superintendent of the Fire Brigade.
At the Ore Vestry on Oct 20th, a two shilling rate was necessary in consequence of £80 having to be paid by the parish of the £140 incurred by Mr. Frewen's appeal against his rating notwithstanding that the overseers had consented to quash the assessment. The appelant's attitude and menacing language showed that the parish had cause to regret the change that had taken place at Coghurst since Mr. Brisco's death.
The Prince of Wales' Birthday, on Nov. 10th, was celebrated with the ringing of church bells and the firing of guns.
A Mad Dog was discovered one day in the month of June and was shot.
Seeing France. On Sunday, the 24th of July, the atmosphere was so peculiarly transparent, that the opposite coast of France could be seen from Fairlight and the Strand Hill at Winchelsea. The previous night brought heavy rain, and after the atmospheric phenomenon, heavy clouds gathered up towards the north and east as though for a heavy storm.
The Captain Beecham who hired a thirty-guinea horse to carry his roqueship to Battle Abbey, but didn't go there for reasons best known to himself, did not find it convenient to put himself in communication with the police. Captains of that rank are known to be very partial to smoke, to London smoke in particular; and it might be the gallant Captain and his charger got lost in the fog. Supt. Glenister, however, got trace of the horse, but not its rider. See 193.
The Hastings Union house at the time contained a fewer number of inmates than it had done since it was built, 20 years before.
Medicos at Dinner. On the 21st of July, the annual meeting of the Sussex Medical Society were held at the Castle hotel, where they afterwards dined together.
An Irish Reaper, on the 25th of July, whilst crossing the metals near Croydon, was knocked down and killed by a train to Hastings.
Several Meteors were observed on the night of the 25th and 26th of July, and on the night of the 27th at 9 o'clock, one of an unusual brilliancy was seen traveling in a S.W. direction and lighting up that part of the heavens with an intense line of various tints.
