Anti-Church Rates. A petition from Hastings against church rates was presented in the House of Commons on Monday, June 19th.
Equestrianism. On the 10th and 11th of July, Hengler’s Equestrian Company performed in the Recreation Ground, previously proceeding as a grand cavalcade through the borough.
The Licensed Victuallers, to the number of nearly 2,000, visited Hastings on the 18th of July, being conveyed in two monster trains, one consisting of 40 carriages, and the other of 32.
A German Band, for the third year, was engaged to play on the Hastings parade during the season. There were, however, complaints, as there had been before, that they scarcely ever played popular English music.
Lamb Fair. The so-called annual lamb fair by Mr. Henry Thwaites, of Commercial road, took place on July 21st, when 52 killed and dressed lambs were on show at his shop.
A Curious Potato was dug up by Joseph Deeprose in a garden near the ozier-beds. It was formed by the union of four tubers in one, and weighed 2¾lbs.
The Autumn Season gave promise of being a good one, it having commenced with a brisk inflow of visitors, and ‘apartments’ bills becoming fewer by degrees and beautifully less.
Cricket. A match was played by St. Leonards and East Sussex on Sept. 11th and 12th in the grounds of H. M. Curteis, Esq[a], at Windmill Hill. The latter gentlemen winning by an innings.
The Right of Way. On the 2nd of November, the tenants of Lady Waldegrave, Lady Elphinstone, Miss M. J. Sayer, Hy Warburton, Esq, the Rev. W. T. Turner, and W. J. Denne, Esq., with their teams, forcibly removed the chain and other obstructions placed by Mr. H. E. Wyatt across the tenantry road in front of his house leading from the Lane to Halton via Mount Pleasant.
Guy Fawkes Scrimmage. At this annual demonstration a collision took place near Government House, by which one Guy was capsized, and the bearers of another Guy displayed a contentious and ill feeling against a mob of sightseers. During the scrimmage, one person had a hand severely burnt, and another had a squib shot through his hat from a pistol – a wilful or a thoughtless act of danger.
Preferment. The Rev. Rose Fuller Whistler, M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, (grandson of the late Webster Whistler of Hastings), was instituted to the endowed Vicarage of Hollington, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. H. Rush.
An Irish Wake. On the 18th of September, Michael Cunningham, an Irishman known as “Old Jack” was buried at All Saints. He was 67 years of age, and had been for some time out of health. He was found dead in bed at the Crown Inn. He had paid £10 for a place -
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