Messrs. Rock’s workmen and friends (nearly 70) were, on June 29th, treated to a day at the Crystal Palace.
The total of Union-house outdoor and indoor reliefees in June was 889.
The lifeboat was launched for exercise on July 6th, and was witnessed by a great crowd of people.
Mr H. Thwaites’s annual show of 52 killed and dressed lambs took place in his shop at Commercial Road on the 24th of July.
St. Mary’s school treat to 170 boys and 220 girls was given in and out of the schoolroom on the 30th of July.
The question as to right of way at the back of Mount Pleasant, which was the subject of an action at the Sussex Assizes, was again opened. Mr. Wyatt having again enclosed it, several waggons belonging to farmers and others forcibly opened the way.
(Much more concerning this road will be found on pages 170 to 177)
The Aztec Lilliputians attracted crowds of sightseers in the Market Hall for several days. Although the smallest type of humanity in the world, they were well formed and had been trained to play the piano, dance polkas, speak English, etc. Their facial lineaments would not indicate a high degree of intelligence, yet they were pleasing to the eye.
An Earthman and Corana from South Africa also accompanied the exhibition. In their native region they were said to burrow under the earth, and had no language.
Waterlow and Sons’ printing staff came to Hastings on July 4th for a two days’ holiday, it being their 5th annual visit, and proved by their rollicking noise that they were odd fellows in more ways than one.
500 excursionists from Reading came to Hastings on June 20th; and on the next day came a large party from the South Coast Railway works.
The autumn season at Hastings and St. Leonards began briskly, with every indication of “a good time coming”.
The autumn poor-rates were for the Castle parish 4d., Trinity, 4d., All Saints’, 4d., and St. Clement’s 10d. The preceding rate for All Saints was also 10d, and the vestry suggested a Mayor’s meeting to petition for an equalisation of the poor-rates. The Castle parish had a poor-rate of 2d. only for its outbounds, and Fairlight had a 10d. rate.
