This is a transcription of a column that appeared in South Africa magazine October 3, 1896. The column is titled "Domestic Announcements".

BIRTHS

SONS

BODLEY, Mrs. J. H., Kimberley, August 29.

COWEN—On September 26, at Eaglehurst, Sidmouth, the wife of Charles A. Cowen, Esq., of Bulawayo, South Africa.

HUGHES, Mrs. W. T. Johannesburg, August 23.

ROBERTS, Mrs. R., Kimberley, August 27.

SMITH, Mrs. J. J. Kimberley, August 28.

SUSMAN—On Monday, September 28, at Ravenscourt, Alexandra Road, St. John’s Wood, the wife of Louis Susman (Fort Salisbury).

WAYLAND, Mrs. W. H. Kimberley, August 24.

DAUGHTERS

Beckett, Mrs. J. C., Grahamstown, August 28.

BENSON—On September 2, at Barberton, Transvaal, the wife of Harry W. Benson.

DU PLESSIS, Mrs. G., Oudtshoorn, August 29.

JEANES, Mrs. J., Johannesburg, August 21.

THOMAS, Mrs. W. J., Johannesburg, August 23.

THORPE, Mrs. W., Johannesburg, August 29.

MARRIAGES

MORICE-ROBERTS—On September 2, at the Cathedral Pretoria, by the Rev. Canon Fisher, D. D. Andrew, youngest son of the late David Robert Morice, Aberdeen, to Alice Mary, seventh daughter of Alexander Roberts, D.D., Professor of Humanity in the University of St. Andrews.

NOEL-BEILBY—On September 2, at St. Mary’s, Johannesburg, by the Rev. E. P. Darragh, M. A., assisted by the Rev. R. Baumgarten, M. A., Lieut.-Colonel W. F. N. Noel, R.E., Eldest son of Colonel E. A. Noel, of the Outwoods, Derbyshire to Laura Carolena, only daughter of the late C. H. Beilby, Esq., and niece of Robert Jameson, Esq., of Eastella, East Yorkshire.

POWELL, T.—POOK, E. M. A., - Barberton, August 22.

SHARP, W.—HODGSON, F.—Johannesburg, August 25.

VAN BREDA, P. G.—LEIBBRANDT, M. C. M.—Cape Town, September 1.

DEATHS

CANNON, Mrs. E. J., Kimberley, August 24, aged 32.

FRASER, M., Johannesburg, August 21, aged 33.

HORSFORD—On August 31, at the Military Hospital, Mafeking, South Africa, Knightley O’Bryen Horsford, aged 26.

HOWELL, J., Johannesburg, August 21, aged 39.

MCKINNON, Mrs. M. Barberton, Aug. 24, aged 31.

MESHAM—On September 27, at 14, Carlisle Mansions, S.W., widow of Arthur Mesham.

PRINCE—On September 25, at the Vicarage, Norton St. Philip, in her 60^th year, Georgina Janet, wife of J. S. Prince, Esq., of 8, Cornwall Mansions, S.W., second daughter of the late Thomas Pownall Pellew Barrow, Captain Royal Navy.

REYNOLDS, Miss E. M. Britstown, August 21, aged 22.

TARR, J., Clumber, August 26, Aged 84

TILNEY, T., Grey Town, September 1, aged 50.

WILLIAMS, E., Kimberley, August 30, aged 48.

Miscellaneous articles on same page:

The death is announced of John G. Radford at the Hospital, Johannesburg, where he had been a patient for some weeks. Mr. Radford founded the Diamond Fields Advertiser, in which venture Mr. W. Roper, the present proprietor, afterwards joined him as co-proprietor. About nine years ago the partnership was dissolved, deceased retiring from the business, and he shortly afterwards took up his abode on the Rand, where he was engaged as a printer for some years previous to his death.

JURIES AND POLICE

At the close of the Johannesburg Criminal Sessions lately, Mr. Justice Ameshoff, having thanked the jurymen for their attendance and the way they had performed their duties, remarked on the length of the criminal roll which had just been dealt with. He thought it rather unfair that so small a number of jurymen should have been summoned to do so much work. Speaking of the Wanderers’ case, that of the State against Maurice and others, his Lordship said that when one looked at the case from an impartial and unprejudiced point of view, one could only come to the conclusion that the behaviour of the police on the occasion in question was far from praiseworthy. They appeared to have an absolutely wrong conception of what a policeman’s duty ought to be. No doubt this was due to the fact that it had been deemed wise at Johannesburg not to employ the same methods of selection as were in vogue in other civilized countries. This sentiment of desiring to employ only burghers in the service of the State the learned Judge could understand. But the majority of the burghers had not had a fitting training for the duties entrusted to them. He would, however, advise that in the future burghers should receive a proper preliminary training at the least.

At the Cape Town Synagogue House, recently, the Rev. A. P. Bender, the Rabbi, was presented by the members of the Cape Town Jewish Boys’ and Girls’ Guild with a magnificent floor lamp, as a token of their esteem and appreciation of his services. Mr. Bender said he felt that it was the greatest honour that had ever been conferred upon him, and he would ever cherish it as one of his dearest possessions.

Mr. Strasburger, of the Cape Canning Factory, lately presented the South African Museum with the carcase of a young whale which was caught on the rocks near the Company’s factory at Granger’s Bay one afternoon lately. The whale, which was about 6 ft. long was got into the factory alive, and put into a large trough, salt water being pumped in to keep it alive. At first the young cetacean frisked about and blew merrily, but then it languished and died. The carcase is to be stuffed, and will be one of the minor treasures of the new Museum.

Influential people in England have commissioned the Rev. J. Matthews, Baptist Minister of Queenstown, Cape Colony, to make inquiries and report as to the suitability of Queenstown for the establishment of a sanatorium. Mr. Matthews is perfectly satisfied on all points except that of sanitation. There being neither a drainage nor a sanitary scheme up to the standard of modern requirements, at present existing there, seems to be the only objection to the probably carrying out of the enterprise.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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