This is a transcription of a column that appeared in South Africa magazine November 28, 1896. The column is titled "Domestic Announcements".

BIRTHS

SONS

BLACK, Mrs. C. W., Mossel Bay, October 21

HARVEY, Mrs. Cathcart, October 21.

LOMAS—On November 20, at Marloes Road, Kensington, the wife of J. E. H. Lomas.

ROGERS, Mrs. W., Johannesburg, October 19.

ROSENBERG, Mrs. P., Cape Town, October 23.

SANDHAM, Mrs. J., Kimberley, October 23.

DAUGHTERS

CARTER, Mrs. A. W., Winburg, O.F.S., October 25.

TALLERMAN—On November 25, at 22, Pembridge Villas, W., the wife of Phineas Tallerman.

TERRY, Mrs. T. W., Port Elizabeth, October 25.

WATSON, Mrs. J., Kimberley, October 26.

MARRIAGES

BLANCKENBERG, J. H.—KRIEL, H. T., Johannesburg, October 19.

CLARKSON, W. J.—GLEESON, M. A., Kimberley, October 21.

DEWAR, A.—MACLEAN, K., Johannesburg, Oct. 21.

EXTON, H.—CANNELL, M., Port Alfred, October 20.

HIRTZEL—KILGOUR—On November 21, at St. Michael’s, Dawlish, by the Rev. W. P. Alford, M.A., Vicar, assisted by the Rev. A. N. Everard, M.A., and the Rev. V. Kelan, B. A., Curates, Charles Henry Hirtzel, of Johannesburg, S.A.R., eldest surviving son of George Hirtzel, Esq., of Dawlish, to Kate De Villiers, daughter of Henry Kilgour, Esq., of Ceres, Cape Colony, and niece of L. Wiener, Esq., M.L.A., of Cape Town.

JOHNSON, J. C.—KING, F., Kingwilliamstwn, Oct. 21.

THOMPSON, J.—CONRADIE, M.C., Cape Town, Oct. 27.

DEATHS

ATKINSON—On November 13, at Perth, West Australia, after a brief illness, C. Randall Atkinson, aged 30, the beloved son of C. E. and S. Atkinson, of Beckenham, Kent.

CAIRNS, J., Johannesburg, October 19, aged 33.

DIXON—About March 26, in the Mafungabuzi district, Matabeleland, killed by natives during the rising, Wastel George Brisco, only son of G. H. Dixon, Armathwaite Hall, Cumberland, aged 27.

LUCAS—On October 24, at Mafeking, Bechuanaland, Francis Ambrose Lucas, of typhoid, aged 35.

MCFARLAND, G., Kimberley, October 25, aged 51.

PRINSLOO, L. J., Pretoria, October 23, aged 61.

SCHILLING—On November 20, at Government House, Cape Town, Sydney Edward Schilling, Lieutenant Royal Irish Fusiliers, A.D.C. to Lord Rosmead, High Commissioner, second son of the late George Schilling, of 58, Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham, aged 27.

TOFT, S., Johannesburg, October 17, aged 46.

TYRRELL—On November 20, at 11, Rose Hill, Dorking, Richard Joseph Tyrrell, late of the City of London and Brockley, aged 63, the beloved husband of Emma Tyrrell, deeply mourned.

VEVERS—On November 14, at Johannesburg, through an accident, John Aubrey, eldest son of John E. Vevers, of Yarkhill Court, Hereford, aged 20.

ZEEMAN, Mrs. J. C. M., Cape Town, October 30, aged 40.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

There is not one road radiating from Cradock (says the Cape Register) which is not now rendered dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians by ostriches.

Amongst the bequests of the late Mr. J. W. Solomon, of Port Elizabeth, are the following:--Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Cape Town, £200; Dispensary, Cape Town, £200; Infirmary, Robben Island, £200; Somerset Hospital, £200; Mayor of Cape Town for distribution amongst the poor without distinction of creed or nationality, £200.

REV. WILLIAM FORBES

The Rev. William Forbes who has lately been recruiting his health in Scarborough, and who returns to South Africa today in the Dunvegan Castle, is to be the subject of an illustrated article in the next issue of the Evangelical Magazine. From an advance proof of the article in question we learn that Mr. Forbes was educated at Hackney College, and became pastor, in 1887, of Alma Road Church, Sheerness. At the end of three years, however, he proceeded to Berkhampstead, and thence to Devonport. In 1889 he was invited to become the pastor of the Congregational Church in Cape Town, a position which the history of the Cape Colony shows to have been one of great importance. The article concludes as follows: “The conditions of religious life in the Colony are very different from those of old; but there is still much to be done by men who hold the Congregational idea of the Headship of Christ, and who desire to bring rich and poor, white and coloured alike, to enjoy the liberty of the children of God. Mr. Forbes has been labouring in this spirit for seven years, and has found opportunities of doing good service to many besides those who are regular attendants on his ministry. As he stated at Leicester, he has had 1500 letters of introduction brought to him, principally by young men. His experience in his English pastorate enables him to advise and encourage these strangers in a strange land. He is now on his voyage out to resume his work, and we may claim for him the sympathy of all who have sent sons or daughter to the stirring life of South Africa.

By-the-bye, the Rev. William Forbes met on Thursday afternoon, at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, a number of friends connected with the Colonial Missionary Society. After refreshments, Mr. Edward Unwin, who presided, expressed the increased interest of the Directors of the Colonial Society in South Africa, to which they were now largely pledged. Mr. Forbes referred to the isolation from which their Churches in South Africa had suffered in recent years, and to the relief felt by the new policy of the Colonial Society. He pleaded for greater interest on the part of the home Churches in young Englishmen, “who are arriving by hundreds in a land where life is monotonous and where drink is cheap, where bread is taxed and brandy let in free.” A conference followed on the special difficulties now surrounding the native Churches, owing to the failure of harvests, plagues of locusts, and the rinderpest scourge. The Rev. W. J. Woods, B.A., offered special prayer, commending Mr. Forbes to God’s protecting care.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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