Transcribed from South Africa Magazine, 19 December 1908
DOMESTIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Announcements under this heading are charged for at a minimum of 5s., which in all cases must be prepaid. All notices must be properly authenticated.)
BIRTHS
BRINTON—On the 12th inst., at King’s Norton, the wife of Dr. Arthur G. Brinton, of Johannesburg, a son.
COLLIE—On the 13th inst., at Bloemfontein, the wife of Jas. Collie, a son.
DE WET—On the 9th inst., at Coombeside, Plympton, Devon, the wife of Lieutenant T. Oloff de Wet, R.N., a son.
DICKSON—On the 4th inst., at Bloemfontein, the wife of Thomas Dickson, Land Settlement Department, a son.
FLEMINGTON—On November 11, at Witkopslaagte, Orange River Colony, the wife of Archibald Flemington, a son.
HAWKIN—On the 15th inst., at Moscow Court, W., the wife of Robert Crawford Hawkin (nee Marie Botha), Barrister-at-Law and Secretary of the Eighty Club, a son.
MUMFORD—On the 4th inst., at Johannesburg, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Mumford (nee Ardington), a daughter.
TREMBATH—On November 17, at Kimberley, to Mr. and Mrs. James F. Trembath, a daughter.
WALKER—On the 12th inst., at Eldorado Mines, Rhodesia, the wife of Alexander Walker, a son.
MARRIAGES
BROWN—ARMSTRONG—On the 8th inst., at Ipswich, Walter Russell Brown, of H. M. China Consular Service, son of W. E. Brown, of Bank House, Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, to Helen Maude Armstrong, daughter of Mrs. Armstrong, of Ipswich.
CRESSWELL—LODGE—At St. Alban’s Cathedral, Pretoria, on the 7th inst., by the Rev. W. Gore-Browne, Ernest Norman Creswell, Transvaal Department of Agriculture, to Nydia, eldest daughter of W. A. Lodge.
HATCH—WEEKES—On the 10th inst., at Pretoria, Lennard J. Hatch, Agricultural Department, Pretoria, to Dorothy Madaline, youngest daughter of the late John Ernest Weekes, of Kensington, and Mrs. Weekes, of Hazlitt Road, London, and granddaughter of the late Henry Weekes, R.A.
SALINGER—NATHAN—On the 16th inst., at the West London Synagogue, Upper Berkely Street, W., Alfred Salinger, of 21, Kingdon Road, West Hampstead, N.W., to Hilda, eldest daughter of David J. Nathan, of Wellington, New Zealand.
VERNAL—BLACK—On the 4th inst., at Grahamstown, Francis Vernal, M.A., Grahamstown to Isabella Cunningham, eldest daughter of James Black, East Calder.
WHITEHEAD—TENNANT—On November 7, at Pretoria, Eugene Christopher Whitehead, Captain, R.A.M.C., to Violet Letitia Beatrix Graham, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hercules Tennant, Pretoria.
DEATHS
BROWN—On the 14th inst., at Edinburgh, Alexander Charles Maitland Brown, aged 67 years.
DEXTER—On November 17, at Kimberley, Harry William, third son of the late Rev. B. Dexter, of Duncan, Derbyshire, in his 37th year.
DUNCAN—On November 11, at Balgay, Wynberg, Elizabeth West Baxter, widow of the late William Duncan, aged 76.
GRILL—On November 15, at Braamfontein, Edward Grill, aged 51 years.
MITCHELL—On the 13th inst., at Corra Lynn, Bromley, Kent, after a short illness, Muriel, eldest and dearly beloved daughter of Thomas and Jessie Campbell Mitchell, aged 21 years.
RUSSELL—On November 18, at Johannesburg, David Lawrie Russell, eldest son of the late David Russell, of Hillcairnie, Fifeshire.
WATKINS—On the 15th inst., at Kimberley, Ellen Mary, wife of Dr. Arnold Watkins, and only daughter of Sir Thomas Fuller, K.C.M.G., aged 52.
Miscellaneous articles on the same page:
A REMARKABLE HAILSTORM
A terrific hailstorm, which destroyed gardens and crops, and killed a horse and some goats, recently visited Stanger. The hailstones were of enormous size, one weighing 1 ¼ lb., and measuring 10 in. in diameter. Roofs were pierced, and hundreds of panes of glass were broken. An Indian boy, six years of age, who was out in the fields at New Guelderland, was struck on the head by a hailstone and killed.
Mr. E. T. Anderson, late Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Beaufort West, has been appointed Resident Magistrate at George.
A heavy beam fell from the second storey of the new school buildings at Salt River recently, and fractured the skull of a young European workman. He was removed to the hospital in a critical condition.
The Longmates Hospital works at Port Elizabeth were destroyed by fire, recently, and a large quantity of surgical appliances and manufacturing accessories burnt. The damage was estimated at £600, and insurance covered only £300.
The majority of the members of the Cape Government Railway Headquarters Staff went to Somerset Strand, recently, for their eighteenth annual outing. A good programme of sporting items was provided, and a very pleasant day spent.
In the Supreme Court of Natal, Mr. Frank Goodwin, an ex-Natal policeman, was recently found not guilty of stealing various things, the property of the Government. Costs were given against the Government, the Judge remarking that the case should have been tried up-country.
A waterspout recently broke over the farm of the Hon. P. S. Bellingan, in the Aberdeen district of the Cape Colony, and did a great deal of damage. It lifted the roof off the house, and otherwise injured the building, broke a large dam, and then passed on to neighbouring farms, where further damage was done.
H. J. Marsh was sentenced to two months’ hard labour for bigamy at Durban recently. According to the evidence, he married Mary Rae at Lady Frere in 1885, and only lived with her two weeks, when he departed, and she never saw him again. He married Lily Watson in 1892. The Magistrate said the prisoner had made no attempt to ascertain whether the news of his wife’s death was true.
Regards,
Ellen Stanton
Email: harprulz@bellsouth.net