This is a transcription of a column in South Africa Magazine, February 8, 1902, titled Domestic Announcements:

(Announcements inserted under this heading are charged for according to length.)

BIRTHS

BACON, Mrs. T., Rondebosch, Jan. 6, a daughter.

BENNIE, Mrs. W. G., Cala, January 4, a son.

BRINK, Mrs. D. S., Paarl, January 6, a daughter.

CARTLAND, Mrs. G., Cape Town, January 3, a son.

COATES, Mrs. A. G., Durban, Jan. 5, a daughter.

COOPER, Mrs. H., Observatory Road, Cape Colony, January 8, a son.

FORBES, Mrs. S., Robben Island, Jan. 1, a daughter.

HARRISON, Mrs. A. H., Wynberg, January 7, a son.

HENRY, Mrs. N., Mowbray, Jan. 6, a daughter.

HINDLEY, Mrs. C. J., Observatory Road, Cape Colony, January 8, a son.

HOPKINS, Mrs. C. M., Hope Town, December 28, a daughter.

HUNTER, Mrs. J., Durban, Jan. 2, a daughter.

JACKSON, Mrs. H., Maritzburg, Jan. 3, a daughter.

MACINNES, Mrs. N., Observatory Road, Jan. 5, a son.

MINORDS, Mrs. E., Wynberg, January 9, a son.

MURPHY, Mrs. F., Cape Town, January 1, a son.

PHIPSON, Mrs. E., Maritzburg, Jan. 3, a daughter.

ROBINSON, Mrs. M., Rondebosch, Jan. 5, a daughter.

ROODT, Mrs. D. P., Worcester, Cape Colony, Dec. 31, a daughter.

RUSSELL, Mrs., Sir Lowry’s Pass, January 1, a son.

STARKE, Mrs. W., Joostenberg, Jan. 5, a daughter.

TONKIN, Mrs. B. T., Mowbray, Jan. 8, a daughter.

WALKER, Mrs. J. J., Cape Town, January 5, a daughter.

WESTGATE, Mrs. W., Cape Town, January 8, a daughter.

WHITAKER, Mrs. L., Sir Lowry’s Pass, Jan. 7, a son.

MARRIAGES

BETHUNE, H.—ANDERSON, A. J., Observatory Road, January 1.

CLEGHORN, T. G.—JOHNSTON, L. J., Cape Town, January 7.

COOMBS, H. G.—JANISCH, M., Cape Town, Dec. 30.

CRAIG-WATSON, J.—DARTER, L. H., Claremont, January 7.

CURTIS—EATON—On February 4, at St. Matthias’s, South Kensington, by the Rev. H. G. Constable Curtis, Rector-Designate of Great Berkhamsted, Herts, Spencer Carey Curtis, Captain Army Post Office Corps, eldest son of Spencer H. Curtis, of 171, Cromwell Road, Kensington to Edith Mabel, younger daughter of the late T. J. Eaton, of Malmesbury, Cape Colony, and great grand-daughter of General Sir Benjamin Durban, K.C.B., K.C.H., Governor of British Guiana, and afterwards of Cape Colony.

FRANCES, J. D.—VAN BLERK, M., Cape Town, Jan. 6.

MANFORD, F.—WAINES, M., Woodstock, Cape Colony, January 4.

ROKEBY ROBINSON—CROCKETT—On January 19, at Davos Platz, Switzerland, by the Rev. J. Scudamore Emery, and at the British Consulate, Ernest Rokeby (Captain Imperial Yeomanry and 4^th Royal Irish Rifles), youngest son of the late Major John Robinson, J. P., of Lydd, Kent, and Sandown, Isle of Wight, to Minnie Edith, elder daughter of the late John Crockett, of Wimbledon and China.

ROSENTHAL, L. H.—ROSENTHAL, A., Cape Town, January 5.

DEATHS

ANDERSON, T., Durban, January 3, aged 65.

DILLON, S. C., Diep River, January 4, aged 14.

EILERS—On January 30, at Kalk Bay, of consumption, Peter Henry, youngest son of J. B. Eilers, 12 and 13, Water Lane, Great Tower Street, London, E.C., aged 29.

GREEN—On January 18, at Newcastle, Natal, Richard Allen Green, of Allenvale, Orange River Colony, youngest son of the late Andrew Green, Esq., of Cockermouth, aged 71.

PLEUSS, S., Cape Town, January 7, aged 29.

ROSE, J. E. B., Cape Town, January 7, aged 76.

ROUSE, M. M. W., Stellenbosch, Jan. 1, aged 57.

SCULLARD, A. H., Cape Town, Jan. 7, aged 18.

WUD, S. J., Claremont, Jan. 6, aged 74.

Miscellaneous Articles on the Same Page:

Jem Turner, the well-known pugilist, has been fined £10, at Kimberley, with the alternative of a month’s hard labour, for assaulting a police-constable.

Another “bitter cry” of the Kimberley householder is as to the price of wood, from 4s. to 5s. being charged per 100 lbs. for uncut firewood on the public weighbridge.

James Cavanagh, agent for the Equitable Life Insurance Company, has been sentenced at Grahamstown to ten days’ imprisonment under martial law for altering the date on a pass to Port Alfred. At the same time his traveling companion, Dr. Bedenkop, an ex-Boer ambulance superintendent, was fined £10 for over-staying the date of his return, as specified on his permit.

Before the Kimberley Resident Magistrate, Conrad Selzer, a European farmer of Alexandersfontein, has been charged with fraud in connection with his claim before the War Losses Commission. The accused claimed £1343, and was awarded £886 of which £696 was for stock, the allegation being that the accused greatly over-estimated his losses under this head. Mr. Fleischer, Chairman of the Commission, gave formal evidence, and the case was adjourned.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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